Chapter Summaries

The Night Owl Guard and the Uchiha forces overwhelmed the God's Knights, while Madara watched and planned to revive Izuna after the battle. Shamrock was driven to the edge of defeat as demonic energy gathered around a shifting figure in the center of Mary Geoise.

• Qinglan and Iron Sand defeated the Purple-Haired Woman, while Blaze and two Night Owl Guard elites subdued the Beast-Shaped Figures.
• Two Night Owl Guard members cornered White Skull Mask, and the blonde girl cowered as the remaining God's Knights were surrounded.
• Madara watched the battle and planned to return, leave the New World pirates to Fugaku and the others, and revive Izuna with the Outer Path - Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.
• Yaoyu and Yakumi drove Saint Shamrock to the edge of the battlefield, where he prepared a final attack with Cerberus.
• Dark red demonic energy streamed from the withered Celestial Dragons toward a shifting figure in the center of Mary Geoise.

Imu’s shifting body unleashed dark red threads across the battlefield, attacking both the Night Owl Guard and the God's Knights. As the Five Elders tried to flee, the threads caught Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro, who protested that he had followed Imu for eight hundred years.

• Imu’s body shifted among many forms and weapons as vengeful voices accused him of betrayal, before his gaze briefly turned hollow and fixed on Sabaody.
• Yaoyu’s and Yakumi’s Susanoo shattered Shamrock’s defense and sent him crashing into the shallows.
• Madara Uchiha used Banshō Ten'in to pull endangered Night Owl Guard captains clear of the dark red threads.
• The threads pierced members of the God's Knights, draining their vitality as they screamed for Imu to spare them.
• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro ordered the other Five Elders to flee, but a thread pierced him from behind as he cried that he had followed Imu for eight hundred years.

The threads devoured Saint Shepherd Ju Peter, Saint Topman Warcury, and Saint Marcus Mars as demonic energy surged from Mary Geoise. Madara Uchiha sealed the energy invading his clansmen, then summoned a colossal meteor toward the Holy Land, where it began to fall over the chained slaves.

• The dark gold talisman Saint Shepherd Ju Peter carried shattered as the threads pierced and devoured him.
• Saint Topman Warcury and Saint Marcus Mars died as the threads consumed them, while their cries invoked the First King and Lord Imu.
• The Night Owl Guard tried to cut the threads, but a surge of demonic energy from Mary Geoise scattered them and took control of several clansmen.
• Madara Uchiha used Wood Release clones and Demon-Sealing Seals to suppress the demonic energy afflicting his clansmen.
• Madara Uchiha summoned a colossal meteor with Tengai Shinsei, and it began falling toward Mary Geoise as the slaves watched from the streets.

Shanks arrived with the Red-Haired Pirates and saved his injured twin brother Shamrock from Madara Uchiha’s demonic threads. As Madara prepared to drop a meteor on the battlefield, Shanks decided to approach the opposing side and talk.

• Killing Hall, Taki, and Yan withdrew from the threads as the wounded Shamrock lay unable to escape them.
• A golden gryphon tried to break the threads, but they re-formed and continued toward Shamrock.
• Two Haki-infused bullets severed the threads, and Shanks approached Shamrock with Benn Beckman and Yasopp.
• Shamrock recognized Shanks as his younger twin brother and struggled to respond after Shanks saved him.
• Shanks surveyed Madara Uchiha, the descending meteor, and the battlefield, then told Beckman he intended to speak with the opposing side.

Shanks weighed whether to use his favor with the Uchiha Clan to save Saint Shamrock, knowing it might leave the Red-Haired Pirates exposed to their reckoning. As Madara’s meteor descended on Mary Geoise, Shanks’s crew and the Night Owl Guard faced one another without learning his decision.

• Shanks considered trading his favor with the Uchiha Clan for Saint Shamrock’s life, but feared he would then be unable to protect the Red-Haired Pirates.
• Shanks asked Hongo to treat Shamrock, and Hongo reluctantly bandaged his wounds.
• Uchiha Yashiro recognized that the Red-Haired Pirates had helped the Uchiha Clan’s younger generation and stopped the Night Owl Guard from surrounding them while he assessed Shanks’s intentions.
• Madara’s enormous meteor descended toward Mary Geoise as chained slaves watched from the streets and the figure on the altar continued to roar.
• Shanks and Yashiro remained silent while the Night Owl Guard and Red-Haired Pirates stood facing each other, and Shamrock struggled to speak to his brother.

Imu devoured the twenty kings’ remnant souls, restored his true form, and explained that he had preserved their descendants to suppress them. As a giant meteor descended toward Mary Geoise, Imu gathered demonic energy into a spear.

• Imu drained the Five Elders and God's Knights, then used their demonic energy and life force to overpower the remnant souls.
• The remnant souls accused Imu of betraying them and using their descendants as shackles, while one warned that Joy Boy's will would endure.
• Imu devoured all twenty remnant souls and regained his original, three-meter-tall body with vivid red hair and scarlet eyes.
• Imu reflected that he had kept the kings’ descendants as Celestial Dragons to suppress the remnant souls and had acted sooner than planned because circumstances forced him.
• Imu looked up as a massive black meteor descended toward the Holy Land Mary Geoise and formed a dark red spear in his hand.

A demonic spear erupted from Mary Geoise and pierced Madara Uchiha’s falling meteor, shattering it and restoring daylight over Sabaody. The onlookers realized that an even greater power had appeared in the ruins of the Holy Land, leaving the war’s next turn uncertain.

• A pitch-black spear formed from demonic energy rose from Mary Geoise and aimed at the falling meteor.
• The spear pierced the meteor, causing it to break apart and scatter burning chunks toward the sea.
• Shanks, Beckman, and Yasopp watched the strike in stunned silence as daylight returned to Sabaody.
• Killing Hall sensed that the spear’s power surpassed Imu’s previous demon form and Madara Uchiha’s full-strength ocular power.
• Taki, Yan, and the Night Owl Guard tightened their formation, while the surviving Navy soldiers collapsed, prayed, or stared helplessly at the sky.

Imu emerged above Mary Geoise in a transformed true form after destroying Madara Uchiha’s meteor, and the survivors felt the scale of his power. The chapter left Shamrock realizing that Imu had consumed the other God's Knights, while Madara and the others prepared for the threat.

• Imu stepped from the ruins of Mary Geoise and hovered above the Red Line, surrounded by demonic energy and eleven weapons.
• Madara adjusted Susanoo’s defensive stance, while Uchiha Shadian, Taki, and Yan recoiled from Imu’s presence.
• Shanks recognized that the figure descending before them was unlike the Imu he had seen on the Void Throne.
• Beckman counted eleven weapons around Imu, each radiating demonic energy comparable to a Supreme Grade Blade.
• Shamrock saw that the other God's Knights were gone and realized Imu had devoured them.

Imu revealed his true form and confronted Madara Uchiha, saying he had waited a long time for him. Their first exchange showed that Imu’s weapons could damage Susanoo’s chakra structure, leaving Madara facing a threat unlike any he had fought before.

• Garp and Sengoku recognized that Imu had regained his true form, but believed the World Government and Navy were already doomed.
• Imu surveyed the ruined battlefield before fixing his gaze on Madara Uchiha and addressing him by name.
• Madara asked whether this was Imu’s real body, and Imu replied that he had waited a long time for him.
• Imu sent the Heaven's Punishment Sword at Madara, whose Susanoo blocked it but suffered a fine crack in its Tachi.
• Imu followed with three weapons, and Madara saw them crack Susanoo’s chakra structure; Imu’s Void Sword then made a large section of Susanoo vanish.

Madara and Imu fought to a standstill after Madara realized Imu's power came from the rules of the seas themselves. Imu then hinted at another trump card beneath Mary Geoise and began gathering his demonic energy.

• Madara found that Imu's weapons had made a hole in Susanoo that would not heal, and used Kotoamatsukami to weaken Imu without forcing him down to Super-Kage Level.
• Imu explained that the seas' rules were part of him, and Madara abandoned rule suppression in favor of fighting with Susanoo's strength.
• Madara and Imu exchanged dozens of blows as their powers reached a stalemate, while Killing Hall, Taki, Yan, Shanks, and Shamrock watched from below.
• Imu stopped attacking and looked toward a hidden place beneath the ruins of Mary Geoise, then asked Madara whether he thought Imu had only one trump card.
• Imu's demonic energy and eleven weapons went still before the energy began slowly weaving together again.

Imu’s Demonic Energy surged after two of his chains broke, triggering a force that violently attacked Devil Fruit Users across the seas. Whitebeard’s Conqueror’s Haki destroyed the dark red fragments being torn from them, but the source and purpose of the attack remained unknown.

• Imu’s Demonic Energy erupted, breaking two chains that sealed the Origin power he had taken from the Twenty Kings.
• Devil Fruit Users throughout the world felt their Origins being pulled, and some suffered violent bodily distortions.
• A pirate captain on a New World island used Armament and Observation Haki to suppress the attack before it could twist his body.
• Ace felt the fire inside him threaten to burn on its own, then used Armament Haki to resist the disturbance.
• Whitebeard unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki across the island, revealing and annihilating dark red fragments drawn from Devil Fruit Users.
• Ace’s flames stabilized as Marco watched Whitebeard and Ace with concern.

Madara Uchiha realized Imu was absorbing the power of Devil Fruit users to break his chains and strengthen himself. Madara entered Six Paths Sage Mode, but its unstable power had a limited duration, leaving him to face Imu before his strength ran out.

• Whitebeard sensed that something had happened near Sabaody as Devil Fruit users across the seas began dying and turning into black-red mist.
• The mist converged on Mary Geoise and flowed through Imu's chains, supplying him with power as his third chain began to crack.
• Madara Uchiha recognized that Imu was devouring Devil Fruit users to gain strength and break more of his chains.
• Madara activated Six Paths Sage Mode, surrounding himself with ten Truth-Seeking Orbs and transforming his hair and robe.
• Madara realized that his mode would drain his chakra quickly in a prolonged fight and raised his hand to form Susanoo's tachi anew.

Madara used Six Paths Sage Mode to strike Imu, who broke his third chain and formed the Void-Chaos Shield by merging the Chaos Sword and Void Sword. Madara’s Tachi split the shield, but its strange recoil struck Susanoo’s arm, which began to crack.

• Shanks, Killing Hall, Fugaku, and Garp watched Madara enter Six Paths Sage Mode and recognized the scale of his power.
• Madara’s Tachi descended toward Imu as Imu’s third chain snapped and his demonic energy surged.
• Imu merged the Chaos Sword and Void Sword into the Void-Chaos Shield, which could reflect an attacker’s power.
• Madara’s Tachi split the shield, but the recoil bypassed the blade and surged into Susanoo’s arm.
• Susanoo’s arm shook as its armor lit with a dark red glow, and a sharp crack sounded.

Madara abandoned Susanoo and used the Six Paths Staff to overwhelm Imu’s weapons and force him backward, slowing Imu’s progress in breaking the fourth chain. Below, Fugaku ordered the Night Owl Guard elites to retreat, while Akainu remained severely wounded and unable to stand.

• Madara shaped a Truth-Seeking Orb into the Six Paths Staff and attacked Imu with concentrated Six Paths Chakra and Yin-Yang Release power.
• Madara knocked aside Imu’s Heaven’s Punishment Sword, Xingtian Axe, and Sea God Sword, then shattered the Demonic Energy shield Imu raised to defend himself.
• Madara repelled more of Imu’s weapons and pressed him backward, forcing Imu to spend his power defending instead of breaking the fourth chain.
• Fugaku ordered the thirteen Night Owl Guard elites to withdraw, and they retreated to a safe area several thousand meters from the battlefield.
• Akainu knelt wounded on the scorched ground and could not stand.

As Imu’s power drained Devil Fruit Users across the sea, Whitebeard and the battered Marines struggled to resist its pull. The chapter left the Marines facing the dark red energy surging toward Mary Geoise as Imu’s presence grew and the fourth chain began to crack.

• Kizaru helped the wounded Akainu retreat from the devastated battlefield as another chain shattered.
• Whitebeard used his Conqueror’s Haki to protect his crew from the force killing Devil Fruit Users, while Ace and Marco watched Sabaody with concern.
• Whitebeard told Ace that one era was ending and another was being born violently.
• Dark red mist carrying the power and lives of Devil Fruit Users surged toward Mary Geoise and gathered around Imu, whose presence swelled as the fourth chain cracked and the fifth began to show fine lines.
• Garp and Sengoku led the injured Marines away from Sabaody’s ruins, and the Devil Fruit Users among them acknowledged that they had felt the power tearing at them.

Madara confronted Imu after deducing that Imu had created Devil Fruits by devouring the original twenty gods and using their descendants as cages. Imu confirmed the truth and began fighting Madara, who tried to stop him before he broke more chains and drained Devil Fruit Users across the sea.

• Madara observed Imu drawing demonic power from Devil Fruit Users and concluded that Imu had tampered with the fruits.
• Madara guessed that Imu had devoured the other nineteen original gods and gained authority over their laws.
• Imu confirmed Madara's theory but revealed that the gods had remained alive inside him for eight hundred years, imprisoned by their descendants' bloodlines.
• Madara realized Imu's power would grow beyond his ability to suppress if more chains broke, so he attacked to stop him before the fourth chain was released.
• Madara battered Imu's weapon array, seized the Sea God Sword, and hurled it back at Imu.

Madara fought Imu as the fourth chain shattered and the fifth began to crack, while Imu’s power continued to rise. A dark purple spear pierced Imu and pinned him in midair, and Madara recognized the returning Natsu.

• Madara suppressed the black mist with Yin-Yang Release Binding Lock, but Imu broke the fourth chain and drew power from its destruction.
• Madara struck the fifth chain to slow its cracking while Imu formed two giant swords and unleashed Heavenly Wrath, Divine Punishment.
• Madara merged the nine Truth-Seeking Orbs into his staff and countered Imu’s giant swords with Ten Thousand Ways Rule the Universe.
• Madara charged Imu during the clash, but Imu was knocked back and accelerated the twin swords, forcing Madara to defend again.
• Honebami Tōshirō attacked Madara, but a dark purple spear pierced the blade and then Imu’s chest.
• Madara recognized Natsu’s voice and asked him what had taken so long.

Uchiha Natsu returned from sealing Uranus and joined Madara in fighting Imu, whose power grew as the chains holding him broke. Imu shattered the fifth chain despite their attacks, and Natsu struck at the newly solidifying figure within the black mist.

• Uchiha Natsu descended beside Madara and recognized that Madara had awakened the Six-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan, which could help restore Izuna Uchiha.
• Natsu and Madara attacked Imu together as black mist accelerated Imu's healing and the fifth chain neared breaking.
• Natsu evaded Imu's weapons and attacked his true body while Madara smashed Imu's left arm with his staff.
• Natsu unleashed Sage Art: Heaven-Illuminating Sun Devourer as Madara used Kotoamatsukami to restrain Imu briefly, but Imu shattered the fifth chain and vanished from the flames.
• Natsu used Sage Art: Turbid World Annihilation to clear the black mist, revealing Imu standing at its center with a more solid form.

Natsu and Madara fought Imu’s twisted figures to keep them from breaking the sixth chain, while Natsu resisted using Takamagahara because it threatened to erase his humanity. Their defense faltered as the chain began to crack.

• Imu claimed he was the one who decided who wielded the world’s powers, while Natsu accused him of stealing those powers from others.
• Imu sent the twisted figures in the black mist toward the sixth chain, and Natsu and Madara agreed to stop them without using Takamagahara.
• Natsu and Madara attacked the figures with Sage Art: Turbid World Annihilation and Madara’s staff, but the seemingly endless waves drained their strength.
• Natsu took a deep wound to his left shoulder while protecting Madara, then continued fighting beside him.
• After a wave of figures retreated, Natsu and Madara saw a crack forming in the sixth chain as natural energy gathered around Natsu.

Natsu unleashed Sage Art: Heaven-Extinguishing Annihilation while Imu tried to tear apart the seventh chain, and the flames consumed Imu and his demonic power. The battlefield was left with Imu and his presence gone.

• Imu released Ten Thousand Sins Forgiven, sending a tide of black mist toward Natsu and Madara.
• Madara used Vault-Breaking Voidfall to hold back Imu’s attack while Natsu gathered natural energy.
• Imu abandoned the clash and focused his power on the sixth and seventh chains, trying to destroy the seventh before Natsu struck.
• Natsu merged with Kunwu’s fox phantom and unleashed Sage Art: Heaven-Extinguishing Annihilation.
• The blood-red flames swallowed Imu and stripped away his demonic power until nothing remained.