Chapter Summaries

Tiger identified the smoke-shrouded island as Warship Island, a valuable former World Government shipbuilding base that the Whitebeard Pirates and Silver Axe Pirates were fighting to claim. The Sky Pirates sailed straight between the rival crews and continued toward the island, prompting both sides to order pursuit.

• Tiger explained that Warship Island held abandoned shipyards, craftsmen, and mineral deposits that attracted the Whitebeard Pirates and Silver Axe Pirates.
• Marco, Jozu, and Vista faced Captain John as the two crews prepared to board and fight over the island.
• Lookouts spotted the approaching Sky Pirates, whose reputation for destroying nearly fifty pirate ships had put the New World on edge.
• The Sky Pirates sailed between the rival ships, and Tiger warned both crews not to interfere because they were only looking for something.
• Marco called the Sky Pirates arrogant, while Captain John took interest in their leader; both sides ordered their crews to follow them and claim Warship Island.

Ye Mu and the Sky Pirates entered Warship Island, where toxic air and the remains of a brutal prison labor camp revealed the island’s grim condition. Enel sensed people nearby, and as Ye Mu ordered him to bring them all, a black-clad pursuer caught and incapacitated his target.

• Ayala identified the island’s foul fog as toxic gas, so Ye Mu had her prepare protective gear while Marco and John arranged for their crews to cover their faces with wet cloth.
• Ron and Gaos sensed the suffering plants, and Tiger explained that captured pirates had been forced to build warships on the island in deadly conditions.
• Ye Mu’s group and Marco’s crew found abandoned docks, factory buildings, tools, and corpses still wearing prisoner uniforms and shackles.
• Marco noted that the island’s docks and mineral deposits still had value, drawing the Sky Pirates’ attention before Ye Mu asked Enel whether he had located the people nearby.
• A black-clad figure pursuing another person checked his watch, vanished in a flash, and struck the pursued man unconscious with a burst of lightning.

Ye Mu captured two masked figures and learned that one was a Cipher Pol agent while the other was a Harrot Tribe woman seeking help. The group discovered that Warship Island was set to be destroyed by Dyna Stone in fifty-three minutes, with no known way to stop the detonation.

• Enel captured the two masked figures, and Ye Mu discovered that one was a woman.
• After Enel shocked them awake, the man identified himself as Vulture of Cipher Pol 8 and admitted they had come to clean up Warship Island.
• The woman offered to hire the pirates and revealed that she belonged to the Harrot Tribe, whose people had been enslaved by the World Government.
• The woman explained that the World Government planned to destroy the tribe and Treasure Island to conceal its crimes.
• Vulture revealed that Dyna Stone had been placed across Warship Island and its detonation device had already been activated, leaving fifty-three minutes before the island was destroyed.

CP9 secured the Cloud-Cloud Fruit while Cipher Pol prepared to leave Warship Island, but Dana Harrot asked Ye Mu to rescue five thousand people held underground. Vulture revealed that a nearby World Government warship could carry them all, just as Captain John’s pirates prepared to attack it.

• Reiss opened the box and showed Izo and Irene the Cloud-Cloud Fruit, then ordered Cipher Pol to prepare to depart.
• A Cipher Pol 7 agent told Reiss that Vegapunk’s captive, Dana Harrot, had escaped, and Reiss gave the agent ten minutes to return with her.
• Captain John spotted the World Government warship and ordered his pirates to bring their ship over and attack.
• Dana told Ye Mu that five thousand of her people were imprisoned underground, and Ye Mu explained that his ship and the Whitebeard Pirates’ ship could not carry them all.
• Vulture revealed that a warship anchored on Warship Island’s eastern shore could carry the five thousand people.

Ye Mu led a rushed rescue of the Lockhart Tribe, whose members were imprisoned beneath Warship Island, while Enel, Eric, and Kurori attacked the CP agents guarding a warship at the eastern shore. The evacuation began through Kuromu's spatial passage, with the Whitebeard Pirates joining in as the island's destruction drew closer.

• Ye Mu sent Enel, Eric, and Kurori to seize the warship, while Tiger and Erza sailed the Sky Pirates' ship to meet them at the eastern shore.
• Enel struck the warship's deck with lightning, and he, Eric, and Kurori confronted the three CP9 members and spotted a box in their leader's hand.
• Ye Mu and Kuromu reached the central building, where Ye Mu split it open with Lion Maru and revealed the underground prison.
• Ye Mu told the imprisoned Lockhart Tribe members to flee through Kuromu's passage before the island exploded, and Dana and Freya helped organize the evacuation.
• Ye Mu cut open the cages while Dana directed the escape, and Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates helped carry elderly people and children through the passage.

The Sky Pirates rescued the Lockhart Tribe and prepared to flee Warship Island before it exploded, but John of the Silver Axe Pirates blocked their escape and demanded the Cloud-Cloud Fruit. Ye Mu lured John away from the others, leaving the ship to escape as the island’s destruction drew near.

• Tiger and the Sky Pirates cleared the captured warship’s deck while Kuromu opened a passage for the Lockhart tribespeople, Whitebeard Pirates, Sky Pirates, and Dana to board.
• Ye Mu ordered everyone to set sail after the rescue, but John’s slash collided with his and nearly struck the warship.
• Enel revealed that the Sky Pirates had obtained the Cloud-Cloud Fruit from CP9, and John demanded that Ye Mu hand it over.
• Ye Mu gave the fruit to the others, challenged John to come take it, and flew toward Warship Island; John chased after him.
• Tiger ordered Eric to steer the warship away and Enel prepared to hold off the Silver Axe Pirates as Marco revealed John’s bounty was 2.38 billion berries.

Ye Mu revealed that he could wield two Devil Fruit powers, provoking Captain John to demand his secret and fight him. Their battle apparently triggered the unstable Dyna Stone on Warship Island, and the chapter ended with the two men moving through falling dust and magma as Enel sensed Ye Mu was still safe.

• Ye Mu handed the Cloud-Cloud Fruit to Captain John, who ate it and used its powers to create ice, snow, thunder, rain, and fog.
• Captain John explained that he had sought a powerful Devil Fruit to break past the limits he felt as he aged.
• Ye Mu transformed with the powers of two Devil Fruits and challenged John to fight for the secret of wielding both.
• Tiger stopped the Twin Goddesses and joined the warship, where Erza and Freya worried about Ye Mu while Ayala treated the injured Lockhart Tribe members.
• Warship Island erupted early when the battle damaged the Dyna Stone's protective layer, and Enel sensed that Ye Mu was still safe.

Ye Mu fought Captain John on Warship Island to test himself against a great swordsman, but John’s Meteor Slash triggered the Dyna Stones and destroyed the island. Both men survived, and Ye Mu revealed that he could extract Devil Fruits from their users.

• Ye Mu and John clashed with twin blades, and John criticized Ye Mu’s rough, unsophisticated swordsmanship.
• John used Triple Phantom to send six shifting slashes at Ye Mu, who countered by striking them all away with a powerful cross-shaped slash.
• John descended with Meteor Slash, and the impact shattered the Dyna Stones, causing an enormous explosion that engulfed Warship Island.
• John emerged from the blast unharmed through his Logia powers, and Ye Mu appeared in the air in even better condition.
• Ye Mu told John that he could extract Devil Fruits from Devil Fruit users.

Captain John recalled how the fall of the Rocks Pirates had destroyed his ambitions, but Ye Mu’s powers and secrets reignited his desire to surpass Rocks. After Ye Mu challenged him to kill him before he grew stronger, John unleashed his killing intent and attacked.

• John remembered the Rocks Pirates’ failed assault on God Valley, where Roger and Garp stopped them and Rocks disappeared.
• John realized that the Cloud-Cloud Fruit, Ye Mu’s dual Devil Fruit powers, and his ability to extract powers could help him surpass Rocks and build an army of ability users.
• John questioned Ye Mu about his secrets, and Ye Mu explained that he had given John the fruit because John had kept their agreement.
• Ye Mu told John that he had to kill him now or face his growing strength and pursuit in the future.
• John accepted the challenge and sent a great swordsman’s killing intent surging toward Ye Mu.

Ye Mu fought John, a great swordsman from a previous era, but John's superior swordsmanship gradually overcame Ye Mu's strength and Devil Fruit abilities. After John wounded him, Eric warned that John was adapting to Ye Mu's attacks and could exploit more openings.

• Ye Mu faced John's overwhelming aura and charged at him with Haki-coated Lion Maru and a flame-wreathed Heaven.
• John deflected Ye Mu's strikes and used Phantom Sword to unleash a dense barrage, forcing Ye Mu to counter with flames and sword slashes.
• Dana and the Lockhart Tribe watched the fight as Eric explained that a great swordsman united the person, the sword, and energy.
• John found a tiny opening in Ye Mu's defenses and cut his waist, drawing blood.
• Eric explained that John was adapting to Ye Mu's Devil Fruit attacks and warned that Ye Mu would face increasingly frequent openings, especially since John also had a Devil Fruit ability.

Ye Mu fought John above the sea, struggling against the advanced Armament Haki on John’s blades before changing tactics and forcing him onto the defensive. After taking a cross-shaped wound to land a powerful punch, Ye Mu prepared to use Demon Coil to keep fighting.

• John grew more proficient with his cloud-based Devil Fruit powers and lightning-charged twin blades, while his advanced Armament Haki left five wounds on Ye Mu.
• Ye Mu and John clashed with Flame Dragon Hellfire Slash and Falling Star, then Ye Mu switched to wielding Heaven with both hands and pressed John with close-range attacks.
• John countered with Cross Star Slash, cutting Ye Mu’s chest, but Ye Mu struck him with a flame- and Haki-coated fist and sent him plunging toward the sea.
• John used white clouds to stop his fall, while Ye Mu sheathed Heaven and activated Demon Coil: Nine-Dragon Fire Prison Garment.

Ye Mu broke free of his restraints and fought John with newly revealed Haki techniques against John’s weather-controlling Cloud-Cloud Fruit. After surviving John’s Four Cloud Beasts, Ye Mu countered with a massive fire attack, leaving their battle poised to continue.

• Ye Mu’s Armament Haki and nine fire dragons made John realize how dangerous he had become, and John raised four cloud pillars to gather ice, wind, lightning, and rain into his blades.
• John’s Phantom Sword slashes failed to penetrate Ye Mu’s Haki, and Ye Mu shattered John’s Falling Star with a punch before sending him flying.
• John recognized that Ye Mu’s Demon Coil shifted and projected Haki to boost his defense and attacks, but he also suspected the technique consumed Haki rapidly.
• John summoned four cloud beasts that merged and unleashed their elements on Ye Mu.
• Ye Mu emerged from the clouds in a huge fireball, declared his flames stronger than John’s, and condensed the flames into a red-black Great Flame Rasengan.

Ye Mu’s fight with John turned against him when John revealed his twin black blades, Phantom and Stars, and inflicted a severe wound. John offered to spare Ye Mu if he revealed the secrets of his two Devil Fruits, but Ye Mu insisted that he had already seen the fruits’ limits and prepared to continue.

• John coated Phantom and Stars in Haki until they became black blades, prompting Eric to warn that Ye Mu was in danger.
• John’s black blades blocked and split Ye Mu’s Great Flame Rasengan, then cut through his Haki and wounded his chest with Cross Star Slash.
• John explained how he had acquired Phantom and Stars and forged them into black blades, then offered Ye Mu a place in his crew in exchange for the secrets of his Devil Fruits.
• Ye Mu denied having any trump cards and clarified that his companions did not need to rescue him.
• Ye Mu ignited flames on one arm and heat light on the other, saying he had already seen the limits of his two Devil Fruits.

Ye Mu demonstrated how he combined the Flame-Flame Fruit and Hot-Hot Fruit to create a new power, while the Five Elders confronted news that Uranus had awakened. The chapter left the World Government facing a newly awakened ancient weapon as Ye Mu’s fiery transformation drew attention across the sea.

• Ye Mu explained to John that Devil Fruits had inherent limits, and that the Flame-Flame Fruit could control flames but not heat.
• Ye Mu described how the Hot-Hot Fruit helped him overcome some of those limits, then announced the birth of a new power he called the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Flame Emperor Form.
• Ye Mu transformed as flames and heat converged into a massive, sunlike fireball above the sea, and the Whitebeard Pirates turned back to witness it.
• The Five Elders ordered spies to monitor Ohara and directed Cipher Pol to find Roger’s unborn child on Baterilla Island.
• After hearing a bell, the Five Elders went to the Room of Flowers, where Imu told them that Uranus had awakened.

Lililu blocked John from reaching Ye Mu and revealed the truth behind Rocks's ambitions and Uranus's power. John realized that Ye Mu was Rocks's greatest masterpiece and had broken free from the world's control.

• The Five Elders heard Imu explain that a child had escaped Uranus's control and that they needed to find it.
• Lililu appeared before John and stopped him from attacking Ye Mu as he fused two Devil Fruits.
• John asked why Lililu was protecting Ye Mu, and she told him that Ye Mu had been her young master from the beginning.
• Lililu revealed that Rocks had used his crew and that Uranus was the first life, whose power the Celestial Dragons could control because one of her children had betrayed her while another protected her.
• Lililu told John that Ye Mu was Rocks's greatest masterpiece and a truly free person who had escaped the world's control.

John confronted Lililu over being used by the Rocks Pirates, then challenged Ye Mu as Ye Mu emerged in his Flame Emperor form. Ye Mu revealed that his new fruit power could set the world and sea ablaze, and began to end the battle with a colossal flaming sword strike.

• John accused Lililu of standing in his way, but she vanished in flames and left him to face the battle alone.
• John poured Armament Haki into Phantom and Stellar and unleashed his strongest slash at Ye Mu’s enormous fireball.
• John used Stellar Fission to cut into the fireball, revealing Ye Mu in a transformed, godlike form.
• Ye Mu caught John’s black slash and burned it away, then declared the power of his Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Flame Emperor Form.
• Ye Mu set the air and sea ablaze, formed a sword from gathered flames, and brought down a colossal strike toward John.

Ye Mu defeated John with a colossal flaming sword, then learned from Lililu that his fused Devil Fruit power consumed his life force. Lililu revealed that Ye Mu’s ruby was his original heart and that the Tontatta Tribe crew members could help him grow plants that might provide a solution.

• Ye Mu struck John into the sea, and Whitebeard Pirates members recognized the attack as a possible Devil Fruit awakening.
• Ye Mu exhausted himself and fell from the sky, but Lililu caught him on her back.
• Lililu explained that Ye Mu’s fused ability could not draw on the Devil Fruits’ original energy and instead relied on his life force.
• Lililu told Ye Mu that the ruby he had worn since childhood was his original heart and could help address the strain.
• Lililu explained that plants such as Treasure Tree Adam and Sunlight Tree Eve could nurture power, and that the Tontatta Tribe crew members knew how to grow them.

After returning from the battle, Ye Mu recovered enough to welcome the Lockhart Tribe and offer them a place in the country he planned to build for people of all races. The tribe accepted, and he left the search for their new home to Ayala’s luck.

• Lililu brought Ye Mu back to the deck, where Freya helped him up and Ayala examined and bandaged his wounds.
• Enel told Ye Mu that Tiger and Eric had gone to find the enemy’s body and blades, and Ye Mu instructed him to have Ayala assist with the extraction.
• Dana introduced Maudlin Catnip, the Lockhart Tribe’s guard captain, and the tribe thanked Ye Mu and his companions for saving them.
• Ye Mu asked where the tribe planned to settle, then invited them to join his not-yet-founded country, where people of all races could live together.
• Dana and Maudlin accepted Ye Mu’s offer, and he asked Ayala to use her luck to choose an island for their future country.

Ye Mu and his people reached Wenmi Gudan Island, their chosen home for founding a nation, and began exploring and unloading their supplies. At the island’s volcano, Ron explained its unusual soil and said he would try cultivating Devil Fruits with Gaos’s help.

• The Twin Goddesses towed the fuel-depleted warship toward Wenmi Gudan Island as their food supplies dwindled.
• Ye Mu assigned Enel and Erza to scout from the air, Freya and others to search for food, Tiger and Eric to inspect the surrounding waters and lake, and the remaining crew to unload the warship.
• The ships landed, and everyone split up to begin their assigned tasks.
• Ye Mu, Dana, Ron, and Lililu inspected the volcano, where Ron found that the island’s soil was unusually fertile and unsuitable for ordinary plants.
• Ron said the Tontatta Tribe could try cultivating new plant species and agreed to attempt planting Devil Fruits with Gaos’s help the next morning.

Ye Mu laid out the first plans for establishing a nation on Wenmi Gudan Island, assigning the Harrot Tribe and the Sky Pirates tasks to provide supplies, grow crops, and build homes. He then said he would take the remaining crew out of the New World to divert the Navy and World Government and fulfill an old promise.

• Ayala delivered tents and promised medicinal soup to the Harrot Tribe, reassuring them that they were family.
• Ye Mu assigned one hundred Harrot Tribe members, along with Enel, Tiger, Kuromu, Kurori, and Modelin, to use the warship to buy supplies.
• Ye Mu tasked Ayala, Ron, Gaos, and Kurota with cultivating crops so the island could become self-sufficient.
• Ye Mu divided Wenmi Gudan Island into three rings, protecting the lake, reserving the interior for crops, and designating the coastal land for homes and roads.
• Dana agreed to lead the Harrot Tribe in building houses, while Ye Mu put his own residence on hold.
• Ye Mu told the remaining Sky Pirates that they would travel beyond the New World to distract the Navy and World Government and fulfill his promise to them.