Chapter Summaries

Dragon trapped Harris inside a Storm Barrier and fought him amid the relentless wind blades. At Mary Geoise, Li Yuan’s sons attacked the Five Elders, driving several of them from the air while Rhodes faced Saint Lawend’s water-control powers.

• Dragon formed a Storm Barrier around Harris, who realized he was trapped and fought off the wind blades while Dragon wounded him with a claw strike.
• Gai Nie attacked Saint Saturn with Second Generation Raikiri and smashed him out of the sky.
• Wei Zhuang struck Saint Nusjuro with Futsu-no-Mitama and a descending shadow mountain, while Faraday blasted Saint Warcury to the ground with First Generation Raikiri.
• Ares pursued Saint Peter with a comet attack and pinned him beneath it, but Saint Peter’s wounds rapidly healed through his Dark Power.
• Rhodes attacked Saint Lawend with wind-boosted claws and clones, then saw Saint Lawend summon a tsunami that washed the clones away.

The pirates overwhelmed the World Government’s top combatants at Mary Geoise while Li Yuan and Golden Lion waited for Im to appear. In a flashback, Im revealed a hidden underground facility where he drained Dark Power from more than a hundred living people to strengthen himself.

• Rhodes wounded Saint Lawend with Wind God Slash as the pirates and World Government forces clashed across Mary Geoise.
• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin led their crews against the Celestial Dragons’ combatants, while the Limitless Pirates’ officers overwhelmed their assigned opponents.
• Li Yuan and Golden Lion watched the pirates gain the advantage and discussed who would become the new World King.
• Im protected Pangaea Castle from an aerial bombing, then checked that the stone Straw Hat concealed an intact underground facility.
• Im drew Dark Power from more than a hundred people in Nutrient Tanks, leaving their bodies slightly shrunken as he felt his strength and vigor increase.

The pirates overwhelmed the World Government’s forces at Mary Geoise while Li Yuan and Golden Lion waited for Im to appear. In a flashback, Im checked a hidden underground facility and drained Dark Power from more than a hundred people, leaving the next confrontation unresolved.

• Rhodes wounded Saint Lawend, and the pirate crews began fighting the World Government’s top combatants across Mary Geoise.
• Kaido struck Ulysses Garcia and chased him down, while Kaido’s Calamities blocked Andy Williams and Charlotte Linlin attacked Trevor Brooks.
• John, Silver Axe, Ochoku, Brandon, and the Limitless Pirates joined the fighting, and the pirates gained the upper hand against the World Government’s forces.
• Golden Lion worried that the Limitless Pirates had far more top combatants than the Flying Pirates, while Li Yuan teased him about their children and they agreed to wait and see who would become World King.
• Im protected Pangaea Castle from an explosion, checked that the giant stone Straw Hat hid an intact underground facility, and absorbed Dark Power from more than a hundred people in Nutrient Tanks.

Im left the underground chamber after learning that explosions had killed more of his descendants, who served as his source of nourishment. As the Pirate Alliance attacked Mary Geoise, Whitebeard and the Red-Haired Pirates blockaded Marineford to prevent the Marines from reinforcing it, and the battle began.

• Im used Dark Contracts and Nutrient Tanks to drain his descendants’ strength and restore it so he could maintain his physical power.
• Sengoku learned from Admiral Munis that the Pirate Alliance had devastated Mary Geoise, while Munis defected to the Limitless Pirates.
• Whitebeard and the Red-Haired Pirates arrived at Marineford and warned Sengoku that they would stop the Marines from reinforcing Mary Geoise.
• Whitebeard and Shanks unleashed their Conqueror’s Haki, knocking out Marines on the outskirts as Sengoku and Garp protected the others.
• Whitebeard attacked Marineford with Air Quake, and Sengoku met him in the air with Great Buddha Impact before Whitebeard struck him down.

Whitebeard’s forces and the Red-Haired Pirates engaged the Marines at Marineford, with their strongest fighters holding off the Admirals and Garp. The chapter left Whitebeard facing Sengoku while the battles continued and the Marines remained unable to support Mary Geoise.

• Marco intercepted Kizaru’s lasers aimed at Whitebeard, then teamed up with Arellano to drive Kizaru into the ground.
• Marco and Arellano held Kizaru back while pretending to fight fiercely, keeping him occupied as the Marines retreated from the falling lasers.
• Beckman stopped Aokiji from attacking Whitebeard and began fighting him, dodging his ice attacks and grazing his cheek with a bullet.
• Garp charged at Shanks over Luffy’s decision to become a pirate, and the two clashed with Garp’s Bone Fist: Meteor and Shanks’ Divine Departure.
• Whitebeard stood before Sengoku and declared that the Marines would not be able to support Mary Geoise.

Esdeath fought Carlo Parada, who used the Chaos-Chaos Fruit, at the ruins of Mary Geoise. After Carlo wounded her with his ability to distort consciousness, Esdeath countered with a power that froze concepts, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Sengoku and Whitebeard clashed at Marineford while both sides held back to avoid destroying the battlefield.
• At the Mary Geoise ruins, Esdeath confronted Carlo over his past defeat by Li Yuan and his plan to kill her for revenge.
• Esdeath froze Carlo's Chaos World, then wounded him with a fast strike that his disrupted powers could not fully deflect.
• Carlo's frozen fists left him vulnerable as Esdeath pressed her attack, so he used Consciousness Chaos to make her misperceive his position and strike.
• Carlo landed a punch while Esdeath believed she was safe, but she recovered from his consciousness interference and unleashed Extreme Cold Freeze to counter his conceptual power.

Esdeath overwhelmed Carlo by freezing his consciousness, forcing him to escape through a spatial passage while she pursued him. Elsewhere, Nepal’s invisible sniper fire helped Doflamingo and Kumas pressure Erebus, and Bullet trapped Antonine in a powerful gravity field.

• Esdeath slowed Carlo’s consciousness, wounded him with a concealed blade, and drove him into a desperate retreat through a spatial passage; she tracked the exit and pursued him.
• Nepal used his invisibility and Observation Haki to threaten the World Government’s fighters while Doflamingo battled Erebus Oliver and vowed revenge on the Celestial Dragons.
• Nepal struck Erebus with a Seastone Bullet, and Kumas and Doflamingo exploited the opening to wound him with coordinated attacks.
• Bullet endured Antonine Corrado’s wind blades, then raised gravity in a thousand-meter radius, prompting Antonine to seek a way out of the affected area.

Bullet overwhelmed Antonine while Munis arrived at Mary Geoise and joined the Limitless Pirates against the World Government. Munis announced that the Marines stood with the pirates, and Doflamingo continued attacking Erebus as the battle raged.

• Bullet caught Antonine in his moving Gravity Zone, shattered his tornadoes with gravity-powered attacks, and repeatedly slammed him into the ground.
• Munis arrived at Mary Geoise, and Li Yuan told Golden Lion that the Marine Admiral had switched sides to fight the World Government.
• Esdeath and Bullet refused Munis’s offers of help, so he flew to assist Kumas and Doflamingo against Erebus.
• Munis struck Erebus with a scorching steam slash and declared that the Marines were fighting in the name of justice against the Celestial Dragons.
• Pirates cheered Munis’s announcement while the Celestial Dragons realized the Marines had joined their enemies, and Doflamingo attacked Erebus with Five-Colored String.

Gai Nie fought Saint Saturn while Kumas, Munis, and Doflamingo overwhelmed Erebus. Gai Nie exposed the Devil Fruit power in his sword, battered Saint Saturn with sharpness and magnetism, and stood over him after launching him to the ground.

• Kumas and Munis struck Erebus together, and Doflamingo joined their assault as Erebus struggled against the three pirates.
• Gai Nie mocked Saint Saturn and used the Second Generation Raikiri to distract him before cutting his spider leg and severing his neck with Ripping Wind Flowing Water.
• Saint Saturn’s Immortal Body began healing his wounds, while Gai Nie realized that killing him might require exhausting that regenerative power.
• Saint Saturn identified the Sharp-Sharp Fruit’s power in Ripping Wind Flowing Water and tried to counter Gai Nie with poison and a charge.
• Gai Nie stopped the poison with a Magnetic Barrier, then blasted Saint Saturn away with an Electromagnetic Cannon that sheared off his horns and wounded his shoulder.
• Gai Nie caught up to the fallen Saint Saturn and formed a hundred-meter Sky-Scraping Electromagnetic Giant Sword above him.

Gai Nie and his brothers continued to overpower the Five Elders as Im emerged and overwhelmed the battlefield with his Conqueror's Haki. Li Yuan and Golden Lion joined the pirates in resisting Im, while Shakky and Caesar prepared Pluton to strike Mary Geoise if needed.

• Gai Nie shattered Saint Saturn's horn and repeatedly injured him, driving him into a furious, reckless assault.
• Li Yuan's other sons suppressed their opponents among the Five Elders, including Rhodes, who overpowered Saint Lawend.
• Im emerged from Pangu Palace, judged the World Government decayed, and unleashed Conqueror's Haki that halted the fighting and subdued the pirates.
• The pirates combined their auras against Im, but Li Yuan and Golden Lion had to join them to hold their ground.
• Shakky ordered Caesar and the crew aboard Pluton to inspect the weapon and its targeting systems as they prepared for the battle's crucial moment.

While the battle raged at Mary Geoise and Marineford, Lazuli and Yadina supervised the Limitless Pirates’ backup plans and searched for Uranus. Im revealed himself as the World King, and Li Yuan and Golden Lion prepared to fight him under their agreement over who would claim the throne.

• Lazuli and Yumaz trusted Li Yuan to defeat Im while overseeing the Hades and carrying out his plan.
• Yadina and Soros confirmed that their Satellite’s signals worked despite Conqueror’s Haki, but they could not locate Uranus.
• At Marineford, Whitebeard refused to let Sengoku’s Marines reinforce the World Government, and the two fought as the pirate and Marine casualties mounted.
• The Five Elders called Im their World King, shocking the Celestial Dragons and pirates; Li Yuan then revealed Im’s name and eight-hundred-year reign.
• Im condemned the onlookers’ greed and focused on Li Yuan and Golden Lion, who had agreed that whoever defeated Im would become World King.
• Golden Lion stopped Li Yuan from attacking first and claimed the right to face Im before him.

Im defeated Golden Lion after breaking through his attacks with Dark Power and knocking him unconscious. Golden Lion’s crew rescued him while the battle at Mary Geoise continued, and Li Yuan prepared to face Im.

• Golden Lion used the Sea-Mountain Vortex and Sea-Mountain Seal to trap Im, but Im pierced through them with his Black Dragon Drill and badly wounded him.
• Golden Lion unleashed Heaven and Earth Funeral, destroying the surrounding space, but Im devoured the destruction with Dark Power and emerged unharmed.
• Im appeared above Golden Lion and struck him down, leaving him unconscious as he fell from the sky.
• The Flying Pirates caught Golden Lion and rushed to summon doctors because his injuries were critical.
• The Revolutionary Army expanded its fighting force on the Red Line as more members joined the battle against the Army.

Dragon resolved to defeat the army and join forces with the Pirate Alliance after sensing Im's power, while Bullet awakened his Mythical Zoan and killed Antonine Corrado with his Gravity Black Hole. The battle at Mary Geoise continued, with Bullet leaving Im to Li Yuan and both sides still fighting to the death.

• Dragon caught Finn Harris's attack, wounded him with Dragon Claw, and said he needed to defeat the army before witnessing the World Government's fall.
• Antonine Corrado mocked Bullet after sensing that Golden Lion had lost, but Bullet declared his faith in Li Yuan and awakened his Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit.
• Bullet trapped Antonine inside a Gravity Black Hole, overwhelmed him with its increasing gravity, and shattered his skull with a final punch.
• Bullet released the Gravity Black Hole, saw Im in the sky, and decided not to challenge Li Yuan's opponent.
• Nearby fighters learned Antonine had died, but neither the World Government forces nor the Pirate Alliance fled the battle.

Bullet joined Chinjao against Eduardo Sanchez while Li Yuan unveiled Sword Soul in his clash with Im, injuring Im’s soul for the first time in eight hundred years. The battle continued as Wei Zhuang exploited Saint Nusjuro’s distraction, and both sides remained convinced their leader would prevail.

• Bullet chose Chinjao’s opponent, Eduardo Sanchez, and joined Chinjao in cornering him.
• Li Yuan transformed and clashed with Im’s Dark Slash using his Limitless Sword Soul, Blood Moon Soaring.
• Li Yuan’s slash destroyed Im’s Dark Slash and injured Im’s soul, but Im shattered the Blood Moon Slash with a punch.
• The shockwaves from their clash stunned the fighters below and revealed Sword Soul as a realm beyond Sword Intent.
• Wei Zhuang took advantage of Saint Nusjuro’s distraction to cut him down, then explained that Li Yuan had reached Sword Soul.

Li Yuan battled Im above Mary Geoise, enduring his overwhelming Armament Haki while trying to learn its techniques. As their clashes shook the surrounding seas, Hawk Eyes decided to join the Pirate Alliance and head for the battlefield; Im grew increasingly unwilling to let the fight continue.

• Li Yuan and Im exchanged close-range blows, and Im repeatedly sent Li Yuan flying despite his Blood Armor and Armament Haki.
• Li Yuan discovered that his Limitless Sword Soul could damage Im, though Im’s Dark Devouring Power and Haki made him extremely difficult to hurt.
• Their escalating clashes caused powerful shockwaves that battered Mary Geoise, the Red Line, Marineford, and the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Rayleigh and Hawk Eyes sensed Li Yuan’s new swordsmanship from Sabaody, and Hawk Eyes resolved to go witness it and join the Pirate Alliance.
• Li Yuan studied Im’s combat techniques and Armament Haki while charging back into the fight after every blow, but Im grew frustrated that he had not defeated him.

Li Yuan strengthened himself with Life Return and resumed his battle with Im, whose Dark Power devoured Haki and blood. Meanwhile, Golden Lion accepted his defeat to Li Yuan and urged his doctors to treat him so he could rejoin the war before the Ancient Weapons were used.

• Im awakened his Dark Power, and Li Yuan enhanced his body with Life Return before charging back into battle.
• Im's Dark Flame began devouring the Seven Star Sword's Blood Power and Armament Haki, but Li Yuan used Blood Baptism to protect the blade and wounded Im's abdomen.
• Im struck Li Yuan hard enough to shatter his Blood Armor, then pursued him in fury after sensing that Li Yuan had stolen his blood.
• Golden Lion woke from his injuries, tried to leave the medical base, and was knocked down by the shockwaves from Li Yuan and Im's fight.
• Golden Lion accepted that Li Yuan had surpassed him and urged the doctors to treat his injuries so he could leave before the World Government fired its Ancient Weapons.

Li Yuan and Im clashed with Conqueror’s Haki, and Im proved stronger in Haki, forcing Li Yuan to rely on raw physical strength and deception. Li Yuan’s final sword draw cut through Im’s defenses but failed to sever his hardened ribs, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Li Yuan slashed Im’s chest with the Seven Star Sword, drawing blood and provoking Im to unleash his Dark Conqueror’s Haki.
• Li Yuan matched Im’s Haki burst by adding his Limitless Sword Soul, but Im later shattered Li Yuan’s Haki and sent him flying with a punch.
• Li Yuan used Life Return: Full-Body Limit Enhancement to block Im’s Haki-powered attack with sheer physical strength.
• Li Yuan used Observation Killing and Blood Shadow Clones to trick Im into striking false targets, then launched his Heaven-Slashing Sword Draw.
• Li Yuan cut through Im’s dark power and Armament Haki, exposing his ribs, but Im’s Haki-hardened bones resisted the Seven Star Sword.

Li Yuan and Im escalated their fight as Im’s Dark Power and Li Yuan’s awakened Vampire abilities countered each other. The chapter left them still battling, with Li Yuan using the Seven Star Sword’s endless Blood Sea to burn away Im’s corrosive darkness.

• Li Yuan wounded Im’s Divine Bone and soul with the Seven Star Sword, prompting Im to abandon his effort to fight without relying on Devil Fruit abilities.
• Im used Dark Chains and space-swallowing punches to attack Li Yuan, shattering his Blood Armor and crushing his chest, but Li Yuan rapidly healed.
• Li Yuan unleashed Ultrasonic Waves to disrupt Im’s spatial movement, then used sound blades against Im’s Dark Sphere as Im counterattacked with Dark Arrows.
• Im controlled the shattered Dark Arrows to trap Li Yuan in Dark Energy and corrode his Blood Armor after their next clash.
• Li Yuan used the Seven Star Sword’s stored blood to create Blood Flame and burn away the Dark Energy, while Im recognized his Vampire Mythical Zoan abilities.

Li Yuan and Im exchanged increasingly powerful attacks, with Im exploiting his Dark Power and Li Yuan revealing more of his awakened Vampire abilities. Li Yuan burned blood from the Seven Star Sword to resist Im’s Dark Erosion as their battle continued.

• Im angrily attacked Li Yuan with black chains, but Li Yuan evaded them and mocked him before Im caught him off guard with a devastating punch to the chest.
• Im pursued the rapidly healing Li Yuan and used his Dark Power to send a punch through devoured space, but Li Yuan dodged and countered with Ultrasonic Waves that disrupted Im’s teleportation.
• Li Yuan transformed his Ultrasonic Waves into blades that cut Im’s Dark Sphere, while Im’s Dark Arrows kept attacking even after Li Yuan shattered them.
• Im maneuvered Li Yuan into a mass of controlled Dark Energy and used Dark Erosion to corrode his Blood Armor.
• Li Yuan used Blood Burn to isolate and scorch the Dark Energy, drawing on the Seven Star Sword’s vast Blood Sea, while Im recognized his powers as belonging to the Mythical Zoan Vampire Form.

Esdeath used her awakened freezing power to kill Carlo, then turned to hunt more World Government fighters as the battle around Mary Geoise worsened. Hawkeye Mihawk arrived and chose the Pirate Alliance, joining the fight against the Celestial Dragons.

• Esdeath froze a five-hundred-meter area, stopped Carlo in time, and beheaded him, though the move consumed more than half her stamina.
• Esdeath sensed Li Yuan and Im battling in the sky, decided she could not help her father directly, and set out to kill the World Government's fighters.
• The World Government fighters panicked as they saw Carlo dead, while Saint Warcury tried to break away from Faraday and was blasted back by his lightning cannon.
• Hawkeye Mihawk arrived at the ruined Mary Geoise and was mistaken for a World Government ally by some Celestial Dragons.
• Mihawk slashed at Noel Hernandez, then joined Karu and Kano in attacking him as Gai Nie welcomed Mihawk to the Pirate Alliance.