Chapter Summaries

Li Dayong explained how the Long-Hand Tribe rose to power in the Flower Kingdom and established the Happo Navy by granting privileges to the defecting Hasshoken patriarch. He then described Hasshoken’s origins as a safe martial art that combined internal and external training, leaving Mousse to consider its unusual advantages.

• Li Dayong explained that the Long-Hand Tribe gained World Government support and weakened resistance by exempting local elites from its hair-cutting and clothing order.
• The Hasshoken patriarch defected with the Eight Punches School, shifting the balance of power toward the Long-Hand Tribe.
• The Long-Hand Tribe granted the Eight Punches School Daifang Port and freedom to operate across the Great Ice Sea, the Grand Line, and the Ice Continent, establishing the Happo Navy as a privateering force.
• Li Dayong explained that the pseudo-dynasty used the Eight Punches School to recruit and train Long-Hand Tribe members, binding the school closely to the royal court.
• Li Dayong explained that the Hasshoken patriarch had created a safe discipline combining internal and external techniques, accessible to ordinary practitioners while retaining a high ceiling for mastery.

Li Dayong explained how the Eight Punches School’s submission helped the puppet dynasty, how the dynasty later weakened the resistance and ceded Ohara to the World Government, and how the Nine Treasures Navy was formed. The account left Mousse asking about the strength of the Flower Kingdom’s navies and hearing the name Ochoku.

• Li Dayong weighed the Eight Punches School’s crimes against its role in spreading Hasshoken and protecting northern commoners from raids.
• Li Dayong explained that the puppet dynasty rewarded regional powers with autonomy, then moved against them, driving forces back into rebellion.
• The puppet dynasty relinquished the Flower Kingdom’s protection of Ohara and joined the Marines against the resistance, whose leader and a Marine Admiral died in battle.
• The resistance strategist accepted amnesty to protect the leader’s family, establishing the Nine Treasures Navy while the Long-Hand Tribe preserved its strength.
• Mousse asked how the nine navies compared with the Happo Navy, and Li Dayong said Chinjao had once been the Flower Kingdom’s strongest fighter before mentioning Ochoku.

Mousse learned how Ochoku’s rebellion devastated the Flower Kingdom’s royal family and left the court unable to control its powerful factions. Li Dayong explained that the Zheng Family, descendants of the old Sea King and the Nine Treasures Navy, had sustained a secret resistance through generations of martial artists and practiced the Sea Calming Art.

• Li Dayong recounted how Ochoku and six Wano Country samurai killed Guizi Liu and slaughtered nearly all the Flower Kingdom royal family’s renowned experts before Ochoku’s group fell.
• Mousse realized that the Flower Kingdom court had lost most of its leading fighters and would struggle to command the country’s powerful factions.
• Li Dayong lamented that the Eight Punches School remained loyal to the court and that the Zheng Family’s head had died before they could restore their homeland.
• Li Dayong revealed that the Zheng Family descended from the old Sea King and was also known as the Nine Treasures Navy.
• Li Dayong explained that the Zheng Family had maintained its secret resistance with generations of martial artists and practiced the Sea Calming Art created by the lord who revived the family.

Li Dayong told Mousse how a Zheng Family heiress’s forbidden romance and violent escape had weakened the Zheng Family and disrupted the Sun Moon Society. Mousse suggested that the slave court may have concealed its weakness rather than retaliate, and Li Dayong considered how the revolution might eventually face the World Government and Garp.

• Li Dayong explained that the Sun Moon Society had been founded by the Zheng Family, whose influence declined after the family accepted amnesty and became the Nine Treasures Navy.
• Li Dayong recounted how a gifted Zheng Family granddaughter fell in love with a Long-Hand Tribe man, became pregnant, and planned to elope with him.
• The Zheng Family head assassinated the man, and the granddaughter killed her grandfather and several Zheng Family generals before setting a fire and fleeing with her child.
• Li Dayong said the young woman went to the Grand Line and never resurfaced, while Mousse proposed that the slave court had avoided acting because its military strength was limited.
• Li Dayong reflected that the revolutionaries might eventually have to fight the World Government and hoped they would succeed before Garp came out of retirement.

Li Dayong explained how the Zheng Family head’s death fractured the Sun Moon Society and why he had left to seek a promising child who might help restore the Flower Kingdom. As Li Dayong and Mousse continued their journey, Mousse considered whether the frail man could make use of a Devil Fruit and called down Amon.

• Li Dayong said the Zheng Family head had been the only figure strong enough to restrain the Sun Moon Society’s factions, and the president had died from exhaustion after losing that support.
• Li Dayong left the society after memorizing important books and searched for a gifted child who could carry on the cause of restoring the Flower Kingdom.
• Li Dayong explained that his entire body was unusually weak, so intense training or tonics could disrupt the fragile balance keeping him healthy.
• Li Dayong carried the sleeping child onward and revealed that he used a concealed weapon called Bone-Piercing to defend himself.
• Mousse considered whether Li Dayong could be trusted with a Devil Fruit, then called down Amon, who had been following them from the sky.

Mousse traveled with Li Dayong and Li Ya to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where Li Dayong shared his knowledge and recruited gifted children while Mousse prepared stories to help them settle in. Mousse also considered why the New World produced so many powerful people, concluding that its concentration of Devil Fruits gave it a decisive advantage.

• Li Dayong told Mousse that the Sun Moon Society's headquarters had been destroyed, so Mousse listened to his teachings instead of visiting its forbidden grounds.
• Mousse learned from Li Dayong's ideas and stories, then imprinted his version of Journey to the West while investigating why Book World had not appeared.
• Mousse and Li Dayong traveled with Li Ya to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where Mousse adapted Water Margin as entertainment and promotional material for the locals.
• Li Dayong found three exceptionally talented children in the mountains, though none had yet matched Li Ya.
• Mousse reasoned that most Devil Fruits appeared in the New World, giving it an unusually large base of powerful individuals.

After deciding to give Li Dayong a Devil Fruit, Mousse returned to Totto Land to retrieve it and brought it back to the Hundred Thousand Mountains. Li Dayong accepted the fruit after Mousse explained how it might help restore the Flower Kingdom, and took a bite.

• Mousse called Charlotte Perospero and learned that the fruit in the family treasure vault had not been sold.
• Mousse told Li Dayong to wait no more than two days, then had Amon carry him back to Totto Land.
• Mousse retrieved the Devil Fruit from Cake Castle and returned to find Li Dayong waiting in a tent.
• Li Dayong tried to return the fruit, but Mousse explained that it might let him change the terrain and soil conditions.
• Li Dayong took a bite of the Devil Fruit.

Mousse watched Li Dayong struggle to control his newly acquired Devil Fruit before realizing that the scholar could awaken it through talent, conviction, and proper guidance. Li Dayong awakened his power in less than half an hour, and Mousse left considering what that meant for the fruit’s limits and the uncle’s future.

• Li Dayong discovered that his elemental state did not permanently change the terrain, and Mousse explained that large-scale alteration required awakening his Devil Fruit ability.
• Li Dayong regretted eating the fruit so late in life, but Mousse corrected his misunderstanding about the role of time and talent in developing an ability.
• Li Dayong rushed to a mountain ravine to experiment, and Mousse went to eat dinner without waiting for him.
• Li Dayong shouted that he had succeeded, and Mousse found that the ravine had widened into a broad valley.
• Mousse concluded that Li Dayong’s talent and conviction had enabled his exceptionally rapid awakening, then reflected on the physical benefits his uncle had gained.
• Mousse decided that, with Li Dayong’s awakening complete, he had no practical reason to remain and it was time to leave.

Mousse revealed his identity to Li Dayong, agreed to support the Flower Kingdom’s restoration, and asked him to find Nico Olvia and Robin. The next morning, Mousse left by flying with Amon while Li Dayong continued developing the land and preparing his forces.

• Li Dayong explained his plan to build elevated farmland, then asked Mousse for his real name and contact details before he left.
• Mousse revealed his connection to the Charlotte Family, and Li Dayong promised the Flower Kingdom would remember its friends.
• Li Dayong outlined his plan to feed and organize the mountain folk, rebuild the Sun Moon Society, and march north, asking Mousse to help restrain the World Government.
• Mousse agreed to help and asked Li Dayong to find Nico Olvia and Robin, giving them his Den Den Mushi number without pressuring them to contact him.
• Mousse ate dinner and slept, then left the next morning by climbing into Amon’s mouth as Li Dayong continued his work.

Mousse left the Hundred Thousand Mountains and traveled through the Flower Kingdom to raise funds for materials that would strengthen Xuanhuang. He spotted a panda practicing kung fu, recognized it as a Kung Fu Panda, and had Amon capture it.

• Mousse left Li Dayong and the children, then went to the Flower Kingdom to earn money for minerals that could help Xuanhuang reach its limit.
• Mousse discussed Xuanhuang's strength and told Amon why he wanted to make the Totland Islands larger and taller.
• Amon told Mousse about a Panda Man, and Mousse spotted a panda standing upright and practicing punches.
• Mousse ordered Amon to approach the panda, then had Amon transform into an Origami Book to pursue it through the bamboo grove.
• Amon unfolded into a cord and tied up the Kung Fu Panda, which struggled and bit the book but could not escape.

Charlotte Mousse encountered a powerful young girl who rescued her pet panda from Amon and fought him. After Amon restrained her, she declared that Mousse was her husband because she had taken a liking to him.

• Mousse tried to pet the bound Kung Fu Panda, but Amon knocked him away while protecting its master.
• The Iron Girl arrived, freed the panda, and chased Mousse into the air after spotting him.
• Mousse called for Amon, which released the panda and wrapped itself around the girl, who changed from a heavily muscled form back to a slender one.
• Mousse offered the girl a blanket after noticing her torn clothes, but she said he could see her body because he was her husband.
• Mousse asked how he had become her husband, and the girl replied that she had taken a liking to him.

Mousse and Amon fought the powerful Iron Lady, who tried to capture Mousse and called him her future husband. After Amon restrained her and Mousse ordered him to bury her, someone in the bamboo forest pleaded for mercy.

• The Iron Lady recognized Mousse as a foreigner and said she would wait for him to reach marriage age.
• The Iron Lady restrained Amon in his paper-chain form, but he escaped by turning into a massive Grizzly Bear.
• The Iron Lady dodged Amon's kick and hurled his enormous body into the ground, surprising Mousse with her strength.
• Amon strengthened by Mousse's ability overpowered the Iron Lady and bound her in his paper-chain form.
• The Iron Lady called Mousse her husband, so he ordered Amon to dig a pit and bury her.
• As Amon prepared to throw the Iron Lady into the pit, someone in the bamboo forest cried for mercy.

Mousse confronted Huo Xing, the chief of Huo Family Village, after subduing his granddaughter, Shasha, who was actually the young Huo Lisha. He released her and realized she might have remarkable potential, while becoming curious about her strength and concealed martial arts.

• Mousse held the bound Shasha as leverage when Huo Xing arrived and identified himself as her grandfather.
• Shasha complained that Mousse had entered the bamboo grove and that the panda she had captured had escaped; Huo Xing told her the panda was better off free.
• Huo Xing introduced himself as chief of Huo Family Village and described the territory his family controlled along Clear Water.
• Mousse recognized Huo Family Village as the Two Treasures Navy and deduced that Shasha was the young Huo Lisha, Old Cai's future fiancée.
• Mousse had Amon release Huo Lisha and considered her exceptional strength, hidden potential, and unusual history of having more than twenty-five husbands.

Charlotte Mousse learned that Huo Lisha’s great strength came from the Sea King Divine Skill, which altered its practitioners’ bodies and personalities, and discovered that she was secretly training despite her grandfather’s objections. Huo Xing tried to arrange for Mousse to marry her, and Mousse asked to hear more about the martial art so he could look for a way to help her.

• Charlotte Mousse estimated Huo Lisha’s likely strength and learned that Huo Xing had taken her to Lotus Peak six years earlier to pay respects to the Sea King.
• Huo Xing explained that the Sea King Divine Skill could be practiced by either sex but gradually made men effeminate and women broad and muscular, and said Huo Lisha had secretly continued training it.
• Huo Xing revealed that Huo Lisha planned to capture thirty-six husbands if no one would marry her, and Mousse privately sympathized with him.
• Huo Xing said Huo Lisha had taken a liking to Mousse and suggested that heaven had sent him to help, prompting Mousse to ask for Huo Lisha to explain the martial art so he could seek a solution.

Mousse asked Huo Xing to help buy fluorite while investigating how Huo Lisha’s Sea King Divine Skill increased her strength. He concluded that internal skills cultivated Haki and discovered that activated Haki could nourish and accelerate the body’s growth.

• Mousse asked Huo Xing to obtain ten thousand jin of fluorite, and Huo Xing agreed to cover the cost.
• Mousse tested Huo Lisha’s strength and found that her Sea King Divine Skill amplified it to roughly 3.2 times her normal level without harming her.
• Mousse connected internal skills to Haki after discussing the Flower Kingdom’s martial arts with Huo Xing.
• Mousse concluded that internal skills helped awaken Observation Haki but did not provide a shortcut to Armament Haki.
• Mousse realized Huo Lisha’s durability came from her naturally sturdy physique and discovered that activated Haki nourished the body and accelerated its growth.

Mousse investigated the Sea King Divine Skill and discovered how it manipulated the body through Observation Haki, while a trip to Lotus Peak led to a disastrous fire at a fluorite mine. More than a year after leaving Totto Land, he had unraveled the skill’s secret and could begin practicing it himself, though its side effects remained a risk.

• Mousse learned that Haki could support physical development and that Huo Lisha’s youth and flexibility helped her withstand explosive techniques better than Charlotte Oven.
• Mousse discovered Huo Lisha had made little progress with Observation Haki because the Sea King Divine Skill accelerated her perception enough that she had never needed it in combat.
• Mousse theorized that the Sea King Divine Skill used Internal Qi to stimulate glands, producing effects similar to hormones and causing harmful changes to Huo Lisha’s body.
• At Lotus Peak, Mousse realized Xuanhuang could absorb fluorite directly from a mine, but his attempt to strengthen it caused a fire that Amon extinguished as Cipher Pol agents investigated.
• After months of research, Mousse concluded that Observation Haki controlled the gland effects and that he could practice the Sea King Divine Skill with greater power and milder side effects than Huo Lisha.

Mousse investigated the side effects of Flower Kingdom martial arts and tried to learn the Martial God’s legendary technique at a ruined temple. He survived the temple’s attack and began to suspect that its weapon sensed the strength of a person’s soul.

• Mousse concluded that Observation Haki could safely hypnotize himself, resist others’ hypnosis, and stimulate bodily organs, though he planned to avoid frequent gland stimulation.
• Mousse asked Li Dayong about other Flower Kingdom martial arts and learned that the Sea Calming Art altered sexual orientation while the Life-Cutting Art burned away the practitioner’s lifespan.
• Li Dayong explained that Sea King and the Zheng family’s other great martial artists had suffered traumatic childhoods that shaped their techniques.
• Mousse approached the Martial God Temple with Amon in front of him, but fell into an illusion as a crescent-shaped Flying Slash struck Amon and sent Mousse flying.
• Huo Lisha cushioned Mousse’s fall, and he wondered whether the temple’s weapon had targeted him because it sensed his mental or spiritual strength.

Mousse learned the Martial God's history from the temple's illusion and decided that the dead warrior's path offered him no useful training. He left with Huo Lisha, who joined him after revealing she was adopted into Huo Family Village.

• Mousse approached the Martial God Temple again and entered the illusion without losing his composure.
• Mousse witnessed how the Martial God lost his home, became invincible, indulged his family, and ultimately made enemies who brought about his downfall.
• Mousse dismissed the Martial God's training as useless but considered the Benevolent King Sword before leaving the temple.
• Huo Lisha asked to follow Mousse, and he agreed on the condition that they would not return to Huo Family Village.
• Huo Lisha revealed that she was not the biological granddaughter of the village elder, and Mousse learned that martial arts families adopted talented children from collateral branches to preserve their lineages.

Mousse returned to Totto Land and urged Katakuri to travel to the Flower Kingdom to claim a powerful weapon suited to him. While Katakuri flew off with Amon, Mousse learned that Huo Lisha had fought his siblings and nearly been killed by Smoothie.

• Mousse told Katakuri about the ancient halberd in the Flower Kingdom and persuaded him that it could become his weapon.
• Katakuri worried that traveling to the West Blue without notifying the World Government could endanger Totto Land, but Mousse reassured him that the trip would be brief and discreet.
• Katakuri boarded Amon and flew toward the Flower Kingdom while Mousse rested on Wheat Island.
• Cracker called Mousse and reported that Huo Lisha had beaten several younger siblings and fought Smoothie.
• Mousse realized that Smoothie might have killed Huo Lisha and regretted bringing her to Totto Land as a spur for his siblings.

Mousse scolded Huo Lisha for injuring Smoothie and urged Smoothie to learn from the defeat and train harder. Smoothie decided to focus on leg techniques, while Mousse hoped she could eventually catch up to Huo Lisha and kept his greatest expectations for Praline.

• Mousse rebuked Huo Lisha for challenging Smoothie's ultimate move head-on and making a dangerous fight worse, then made her apologize to Smoothie at the hospital.
• Mousse warned Smoothie that her lethal attack had been unnecessary and that she could not always rely on her family to protect her.
• Mousse told Smoothie that Huo Lisha was thirteen and had trained diligently, prompting Smoothie to realize they were the same age and then resolve to catch up.
• Mousse encouraged Smoothie by explaining that Huo Lisha's powerful move had a steep cost and that Smoothie still had room to improve.
• Smoothie gave up her greatsword and chose to focus on leg techniques, while Mousse considered how her Devil Fruit and Seastone training could help her progress.
• Mousse reflected that Praline had continued training during his absence and placed even greater expectations on her.