Chapter Summaries

Gato was killed after Zabuza helped him flee the Imperial Capital, while Qingyan Hyuga concealed her own role in the corruption scandal. She confronted her son Shimizu Hyuga, whose resentment toward the Branch Family left their conflict unresolved.

• A hidden figure ordered Gato to erase their connection to the corruption scandal, and Gato fled the Imperial Capital with Zabuza and Haku.
• Zabuza killed Gato on the way to an abandoned village, then reported to Qingyan Hyuga that he had completed her task and destroyed the records.
• Qingyan Hyuga dismissed Zabuza and refused an offer to kill him, reflecting on how jealousy between the Hyuga Main and Branch Families had led her son into corruption.
• Shimizu Hyuga defended his corruption by arguing that the Main Family needed the money to maintain its household and status.
• Qingyan Hyuga shouted at Shimizu to stop when he accused her of letting the Branch Family rise above the Main Family.

The Empire's Supervision Department launched a crackdown on officials tied to Gato's scheme and captured Zabuza and Haku. In the Underworld, Madara received Hane's order to open the Gates of Hell in three days, leaving him furious but forced to obey.

• Qingyan Hyuga scolded Shimizu Hyuga for his part in the scandal and ordered him to deal with his friends.
• The Aburame clan head learned that Gato was dead and that Zabuza was implicated, then sent elite ninjas to intercept him.
• Chika delivered Hane's imperial decree ordering Madara to open the Gates of Hell in three days, and Madara reluctantly accepted.
• The Empire's operation captain dispelled Zabuza's mist, subdued him, and had him arrested with chakra-suppressing restraints.
• A Supervision Department ninja arrested Haku at his academy, and Haku confessed and agreed to explain what had happened.

After Zabuza’s evidence triggered the Empire’s first large-scale anti-corruption purge, officials across the country were arrested, including members of the Hyuga clan. At public executions, the Empire revealed the Eighteen Levels of Hell, leaving the Ninja World terrified of the punishments awaiting criminals after death.

• The Supervision Department used Zabuza’s evidence to launch a nationwide purge that exposed corruption tied to the New World project.
• The Aburame clan leader told Hyuga Hiashi that the Hyuga Grand Elder, her son, and other Main Family members were implicated, and Hiashi ordered their arrest.
• Supervision Department agents captured Shimizu Hyuga as he tried to flee, then dragged away other Hyuga officials, including Grand Elder Qingyan Hyuga.
• The Empire announced the arrests of more than a thousand officials, including over ten Level Two and Level Three Imperial Governors, and publicly exposed the criminals’ crimes.
• At the executions, the Empire summoned eighteen gates that showed condemned souls being tortured in Hell, including a former governor ground repeatedly in the Stone Mill Hell.

Tsunade rejected Shanks's invitation to join his pirate crew, and the Red-Haired pirates encountered a Navy fleet led by Sengoku and Akainu. After learning that five Navy warships were approaching the island, Hane sent Uchiha Retsuyō and the Twelve Golden Guards to meet them.

• Shanks again invited Tsunade to join his crew, but she refused and called pirates thieves who betrayed the Will of Fire.
• Shanks ordered his crew to depart, and they spotted five Navy warships led by Sengoku and Akainu as they left the island.
• Uchiha Retsuyō reported to Hane that a Black Eagle had discovered five Navy warships approaching the island.
• Hane ordered Retsuyō and the Twelve Golden Guards to meet the Navy and test their strength.

The Navy fleet led by Sengoku and Akainu attacked the Empire’s port, where Uchiha Retsuyō’s forces repelled their bombardment and overwhelmed the Marines with ninjutsu. Wada turned the Marines’ weapons against their own men, and Akainu unleashed a furious magma assault as the chapter ended.

• Shanks returned to the port and realized the Empire’s fighters were waiting for both his crew and the approaching Navy.
• Akainu attacked the shore with Great Eruption while Sengoku ordered the warships to bombard the port, but the Empire’s protective barrier blocked the cannon fire.
• Sosuke used his Six-Tomoe eyes to threaten Akainu, while the Imperial Army charged across the sea and attacked the fleet with explosive kunai and ninjutsu.
• Sengoku transformed into Dharma Manifestation, but Uchiha Retsuyō arrived with more than a dozen scarlet-eyed figures and identified the Uchiha as Robin’s adoptive family.
• Wada used a mental wave to make the Marines shoot their comrades, killing many soldiers and enraging Akainu, who unleashed a massive wave of magma at Retsuyō and the others.

Uchiha Retsuyō and the others revealed thirteen Susanoo and fought Sengoku and Akainu when the Marines demanded they hand over Robin. Sengoku fled with the last Marine warship, while Akainu fell after Arayama trapped and tortured him in Tsukuyomi Space.

• Uchiha Retsuyō and the others summoned thirteen Susanoo, shrugging off Akainu’s magma attacks and shocking Sengoku, Shanks, and Robin.
• Sengoku demanded that the group surrender Robin, but Uchiha Retsuyō refused and mocked the Marines for fearing a child.
• Sengoku attacked with shock waves as the Susanoo took to the air and returned slashes; Arayama dodged Sengoku’s strike, then caught Akainu in Tsukuyomi Space.
• Arayama tortured Akainu in the illusion, where one second outside lasted seventy-two hours, and Akainu eventually fell from the sky.
• Sengoku saw his warships sunk and his forces losing, so he used a shock wave and the surging waves to escape on the only remaining Marine warship.

Sengoku tried to retreat with the surviving Marines, but Nagato trapped their warship in a sphere of seawater and captured them. Hane revealed himself as the Empire’s ruler, ordered Sengoku and Akainu imprisoned, and announced that the Empire would begin planting the God Tree’s seeds.

• Sengoku told the Marines he would accept responsibility for their retreat, while Hane watched and warned that they could not leave Empire territory.
• Nagato and five others appeared in the sky, and Nagato used Banshō Ten'in to pull the Marine warship and surrounding seawater upward.
• Sengoku attacked Nagato in his Buddha form, but Nagato captured him and the surviving Marines inside a giant sphere of water.
• Nagato brought the captured Marines to shore, where Tsunade’s medical ninja treated and marked them as prisoners; Akainu was also brought ashore after Arayama defeated him.
• Hane arrived with Robin, challenged Akainu’s idea of Absolute Justice, and ordered Sengoku and Akainu taken to the Empire’s prison.
• Hane announced that the Empire would prepare for the coming storm and plant the God Tree’s seeds, while Uchiha Retsuyō slapped Akainu before he could reply.

After the Uchiha Mafia captured Sengoku and Akainu, news of the unprecedented defeat spread across the seas despite the World Government’s attempts to suppress it. The chapter ends with Whitebeard and Kaido recognizing that a new storm is brewing and Kaido studying the unknown Mafia as a dangerous force.

• Shanks ordered his crew to sail for the second half of the Grand Line and grow stronger after witnessing the capture of Akainu.
• Morgans confirmed his reporter’s account of the capture and sent the news agency to print it across the sea.
• Five days later, newspapers reported Sengoku and Akainu’s capture, while the World Government issued a bounty notice for the Uchiha Mafia and its members.
• Whitebeard read the news aboard the Moby Dick, and he and Jozu concluded that a new storm was brewing.
• At a banquet on Onigashima, Kaido learned that the Uchiha Mafia had captured Sengoku and grew serious as he read the report.

The Five Elders discussed the Marines’ weakened state and agreed to send Garp to negotiate for Sengoku and Akainu while they stabilized the New World. On Nameless Island, Hane planted the God Tree, creating a base that weakened the world’s suppression of his forces and could help the Ninja World expand its influence.

• The Five Elders berated Steel Bone Kong over Sengoku’s capture, the Marines’ vacancies, and their failure to eliminate the Uchiha organization.
• Steel Bone Kong persuaded the Five Elders to delay a major assault and send Garp to negotiate for Sengoku and Akainu.
• Hane planted the God Tree Fruit at the center of Nameless Island, where it grew into a towering God Tree as Morgans watched.
• Hane explained that the God Tree spread Chakra, weakened the world’s rejection of his forces, and made the island a supply station where his fighters could use their full strength.
• Retsuyō and the others celebrated their increased power, and Hane asked how far they had progressed in learning the Three Types of Haki.

Hane established the God Tree as a passage between worlds and ordered the Empire to expand, while Nagato’s team traveled to Mary Geoise to gather intelligence and make a name for the Empire. After seeing a Celestial Dragon abuse a slave, Nagato decided the city deserved to experience pain.

• Hane opened a portal beneath the God Tree, declared it the passage between worlds, and ordered the clan to organize people to build an administrative center.
• Kaguya crossed through the portal and persuaded Hane to promise her the next world’s God Tree Fruit if she worked harder.
• Nagato’s team set sail with Morgans, who declined Nagato’s invitation to join the Empire but agreed to guide them to Mary Geoise.
• Nagato and his companions entered Mary Geoise and saw a Celestial Dragon riding a wounded man while the crowds moved aside.
• The Celestial Dragon ordered his guards to capture Nagato’s group, and Nagato decided to make the city’s people experience pain.

Deidara used his C4 Bombs to slaughter Saint Jima Carl’s attendants and the nobles gathered in the street while Nagato’s group watched. After Akatsuki left, Nagato’s power twisted Saint Jima Carl to death, leaving the defense force horrified at the death of a Celestial Dragon.

• Nagato allowed Deidara to attack the attendants, and Deidara planted miniature C4 Bombs inside them.
• Deidara detonated the bombs, killing the lead attendant and blasting nobles as the crowd panicked.
• Deidara continued setting off explosions across the street, while Saint Jima Carl tried to shoot him with her golden cane.
• Nagato stopped Saint Jima Carl with an invisible force, then led Akatsuki away with Deidara.
• The defense force arrived and watched Saint Jima Carl twist and bleed to death as her former slave celebrated.

Nagato continued his assault on Mary Geoise and entered the slave prison, where he rescued the young Boa Hancock and her sisters from Saint Rosward and his attendants. He told the girls to escape into the sunlight and keep running.

• Nagato told Morgans that the destruction of Mary Geoise had only begun as a black hole formed over Saint Jima Carl's death site and dragged buildings and guards into it.
• In the prison beneath Mary Geoise, Hancock comforted Marigold and Sanda as they feared the cruelty surrounding them.
• Saint Rosward ordered his attendants to brand the three sisters as slaves and take them away.
• Kakuzu's earth spikes impaled Saint Rosward and the attendants just as they were about to brand the girls.
• Nagato and his group emerged from the darkness, and Nagato told Hancock, Marigold, and Sanda that they were free and should run without looking back.

Nagato and the Akatsuki rescued Hancock, Mary, Sanda, and the other ordinary slaves from Mary Geoise, while refusing to free the imprisoned pirates. The liberated slaves fled through a tunnel to the sunlight as Nagato prepared to leave.

• Nagato broke the explosive slave collars worn by Hancock and her sisters, then blasted a tunnel from the underground prison to the surface.
• Hancock thanked Nagato and led Mary and Sanda through the tunnel after he urged them to run far away.
• Nagato ordered the Akatsuki members to scatter through the prison and rescue the other slaves, while Morgans photographed the escape.
• The Akatsuki members ignored the imprisoned pirates' pleas and left them locked in their cells.
• Nagato reflected that the Empire's salvation had given him the power to illuminate others and vowed to make his enemies experience the pain they had inflicted.

Hancock and her sisters escaped into the forest while the Five Elders ordered Mary Geoise sealed and learned that the slave center had been destroyed. Nagato’s group fought through the Land of the Gods, and Nagato confronted a frightened Celestial Dragon.

• Hancock led Sandersonia and Mary farther into the forest as guards pursued them, and she insisted their benefactors would be all right.
• The Five Elders ordered Mary Geoise sealed and the intruders hunted, then learned that Nagato’s group had destroyed the slave center.
• Nagato and Akatsuki entered the Land of the Gods, where armored guards and Marines tried to stop them.
• Nagato repelled the Marines’ gunfire, while Akatsuki attacked the guards with earth spikes and explosive spiders.
• A Celestial Dragon shot a Marine colonel who retreated, then panicked when Nagato confronted him and challenged his claim to be a god.

Nagato killed a Celestial Dragon in Mary Geoise, confronted CP0 and the Five Elders, and declared that the Empire would punish the World Government and claim the world. The Akatsuki teleported outside Mary Geoise, leaving Nagato hovering above the Five Elders as they wondered what he planned to do.

• A Celestial Dragon shot at Nagato, who dodged the bullet and crushed the man’s head while another Celestial Dragon watched in terror.
• CP0 arrived to protect the Celestial Dragons, who regained their confidence and argued over how they would torture Nagato.
• A sword-wielding Five Elder attacked Nagato with a massive slash, but Nagato stopped it with an invisible repulsive force.
• Nagato challenged the Celestial Dragons’ privileges and declared that the Empire would impose its highest punishment and begin a new chapter for the world.
• Deidara warned Kakuzu that Nagato was going crazy, and Kakuzu teleported Morgans and the Akatsuki outside Mary Geoise using a prepared Flying Thunder God formation.
• Nagato floated into the sky while the Five Elders watched uneasily and wondered what he intended to do.

Nagato revealed his Six Paths power and unleashed Super Shinra Tensei on Mary Geoise, while Hancock and her sisters watched from the Red Earth Road. The chapter ended as a blinding light and violent tremors spread across the island.

• Hancock, Mary, and Sanda reached the Red Earth Road but found no safe way down.
• The sisters heard Nagato's voice and watched him hovering above Mary Geoise.
• The Five Elders tried to stall Nagato, while Celestial Dragons demanded that he be captured and tortured.
• Nagato entered Six Paths Mode and blocked attacks from the sword-wielding Five Elder and the book-holding Five Elder with his Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Nagato declared that Mary Geoise would feel the world's pain and unleashed Six Paths Super Shinra Tensei.
• A blinding white light and violent tremors swept across Mary Geoise as Hancock and her sisters watched from afar.

Nagato unleashed Six Paths-level Super Shinra Tensei, obliterating Mary Geoise and killing the Celestial Dragons and forces who tried to stop him. Hancock saw Nagato as her light, while Morgans recorded the destruction and realized the world was about to change.

• Nagato's Super Shinra Tensei overwhelmed the Five Elders, Cipher Pol 0, and the Fleet Admiral, sweeping across Mary Geoise and the Red Line.
• The blast crushed buildings and sent ruins tumbling into the sea as slaves watched in shock.
• Hancock climbed the rubble and saw that Mary Geoise had become a vast, barren crater, then understood Nagato's power as the force that had broken her despair.
• Morgans realized his Observation Haki had foretold the destruction and wondered at the power of the mysterious figure who commanded Nagato.
• Morgans retrieved another camera and photographed Nagato above the crater and the destroyed Mary Geoise.

Nagato destroyed Mary Geoise, while Imu warned the surviving Five Elders that the Empire behind Akatsuki possessed power beyond Uranus and must not be provoked. News of the destruction spread worldwide, and Whitebeard suspended his crew’s movements as he anticipated a turbulent new era.

• Nagato found the Five Elders and other officials gone from Mary Geoise, then withdrew his Six Paths form after concluding they had escaped through spatial abilities.
• The Five Elders, Celestial Dragons, and officials were scattered and injured on a hidden island after escaping Mary Geoise, and Imu warned them not to provoke the Empire or refuse its demands.
• Imu revealed that Akatsuki’s Empire came from the stars and wielded power surpassing Uranus, leaving the Five Elders terrified.
• News that Mary Geoise and the World Government headquarters had been destroyed spread across the world, alarming the Revolutionary Army, pirate crews, and Navy.
• Whitebeard ordered his sons to pause their movements in the New World and warned Marco that an even more turbulent era was beginning.

After Nagato destroyed Mary Geoise, Golden Lion Shiki learned that the Empire had done it and decided to return to the sea to meet the force. As chaos spread across the world, Nagato and Akatsuki prepared to leave, and Nagato told Morgans that he was still an ordinary human.

• A pirate officer told Golden Lion Shiki that Mary Geoise had been destroyed by the Empire, the force behind Akatsuki.
• Shiki recalled Akatsuki’s capture of Sengoku and decided to end his retirement and meet the Empire.
• Shiki announced his return to the sea as the destruction of Mary Geoise sent forces across the world into conflict.
• Nagato returned to Akatsuki’s ship and said their mission was complete.
• Morgans asked Nagato whether he was a god, and Nagato explained that overwhelming power did not make him anything other than human.

Hancock, Mary, and Sanda escaped Mary Geoise but were intercepted at sea by Vice Admiral Chaton, who learned that the Holy Land had been destroyed. Nagato arrived, and Chaton realized he was facing the man responsible.

• Hancock and her sisters spotted approaching Navy ships, hid beneath their boat, and were discovered by Vice Admiral Chaton.
• Chaton pulled the sisters aboard and chose not to return them to the Holy Land, then questioned Hancock about what had happened.
• Hancock told Chaton that Mary Geoise had been destroyed, leaving him shocked by the scale of the disaster.
• Nagato and Deidara arrived on a large ship, and Nagato appeared beside Chaton as the sisters called him their benefactor.
• Chaton felt Nagato's overwhelming pressure and realized he was likely the one who destroyed Mary Geoise.