Chapter Summaries

After the Rocks Pirates publicized their escape from Impel Down, Rocks led a massive pirate fleet to attack the Navy Fortresses in the New World. At G7, Whitebeard unleashed a tsunami that the Marines barely contained, and Li Yuan and Golden Lion rushed ahead to face their chosen opponents.

• The World News Economics Society published Rocks's evidence of the Impel Down breach, provoking the Five Elders to vow to kill Rocks.
• Pirates across the seas celebrated the breach, and many joined Rocks's fleet as it set out to destroy the New World Navy Fortresses.
• Rocks divided his forces among G5, G6, and G7, sending Li Yuan, Whitebeard, and Golden Lion to attack G7 while he and World stayed in reserve.
• At G7, Whitebeard struck the air with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and sent a massive tsunami toward the fortress.
• Sengoku, Carlo Grosso, and Kaveh City attacked the wave and reduced it before it struck G7, while Li Yuan and Golden Lion charged ahead to face their opponents.

Li Yuan fought Army General Tyrannosaurus Kaveh at G7 Fortress, using his swordsmanship and blood-devouring Seven Star Sword to steadily wear him down. After five days of battle, Li Yuan struck Kaveh’s chest and exposed his heart, but Kaveh escaped before he could be killed as the wider battle continued.

• Li Yuan pursued Kaveh to the Navy Fortress and wounded him with a powerful sword strike, then continued attacking as Kaveh shifted into his Human-Dragon Form.
• Li Yuan’s slashes broke through Kaveh’s defenses, drained his blood, and left him struggling to withstand the Seven Star Sword and its Bewitching Fire.
• Golden Lion overwhelmed Carlo while Whitebeard and Sengoku fought evenly, and pirates clashed with Marines throughout G7 Fortress.
• After five days, Li Yuan gathered the fortress’s slaughter and blood aura into a devastating attack that cut open Kaveh’s chest and damaged his heart.
• Kaveh fled the battlefield using Geppo before he hit the ground, unwilling to die for the Marines.

Li Yuan, Golden Lion, and Whitebeard destroyed G7 Fortress, then joined the prolonged battle at G6 Fortress. Rocks finally entered the fight and faced a coordinated assault from four Admiral-level opponents, leaving him at a growing disadvantage.

• Li Yuan slaughtered the Marines at G7 Fortress after Army General Tyrannosaurus Kaveh fled, and Sengoku ordered a retreat after Whitebeard struck him.
• Golden Lion defeated CP0 Deputy Chief Winged Dragon Carlo, and the pirates captured and destroyed G7 Fortress.
• Li Yuan, Golden Lion, and Whitebeard rested before heading to G6 Fortress, where they joined the battle against its defenders and Sengoku's reinforcements.
• Li Yuan fought Army General Hamadi Fisher while the G6 battle continued in repeated clashes and pauses for half a month.
• Rocks appeared over G6 Fortress and challenged the Navy, prompting Brac, Steel-Bone Kong, Army General Sora, and CP0 Chief White Ghost to surround and attack him.
• Rocks fought all four Admiral-level opponents but was driven back and forced to rely on his Armament Haki to endure their assault.

Rocks revealed the Dark-Dark Fruit, killed Fleet Admiral Brac and CP0 Chief White Ghost, and forced the Marines to retreat. As the battle turned, Li Yuan teamed up with Whitebeard and Golden Lion Shiki to strike Tyrannosaurus Kaveh with a massive finishing slash.

• Rocks nullified Brac’s Slow-Slow Fruit, killed him with the Shura Sword, and revealed that he had eaten the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Rocks’s darkness stripped White Ghost of his Hollow-Hollow Fruit powers, allowing Dead Shot Leonard to kill him with a sniper bullet.
• Rocks captured Army General Sora while Steel-Bone Kong escaped, and the Rocks Pirates drove the defeated Marines into retreat.
• Li Yuan attacked the retreating Tyrannosaurus Kaveh and coordinated with Whitebeard and Golden Lion Shiki to send him flying between their attacks.
• Li Yuan entered his five-second extreme reinforcement form and struck Kaveh with an enormous Cross Evil Light Slash as Kaveh tried to resist.

Li Yuan killed Army General Tyrannosaurus Kaveh and rejoined the Rocks Pirates as they destroyed G6 and G5 Fortresses. With Rocks's Dark-Dark Fruit making him difficult to counter, the Five Elders ordered the Navy to hold the pirates back while Garp demanded a chance to fight Rocks and avenge Fleet Admiral Brac.

• Li Yuan struck Tyrannosaurus Kaveh with two Cross Evil Light Slashes, knocked him into the sea, and beheaded him after he reverted to human form.
• Li Yuan returned to the battle and slaughtered Navy and Army soldiers to fill the Seven Star Sword's third Blood Slot while the pirates routed the retreating forces.
• Rocks killed the Celestial Dragons' Admiral-level combatant, captured G6 Fortress, and ordered the Rocks Pirates to destroy G5 Fortress and continue toward G4.
• The Five Elders discussed the threat of Rocks's Dark-Dark Fruit and rejected using the National Treasure, deciding instead to request more non-Devil Fruit-using reinforcements.
• Saint Saturn appointed Steel-Bone Kong acting Fleet Admiral and ordered him to defend the remaining fortresses and hold Rocks back.
• Garp asked to fight Rocks and avenge Brac, but Steel-Bone Kong refused and ordered him to stay.

The Rocks Pirates’ attack on G4 Fortress became a stalemate as the World Government fielded enough Admiral-level fighters to hold them off. At a officers’ meeting, Li Yuan said that winning the war did not require killing more enemy Admirals and hinted that he had another approach.

• Kong ordered Garp to stay away from Rocks, and Garp reluctantly obeyed.
• The World News Economics Society reported the Rocks Pirates’ capture of G5, G6, and G7 and the death of Fleet Admiral Brac, alarming people around the world.
• Rocks led the pirates in an assault on G4 Fortress, but the Navy and World Government’s forces fought defensively and prevented the pirates from gaining an advantage.
• After more than half a month of stalemate, Rocks gathered his officers and asked how they could break it.
• Li Yuan distinguished killing Admiral-level enemies from winning the war and said he had no solution to the former but could suggest other ways to achieve the latter.

Li Yuan proposed destroying the Navy’s fortress islands instead of trying to defeat its strongest fighters, helping the Rocks Pirates win the war and drive the Navy from most of the New World. The pirates celebrated their victory as the World Government faced public humiliation, while Li Yuan reflected on how the war had strengthened him.

• Li Yuan convinced Rocks to target the Navy’s fortress islands, and the Rocks Pirates attacked G4 Fortress by destroying its submerged foundations and striking the island together.
• Whitebeard’s Sea Quake swept away nearly everyone who had fallen from G4, and Steel-Bone Kong ordered the Navy to retreat toward G3 Fortress.
• The Rocks Pirates destroyed G3 and G2 Fortresses, then Rocks declared victory and ended the campaign without attacking the final G1 Fortress.
• The World News Economics Society published reports celebrating the pirates’ victory, prompting the Five Elders to worry about the World Government’s reputation and the safety of the Celestial Gold.
• Li Yuan regretted that the war had ended but explained that he had helped the Rocks Pirates win decisively to protect the pirates’ standing and his own interests.

Li Yuan traveled to Gravity Island with Charlotte Linlin, who turned the enormous Gravity Stone into a Homie he named Yinwa in exchange for the Flavor-Flavor Fruit. After testing Yinwa’s ability to increase his weight and Gravity for training, Li Yuan returned to Hachinosu as piracy surged across the seas and Steel-Bone Kong became Fleet Admiral.

• Li Yuan found Gravity Island on the sea chart and persuaded Charlotte Linlin to make a Homie from its Gravity Stone in exchange for the Flavor-Flavor Fruit.
• Charlotte Linlin infused the giant stone with 200 units of soul power, and Li Yuan gave it life and named it Yinwa.
• Li Yuan tested Yinwa’s ability to apply its weight and Gravity to him, using the pressure to train.
• Li Yuan returned to Hachinosu with Yinwa after Charlotte Linlin left with the Devil Fruit.
• Piracy spread through the Four Seas, the first half of the Grand Line, and the New World after the Marines suffered heavy losses.
• Steel-Bone Kong officially assumed the Fleet Admiral position at Marineford and announced it to the world.

Li Yuan returned to Hachinosu Island, trained for two months, and joined Whitebeard and Golden Lion on the way to a Rocks Pirates meeting. Rocks assigned the officers Celestial Gold transport routes to raid, while the story left five routes undisclosed.

• Steel-Bone Kong asked the Five Elders for military funding, but they told him to wait until the Celestial Gold arrived.
• Li Yuan returned to Hachinosu Island, told Mari and Kano to keep training, then spent two months practicing with Yinwa's Gravity on a nearby island.
• Li Yuan met Whitebeard, who introduced Marco as his adopted son, and joked with Whitebeard and Golden Lion about having sons until Charlotte Linlin offered to have children with them.
• At the meeting, Li Yuan saw the Rocks Pirates officers divided into three groups, and Rocks handed out charts for raids on twenty Celestial Gold transport routes.
• Rocks kept the routes for the remaining five World Government Affiliated Nations to himself.

Li Yuan, Golden Lion, Whitebeard, and Charlotte Linlin intercepted a World Government shipment and seized Hatfield Kingdom’s Celestial Gold. After the four Rocks Pirates officers defeated its CP0 guards, the World Government learned of the loss and ordered the shipment to switch to its second route.

• Li Yuan noticed the sea charts assigned to Rocks Pirates officers covered nearby routes and persuaded Golden Lion, Whitebeard, and Charlotte Linlin to join forces.
• The four Rocks Pirates officers found the World Government ship carrying Hatfield Kingdom’s Celestial Gold after it left Hatfield’s waters.
• Li Yuan knocked out the ship’s crew with Conqueror’s Haki and killed the two CP0 agents who tried to destroy the shipment.
• Golden Lion used his power to carry off the ship and its Celestial Gold after the CP0 agents fell into the sea.
• Saint Nusjuro learned the shipment had been seized and ordered CP0 to abandon its original navigation plan and take the second route.

The Rocks Pirates plundered most of the World Government’s Celestial Gold, and Li Yuan and three fellow pirates secretly divided eight Devil Fruits. Li Yuan then traveled to Daughter Country to visit Yadina and meet his daughters, Akame and Esdeath.

• The Rocks Pirates seized twenty of the twenty-five Celestial Gold shipments, leaving the World Government to consider taking funds from the Celestial Dragons.
• Li Yuan, Golden Lion, Whitebeard, and Charlotte Linlin agreed to keep eight Devil Fruits from the spoils and divided them among themselves.
• Li Yuan identified his Devil Fruits as the Invisibility Fruit and the Ox-Ox Fruit, Red-Eyed Ox Form, then told Kano and Mari he would leave Hachinosu for a while.
• Li Yuan traveled to Daughter Country and arrived at Yadina’s residence, where he introduced himself to Akame and Esdeath as their father.
• Yadina appeared and confirmed to Akame and Esdeath that Li Yuan was their father.

Li Yuan returned to Nine Snake Island, welcomed his son Andre Faraday, and later rejoined the Rocks Pirates as their power grew across the New World. Rocks set the fleet on a secret raid against wealthy World Government Affiliated Nations in the Four Seas, leaving the Marines and World Government scrambling to learn their destination.

• Li Yuan reunited with Yadina and their children on Nine Snake Island, then stayed until Yadina gave birth to a son whom he named Andre Faraday.
• Li Yuan remained on Nine Snake Island for another month before sailing back to Hachinosu Island as the Rocks Pirates expanded their territories and the Marines rebuilt their forces.
• In 1483, Rocks told his officers that the Rocks Pirates would raid wealthy World Government Affiliated Nations in the Four Seas rather than seize Celestial Gold.
• Steel-Bone Kong ordered Sengoku, Garp, Zephyr, and other Marine forces to prepare after the fleet appeared headed toward the Sisley Kingdom.
• Golden Lion lifted more than fifty Rocks Pirates ships into the air and the officers destroyed the fleet's Den Den Mushi, while Saint Saturn ordered the CP Department to discover their destination.

Golden Lion brought the Rocks Pirates fleet to the West Blue to raid World Government Affiliated Nations, prompting the Five Elders to recall forces while considering how to exploit the crisis. At the Alex Kingdom, Li Yuan overwhelmed its defenders and began fighting Great Swordsman Elizabeth Roosevelt.

• Rocks laid out raid routes for the Rocks Pirates and ordered the fleets to rendezvous at the Ivory Kingdom within half a month.
• Golden Lion descended with the fleet near the Fepler Kingdom, and the Five Elders ordered Navy forces recalled to the West Blue while deciding to use the raids as leverage against affiliated nations.
• Li Yuan arrived at the Alex Kingdom, where Elizabeth Roosevelt and a force of soldiers prepared to stop his fleet.
• Li Yuan's Conqueror's Haki knocked down nearly all the defenders, leaving only ten soldiers standing, and he challenged Roosevelt to name himself.
• Li Yuan struck Roosevelt back repeatedly with the Seven Star Sword, but Roosevelt finally spotted the trace of a sword strike and launched a counterattack.

Li Yuan defeated the Great Swordsman Roosevelt and spared him, then forced Queen Elizabeth Air to secretly place the Alex Kingdom under his command. He took Air and her royal sword to the kingdom’s treasury, while planning to consolidate control over the country.

• Li Yuan exposed Roosevelt’s feint, overwhelmed him in their duel, and defeated him with his Limitless: Evil Dragon Sky Severing Slash.
• Li Yuan ordered Mari and Kano to seize the nobles’ treasure, spare the commoners, and keep Roosevelt alive and detained.
• Li Yuan arrived at the palace, knocked out its ministers with Conqueror’s Haki, and demanded that Air provide the royal and noble treasures, Devil Fruits, and swordsmanship legacy and secretly serve him.
• Air accepted Li Yuan’s proposal to protect the kingdom after he threatened to replace or kill her, and Li Yuan revealed he knew about the hidden treasure she had planned to conceal.
• Li Yuan warned Air against further schemes, took her royal sword, and brought her to the kingdom’s treasury.

Li Yuan subdued the Supreme Grade Sword Futsu-no-Mitama in the Alex Kingdom and finished securing its rule for Air while his crew looted the kingdom. The Rocks Pirates continued raiding the West Blue, and Saint Saturn learned that seventeen World Government Affiliated Nations had been plundered in ten days.

• Li Yuan opened the Stone Coffin and used his Conqueror’s Haki and three Sword Intents to subdue Futsu-no-Mitama, while the Seven Star Sword showed jealousy.
• Li Yuan left the hidden treasury’s other treasures in place, took its Devil Fruits, and warned Air to guard the vault as he secured her rule over the Alex Kingdom.
• Kano, Mari, and the pirates looted the kingdom, and Li Yuan departed with Air’s Vivre Card and the treasure they had loaded.
• Li Yuan continued raiding nations across the West Blue, sending pirates who bore him ill will to the front lines and keeping his allies away from danger.
• Saint Saturn reported that the Rocks Pirates had raided seventeen World Government Affiliated Nations in ten days.

Li Yuan recruited Yumaz Beli, whose Fusion Fruit could combine ores but left him exhausted, as the Rocks Pirates gathered at Ivory Kingdom and escaped the Marines. After Rocks ordered his officers to hand over half their plunder and return in two months for the Celestial Gold, the Roger Pirates discussed luring him into an ambush.

• Kano brought Yumaz Beli to Li Yuan, and Yumaz demonstrated that his Fusion Fruit could merge two knives before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Li Yuan ordered Kano to care for Yumaz and build up his stamina, while imagining the powerful swords Yumaz might eventually fuse.
• Whitebeard, Charlotte Linlin, Golden Lion, and John returned to Ivory Kingdom, and Rocks led the assembled officers out of West Blue with Golden Lion lifting their ships into the sky.
• The Five Elders learned the Rocks Pirates had escaped, and newspapers reported their West Blue raid and passage across the Calm Belt.
• Rayleigh and Roger discussed using the Roger Pirates’ training and an ambush to confront Rocks, while Rocks demanded half the officers’ plunder and ordered them to return in two months for the New World’s Celestial Gold.

In Sea Garden Calender 1484, Rocks discovered his treasure vault had been robbed and learned that the Celestial Dragons held a grand ceremony at God Valley, where the Azure Dragon Fruit was among the prizes. Rocks gathered his officers to attack God Valley, while Li Yuan prepared to join the coming conflict after mastering Conqueror's Haki Infusion.

• John welcomed the chance to seize more Celestial Gold, and Rocks's officers later intercepted twelve shipments despite the World Government's precautions.
• Li Yuan identified eight Devil Fruits, gave Shakky the Mirror-Mirror Fruit, and she used it to create a Mirror World.
• Rocks returned to Hachinosu Island, found several important treasures missing, and ordered a secret investigation.
• The Five Elders discussed the Celestial Dragons' grand ceremony at God Valley, including the Azure Dragon Fruit and the resources that would be awarded.
• Roger decided the Roger Pirates would go to God Valley and use the Marines' fight against Rocks's officers to help them confront Rocks.
• After learning of the ceremony and the Azure Dragon Fruit, Rocks summoned his officers to Hachinosu Island for a God-Slaying War, while Li Yuan readied himself for the battle.

After returning to Hachinosu Island, Li Yuan, Golden Lion, Whitebeard, and Charlotte Linlin agreed to leave the Rocks Pirates, but Rocks postponed their departure until after an operation to raid God Valley. The chapter ends with the Rocks Pirates preparing to sail for the Celestial Dragons’ treasure and Devil Fruits while Saint Warcury learns of their departure.

• Golden Lion proposed that he, Li Yuan, Whitebeard, and Charlotte Linlin leave the Rocks Pirates together, and all three agreed.
• At the officers’ meeting, Golden Lion formally told Rocks that the four intended to leave, but their combined Conqueror’s Haki matched Rocks’s and forced him to contain his anger.
• Rocks asked them to wait until after an operation and revealed that the Celestial Dragons’ Kingdom Massacre Contest in God Valley offered vast treasure and more than a hundred Devil Fruits.
• Rocks ordered the officers to gather their men and prepare to raid God Valley, and Golden Lion agreed to carry the fleet across the Calm Belt.
• Saint Warcury learned that the Rocks Pirates had gathered their officers and sent a large fleet from Hachinosu Island.

The Rocks Pirates attacked God Valley during the Celestial Dragons’ hunting competition, forcing the World Government and Navy to mobilize. As the island’s residents faced slaughter and the Marines struggled to respond, Saint Saturn ordered the ceremony ended and the Celestial Dragons evacuated.

• Ivankov told Kuma that the island’s residents needed to resist the Celestial Dragons and steal Devil Fruit prizes to escape, and Kuma agreed to follow him.
• Rear Admiral Alex challenged the Navy’s orders to surround God Valley and ignore civilians’ cries for help, but Vice Admiral Kos warned him that disobedience could endanger his family.
• Golden Lion brought the Rocks Pirates’ ships down onto the sea, and Rocks led the assault as the pirates bombarded the Navy warships and charged onto God Valley.
• The Five Elders ordered reinforcements sent to God Valley, while Sengoku lied to Garp that the Roger Pirates were there to persuade him to go.
• Saint Saturn ended the ceremony and ordered the Celestial Dragons evacuated, while Saint Garling led the God’s Knights to protect them.

The Rocks Pirates attacked God Valley, where Rocks fought Garp and Saint Saturn while Li Yuan challenged God's Knight Saint Horun. Li Yuan crushed Horun with a powerful strike, but Horun rose again to continue the fight.

• Rocks and the officers entered God Valley, ignored the scattered treasure, and confronted Saint Saturn, Garp, Saint Garling, and the forces guarding the Celestial Dragons.
• Li Yuan, Golden Lion, and Whitebeard chose God's Knights as their opponents, while World and Brandon moved to fight the two CP0 Deputy Chiefs.
• Rocks rejected Garp's refusal to join him and overwhelmed Garp and Saint Saturn, suppressing Saturn's Devil Fruit with the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Li Yuan defeated Saint Horun's first attack with a crescent slash, then slammed his Steel Mammoth form into a crater with a Conqueror's Haki-coated strike.
• Saint Horun returned to Human-Beast Form, took up his Great Grade Sword Earth Annihilation, and prepared to fight Li Yuan again.