Chapter Summaries

Little Oars Jr. charged into Marineford to save Ace as Wangchuan praised Whitebeard’s crew and decided to enter the battle. The chapter left Wangchuan walking toward the battlefield while Whitebeard watched him and Oars advance.

• Tsuru judged Wangchuan to be as strong as an Admiral or one of the Four Emperors, and Garp said he would try to stop him if he went after Ace.
• Little Oars Jr. broke through the Marine defenses at the bay entrance and charged toward the Execution Platform to save Ace.
• Wangchuan told Whitebeard that he admired how the Whitebeard Pirates protected civilians, and Whitebeard described his crew as family.
• Whitebeard warned Oars not to charge too far ahead, but Oars promised to save Ace and continued toward Marine Headquarters.
• Wangchuan said he would enter the battle early, leaped down from the Moby Dick, and walked toward the fighting.

Wangchuan advanced through the Marine forces, deflecting their attacks and overpowering Vice Admiral John with an invisible force. He launched John toward the Shichibukai plaza, where Doflamingo, Mihawk, and the others reacted to Wangchuan’s power.

• Wangchuan effortlessly lifted and threw aside Marine soldiers who tried to stop him.
• Wangchuan deflected cannon fire with an invisible barrier and halted Vice Admiral John’s greatsword strikes.
• Wangchuan lifted John into the air, then hurled him toward the Marines’ plaza.
• Doflamingo laughed at John’s arrival, Mihawk recognized Wangchuan, and Hancock refused to intervene.

Wangchuan advanced through the battlefield, repelling everyone and everything in his path, until Marine Admiral Kuzan confronted him. Kuzan attacked with Ice Saber, but the blade stopped two meters from Wangchuan, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Doflamingo caught Vice Admiral John with threads and flung him safely into the Marine plaza, then turned his attention to Wangchuan.
• Wangchuan walked through the fighting, repelling nearby soldiers, weapons, and cannonballs to clear a path.
• A Rear Admiral attacked Wangchuan with an Armament Haki-coated fist, but Wangchuan sidestepped and sent him flying into the ice.
• Kuzan emerged from the icy mist and confronted Wangchuan, recognizing him as the man who had sent Borsalino flying.
• Kuzan launched an Ice Saber at Wangchuan, but the blade stopped two meters from his chest.

Wangchuan stopped Kuzan’s ice attack and unleashed a lightning storm that defeated Vice Admiral Yamakaji and incapacitated everyone nearby, including Whitebeard Pirates and Marines. Marco questioned whether Wangchuan was truly an ally, while Kuzan reassessed his strange powers; Wangchuan ended by calling the fallen fighters ants.

• Kuzan’s ice blade stopped against an invisible barrier around Wangchuan, who shattered it with a flick of his finger.
• Yamakaji charged Wangchuan with an Armament Haki-coated saber, but Wangchuan released lightning that split the blade and sent Yamakaji crashing through two walls.
• Wangchuan’s lightning shock wave swept through everyone within thirty meters, knocking out Marines and Whitebeard Pirates alike.
• Marco avoided most of the blast with his blue flames and wondered whether Wangchuan was an ally or simply too powerful to control his attacks.
• Kuzan recovered from the lightning and concluded that Wangchuan’s abilities involved repulsion, water control, and lightning.
• Wangchuan looked over the fallen fighters and told them that ants should lie on the ground and tremble.

Wangchuan switched from the Tso Lan template to Tchang Zu, gaining a volatile temperament and electric power while losing his invisible barrier. Kuzan cleared the battlefield and froze Wangchuan with a focused Ice Age, then wondered whether the template switch had forced him to give up his defense.

• Wangchuan activated the Tchang Zu template and felt its explosive emotions and electric power alter him.
• Kuzan noticed Wangchuan's changed presence and realized his invisible barrier had disappeared.
• Kuzan ordered the Marines and pirates to retreat so he could face Wangchuan alone.
• Wangchuan challenged Kuzan to fight at full strength as electricity surged in his hand.
• Kuzan used a concentrated Ice Age to encase Wangchuan in a ball of ice.
• Kuzan studied the frozen Wangchuan and considered whether switching powers had cost him his barrier.

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.