Chapter Summaries

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.

Liu Bei fought Saint Ethanbaron V. Nasujuro after wounding him, but Nasujuro transformed into his Human-Beast Form and unleashed soul-burning pale flames. Liu Bei revealed his own Zoan Human-Beast Form and restored his strength, leaving their opposing powers locked in a stalemate.

• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nasujuro reacted with anger and disbelief after Liu Bei wounded him, then awakened the White Tiger's power and transformed into his Human-Beast Form.
• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nasujuro attacked with pale-flame slashes, and Liu Bei defended himself with Fairy Guard before countering with a Fairy-type blade storm.
• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nasujuro used his tiger tail and twin blades to trap Liu Bei in a pincer attack, but Liu Bei foresaw the strikes and blocked the blades while evading the tail.
• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nasujuro unleashed sound-wave blades and Sword Aura across the battlefield, prompting Liu Bei to transform into his Zoan Human-Beast Form.
• Liu Bei used Eternal Grace to restore his stamina and Haki, then blocked the assault with a Life Energy barrier as it reached a stalemate with the pale flames.

Liu Bei and Saint Barons fought across God King Square, with Liu Bei using life energy and the Tree of Life to withstand Saint Barons’s Azure Flame and killing attacks. Saint Barons transformed into his full beast form and unleashed a thousand-stream Sword Aura assault, leaving Liu Bei facing a devastating storm.

• Saint Barons lunged at Liu Bei with Meteor Slash, but Liu Bei raised an Armament Haki-coated forest to obstruct and restrain him.
• Saint Barons cut through the forest with Geng metal energy, and Liu Bei appeared behind him to clash with twin swords using Life Swords Dance.
• Saint Barons drove Liu Bei backward with White Tiger Seven Slashes, then suppressed him with Hundred Beasts Submit and attacked from four directions with Heaven, Earth, and Man.
• Liu Bei used his full fairy type aura to offset the suppression and summoned the Tree of Life, which regenerated and blocked Saint Barons’s killing strike.
• Saint Barons transformed into his thirty-meter Full Beast Form and attacked God King Square with Claw Blade: Thousand-Rending Slash.

Liu Bei unleashed Xerneas’s Power of Life and defeated Saint Barons after their ultimate attacks collided above Mary Geoise. With Saint Barons dead, Liu Bei turned toward the ongoing battles deeper in the battlefield.

• Liu Bei transformed into a divine stag, used his Fairy Domain and Life Energy to counter Saint Barons’s attacks, and evaded the white tiger’s strikes.
• Saint Barons formed a massive Azure Flame fireball and launched Azure Flame Purgatory, while Liu Bei summoned the Divine Tree to meet it.
• Liu Bei returned to human form and struck Saint Barons with Benevolent King's Way Slash, killing him after cutting through his defenses.
• Liu Bei told Saint Barons that all beings were equal, then turned toward the other fights as Bai Qi, Lü Bu, and Guan Yu continued battling the remaining opponents.

Zhang Liao confronted Chongyue at the Lake of Gods, where their first clash showed that the Black Tortoise Admiral could withstand his Sacred Sword and redirect its force. Zhang Liao studied Chongyue’s fist techniques and prepared to combine Zacian Power with Armament Haki for his next attack.

• Chongyue refused to stand aside, and Zhang Liao arrived at the lake to challenge him.
• Zhang Liao awakened his Intrepid Sword Form, stirring every nearby blade, while Chongyue strengthened his Dark Steel Armament Haki.
• Zhang Liao struck with Xiaoyao Ford Charge, but Chongyue blocked the Sacred Sword with Dark Rock Fist without being pierced.
• Chongyue used Mountain-Sinking Step to root himself and channel most of Zhang Liao’s attack into the lake, then sent residual force through the water.
• Zhang Liao avoided the delayed shock wave, recognized how Chongyue’s fist force traveled, and began infusing Zacian Power into his Armament Haki.

Zhang Liao tested Chongyue’s defenses at Black Tortoise Lake, using his Sacred Sword to break through the force of Chongyue’s punches and then crack his Black Tortoise armor. Chongyue’s Mythical Zoan recovery immediately healed the damage, leaving Zhang Liao facing a formidable defense as the battle continued.

• Zhang Liao attacked Chongyue from ten directions, but Chongyue blocked every slash with Tortoise Shell Protection.
• Chongyue struck with Layered Wave Fist, and Zhang Liao pierced through the attack’s central structure to break the force apart.
• Chongyue transformed into his Mythical Zoan Black Tortoise Form and challenged Zhang Liao to attack.
• Zhang Liao used Wolf of Sonic Speed and Intrepid Sword · Ultimate Slash to cut a small crack into Chongyue’s shell, but Black Tortoise Shell Counterforce rebounded the blow and injured Zhang Liao’s arm.
• Chongyue’s Mythical Zoan recovery healed the crack in his armor almost immediately.