Chapter Summaries

Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha attacked the Marines as Fujitora and Garp tried to stop them, while Tobirama Senju used his speed and planted bombs to outmaneuver Garp. The bombs exploded aboard the warship, leaving Garp furious and ready to continue fighting.

• Fujitora attacked Hashirama Senju with Fierce Tiger Slash, but Madara Uchiha countered with a flaming Susanoo strike.
• Hashirama Senju unleashed Wood Dragons that destroyed warships and drained the life force of Marines, prompting Qing Zhi and Garp to intervene.
• Tobirama Senju charged Garp with a Haki-coated short sword, which shattered against Garp's Armament Haki.
• Tobirama Senju evaded Garp's punch and left specially made bombs disguised on the warship.
• Sengoku warned Garp about the bombs, but they exploded before Garp could escape, leaving him enraged at Tobirama Senju.

Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru attacked Garp together as Ren’s forces and the world’s assembled army unleashed their fighters across the battlefield. Sengoku watched the clashes spread, including a massive battle between the two Beast Armies and a thousand-strong Dinosaur Army.

• Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru charged at Garp together, while Jiraiya attacked Sengoku and other fighters joined the battle.
• Wall taunted Sengoku and charged him, but Green Bull intercepted Wall and fought him.
• Thirty-six Demon Oars attacked the Third Division, while tens of thousands of Giants from both sides clashed.
• Jace ordered the Beast Army to charge, and more than ten thousand transformed fighters stampeded toward the assembled army.
• Sengoku sent his own Beast Army into battle, and a thousand Ancient Zoan dinosaurs joined Jace’s forces.
• The two Beast Armies collided in a fierce battle between beasts.

Ren's forces fought Sengoku's billion-strong army as Emperor Island deployed advanced firearms, tanks, and missiles to halt the assault. Sengoku and Tsuru realized Ren's technological advantage was greater than they had expected, while the battle continued.

• Ren's Beast Army, Marco's pterosaurs, Jace, and the Sixth and Second Divisions attacked the enemy forces.
• Sengoku ordered a million swordsmen to clash with Ren's Sword Masters, and their sword aura rivers collided above the battlefield.
• The Marines and Ren's forces sent wave after wave of troops into the battle as Sengoku wondered how many soldiers Ren had gathered.
• Sengoku ordered all his forces to attack, but Emperor Island's machine guns, rocket launchers, tanks, and missiles inflicted heavy casualties.
• Tsuru told Sengoku that Emperor Island supplied weapons around the world, though even she had not expected its technology to be so advanced.

Sengoku deployed a hundred thousand Pacifistas against Emperor Island, while the war’s major fighters engaged across the battlefield. Ace’s confrontation with Dragon was interrupted by the return of Sabo and Luffy, and Ren coughed up blood while facing Uranus.

• Sengoku unleashed a hundred thousand Pacifistas, and their weapons filled the sea with artillery fire.
• Sengoku told Dragon to wait for Ren, then transformed into a golden Buddha and fought Whitebeard; Ace challenged Dragon.
• Dragon brought Sabo and Luffy to Ace, who abandoned the fight and took his brothers into the clouds to talk.
• Tsuru ordered Dragon to oversee the battlefield and end the war quickly before Ren returned.
• Ren coughed and spat out blood on the otherwise tranquil sea.

Ren and Ryder survived Uranus’s devastating attack, and Ren stored the broken weapon before setting course for Emperor Island as the war there continued. Tsunade challenged Dragon, but an old man emerged from a warship and met her punch with his own.

• Ren and Ryder survived Uranus’s final attack, which consumed the region’s natural energy and left the sea devastated.
• After Zera Light died and Uranus fell into the sea, Ren stored the damaged weapon in his Amethyst Ring and ordered Ryder to prepare Pluton for retreat.
• Ren predicted that Sengoku had used footage of the battle to escalate the war, then ordered everyone to head for Emperor Island.
• On Emperor Island, Dragon and Tsuru sensed that Ren might be returning, while Dragon conserved his strength as the battle raged.
• Tsunade charged Dragon to test her Power Fruit, but an old man sprang from a warship and clashed fists with her.

Tsunade confronted Azure Dragon and demonstrated the power of her Beyond Awakening Power Fruit, while Ren’s allies mobilized against Dragon and the hidden experts. With Tsuru’s plan to deal with Ren exposed and overwhelmed, Dragon and Tsuru accepted that they would have to face him directly.

• Tsunade blocked Azure Dragon’s punch and challenged the former Admiral with her Armament Haki-coated fists.
• Azure Dragon recognized the Power Fruit, and Tsunade revealed that Ren had given it to her and helped her develop it Beyond Awakening.
• Tsunade hurled Azure Dragon through Aokiji’s thick ice and shattered the battlefield with her Heavenly Foot of Pain, while Aokiji refroze the sea.
• Azure Dragon transformed into a Black Dragon and resumed fighting Tsunade as Shikaku sent Might Guy and other allies to engage Dragon and the hidden experts.
• Tsuru ordered the hidden experts to join the battle, and Dragon and Tsuru acknowledged that their plan against Ren had failed and they would have to confront him directly.

Tsuru revealed twelve former Navy Admirals who had used pills to regain their peak strength, but Ren arrived before they could ambush him. Ren unleashed a colossal Seismic Source punch that met Dragon’s storm in a clash that engulfed the battlefield.

• Tsuru summoned twelve retired Navy Admirals, who swallowed pills and returned to their youthful forms.
• Shikaku realized the Admirals had been meant to ambush Ren while he fought Dragon, and Bing Jieke noted that the plan had been undone by their allies’ strength.
• Ren appeared on the battlefield after Uranus failed to stop him, and Sengoku and Garp recognized his arrival.
• Ren gathered Seismic Sources into a massive orb and punched, sending a devastating impact across the battlefield.
• Dragon transformed into a whirlwind and raised a vast storm to resist Ren’s tsunami, creating a storm that covered the sky.

Ren and Dragon clashed with Conqueror’s Haki and unleashed their strongest powers, turning the sky into a battlefield of storms, Thunder, and elemental dragons. As their fight continued, Ren’s forces launched a counterattack while Sengoku ordered his army to fight to the death.

• Dragon declared that he and Ren could only settle their ambitions by deciding life and death, then attacked with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Ren met Dragon’s Haki, and their collision tore open the sky and sea as spectators reacted to their immense power.
• Dragon unleashed Black Dragon Storm, while Ren formed a twelve-winged Fallen Angel and wielded a Thunder Dragon against him.
• Ren and Dragon transformed the heavens into a vast clash of Thunder, storm, fire, and ice dragons, leaving Aokiji and Kizaru stunned by the battle’s effects.
• Shikaku and Bing Jieke rallied Ren’s soldiers into a counterattack, and Sengoku ordered Tsuru to make his army fight to the death.

Ren and Dragon fought at full strength in the sky while the battlefield erupted into another desperate clash. The chapter revealed that Dragon’s power came from life-or-death training and a Devil Fruit Tree branch, and it ended with Ren and Dragon trading their strongest techniques.

• Tsuru sent twelve rejuvenated Admirals to attack Ren, but Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju blocked them while Ryder confronted Fujitora and Green Bull.
• Ren and Dragon turned the sky into a battlefield of storm soldiers, lightning, darkness, and Fallen Angels as they exchanged blows.
• Ren realized Dragon was far stronger than expected, and the chapter explained that Dragon had grown stronger through deadly training and his Monkey Family’s regenerative ability.
• Luffy found a branch from the Devil Fruit Tree while training with Dragon, and Dragon used it to awaken his Storm-Storm Fruit beyond awakening and strengthen his Haki and constitution.
• Ren and Dragon continued fighting with Haki, swordsmanship, and physical techniques, ending with Ren’s Light-Speed Fist meeting Dragon’s Hook Claw.

Ren defeated Dragon in a devastating battle on Emperor Island, winning the war and claiming the world. His supporters celebrated his victory while Kizaru, Fujitora, and Qing Zhi accepted that Ren could no longer be stopped.

• Ren revealed that he was recovering his strength, unleashed golden Haki, and summoned a gigantic meteor that he transformed into a Thunder Dragon.
• Dragon became a black Storm Divine Dragon, and the two dragons collided in a battle that shook the world.
• After the clash, Qingfeng revealed Dragon, who refused to accept defeat before vanishing; Ren emerged wounded and declared victory.
• Ren's forces celebrated as Bing Jieke, Shikaku, and Ryder rejoiced that he had taken over the world.
• Kizaru, Fujitora, and Qing Zhi admitted that they had lost and that Ren could no longer be stopped.

Ren defeated Sengoku’s forces with the help of Shirahoshi’s Sea Kings, then ruled the world and reshaped it over the following decade. After reaching the limits of his Haki and Devil Fruit powers, Ren looked toward finding another world so he could grow stronger.

• Garp charged at Ren to avenge Dragon, but Madara Uchiha stopped him and Hashirama Senju suppressed him.
• Ren summoned Shirahoshi’s Sea Kings and threatened Sengoku with the power of the Ancient Weapons.
• The Sea Kings slaughtered millions of Sengoku’s soldiers, and Sengoku surrendered to Ren.
• Ren unified the world and spent more than a decade expanding land, leveling the Red Line, and transforming the seas.
• Ren collected Devil Fruits and cultivated his powers, eventually deciding he needed to find another world to continue growing stronger.

Ren strengthened Muramasa and the Cloth with fused Devil Fruits before traveling to the Death God World, where he appeared naked in Karakura Town and was rescued from a monster by Orihime Inoue. The chapter left Ren trying to understand his new surroundings and asking Orihime who she was.

• Ren gave up consuming Devil Fruits himself and returned the Direction Fruit to the Devil Fruit Tree.
• Ren fused numerous lightning-related Devil Fruits into the Cloth and darkness-related Devil Fruits into Muramasa, strengthening both artifacts to their limits.
• Ren prepared to travel to the next world and arrived in the Death God World amid falling snow.
• A masked monster attacked Orihime Inoue and tried to consume her soul, but Ren's golden light struck it away.
• Orihime Inoue touched Ren's golden light, which enveloped him and melted the snow around them.
• Ren woke naked in Karakura Town, recognized Orihime Inoue, and asked her where he was and who she was.

Ren arrived injured in the Death God World, where young Orihime Inoue found him and brought him home after he defeated a Hollow. As he tried to recover, Ren wondered why his injuries persisted, while Orihime called for a doctor from the Kurosaki Clinic.

• Ren discovered that lightning clothing and Muramasa’s consumption of a Hollow caused him to cough up blood, and he wondered why he had not recovered from his injuries.
• A snake-headed Hollow attacked Ren and Orihime Inoue, and Ren killed it with Muramasa, which Devoured the Hollow’s remains.
• Ren’s body twisted with pain after Muramasa consumed the Hollow, so Orihime supported him and took him to her home.
• Orihime cared for Ren and gave him porridge while he sensed that his injuries were healing unusually slowly.
• Ren recognized that Orihime had likely recently lost her brother, Sora Inoue, and guessed she had called the Kurosaki Clinic for a doctor.

Ren discovered that his injuries needed physical nourishment rather than Spirit Particles, and Sea King flesh helped him recover while also strengthening Orihime. When Orihime summoned Doctor Kurosaki, Ren prepared to meet the Death God who arrived at her home.

• Ren realized that the Cloth consumed Spiritual Pressure and that his body needed flesh and blood to heal.
• Ren cooked Sea King flesh with lightning and ate it, recovering more than half of his injuries as Orihime ate alongside him.
• Ren reassured Orihime that she could grow stronger by eating the nourishing meat.
• Orihime answered the doorbell and warned Ren that Doctor Kurosaki had arrived.
• Isshin Kurosaki entered and asked Orihime who was sick; she said Ren had coughed up blood and asked him to examine her big brother.

Ren let Isshin Kurosaki examine his injuries, and sensed the Spiritual Pressure Isshin released, learning that his own soul held the same energy. After Isshin left, he reassured Orihime and warned her to be careful around the doctor, while Isshin returned home shaken by Ren’s powerful body and soul.

• Isshin Kurosaki examined Ren after he coughed up blood and concluded that severe trauma had caused the bleeding, though Ren was recovering well.
• Ren sensed Isshin’s Spiritual Pressure and realized that his own soul emitted the same energy and could sense the Spirit Particles around him.
• Isshin left, and Ren reassured Orihime, who worried about his health and forgot to pay the consultation fee.
• Ren explained that he wore black contact lenses to hide his Golden Double Pupils and warned Orihime that Isshin was not an ordinary doctor.
• Isshin returned home and reflected that Ren’s body had crushed the Spiritual Pressure he used to examine him, making it difficult for Ren’s soul to become a Death God.

Isshin Kurosaki resolved to focus on being a father, while Ren rested with Orihime and was drawn into the world of his Zanpakuto, where 'Muramasa' revealed her origins and her hope of becoming human. Ren learned that 'Muramasa' believed the Death God World’s energy could let her gain a human body and remain by his side.

• Isshin Kurosaki left his room and caught Ichigo eavesdropping, then joked that a real man should not do that.
• Ren carried the exhausted Orihime to bed, decided to find a better house, and fell asleep beside her.
• 'Muramasa' emerged from the Amethyst Ring and formed a black barrier around Ren and Orihime while Ren entered a strange dreamlike world.
• Ren followed 'Muramasa's' calls into a palace surrounded by bones and blood rivers, where she appeared as an eighteen-winged Fallen Angel.
• 'Muramasa' told Ren how she gained a soul and body by devouring souls, then explained that she believed energy from the Death God World could help her become human.

Muramasa explained how her Hollow-derived soul let her connect to Ren and devour Spiritual Pressure, while Ren learned that his true Zanpakuto remained undiscovered. After deciding to hunt Hollows to grow stronger, Ren sensed a powerful Hollow nearby and went to find it.

• Muramasa told Ren that she needed to absorb energy from the Death God World before she could take human form, and that she could purify Spiritual Pressure from Hollows and Death Gods for him.
• Muramasa explained that she was connected to Ren but was not his true Zanpakuto, and that the Gold Cloth could also eventually take human form.
• Ren decided that he and Muramasa would hunt Hollows to increase his Spiritual Pressure, then went back to sleep beside Orihime.
• Ren woke recovered from his injuries, cooked Sea King meat with Thunder, and shared breakfast with Orihime.
• Muramasa sensed a high-rank Hollow in the World of the Living, and Ren set out to find it.

Ren tested whether his physical strength could kill Hollows and learned that he needed Spiritual Pressure to damage their souls. After destroying the lesser Hollows with Muramasa's help, he faced the returning Adjuchas as it prepared to fire a Cero.

• Muramasa hid Orihime's house behind a barrier, and Ren flew away to fight the approaching Hollow.
• Ren identified the human-sized gorilla Hollow as a newly evolved Adjuchas and chose to fight it with his body alone.
• Ren's Haki-powered punch sent the Adjuchas flying, but his blows failed to kill the Ordinary Hollows accompanying it.
• Muramasa explained that Ren needed Spiritual Pressure to harm souls, then guided its own Spiritual Pressure around Ren's fist.
• Ren shattered the Ordinary Hollows with his infused fist, and Muramasa devoured the black energy they left behind.
• The Adjuchas returned from the sky and gathered crimson light in its mouth as Ren prepared to fight again.

Ren killed Hollows to strengthen himself with Muramasa, whose Spiritual Pressure matched Hueco Mundo's former king, Baraggan Luisenbarn. After Urahara Kisuke investigated the traces left by Ren's fight, Ren continued hunting and worried that Death Gods might be monitoring him.

• Ren defeated the Gorilla Hollow's Cero with Muramasa, and the Hollow recognized Baraggan Luisenbarn's Spiritual Pressure in Ren's attack.
• Ren killed the Gorilla Hollow, and Muramasa absorbed its Spiritual Pressure and fed some of it to Ren.
• Urahara Kisuke inspected the clearing, noticed traces of the Cero and black Spiritual Pressure, and decided to investigate.
• Ren killed another Ordinary Hollow and learned from Muramasa that reaching Hueco Mundo required more Spiritual Pressure and Muramasa taking human form.
• Ren wondered whether Death Gods or Urahara Kisuke were tracking his kills and resolved to keep a low profile.

Ren continued hunting Hollows in the World of the Living while Death Gods failed to find him, and he settled into a courtyard with Orihime. In Hueco Mundo, Baraggan Luisenbarn discovered a broken Hollow mask bearing dark energy with Spiritual Pressure identical to his own and learned that a black Sword Aura had been killing Hollows.

• Muramasa told Ren that the Shadow Fruit concealed his presence and soul, and Ren planned for the Cloth to gain lightning abilities by absorbing lightning-type Devil Fruits.
• Death Gods in the World of the Living reported that Hollows kept disappearing before they could reach them, while Ren continued hunting them unseen.
• Ren returned to the courtyard he had bought with Orihime, who greeted him after watering the flowers.
• Ren read human accounts of strange events and reflected that they contained useful knowledge about Hollows and Death Gods.
• Baraggan Luisenbarn examined a broken mask and sensed that the dark energy on it carried Spiritual Pressure identical to his own.
• An Intermediate Menos Grande told Baraggan Luisenbarn that a black Sword Aura had been killing Hollows and growing stronger, prompting Baraggan Luisenbarn to wonder who shared his Spiritual Pressure.