Recaps

Richard refined six powerful figures into Six Paths Puppets, equipped them with artifacts, and sent them on missions across the Pirate World. He then watched Xia Mi overpower Imu and asked her to keep Imu alive until he retrieved the Arrow-Arrow Fruit.

• Richard used Black Receivers and Creation Tribulation Light to refine the five captured figures and the Cipher Pol chief into Six Paths Puppets.
• Richard assigned each figure a Path, equipped the puppets with artifacts, and sent them to find Gunko and Saint Figarland Shamrock or support Lin Feng's groups.
• Richard considered how the puppets could be upgraded and watched Lin Feng and the others to confirm that everything was proceeding smoothly.
• Richard saw Xia Mi brutally overpower Imu in the Flower Room while holding back to avoid damaging the space.
• Richard told Xia Mi to keep Imu alive until he retrieved the Arrow-Arrow Fruit, and Xia Mi agreed on the condition that he share any technique he developed for fusing Devil Fruits with weapons.

Xia Mi fought Imu in the Flower Room and disabled her connection to Uranus, while Richard’s Six Paths Puppets captured and killed the God's Knights to claim their Devil Fruits and weapons. After Richard searched Imu’s soul for information about the spaceship, Xia Mi took custody of her, leaving the World Government and Marines without most of their strongest forces.

• Xia Mi trapped Imu in the Flower Room, blocked her from contacting Uranus, and continued their fight as Imu prepared to resist.
• Richard’s puppets captured Gunko and Saint Figarland Shamrock; Richard killed them in his Small World and claimed the Arrow-Arrow Fruit and Shamrock’s Devil Fruit-eating sword.
• Richard sent his puppets to hunt the remaining God's Knights, recovered the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Mythical Type: Qilin Form and the Thorn-Thorn Fruit, and searched Imu’s soul for information about a spaceship.
• Richard obtained the spaceship captain’s diamond-shaped identity card and handed Imu over to Xia Mi.
• The remaining God's Knights, including Saint Garling, died, and Xia Mi emerged with a dark purple Devil Fruit while the World Government’s high-end combat power lay devastated.

Richard and the Travel Group defeated the World Government's forces in Mary Geoise, seized its hidden treasures and knowledge, and left the Flower Room behind for Kuina. News of the group's victory and the capture of Marine leaders spread across the seas, leaving the world to face upheaval.

• Lin Feng captured Blueno and took the Door-Door Fruit, while Richard and the others looted the World Government's Devil Fruits, materials, and training records.
• Richard and Xia Mi deciphered the Flower Room's spatial framework but left it in Mary Geoise for Kuina to use later, and Kuina said she cared only about swordsmanship and becoming stronger.
• Richard healed Kong and the Marines, told them the World Government and its leaders were gone, and Xia Mi revealed that she had killed Sakazuki.
• Morgans verified reports that Marine leaders had been captured and arranged to publish the news, while the Travel Group departed Mary Geoise.
• Newspapers spread reports of the Travel Group's victory and its members' chosen titles, shocking readers across the seas.

News of the Travel Group’s victory spread across the seas, prompting powerful figures and factions to assess the group and the World Government’s next move. Kaido set out to target Marine bases, Hawkeye headed for Sabaody to seek new opponents, Hancock planned to attend a possible Shichibukai summons, and Zoro asked to set sail but was refused.

• Whitebeard read the news and concluded that the Travel Group was interesting but unlikely to overcome the World Government’s hidden power.
• Kaido read the newspaper, saw an opportunity in the Marines’ losses, and left to visit Marine bases while King watched Onigashima.
• Big Mom’s children delayed telling her the news as they dealt with her craving for sweets, while Shanks worried that Luffy needed to grow stronger quickly.
• Doflamingo and Hawkeye considered the Travel Group’s strength, and Hawkeye chose its armed members as his next targets and sailed toward Sabaody.
• Hancock focused on Xia Mi’s killing of a Celestial Dragon and resolved to attend a possible Shichibukai summons so she could see her idol.
• Zoro decided to set sail after learning of Kuina’s strength, but Koushiro told him to wait until he met the dojo master’s standards.

After reaching the New World, Richard was forced to cut short his pirate journey when a powerful god approached the God Tree he was cultivating in the Coiling Dragon World. Recognizing the intruder as Leimo’s Low-level God Divine Clone, Richard called for reinforcements and prepared to return from the Pirate World.

• Richard and his group relaxed on Fish-Man Island for two days before setting off for the New World.
• Richard’s Water Element Divine Clone tended the God Tree, which had grown for decades while absorbing energy from an underwater Magic Crystal Mine.
• An unfamiliar Low-level God noticed the God Tree and flew directly toward Richard instead of avoiding him.
• Richard recognized the visitor as Leimo, a renowned Water Element Mid-level God using his Low-level God Divine Clone.
• Richard sent his Wind Element Divine Clone toward the God Tree and decided his main body must return from the Pirate World.

Richard explained the vast range in strength among Mid-level Gods and prepared for a possible fight with Leimo, who demanded Richard’s God Tree. Richard refused to back down, keeping his main body nearby as backup.

• Richard explained that Mid-level Gods ranged from newly advanced experts to fighters capable of challenging elite High-level Gods, depending on their mastery and fusion of Law Profound Mysteries.
• Richard worried that one of the Mid-level Gods in the Tara Plane might be a talented genius who had independently learned to fuse Law Profound Mysteries.
• Richard brought his main body as backup so he could retrieve his Wind Element Divine Clone and escape if danger arose.
• Leimo arrived near Richard and identified him as a newcomer from the Osiris Empire.
• Leimo demanded that Richard leave the area and surrender the God Tree because he wanted it for himself.
• Richard refused to yield and prepared to fight Leimo rather than hand over the God Tree.

Richard trapped Leimo's Darkness clone in the sea, but neither could defeat the other. Richard secretly brought his true body and other clones nearby, waiting for Leimo's Mid-level God clone to arrive.

• Richard attacked Leimo with his Water Element Divine Clone and a Mid-level Divine Artifact, but Leimo's shield blocked the strike.
• Leimo escaped Spatial Imprisonment with Shadow Clone Transformation and attacked Richard through darkness and multiple shadows.
• Richard merged with the sea, concealed himself, and used an illusion to prevent Leimo's shadows from escaping.
• Leimo called for his Mid-level God clone, while Richard secretly positioned his true body and planned to combine several Divine Domains against it.
• Leimo's Water Element Divine Clone set out from a distant continent, and Richard's Wind Element Divine Clone arrived half a day later as both sides waited.

Richard ambushed and captured Leimo’s Water Element Divine Clone, then used illusion and sealing techniques to capture his Darkness Divine Clone as well. With both clones imprisoned and stripped of their equipment, Richard secured the spoils and left Leimo unable to resist.

• Leimo approached Richard’s water-mist Illusion Array, but Richard’s true body and Wind Element Divine Clone appeared and imprisoned him with their Divine Domains and ocular techniques.
• Richard used the Void Mirror to seal Leimo’s Water Element Divine Clone, then had a puppet remove his Divine Artifacts and Space Ring.
• Leimo’s trapped Darkness Divine Clone begged Richard to spare him and offered to surrender, but Richard kept him confined in the illusion.
• Richard’s true body arrived and used illusion techniques to slow Leimo’s Darkness Divine Clone before striking the real body among its sixteen shadows.
• Leimo tried to self-destruct, but Richard imprisoned him in the Void Mirror before he could act, placing him alongside his other clone.

Richard captured Leimo and seized his Divine Artifacts, then learned the origins of a powerful sword and confirmed it posed no threat from a High-level God backing Leimo. He tested the sword’s devastating power and claimed it as his primary weapon while planning to investigate the Plane Prison once he grew stronger.

• Richard fled after putting away the God Tree and waited three days before examining Leimo’s captured Space Rings.
• Richard used an illusion to make Leimo unbind his Space Rings and found a High-level Divine Artifact, a Destruction-attribute longsword.
• Richard questioned Leimo and learned he had taken the sword from a Mid-level God who escaped from a Plane Prison, where a High-level God might still be waiting at a spatial weak point.
• Richard reviewed his Wind Element Divine Clone’s progress and decided he would investigate the Plane Prison after becoming stronger.
• Richard swung the longsword without using energy or Laws and cleaved a vast channel through the sea, then chose it as his primary weapon.

Richard inventoried Leimo’s vast fortune, including two Thunder godheads that could let Hogg become a Mid-level God, and equipped his true body and Divine Clones with powerful Divine Artifacts. After killing Leimo, Richard repurposed his Divine Clones as Six Paths Puppets and extracted two Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits from the replaced puppets.

• Richard found two Thunder godheads among Leimo’s hoard and decided they could allow Hogg to become a Mid-level God.
• Richard distributed Leimo’s hundreds of Mid-level Divine Artifacts among his true body and three Divine Clones, greatly improving their equipment.
• Richard finished sorting the loot, then gave Leimo a quick death and gained two more godheads.
• Richard replaced the Deva Path Puppet with Leimo’s Water Element Divine Clone and the Human Path Puppet with Leimo’s Darkness Divine Clone.
• Richard extracted the Devil Fruits from the two replaced puppets and obtained two Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits.

Richard captured several Saint Domain Magical Beasts and returned to his territory, where he gave Hogg a Thunder Low-level Godhead and urged Della to pursue godhood independently. He left Hogg to refine the Godhead, continued guiding both of them, and declined to meet a clan prodigy before the boy reached the Saint Domain.

• Richard captured two Saint Domain Magical Beasts at sea and several more on land, including an eagle-type mount, then bound them with master-servant contracts.
• Richard returned to his territory, gave Hogg and Della Mid-level Divine Artifacts, and gave Hogg a Thunder Low-level Godhead to refine.
• Richard warned Hogg that refining a Godhead would limit his future growth and encouraged Della to become a god independently; Hogg accepted the Godhead because he lacked confidence in his own talent.
• Richard answered Hogg and Della's cultivation questions, sharing his understanding of the Laws of Water to help Della advance toward the Saint Domain Limit.
• Hogg told Richard about a gifted young clan member and asked to bring him for a meeting, but Richard said to wait until the boy reached the Saint Domain.

Richard studied the God Tree and Devil Fruits, then strengthened his weapons while discussing the group’s travels in the Chat Group. He arranged for his Water Element Divine Clone to join Xia Mi and the others while he prepared to visit Ye Zhen’s world.

• Richard found that the God Tree refused to eat a Devil Fruit, so he had his Life Divine Clone nourish it with Divine Power.
• Richard studied how Devil Fruit Will took control of objects and strengthened the longbow’s spirituality so it could eventually suppress a Devil Fruit Will.
• Xia Mi told Richard that she had beaten Kaido in Wano Country and wanted to recruit him as her subordinate.
• Lin Feng said the group planned to visit Laugh Tale and then Wan Wan’s world, while Richard chose to visit Ye Zhen’s world instead.
• Richard arranged for his Water Element Divine Clone to travel with Xia Mi and the others while he went to the Mysterious Recovery world.

Richard arrived in Dahai City and met Ye Zhen, who challenged him to a fight so he could test the strength of a god from another world. As Ye Zhen spread his Ghost Domain over half the city, Richard sent out the Deva Path Puppet to test the world’s instant-death rules.

• Ye Zhen ordered A-Wu to prepare for an honored guest, and Richard suddenly appeared at the Ghost Forum base.
• Richard examined the death-ridden world while Ye Zhen and A-Wu sized him up in person.
• Ye Zhen boasted, welcomed Richard, and eagerly challenged him to a fight.
• Ye Zhen unfolded his Ghost Domain above Dahai City, and Richard sensed how it controlled space and distance.
• Richard entered his Small World and released the Deva Path Puppet to test the world’s instant-death rules.

Richard and Ye Zhen sparred inside the Ghost Domain, where Richard sealed away Ye Zhen’s spatial abilities and studied the Substitute Ghost’s causal power. Richard ended the fight by trapping Ye Zhen in an illusion, then pointed out his weaknesses in consciousness and his vulnerability to gold.

• Richard sealed the Ghost Domain, stopped Ye Zhen from using spatial abilities, and struck him with the Deva Path Puppet, but Ye Zhen’s Substitute Ghost restored him.
• Ye Zhen redirected the wounds he inflicted on himself onto the Deva Path Puppet, and Richard healed the puppet while studying the causal ability behind the substitution.
• Richard used an illusion to make Ye Zhen dance, recorded him, and shared the video with the group, whose members sent Ye Zhen small rewards.
• After Richard released him, Ye Zhen complained about the illusion and explained that he had struggled to capture consciousness-type Vengeful Ghosts despite practicing the Meditation Method and Dual Cultivation of Life and Nature.
• Richard told Ye Zhen to train, then reminded him that supernatural abilities could not affect gold and that he could seal Ye Zhen inside it.

Richard obtained a Vengeful Ghost with a Ghost Domain from Ye Zhen and used the Human Path Puppet to study its supernatural Rules. After rewriting the Ghost’s killing Rules and fusing it with the puppet, he activated its Ghost Domain and tested its decaying power, leaving him with a new avenue for studying this world’s Laws.

• Richard asked Ye Zhen for a Vengeful Ghost with a Ghost Domain and offered secret medicines for mental power cultivation in exchange.
• Ye Zhen gave Richard a Mummified Ghost from the Vengeful Ghosts imprisoned after incidents in Dahai City.
• Richard used the Human Path Puppet, made from Leimo’s Darkness Divine Clone, to withstand the Mummified Ghost’s attack and erase its killing Rules.
• Richard fused the Mummified Ghost with the Human Path Puppet and activated a Ghost Domain that covered several apartment buildings.
• Richard tested the Mummified Ghost’s supernatural power on a small animal, which rotted into flesh, and compared its Death Law with that of the Coiling Dragon World.

Ye Zhen invited Richard to Dachang City to watch Headquarters struggle with the Starving Ghost incident and retrieve Professor Wang. After they arrived, Zhao Jianguo tried to recruit Richard, who ignored the offer as they faced the city’s sealed Ghost Domain.

• Ye Zhen told Richard that Headquarters had asked him to enter Dachang City and rescue Professor Wang, and Richard agreed to go.
• Ye Zhen and Richard traveled to Dachang City, where the Starving Ghost’s bluish-black Ghost Domain still sealed the city.
• Zhao Jianguo met Ye Zhen and Richard outside the Ghost Domain and assessed Richard as a potentially powerful Ghost Controller.
• Zhao Jianguo offered Richard a place in Headquarters and praised its benefits, but Richard ignored the recruitment offer.

Ye Zhen and Richard entered Dachang City to rescue Professor Wang, while the Ghost Controllers outside watched. After Richard tested a derivative Ghost Infant, future Yang Jian warned him away from the Wish Ghost, so the pair continued without interfering with Yang Jian’s future.

• Ye Zhen demanded additional payment to resolve the S-class incident, intimidated the assembled Ghost Controllers with his Ghost Domain, and refused to bring Li Jun into Dachang City.
• Ye Zhen used his Ghost Domain to take Richard into Dachang City, leaving Zhao Jianguo and the others outside.
• Richard used a Human Path puppet and the Mummified Ghost’s power to suppress and kill a derivative Ghost Infant, attracting nearby ghost shadows.
• Richard proposed going to Guanjiang Residential District to capture the Wish Ghost, but sensed future Yang Jian watching him and decided not to interfere.
• Ye Zhen explained that he avoided taking items meant for future teammates, and Richard acknowledged Ye Zhen’s restraint.

Richard and Ye Zhen reached Guanjiang Residential District and rescued Professor Wang from the sealed safe house. Richard refused to explain how to prevent Vengeful Ghost revival, leaving Wang Xiaoming eager to learn more about the Republic Era and its secrets.

• Richard captured and sealed a fourth-stage Derived Ghost Infant before he and Ye Zhen left the area to avoid the Starving Ghost.
• Richard and Ye Zhen arrived at Yang Jian's safe house, where Ye Zhen knocked and identified himself as a rescuer sent by Headquarters.
• Richard cleared the foul air from the crowded safe house, and Ye Zhen and Richard entered to meet Wang Xiaoming.
• Wang Xiaoming asked Richard whether he had solved Vengeful Ghost revival, but Richard refused to answer and warned that the paranormal era could not be ended so easily.
• Wang Xiaoming asked Richard about the Republic Era, and Ye Zhen told him that he would learn its secrets only once he became strong enough.

Ye Zhen and Richard tried to take Professor Wang out of Dachang City, but Wang refused to leave before the Starving Ghost incident was resolved. After learning that Yang Jian was expected to handle the threat, Wang chose to wait, while Richard warned that the Human Skin Paper in Zhang Wei’s Gold Box was about to escape.

• Professor Wang refused to leave Dachang City and offered five Red Ghost Candles to persuade Ye Zhen and Richard to resolve the Starving Ghost incident.
• Ye Zhen said something was manipulating the Starving Ghost and proposed waiting for Little Yang to deal with it; Richard explained that the Starving Ghost’s potential made it the entity’s target.
• Wang Xiaoming called Zhao Jianguo, who told Ye Zhen to protect him, and Wang agreed to stay until Yang Jian dealt with the Starving Ghost.
• Richard noticed the Gold Box Zhang Wei was carrying was coming open, and Zhang Wei reinforced it with more gold sheets.
• Ye Zhen identified the contents as Yang Jian’s Human Skin Paper, and Wang Xiaoming asked Zhang Wei to lend it to him for research.
• Zhang Wei refused to lend the Human Skin Paper and told Wang Xiaoming to ask Yang Jian when he returned.

Yang Jian returned to the shelter and learned that Ye Zhen would not help him deal with the Starving Ghost. He took the Human Skin Paper and left to seek its advice, while Ye Zhen and Richard stayed behind.

• After Yang Jian came online, Ye Zhen greeted him and challenged him to grow stronger so they could fight someday.
• Yang Jian hoped Ye Zhen would help stop the Starving Ghost, but Wang Xiaoming and Ye Zhen explained that he would have to handle it himself.
• Zhang Wei handed Yang Jian the Gold Box containing the Human Skin Paper, which Yang Jian needed to find a solution.
• Richard secretly studied the Human Skin Paper through the box, while its warning against handing him over to an unnamed person appeared and then vanished unseen.
• Yang Jian left to consult the Human Skin Paper in private, and Ye Zhen told Professor Wang that Yang Jian could resolve the incident without their help.

After Yang Jian contained the Starving Ghost and cleared the fog over Dachang City, Headquarters and Circle of Friends argued over taking the Ghost and the Coffin Nail. As Wang Xiaoming negotiated with Yang Jian, Jiang Shangbai provoked Richard, unaware that he had chosen the wrong target.

• Yang Jian let Professor Wang inspect the Starving Ghost, while Zhao Jianguo and Ye Zhen arrived at Seventh Middle School.
• A Headquarters Ghost Controller considered pulling out the Coffin Nail, and Yang Jian warned Zhao Jianguo to keep his people under control.
• Jiang Shangbai urged Headquarters to transport the Starving Ghost to Dajing City, and Yang Jian grew angry at the attempt to take it without an offer.
• Wang Xiaoming drew Yang Jian aside to discuss Headquarters' offer, while Jiang Shangbai chose to provoke Richard.
• Jiang Shangbai's fellow Ghost Controllers watched eagerly, but Ye Zhen remained amused rather than angry.

Richard defeated Jiang Shangbai after Jiang provoked him, stripping away the Ghost Burial Clothes that kept Jiang’s powers balanced. Jiang left after failing to buy them back, while Headquarters’ Ghost Controllers became wary of Richard.

• Richard slapped Jiang Shangbai after Jiang came looking for trouble, and Ye Zhen encouraged them to fight.
• Jiang expanded his Ghost Domain and used his supernatural abilities, but Richard’s illusion left him unable to touch or affect Richard.
• Richard slapped Jiang again and stripped away the Ghost Burial Clothes despite Headquarters’ Ghost Controllers considering intervening.
• Richard dispelled the illusion, and Jiang regained consciousness with his powers unstable and a risk of ghost revival within a year.
• Jiang offered money, gold, and other Vengeful Ghosts to get the Ghost Burial Clothes back, but Richard refused, so Jiang left.
• Headquarters’ Ghost Controllers judged Richard dangerous and felt relieved that Jiang had suffered a loss.

After the Starving Ghost disaster, Richard explored the Republican-era mirror and captured thousands of Vengeful Ghosts for research. Back in Dahai City, he discovered new abilities and made progress toward mastering the Laws of Water.

• Yang Jian and Professor Wang confirmed that Headquarters would take the Starving Ghost while Yang Jian kept the Coffin Nail, and Ye Zhen and Richard left Dachang City.
• Richard sent a puppet through the mirror and used gold and the Void Mirror to capture thousands of Vengeful Ghosts, including two that targeted consciousness.
• Richard teased Ye Zhen with the consciousness-type ghosts until Ye Zhen begged for one, then gave him a Gold Box.
• Richard and Ye Zhen returned to Dahai City, where Richard began cataloguing and testing his captured ghosts.
• Richard found a sound-attacking ghost that could help his sound abilities and a Reflection Ghost that could stack supernatural power infinitely.
• Richard had the Deva Path Puppet control the Reflection Ghost and used it to enter the Water Element Profound Mystery of Mirror Image Technique.

Richard and Ye Zhen traveled to Dadong City to enter the Wang Family Old Residence, where endless Restarts could revive the dead. Wang Chaling agreed to let them in, hoping they might also find his missing father.

• Richard decided to visit the Wang Family Old Residence and invited Ye Zhen, who left A-Wu to handle the Ghost Forum's affairs.
• Richard and Ye Zhen flew to Dadong City after Headquarters alerted Wang Chaling to their arrival.
• Wang Chaling met them and learned that they wanted to visit his ancestral residence, which was occupied by outside Ghost Controllers.
• Richard revealed that Wang Chaling's father had become trapped inside the old residence.
• Wang Chaling agreed to let Richard and Ye Zhen enter and offered to take them there.

Richard and Ye Zhen entered the Wang Family Old Residence to reach the Pendulum Clock and encountered the Survival Society, a group of Ghost Controllers living inside its time loop. Richard used the Six Paths Puppet to kill the society members in their way, and the two headed upstairs as the dead members’ Vengeful Ghosts began reviving.

• Richard and Ye Zhen entered the Wang Family Old Residence while Wang Chaling waited outside and then drove away.
• Richard and Ye Zhen met the Survival Society, whose members had occupied the residence’s first and second floors while avoiding the Vengeful Ghost on the third floor.
• Wan Tong and Liao Fan challenged the newcomers, but Richard released the Six Paths Puppet and its layered ghost domains immobilized the Society members.
• Richard used the killing Rules of the puppets’ Vengeful Ghosts to eliminate the Society members, while Ye Zhen complained that Richard had taken his opponent.
• As the dead members’ Vengeful Ghosts began reviving, Richard and Ye Zhen stepped past the bodies and headed upstairs toward the Pendulum Clock.