Chapter Summaries

Chen Yu gave Chinjao a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit, restoring his vigor and strengthening him as Hua Country prepared for war with the World Government. After Chinjao proved his new power in a spar with Zhang Fei, Chen Yu prepared to begin the next stage of his plan.

• Chen Yu gave Chinjao the Mythical Zoan Rhinoceros Rhinoceros Fruit, Rhyperior Form, and Chinjao gained powerful armor and greater strength.
• Chen Yu told Chinjao that the World Government’s fleet had assembled in the Calm Belt and asked the Happo Navy to serve as the vanguard in a coming war.
• Chen Yu promised to find Devil Fruits for Sai and Abu if Chinjao and the Happo Navy rendered great service.
• Chinjao fought Zhang Fei at the training ground, combining Rhyperior’s power with Hasshoken in a fierce spar.
• Guo Jia reported that Chinjao had stabilized at admiral candidate level and that the Happo Navy had completed its reorganization, and Chen Yu said it was time to begin the next stage of the plan.

As the World Government increased its scrutiny of Hua Country, Chen Yu ordered the nation to strengthen security and continue developing without showing fear. Aokiji approached Tequila Wolf with Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents shadowing him, setting the stage for a dangerous confrontation.

• Guo Jia reported that Marine patrols and Cipher Pol agents were probing Hua Country, and that Marine Admiral Aokiji would tour the West Blue.
• Chen Yu ordered tighter internal security while directing Hua Country’s military, schools, and workshops to continue their work as usual.
• Hua Country’s craftsmen developed stronger Seastone plating and a new wound remedy while its generals trained students and troops.
• Guan Yu sent Gan Ning to defeat the Blood Sail Pirates, and Gan Ning captured their captain, Eric.
• Guo Jia reported that Aokiji was traveling toward Tequila Wolf by bicycle over frozen sea, with Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents following him.
• Chen Yu ordered Hua Country to proceed with its plans and await Aokiji and his hidden companions in Chang’an.

Admiral Kuzan visited Chang'an with two Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents to assess Hua Country, while Chen Yu and Guo Jia guarded its secrets and demonstrated its strength. Kuzan left without uncovering its hidden methods, and Guo Jia warned that Mary Geoise would likely respond with covert pressure.

• Chen Yu ordered Chang'an's defenses tightened before Kuzan arrived, assigning Liu Bei to maintain order and reassure the people.
• Kuzan entered Chang'an under Chen Yu's escort and questioned him about Hua Country's powerful generals and their Devil Fruit abilities; Chen Yu defended the country's independence and principles.
• Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents failed to penetrate Chang'an's guarded institutions, while Chen Yu intercepted Kuzan near the Divine Arms Pavilion and sent him back to his guest residence.
• At the Military Academy, Zhao Yun calmly redirected a dangerous burst of force during a cadet duel, impressing Kuzan with Hua Country's martial strength.
• Kuzan departed after his visit, and Guo Jia warned Chen Yu that Mary Geoise might use economic, diplomatic, and proxy measures against Hua Country.

Chen Yu accepted the ministers’ plea, founded Hua Country, and was crowned its king before establishing its government and reorganizing its navy. As the World Government and other powers turned their attention toward the new kingdom, Chen Yu ordered work on a new generation of capital warships.

• Guo Jia and the ministers urged Chen Yu to take the throne, and Chen Yu declared Hua the country’s name, Dawn’s Light its era, and Chang'an its capital.
• Chen Yu was crowned King of Hua and appointed Liu Bei Chancellor, Guo Jia Army Adviser Sacrificer, and military leaders to command the Five Armies.
• Chen Yu combined the former Two Treasures Navy, Happo Navy, and Gan Ning’s Brocade Sail Battalion into three fleets, appointing Gan Ning, Qi Ming, and Sai to lead them.
• The Five Elders discussed Hua Country’s rise and agreed to invite its representatives to the Reverie while pursuing infiltration and efforts to sow discord.
• Liu Bei and Guo Jia advised Chen Yu to strengthen Hua Country without appearing expansionist, and Chen Yu ordered the Directorate of Works and Academy of Natural Philosophy to develop capital warships.

Chen Yu accepted the World Government’s invitation to attend the Reverie at Mary Geoise and led a delegation aboard the Chang'an. After a calm voyage, the ship reached waters where a storm gathered and its battle alarm sounded.

• Guo Jia presented the Reverie invitation, and Chen Yu decided Hua Country would attend openly while preparing for the risks.
• Guo Jia gathered intelligence, Liu Bei arranged the state letter and gifts, and Chen Yu selected Guo Jia, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, and the Black Armor Guard for the delegation.
• Chen Yu and his companions said farewell to Liu Bei and the other officials and citizens before setting sail from Chang'an Port.
• During the voyage, Chen Yu studied intelligence with Guo Jia, Guan Yu trained the guards, and Zhao Yun watched the surrounding waters.
• The Chang'an entered waters beneath gathering storm clouds, and a warning from the lookout set off the battle alarm.

As Hua Country’s fleet sailed toward Mary Geoise, an unknown force ambushed the Chang'an with three fast ships and a submersible. Chen Yu, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, and the Black Armor Guard crushed the attack, and the Chang'an continued toward the Reverie as Guo Jia suspected the assailants were a West Blue country’s covert unit.

• Chen Yu ordered the Chang'an to raise the Black Bird Flag and prepare to engage after Zhao Yun and the lookout spotted three unflagged ships and a submersible approaching.
• Chen Yu disrupted the attackers with Conqueror's Haki, and Guan Yu disabled the three surface ships with Sky-Splitting · Wind Slash.
• Zhao Yun pierced the submersible’s hull with his spear, forcing it to sink, while the Black Armor Guard subdued the attackers aboard the damaged ships.
• Guo Jia examined the wreckage and concluded the professional attackers were likely a covert unit from a West Blue country testing Hua Country’s strength before the Reverie.
• Chen Yu ordered Guo Jia to interrogate the prisoners and directed the fleet to avoid the storm’s center and continue toward the Red Line.

Chen Yu and the Hua Country delegation arrived in Mary Geoise for the Reverie and faced surveillance and hostility from the World Government and rival nations. After Guo Jia foiled a Cipher Pol Aigis Zero infiltrator, Chen Yu ordered the delegation to conserve its strength for the coming summit.

• Chen Yu's delegation reached Mary Geoise, where Spandam welcomed them and escorted them to the Guest Reception Lodge in Pangaea Castle.
• Guo Jia sensed Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents monitoring the lodge and warned Chen Yu that other nations' representatives were also present and some were hostile.
• Shuenda Ridos of the Ilisia Kingdom insulted Chen Yu and Hua Country, but Chen Yu answered calmly and left him without a response.
• Over the following two days, visiting delegations tried to provoke or assess Hua Country, while Chen Yu, Guo Jia, Guan Yu, and Zhao Yun remained composed.
• A Cipher Pol Aigis Zero infiltrator attempted to attack Chen Yu but Guo Jia exposed the intruder, who escaped after striking an illusion.
• Guo Jia reported the failed intrusion to Chen Yu, who ordered the delegation to rest and prepare for the Reverie in three days.

Chen Yu represented Hua Country at the Reverie, resisting the Five Elders’ demands and winning formal recognition while building support among other nations. His West Blue Free Trade Zone proposal failed, but he returned home determined to continue the contest as the Five Elders began to regard Hua Country as a serious threat.

• Chen Yu led Hua Country’s delegation into the Reverie and rejected the Five Elders’ demand that Hua Country disband its army and accept Navy control.
• Guo Jia countered the Five Elders’ accusations and warned that their demands could destabilize West Blue, prompting them to grant Hua Country the status Flower Country had held.
• Belo Betty approached Chen Yu on behalf of the Revolutionary Army, and the two sides reached a preliminary understanding on intelligence sharing and mutual support.
• After Revolutionary Army attacks across the Four Blues forced an adjournment, Chen Yu ordered Liu Bei to enact the second contingency plan and prepared to advance a West Blue Free Trade Zone.
• Chen Yu’s free trade proposal was blocked by the Five Elders and a five-nation alliance, but Hua Country returned with formal recognition and an initial foothold.

On the voyage home from Mary Geoise, Chen Yu’s party survived a Cipher Pol Sea Ghost attack near the Florian Triangle while Hua Country faced pirate probes and rising tensions with the Ilisia Kingdom. The Chang'an emerged from the fog with home in sight, and Chen Yu prepared to deal with the troubles awaiting him in West Blue.

• Chen Yu ordered the Chang'an to skirt the Florian Triangle, where the crew encountered abnormal fog and magnetic interference.
• Cipher Pol’s Sea Ghosts attacked the Chang'an, but Guan Yu and Zhao Yun fought them while Guo Jia exposed their hiding places; the attackers were killed or captured.
• Chen Yu examined the assassins’ equipment, judged the attack a probe by the Five Elders, and ordered the ship to leave the area quickly.
• In Chang'an, Liu Bei received reports of pirate activity near North Sea City and a clash with the Ilisia Kingdom’s navy, then ordered stronger patrols without initiating a major conflict.
• The Chang'an broke through the fog and sighted home, while Chen Yu and Guo Jia discussed the unrest awaiting them in West Blue.

Chen Yu ordered Hua Country’s forces to repel Ilisia’s alliance and defend the nation’s borders. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei swiftly routed the allied fleet, forcing Shuenda Lucas to agree to negotiations, while Chen Yu recognized that the wider struggle in the West Blue had only begun.

• Liu Bei told Chen Yu that Ilisia, Blackstone, and Wind Chime had gathered troops against Hua Country, with the World Government tacitly backing the attack.
• Chen Yu appointed Guan Yu to lead the eastern expedition and assigned Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Chinjao, Guo Jia, and Liu Bei to military and defensive roles.
• Shuenda Billup ordered Ilisia’s vanguard to attack Hua Country’s fleet, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei used their immense power to break the enemy formation.
• Guan Yu defeated Shuenda Billup and spared the flagship, prompting the general to surrender as Blackstone and Wind Chime fled.
• Guan Yu sent Shuenda Billup to Shuenda Lucas with Chen Yu’s warning and an offer to negotiate, and Shuenda Lucas agreed to talks.
• Chen Yu received news of the victory and understood that the conflict over the West Blue was not over.

Chen Yu inspected Hua Country’s warship program as the World Government and other powers took notice of its new technology. After Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agents attacked the shipyard, Chen Yu ordered security strengthened and the Soaring Dragon Plan accelerated.

• Chen Yu inspected Dock One, where Mo Heng reported progress on Zhenyuan, Chasing the Wind, and Breaking the Waves, while Guo Jia warned that materials were running low and spies were watching the harbor.
• The Five Elders ordered Cipher Pol Aigis Zero’s Dark Blade team to investigate Hua Country, while Doflamingo considered alerting Kaido to the country’s Mythical Zoans.
• Gui infiltrated the shipyard’s materials warehouse, but Guo Jia, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Huang Zhong helped capture him as Ren escaped.
• Gui killed himself during interrogation, and Guo Jia identified him as a Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agent, confirming the World Government’s involvement.
• Chen Yu ordered stronger security at the Shipbuilding Bureau and the Academy of Natural Philosophy and commanded that the Soaring Dragon Plan be accelerated.

After defeating Ilisia, Chen Yu set terms for peace and strengthened Hua Country’s influence across the West Blue while preparing for pressure from the World Government and rival nations. The treaty was signed, but Chen Yu and Guo Jia knew new challenges still lay ahead.

• Liu Bei reported that Ilisia had sent an envoy seeking peace, and Chen Yu demanded the cession of three islands, compensation, trade access, and a treaty with Hua Country and its allies.
• Guo Jia warned Chen Yu that the World Government had ordered Cipher Pol Aigis Zero to infiltrate Hua Country and that Vice Admiral Onigumo had been sent to Tequila Wolf.
• Guo Jia revealed that five West Blue nations were negotiating a conservative alliance, then proposed using trade and political divisions to weaken it and inviting the Marines to cooperate against pirates.
• Chen Yu approved Guo Jia’s plan and ordered Gan Ning to increase naval patrols and respond to unidentified ships near Hua Country’s core waters.
• The West Blue Nonaggression and Trade Cooperation Treaty was signed, and Chen Yu and Guo Jia reflected on Hua Country’s growing influence and the dangers ahead.

Chen Yu launched the top-secret Soaring Dragon Plan to build advanced warships and strengthen Hua Country’s naval forces. As experimental ships took shape, the Five Elders escalated espionage and interference, and Chen Yu ordered greater vigilance against threats.

• Chen Yu approved the Royal Shipbuilding Bureau, placing Guo Jia in charge of planning and Mo Heng in charge of engineering while Liu Bei coordinated the resources for the Soaring Dragon Plan.
• Mo Heng and teams at the Academy of Natural Philosophy tested turbine propulsion, stronger alloys, Seastone plating, and new weapons as the shipyard laid the keels of Chasing the Wind, Breaking the Waves, and Zhenyuan.
• Guo Jia coordinated naval warfare training as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Gan Ning drilled their forces in shipboard combat, landings, marksmanship, and fleet maneuvers.
• The Five Elders ordered Cipher Pol Aigis Eight to intensify infiltration and sabotage, while the Marines and Underworld arms dealers worked to obstruct Hua Country’s growth.
• Months later, Mo Heng reported progress on Zhenyuan’s engine and materials, while Chen Yu warned Guo Jia that their neighbors had noticed the plan and ordered the generals to guard Hua Country’s borders.

Chen Yu secretly empowered Xun Yu and placed him in charge of domestic administration while Guo Jia organized counterespionage, as Hua Country prepared for mounting threats. The kingdom’s reforms advanced quietly, leaving its leaders to conceal their strength and deepen their foundations before their enemies could discern their plans.

• Guo Jia and Liu Bei warned Chen Yu that World Government spies were probing Hua Country and that its leaders’ Mythical Zoan powers risked exposure.
• Xun Yu pledged his loyalty, proposed quiet domestic reforms and a secret Jing'an Bureau, and Chen Yu entrusted him with administration while assigning Guo Jia to coordinate the bureau.
• Chen Yu secretly bestowed Calyrex's Power on Xun Yu and ordered him to present his abilities as those of a Paramecia Devil Fruit.
• Xun Yu introduced measures to standardize official documents and weights, improve taxation, and promote farming and sericulture, strengthening Hua Country’s foundations.
• Chen Yu ordered Liu Bei to counter Saint Poplar’s blockade and called for a swift strike against the Blood Anchor Pirates, while Guo Jia monitored spies and began internal screening.
• Chen Yu and Xun Yu agreed to conceal their plans and use the growing external pressures to strengthen Hua Country before its enemies noticed.

Xun Yu launched Hua Country’s unified-script reform from Wenyuan Pavilion, ordering officials to adopt the three thousand Standard Characters of Hua. He rejected a frontier governor’s request to delay the change and sent clerks to enforce it in Cangyun Commandery.

• Xun Yu oversaw Wenyuan Pavilion as the central hub for the unified-script policy and summoned more than a hundred clerks from across the country.
• Xun Yu introduced Standard Characters of Hua and ordered their use in official documents, registers, laws, and school primers, with examinations within three months and standardized government writing within a year.
• The governor of Cangyun Commandery reported that local elders resisted replacing traditional forms and asked for a delay or longer transition.
• Xun Yu ruled that official documents must follow the standard and dispatched his response by express courier.
• Young clerks trained at the Military Academy left Chang'an with new books and orders to assist with implementation in Cangyun Commandery.

Mo Yu oversaw construction of the Imperial Road as Xun Yu used the Zhao Clan’s resistance and secret collusion with pirates to crush local opposition. After Blood Anchor pirates massacred civilians at a coastal saltworks, Chen Yu ordered Gan Ning’s East Blue Fleet to destroy them, with Guo Jia coordinating intelligence.

• Mo Yu insisted on strict road-building standards and ordered the foundation at a soft-soil stretch reinforced for long-term use.
• The Zhao Clan’s retainers surrounded the Luoxia Slope worksite, and Xun Yu’s letter authorized Mo Yu to act while the Wind-Listening Guard revealed the clan’s arms smuggling to the Blood Anchor pirates.
• Mo Yu sent elite troops to arrest the Zhao Clan’s leaders, ending the blockade and restarting construction.
• Blood Anchor pirates attacked a southeastern saltworks, looted its stores, and killed several hundred workers and civilians.
• Chen Yu ordered Gan Ning to lead the East Blue Fleet against the pirates and tasked Guo Jia with coordinating intelligence for their complete annihilation.

Gan Ning’s fleet destroyed the Blood Anchor Pirates with powerful cannons and currents manipulated through Kyogre’s power, while Osen died fighting Gan Ning. Back in Chang’an, Chen Yu learned that the Conservative Alliance had aided the pirates and ordered Hua Country to strengthen its defenses and accelerate domestic reforms as greater conflict gathered.

• Osen spotted Gan Ning’s fleet near Skull Rock and ordered the Blood Anchor Pirates to prepare for battle.
• Gan Ning’s warships bombarded the pirates, then used manipulated currents to disrupt their formation and launch an assault.
• Osen transformed using his Shark-Shark Fruit, but Gan Ning killed him with the Rising Waves · Overlapping Tides Kill technique.
• Gan Ning’s fleet defeated the remaining pirates, and Hua Country’s victory prompted celebration in Chang’an.
• Guo Jia told Chen Yu that Bara Wood and other Conservative Alliance countries had supplied the pirates with intelligence, while Cipher Pol personnel had appeared nearby.
• Xun Yu reported that the Jing'an Bureau had uncovered officials linked to foreign powers, and Chen Yu ordered a firm response abroad and continued reforms at home.

Xun Yu enforced Hua Country’s reforms as Gan Ning’s fleet clashed with a Saint Poplar convoy, while Guo Jia uncovered threats from the World Government and proposed countermeasures. Guo Jia recommended Zhuge Liang as a strategic adviser, and Chen Yu sent Zhao Yun to invite him, though Zhuge Liang judged that the time to emerge had not yet come.

• Xun Yu ordered arrests, executions, confiscations, and government schools to suppress resistance to standardized writing, and ruled that Imperial Road construction took precedence over the Marquis of Anping’s ancestral graves.
• Gan Ning’s fleet boarded a Saint Poplar Kingdom convoy, tore down its flag, inspected its cargo, and collected taxes, prompting outrage in the kingdom.
• Guo Jia told Chen Yu that Saint Poplar’s merchants were coordinating an economic campaign, Cipher Pol had an undercover asset called Dark Blade, and the World Government was investigating the concentration of Mythical Zoans.
• Guo Jia proposed trade with the Revolutionary Army and a search for black iron substitutes, then recommended his friend Zhuge Liang as a strategist; Chen Yu authorized the plan and ordered Zhao Yun to prepare a secret journey to Yingchuan.
• At Water-Mirror Manor, Zhuge Liang told the old man that he would emerge only after Hua Country had weathered its internal and foreign threats, while the old man noted that Guo Jia’s messenger was already on the way.

Chen Yu addressed resistance to Xun Yu’s reforms and ordered a combination of fair administration, expanded education, military patrols, and intelligence gathering. The court left prepared to confront both domestic unrest and foreign threats.

• Xun Yu reported that local magnates and officials were obstructing unified writing and standardized roads while spreading rumors against the new policies.
• Zhang Fei and Guan Yu offered to crush the agitators by force, but Xun Yu urged Chen Yu to win public support through fair compensation, clean administration, and education.
• Chen Yu ordered Liu Bei to assist Xun Yu and the Jing'an Bureau and Wind-Listening Guard to investigate officials and track down those spreading rumors.
• Chen Yu assigned Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to patrol the commanderies and authorized them to execute anyone who gathered crowds to defy the law or storm government offices.
• Chen Yu instructed Guo Jia to intensify foreign intelligence on Saint Poplar and the Cipher Pol Agency, and Guo Jia reported that three teams had already been sent to infiltrate Saint Poplar's Royal Capital and the Navy's Tequila Wolf branch.

Gan Ning defeated and captured a Saint Poplar patrol fleet, prompting Chen Yu and his advisers to plan a strike against the coalition’s commanders and a secret search for mineral islands. Zhao Yun set out across the Sea of Lost Souls to explore new supply routes and seek Zhuge Liang at Water-Mirror Manor.

• Gan Ning blocked the Saint Poplar fleet’s cannon fire, defeated Commodore Pablo, and captured three warships and several hundred prisoners.
• Guo Jia identified the coalition’s commanders as its weak point, while Xun Yu and Liu Bei warned that the blockade was causing shortages and profiteering at home.
• Chen Yu ordered Guo Jia’s Wind-Listening Guard to track Barton and his core generals for a Decapitation Strike by Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Xingba.
• Chen Yu sent Zhao Yun to lead a secret expedition beyond Storm Cape in search of mineral islands and ordered the creation of the Pearl-Seeking expedition team.
• Zhao Yun left Chang'an with Chen Yu’s recruitment edict and Guo Jia’s letter for Zhuge Liang, then boarded a modified fast boat at a Wind-Listening Guard rendezvous.
• Zhao Yun used Reshiram’s power and True Sight to navigate the Sea of Lost Souls toward the hidden haven where the Sleeping Dragon lay concealed.