Recaps

Li Yuan’s crew survived Uranus’s destruction of Lajiko Island, then struck back at the Marines and expanded its influence through weapons deals and new recruits. The stretch ended with Lafitte joining Reverse Sand and Faraday gaining Li Yuan’s permission to train abroad.

• Li Yuan and Golden Lion rescued their crews from Uranus’s bombardment of Lajiko Island, where World and Byojack died, and later planned ways to counter the Ancient Weapon.
• Judge asked Li Yuan to help restore Germa in the North Blue, while Doflamingo gained access to the Limitless Pirates’ weapons after Esdeath defeated him in a test.
• Garp and Sengoku captured John, and Esdeath fought Zephyr before Li Yuan killed Zephyr in revenge for her injuries.
• Li Yuan and Golden Lion drove the Marines from G1 Fortress, where Colonel Kairol Wells detonated explosives that killed thousands, while Tom gave Li Yuan the Pluton Blueprints.
• Li Yuan found the Lanternfish, recovered Pure Gold, and reunited Miskina Ashiya with his daughter Olga.
• Yadina approved weapons for Dragon’s Self-Defense Army, while Wei Zhuang fought Kuzan and later welcomed Lafitte into Reverse Sand with an Ancient Type Bat-Bat Fruit.
• Li Yuan tested Faraday’s fighting on an uninhabited island, then allowed him to train outside while warning him to flee from top-tier fighters.

Li Yuan expanded the Limitless Pirates’ influence, learned the King’s Fist, and defeated Whitebeard in a battle that made him the world’s strongest man. As the World Government prepared to suppress its enemies and Ohara was destroyed, the Limitless Pirates attacked CP training bases across the seas.

• Li Yuan traveled to Prodence with Yadina, learned the King’s Fist from Elizabello II, and adapted its stored energy to Hakoku.
• Kaido defeated Gecko Moria and took his territory, while Whitebeard defeated Brandon and claimed John’s former territory.
• Li Yuan welcomed the Tontatta and Mansherry under his protection, while the World Government recruited Crocodile, Gecko Moria, and Doflamingo as Shichibukai.
• Artel McLaren became a Shichibukai, took over Giberson’s assets, and received Li Yuan’s order to eliminate Giberson and claim the Warehouse King position.
• Li Yuan accepted Whitebeard’s challenge at Brand Island and defeated him, then spared him and promised to investigate what happened to Albertus Gomez.
• Morgans declared Li Yuan the world’s strongest man, and Li Yuan gained the Blood-Blood Fruit’s power through the Seven Star Sword while preparing new weapons and trading with Dragon.
• At Ohara, Sakazuki ordered the Buster Call, Kuzan let Robin escape, and Munis stopped Sakazuki from killing Saul.
• On the day Ohara was destroyed, Li Yuan and Esdeath led attacks on CP training bases, defeating Oswald Angulo and killing or capturing the CP trainees.

Li Yuan and his allies struck the World Government, rescued Ohara’s scholars, and defeated Saint Mars while the Limitless Pirates expanded their power and forged new alliances. Seven years later, Li Yuan’s forces had spread across the Four Seas, and the first combat robot, Tyr 1, was ready for production.

• Koya rescued Dr. Clover and the Ohara scholars from the Buster Call and brought them with their books to a Sky Island, while the Limitless Pirates and Flying Pirates attacked CP training bases.
• The Five Elders used Akame as bait, but Li Yuan and his officers ambushed them, killed Saint Mars, and forced the others to retreat.
• Li Yuan’s killing of Saint Mars shook the world, prompting rival pirate crews to expand while the World Government halted its pursuit of the Limitless Pirates.
• Doflamingo sought the Limitless Pirates’ protection and later used Akame’s help to seize Erickson Island, while Tesoro accepted the Gold-Gold Fruit to become strong enough to protect Stella.
• Bullet mastered Conqueror’s Haki Infusion against Kaido, then passed Li Yuan’s trial and became First Mate of the Limitless Pirates.
• Li Yuan reunited Robin with Dr. Clover and the Ohara scholars, and Robin later reunited with Saul on Elbaf.
• Kumas defeated Abedo for the Mink throne, recruited Minks for the Limitless Pirates, and secured Li Yuan’s promise to help their children survive.
• Li Yuan stole Robot Emit from Mary Geoise, and seven years later his forces controlled a vast network across the Four Seas as he named the first advanced combat robot Tyr 1.

Li Yuan united the New World pirate crews to seize the South Sea, then led them into a naval war against the World Government as Dragon’s forces launched a revolution across the Red Line Continent. The Self-Defense Army’s defeat led Dragon to reorganize it as the Revolutionary Army, while Li Yuan’s battle against the World Government’s strongest fighters remained undecided.

• Li Yuan and the other Great Pirates agreed to invade the South Sea, divided its territories, and sent their fleets to conquer the kingdoms.
• Faraday, Esdeath, and Nepal secured the Op-Op Fruit from Barrels, and Li Yuan gave it to Law, who ate it.
• The pirate fleets occupied much of the South Sea, and Li Yuan’s forces met the World Government fleet at the Marx Sea Area, where their battleships and Jellal’s submarines sank hundreds of Marine warships.
• Dragon’s Self-Defense Army rose up across the Red Line Continent, killed two Celestial Dragons, and freed slaves, but the Five Elders joined the fighting and forced Dragon’s surviving troops to retreat.
• Li Yuan’s officers engaged the top World Government fighters as Garp, Ivankov, and Aimaierjiang attacked Li Yuan, who wounded all three while Hawkeye began a duel with Vista.
• Nepal used Seastone Bullets to disrupt Gabor and Aokiji, while the Limitless Pirates sent Fish-Men to intercept reinforcements at sea.
• Dragon renamed the defeated Self-Defense Army the Revolutionary Army and planned to overhaul it, while Carlo Parada interfered in Li Yuan’s fight and enabled Garp and two other fighters to attack him.