Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan recruited Princess Vivi to help expose Crocodile’s plot and obtain the Sun Tablet, while Ace challenged Crocodile at the rebels’ base. Ace awakened the Flame-Flame Fruit’s Blue Flame and killed Crocodile, and Lin Yan gained the Furnace-Furnace Fruit template before heading to Alubarna to end the civil war.

• Lin Yan and Robin met Vivi in the palace garden, explained Crocodile’s scheme, and asked her to prepare evidence for a public revelation in three days.
• Ace learned Crocodile would visit the rebels’ base in Katorea and went there alone to confront him.
• Ace accused Crocodile of causing the drought and civil war, then fought him and awakened the Flame-Flame Fruit’s Blue Flame.
• Ace’s Blue Flame defeated Crocodile, and Lin Yan killed the wounded Shichibukai.
• Lin Yan fused a Sand-Sand Fruit template fragment into the Furnace-Furnace Fruit template and set out with Ace for Alubarna.

After Alabasta was freed from Crocodile’s conspiracy, Lin Yan publicly declared that he would overthrow the World Government and claimed the Sun Tablet from the royal tomb. He headed toward a confrontation with all three Marine Admirals, who had gathered at the harbor to arrest him.

• King Cobra publicly thanked Lin Yan and the Flame Emperor Pirates for saving Alabasta.
• Lin Yan revealed Crocodile’s plan to seize Pluton and denounced the World Government, then vowed to end the Celestial Dragons’ rule and called for allies.
• Cloaked World Government spies left the square to report Lin Yan’s declaration.
• Vivi led Lin Yan, Ace, and Robin to the royal tomb, where Lin Yan absorbed the Sun Tablet and his pendant displayed progress of 2/4.
• Lin Yan chose Fish-Man Island as the next destination, but at the harbor he found Aokiji, Kizaru, and Akainu waiting with three Marine warships.
• Lin Yan confronted the Admirals, declared them nothing special, and unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki.

Lin Yan used his Furnace-Furnace technique to erase Crocodile’s sandstorm before it could reach Nanohana Harbor, then announced that the Flame Emperor Pirates would go ashore openly. Crocodile prepared to meet them while CP0 documented Lin Yan’s power and ordered Marine Headquarters to raise his threat level.

• Lin Yan detected Crocodile controlling the approaching sandstorm and learned from Robin that it threatened five thousand civilians at Nanohana Harbor.
• Lin Yan vaporized and compressed seawater, then released superheated steam that stripped Crocodile’s sandstorm of its controlled moisture and scattered the sand into the sea.
• Lin Yan told Ace and the crew they would land at Nanohana Harbor without hiding, while Crocodile recognized the danger and ordered Mr. 1 to gather the senior agents and alert the Marines.
• Crocodile suspected that Lin Yan might be seeking Pluton and studied the approaching pirate ship from Rainbase.
• CP0 analyzed reports of Lin Yan’s attack, classified him as a suspected Furnace-Furnace Fruit user, and ordered Marine Headquarters to raise his threat level.

Nico Robin visited Lin Yan aboard the Flame Emperor and offered to decipher Alabasta’s Poneglyph in exchange for help escaping Crocodile. Lin Yan invited her to join his crew, while Tashigi overheard their conversation and began questioning the Navy’s account of Ohara.

• Lin Yan detected Nico Robin sneaking aboard the Flame Emperor and heard her propose a Poneglyph deal.
• Lin Yan offered Robin a place as the Flame Emperor Pirates’ historical adviser and showed her reproduced Ancient Script from a stone tablet.
• Lin Yan gave Robin a Tone Dial containing Fisher Tiger’s recollections, and Robin warned him that Crocodile had contacted the Navy before leaving to consider the offer.
• Lin Yan received a 30% Flower-Flower Fruit template fragment after speaking with Robin and chose to store it temporarily.
• Tashigi admitted she had witnessed Lin Yan’s meeting with Robin, and Lin Yan urged her to investigate Ohara’s destruction for herself.
• Tashigi remained on deck wondering whether the Navy’s version of justice was true.

Chopper created and tested a basic Flame Emperor Pill while Robin joined Lin Yan’s crew temporarily and shared intelligence about Crocodile. As the crew prepared to infiltrate Katorea, Robin connected Lin Yan’s pendant and his mother to the Sun God, the D Clan, and Pluton.

• Chopper used Lin Yan’s Flame of Life to make ten Flame Emperor Pills and confirmed that one temporarily increased his physical abilities without side effects.
• Robin accepted a temporary place on the crew, gave Lin Yan a map of Crocodile’s strongholds, and began teaching him Ancient Script.
• Lin Yan assigned the crew to sabotage the Dance Powder factory in Katorea without harming its civilian workers, bringing Robin along and leaving Tashigi to guard the ship.
• Lin Yan privately told Robin he wanted to protect her from Crocodile, then showed her his mother’s pendant bearing a sun, flames, and a D.
• Robin identified the pendant as the Dawn Emblem and linked Lin Yan’s missing mother to the Sun God, the D Clan, and Pluton.

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.