Chapter Summaries

After considering the karmic debt created by Gaia’s gift of the World Tree seed, Nara Dan traveled to the Dark Continent in search of valuable resources and the Chimera Ants. He killed a giant Rat Monster to save an injured Chimera Ant, then examined it with interest as a possible path to finding the Ant King.

• Nara Dan reasoned that Gaia’s gift had created a karmic bond he might eventually need to repay.
• Nara Dan left Gaia and arrived at the dangerous edge of the Dark Continent.
• A giant Rat Monster chased down and trapped an injured Rust Ant.
• Nara Dan appeared and killed the Rat Monster with a single blow, then destroyed its still-living snake-headed tail.
• Nara Dan identified the giant ant as a Chimera Ant and considered the Ant King’s extraordinary strength and potential for evolution.

Nara Dan force-fed the Chimera Ant Queen a vast range of Dark Continent creatures to accelerate the Ant King's growth, then offered it his own flesh to add human-like potential. The Queen ate his regenerated finger, and Nara Dan waited to see how powerful the Ant King would become.

• Nara Dan threatened the Chimera Ant Queen until it devoured a rat monster and the corpse of a Blood Mosquito.
• For three days, Nara Dan brought the Queen enormous quantities of creatures, plants, and insects, forcing it to eat even when it resisted.
• Nara Dan concluded that the developing Ant King had absorbed genes from most creatures within thousands of kilometers, but still lacked human genes.
• Nara Dan offered the Queen his index finger, explaining that human genes could give Chimera Ants intelligence and the potential to learn Nen.
• The Chimera Ant Queen ate Nara Dan's finger, which he regenerated with the World Tree's life force, as he wondered how the Ant King would develop from his Transcendent flesh.

Nara Dan’s cells transformed the Chimera Ant King during her birth, making her a humanlike female who recognized him as her creator. After she knelt and called him “Father God,” Nara Dan began deciding what to name her.

• The Chimera Ant Queen swallowed Nara Dan’s finger, and its Transcendent nutrients triggered the Ant King’s birth.
• The Ant King drained the dying Chimera Ant Queen, then reached toward Nara Dan and begged for more nutrients.
• Nara Dan fed the Ant King Life Essence from the World Tree until she emerged from her eggshell as a humanlike girl.
• The Ant King knelt before Nara Dan and called him “Father God.”
• Nara Dan reflected on how his dominant Transcendent genes had shaped the Ant King and began considering a name for her.

Nara Dan named the newborn Chimera Ant Meru and discovered that her Divine Antennae gave her genuine Future Sight. He considered how her time-based ability could help him master time, while judging that she remained far below the rank needed to threaten him.

• Nara Dan named the newborn Meru, who rejected the Chimera Ant Queen as her mother and called Nara Dan her Father God.
• Meru revealed that she could hear Nara Dan's thoughts through her feelers, and Nara Dan examined her powerful Talent Entries.
• Nara Dan tested Meru by asking how many fingers he intended to raise, and Meru used Future Sight to answer correctly without seeing his movements.
• Nara Dan concluded that Meru's ability could help him develop control over time and reflected on how retainers could expand their masters' powers.
• Nara Dan considered the risk of retainers turning against their masters but decided Meru was still far too weak to threaten him.

Nara Dan used Nanika’s World Origin to travel through the Void Realm Sea and briefly peered into a powerful world. There, he encountered an overwhelming being and destroyed his own soul perception to escape, leaving the being curious about him.

• Nara Dan brought Meru into the Void Realm Sea and explained that he did not know what awaited them in the New World.
• Nara Dan activated Nanika’s World Origin through his Otherworld Visitor Talent Entry, sending his vision across the Void Realm Sea to search for another world.
• Nara Dan used the World Tree’s space-time ability to inspect a high-level world filled with powerful beings and the ruins of an ancient battlefield.
• Nara Dan noticed a gigantic finger suppressing something beneath it, then drew the attention of a mighty being who recognized him as a King Rank intruder.
• Nara Dan set his Divine Thought ablaze and destroyed his soul perception to escape, prompting the mighty being to wonder whether he held a secret.

After escaping a dangerous world, Nara Dan returned his attention to the Ninja World and then traveled onward to a new world where time moved faster. In Konoha, Yakushi Nonō and Nara Shikaku sensed his gaze and continued covering for his absence as they worried about how long the village could manage without him.

• Nara Dan reflected on the Ancient Giant Battlefield and the advantage his Otherworld Visitor Talent Entry gave him before choosing to return to the Ninja World.
• Nara Dan observed Konoha’s reconstruction and saw 'Nara Dan' working through Hokage paperwork with Nara Shikaku, noting that about six months had passed there.
• Nara Dan discovered that time moved faster in the new world than in the Ninja World and crossed into it under the protection of his Talent Entry.
• Yakushi Nonō told Nara Shikaku she had felt Nara Dan’s gaze, and they discussed his six-month disappearance and the lack of clues to his whereabouts.
• Nara Shikaku worried that Konoha could eventually be destabilized if Nara Dan did not return, while Yakushi Nonō urged him to trust that Nara Dan was alive.

Nara Dan and Meru arrived in an unfamiliar ocean world, found a ship, and encountered the Flying Axe Pirates. The pirates decided to attack them, while their captain revealed his forty-million-Belly bounty.

• Nara Dan summoned Meru, who killed and devoured a giant wolf before reporting that they were on an isolated island surrounded by ocean.
• Nara Dan shrank his Divine Demon Form, and he and Meru flew across the sea to search for people.
• Meru detected a ship, and Nara Dan flew toward it with her.
• The Flying Axe Pirates spotted Nara Dan and Meru standing on the sea, and their captain ordered his crew to knock them down.
• The bald captain identified himself as Flying Axe and thought about his forty-million-Belly bounty.

Nara Dan and Meru arrived in the One Piece World’s North Sea and defeated the Flying Axe Pirates, then took their ship and set course for inhabited land. Nara Dan left the voyage in Meru’s hands as he began considering the world and its powers.

• The Flying Axe Pirates attacked Nara Dan and Meru with a volley of axes, and Nara Dan allowed Meru to eat the bloodthirsty pirates.
• Meru knocked the axes aside, resisted the crew’s attacks, and killed Flying Axe and the rest of the pirates.
• Meru told Nara Dan she had learned to sail the ship and had taken a Permanent Pointer from the captain’s memories.
• Nara Dan put Meru in charge of the voyage, and she eagerly began managing the ship.
• Nara Dan reflected on the One Piece World’s powers and wonders, then wondered if the North Sea would be their first destination.

Reiju approached the ship of the Flying Axe Pirates to recruit its crew, only to find Nara Dan and Meru aboard after they had taken it over. She invited them to join the Vinsmoke Family, while her soldiers prepared for a possible refusal.

• Reiju led a fleet of snail ships through the North Sea to recruit pirate captains on her father's orders.
• Nara Dan and Meru spent two days at sea, and Nara Dan used Jin Force to land a fish on the deck and claim he had caught it.
• Nara Dan sensed approaching guests, and Meru spotted Reiju's fleet and admired its giant snails.
• Reiju learned that the Flying Axe Pirates' captain and crew were missing, then approached Nara Dan and Meru aboard their ship.
• Nara Dan told Reiju that he and Meru had taken the ship after its crew insulted his daughter.
• Reiju invited Nara Dan and Meru to join the Vinsmoke Family as her soldiers silently readied their guns.

Nara Dan accepted Reiju’s offer to work for the Vinsmokes in exchange for a chance to meet Vinsmoke Judge. Their first assignment was to head to the Notis Kingdom, where Marine Commodore Drake was waiting to coordinate an operation in the name of “justice.”

• Meru threatened the armed Vinsmoke soldiers, but Nara Dan calmed her and challenged Reiju to offer the Vinsmokes’ leading family more convincing terms.
• Reiju offered Nara Dan fifty million Belly, plus a possible bonus, to join the Vinsmoke alliance and carry out their missions.
• Nara Dan agreed to the terms but asked to prove his worth directly to Vinsmoke Judge, and Reiju refused to promise him a meeting.
• A call from Drake gave Reiju an opportunity to offer Nara Dan a mission in exchange for considering an introduction to her father.
• Nara Dan and Meru joined Reiju aboard the Vinsmoke ship, which set course for the Notis Kingdom.
• Drake waited there with his warship and told his adjutant that he alone was cooperating with the Vinsmokes, ostensibly to protect public order.

Drake brought the Vinsmoke Family to the Non-Member State of Notis Kingdom, where pirates were raiding, while reflecting on his secret efforts to protect such countries. As Reiju’s forces attacked the pirates, Nara Dan sent Meru into battle, and she began crushing the raiders with overwhelming strength.

• Drake explained that the Navy would not aid the Non-Member State of Notis Kingdom and that he had secretly alerted the Vinsmoke Family to pirate invasions.
• Reiju warned Drake not to meddle in the Vinsmoke Family’s ambitions, then ordered the Snail Ship toward the kingdom’s coast.
• Reiju’s ship opened fire on the pirate vessels, sinking them as the pirates on shore rushed to meet the attackers.
• Reiju looked to Nara Dan for help, and he sent Meru ashore, telling her not to eat anyone.
• Meru lifted a half-sunken pirate ship and smashed it into the crowd, killing nearly a hundred pirates as the survivors tried to flee.

Meru slaughtered the pirates and defeated Ghost Scythe and Garon with overwhelming strength. Drake and Reiju were shaken by her potential, while Nara Dan noticed the Devil Fruit power leave Garon's body after his death and ordered Meru to finish the fight quickly.

• Meru killed Ghost Scythe after he attacked her from behind with his chain scythe.
• Drake and Reiju marveled at Meru's strength and considered her frightening potential.
• Garon confronted Meru, transformed with the Dung Beetle Fruit, and tried to crush her with his armored fists.
• Meru broke Garon's exoskeleton, slammed him headfirst into the ground, and left him unconscious or dead.
• Nara Dan saw an energy current leave Garon's body and disappear, then ordered Meru to stop playing around and finish quickly.

Meru and Nara Dan reached the Vinsmoke Family’s floating base, where Gaji coveted Meru’s strength and secretly considered taking her. After Meru exposed his thoughts, Nara Dan let her attack, and she knocked Gaji unconscious before fighting his sons.

• Meru used Ghost Scythe’s broken weapon to kill the remaining pirate underlings, while Drake questioned Nara Dan and Reiju sent him away.
• Reiju led Nara Dan and Meru to the Vinsmoke Family’s joined Snail Ships, where Gaji greeted them and eyed Meru as a potential subject for his experiments.
• Meru revealed that she could hear thoughts and told Nara Dan that Gaji had considered making her his and killing him.
• Nara Dan told Meru not to kill Gaji, and Meru struck Gaji hard enough to knock him unconscious and send him crashing across the base.
• Niji charged Meru, but she pierced his chest with Chimera Claw and slammed him into a crater.
• Ichiji unleashed a blinding flash and a storm of flames at Meru.

Meru defeated the Vinsmoke brothers’ combined attack, and Nara Dan revealed his overwhelming power when Reiju tried to use her as leverage. He insisted that he wanted close cooperation with the Vinsmoke Family, leaving Gaji intimidated and outmatched.

• Meru dodged Ichiji’s fire attacks, survived his explosive barrage, and forced him to call Yonji and Niji for help.
• The healed brothers joined Ichiji in using their Mixed-Color Burst, but Meru overpowered their combined strike and sent all three crashing to the ground.
• Reiju took Nara Dan hostage and threatened him with poison, asking Meru to stop in exchange for the Vinsmoke Family’s money and safe passage.
• Nara Dan transformed into a towering, godlike form, flung Reiju into Gaji, and frightened Gaji into recognizing that his family could not win.
• Nara Dan told Gaji that he still wanted to work closely with the Vinsmoke Family.

Nara Dan questioned Vinsmoke Gaji about Devil Fruits and learned how Lineage Factor research could reproduce some of their effects. After uncovering that Devil Fruits contained used World Origin Power, he asked who created them, and Gaji connected their origins to the Ancient Kingdom.

• Nara Dan sat on Gaji’s throne and asked him about his work with Vegapunk and Devil Fruits.
• Gaji explained that Lineage Factor research could imitate Devil Fruit effects, especially by altering unborn children, but could not truly reproduce the fruits.
• Nara Dan made the Rhino Fruit vanish and identified the energy it left behind as used World Origin Power.
• Nara Dan asked who had intervened to create Devil Fruits, and Gaji said he did not know but believed they were connected to the Ancient Kingdom from eight hundred years earlier.

Nara Dan ordered the Vinsmoke Family to gather Devil Fruits, people with abilities, and information about the Poneglyphs while he used World Origin Power to produce a new Talent Entry. He discovered that his higher Rank let him directly strengthen his Talent Entries with World Origin Power and resolved to seek the Ancient Kingdom’s method of controlling Gaia Authority.

• Nara Dan told Gaji to collect Devil Fruits and people with abilities, investigate Poneglyphs, and work with Meru, promising the Vinsmoke Family influence in the North Blue if he was satisfied.
• Nara Dan used World Origin Power from the Rhino Fruit to create the purple Talent Entry Blood Qi Like Dragon.
• Nara Dan absorbed Blood Qi Like Dragon into his orange Transcendent True Lord entry, gaining only a slight increase in strength.
• Nara Dan realized he could use World Origin Power directly to advance his Talent Entries instead of relying on gaining more entries.
• Nara Dan concluded that Devil Fruits and the Ancient Kingdom’s technologies and weapons drew on Gaia Authority, and he resolved to find how the Ancient Kingdom had accessed it.

Sengoku ordered the Marines to monitor the Vinsmoke Family after receiving a report about Meru, unaware of the family’s recent upheaval. On Sabaody, Nara Dan visited Shakky’s bar, warned her to leave before she ended up in Impel Down, and departed for other business.

• Sengoku reviewed a report about Meru’s strength and cooperation with the Vinsmoke Family, then ordered closer surveillance without direct interference.
• Nara Dan observed the suffering beneath Sabaody’s prosperity and considered how the Revolutionary Army might overthrow the World Government.
• Nara Dan entered Shakky’s Rip-off Bar, ordered whiskey, and surprised Shakky by knowing about her and Rayleigh.
• Nara Dan paid for his drink with a huge gem and warned Shakky to leave Sabaody before she was sent to Impel Down.
• Shakky realized Nara Dan’s warning might mean Rayleigh was about to be arrested.

Nara Dan killed a Celestial Dragon and defeated the CP0 leader after leaving Shakky's bar, triggering a crisis in the Holy Land. He then appeared at Pangu Castle with Samehada and flooded the entire castle, beginning his raid for the Celestial Dragons' Devil Fruits.

• Nara Dan ignored a Celestial Dragon's demand to kneel, caught his first bullet, and killed him by flicking another bullet through his forehead.
• The CP0 leader ordered the other agents to alert the Five Elders and summon an Admiral, then attacked Nara Dan and was killed in the ensuing fight.
• Nara Dan transported the elderly man who had tried to warn him to safety as CP0 agents approached.
• Nara Dan revealed that he had targeted the Celestial Dragons to seize their Devil Fruits and collect their World Origin.
• Nara Dan appeared above Pangu Castle, summoned Samehada, and used its Water Release to unleash a flood that submerged the castle.

Nara Dan flooded Pangu Castle and left Samehada to fight the Five Elders while he disappeared. As the Elders rescued the Celestial Dragons, Samehada transformed into a colossal ten-tailed beast, and the Long-Beard Elder prepared to use his Devil Fruit against it.

• Nara Dan used Samehada to trap Pangu Castle in rising water, forcing CP0 agents to carry Celestial Dragons into the air.
• Nara Dan vanished after ordering Samehada to keep the Five Elders from escaping, and the Five Elders emerged from the water.
• The Birthmark Elder and the blond Five Elder dived underwater to rescue Celestial Dragons while Samehada attacked the others with water sharks.
• The Sword-Wielding Elder sliced through the sharks and launched a huge slash, but Samehada blocked it with a wall of water and transformed into a gigantic ten-tailed creature.
• The Birthmark Elder resurfaced in Xuanwu form with rescued Celestial Dragons and CP0 agents on his back, and the Long-Beard Elder prepared to use his Degree-Degree Fruit against Samehada.

Nara Dan returned from looting twenty-five Devil Fruits and confronted the Five Elders, demonstrating his overwhelming strength before launching a Divine Tailed Beast Bomb at them. The bomb exploded after the Elders failed to stop it, and Nara Dan watched through the flames to see what had become of them.

• Long-Beard Elder froze the surrounding water, allowing the CP0 agents and Celestial Dragons to land safely while Samehada prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Nara Dan returned with twenty-five stolen Devil Fruits, and Sword-Wielding Elder attacked him with a powerful slash that Nara Dan shattered with one hand.
• The Five Elders considered retreating and summoning help, while Long-Beard Elder suggested notifying a mysterious person.
• Nara Dan absorbed Samehada and transformed its Tailed Beast Bomb into a massive Divine Tailed Beast Bomb, then sent it toward the Five Elders.
• Sword-Wielding Elder's slash failed to stop the bomb, and Birthmark Elder's Black Tortoise Shield broke before Long-Beard Elder tried to block it with an Air Wall.
• The Divine Tailed Beast Bomb exploded through Long-Beard Elder's defense, engulfing the area in heat and shock waves as Nara Dan watched the Five Elders through the flames.