The generals of the Four Blues stood ready, their blades poised to decide the world's fate!

The upheaval at the Sabaody Archipelago ended with every member of the Straw Hat Pirates slapped away and half the Supernovas captured. Yet its repercussions swept across the entire sea like a tsunami.

Straw Hat Luffy had sent a Celestial Dragon flying, Marine Admiral Kizaru had personally descended on the Sabaody Archipelago to hunt down the Supernovas, and Huang Zhong, an Admiral of Hua Country-which had already openly broken with the World Government in the West Blue-had appeared and stopped Kizaru. These events shook the entire world.

The World Government's Five Elders were furious and ordered Marine Headquarters to thoroughly investigate all of Hua Country's movements on the Grand Line. But they knew better than anyone that they had already experienced Hua Country's terrifying strength in the battle of the West Blue. With the Paramount War imminent, they simply had no strength to spare to provoke this behemoth again.

What they knew even less was that Hua Country's Heavenly Net had long since been quietly spread.

In the West Blue, at the naval pass in the Calm Belt, Zhou Yu stood before a nautical chart on the bridge of Hua Country's naval flagship, the Chang'an, clad in silver-white armor and lightly tapping his fingertips against the table. Behind him, blazing golden Sacred Fire flickered ceaselessly. The power of the Mythical Zoan Ho-Oh Fruit enveloped him in an immortal aura of life.

During the West Blue punitive campaign, Zhou Yu had burned dozens of World Government warships to ashes with Ho-Oh's Sacred Fire. Marine Headquarters had long since plastered his portrait throughout the Four Blues and could not have been more familiar with Hua Country's naval Commander-in-Chief.

"Commander-in-Chief!" Gan Ning strode in, carrying a faint scent of seawater, and laughed with a wide grin. "All two hundred of our navy's main