Liu Qing

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Liu Qing dies in a traffic accident while shouting the name of True Several Thousand Hands. He awakens on an uninhabited island roughly half a kilometer across and receives the Hashirama Senju template, granting him immense chakra reserves and an extensive set of techniques immediately 1.

Recognizing the world and its events, he plans to follow a merchant ship and make his appearance when pirates attack. He subsequently protects Nami aboard Alvida’s ship and asks Luffy to take him to sea. Luffy accepts him as his first crewmate, and Liu Qing identifies traveling the world as his dream 1 2.

His knowledge of the original story informs his decisions, from explaining Zoro’s imprisonment to anticipating Blackbeard’s movements. He sometimes conceals the source of that knowledge, telling Nami that he learned about her village while traveling 3 11 71.

Appearance

• Battle clothing: Wears red battle armor during the confrontation with the Buggy Pirates 9.
• Sage Mode: Black markings appear on his face when he activates Sage Arts 20 36 101.

Personality

Liu Qing is boastful, irreverent, and fond of elaborate pranks. He disguises clones as Marines to confuse Morgan’s forces and later impersonates the Black Cat Pirates to tease Usopp. His temper also surfaces over trivial frustrations: after Luffy ruins their card game, he overturns the table and imprisons him with Wood Release 3 6 13.

His loyalty is more consistent than his joking manner suggests. He tells Nami that helping her village does not depend on her joining the crew or offering anything in return. He also rejects Dragon’s offer to become the Revolutionary Army’s deputy leader, preferring to stay with Luffy and protect the crew 12 27.

He distinguishes between enemies rather than treating all opposition alike. Early on, he avoids killing Alvida’s men because he does not know Luffy’s attitude toward it, then considers giving the captured pirates a chance to reform. Against more dangerous offenders, he is ruthless: he kills Vander Decken and captures Hikawa Kōhan for Caesar Clown’s experiments 2 3 107 128.

His ambitions expand as his attachments deepen. Initially content with personal freedom, he seeks additional power because he fears the World Government could use Robin against him. By the final documented arc, he calls for a fairer society while declaring that he will become emperor of the world 71 143.

Abilities & Skills

Hashirama Template and Sage Arts

His initial template supplies Pseudo-Six-Paths strength, a Sage Body, and chakra reserves described as infinitely close to Six Paths level 1.

• Healing without hand seals: Restores captured pirates and later heals the gravely injured CP9 agents 3 107.
• Senjutsu: States that its special energy allows him to strike Logia users even before he learns Armament Haki 19.
• Sage Mode: Supports his large-scale Sage Arts and is visibly accompanied by black facial markings 20 44.
• Additional listed techniques: His starting repertoire includes Sage Art: Gate of the Great God and Sage Art: Wood Release: Hotei Technique 1.

Wood Release

Liu Qing creates and manipulates exceptionally durable wood for combat, transport, construction, and everyday objects 3 8 20 65.

• Battlefield control: Nativity of a World of Trees creates vast forests whose roots bind targets, regenerate, and drain stamina 43.
• Barriers and prisons: Wood Locking Wall protects people and ships; Four Pillars Prison confines captives; Hotei Technique encloses Wapol’s entire vessel 2 3 29 36.
• Direct attacks: Cutting Technique produces wooden spikes, while his “Fatherly Love Education Technique” restrains and whips targets with branches and vines 2 4.
• Escape prevention: Raises a hundred-meter thorn forest around the island before the attack on Arlong Park 23.
• Construction: Builds ships, furniture, playing cards, ice skates, and training facilities 3 8 35 65 120.
• Terrain repair: Reinforces the damaged ground at Yuba with roots after defeating Kaido 45.
• Limits: Kaido’s Bolo Breath burns his forest, and Liu Qing later finds that his tree restraints cannot hold Douglas Bullet 44 100.

Wood Dragon, Wood Golem, and True Several Thousand Hands

His major wooden constructs provide flight, regenerating defenses, and attacks on a colossal scale 12 20 44.

• Defensive limits: Mihawk’s strongest slash cuts through all five Rashomon gates; Kaido’s massed wind blades overwhelm the Wood Golem’s shield regeneration 20 44.
• Projected scale: Liu Qing estimates that spending eighty percent of his chakra could produce a hundred-thousand-meter Buddha, then calculates a ten-million-meter version with hundredfold size amplification. These are calculations, not demonstrated deployments in the supplied passages 71.

Haki

He learns Armament and Observation Haki from Mihawk’s written instructions and awakens Conqueror’s Haki the same night 22.

• Armament: Coats his body, fists, and wooden constructs, including the Buddha’s massed arms 22 45 101.
• Observation: Locates people across islands, detects hostile surveillance, and searches Lantern Fish’s interior 83 112 115.
• Observation interference: Blocks Garp’s attempt to locate Luffy with Observation Haki in Water 7 79.
• Conqueror’s coating: Augments Monster Strength Fist, Hakoku, and the weapons of his Wood Golem 43 44.
• Instruction: Offers Haki training to his company’s recruits 92.

More-More Fruit

The More-More Fruit supplies amplification that Liu Qing combines with his existing chakra techniques and constructs 78 99 101.

• Strength: Uses tenfold, fiftyfold, and eightyfold enhancements during the battle with Bullet 99 100.
• Volume: Applies tenfold volume to Advent of a World of Flowering Trees 99.
• Weight: Applies hundredfold weight to True Several Thousand Hands 101.
• Density: Uses hundredfold-density wood to build the company’s reinforced training arena 120.
• Origin distinction: His original Wood Release is not a Devil Fruit ability. The Five Elders’ report that he has eaten a “second” fruit reflects their misunderstanding of his template powers 20 78.

Close Combat, Hakoku, and Chakra Weapons

He combines chakra-enhanced striking with Haki and, later, More-More amplification 29 43 99.

• Monster Strength Fist: Shatters a warship with one punch and contests attacks from Kaido and Bullet 29 43 99.
• Hakoku: Learns the giants’ ultimate technique from Dorry and Brogy, then uses a fist-launched version against Kaido, Kuzan’s ice bird, and Vander Decken 35 43 69 128.
• Chakra Sword: Clashes with Mihawk’s Yoru, cuts a tsunami apart, and produces a hundred-meter blade to clear trees 20 35.
• Chakra defense: Blocks incoming sword waves and intercepts energy bullets aimed at Kalifa 20 106.

Clones, Transformation, and Deception

Wood clones act independently in combat, propulsion, infiltration, and negotiations 6 8 52 79.

• Impersonation: Transforms clones into Marines and Black Cat Pirates to disrupt or deceive their opponents 6 13.
• Parallel combat: Sends separate clones against Blackbeard’s four companions 52.
• Substitution: Leaves a transformed clone in Ace’s place, allowing the real Ace to leave with Garp 81.
• Bringer-of-Darkness Technique: Deprives opponents of sight, but proves almost useless against Mihawk’s Observation Haki 6 20.
• Body Flicker: Provides rapid movement for rescues, repositioning, and travel between nearby locations 12 32 69.

Story Role / Major Arcs

East Blue and the Crew’s Formation

• Shells Town: Explains Zoro’s predicament, punishes Helmeppo, and uses transformed clones to throw Morgan’s forces into confusion 3 4 6.
• Orange Town and Syrup Village: Fights alongside the crew against Buggy’s forces, demonstrates his strength to reassure Nami, and captures the Black Cat Pirates 9 12 13.
• Baratie: Seeks Haki instruction from Mihawk and fights him on a specially created forest battlefield. Mihawk withdraws when Liu Qing summons True Several Thousand Hands; Liu Qing then stops the tsunami caused by his own attack 19 20.
• Cocoyasi Village: Learns of his first bounty and helps contain Arlong’s forces by blocking escape routes 23.

Early Grand Line and Alabasta

• Whiskey Peak: Rescues the drugged Luffy, Sanji, and Usopp, leaving Zoro to fight the bounty hunters 32.
• Ancient Island: Persuades Dorry and Brogy to end their century-long duel, learns Hakoku, and builds them a ship home 35.
• Alabasta: Rejects Kaido’s recruitment offer and defeats him with a Haki-enhanced Buddha barrage. Afterward, he reinforces Yuba’s damaged terrain and allows Kizaru to take Kaido away 42 43 45 46.

Jaya, Sky Island, and Kuzan

• Jaya: Prevents Luffy from eating Doc Q’s poisoned apples and overwhelms Blackbeard’s crew, but does not pursue them after Teach covers their escape with debris 51 52.
• Sky Island: Joins the plan to take gold from the Golden Bell and cuts the stolen pillars into bricks for storage 61.
• The Going Merry: Proposes preserving the ship by carrying it aboard a replacement or merging it with a new vessel. Luffy chooses the merger 64.
• Kuzan confrontation: Protects Chopper with Hakoku and promises to safeguard the crew while Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji test their newly awakened strength 69.

Water 7 and Ace’s Rescue

• Government bargain: Captures a Celestial Dragon and demands access to two people, enough Treasure Tree Adam for a ship, and ten billion Beli 75.
• Water 7’s protection: Agrees to protect the city on the condition that Franky joins the Straw Hats. The World Government subsequently arranges for his protection of Water 7 to be publicized 77 78.
• More-More Fruit: Obtains Blackbeard’s help extracting Byrnndi World’s fruit in exchange for staying out of Teach’s coming battle with Whitebeard 78.
• Ace substitution: Negotiates a clone exchange, sends the real Ace away with Garp, and takes him to find Law to change his identity 79 81 82.
• Marineford: His disguised clone interrupts Sengoku’s account of Ace’s origins. Liu Qing later battles Bullet and tests his amplified Buddha against the assembled fighters 92 99 100 101 103.

Building the Delivery Company

• Initial organization: Recruits Law, Apoo, Hawkins, Cavendish, and Bartolomeo; assigns Hawkins to divine safe delivery routes and Robin to oversee operations 92.
• CP9 recruitment: Heals the hunted agents, persuades them to work for him, and warns the Five Elders against pursuing them. He later appoints Kalifa to manage the company 107 110.
• Animal forces: Brings more than one hundred thousand Kung Fu Dugongs to his Sabaody headquarters and distributes Devil Fruits among leading dugongs and baboons 109 120.
• Pure gold expedition: Rescues Miskina Achier and Olga, retrieves pure gold, and recruits Lantern Fish as a protector. Morgans, Doflamingo, and Du Feld subsequently place their forces under his company 115.
• Further recruitment: Hires Kuzan and later accepts the seven Seraphim’s request for help removing their control chips. Hancock also brings her displaced people into his company 112 137.

Fish-Man Island and the Final Mobilization

• Shirahoshi’s protection: Tracks down and kills Vander Decken, ending the attacks that kept her confined to the Hard-Shell Tower 128 130.
• Sabaody’s destruction: Learns that Uranus has destroyed the archipelago, but Lantern Fish saved the Lawless Zone and everyone inside by swallowing it 143.
• Assault on Mary Geoise: Redirects Zephyr from destroying the New World toward attacking Mary Geoise, broadcasts a call to overthrow the World Government, and orders his commanders to mobilize 143.

Bounties and Reputation

• Sensationalized reporting: Morgans claims that Liu Qing thrashed Mihawk and forced him to surrender Haki instructions to save his life. Mihawk had actually agreed to provide the instructions before their fight 19 23.
• Recognition as the strongest: Kalifa addresses him as “the World’s Strongest,” while Robin and Neptune later affirm that they consider him the most powerful person in the world 106 128.
• Recruitment offers: Dragon offers him the Revolutionary Army’s deputy leadership, Kaido offers him the Beasts Pirates’ vice-captaincy, Garp proposes a Marine career, and Sommers offers Celestial Dragon status and entry into the Holy Knights 27 42 49 78.

Relationships

• Monkey D. Luffy — Captain and first crewmate relationship. Liu Qing joins for adventure, protects the crew, and engineers Ace’s release 2 27 81.
• Nico Robin — Romantic partner, referred to by Liu Qing as his wife. Her safety motivates his search for greater power; he also helps her develop a Flower-Flower Fruit version of True Several Thousand Hands 71 82 92 119.
• Nami — Rescues her from Alvida’s men and assures her that saving her village carries no obligation to join the crew 2 12.
• Dracule Mihawk — Opponent and source of Haki training instructions; later appears among the commanders Liu Qing orders toward Mary Geoise 19 20 143.
• Dorry and Brogy — Teach him Hakoku after he persuades them to return to Elbaf. He repays them with a sturdy ship 35.
• Monkey D. Garp — Cooperates with him in the plan to exchange a clone for Ace, despite Liu Qing declining his offer to join the Marines 49 79 81.
• Marshall D. Teach — Initially tries to recruit Liu Qing and seize his supposed fruit ability; later extracts the More-More Fruit for him under a noninterference agreement 51 52 78.
• Douglas Bullet — Major Marineford opponent and later company subordinate, returning with Caesar Clown and the Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit 99 103 120.
• Kalifa and CP9 — Rescued recruits. Liu Qing entrusts Kalifa with company management after recognizing her administrative experience in Water 7 107 110.
• Lantern Fish / Lord Lantern — Protector hired for one fist-sized piece of pure gold every five years; later saves Liu Qing’s Sabaody base from Uranus 115 143.
• Shirahoshi — Frees her from Vander Decken’s continuing attacks, allowing her to hope for life outside the Hard-Shell Tower 128.
• The Five Elders — Adversarial negotiating partners whom he pressures over hostages, Ace, and his recruits; his final mobilization targets their government 75 81 107 143.

Notable Quotes

“My dream is to travel the entire world. Following you should be pretty interesting!” 2

“Nami, we aren't helping you defeat the Fish-Man Pirates because we want anything in return.” 12

“I'll stay aboard your kid's ship. At least I can protect them.” 27