Recaps

Wangchuan survived Kuzan’s full-power ice attack and fought him while using only one percent of the Tchang Zu Template’s power. After switching to another power, Wangchuan regained the barrier around himself, and Kuzan began questioning the nature of his abilities.

• Wangchuan shattered Kuzan’s Ice Ball with lightning, leaving Kuzan to abandon his casual demeanor and unleash his full speed and strength.
• Kuzan struck Wangchuan and exchanged rapid close-range attacks with him, freezing and testing his defenses as Wangchuan struggled to keep up.
• Kuzan observed that Wangchuan was weaker than before, and Wangchuan explained that one percent of the Tchang Zu Template could only manage so much.
• Wangchuan stopped using the Tchang Zu Template and shifted to another power, causing his aura and the protective barrier around him to return.
• Kuzan pointed out that Wangchuan’s demeanor and fighting style changed with each power, and Wangchuan said every power carried its original wielder’s imprint.

Wangchuan fought Kuzan and Kizaru while using his power to protect Oars from further harm. He left the two Admirals unable to break through his defenses as their battle continued.

• Kizaru struck Wangchuan with a Light-Speed Kick, but Wangchuan's force field reflected the attack and sent Kizaru crashing through Marine Headquarters.
• Wangchuan noticed Kuma had knocked Oars down and used his power to catch Oars and move him safely to the shallows outside the bay.
• Wangchuan invited Kuzan and Kizaru to attack him together, and both Admirals accepted.
• Kizaru fired a beam and Kuzan launched ice spikes, but Wangchuan deflected the beam and shattered the ice before either attack could reach him.

Wangchuan overwhelmed Kuzan and Kizaru, repelled a massive Marine attack, and gained more of the Moon Demon template. As his power and identity advanced, he declared that even the Admirals and the Marines were insignificant before him.

• Whitebeard praised Wangchuan for holding off two Admirals while Marco flew toward the execution platform to rescue Ace.
• Garp struck Marco out of the air with one punch, while Ace begged his comrades to stop risking themselves for him.
• Wangchuan disrupted Kuzan’s ice form by altering gravity, then broke Kizaru’s leg with a gravity-enhanced Haki punch.
• Wangchuan repelled hundreds of Marines with a wave of force and declared that his power surpassed human understanding.
• The system raised Wangchuan’s Moon Demon Template completion from 68% to 73%, and he warned the Marines that his strength could destroy them and the planet.

Wangchuan stopped Ace’s execution while Whitebeard’s attack was intercepted by Mihawk. Luffy arrived at the bay entrance, and Wangchuan anticipated that the battle was only beginning.

• Sengoku ordered Ace’s immediate execution after seeing Wangchuan overpower Kizaru and Kuzan.
• Whitebeard attacked the Execution Platform, but Mihawk cut down the shock wave and stood ready to face him.
• Wangchuan killed the two executioners with accelerated pieces of ice, saving Ace as Sengoku confronted him.
• Buggy and Crocodile arrived with Luffy, who called out to Ace from the bay entrance.
• Ace questioned why Luffy had come, while Wangchuan welcomed the arrival of Wang Luffy.

Luffy arrived at Marineford and charged toward the Execution Platform to save Ace, while Whitebeard doubled Wangchuan’s payment to end the battle quickly. Wangchuan accepted and warned Marco to prepare the Whitebeard Pirates to leave before he got serious.

• Boa Hancock heard Luffy’s voice and reacted with ecstatic affection as he arrived at Marineford.
• Luffy rushed toward Ace on the Execution Platform, with Jinbe and Ivankov following him.
• Sengoku confronted Garp about Luffy’s arrival, while Whitebeard and his crew recognized Ace’s younger brother.
• Whitebeard sent Marco to offer Wangchuan double payment to end the battle quickly.
• Wangchuan accepted and told Marco to have Whitebeard and his crew prepare to leave before he got serious.

Wangchuan fought through Marine Headquarters, sending Kizaru into the sea and trapping Kuzan in a sphere of ice and debris before reaching the Execution Platform. After reflecting Sengoku’s Buddha-form attack, he faced Garp’s incoming punch.

• Koby tried to stop Wangchuan, but Wangchuan repelled him into a fortress wall, where Helmeppo helped him recover.
• Wangchuan blasted the injured Kizaru into the sea with Almighty Push and trapped Kuzan inside a massive sphere with Planetary Devastation.
• Wangchuan reached the Execution Platform and addressed Sengoku, Garp, and Ace before challenging Sengoku and Garp.
• Sengoku transformed into his Buddha form and struck Wangchuan, but Wangchuan reflected the attack and sent Sengoku backward.
• Garp charged Wangchuan with a Haki-coated punch.

Wangchuan defeated Garp and Akainu while freeing Ace and helping the Whitebeard Pirates retreat from Marineford. As Ace reunited with Whitebeard, Wangchuan began revealing his Elder true form.

• Wangchuan met Garp's Haki-coated fist with his own and blasted Garp through several walls into Marine Headquarters.
• Luffy, Jinbe, and Ivankov saw Wangchuan fighting the Marines' top fighters, while Whitebeard ordered his crew to retreat after Ace was saved.
• Wangchuan lifted Ace from the Execution Platform, crushed his Seastone chains, and repelled Akainu's magma attack.
• Wangchuan sent Ace to the Moby Dick, where he reunited tearfully with Whitebeard.
• Wangchuan released purple demon chi and announced that he would show Akainu the Elder's true form.

Tso Lan revealed his Mythical Zoan form as Sengoku and Garp watched, while Akainu attacked him over Ace’s escape. Tso Lan raised a spherical force field that stopped Akainu’s magma just before it reached him.

• Tso Lan’s purple vapor receded into his body, revealing a four-armed form that Sengoku identified as a Mythical Zoan.
• Garp emerged from the rubble, mocked Sengoku’s Buddha form, and said he was in a good mood because Ace had been rescued.
• Akainu erupted from the magma crater and accused Tso Lan of disgracing the Marines and World Government by freeing Ace.
• Akainu launched Great Eruption at Tso Lan, who warned him to stand down and threatened him when he kept attacking.
• Tso Lan spread purple vapor, formed a spherical force field with his outstretched hand, and stopped Akainu’s magma on its surface.

Wangchuan summoned a huge meteorite toward Marineford after Akainu called him a monster. As pirates and Marines scrambled to escape, Whitebeard declared the battle won and ordered his crew to withdraw.

• Akainu exhausted his magma attack against Wangchuan's barrier, then insulted him as a monster, prompting Wangchuan to summon a meteorite from space.
• Whitebeard and Crocodile spotted the meteorite, and Whitebeard and Marco urgently ordered the pirates to evacuate Marineford.
• The Marines saw the meteorite approaching, and Sengoku and Garp realized it could destroy the island.
• Luffy admired the meteorite while Jinbe and Ivankov urged him to flee; Ace wondered how powerful Wangchuan was.
• Whitebeard recognized Wangchuan as a Demon, declared that his crew had won, and ordered them to withdraw at full speed.

Sengoku ordered the evacuation of Marineford as Wangchuan’s enormous meteor descended, and Garp prepared to confront it. Sengoku launched Garp skyward, leaving Wangchuan to watch and wonder whether Garp could stop the meteor.

• Sengoku ordered everyone to evacuate Marineford, and Marine officers hurried the survivors toward the harbor.
• Smoker and Tashigi, Kuzan, Mihawk, and Doflamingo withdrew as they watched the meteor and Wangchuan.
• Akainu insisted the meteor had to be stopped, while Kizaru warned Sengoku that Marineford would otherwise be destroyed.
• Sengoku held out his Buddha palm, and Garp leaped onto it and asked Sengoku to launch him accurately.
• Garp coated his fist in Armament and Conqueror’s Haki, and Sengoku hurled him toward the meteor.
• Wangchuan watched Garp approach the meteor and wondered whether he could catch it.

Garp shattered the enormous meteor with Galaxy Impact, while Kuzan froze its falling fragments before they could destroy Marineford. As Wangchuan prepared to leave after Whitebeard and Ace escaped, Blackbeard arrived and demanded Wangchuan’s Devil Fruit, prompting Wangchuan to begin his Domain Expansion.

• Garp struck the meteor with Galaxy Impact and shattered it, badly breaking his right hand.
• Whitebeard praised Garp’s strength and recalled how Garp had fought him, Linlin, and Kaido at God Valley.
• Sengoku caught Garp as he fell, and Kuzan froze the meteor fragments and the surrounding sea to protect Marineford.
• Wangchuan told Sengoku and the Marines that Whitebeard and Ace had escaped and that his task was complete.
• Blackbeard arrived with his crew, accused Wangchuan of letting Whitebeard escape, and demanded Wangchuan’s fruit as compensation.
• Wangchuan showed his killing intent and activated Domain Expansion: Guanghan Collapsing Moon Realm.

Wangchuan unfolded The Elder's Domain over Marineford, trapping Akainu and the Blackbeard Pirates in a palace-filled field where gravity shifted every half second. As Blackbeard endured the crushing force, he laughed and declared that he wanted Wangchuan's power.

• Sengoku sensed the danger and retreated with Garp and Kuzan, while Kizaru escaped by converting fully into light.
• Wangchuan's thousand-meter domain unfolded around Guanghan Palace, trapping Akainu and the Blackbeard Pirates within its reach.
• Wangchuan explained that the domain randomly alternated between weightlessness, overwhelming gravity, and lateral gravitational pull every half breath.
• Blackbeard and his crew were forced to their knees, and Blackbeard was slammed down hard enough to bleed and crack a kneecap.
• Despite his injuries, Blackbeard laughed and told Wangchuan that the stronger his ability was, the more he wanted it.

Sengoku, Garp, Kuzan, and Kizaru discovered that Wangchuan’s domain distorted gravity and made entering it too dangerous. Wangchuan then summoned a moon above Marineford and declared it was about to fall, leaving everyone beneath it facing imminent destruction.

• Kizaru fired a Light-Speed Kick into the domain, where chaotic gravity twisted the beam until it dissipated.
• Sengoku concluded that the domain’s shifting gravitational effects could trap or disrupt anyone who entered, so the Marines could not risk going inside.
• Garp noticed a moon falling toward Marineford, and Kuzan, Sengoku, and Kizaru looked up in horror.
• Lafitte, Shiryu, Yin Yue, and Vasco Shot saw the moon from within the domain as its gravity continued to toss and pin them.
• Wangchuan spread all four arms atop Guanghan Palace, told the people below to raise their heads, and said the moon was about to fall upon them.

Wangchuan refused Blackbeard’s plea to escape as he brought the moon down on Marineford. Sengoku and the other Admirals retreated, but Sanjuan Wolf was dragged into the domain, and Marineford sank beneath the sea.

• Blackbeard begged Wangchuan to spare him, but Wangchuan declared that demons do not die and continued welcoming the falling moon.
• Sengoku ordered a retreat and left Marineford with Garp, Kuzan, and Kizaru, abandoning Akainu, who was still trying to attack Wangchuan.
• Sanjuan Wolf tried to escape aboard a Marine warship, but Wangchuan used gravity to drag him into the domain.
• The falling moon struck Guanghan Palace and destroyed the domain, swallowing Blackbeard, Sanjuan Wolf, and Marineford in the impact.
• Tsuru looked back from Whitebeard’s warship and saw that Marineford had become a cloud of dust and a vast whirlpool.

The Five Elders learned that an unknown Moon Demon had sunk Marineford with extraordinary powers, and the World Government decided to report him to Lord Imu. Half a month later, a ten-billion-Beli bounty poster for the Moon Demon shocked a harbor town as a young pirate went looking for him.

• Tsuru told the Five Elders that Marineford had sunk, Sakazuki was presumed dead, and Garp, Sengoku, Kuzan, and Kizaru had survived.
• Tsuru described the Moon Demon's unknown abilities and said the Whitebeard Pirates had hired him to rescue Ace before the Blackbeard Pirates tried to steal his power.
• Saint Saturn said the incident had to be reported to Lord Imu, and the Five Elders did not object.
• Half a month later, a young pirate in an East Blue tavern insisted that the Moon Demon, not Whitebeard, had sunk Marineford with the moon.
• The young pirate left to search for the Moon Demon after saying Pops had ordered it, then caught a bounty poster bearing the alias Moon Demon and a reward of ten billion Beli.

Wangchuan learned that he could increase his Demon template progress by sacrificing Devil Fruits or exchanging money, and considered using his 10-billion-Beli bounty to grow stronger. When a Celestial Dragon killed a civilian on Sabaody, Wangchuan walked toward the Celestial Dragon’s group, seemingly intent on killing them.

• Wangchuan visited Sabaody Archipelago and heard people discussing his 10-billion-Beli wanted poster, which called him “Moon Demon.”
• Wangchuan asked the system how to increase his template progress and learned that each Devil Fruit added 5% while every 100 million Beli added 1%.
• Wangchuan considered exchanging the value of his bounty for template progress and joked about selling himself to the Marines.
• A Celestial Dragon arrived with attendants, shot a civilian who had failed to clear the street, and continued onward.
• Wangchuan ignored warnings from nearby civilians and walked toward the Celestial Dragon’s group, thinking that killing a few of them might be fun.

Wangchuan confronted Saint Babette Marcus in the street and used an unseen force to make Marcus’s guards kneel and stop bullets in midair. Marcus fell from his slaves’ shoulders in terror as Wangchuan continued approaching him.

• Saint Babette Marcus ordered Wangchuan to kneel and commanded four guards to attack him.
• Wangchuan said “Kneel,” and all four guards were forced to the ground, unable to stand.
• Wangchuan walked toward Marcus as the hiding civilians watched and compared him to another Straw Hat kid.
• Marcus drew a golden pistol and fired repeatedly, but every bullet stopped before reaching Wangchuan.
• The bullets fell to the pavement, and Marcus dropped his pistol and tumbled from his slaves’ shoulders in fear.

Wangchuan confronted Saint Marcus in the Sabaody Archipelago, where bystanders recognized him as the ten-billion-Beli Moon Demon who sank Marineford. After killing a former pirate slave and three guards, he decided to arrange Saint Marcus’s kidnapping so he could profit from the ransom indirectly.

• A merchant recognized Wangchuan as the Moon Demon, and the terrified crowd fled the street.
• Saint Marcus tried to assert his authority as a Celestial Dragon while an enslaved former pirate begged Wangchuan to save him.
• Wangchuan refused the former pirate and crushed him and three guards with an invisible force, leaving one guard alive.
• Wangchuan decided to have someone else kidnap Saint Marcus and deliver the ransom to him, avoiding the system’s ban on exchanging illegal income.
• Wangchuan settled on someone to carry out the plan and looked across the Sabaody Archipelago.

Wangchuan took Saint Babette Marcus captive and sent a surviving guard to demand a ransom from the World Government. At Shakky's bar, Shakky and Silvers Rayleigh discussed Wangchuan's power and the Paramount War before he arrived dragging the Celestial Dragon and asked for a meal.

• Wangchuan spared one guard and ordered him to tell the World Government that Saint Babette Marcus would be returned for a ransom.
• Shakky and Silvers Rayleigh discussed Whitebeard's survival, Wangchuan's billion-beri bounty, and his extraordinary abilities.
• Rayleigh reflected on Ace being Roger's son and the Second Division Commander on Whitebeard's ship.
• Wangchuan entered Shakky's Rip-off Bar with Saint Marcus chained behind him and asked for a meal.

Wangchuan negotiated with Rayleigh and Shakky to ransom Saint Marcus to the World Government for ten billion. Rayleigh and Shakky accepted the job in exchange for half the money and a favor from Wangchuan.

• Wangchuan tied Saint Marcus by the door and sat down to eat at Shakky’s bar.
• Wangchuan revealed that he knew Rayleigh’s identity and Shakky’s history with the Rocks Pirates.
• Wangchuan offered Rayleigh and Shakky ten billion to hand Saint Marcus back to the World Government.
• Wangchuan promised to handle the World Government and Marines himself and offered Rayleigh and Shakky one favor in return.
• Shakky accepted the deal and agreed to split the ransom fifty-fifty, prompting Rayleigh to tease Wangchuan about who would get which half.

The Five Elders ordered Rob Lucci to rescue the kidnapped Saint Babette Marcus from the Moon Demon and secretly pay ten billion Beli in ransom. Lucci received the mission after he and the former CP9 agents had been reinstated as CP0, and Kaku remarked on the ransom amount.

• Saint Saturn learned that the Moon Demon had kidnapped Saint Babette Marcus and told the Five Elders they had to rescue him in secret.
• The Five Elders agreed to pay ten billion Beli and assigned CP0 to handle the mission.
• Saint Saturn contacted Rob Lucci and ordered him to rescue Marcus from the Sabaody Archipelago within three days.
• The chapter recounted how Lucci and the former CP9 agents fled the World Government's pursuit before earning reinstatement as CP0.
• Lucci received the encrypted call at a CP0 communications facility, and Kaku observed that the ransom matched the Moon Demon's bounty.

CP9 prepared to negotiate Saint Marcus’s return with Wangchuan, while the Whitebeard Pirates celebrated their recovery and Ace resolved to thank the man who saved him. Ace was encouraged to visit Wangchuan, as the crew’s gathering continued around Whitebeard.

• Jabra argued that the World Government would pay the ransom to protect the Celestial Dragons’ confidence in its power.
• Blueno recalled that Wangchuan had sunk Marineford, and Kalifa warned that the agents could not confront him directly.
• Lucci ordered the team to negotiate for Saint Marcus’s return and avoid any unnecessary actions.
• Haruta laughed over a newspaper report about Wangchuan beating another Celestial Dragon, while Ace said he wanted to thank Wangchuan for saving his life.
• Marco urged Ace to go find Wangchuan and pulled him into a toast with the Whitebeard Pirates.

Whitebeard sent Ace to Sabaody Archipelago to deliver the promised treasure to Wangchuan and thank him for saving Ace. In the Flower Room, Imu studied Wangchuan’s wanted poster and expressed interest in meeting him.

• Whitebeard remembered his promise to pay Wangchuan double the treasure and learned from the newspaper that Wangchuan was at Shakky's Rip-off Bar.
• Ace volunteered to go to Sabaody Archipelago with the money and his gratitude, and Whitebeard gave him permission while warning him not to cause trouble.
• In Pangaea Castle’s Flower Room, Imu examined Wangchuan’s wanted poster and reacted to his title, the Moon Demon.
• Imu said he wanted to meet Wangchuan and see whether he truly was a demon.

The Eight Demon Sorcerers sensed Drago using the power of Water and wondered what had happened to Tso Lan, who had vanished after they tried to send him to the human world. They contacted Shendu, trapped again as a statue, but he knew nothing about Tso Lan’s whereabouts.

• Basha sensed Drago using her Water authority, while Xiao Fung and Hsi Wu discussed Drago and the old sorcerer who had defeated Shendu.
• Tchang Zu asked why Tso Lan had not contacted them, and Dai Gui recalled strange spatial fluctuations during the attempt to send him out of Hell.
• The six demons contacted Shendu through a dark mirror and found him sealed in his dragon statue again.
• Shendu said he had not sensed Tso Lan in the human world, and the demons ended the conversation without learning where he was.
• After the demons disappeared, Shendu quietly wondered where his brother Tso Lan had gone.

Lucci and the CP0 agents met Silvers Rayleigh at Sabaody to exchange ten billion Beli for Saint Marcus. Rayleigh delivered the Celestial Dragon but also demanded the warship, leaving the agents to hand it over.

• Kalifa suggested shopping while the agents waited, but Lucci and Kaku insisted they focus on the mission.
• Rayleigh arrived dragging Saint Marcus in chains and said Wangchuan had sent him to make the delivery.
• Lucci asked whether Rayleigh was involved, and Rayleigh said he was only being paid to deliver Saint Marcus.
• Rayleigh demanded the ten billion Beli and the warship in exchange for Saint Marcus, and Lucci ordered his agents to comply.
• Kaku and Blueno brought out the treasure chests, and Rayleigh checked them before releasing Saint Marcus and removing his iron collar.
• Lucci and the others prepared to take Saint Marcus to the Marine base while Rayleigh kept the chain and warship deal.