Recaps

Lin Yan’s group destroyed Crocodile’s Dance Powder factory beneath Katorea and escaped before reinforcements arrived. In Alubarna, Tashigi secured King Cobra’s agreement to cooperate with the Flame Emperor Pirates, while her doubts about justice deepened.

• Lin Yan led Ace, Isuka, and Robin around Baroque Works’ outpost and used the underground waterway to reach Katorea’s reservoir.
• Ace defeated Mr. 3, Isuka subdued the agents, and Robin incapacitated Miss Goldenweek while Lin Yan destroyed the Dance Powder production line.
• Mr. 2 Bon Clay arrived with reinforcements and ordered the factory’s destruction reported to Crocodile.
• Tashigi presented King Cobra with the Flame Emperor Pirates’ cooperation proposal and proof that Lin Yan had destroyed the factory.
• Cobra agreed to cooperate and told Vivi to prepare for Crocodile’s possible attack, while Tashigi questioned what justice meant.

Crocodile invited Lin Yan to a banquet to seize the final Pluton key fragment, but Ace attended in his brother’s place and defeated Crocodile’s sand blade with his blue flames. Crocodile moved the meeting to the Funeral Temple, where Lin Yan and Ace headed that night to steal the key fragment before the trap could be sprung.

• Crocodile revealed that he had one Pluton key fragment and invited Lin Yan to a banquet, planning to take the last fragment and use Robin as leverage.
• Lin Yan sent Ace to Rain Dinners in his place to observe Crocodile’s forces and avoid endangering Rainbase’s civilians.
• Ace warned Crocodile to leave Alabasta, blocked MR.1’s attack, and broke Crocodile’s sand blade with his blue flames.
• Crocodile moved the next meeting to the Funeral Temple in Alubarna and secretly prepared the Quicksand Hell trap beneath it.
• Ace met Lin Yan outside Rain Dinners, and the brothers set out that night to steal the key fragment while Crocodile prepared his trap.

Lin Yan and Ace infiltrated the Funeral Temple to retrieve the key fragment, but Crocodile’s traps and Mr. 1 nearly overwhelmed them. Robin and the others rescued them and escaped through a hidden passage, while Crocodile vowed to hunt them down in Alubarna.

• Lin Yan and Ace entered the Funeral Temple through a secret passage and discovered a self-repairing quicksand trap laced with Seastone beneath the hall.
• Ace used his Blue Flame to create a glass path across the quicksand, but a laser array activated and injured both brothers as they approached the metal box.
• Mr. 1 emerged from beneath the platform, grabbed Ace, and attacked Lin Yan, who wounded him with his Flame Emperor Finger Pistol but was nearly out of stamina.
• Robin disabled the laser array and restrained Mr. 1, while Tashigi, Chopper, Isuka, and the others arrived and confirmed that the box held the genuine key fragment.
• Robin led the injured Lin Yan and Ace through a hidden western passage, and Crocodile arrived afterward, found Mr. 1 defeated, and threatened to kill them all in Alubarna.

Lin Yan uncovered his mother's legacy beneath the Sun God temple, inherited her power, and destroyed the sealed Primordial Devil Fruit Source. After learning that he, Ace, and Luffy were the keys to the Final Gate, he returned to Alubarna and found Marine warships threatening King Cobra.

• Lin Yan and Robin opened the badge and discovered that the final fragment was in Marineford, while Baroque Works and Koza's Rebel Army surrounded the temple.
• Lin Yan found the temple's secret passage and triggered a controlled steam explosion that incapacitated the attackers without killing them.
• Lin Yan opened the Chamber of the Altar, where his mother warned him that a sealed entity was awakening and passed her power and memories to him.
• Lin Yan used his inherited power to purify the Primordial Devil Fruit Source, and his mother urged him to find the other two Ds and open the Final Gate.
• Lin Yan identified Ace and Luffy as the other two Ds, then emerged to find Hina and three Marine warships ordering Cobra's arrest and threatening anyone who resisted.

Hina initially moved to arrest King Cobra and the Flame Emperor Pirates, but Lin Yan exposed Crocodile’s deception and helped Tashigi capture him after a battle in Alubarna. With the drought exposed and the rebellion quelled, Bartholomew Kuma arrived and said the World Government wanted Lin Yan to come with him.

• Hina accused Cobra of treason and ordered the royal family, Alabasta’s armed forces, and the Flame Emperor Pirates to surrender.
• Tashigi charged Crocodile with causing the drought and other crimes, but Crocodile produced evidence framing Lin Yan and revealed that his agents had kidnapped Vivi.
• Lin Yan rescued Vivi from Mr. 2 and exposed Crocodile’s drought scheme, prompting Hina to order Crocodile’s arrest.
• Crocodile summoned sand soldiers, but Lin Yan melted them with geothermal heat while Tashigi held Crocodile at swordpoint, and the Marines arrested him.
• Cobra thanked Lin Yan and promised him access to the historical records in the Funeral Temple, but Bartholomew Kuma arrived and announced that the World Government requested Lin Yan’s presence.

Kuma brought Lin Yan to Mary Geoise with a message from his mother and the promise of information about her whereabouts. After the Five Elders demanded that he join the Shichibukai in exchange, Lin Yan refused to submit and decided to infiltrate the Empty Throne with Ace and Robin.

• Kuma showed Lin Yan a pendant and his mother's message, persuading him to travel to Mary Geoise with Ace and Robin under agreed conditions.
• Hina dropped the charges against Alabasta and restored King Cobra's authority while Tashigi agreed to report what had happened.
• At Pangaea Castle, the Five Elders offered Lin Yan his mother's whereabouts and permission to study Poneglyphs if he joined the Shichibukai, then threatened her when he hesitated.
• Lin Yan returned to Ace and Robin and told them about the demand and threat.
• Lin Yan proposed infiltrating the Empty Throne to steal Poneglyph records and investigate whether his mother's whereabouts were connected to it, and Ace and Robin agreed to help.

Lin Yan infiltrated Pangaea Castle and learned that his mother had sacrificed her freedom to seal the Devil Fruit origin, then recovered the key his father left beneath the Empty Throne. When Imu awakened and attacked, Lin Yan used the key to awaken a new Sun God Nika form.

• Lin Yan used Ace’s diversion and Robin’s scouting to enter the tower, where he sensed his mother imprisoned and found her message explaining her sacrifice and the key’s purpose.
• Lin Yan opened the archive’s sealed shelf with his blood, read the hidden histories, and learned the truth about the Void Century, the Devil Fruit origin, and his parents’ plans.
• Lin Yan defeated five CP0 agents, but Roland and the Holy Knights confronted him as the tower’s seal began to loosen.
• Kuma revealed that the key was hidden in the Empty Throne’s left armrest and held off the Holy Knights so Lin Yan could reach it.
• Lin Yan retrieved the key, but Imu awakened and tried to seize him; Robin and Ace intervened and were knocked unconscious.
• Lin Yan poured his power into the key, awakened the Origin Flame, and transformed into the Sun God Nika form.

Lin Yan defeated Imu, escaped Mary Geoise with Ace and Robin, and forced Akainu’s fleet to let the Black Ship pass. After reuniting with his crew, he unlocked the Genesis Furnace and learned his next goal was to find Nika’s Blueprint of the New World, beginning with a journey to Sky Island.

• Lin Yan purified Imu with the Flame of Dawn, rescued the wounded Ace and Robin, and fled Mary Geoise with Kuma.
• Lin Yan used the Stellar Furnace to threaten Akainu’s fleet, and Akainu ordered his ships to clear a path.
• Lin Yan reunited with his crew near Alabasta, then fused the Sand-Sand Fruit and Rumble-Rumble Fruit templates into the Genesis Furnace.
• Lin Yan combined the red gem and golden key, heard his mother’s message about the Origin Key and Nika’s Blueprint of the New World, and learned he needed to gather three fragments.
• Robin recovered and accepted the books Lin Yan took from Mary Geoise, then agreed to join the crew’s next trip to Sky Island for the second fragment and a clue about Poseidon.

After defeating Crocodile, Lin Yan welcomed Robin as a permanent crewmate and set the Flame Emperor Pirates’ next course for Sky Island to find a Pluton fragment and clues about Nika. As the crew departed Alabasta, Lin Yan learned Blackbeard was heading toward Jaya Island, while Doflamingo recruited the imprisoned Crocodile into a plan involving the Flame Emperor.

• Ace recovered from his injuries with his awakened Blue Flame Self-Healing, while Chopper warned that Robin needed a month of rest and might never control a thousand arms again; Robin accepted the loss and said she wanted to use her hands to translate Poneglyphs.
• Hina transferred Tashigi to the Marines’ special observer roster and ordered her to continue accompanying the Flame Emperor Pirates, while Lin Yan gave her Shigure a protective flame inscription.
• Robin’s translation and mural rubbing revealed that Pluton’s sky fragment and records of Nika’s inheritance might be on Sky Island, so Lin Yan planned to sail for Jaya Island in three days.
• The crew welcomed Robin as a permanent crewmate, and her oath to Lin Yan raised her bond level and unlocked Knowledge Sharing; Lin Yan also told the crew about Imu, Devil Fruits, Nika, and the Void Century war.
• The Straw Hat Pirates arrived, and Lin Yan gave Luffy training notes for Gear Second and Gear Third, a Double D Vivre Card, and news that Sabo was alive; three days later, the Flame Emperor and Straw Hat ships departed Alabasta in different directions.
• Lin Yan’s system warned that Blackbeard was heading toward Jaya Island, while Robin noted that the Knock Up Stream’s storm might test whether their ship was recognized by the sun; meanwhile, Doflamingo offered Crocodile freedom through a new-era plan, and Crocodile agreed.

Lin Yan and the Flame Emperor crew confronted Blackbeard’s Pirates on Jaya Island, where Lin Yan overcame Blackbeard’s darkness and forced the crew to retreat. After learning Blackbeard was also heading toward the Knock Up Stream, Lin Yan prepared to follow him to Sky Island.

• Lin Yan sensed Blackbeard’s ambush on Jaya Island and deflected Van Augur’s sniper bullet with his Furnace Domain.
• Blackbeard attacked Lin Yan with his Dark-Dark Fruit while Van Augur, Doc Q, and Burgess joined the assault, but Lin Yan’s Stellar Core flames burned through the darkness.
• Lin Yan wounded Blackbeard by injecting Inner-Core Steel Flame into his arm, while Ace, Tashigi, Chopper, and Robin helped defeat the other officers.
• Blackbeard ordered a retreat, and Lin Yan stopped Ace from pursuing him, saying they would settle the conflict on Sky Island.
• Lin Yan collected a tissue sample from Blackbeard’s arm, and Robin reported that Blackbeard’s crew had a Log Pose on Jaya Island’s east coast to locate the Knock Up Stream.
• Lin Yan ordered the crew to prepare for their journey, intending to follow Blackbeard toward Sky Island.

Lin Yan led the Flame Emperor through the Knock Up Stream, defending the crew from Enel’s lightning and creating a temporary atmosphere in the vacuum zone. After reaching Sky Island, Lin Yan and Enel confronted each other, setting up their impending battle.

• Robin explained the Knock Up Stream’s timing and dangers as the crew prepared with Chopper’s pills and reinforced the ship.
• Blackbeard’s ship entered an unstable current created with explosives, and Lin Yan followed it until the natural Knock Up Stream erupted.
• Lin Yan guided the Flame Emperor up the water column, where Tashigi deflected lightning and Lin Yan absorbed Enel’s attacks with his plasma shield and energy conversion.
• Lin Yan combined forces with Ace and Tashigi to create a temporary atmosphere, allowing the Flame Emperor to pass through the vacuum zone and reach Sky Island ahead of Blackbeard.
• Enel arrived aboard the Ark Maxim and threatened Lin Yan, who challenged his claim to godhood as the crew landed on Sky Island.

Enel ordered Lin Yan to face God's Trial, and Lin Yan passed all four priests’ ordeals by exploiting their weaknesses and demonstrating his new abilities. As Enel prepared to confront him, Ace returned with Shandia warriors, and the island braced for the coming battle between Enel and Lin Yan.

• Enel ordered the four priests to begin God's Trial, and Lin Yan accepted on the condition that his crew and civilians stayed safe and Enel would fight him if he passed.
• Lin Yan defeated Shura in the Ordeal of String by analyzing and dismantling the string clouds, then defeated Satori in the Ordeal of Ball with Tashigi’s help.
• Lin Yan passed Ohm’s Ordeal of Iron by using his new Flame Sword, Amaterasu, to erase iron cloud, then purified Gedatsu’s poisonous swamp clouds and defeated him.
• At sunset, Enel learned that Lin Yan had passed all four ordeals in less than nine minutes and set out to deliver his own divine punishment.
• Lin Yan prepared for Enel’s arrival in Angel Island’s central plaza as Ace returned with Shandia warriors and the crew readied for battle.

Lin Yan awakened the Golden Bell’s hidden power, defeated Enel, and ended the four-hundred-year conflict between the Shandia and Sky Island residents. Robin deciphered the bell’s message and discovered that Poseidon was Shirahoshi, who was at Fish-Man Island’s Hard-Shell Tower.

• Enel summoned Raigo and demanded that Lin Yan surrender or face the attack.
• Lin Yan revealed the Golden Bell’s connection to the Sun God Nika and awakened its inscription and power.
• The Golden Bell rang, dispersing Raigo and Enel’s lightning before Lin Yan struck Enel with Dawn Fist and stripped him of his powers and memories.
• The Shandia warriors and Sky Island residents celebrated as the four-hundred-year war ended, and Lin Yan retrieved the Sky Shard from the bell.
• Robin deciphered the bell’s information and learned that Poseidon was Shirahoshi, located in Fish-Man Island’s Hard-Shell Tower.

After learning that Hody Jones had seized Fish-Man Island and kidnapped Princess Shirahoshi, Lin Yan prepared his crew for a rapid rescue and a battle against the New Fish-Man Pirates. The Flame Emperor descended through a current to Fish-Man Island, where the crew arrived to find an uneasy kingdom marked by signs of conflict.

• At a banquet on Angel Island, Isuka reported that Blackbeard had escaped with his ship badly damaged, and Hack arrived with news that Hody Jones had imprisoned King Neptune and kidnapped Shirahoshi.
• Lin Yan agreed to help Fish-Man Island and ordered the crew to prepare to depart within an hour, choosing a Descending Current as a faster route than sailing around the Red Line.
• Lin Yan assigned Chopper, Tashigi, Robin, and Ace training and upgrades, while Hack described Fish-Man Island and Hody's forces to help plan the rescue.
• After three days of preparation, Lin Yan revealed that the Ocean Shard was on Fish-Man Island and set the crew's goals: rescue Shirahoshi, defeat Hody, obtain the shard, and prove humans and Fish-Men could coexist.
• The Flame Emperor sailed down the Descending Current and emerged at Fish-Man Island, where the crew saw damaged streets, wary soldiers, and signs of unrest.

Lin Yan’s crew descended toward Fish-Man Island, where Hyouzou and the New Fish-Man Pirates ambushed the Flame Emperor. Lin Yan crushed the attackers’ advance and hurried the ship toward Ryugu Palace, while Princess Shirahoshi watched and recognized the arrival of the sun.

• As the Flame Emperor descended, Isuka reported cracks in its bubble coating, and Chopper applied a reinforcement agent to strengthen it temporarily.
• Robin detected thirty-seven approaching Fish-Men, and Ace identified them as Energy Steroid users from the New Fish-Man Pirates.
• Hyouzou attacked the ship, but Tashigi blocked some of his sword strikes and Lin Yan’s underwater Furnace Domain vaporized the rest.
• After Hyouzou overdosed on Energy Steroid Concentrate and charged Lin Yan, Lin Yan increased the surrounding pressure and shattered most of Hyouzou’s bones, sending the other Fish-Men fleeing.
• Lin Yan ordered the Flame Emperor to descend quickly toward Fish-Man Island and infiltrate Ryugu Palace before Hody could react.
• Princess Shirahoshi watched the ship through an Image Dial from the Hard-Shell Tower and wept, saying that the sun had really come.

Lin Yan and his allies infiltrated Ryugu Palace through Queen Otohime’s hidden passage and discovered Hody Jones’s plot to control Shirahoshi and Poseidon with help from a mysterious sponsor. Lin Yan used the Sun God pendant and a resonant flame song to open Shirahoshi’s sealed tower, where she greeted him as the Sun God.

• Lin Yan led Ace, Tashigi, Robin, Chopper, and Hack through the secret passage opened by the Sun God pendant.
• The group spied on Hody Jones, who planned to seize control of Poseidon and attack humans, while Vander Decken described aid from an unknown sponsor.
• Lin Yan and his allies reached the Hard-Shell Tower and found its seal altered with a bloodline lock and an alarm.
• Shirahoshi sang from inside the tower, awakening the pendant and triggering a quest to rescue her.
• Lin Yan used Voice of Dawn to resonate with Shirahoshi’s song and deactivate the seal, opening the tower door.
• Shirahoshi opened her eyes, saw Lin Yan, and greeted him as the Sun God.

Lin Yan rescued King Neptune and the princes while Ace broadcast Queen Otohime’s memories across Ryugu Palace, exposing Hody’s lies. Hody retaliated by activating his Final Plan to force Shirahoshi’s Poseidon power to awaken, and her scream signaled that she was losing control.

• Shirahoshi told Lin Yan that Hody had imprisoned her family and injected her with a substance that caused nightmares and uncontrolled songs capable of summoning Sea Kings.
• Lin Yan learned that Otohime had spoken of the Sun God’s token and the Ocean Shard, then refined Shirahoshi’s tears into a crystal carrying Otohime’s memories.
• Lin Yan, Robin, Chopper, and Hack defeated the dungeon guards and freed Neptune and the princes; Chopper treated their weakened bodies.
• Ace used his Blue Flame to spread the Memory Crystal’s images and Otohime’s words through the seawater, revealing the truth to Ryugu Palace and its residents.
• Hody saw the broadcast, realized Neptune had been rescued, and ordered all the Energy Steroids Catalyst injected into the Hard-Shell Tower’s circulation system.
• Shirahoshi screamed in agony as Hody’s Final Plan threatened to make her Poseidon power go berserk.

Lin Yan purified Shirahoshi after Hody drugged her to awaken Poseidon, and Shirahoshi used her power to stop the New Fish-Man Pirates’ attack. With the coup over and Hody defeated, the Ocean Shard revealed a path toward Noah in the Sea Forest.

• Hody activated the Energy Steroids Catalyst in the Hard-Shell Tower, corrupting Shirahoshi’s power and drawing Sea Kings toward Fish-Man Island.
• Lin Yan, Ace, and Tashigi rushed to the tower, where Lin Yan purified Shirahoshi and helped her regain control of Poseidon through memories of her family and people.
• Shirahoshi sang to calm the Sea Kings, then used Sea Resonance to restrain and purify the New Fish-Man Pirates as Ace and Tashigi fought their officers.
• Hody took three vials of Energy Steroids Concentrate and attacked Shirahoshi, but Lin Yan’s Furnace Domain stripped away his drug-fueled power.
• Shirahoshi spared Hody and ordered him to atone, while Neptune began handling the aftermath and Shirahoshi started learning to control Poseidon.
• Lin Yan received the Ocean Shard clue and completed Nika’s legacy; the blue shard joined the gold and silver shards and pointed toward Noah in the Sea Forest.

Lin Yan and his allies awakened Noah and learned from Sun God Nika’s recording that the Nika Core could control the Devil Fruit Source and end its ancient cycle. Blackbeard and a CP0 agent attacked to seize the Core, and Lin Yan prepared to fight them in the Sea Forest.

• Lin Yan placed the three Covenant Shards into Noah’s wheel, awakening the ancient ship and activating Nika’s recorded message.
• Nika revealed the history of the war against the Great Kingdom, his seal on the Devil Fruit Source, and the purpose of the three shards.
• The Nika Core emerged from Noah’s mast, and Lin Yan reached for it.
• Blackbeard, five of his men, and a CP0 agent burst into Noah, aiming to take the Core and capture Lin Yan and Shirahoshi.
• Lin Yan ordered Ace to protect Shirahoshi and the king while Robin and Tashigi handled the officers, then transformed into a deep-sea-adapted False Form of Sun God Nika to face Blackbeard.

Lin Yan defeated Blackbeard and Purple Lightning’s attacks, then used Shirahoshi’s Poseidon power to complete his fusion with the Nika Core and awaken a new form. Blackbeard triggered bombs aboard Noah, and Lin Yan prepared to demonstrate his power of creation as the countdown began.

• Blackbeard attacked Lin Yan with Dark Water, but Lin Yan countered with Genesis Flame and struck Blackbeard with five flame dragons.
• Purple Lightning tried to capture Shirahoshi, but Lin Yan stopped his blade and disassembled part of his body with Genesis Flame.
• Blackbeard engulfed Noah’s deck in darkness and tried to drag the Nika Core into it, so Shirahoshi summoned the Sea Forest and Fish-Man Island’s energy to empower the core.
• The Nika Core fused with Lin Yan, completing the Sun God Nika inheritance and awakening his new form.
• Blackbeard revealed that he had planted bombs on Noah and started a ten-minute countdown, while Lin Yan formed a three-colored miniature sun.

Lin Yan rebuilt Noah with the Genesis Flame, naming it the Dawn Ark: Noah Refit and defeating the Blackbeard Pirates. He left Blackbeard imprisoned aboard the new ship and promised Shirahoshi that Fish-Man Island’s people would one day live beneath the sunlight, though changing the world would take more than a ship.

• Lin Yan decomposed Noah into particles to neutralize the bombs Blackbeard had planted, then reforged the ship with a new structure and life-support system.
• Shirahoshi lent Poseidon’s power as Lin Yan and Ace infused Noah with energy, bringing the ship to life and inscribing it with rules that let it fly and make short-range spatial jumps.
• Lin Yan used Noah’s weapons and Genesis Flame to subdue Burgess, Doc Q, and Lafitte as the countdown neared its end.
• Lin Yan completed the ship’s control system, named it the Dawn Ark: Noah Refit, and sealed Blackbeard aboard with Seastone and Divine Runes.
• Tashigi secured the unconscious CP0 agent Purple Lightning while Fish-Man Island’s warriors cleared the battlefield.
• Lin Yan told Shirahoshi that the Dawn Ark could not yet bring the Fish-Man Race to the sunlight, and that doing so required changing the world.

At Fish-Man Island, Shirahoshi revealed that Poseidon and the Sun God must join forces to preserve life during the Devil Fruit Source’s inevitable Great Cleansing. A resonance awakened Luffy’s memories of Joy Boy and unlocked a temporary three-brother fusion for Lin Yan, Ace, and Luffy, leaving Lin Yan anticipating their reunion in the New World.

• At Ryugu Palace’s celebration, Neptune thanked Lin Yan, who said he had gained Nika’s complete legacy and an alliance with Poseidon.
• Shirahoshi explained that Poseidon’s song could awaken the ocean’s will and help the Sun God protect life through the Great Cleansing and guide the world toward rebirth.
• The badge in Lin Yan’s chest resonated with Ace’s Flame-Flame Fruit Source and Luffy’s power, reaching Luffy aboard the Going Merry.
• Luffy briefly awakened, recognized the Gum-Gum Fruit as the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika, and understood that he was meant to become Joy Boy, before returning to normal.
• The resonance unlocked the Trinity Complete Form for Lin Yan, Ace, and Luffy, allowing them to combine their divine factors for five minutes at the cost of a year of lifespan per use.
• Lin Yan and Ace sensed Luffy’s awakening, and Lin Yan looked forward to the three brothers joining forces in the New World.

At Marine Headquarters, Fujitora questioned the World Government’s justice and traveled to Fish-Man Island to meet Lin Yan. After hearing Lin Yan’s goals and witnessing his protection of the Sea Kings and the island’s people, Fujitora agreed not to oppose him unless he harmed innocents, leaving as a possible force for change within the Marines.

• Sengoku told Akainu, Aokiji, and Fujitora that Imu had ordered the Holy Knights to deal with Lin Yan while the Marines focused on tensions between Whitebeard and Kaido.
• Fujitora challenged the World Government’s claim to justice and asked Sengoku for permission to visit Fish-Man Island, which Sengoku granted.
• Fujitora arrived at Fish-Man Island and told Neptune he had come as a man seeking justice to meet Lin Yan.
• Fujitora saw Lin Yan and Shirahoshi use their powers peacefully with the Sea Kings, then asked Lin Yan about his goals, plans for civilians, and sense of justice.
• Lin Yan explained that he wanted freedom and dignity for all, and Fujitora agreed not to be his enemy unless he slaughtered innocents.
• After Fujitora left, Lin Yan told Shirahoshi that Fujitora could become a seed of change within the Marines.

Shirahoshi revealed that Poseidon’s mission traditionally ended with her sacrificing her life, but Lin Yan promised to seek another way and agreed to take her to see the real sun. After preparing Fish-Man Island to defend itself, Lin Yan and his crew left for the New World, while the Marines let them pass.

• Shirahoshi told Lin Yan that Poseidon must purify the ocean, protect the Ark during the Great Cleansing, and seal the Devil Fruit Source at the cost of her life; Lin Yan refused to accept her sacrifice and promised to find another way.
• Shirahoshi asked to see the real sun, and Lin Yan promised to take her to Spring Island after Fish-Man Island’s reconstruction.
• Robin reported that the World Government had revoked Fish-Man Island’s affiliated status and sent ten warships under Chaton and Momousagi to blockade its waters; Lin Yan recognized the move as a scheme to drive his crew into the New World.
• Over seven days, Lin Yan installed a defensive array, trained Shirahoshi and Fish-Man Island’s forces, and left Neptune a one-use Clone for emergencies.
• Lin Yan and his crew departed aboard the Dawn Ark as Chaton and Momousagi let them pass under the Five Elders’ orders.
• The Dawn Ark rose through the sea and headed for the New World, where Lin Yan announced his challenge to the Four Emperors and the World Government.

Lin Yan accepted Big Mom’s tea party invitation and fought her at Whole Cake Island, burning away her Homies and nearly defeating her before Jaygarcia Saturn intervened. After Lin Yan rejected the World Government’s offer of cooperation, Saturn ordered twelve Holy Knights to capture him, and the battle began.

• Cracker delivered Big Mom’s invitation, and Lin Yan accepted it, deciding the tea party would serve as his first battle in the New World.
• Lin Yan entered the Tea Party Hall with Ace, Robin, and Tashigi and resisted Big Mom’s Soul Pocus, then burned and liberated the souls of her Homies.
• Big Mom entered a Hunger Pangs rampage, and Lin Yan prepared to strike the gap in her Iron Balloon constitution before Jaygarcia Saturn stopped him by interfering with the rules of time.
• Saturn offered Lin Yan recognition and status in exchange for ending his support for slaves, attacks on World Government Member States, and opposition to the Revolutionary Army, but Lin Yan refused and vowed to bring down the World Government.
• Saturn revealed he knew Princess Poseidon was aboard the Dawn Ark and ordered twelve Holy Knights to capture Lin Yan, starting the battle.