Chapter Summaries

Boa Hancock dealt with rising threats to Amazon Lily and planned to visit the Karn Chamber of Commerce, while Karn returned and prepared to place the World Holy Grail’s projection in Wano Country. The chapter ended with Karn and Robin entering a hot spring together.

• Sandersonia told Hancock that pirates were increasingly attacking Amazon Lily and that the Supernovas had gathered at Sabaody, so Hancock planned to buy airships and nano armor from the Karn Chamber of Commerce.
• Karn returned to the Chamber of Commerce and reviewed its expansion as Robin asked for help investigating the Poneglyphs and admitted she had sold weapons to the Revolutionary Army.
• Karn supported Robin’s dealings with the Revolutionary Army and said it could approach him openly for future trade.
• Robin recommended Wano Country as a secure location for the World Holy Grail’s projection, and Karn agreed to go there with her.
• Robin led Karn to a hot spring, where they began an intimate encounter after he asked her to scrub his back.

Robin arranged for the Revolutionary Army to buy Karn Chamber of Commerce goods at cost and gave Koala two powered airborne ships, while Boa Hancock learned Karn had gone to Wano Country. In the One-Punch Man World, Senju Yoko’s group assessed the Hero Association and decided to contact the local police while continuing their investigation.

• Karn left Robin at the Chamber of Commerce headquarters and flew to Wano Country.
• Koala and Sabo met Robin, who showed them the Chamber of Commerce’s product list and offered its goods to the Revolutionary Army at cost.
• Monkey D. Dragon told Koala to follow the existing purchasing plan, and Robin invited the Revolutionary Army to bring captured criminals to the Chamber of Commerce.
• Robin agreed to receive books preserved from Ohara and gave Koala two powered airborne ships.
• Boa Hancock learned Karn had gone to Wano Country and left to discuss matters with him in person.
• In the One-Punch Man World, Senju Yoko decided to approach the local police as Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha continued testing heroes and gathering intelligence.

Senju Yoko offered Officer Kato weapons to help the police resist the Hero Association, while Naruto Uzumaki’s group visited Bang’s dojo to challenge him. In Wano Country, Kozuki Hiyori set out to appeal to President Karn as Kozuki Sukiyaki worried the Karn Chamber of Commerce’s growing presence would draw the World Government’s attention.

• Senju Yoko proposed selling Officer Kato weapons capable of killing most Demon-level monsters, and he agreed to raise the deal with his chief.
• Naruto Uzumaki and his companions entered Bang’s dojo, where Bang welcomed their challenge after noting their strength.
• The Karn Chamber of Commerce expanded its factories and trade in Wano Country, leaving the Kozuki Clan with little influence over the people’s livelihoods.
• Kozuki Sukiyaki warned Kozuki Hiyori that Wano Country’s growing contact with outsiders could attract the World Government and endanger its mission.
• Kozuki Hiyori and Shinobu went to seek out President Karn and appeal to him on Wano Country’s behalf.

Karn set up the World Holy Grail in Wano, empowered Hancock, and struck a weapons deal with the Revolutionary Army. The trading system then found a new world without a Trade Coordinate, leaving Karn considering how cautiously to approach its powerful cultivators.

• Karn told Hiyori that he had no interest in Wano’s secrets and warned her not to investigate the secret he planned to place there.
• Karn established the Holy Grail Projection, secured it, and gave Hancock a contract that removed her Devil Fruit’s side effects and greatly increased her strength.
• Karn offered Dragon a shipment of weapons if he and Sabo disciplined Luffy, and both agreed to do so.
• Karn told Robin to join him after she uncovered the Void Century’s history, then stayed in the One Piece World rather than leaving immediately.
• Karn’s trading system discovered a new world without a Trade Coordinate, and he saw signs that its cultivators could unleash powerful attacks.

Karn prepared to explore a new world while consolidating his affairs across several universes. He obtained the Time Stone from the Ancient One, warned Carol Danvers to stay away from Earth, and set out with limited trade goods to scout the next world.

• Karn decided to arrange travel between the Holy Grail Projections and prepared to start by putting Tsunade to sleep.
• Karn reviewed the Karn Chamber of Commerce’s strength in the One Piece World and found that his remaining trade supplies and enhancement serums were limited.
• Karn visited the Ancient One at Kamar-Taj, and after discussing magic and alchemy, she gave him the Time Stone to protect Kamar-Taj from the Dark Dimension.
• Karn placed the Time Stone in the Infinity Wand, used its power to recharge his energy blocks, and warned Carol Danvers not to return to Earth unless she went to mine alongside Nick Fury.
• Karn gathered a small stock of goods, mostly gold, and decided to scout the new world before committing to trade there.

Karn, Hermione, and Tsunade explored the Jia Ma Empire’s capital before Karn made a major purchase at the Miteer Auction House to acquire materials for the Karn Chamber of Commerce. After paying with a vast quantity of gold, Karn headed to a private box to attend the heaven-tier auction.

• Karn bought new clothes for Hermione and Tsunade and discussed where to establish an outpost for the Karn Chamber of Commerce.
• Karn and his companions arrived at the Miteer Auction House, where they learned the heaven-tier auction would begin that afternoon.
• Karn offered to buy all six hundred items displayed in the auction house’s first-floor hall, prompting the attendant to summon Mittel Tengshan.
• Karn explained his interest in the merchandise as he and Mittel Tengshan finalized the purchase for twenty-five million gold coins.
• Karn paid with gold worth far more than the purchase price, and Mittel Tengshan arranged for the goods and remaining funds to be delivered to Karn’s private box.

Karn used his enormous supply of gold to outbid everyone at the Miteer Auction House’s heaven-tier auction, buying item after item at wildly inflated prices. As Mittel Teng Shan struggled to keep the auction under control, another bidder challenged the way the items were being sold and Karn’s side mocked him for lacking funds.

• News spread that Karn had bought everything in the auction house’s first-floor hall, while Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran discussed the wealthy outsider and the auction.
• Karn, Hermione, and Tsunade examined the auction’s Storage Rings and discussed gathering cultivation and combat data for Red Queen.
• Mittel Teng Shan opened the heaven-tier auction, and Karn bought the Jadewater Armor and Qi Gathering Powder for far above their expected prices.
• Karn continued bidding heavily on successive items, and the increasingly angry crowd watched him buy all thirty-two auction lots so far.
• Three Clearwind Fruits were presented, and a bidder asked Mittel Teng Shan whether each item could only be purchased by one person before another voice ridiculed him for lacking money.

Karn dominated the Miteer Auction House’s sale, then bought the family’s entire treasury after Mittel Teng Shan persuaded him to stop bidding. After leaving Jia Ma Holy City with Tsunade and Hermione, he set off for the Magical Beast Mountain Range aboard his enormous Tailed Beast Nine-Headed Dragon, leaving Yun Yun and Gu He stunned by the creature.

• Karn outbid the other guests for more than half the auction’s items, including the Clearwind Fruit Yun Yun needed for Nalan Yanran.
• Mittel Teng Shan offered Karn the Miteer Family’s stored treasures to end his bidding, and Karn agreed to stop the auction purchases before buying the entire treasury.
• Karn paid for the treasury, took Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pills with Tsunade and Hermione, and left the auction house.
• Yun Yun asked Karn to sell her two Clearwind Fruits, but he demanded six fifth-tier pills, and she declined the trade.
• Karn, Tsunade, and Hermione left Jia Ma Holy City; Tsunade quickly defeated the robbers who tried to ambush them outside.
• Karn released the Tailed Beast Nine-Headed Dragon and flew toward the Magical Beast Mountain Range, while Yun Yun and Gu He arrived too late to negotiate.

Karn subdued the Amethyst Winged Lion King, traveled toward the Black-Corner Region while developing an industrial pill-refining machine, and established a branch of the Karn Chamber of Commerce in Black Mark City. The Eight Gates' Yuan Yi came to assess the new business, and Karn finally received him after keeping him waiting for hours.

• Hermione fought the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and Tsunade knocked it down when it tried to ambush Hermione; Karn made the beast submit and took its cub with them.
• Karn learned that the Snowland Mountain Ape and Mountain-Shaking Dragon Lizard lived along their route, then shrank the Tailed Beast Nine-Headed Dragon for travel.
• Karn and Red Queen completed the first-generation Pill Refining Machine, but after its first batch produced only six pills, Karn secretly altered the results to deceive Tsunade about their bet.
• Karn established a Karn Chamber of Commerce branch in Black Mark City by buying an entire street, prompting Eight Gates master Yuan Yi to visit him.
• Yuan Yi and his subordinates waited in Karn's courtyard while the Snowland Mountain Ape warned them not to insult its master; Karn eventually emerged and greeted Yuan Yi.

Karn secured Eight Gates as a supplier of medicinal ingredients and recipes, while Hermione expanded the chamber’s business and sent the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King on a promotional tour. Tsunade brought the captured Zi Yan to Karn, who recognized her as valuable.

• Karn offered Yuan Yi a discounted, unlimited supply of pills below tier seven in exchange for Eight Gates collecting medicinal ingredients and recipes, and Yuan Yi accepted.
• Yuan Yi gathered recipes and ingredients, including the Emperor's Pinnacle Pill recipe, then signed Hermione’s contract for pill-refining services.
• Hermione reviewed the chamber’s accounts, planned a regional advertising campaign, and sent the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to promote the business in exchange for Blue Wave Marrow.
• Tsunade returned with Zi Yan, whom she had captured after a dispute over a five-colored zhi, and took her underground to meet Karn because she could travel through space.
• Karn recognized Zi Yan and told Tsunade that she had caught someone valuable.

Karn traded a Muya Crystal for Zi Yan’s Ancient Void Dragon blood essence, and she chose to stay with Tsunade rather than return to Jia Nan Academy. Meanwhile, the Karn Chamber of Commerce expanded its pill business and made its first deal with Jia Nan Academy, while Zi Yan went looking for Tsunade and heard strange cries from the basement.

• Karn frightened Zi Yan into trading three drops of blood essence for a Muya Crystal, and Tsunade gave her Blue Wave Marrow before she fell asleep.
• The Karn Chamber of Commerce attracted Black-Corner Region factions seeking pills, and Yuan Yi resolved to support the company after receiving an Emperor's Pinnacle Pill.
• Su Qian brought Jia Nan Academy elders to negotiate a pill order with Hermione, and they agreed on their first purchase and traded a Low-Level Earth-Rank Dou Technique manual for a Hundred-Dew Grass Pill.
• Zi Yan told Su Qian she would stay at the Karn Chamber of Commerce, refused to return with him, and went to Tsunade's quarters seeking more Purple Light Dew.
• Zi Yan found Tsunade absent and headed toward the basement, where she heard Tsunade crying out from inside.

Xiao Yan sold the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and its formula to the Miteer Auction House after learning about the stronger Purple Light Dew. Meanwhile, the Karn Chamber of Commerce’s pill trade reshaped the Jia Ma Empire and Black-Corner Region, while Karn developed a Power Detector that Tsunade and Zi Yan took out to test.

• Xiao Yan had Gu Ni appraise the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, learned that the Miteer Auction House had obtained Purple Light Dew, and sold his liquid and formula to the auction house.
• Mittel Teng Shan used the Karn Chamber of Commerce’s pill supply to strengthen the Mittel Family and expand its influence, then broke with Fa Ma after rejecting the Alchemist Association’s request to cooperate.
• Factions flocked to Black Mark City for pills, while Hermione’s magical beasts and Zi Yan stopped people who caused trouble.
• Han Feng raged as the Karn Chamber of Commerce’s pill trade and influence displaced him as the Black-Corner Region’s sought-after alchemist.
• Karn finished a Power Detector that could scan and analyze life signatures over long distances, then gave devices to Tsunade and Hermione.
• Zi Yan persuaded Tsunade to get her a Power Detector, then headed into the Primeval Forest to try it out.

Karn tested new pills on four cultivators in the Douqi Continent, then returned to the Shinobi World to confront Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and Kara. After Karn and Kushina reached the Ten-Tails’ hiding place, Karn transported the juvenile beast to the Fate Kamui World, prompting Isshiki to prepare to come.

• Karn gave four selected cultivators new pills, and each successfully advanced in strength after refining one.
• Karn instructed Hermione and Tsunade, then returned through the Holy Grail Projection after Kushina reported finding information about the remaining Otsutsuki.
• Kushina and Karn reviewed Red Queen’s intelligence on Kara, and they assigned Tobirama Senju’s team to pursue its members while Kushina prepared to fight Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Karn and Kushina traveled to the Ten-Tails’ hiding place, where Karn set up Alchemical Items to lock down the space.
• Karn used Kamui to transport the juvenile Ten-Tails into the Fate Kamui World, and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki sensed the loss and prepared to travel to it.

Kushina defeated Ōtsutsuki Isshiki after Karn helped her force him to reveal his power, and Karn used the captured Otsutsuki’s knowledge to acquire God Tree branches and Shibai’s corpse. After Kara’s allies were arrested and Kushina was assigned to capture Otsutsuki Toneri, Karn finished studying Isshiki’s legacy and reunited with Mikoto.

• Kushina struck Jigen with tremor-powered attacks, forcing him to release Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s power, then beat him nearly to death before Karn stopped her.
• Karn captured Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, gathered information from him, and retrieved Otsutsuki Shibai’s corpse and three God Tree branches from Kara’s secret base.
• Tobirama Senju tracked down Kara’s members and their collaborators, including Fourth Raikage A, and arrests continued for more than three months.
• Karn studied the God Tree branches and Shibai’s corpse while assigning Kushina to travel to the moon and capture Otsutsuki Toneri and the giant Tenseigan.
• Karn emerged from the Underground Laboratory, and Uchiha Mikoto welcomed him before they went to the hot spring.

Karn heard Kurenai Yuhi’s pleas to spare Asuma Sarutobi, who had colluded with Kara, and ultimately reduced his punishment to ten years of penal labor. When Kurenai asked him to shorten it further, she agreed to his demand and let him take her to the bed.

• Uchiha Mikoto told Karn that Kurenai Yuhi had asked for help because Asuma Sarutobi was under arrest for ties to Kara.
• Karn refused Kurenai Yuhi’s plea to pardon Asuma after she confirmed that Asuma had admitted contacting Kara.
• Karn agreed to meet Kurenai Yuhi after Rin Nohara told him that Kurenai had sought her help.
• Karn told Kurenai that Asuma had been sentenced to death but offered to reduce the punishment to ten years of penal labor.
• Kurenai asked Karn to shorten Asuma’s sentence further, then agreed to offer anything in exchange and let him carry her to the bed.

Karn and Orochimaru entered the Pure Land to investigate who controlled it and encountered Jiraiya, Uchiha Itachi, and Obito Uchiha. After Orochimaru took Jiraiya away, Karn captured Obito and Itachi, leaving the Pure Land’s strange influence on the dead unresolved.

• Kurenai Yuhi read that Asuma had received a two-year sentence of penal labor and drank Karn’s potion, which quickly restored her stamina.
• Orochimaru explained his research into the Pure Land and revealed that his Rinnegan could transport him and Karn there.
• Karn and Orochimaru entered the Pure Land and found Jiraiya, Uchiha Itachi, and Obito Uchiha in a Konoha-like landscape.
• Orochimaru used his ocular technique to take Jiraiya elsewhere while Obito and Itachi attacked Karn.
• Karn destroyed the manifested Konoha and captured Obito Uchiha and Uchiha Itachi’s spirits.

Karn defeated Hagoromo Otsutsuki and took control of the Pure Land, then returned to the Shinobi World as the Kara crackdown concluded. Kurenai Yuhi visited Asuma Sarutobi before his sentence began, but her nausea left her worried that she might be pregnant.

• Karn killed Hagoromo Otsutsuki's main spirit, seized his remaining soul, and learned that ancient Onmyoji had created the Pure Land, which Hagoromo had expanded over a thousand years.
• Karn claimed the Pure Land's energy source and told Orochimaru that Hagoromo had been subdued; Orochimaru planned to use the vast Chakra to strengthen his Tailed Beast, Hydra.
• Karn returned to the Shinobi World and began planning a magical item with Uchiha Mikoto and Rin Nohara, while also visiting his family and Kurenai Yuhi.
• Two months later, the Kara crackdown ended, and officials who had colluded with Kara were sentenced to penal labor; Asuma Sarutobi received a two-year sentence.
• Kurenai Yuhi met Asuma Sarutobi before he was escorted away and told him that Rin Nohara and Uchiha Mikoto had helped him; she then dry-heaved and worried that she might be pregnant despite taking her medicine.

Queen Medusa learned that the Karn Chamber of Commerce sold powerful pills in the Black-Corner Region and decided the Snake-People Tribe should investigate the opportunity. Meanwhile, Karn planted a God Tree in the primeval forest and left the Tailed Beast Nine-Headed Dragon to guard it as it grew toward producing a Chakra Fruit.

• Hua She'er and Yue Mei reported that Jia Xing Tian had negotiated a desert route to the Black-Corner Region, where the Karn Chamber of Commerce sold large quantities of powerful pills, including Ancestor-Breaking Pills.
• Queen Medusa ordered Hua She'er to summon the four great elders so the Snake-People Tribe could discuss securing pills from the Black-Corner Region.
• Zi Yan interrupted Karn, Tsunade, and Hermione, and Karn kicked her out of the rear courtyard after warning her not to bypass its Protective Charm.
• Hermione told Karn that the Karn Chamber of Commerce aimed to make pills replace gold coins as currency, while expanding its pill trade and stockpiling resources.
• Karn took Tsunade and Zi Yan into the primeval forest, drove Golden Flame from its mountain lair, and cleared the area with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Karn planted a God Tree and assigned the Tailed Beast Nine-Headed Dragon to guard it until it matured and produced a Chakra Fruit in about a year.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen investigated the growing influence of pill shops, while Medusa considered making the Snake-People Race a vassal of the Karn Chamber of Commerce to secure resources and protection. Meanwhile, Karn completed a machine for refining seventh-tier pills and prepared to send Tsunade to the Central Plains in search of the Ancient Bodhi Tree.

• Xiao Yan wondered why alchemists were losing respect, and Yao Chen suspected the Jia Ma Imperial Family and Miteer Auction House were selling pills made by a single alchemist.
• The Snake-People elders returned from the Black-Corner Region with a trade contract, and Yue Mei revealed that the Karn Chamber of Commerce had offered to make the snake-people a hired vassal race.
• Medusa decided that the Snake-People Race could become a vassal if the Karn Chamber of Commerce proved worthwhile, ordered the tribes to gather medicinal ingredients and monster cores, and went to search for a Heavenly Flame.
• Hermione recruited more than twenty cultivators for the Karn Chamber of Commerce, while Karn completed and tested an industrial machine capable of refining seventh-tier pills.
• Karn asked Tsunade to explore the Central Plains and seek the Ancient Bodhi Tree, and she agreed to go after he prepared her supplies and discussed a collaboration.

Medusa negotiated the Snake-People Race’s allegiance to the Karn Chamber of Commerce and signed a soul contract after seeing its benefits and learning it could help awaken their bloodlines. She and Yue Mei stayed in the Black-Corner Region to represent the tribe as its relocation began.

• Han Feng cursed Medusa and the others after his defeat, while Old Yin Gu and Fan Lao left without helping him.
• Karn met Medusa and her companions, learned they had fought over the Green Lotus Core Flame, and gave them healing pills.
• Karn presented the vassal contract, which offered the Snake-People contribution points, pills, and opportunities for bloodline ancestral reversion.
• Medusa signed the contract in blood and asked to move the tribe closer to the Karn Chamber of Commerce.
• Karn gave Medusa several valuable pills and assigned her to stay with Hermione as the tribe’s representative.
• Medusa sent the Grand Elder back with four Ancestor-Breaking Pills to prepare the tribe’s relocation and ordered resistance to be punished.