Chapter Summaries

Rocks ordered the Rocks Pirates to launch a plundering campaign, and Li Yuan set sail with his crew after months of training. The World Government and Marines mobilized to track the pirates and protect nations along their route, setting the stage for a major confrontation.

• Rocks told the officers to take their fleets and keep thirty percent of the treasure they plundered, then sent the Rocks Pirates out to raid.
• Li Yuan gathered his roughly two hundred subordinates, including Mari, and sailed with the Rocks Pirates.
• Saint Peter, Saint Nusjuro, and Saint Saturn discussed sending CP0 to target Li Yuan while the Marines confronted the Rocks Pirates.
• Fleet Admiral Brac dispatched Steel-Bone Kong and requested World Government support, and Saint Warcury sent Army General Sora Duer.
• Brac ordered Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr to join the New World mission and left Tsuru in charge of coordinating Marine Headquarters affairs.
• After the Rocks Pirates departed, nations along their route requested protection, and New World Marines mobilized to support them.

The Rocks Pirates attacked the Vixga Kingdom to force the New World kingdoms to submit, prompting the World Government to order the Marines to intervene. The kingdom was quickly overwhelmed as Li Yuan joined the plunder while Whitebeard stayed aboard the ship.

• Rocks redirected the fleet toward Vixga after evading Marine and World Government scouts, intending to make an example of kingdoms that had refused to submit.
• The Rocks Pirates appeared in Vixga waters, and the King ordered messages sent to the Marines and World Government while rallying the kingdom’s soldiers.
• Saint Saturn and the Five Elders treated the attack as a declaration of war and agreed to have the Marines test the pirates’ strength before planning their defeat.
• Rocks ordered the plunder of Vixga, and his officers’ Conqueror’s Haki and the pirates’ assault crushed the kingdom’s forces.
• Whitebeard refused to join the attack and stayed behind to guard the ship, while Li Yuan went ashore to plunder.

Li Yuan led his men to plunder the Vixga Kingdom’s noble district, where he found a Dice-Dice Fruit and gave it to Kano. The chapter ended with Kano swallowing the fruit despite its awful taste.

• Li Yuan avoided competing with Rocks and the other officers at the royal palace and took his men to loot the nobles’ district instead.
• Li Yuan used Conqueror’s Haki to knock out thousands of people in the district, allowing his men to search for treasure.
• Li Yuan found Duke Satan’s chests and took the Dice-Dice Fruit, deciding it would help strengthen a loyal subordinate.
• Li Yuan offered the Dice-Dice Fruit to Kano, who eagerly accepted it.
• Kano ate the entire Devil Fruit after Li Yuan warned him not to spit it out.

Li Yuan led the Rocks Pirates’ fleet to plunder Pano Kingdom and used Conqueror’s Haki to knock out its defending army. He battled General Pami, whose swordsmanship he wanted to test, and their fight continued across the shattered battlefield.

• Li Yuan led nine ships toward Pano Kingdom, where General Pami assembled more than thirty thousand soldiers to defend the kingdom.
• Li Yuan unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, knocking out the soldiers, while Pami and his deputy struggled against the pressure.
• Li Yuan confronted Pami and clashed with him, overpowering his defenses and sending him crashing into the city wall.
• Pami charged again with an all-out attack, and Li Yuan met him sword to sword to test Pami’s battlefield Slaughter Sword.

Li Yuan defeated Pami and led his pirates in a brutal raid on Pano Kingdom. He forced King of Pano to take him to the royal treasury, uncovered a hidden vault, and killed the king after claiming its treasure.

• Zhanfeng used the Limitless: Void-Breaking Sword Art to kill Pami, and Li Yuan refused Pami’s final request.
• Li Yuan ordered his pirates to loot Pano Kingdom while he headed for the royal palace.
• Li Yuan overwhelmed the palace guards with Conqueror’s Haki and threatened King of Pano until the king agreed to show him the treasury.
• Li Yuan found little treasure in the royal treasury, suspected King of Pano was hiding more, and cut through a thick wall to reveal the Secret Treasury.
• Li Yuan killed King of Pano after discovering the hidden treasure and explained that the king’s eyes and emotions had given it away.

Li Yuan’s crew plundered Pano Kingdom’s royal treasury and joined the Rocks Pirates’ main force as the Navy arrived. The battle began with heavy losses for the Navy, and Rocks clashed with Brac, Steel Bone, and Sora Duer.

• Li Yuan found a Taste-Taste Fruit in Pano Kingdom’s treasury, took it, and ordered his crew to move the treasure and reserve thirty percent for the Rocks Pirates.
• Li Yuan led his fleet to rendezvous with the Rocks Pirates, where Golden Lion showed off his Sakura Ten sword beside Li Yuan’s Zhanfeng.
• Li Yuan spotted the approaching Navy warships, and the gathered Rocks Pirates officers prepared to fight on the island rather than risk their treasure at sea.
• Rocks ordered the officers to attack the Navy ships, and the Navy’s senior fighters intercepted the strikes, but two warships were sunk in the first exchange.
• Brac led Steel Bone and Sora Duer against Rocks, who charged into the sky and fought all three powerful Navy commanders without being suppressed.

Li Yuan fought and killed Vice Admiral Skina after the Navy underestimated his strength, then joined the battlefield and began cutting down Navy soldiers. The battle continued as the Rocks Pirates’ strongest fighters faced the Navy’s top combatants.

• Rocks fought Steel-Bone Kong and two other Admiral-level experts, while Whitebeard, Golden Lion, and Charlotte Linlin engaged Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr.
• The Navy sent Vice Admiral Skina to intercept Li Yuan, who used a fast sword strike to wound him and kept him on the defensive.
• Li Yuan pursued Skina as he tried to flee and killed him with a sword thrust through his hands and throat.
• Li Yuan charged into the battlefield, killed a Rear Admiral with a sweeping slash, and continued cutting down Navy soldiers.

Li Yuan fought former Marine Admiral Gokai, using the battle to sharpen his swordsmanship while his physical strength forced the aging Great Swordsman onto the defensive. The day-long clash between the Rocks Pirates and the Marines continued, with the pirates retaining the advantage as both sides suffered heavy losses.

• Gokai intervened to stop Li Yuan, and the two clashed with powerful sword slashes.
• Li Yuan studied Gokai's Sword Intent and realized that comprehending his own Sword Intent would let him become a Great Swordsman.
• Li Yuan traded injuries with Gokai, using his superior physique to keep attacking and improve his combat skills.
• Ochoku and the other Rocks Pirates officers beat back the Marine Vice Admirals, while Kano used his Dice-Dice Fruit to protect his junior brothers.
• The battle continued for a day, leaving around fifteen thousand of the original twenty thousand combatants alive, with the pirates still holding the advantage.

Li Yuan defeated former Marine Admiral Gokai as the Rocks Pirates overwhelmed the Marines and forced them to retreat. The pirates returned to Hachinosu Island victorious, while Morgans brought photographs of their raid to the World Economic News Agency, leaving Mensa to weigh the danger of publishing them.

• Li Yuan enhanced his limbs and gained the upper hand against Gokai, then blocked Gokai’s powerful Sword Intent attack with Crescent Moon Skyward Strike.
• Ochoku helped John and the others defeat the Marine Vice Admirals, and Brac ordered the Marines to retreat after Rocks wounded him.
• Li Yuan struck Gokai across the chest during the retreat, leaving him severely wounded and able to claim he must retire.
• Rocks declared victory, and Li Yuan learned that ten of his recruits had died while all his junior brothers had survived.
• Rocks ordered the pirates back to Hachinosu Island, and Morgans showed Mensa photographs of their raid and victory over the Marines.

After the Rocks Pirates’ victories spread across the world, the World Government and Marines considered how to counter them. The World Government planned a massive operation against Rocks, while the Marines identified the still-growing Li Yuan as their best target.

• Mensa took Morgans away from the island and ordered his subordinates to publish reports about the Rocks Pirates’ attacks and victories.
• The Five Elders learned that Mensa had escaped and discussed the threat the Rocks Pirates posed to the World Government and its affiliated nations.
• Saint Warcury proposed killing Rocks to collapse the crew, and Saint Mars warned that the operation would require overwhelming forces.
• Saint Saturn ordered an Army General, the Army Marshal, a commander-in-chief, and a deputy commander-in-chief to help plan an attack alongside the Marines.
• At Marine Headquarters, Brac and Steel-Bone Kong reviewed the Marines’ heavy losses and concluded that their high-end combat power had been insufficient.
• Brac identified Li Yuan as the best target for a successful strike because he was still young and had yet to reach his full potential.

The Marines issued bounties for the Rocks Pirates after their victory over the Marines, while the Roger Pirates avoided them. Back at Hachinosu, Li Yuan asked Golden Lion Shiki to spar with him, offering him a favor in return.

• Steel-Bone Kong volunteered to capture Li Yuan if he left the Rocks Pirates, and the Marines finalized and distributed bounties for the crew.
• Rayleigh and Roger discussed the Rocks Pirates’ strength and brutality, then Roger started a party instead of confronting them.
• Rocks and the crew celebrated their return to Hachinosu Island.
• Whitebeard praised Li Yuan for defeating Gokai, and Golden Lion Shiki said he had become a Great Swordsman after fighting Garp.
• Li Yuan asked Shiki to spar six times, once every ten days, and offered to owe him a favor; Shiki accepted.

After a drunken banquet with Whitebeard and Golden Lion, Li Yuan tempered his body by standing in a fire, then challenged Golden Lion to a spar. Their fight began with Li Yuan struggling against Golden Lion’s overwhelming swordsmanship and Haki.

• Whitebeard offered to spar with Li Yuan in exchange for a favor, and Li Yuan accepted; Golden Lion also promised to spar with him once he became a Great Swordsman.
• After drinking himself thoroughly drunk, Li Yuan woke beside Shakky and Lazuli and left them to rest.
• Li Yuan ordered Karu to build a fire and stood in it for three hours to temper his skin with the fourth level of the Sword God Body Tempering Technique.
• Li Yuan met Golden Lion on an uninhabited island and was blasted back by a three-hundred-meter slash infused with advanced Armament Haki.
• Li Yuan charged Golden Lion and attacked, but Golden Lion blocked his sword and countered toward his heart as they exchanged more than a dozen moves.

Li Yuan improved under three months of brutal training and battles with Golden Lion Shiki, awakening the Observation Haki talent Mind Reading but remaining a Swordmaster. At the Rocks Pirates’ crowded recruitment event, Rocks announced that only the last twenty thousand pirates standing after killing each other could join.

• Li Yuan fought Golden Lion Shiki for three days and continued training under his pressure, gaining strength but failing to reach Great Swordsman.
• Li Yuan advanced his Observation Haki to an advanced level and awakened Mind Reading, which let him sense Shiki’s techniques, targets, and short-term thoughts.
• Mari told Li Yuan that the Rocks Pirates’ recruitment event was beginning, and he attended because officers were required to appear.
• Rocks and the officers intimidated the gathered pirates with their Conqueror’s Haki as the recruitment event drew at least thirty thousand hopefuls.
• Rocks ordered the pirates to kill one another, declaring that only the final twenty thousand survivors could join the Rocks Pirates.

The Rocks Pirates kept two-thirds of the Recruitment Meeting’s contestants, then forced the twenty thousand survivors to earn officer rank by challenging existing officers. Li Yuan killed more than two hundred challengers with one sweeping sword attack.

• Rocks relaxed the recruitment rules as the Rocks Pirates prepared for an approaching war, and more than thirty thousand pirates fought for a place in the crew.
• After three hours, twenty thousand survivors remained, and Rocks announced that recruits could become officers by defeating an officer or fighting one to a draw.
• More than two hundred New Pirates challenged Li Yuan, while around a hundred chose John.
• Li Yuan told his challengers to attack together, then killed them all with his Limitless: Waltz Slash.

Li Yuan recruited four hundred pirates into his ranks and learned the location of Asca Island, where he planned to seek the Seven Star Sword. After discovering that Shakky and Lazuli were pregnant, he told Shakky they would travel with him, while the chapter ended with an author’s request for readers’ opinions about Oden and Toki.

• Li Yuan killed over two hundred pirates with one Round Dance Slash, while John also defeated his challengers.
• Rocks opened recruitment, and John, Shiki, and the other cadres gathered followers; Li Yuan chose four hundred pirates, while Whitebeard recruited none.
• Rocks held a banquet, and Shakky later brought Li Yuan the location of Asca Island.
• Li Yuan said he would set out for Asca Island to claim the Seven Star Sword despite Shakky’s concerns about its curse.
• Li Yuan learned that Shakky and Lazuli were pregnant and told Shakky that she and Lazuli would accompany him.

Li Yuan left Hachinosu Island with Shakky and his companions, planning to find the Seven Star Sword and recruit Douglas Bullet. After reaching the Land of Endless War, he was met by its anxious military forces.

• Li Yuan told Rocks he was leaving to seek an opportunity to become a Great Swordsman, then secretly departed Hachinosu Island with Kano, Shakky, Lazuli, and the others.
• Shakky contacted her former associates and arranged for a giant python to guide their ship through the Calm Belt, while Li Yuan agreed to intimidate the Sea Kings.
• Li Yuan decided to visit the Land of Endless War to recruit Douglas Bullet, whom he considered a promising future crew member.
• Li Yuan's ship reached the Land of Endless War, where coastal soldiers recognized the Rocks Pirates' flag and alerted Captain Douglas and General Abu Clayton.
• General Abu Clayton gathered a large force at the port as Li Yuan's pirate ship approached.

Li Yuan visited the Land of Endless War to replenish supplies and recruit boy soldiers, then identified Number 9 as the future Douglas Bullet. After Number 9 endured Li Yuan’s killing intent, Li Yuan named him Douglas Bullet and took him from the kingdom’s army as his subordinate.

• General Abu Clayton welcomed Li Yuan and agreed to provide supplies after Li Yuan said he had come to resupply and recruit boy soldiers.
• Li Yuan ordered Douglas Rayne to gather the boy soldiers, and Douglas brought all twenty-six of them to the port.
• Li Yuan recognized the boy designated Number 9 as the future Bullet and tested the soldiers with his killing intent.
• Number 9 alone remained standing, so Li Yuan asked his name and named him Douglas Bullet after his superior, Douglas Rayne.
• General Abu Clayton declared that Douglas Bullet was no longer a kingdom soldier and was now Li Yuan’s subordinate.

Li Yuan accepted the Land of Endless War’s offer to destroy its four rival kingdoms in exchange for all its Devil Fruits, one-third of its treasure, and the enemies’ spoils. He left alone to attack the first kingdom, while General Abu Clayton prepared troops to gather the spoils.

• Li Yuan selected the boy soldiers who remained standing after his killing intent spread and ordered them to serve as deckhands on his ship.
• Minister Benick Monson proposed hiring Li Yuan to defeat the four rival kingdoms, and King Herbert Abbas approved the plan despite most ministers’ fears.
• Li Yuan set his fee as all the Land of Endless War’s Devil Fruits and one-third of its treasure, with the four kingdoms’ treasure going to him as spoils.
• Li Yuan told General Abu Clayton that he would destroy the four kingdoms alone and asked the army only to collect the spoils.
• Li Yuan used Geppo to cross the sea toward another kingdom and deliberately slowed down as he approached its royal palace.

Li Yuan plundered the Land of Endless War, killed its king, and knocked out more than a hundred thousand soldiers with his Conqueror's Haki before moving on to another kingdom. The World Government and Marines began planning to capture him, while General Abu Clayton arrived to find the kingdom’s soldiers unconscious.

• Li Yuan used his Mind Reading Observation Haki to learn the treasure vault’s location, then killed the king.
• Li Yuan unleashed his Conqueror's Haki and knocked out more than a hundred thousand soldiers gathered around the palace.
• Agents from the World Government, the Dark World, and other kingdoms fled as Li Yuan disrupted their profits from the war.
• Li Yuan broke into the treasure vault, took a banana-shaped Devil Fruit, and headed for another kingdom.
• Saints Saturn, Nusjuro, and Warcury agreed to send CP0 Deputy Chief Carlo Grosso and the Marines after Li Yuan, while Marshal Brac ordered Steel-Bone Kong to capture him.
• General Abu Clayton arrived at the kingdom and found its soldiers unconscious from Li Yuan’s Conqueror's Haki.

Li Yuan finished looting the four kingdoms hostile to the Land of Endless War and went to collect the kingdom’s promised reward. After killing nobles who proposed withholding payment, he secured the full reward plus an additional twenty percent, which was delivered to his ship.

• Li Yuan swept through four kingdoms, seized their Devil Fruits, and had General Abu Clayton oversee the collection of treasure worth at least six billion berries.
• Minister Benick Monson told King Herbert Abbas that the four hostile kingdoms had been destroyed and their treasure delivered to Li Yuan.
• Some nobles suggested withholding or reducing Li Yuan’s promised reward, but King Herbert Abbas ordered that every Berry be paid.
• Li Yuan appeared in the palace, killed the guards and nobles who had disturbed him, and gave the king two hours to deliver his reward.
• King Herbert Abbas promised the full reward plus an additional twenty percent, mobilized the kingdom to gather it, and had it delivered to Li Yuan’s ship.