Recaps

Zoro and Beckman’s clash ended with Zoro proving himself and the Straw Hat Pirates worthy of helping bring about change. Beckman revealed that the Red Hair Pirates were waiting for the right moment to support Luffy, while Zoro collapsed after Beckman departed.

• Zoro unleashed Asura Demon Nine Flash, and Beckman answered with Overlord Bullet, creating a vast crater as their attacks exhausted each other.
• Zoro and Beckman survived the clash severely wounded, and Beckman admitted he had fought at eighty percent to test Zoro rather than kill him.
• Beckman explained that the Red Hair Pirates were waiting for Luffy to become the force that could inspire the world to resist the World Government, and said the Straw Hat Pirates had passed their test.
• Beckman told Zoro that the Red Hair Pirates would be there when Luffy needed them, then walked toward the sea as Zoro collapsed and lost consciousness.
• Beckman set his ruined flintlock into the sea and headed toward the Red Force, reflecting on the coming new era and Hua Country.

Luffy reunited with Shanks on the showdown island and learned that winning a test would earn him Shanks’s Road Poneglyph rubbing and answers about Laugh Tale, Joy Boy, and the World Government. After declaring his dream and resolve to change the world, Luffy began the battle in Gear Fourth: Boundman.

• Luffy and Shanks met across the clearing and their Conqueror’s Haki tore open the clouds above them.
• Shanks asked Luffy why he wanted to become the Pirate King and showed that he carried a Road Poneglyph rubbing.
• Luffy said he wanted freedom, adventures with his companions, and the power to change the rotten world.
• Shanks set a one-hour challenge: Luffy had to take the rubbing to win and learn what Shanks knew, or Shanks would leave with it.
• Luffy accepted the challenge and transformed into Gear Fourth: Boundman.

Luffy fought Shanks with Gear Fourth, but Shanks’s superior swordsmanship and Conqueror’s Haki steadily wore him down. Luffy unleashed his strongest Boundman attack against Shanks’s ultimate slash, and their collision produced a devastating explosion.

• Luffy charged Shanks with a Gear Fourth King Kong Gun, but Shanks countered it with Divine Departure and sent him skidding backward.
• Shanks criticized Luffy’s Conqueror’s Haki infusion, and Luffy attacked again with Lion Gatling while Shanks parried and cut his arms.
• Luffy realized that Gear Fourth and his Haki were draining his strength, so he leaped back and prepared a stronger attack.
• Luffy launched Gum-Gum-Lion Rocket from the sky as Shanks answered with Divine Departure: Heavenly Impact.
• Luffy’s strike and Shanks’s slashes collided, creating a massive blast that flattened nearby hills, pulverized reefs, and swept down distant woods.

Luffy awakened Gear Fifth, revealing the Nika form and recovering from his injuries as he fought Shanks for the rubbing. He landed a blow that forced Shanks back for the first time, and their battle continued with both fighters ready to escalate.

• After their devastating clash, Shanks told Luffy he needed a power strong enough to break through his defenses and urged him to reveal his hidden trump card.
• Luffy awakened the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika, and transformed into Gear Fifth.
• Luffy discovered that his Nika form let him reshape his body and surroundings, fly, and rapidly restore his stamina and Haki.
• Luffy charged Shanks with Gum-Gum-Thunder Punch, infusing his strike with Conqueror's Haki.
• Shanks blocked the punch with Griffon, but Luffy's blow dented the sword and drove Shanks five meters backward.

Luffy and Shanks fought with their strongest attacks, and Shanks challenged Luffy to withstand one final strike to claim the Road Poneglyph Copy. Luffy survived the clash and snatched the copy, but Gear Fifth left him gravely exhausted.

• Shanks's Divine Departure: Wild Dance slashes were softened and bounced back by Luffy's rubberized ground, and one cut Shanks's arm.
• Luffy's Gum-Gum-Giant's Fist and Shanks's Divine Departure: Sea-Cleaving collided evenly, sending both men flying back across the crater.
• Shanks told Luffy that he would have to withstand his final attack to take the Poneglyph Copy, while warning that failure would mean death.
• Luffy and Shanks launched Gum-Gum-Colossal God: Liberation Fist and Divine Departure: Finale at each other, and their powers met in a compressed clash.
• As the clash ended, Luffy snatched the Road Poneglyph Copy from Shanks's clothes, though Gear Fifth had left him bloodied and barely able to stand.

Luffy defeated Shanks and claimed the second Road Poneglyph rubbing, then reunited with his injured crew and vowed to reach Laugh Tale and become Pirate King. As the Thousand Sunny sailed on, Shanks left with the Red Force to confront the world’s remaining battles.

• Shanks acknowledged Luffy’s victory, gave him the rubbing, and urged him to gather the other three and fulfill Joy Boy’s promise by liberating the world.
• Luffy invited Shanks to join the journey, but Shanks declined and told him to go become Pirate King.
• Luffy’s injured crewmates arrived, and he announced that they had obtained the second Road Poneglyph rubbing and would find the remaining two before sailing to Laugh Tale together.
• The Straw Hat crew cheered, and Luffy ran toward his friends as the setting sun shone over the sea.
• Aboard the Red Force, Shanks told Beckman that Luffy had succeeded and declared it was time for his crew to deal the rotten world one final slash.

After conquering Justice Island, Chen Yu discovered a strange black stone slab in Blackbeard’s hidden Seastone chamber. Guo Jia sensed that its Ancient Script and power might reveal the world’s origins, older even than the Void Century.

• Jia Xu reported that the Empire had seized Blackbeard’s treasury and uncovered a heavily guarded secret chamber beneath the Royal Palace.
• Chen Yu led his officers into the chamber and found a black stone slab covered in dark-red Ancient Script.
• Chen Yu touched the slab and felt its chilling suction and black Conqueror’s Haki, which overwhelmed weaker soldiers.
• Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu assessed the slab’s strange power and warned that it was unlike an ordinary Poneglyph.
• Guo Jia sensed an ancient aura in the slab and said it might record the origins of the world, predating the Void Century.

After finding a mysterious Poneglyph slab in Blackbeard’s lair, Chen Yu contacted Luffy to propose a joint effort with the Straw Hat Pirates. The two sides agreed in principle to share their Red Road Poneglyphs and have Nico Robin help decipher the slab, which Chen Yu said contained the truth of the Void Century and Imu’s identity.

• Chen Yu learned that he and the Straw Hat Pirates each held two Red Road Poneglyphs, and decided he needed Nico Robin to read the slab found in Blackbeard’s lair.
• Jia Xu left to arrange contact with Luffy, while the Thousand Sunny sailed toward Laugh Tale and the Straw Hat Pirates discussed their voyage.
• Chen Yu called Luffy and revealed that he had killed Blackbeard and found a special Poneglyph slab bearing unusual Dark-Dark Fruit energy and Conqueror’s Haki.
• Robin took the Den Den Mushi and asked Chen Yu whether the slab truly recorded the Void Century and Imu’s identity.
• Chen Yu proposed sharing all four Red Road Poneglyphs to find Laugh Tale and having Robin and his scholars decipher the slab, with both sides receiving copies of the results.

Robin agreed to decipher Hua Country’s tablet in exchange for its two remaining Road Poneglyphs, and she uncovered a history linking the Devil Fruit Tree to Imu and the origins of the Nika and Nier fruits. The chapter ended with the two fruits escaping Imu and hiding in the East Blue and West Blue.

• Robin accepted Chen Yu’s deal, requiring that she receive every detail of the tablet without interference or omissions.
• The Straw Hat Pirates discussed the bargain, and Robin began deciphering the tablet with help from Chen Yu’s scholars.
• After working until midnight, Robin translated the final characters, revealing the tablet’s account of the world’s origins and Imu’s identity.
• Robin’s translation explained that Imu was the Devil Fruit Tree’s soul and that the first Devil Fruit, the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, was born from the tree’s power.
• Imu’s desires gave birth to the destructive Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nier, and both it and the Nika fruit escaped Imu.
• The Nika fruit hid as the Gum-Gum Fruit in the East Blue, while the Nier fruit hid as the Dark-Dark Fruit in the West Blue.

Imu’s origin and rise to power were revealed, along with its defeat of Joy Boy and the creation of the Will of D. After gaining eternal life through the Op-Op Fruit, Imu lost the fruit and its control over the life law, then unleashed its fury in the Flower Room.

• Imu awakened in a withered Devil Fruit Tree, possessed five-year-old Nefertari D. Lily, and used her identity to establish the World Government and rule from the Empty Throne.
• Joy Boy ate the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, led a worldwide rebellion, and fought Imu, but was defeated after a catastrophic battle.
• Before dying, Joy Boy hid the soul of the Nika fruit, and his followers’ descendants carried on his resistance as the D. Clan.
• As Lily’s body aged, Imu turned its remaining life law into the Op-Op Fruit and forced a doctor to perform the Perennial Youth Surgery, granting Imu eternal life.
• The Op-Op Fruit disappeared after the doctor died, and Imu’s rage crushed the guards and palace maids in the Flower Room.

After learning the truth of Imu and the Void Century, Chen Yu ordered a million troops to attack Mary Geoise in three days. Imu detected that the stone slab had been deciphered and ordered a counterattack on Justice Island, while the Straw Hat Pirates prepared to seek Laugh Tale.

• Robin, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Liu Bei, and the generals reacted to the revelation that Imu was the ancient Devil Fruit Tree’s soul, had possessed Nefertari D. Lily, and had ruled for eight hundred years.
• Guo Jia told Chen Yu that his forces were strong enough to challenge Imu, and Bai Qi and the other generals pledged to lead the attack.
• Chen Yu ordered the army to prepare for a campaign against Mary Geoise in three days, declaring that he would lead a million troops to overthrow the World Government and kill Imu.
• The stone slab’s power surged, and Guo Jia warned that Imu had likely detected its secret being uncovered; Chen Yu ordered it guarded and reaffirmed the departure date.
• Imu ordered the Five Elders to send Marine Headquarters forces and Cipher Pol Aigis Zero to Justice Island, destroy the slab, kill Chen Yu’s forces, and prepare Uranus for battle.
• After gathering the four Road Poneglyphs, the Straw Hat Pirates began studying them and preparing to head for Laugh Tale.

Aokiji visited retired Sengoku and Garp, who described Hua Country’s rule as a form of justice that protected ordinary people. Convinced to investigate for himself, Aokiji left to see Hua Country’s Four Blues and decide whether its justice was what he had been seeking.

• Aokiji arrived at Guitian Town and reunited with Sengoku and Garp.
• Over tea and rice crackers, Aokiji told Sengoku he still questioned whether leaving the Marines and pursuing unhurried justice had been right.
• Garp described how Hua Country had brought safety and prosperity to Foosha Village, and Sengoku explained its reforms and powerful generals.
• Aokiji recalled improvements across the Four Blues and resolved to see Hua Country for himself.
• Aokiji said goodbye to Sengoku and Garp and rode away along the seaside path.

After a month touring Hua Country’s territories, Aokiji joined Hua Country and was appointed Empire Navy Commander-in-Chief and Four Blues Marquis. With the Four Blues secured by Aokiji, Chen Yu ordered his forces to depart for Mary Geoise in three days.

• Aokiji told the Wind-Listening Guard he was willing to join Hua Country after witnessing the safety and order in its territories.
• Xun Yu offered Aokiji command of the Empire Navy, and Aokiji pledged to defend Hua Country and its people.
• Chen Yu’s Imperial Edict appointed Aokiji Empire Navy Commander-in-Chief and granted him the title of Four Blues Marquis.
• Aokiji accepted the appointment, and the people of Loguetown celebrated as he demonstrated his power by freezing the sea.
• Chen Yu, Guo Jia, and Liu Bei discussed how Aokiji would secure the Four Blues and support their campaign against the World Government.
• Chen Yu ordered the army to finish resting and reorganizing, then depart for Mary Geoise in three days.

Chen Yu publicly condemned the Celestial Dragons and declared war on the World Government, then led the Hua Empire’s forces in an assault on Mary Geoise. Bai Qi and the Heavenly Punishment Corps breached the outer defenses, while the five armies attacked the Red Line and advanced toward Pangaea Castle.

• Chen Yu broadcast the Proclamation Against the Celestial Dragons across the Four Blues, exposing the World Government’s crimes and announcing the Hua Empire’s invasion.
• Bai Qi assigned Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Lü Bu, Zhao Yun, and the other generals to lead the five armies toward Mary Geoise, and Chen Yu ordered all forces to advance.
• Bai Qi crashed into Mary Geoise’s outer defenses, repelled the cannons, and used Yveltal’s power of death to devastate the defenders.
• Bai Qi and the Heavenly Punishment Corps broke through the outer defenses in fifteen minutes as the Holy Knights Junior Knights fell.
• The five armies reached the Red Line, Zhou Yu and Shirahoshi secured the surrounding waters, and Hua Country’s forces attacked the middle defensive line.
• Bai Qi looked toward Pangaea Castle and warned Imu and the Five Elders that they would face judgment.

As Hua Country’s forces attack Mary Geoise, Fujitora confronts Saint Marcus Ziyue, a Holy Knight whose power twists the space around her. He rejects her contempt and prepares to fight, declaring that the truth about the Celestial Dragons and the Void Century must be revealed.

• Bai Qi and the Heavenly Punishment Corps break through Mary Geoise’s outer defenses as Hua Country’s armies advance and engage the World Government’s strongest fighters.
• Bai Qi confronts the transformed Five Elders in the square before Pangaea Castle.
• Saint Marcus Ziyue kills hundreds of Hua Country’s elite soldiers in Mary Geoise’s Seventh District with her spatial distortion power.
• After a wounded officer reports the threat, Fujitora draws Gambler’s Fireline and blocks Ziyue’s attack with gravity.
• Fujitora condemns the Celestial Dragons’ rule and prepares his power, vowing to reveal the truth to the world.

Ziyue Palace unleashed the awakened Twist-Twist Fruit against Fujitora, who countered her distortion powers with precise swordsmanship and gravity attacks. After drawing Void Shatter and turning the Realm of Distortion into her sword domain, Ziyue Palace launched a combined attack from the ground and sky.

• Ziyue Palace distorted the space around Fujitora and fired rays that could twist matter apart, but Fujitora used Observation Haki to find their weak point and shattered them with Gravity Blade Iai.
• Ziyue Palace drew Void Shatter, a Supreme Grade Blade passed down through the Marcus Family, and reorganized the Realm of Distortion around her sword.
• Ziyue Palace vanished through her distorting field and thrust at Fujitora, but he parried her attack and unleashed Gravity Blade Fierce Tiger.
• Ziyue Palace defended herself with layers of spatial folds, and the gravity tiger tore through them before she retreated and let its remaining force destroy a building.
• Ziyue Palace twisted the ground into stone tentacles and created a massive sky vortex to attack Fujitora from above and below.

Fujitora and Ziyue Palace escalated their duel as her distortion attacks overwhelmed the battlefield and his gravity swordsmanship kept countering them. Their final clash between her spatial collapse and his miniature black hole devastated a quarter of Mary Geoise, while the fighting continued elsewhere.

• Fujitora avoided Ziyue Palace’s attacks and destroyed the air vortex with a gravity wave before she launched a barrage of distorted sword strikes.
• Fujitora used his Observation Haki and gravity blade techniques to block Ziyue Palace’s unpredictable attacks, though he suffered several cuts and gradually weighed down her rapier with gravity imprints.
• Ziyue Palace unleashed a spatial fissure and then compressed her distortion domain into a thrust that threatened to collapse the space around Fujitora.
• Fujitora countered Ziyue Palace’s final thrust with a miniature black hole at his sword’s tip, and their collision reduced a quarter of Mary Geoise to ruins.
• Bai Qi remarked that Fujitora was getting serious as the Five Elders attacked him, while Guan Yu sensed the clash and continued fighting Saint Shamrock.

Fujitora defeated Ziyue Palace with his awakened Press-Press Fruit and Black Hole Blade, freeing the slaves and helping secure Mary Geoise for the Hua Empire. After learning Bai Qi had suppressed the Five Elders and the other battles were turning in their favor, Fujitora headed for Pangaea Castle to witness the old era’s end.

• Ziyue Palace used the Twist-Twist Fruit to ravage Fujitora’s insides and demanded that he kneel, but he resisted and awakened the Press-Press Fruit to expel her distortion power.
• Fujitora used the Black Hole Blade to break through Ziyue Palace’s spatial defenses and destroy her, while the meteor he had summoned landed at the same spot.
• Hua Country Soldiers rushed to help Fujitora as freed slaves celebrated their liberation and praised the Hua Empire.
• Huang Xu told Fujitora that Bai Qi had suppressed the Five Elders, the Hua Empire had the advantage on the other battlefields, and Zhou Yu had sealed off the surrounding waters.
• Fujitora picked up a fragment of Void Shatter and set off with Huang Xu for Pangaea Castle.

Gan Ning confronted Saint Limocif Salika, the ancient Holy Knight whose scythe drained vitality and whose deathly power was spreading through Mary Geoise. After their first clash revealed that Armament Haki could only slow the effect, Salika unleashed a wave that began aging the surrounding building.

• Gan Ning sensed a deathly presence near the Nether Hall and ordered the Brocade Sail Army to retreat while he stayed behind.
• Gan Ning found Saint Limocif Salika, who revealed himself as the oldest Holy Knight and said Imu had tasked him with clearing the world of excess life.
• Gan Ning attacked Salika with water-powered Twin Halberds, but Salika's scythe withered the water blades and began draining Gan Ning's vitality.
• Gan Ning escaped the scythe's reach and determined that Salika's power targeted vitality and could not be fully stopped by ordinary Armament Haki.
• Salika struck the ground with his scythe, spreading a gray ring that stripped life from the surroundings and rapidly aged the Nether Hall.

Gan Ning used the water-filled Nether Hall to weaken Saint Salika’s death energy, but Saint Salika revealed that his scythe could wither anything it touched. The chapter ended with Saint Salika’s death energy seeping through Gan Ning’s Armament Haki as their weapons clashed.

• Saint Salika explained that his Death God powers came from eight centuries of accumulated death energy in Mary Geoise and that the Holy Knights had been granted Mythical Zoan Fruits by Lord Imu.
• Gan Ning struck the water beneath Saint Salika, launched him through the Nether Hall’s dome, and battered him into a crater with compressed water attacks.
• Gan Ning argued that water could dilute and wash away Saint Salika’s death energy, but Saint Salika said he could control death without relying on that energy alone.
• Saint Salika drained the air and life force from the Nether Hall, causing nearby soldiers to collapse and rapidly age.
• Gan Ning formed a huge Haki-infused water dragon, but Saint Salika’s scythe withered it into gray water with one slash.
• Saint Salika attacked Gan Ning and claimed he could wither all life in the area; Gan Ning blocked the scythe, but its death energy seeped through his Armament Haki into his hands.

Gan Ning and Saint Salika unleashed their strongest attacks against each other above the Nether Hall. Their powers collided in a blinding flash, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Gan Ning summoned water from across a thousand-meter radius, but Saint Salika’s death energy withered his flood and dried the Nether Hall.
• Gan Ning wounded Saint Salika’s wrist by exploiting a brief opening, then realized Saint Salika could repair himself with death energy.
• Gan Ning gathered water into a hundred-meter wave and invoked Sea God-Shattering as Saint Salika opened the Gate of Yellow Springs and summoned a mass of departed souls.
• Gan Ning’s sea attack and Saint Salika’s death-energy specter collided, shaking Mary Geoise and ending in a blinding light.

Gan Ning transformed into Kyogre’s Primal Reversion form and unleashed a Haki-infused Origin Pulse against Saint Salika. The devastating attack targeted Salika’s death-energy core, leaving the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• The shockwave from Gan Ning and Saint Salika’s clash made the fighters across Mary Geoise pause briefly before Lü Bu and Saint Figarland Garling resumed their duel.
• Gan Ning and Saint Salika revealed that their head-on collision had injured them both, and Gan Ning dismissed Salika’s death energy as inferior to the ocean’s power.
• Gan Ning discarded his Twin Halberds and transformed into Kyogre’s Primal Reversion form as the Nether Hall filled with mist.
• Saint Salika trembled as Kyogre gathered the ocean’s essence into an Origin Pulse.
• Gan Ning fired a blue-and-gold Origin Pulse wrapped in Armament Haki, piercing the Nether Hall and targeting Saint Salika’s death-energy core.

Gan Ning defeated Saint Salika with Kyogre’s Origin Pulse, ending the death aura’s hold over the Nether Hall district. After recovering from his wounds, Gan Ning led the Brocade Sail Army deeper into the hall, where more enemies awaited.

• Saint Salika unleashed Eternal Wither, but Gan Ning’s Origin Pulse overwhelmed the death aura and destroyed Saint Salika and his scythe.
• The death aura vanished, and the Hua Country soldiers it had corroded began recovering.
• Gan Ning returned to human form, endured his wounds, and ordered his soldiers to search for the injured and clear the ruins.
• Gan Ning told the adjutant to form up, then picked up his Twin Halberds and led the Brocade Sail Army farther into the Nether Hall.
• More enemies gathered deeper in the Nether Hall, and the battle continued.

Liu Bei faced Saint Ethanbaron V. Nasujuro in a fierce sword duel at God King Square while Hua Country’s army battled the World Government across Mary Geoise. The fight left the square in ruins, with both swordsmen still clashing at close range.

• Liu Bei confronted Saint Ethanbaron V. Nasujuro over the Celestial Dragons’ slaughter of innocents.
• Saint Nasujuro attacked at supersonic speed, and Liu Bei met his twin rapiers with his own blades and a life-infused Haki technique.
• Liu Bei’s Benevolent Virtue Slash collided with Saint Nasujuro’s Twin Slash: Ryuo, destroying the paving stones and severing the upper half of the God King Statue.
• Saint Nasujuro pressed Liu Bei with coordinated twin-blade attacks, but Liu Bei’s Care and Respond Swordsmanship deflected and redirected them.
• Saint Nasujuro used Future Sight to launch a pincer attack, but Liu Bei countered and nearly severed his wrist.
• Liu Bei and Saint Nasujuro continued trading blows as their duel reduced God King Square to a shattered ruin.

Liu Bei used life energy to break through Saint Barons’s attacks and weaken his healing, then the two fighters unleashed their Conqueror’s Haki and clashed with matching cross-shaped attacks. Their final collision devastated God King Square, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Saint Barons attacked Liu Bei with a storm of Golden Wind Slash blades, but Liu Bei blocked them with his twin swords.
• Liu Bei summoned barbed vines with Benevolent One: Earth’s Call, then struck Saint Barons with Male and Female: Life-Pulse Thrust.
• Saint Barons forced Liu Bei’s life energy from his body, but the lingering mark continued draining his stamina and purifying his Azure Flame.
• Saint Barons and Liu Bei released their Conqueror’s Haki, and their clash shook Pangaea Castle and incapacitated weaker soldiers.
• Saint Barons used God: Cross Judgment while Liu Bei countered with Gu Ying: Cross Slash, and their attacks turned God King Square into a massive crater.