Chapter Summaries

Li Hai left Mihawk to fight a short-lived Haki humanoid, which nearly killed the swordsman before Aokiji rescued him. Aokiji learned about the intelligent Sea King and reported the encounter to Sengoku at Marine Headquarters.

• Mihawk challenged Li Hai, but Li Hai created a Haki humanoid to fight him and disappeared into the sea fog.
• The Haki humanoid overwhelmed Mihawk, wounding him and damaging his black blade as their battle spread across the sea.
• Aokiji froze the humanoid long enough to rescue Mihawk, but it pursued them until its ten-second lifespan ended.
• Mihawk told Aokiji that Li Hai was an enormous, intelligent Sea King who wielded Armament Haki and Overlord Haki.
• Aokiji called Sengoku and reported the encounter in detail.

Li Hai reached the Red Line and declared that he would overthrow the World Government, but his attention shifted to a mysterious expansion of the universe. When Kaido attacked his unresponsive body, its self-defense mechanism slapped Kaido away, leaving Kizaru stunned.

• Garp told Sengoku that an enormous Sea King had attacked a Marine fleet near the Red Line, and Sengoku sent Kizaru to investigate.
• Li Hai reached the Red Line after crossing vast distances, destroyed the Marine fleet that attacked him, and headed toward Holy Land Mary Geoise.
• Kizaru confronted Li Hai, who declared that he intended to overthrow the World Government, then sensed that the universe beyond the realm barrier was expanding rapidly.
• Kaido arrived, offered to make Li Hai his subordinate, and attacked when Li Hai ignored him.
• Cthulhu's body reacted automatically and slapped Kaido into the distant sky, shocking Kizaru.

Kizaru realized Cthulhu could kill him with a single blow, while Kaido’s journey to the moon interrupted Enel’s attempt to leave for the stars. Li Hai learned that the fused realm gate could be upgraded by winning the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City, but first he had to travel to that world and establish a human legend.

• Kizaru feared that Cthulhu’s slap could kill him, while Kaido survived the blow and hurtled toward the moon.
• Kaido crashed into Enel and his spacecraft, leaving Enel badly injured and scattering the rabbit-like creatures.
• Enel learned that Kaido had been slapped from the Red Line to the moon by a being he believed was a god.
• Li Hai learned from Demon that the fused realm-gate islands could be upgraded by winning the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City.
• Li Hai learned he had to go to Earth, live in a particular era, and leave behind deeds before he could enter the war as a Heroic Spirit.

Li Hai learned that time travel in the illusory World Gate universes was only an illusion, then returned to the One Piece world and killed Akainu after he attacked. Kizaru witnessed the devastation in shock.

• Li Hai asked whether collective consciousness could send him into the past, and the demon explained that time and space in World Gate universes were unreal phenomena.
• Li Hai recalled how Xingma Hao's reversal of time had never physically affected him, allowing him to use absurdity to strike at the narrative level.
• Li Hai decided to settle matters in the One Piece world before going to the Holy Grail world.
• Akainu attacked the motionless Cthulhu with Great Eruption after Kizaru told him it had slapped Kaido away.
• Li Hai woke and reversed the sky and earth, making Akainu fall into the magma and crushing him with a Haki-coated stomp.
• Kizaru watched Li Hai flatten the surrounding land and kill Akainu, leaving him stunned.

Li Hai overwhelmed Holy Land Mary Geoise with the Outer God’s mental pollution and confronted Imu. After forcing Imu to see his true form and destroying his mind, Li Hai received word that the realm gate could be opened.

• Li Hai unleashed his full mental pollution, leaving Kizaru unable to think or communicate after he looked at Li Hai.
• Li Hai’s footsteps drove the people of Mary Geoise insane, and the Five Elders lost their minds when they saw him approach.
• Lord Imu emerged from the Room of Flowers with his eyes gouged out and questioned Li Hai, who restored his eyes as punishment for blasphemy.
• Imu transformed into a colossal demon and tried to escape Mary Geoise, but Li Hai immobilized the space and prevented his teleportation.
• Li Hai removed Imu’s eyelids, forcing him to see Li Hai and fail the Sanity check.
• A demon reported to Li Hai that the conditions had been met and the realm gate could be opened.

After killing Imu, Li Hai left the One Piece world in chaos and traveled to the Boundary Universe to enter a Holy Grail contest. The demon guided him into a parallel reality, where he arrived at a spiritually dense galaxy.

• Li Hai killed the powerless Imu, erased his Cthulhu body, and departed, leaving the One Piece world in chaos.
• Li Hai entered a vast, unstable Boundary Universe where parallel realities constantly changed and collided under chaotic information streams.
• Li Hai found many bizarre versions of the Holy Grail War and complained about the universe’s disorder.
• The demon told Li Hai to compete in a Holy Grail contest as a human Heroic Spirit, using only abilities earned through deeds in his life.
• Li Hai accepted the restrictions and followed the demon into a parallel reality, then crossed billions of light-years to a galaxy surrounded by dense spiritual power.

Li Hai arrived in Earth's system as the imposing Dark King Belial and ordered Alaya and Gaia to prepare a powerless avatar for birth in the Tang Dynasty. The avatar was born as Huang Zongdan's son, Huang Chao, amid a storm shaped like a demonic dragon.

• Li Hai entered Earth's system with three thousand warships and introduced himself to Alaya and Gaia as Belial, ruler of another universe.
• Alaya and Gaia submitted to Belial, who ordered them to send his avatar into Earth's past and maximize its attributes before birth.
• Belial chose the flourishing Tang Dynasty as the avatar's birthplace and left the precise details for later.
• In the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, Huang Zongdan's wife gave birth to a son, whom he named Huang Chao.
• Thunder, violent rain, and black clouds forming a demonic dragon appeared as Huang Chao was born.

Huang Chao was born amid a storm and revealed supernatural strength and composure, startling his family and the people outside the Huang residence. After declaring himself the Devil Master while hovering in the air, he returned to his father’s arms, and the chapter ended with him ordering the approaching Tiger Soul blade to stop.

• Huang Zongdan received his newborn son, Huang Chao, who did not cry and kicked the midwife into a wall when she tried to slap him.
• The midwife called Huang Chao a monster, but Steward Liu offered her silver, and she changed her words to praise the child.
• Invisible drones deployed by Li Hai lifted Huang Chao into the air as thunder and lightning erupted, alarming Huang Zongdan, Madam Huang, and the gathered onlookers.
• Huang Chao opened his eyes, stepped through the air, proclaimed himself the Devil Master, and fell safely into Huang Zongdan’s arms as the storm cleared.
• Tiger Soul flew toward Huang Chao, who woke and ordered the blade to halt and spare the innocent.

Huang Chao, born with extraordinary powers and the Tiger Soul Blade, drew the attention of Daoist Zixu, who revealed that he was the reincarnation of the Chaos Demon Orb and the fierce god Dan You. Huang Zongdan accepted the revelation, leaving his son’s future under the shadow of his legendary identity.

• Huang Chao shrank the Tiger Soul Blade into a pendant, then demanded wine and meat and ate and drank in front of the astonished Huang family.
• Daoist Zixu arrived at the manor and warned Huang Zongdan that Huang Chao needed a renowned master’s guidance to avoid future misfortune.
• Daoist Zixu saw Huang Chao and recognized him as the reincarnation of the Demon Orb, then bowed and kowtowed before him.
• Daoist Zixu explained the Demon Orb’s origins and said it had once been reborn as Dan You, who wielded the Tiger Soul Blade.
• Daoist Zixu identified Huang Chao’s pendant as the Tiger Soul Blade, and Huang Zongdan became convinced that his son was the Demon Orb’s reincarnation.

After his parents died and Daoist Zixu disappeared, eight-year-old Huang Chao sold his family’s assets and joined the Demon Slaying Bureau. He killed three man-eating flood dragons in front of the people, while interested parties spread accounts of his abilities.

• Over eight years, Daoist Zixu taught Huang Chao martial arts and Daoist arts as chaos and rumors about Huang Chao spread across the land.
• Huang Zongdan and his wife died in their sleep, and Daoist Zixu left behind treasures before disappearing.
• Huang Chao buried his parents, sold the family’s assets, bought a position in the Demon Slaying Bureau, and set out to slay demons.
• Huang Chao used the flood dragons’ attacks against them, then fired arrows that pierced obstacles and killed all three as they fled.
• Interested parties who witnessed Huang Chao’s feat recorded and spread accounts of his powers.

After wiping out the demons of Caozhou and sharing much of their stolen wealth with villagers, Huang Chao became famous as a demon-slaying official. When a rebel army massacred Yuanju County, he pursued the perpetrators and began slaughtering them, using Zixu Daoist’s treasures to hunt down those who fled in different directions.

• Huang Chao distributed most of the flood dragons’ hoard among riverbank villagers and became the Demon-Slaying Envoy of Caozhou.
• Huang Chao slaughtered the demons across Caozhou, while interested parties spread his fame and tales of the wealth he found.
• Huang Chao arrived at Yuanju County and found that rebel soldiers and demon troops had looted the city and killed and eaten many residents.
• Huang Chao pursued the rebels, killed their leader with an arrow, and cut down more than a thousand soldiers as the army charged him.
• Huang Chao chased the fleeing rebels for three days, then used the Thousand-Mile Soul-Locking Art and War God Armor to pursue those who scattered.

After conquering rebels and becoming famous as a demon-slayer, Huang Chao traced assassination attempts to the Lu Clan of Fanyang. He returned to drought-stricken Caozhou, rallied tens of thousands of rebels while providing relief, and ended the chapter preparing to curse the heavens and pray for rain.

• Huang Chao annihilated the fleeing rebel army, returned to Caozhou, and chose three hundred survivors as his personal guards.
• The Tang court stripped Huang Chao of his Demon-Slaying Envoy position, but he spent half a year traveling the realm and killing eight hundred demons and devils.
• After surviving repeated assassination attempts, Huang Chao traced the plotters to the Lu Clan of Fanyang and learned of its connection to the rebel army.
• Huang Chao learned that drought and government neglect had driven Caozhou into revolt, so he returned and spent his earnings on disaster relief.
• Tens of thousands of righteous rebels rallied under Huang Chao, who built an altar in ruined Yuanju County and raised Tiger Soul to curse the sky for rain.

After three rainless days, Huang Chao began his promised campaign against Caozhou’s temples, having already crippled the Daoist and Buddhist envoys who came to dissuade him. He arrived at Hu Xing Zen Monastery and killed a warrior monk who tried to stop him.

• Huang Chao cursed Heaven at the Rain-Prayer Altar and threatened to destroy every temple in Caozhou unless rain fell within three days.
• Daoist and Buddhist envoys came to Huang Chao’s camp, where he shattered their spells, destroyed their cultivation foundations, and had them locked in iron cages.
• The Caozhou religious lineages prepared their temples and monasteries for Huang Chao’s attack as other provinces watched and debated his intentions.
• On the fourth day, with no rain having fallen, Huang Chao arrived at Hu Xing Zen Monastery with several thousand soldiers.
• A warrior monk warned Huang Chao to leave, and Huang Chao split him in two with a single stroke.

Huang Chao used the Ghostface Army to destroy Caozhou’s Buddhist temples and Daoist shrines, then distributed the plundered wealth as food for disaster victims. After the last shrine fell, a storm shaped like a crowned face appeared in the clouds, and Huang Chao forbade the people from kneeling before it.

• Huang Chao’s Tiger Soul saber slaughtered the monks defending Hu Xing Zen Monastery, and the Ghostface Army stormed in, looted the monastery, and burned it down.
• Huang Chao split the Ghostface Army into five forces to destroy temples and shrines across Caozhou, killing all who resisted.
• Huang Chao exchanged the seized gold and silver for food for disaster victims and assigned troops to keep trade routes safe.
• After Huang Chao destroyed Heaven-Equaling Taoist Temple, black clouds gathered and Thunder formed the outline of a crowned face above the ruins.
• As soldiers and civilians nearly knelt before the spectacle, Huang Chao ordered them to stand, while a dying old Taoist condemned their refusal to kneel.

Huang Chao destroyed the giant thunderous face in the sky, and blood rain ended Caozhou’s drought while the people hailed him as a savior. After the Tang court condemned him to death, he killed its envoys and declared rebellion against Li Tang.

• Huang Chao transformed his blade into an Antimatter Cannon and blasted the lightning pillar, making the giant face and black clouds vanish.
• Blood rain fell across Caozhou, restoring its dried land, rivers, and crops, while the people proclaimed Huang Chao the one who had wounded the heavens.
• The old Taoist called Huang Chao a monster and died, while the story spread across the land and people began calling Huang Chao Jutian of the Blood Rain from Heaven.
• A condemnation order from Chang'an sentenced Huang Chao to beheading for buying grain for disaster relief, and Huang Chao split the delivering eunuch and his horse in two.
• Huang Chao ordered his guards to kill the remaining eunuchs and guards, then declared rebellion against the Tang Emperor and invited his followers to stay or leave.

After stabilizing Caozhou, Huang Chao led five thousand Ghostface cavalry to Jingzhao Prefecture in a single day with the help of Zixu's Legacy Treasures. He unsettled Chang'an and its enemies, then lingered around the prefecture as the imperial court prepared to confront him.

• Huang Chao let the timid soldiers and civilians leave his camp, despite his personal guards demanding they be killed.
• Military governors feigned support for the Tang court while secretly sending Huang Chao money and grain, and Huang Chao accepted the supplies but rejected their other proposals.
• Huang Chao used Skynet to uncover and capture cultivator assassins who tried to kill him.
• After more than half a month, Huang Chao led five thousand Ghostface Army soldiers on a baggage-free march, using Food-Gathering Basins and divine steeds from Zixu's Legacy Treasures.
• Huang Chao reached Jingzhao Prefecture in a day and a night, alarming Chang'an, the military governors, and Daoist and Buddhist lineages.
• Huang Chao wandered around Jingzhao Prefecture while Chang'an urgently mobilized its army, intending to crush the imperial court head-on.

Tantai Yu led the Li Tang army against Huang Chao, but Huang Chao annihilated the force with a Thunder Lord missile barrage and killed Tantai Yu. Huang Chao then reached Chang'an, where the court learned the city’s defenses had nearly fallen and Li Ang demanded to know what happened to Tantai Yu.

• Tantai Yu used his Qi Observation Technique to see Huang Chao’s contradictory imperial and ruinous fate, then declared that he must be killed.
• Huang Chao led his five thousand Ghostface cavalry in a charge against Tantai Yu’s army and summoned a hundred missiles that devastated the Li Tang formation.
• Huang Chao’s Ghostface Army swept through the battlefield and destroyed the remaining troops, while the bombardment drove Tantai Yu mad.
• Huang Chao trampled Tantai Yu to death and hurried with his soldiers toward Chang'an.
• A royal guard told Li Ang and the court that Huang Chao had entered Chang'an and nearly slaughtered its defenders, prompting Li Ang to demand news of Tantai Yu.

Huang Chao entered the imperial court after his blood saber killed Tang Emperor Li Ang and seized control of the hall. He ordered the slaughter of the officials and nobles there, while his Ghostface Army carried out a wider massacre across Chang'an against the great noble families.

• The Tiger Soul blood saber flew into the court hall and fatally split Tang Emperor Li Ang, who died after seeing Huang Chao arrive.
• Huang Chao rode to the dragon throne, pulled the saber free, and mocked Li Ang and the kneeling court officials.
• An old minister named Du condemned Huang Chao for killing the emperor and rebelling, and Huang Chao had his arms and legs severed.
• Huang Chao ordered the palace maids and guards out and kept the officials and nobles inside the hall.
• Ghostface cavalry surrounded the hall and slaughtered the officials, while Huang Chao and the rest of his army massacred Chang'an's great noble families.

Huang Chao ordered the Ghostface Army to slaughter Chang'an’s Five Clans and Seven Houses, while the city’s poor celebrated and seized the nobles’ hoarded goods. As the massacre unfolded, Huang Chao sensed that it was forging a powerful Noble Phantasm based on absolute fairness, but that more killing was needed.

• Huang Chao ordered the Ghostface Army to kill everyone from Chang'an’s Five Clans and Seven Houses and joined the attack on the Lu Clan residence.
• Huang Chao killed the Lu Clan head and ordered his soldiers to slaughter the household and destroy its wealth.
• The Ghostface Army stormed noble estates throughout Chang'an, killing their residents despite their pleas and resistance.
• Chang'an’s common folk emerged from hiding, cheered the killings, and took grain, cloth, and other goods from the noble estates.
• Huang Chao sensed the massacre was nourishing a Noble Phantasm of absolute fairness, but concluded he needed to kill more to complete it.

After Huang Chao’s massacre of the Five Clans and Seven Houses provoked the regional military governors to form an alliance against him, he ignored their threat and led the Ghostface Army to attack nearby territories. The coalition was still marching when it learned that Huang Chao had already captured several military governorships.

• News of Huang Chao’s victories and his massacre of the Five Clans and Seven Houses spread, stirring public uproar and prompting gentry clans to circulate slander about him.
• The regional military governors formed an alliance against Huang Chao, but struggled to agree on its leadership before the Hedong regimes took charge.
• When the alliance sent Huang Chao a proclamation announcing a million-strong royal army, he tore it up and ordered twenty thousand Ghostface cavalrymen to mobilize.
• Huang Chao left thirty thousand soldiers to defend Chang'an and personally led twenty thousand west toward Fengxiang Military Governorship.
• The coalition learned that Huang Chao had launched surprise attacks and captured several military governorships while it was still on the march.