Chapter Summaries

Ace joined King Neptune and Jinbe in the battle against the Void Sea Beasts, then led the group into the corrupted Undersea Temple to reach the Abyss Stone. They found the stone embedded in the chest of a Sea God Statue split between sacred power and Void corruption.

• Ace used the Starfire Shield to repel the Void Sea Beasts and restore the Fish-Men warriors' strength.
• Ace assigned the Aurora Tribe to purify the surroundings while Jinbe and the Fish-Men held off the beasts, and the group cleared a path to the Undersea Temple.
• King Neptune explained the temple's ancient history as Ace's shield purified its gates and opened them.
• Ace led the group through the temple's distorted passages, where Jinbe noted the erosion was ancient and King Neptune feared a broken seal.
• Aquila sensed a complex energy deeper in the temple, and the group reached its core hall, where they found the Abyss Stone embedded in a half-corrupted Sea God Statue.

Ace and the others faced the Void-corrupted Abyss Guardian, which demanded proof that they were worthy of the Abyss Stone. Meanwhile, Lin Ye and Kizaru infiltrated Mary Geoise and discovered the Five Elders divided into opposing factions over the Lord of Nothingness.

• The Abyss Guardian attacked Ace, Jinbe, and the Aurora Tribe warriors, and Ace realized its consciousness was split between its protective will and the Void.
• Ace called on the Guardian to recognize them as protectors, then declared his resolve to defend his loved ones and the world.
• Lin Ye and Kizaru used a concealed underground waterway to evade Mary Geoise’s defenses and approach the Five Elders’ private area.
• Lin Ye and Kizaru heard the Five Elders arguing and saw that the five leaders had split into two factions.

Lin Ye and Kizaru joined forces with the two clear-headed Five Elders to stop a ritual that would prematurely unleash the Lord of Nothingness, with the Light Stone’s location still to be revealed. On Aurora Island, Claire discovered that Inheritance Resonance could grant Watcher power only at a potentially fatal cost, then heard from Luffy that Firmament had been purified and the crew was nearing the Storm Stone.

• Lin Ye and Kizaru overheard the Five Elders arguing and learned that three had been corrupted by Void Energy.
• The bearded Five Elder detected Lin Ye and Kizaru, triggering the building’s alarm, and the sword-wielding Five Elder offered to guide them to the Light Stone if they helped fight the corrupted elders.
• The Five Elder with the handlebar mustache warned that the corrupted elders were preparing a ritual to release the Lord of Nothingness early, and Lin Ye agreed to work with the two uncorrupted elders.
• Claire found ancient records showing that Inheritance Resonance required exceptional purity and mental strength, lasted only briefly, and could cause death or permanent damage.
• Luffy told Claire that Firmament had been purified and had joined the crew, who were attacking the Void Fortress and expected to obtain the Storm Stone soon.

Claire learned that Luffy, Ace, and Lin Ye’s teams had made progress but faced serious dangers, while her research into Inheritance Resonance remained unresolved. As the seal weakened faster than expected, Void rifts opened above Aurora Island and corrosive Void Matter began attacking its defenses.

• Claire received reports from Luffy about the Firmament, Ace about the Abyss Guardian and Abyss Stone, and Lin Ye about the divided Five Elders and a ritual to release the Lord of Nothingness.
• With four days left, Claire found an ancient recipe for a Soul Enhancement Potion but discovered that its ingredients were extremely rare or extinct.
• An Aurora Tribe warrior warned Claire that Void Energy was rising, and a technician said the seal could hold for only three and a half days at most.
• Claire ordered the tribe to gather mental-power-enhancing materials and sent an urgent warning to all three teams to hurry while staying safe.
• Black cracks opened in the sky above Aurora Island, releasing Void Matter that killed plants and birds, so Claire ordered an evacuation and raised the island’s defensive barrier.
• The Void Matter began corroding the barrier, and Claire rushed to contact the three teams.

As the Lord of Nothingness’s ritual began, the heroes faced simultaneous crises at Mary Geoise, the Undersea Temple, and the Void Fortress. Ace began all three Abyss Guardian trials at once while Firmament struggled against the Lord’s control, and Aurora Island could hold out for only one hour.

• Claire warned all teams that Void Matter was attacking Aurora Island and its barrier would last no more than an hour.
• Lin Ye, Kizaru, and the clear-minded Five Elders attacked the ritual at Mary Geoise while Lin Ye and Kizaru tried to reach the Light Stone, but the bearded Five Elder blocked them.
• The Abyss Guardian offered Ace trials of courage, wisdom, and mercy, and Ace touched all three spheres at once despite Jinbe’s warning.
• Luffy’s team reached the Storm Stone in the Void Fortress, but Firmament began losing control of its mind to the Lord of Nothingness.

Luffy entered Firmament’s spiritual world to resist the Lord of Nothingness, while Lin Ye and his allies fought the controlled Five Elders during a ritual to summon the Lord. Lin Ye found the Light Stone but was attacked as he studied its seal.

• Luffy decided to help Firmament resist the Lord of Nothingness and entered Firmament’s spiritual world.
• Lin Ye, Kizaru, and the two clear-minded Five Elders entered the distorted secret chamber, where the controlled Five Elders prepared a summoning ritual.
• The blond Five Elder attacked the newcomers with Void Energy, and the sword-wielding Five Elder drew First Kitetsu to fight him.
• Lin Ye slipped farther into the chamber and found the Light Stone behind a complex Sealing Formation.
• A purple beam suddenly shot toward Lin Ye as he studied the seal.

Lin Ye awakened a hidden power, passed the Light Stone’s trial, and claimed the crystal after Kizaru sacrificed himself to save him. In the Undersea Temple, the restored Abyss Guardian began a final trial that transported Ace, Jinbe, Aquila, and the others to the ancient war against the Lord of Nothingness.

• The bald Five Elder struck at Lin Ye, but Kizaru took the Void claw’s attack and urged Lin Ye to obtain the Light Stone before fading away.
• Lin Ye’s fury awakened a powerful force that blasted the bald Five Elder back and allowed him to activate the Light Stone’s Sealing Formation.
• The sword-wielding Five Elder and the mustached Five Elder held off their controlled counterparts while Lin Ye broke the seal and took the Light Stone.
• The Abyss Guardian’s corruption receded after hearing Ace’s oath, and it announced a final trial about the war a thousand years earlier.
• The Abyss Guardian transported Ace, Jinbe, Aquila, and the others to a devastated ancient battlefield, where they saw the gigantic Lord of Nothingness and Karen.

Ace received the Abyss Stone after the Abyss Guardian sacrificed itself to stabilize the collapsing Undersea Temple. Meanwhile, Luffy's group reached the Void Fortress's core and found the Storm Stone, but the Void Storm blocked their attacks as the Lord of Nothingness began reasserting control over Firmament.

• Ace understood the meaning of guardianship, and the Abyss Guardian gave him the Abyss Stone before petrifying itself to hold the temple together.
• Luffy's group broke through the Void Fortress's defenses and found the Storm Stone surrounded by a powerful Void Storm.
• Sabo's Fire Fist was devoured by the storm, while Zoro's sword attacks were deflected.
• The Lord of Nothingness's will activated Firmament's Void Mark, making the dragon struggle against its control.
• Sabo realized that Firmament's power could counter Void Energy.

Firmament broke free of the Void’s control through Luffy’s friendship, destroyed the barrier around the Storm Stone, and escaped the collapsing fortress with the others. They reached Aurora Island with Sabo gravely wounded, while Lin Ye and Ace’s groups also arrived carrying injured allies as the island’s defenses neared collapse.

• Luffy embraced Firmament and helped him reclaim his Dragon Might, purifying the Void marks and restoring his silver-white scales.
• Firmament unleashed Dragon Breath—star storm, breaking the Void barrier around the Storm Stone, and Zoro severed its chains and caught it.
• As the Void Fortress collapsed, Sabo stayed behind to buy time, but a surge of Void Energy struck him and the fortress swallowed him as Firmament escaped.
• The Void Fortress exploded, and Firmament carried the group out while Luffy bore the unconscious Sabo.
• Lin Ye arrived with the barely breathing Kizaru, and Ace’s group arrived supporting the badly wounded Jinbe.
• Luffy’s group descended onto Aurora Island with Sabo as Void damage threatened the island’s protective barrier.

After the three Anchor Stones awakened the Watchers Formation, Claire revealed the deadly odds of the Inheritance Resonance, but Lin Ye’s Ancient Watcher bloodline raised hopes and drew volunteers. The chapter ended with Aurora Island under a direct Void attack and Claire warning the teams that its barrier could hold for only one hour.

• Claire treated Kizaru and Jinbe and warned that Sabo’s spreading Void Erosion could erase his sense of self.
• Ace, Lin Ye, and Zoro brought out the Abyss Stone, Light Stone, and Storm Stone, whose resonance formed the Watchers Formation.
• Claire revealed that fewer than thirty percent survived the Inheritance Resonance and that most survivors died sealing the Lord of Nothingness, but Luffy, Ace, Zoro, and the others chose to proceed.
• Lin Ye awakened the Ancient Watcher bloodline, and Claire said it could greatly improve the ritual’s success rate.
• Aurora Tribe warriors, Sky Island residents, Fish-Men warriors, Kizaru, and Jinbe volunteered for the Inheritance Ritual, while Claire ruled Sabo too ill to participate.
• As the Void attacked Aurora Island and its protective barrier weakened, Claire warned all teams that the island could hold out for at most one hour.

Lin Ye awakened the full power of the Ancient Watcher Bloodline and learned the history of the Sealing War. He halted the Void’s advance over Aurora Island and revealed that the group must travel to the deepest layer of the Void Abyss to seal the Lord of Nothingness.

• Lin Ye entered the Watchers Formation, where the three Anchor Stones triggered a painful bloodline resonance that drew him into memories of the ancient world and the Sealing War.
• Lin Ye witnessed his ancestor Silas explain how the Anchor Stones could power the seal, and saw the Watchers sacrifice themselves to contain the Lord of Nothingness.
• As the Temporal Rift widened and Claire’s barrier began to fail, Lin Ye fully awakened and rose with the collective will of the Watchers.
• Lin Ye took the three Anchor Stones and released white light that pushed back the Void Matter and temporarily halted the Temporal Rift’s expansion.
• Lin Ye told his companions that they had to reach the deepest layer of the Void Abyss, where the Watchers had left their final seal, to stop the Lord of Nothingness.

Lin Ye and his allies began the Watchers inheritance ritual, enduring a brutal trial that claimed three young Aurora Tribe warriors. Kizaru and Jinbe gained new powers, while the Sky Island chief struggled to withstand the Storm Stone as the ritual continued.

• Lin Ye warned that the Lord of Nothingness would try to stop them, and Luffy, Ace, and the others volunteered to enter the Watchers Formation.
• The inheritors entered the formation and endured an agonizing transformation as the Ancient Watchers' power tested their souls and bodies.
• Alpha and two other Aurora Tribe warriors could not survive the power, but transferred their strength and will to their companions before dying.
• Kizaru absorbed the Light Stone's power, restored his damaged essence of light, and gained control of sacred radiance.
• Jinbe absorbed the Abyss Stone's power and gained mastery over deep-sea currents and crushing water pressure.
• The Sky Island chief struggled to endure the Storm Stone's wild power as the residents watched anxiously.

The chief sacrificed himself during the Inheritance Ritual, helping Luffy, Ace, Zoro, Nami, and the other survivors become a new generation of Watchers. As the Lord of Nothingness began descending and unleashing worldwide catastrophes, its mental corruption attacked the newly empowered Watchers, leaving their resistance uncertain.

• The chief passed his storm power and wisdom to the other inheritors, then dissolved into light as the ritual continued to claim lives and transform survivors.
• Luffy, Ace, Zoro, and Nami completed their inheritance, gaining new Watcher powers as Claire welcomed the birth of a new generation.
• Sakazuki warned that the Five Elders had succeeded and the Lord of Nothingness was descending on Mary Geoise, while black energy and a vast rift appeared in the sky.
• The Lord of Nothingness's arrival caused disasters across the world, including reversed seas, distorted gravity, temporal rifts, and the destruction of fleets and settlements.
• The Lord of Nothingness sensed the awakened Watchers and sent a mental assault that tormented Nami, Usopp, Zoro, Jinbe, and even Kizaru as Lin Ye urged them to resist.

The Watchers resisted the Lord of Nothingness’s mental assault, and Claire foresaw that they had six hours to seal him before the world fell into the Void. Lin Ye divided the team to activate three sealing nodes; Luffy and Ace reached the Island of Beginnings, where three Void Apostles confronted them.

• Luffy rallied the others against the Lord of Nothingness’s despairing mental attack, and Lin Ye’s light helped restore their resolve.
• Claire collapsed after seeing that the Lord of Nothingness had to be sealed within six hours, and Lin Ye said they needed to rebuild the Sealing Formation with three Anchor Stones.
• Lin Ye identified the Island of Beginnings, Laugh Tale, and Mary Geoise as the three nodes, then assigned Luffy and Ace to the East Blue, Zoro and Jinbe to Laugh Tale, and himself and Kizaru to Mary Geoise.
• Claire used her remaining Stellar Energy to open three portals, and the teams departed for their targets.
• Luffy and Ace arrived at the Island of Beginnings and found the Crystal Tower, the eastern node of the Sealing Formation.
• Three Void Apostles emerged from a rift and attacked Luffy and Ace, who prepared to fight them.

Luffy and Ace defeated three Void Apostles, while Zoro and Jinbe fought five more at Laugh Tale and Lin Ye and Kizaru confronted the Lord of Nothingness’s forces at Mary Geoise. Luffy and Ace then reached the World Tree Seed’s temple on the Island of Beginnings, but a lethal Void Barrier blocked their way.

• Luffy used the Watchers’ will in his rubber punch, and Ace wielded sacred flame to defeat three Void Apostles together.
• Zoro and Jinbe reached Laugh Tale, where Zoro’s Nothingness Slash cut through the Apostles’ spatial passages and Jinbe trapped them in an abyssal water vortex.
• Lin Ye and Kizaru arrived at Mary Geoise, where more than a dozen powerful Void Apostles guarded the expanding black hole as the Lord of Nothingness descended.
• Vivi led Alabasta’s people in resisting the Void with songs, while Doflamingo protected Dressrosa alongside its people; their gathered hope encouraged Claire and the Watchers.
• Luffy and Ace found the Island of Beginnings split between reality and the Void, then reached the temple where the World Tree Seed rested behind a barrier that disintegrated anything touching it.

Ace and Luffy awakened the World Tree Seed on the Island of Beginnings, purifying the island and spreading life-giving power across the world. They then turned toward the other Watchers, while Zoro and Jinbe arrived at a reality-warped Laugh Tale.

• Ace fused the Watchers' power with his flames to create the Sacred Flame, which could breach the Void barrier but consumed his life force.
• Ace entered the temple and used his life force to awaken the World Tree Seed, while Luffy followed and discovered he could absorb and convert Void Energy.
• Ace and Luffy combined their powers to make the seed sprout, purifying the Island of Beginnings and sending a halo of life across the world.
• Ace and Luffy decided to help the other Watchers and set out to confront the Lord of Nothingness.
• Zoro and Jinbe arrived at Laugh Tale, where Void mist distorted the island, gravity, and the flow of seawater.

Zoro and Jinbe battled the Lord of Nothingness's true incarnation on Laugh Tale, using conceptual sword attacks and awakened Ancient Beasts to weaken it. Jinbe restrained the Avatar with control over the world’s oceans, but the Lord of Nothingness's incarnation continued fighting.

• The Lord of Nothingness's Void Avatar appeared above Laugh Tale and erased its eastern half with a conceptual attack.
• Zoro transformed Wado Ichimonji, Sandai Kitetsu, and Yubashiri into blades that could cut causality, time, and space, then wounded the Avatar with Concept Slash.
• Jinbe summoned Ancient Beasts from oceans around the world, and they attacked the Avatar with their natural resistance to Void Energy.
• Jinbe used Ocean-Wide Control to command the world's seawater and restrain the Avatar with a planet-spanning whirlpool.
• Zoro struck the restrained Avatar with Three-Element Annihilation, spreading cracks across its body, but the incarnation did not give up.

Lin Ye and Kizaru discovered that the Lord of Nothingness was descending upon Mary Geoise and began preparing a world-spanning Sealing Formation. Lin Ye revealed that the seal required four nodes and could cost everyone involved their lives, and his companions chose to proceed.

• The Void Avatar began a self-destructive counterattack on Laugh Tale, threatening to destroy the island and send a shockwave across the world.
• Lin Ye and Kizaru arrived at a ruined Mary Geoise, where the Lord of Nothingness's true-form projection erased part of the Holy Land from reality.
• Kizaru used holy power from the Light Stone to shield himself and Lin Ye while Lin Ye prepared a Sealing Formation with three Anchor Stones.
• Lin Ye realized the seal needed four simultaneous nodes: the Island of Beginnings, Laugh Tale, Mary Geoise, and Marineford, and that activating them could burn away the participants' life essence.
• Lin Ye sent the sealing method and its cost to his companions, and Luffy, Ace, Zoro, Jinbe, and Kizaru accepted the risk of dying to protect the world.

As Void Monsters attacked Marineford, Sengoku awakened the Watchers’ ancient power and learned that the Marines had to activate the Justice Node at the cost of their lives. He and the admirals prepared to make that sacrifice to stop the Lord of Nothingness.

• Sakazuki and Kuzan fought the Void Monsters together, targeting the energy cores inside them.
• A sacred white light erupted beneath Marineford, driving the Void Monsters away.
• Sengoku recalled that the Watchers had built the Justice Node at Marineford a thousand years earlier and learned he carried their leader’s bloodline.
• Sengoku told Sakazuki and Kuzan that the Justice Node had to be activated to complete the Sealing Formation and that doing so would likely kill them.
• Sakazuki accepted the sacrifice, saying he had dedicated his life to justice.

At Marineford, Sengoku, Sakazuki, and Kuzan activated the Justice Node, joining the four nodes into a world-spanning Sealing Formation. On the Island of Beginnings, Luffy awakened his Adaptation Form and shared his life force with Ace to help awaken the World Tree Seed, leaving the brothers in pain as the Life Node sent power to the other sites.

• Sengoku rallied the Marines, then joined Sakazuki and Kuzan in sacrificing their life essence to activate the Justice Node at Marineford.
• The four nodes’ pillars of light converged into a Sealing Formation covering the world.
• Ace poured his life force into the World Tree Seed, growing increasingly transparent as its Sacred Flame became Life Flame.
• Luffy awakened his Watcher Bloodline’s Adaptation Form and embraced Ace, allowing him to touch the Sacred Flame safely.
• Luffy transferred his life force to Ace, and their bloodlines resonated as the World Tree Seed released a pillar of life light.
• The Life Node’s energy strengthened Zoro and Jinbe, reached Lin Ye and Kizaru, and stabilized the Sealing Formation at Marineford.