Recaps

After Rocks fell, the surviving pirates scattered and formed new ambitions while Yas returned to the Marines. Sengoku and the officers were left stunned by Yas's power, and Sengoku asked who he really was.

• Golden Lion Shiki declared that the new era belonged to him and led his surviving ships away from the ruins.
• Charlotte Linlin declared Rocks dead, renamed her crew the Big Mom Pirates, and set out to build Totto Land.
• Kaido fled beneath the sea, terrified of Yas and unable to look back.
• Yas watched the future Emperors scatter, then teleported onto the Marine flagship commanded by Sengoku.
• Sengoku confronted Yas and asked how he had defeated Rocks and who he was.

After Yas killed Rocks and destroyed the Rocks Pirates at God Valley, the Marines returned to Marineford in triumph, where his overwhelming presence stunned the crowd. Fleet Admiral Kong congratulated Yas and told him the Five Elders wanted to meet him, warning that the victory’s credit would be complicated.

• Yas dismissed Sengoku’s question and described destroying the Rocks Pirates as taking out the trash.
• Fleet Admiral Kong received reports that God Valley had vanished, then learned from Sengoku’s adjutant that Yas had killed Rocks and the Rocks Pirates were annihilated.
• News of the victory spread through Marineford, where Marines argued over whether Yas or Garp and Sengoku had defeated Rocks.
• The battered expeditionary fleet returned to Marineford, and Yas’s icy presence silenced the welcoming crowd.
• Fleet Admiral Kong congratulated Yas and summoned him to meet the Five Elders, cautioning that credit for the victory would be complicated.

Yas met with the Five Elders, who ordered God Valley erased from history and offered him an honorary Admiral title in exchange for silence. Yas rejected the title and demanded a tangible reward that would make him stronger, leaving the Elders to answer his challenge.

• Fleet Admiral Kong brought Yas to a top-secret meeting with the Five Elders.
• The Five Elders praised Yas for defeating the Rocks Pirates at God Valley but condemned the humiliation and casualties among the Celestial Dragons.
• The Five Elders ordered God Valley erased from history and said Monkey D. Garp would receive public credit while Yas's role remained secret.
• The blond Elder offered Yas an honorary Admiral title as compensation for keeping silent.
• Yas rejected the title and demanded a tangible reward that could make him stronger.

Yas withstood the Five Elders’ Conqueror’s Haki and demanded a reward for his achievements. He rejected their offers of wealth, status, weapons, and secrets, then demanded authority to command Marine resources and create his own loyal Judgment force.

• The Five Elders unleashed their Conqueror’s Haki through the Golden Den Den Mushi, but Yas remained unmoved.
• Yas mocked their threats, and memories of God Valley made the Five Elders recognize the danger of provoking him.
• The blond Elder backed down and claimed they had only been testing Yas, but Yas demanded an immediate answer.
• The samurai Elder offered wealth, political power, famous swords, and secrets, including information about the Ancient Weapons.
• Yas rejected the offers and demanded authority to command all Marine resources, create a loyal Judgment force, and make his will the Marines’ new justice.

Yas forced the Five Elders to grant him sweeping authority over a personal Marine force, including the power to mobilize local forces and call a Buster Call, in exchange for accepting promotion to Admiral. The World Government announced his new code name, Azure Thunder, and Garp learned that Yas had seized the rank as a tool for his own purposes.

• Yas demanded command of a force loyal to him and authority to mobilize Marine resources, while the Five Elders struggled to decide whether to resist or concede.
• The Five Elders agreed to Yas's demands and promoted him from Rear Admiral to Admiral of Marine Headquarters to legitimize his powers.
• Yas chose the code name Azure Thunder, and Kong's emergency notice announcing his promotion spread across Marine branches and affiliated nations.
• Marine officers reacted with shock as Yas's promotion shook Marineford.
• Garp confronted Kong over Yas's promotion, and Kong explained that Yas had forcibly claimed the rank to make it easier for him to act.

After Yas became the Navy’s new Admiral, his authority and code name shook the world, frightening Kaido and Charlotte Linlin while alarming Dragon. Back at Marineford, Yas received an SSS+ achievement reward for ending the Rocks era, leveling up and unlocking the Azure Thunder Law’s ultimate secret form.

• Garp learned from Fleet Admiral Kong that Yas had threatened the Five Elders and gained authority beyond that of an Admiral, leaving the Navy powerless to restrain him.
• Kaido heard Yas’s code name, Azure Thunder, and made dying at Yas’s hands his ideal end.
• Charlotte Linlin ordered the Big Mom Pirates not to provoke any Navy vessel flying Azure Thunder’s flag.
• Dragon read the announcement and feared that Yas’s rise would make the Revolutionary Army’s path harder.
• Yas returned to his new Marineford residence and received an SSS+ achievement for ending the Rocks era, along with a level increase and the ultimate secret form of the Azure Thunder Law.

Yas unlocked three powerful divine skills: God's Pure Land, Azure Thunder Flash, and Spear of Divine Punishment. After learning that his Marine Admiral inauguration would take place at Marineford the next morning, he decided to use the ceremony to test his new power and show the world Azure Thunder's justice.

• Yas gained God's Pure Land, a domain that suppressed abilities and weakened targets judged sinful.
• Yas unlocked Azure Thunder Flash, which let him move at absolute speed beyond detection or physical restraints.
• Yas unlocked Spear of Divine Punishment, an orbital strike with a range of one thousand kilometers and power equivalent to one hundred Buster Calls.
• An aide told Yas that his public inauguration as a Marine Admiral would take place at Marineford's Central Plaza at ten the next morning.
• Yas accepted the ceremony and planned to use it to test his new power before the world.

At his inauguration ceremony, Yas faced skepticism from Marine officers over his appointment as Admiral. When the G-1 Branch came under attack, he claimed the mission for himself and challenged anyone who objected.

• Sakazuki criticized Yas's promotion, while Borsalino noted Yas's defeat of Rocks's crew and Kuzan remained silent.
• Sengoku told Yas that he could recruit Marines without limit and that his Sky City residence and office were ready.
• An intelligence officer reported that Doriano's Destruction-User United Fleet and more than a dozen Supernova crews were attacking the G-1 Branch, whose defenders requested Admiral-level support.
• Sengoku began assigning Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Borsalino to respond, but Yas claimed the mission as his own.
• Yas stared down the other Vice Admirals and asked whether they had a problem with his decision.

Yas silenced Sakazuki, Borsalino, and Kuzan’s objections by using God's Pure Land to nullify their Devil Fruit powers, then left for the G-1 Branch alone. A distress call from G-1 erupted into screams as Yas arrived, leaving Sengoku and the others stunned by what was happening there.

• Sakazuki, Borsalino, and Kuzan challenged Yas’s authority and argued that Sakazuki should lead the response to the G-1 crisis.
• Yas deployed God's Pure Land and temporarily stripped the three future Admirals of their Devil Fruit powers, telling them he had been informing them rather than asking for opinions.
• Yas vanished from the Fleet Admiral's Office using Azure Thunder Flash, and the three Marines regained their powers after his domain dissipated.
• Sengoku answered the emergency Den Den Mushi from G-1 and tried to warn the branch that Yas had already set out alone.
• A violent explosion sounded over the Den Den Mushi, followed by panicked cries that Yas had arrived and something was in the sky.

Yas arrived at G-1 Branch as a pirate fleet threatened to overwhelm the fortress, then used God's Pure Land to suppress the fleet and punish its pirates. The battle remained underway as Yas prepared to target the fleet's leaders.

• The G-1 commander reported that Doriano the Shipbreaker and more than a dozen Supernovas had nearly three times G-1 Branch's strength and were close to breaching the fortress.
• Yas appeared in the command center and dismissed the commander's attempt to brief him on the battle.
• Yas ordered the operators to mark the pirate leaders' ships on the electronic nautical chart.
• Yas expanded God's Pure Land across G-1 Branch and the surrounding waters, disabling Devil Fruit powers and inflicting Purification Thunder on the pirates.
• Yas raised his finger toward the marked pirate leaders and declared that the warm-up was over.

Yas used Azure Thunder Flash to kill the leaders of the Destruction-User United Fleet in seconds, leaving G-1 Branch's officers stunned. He then decided to test his new toy on the remaining pirate grunts himself.

• Yas vanished from G-1 Branch's command center and appeared aboard the Leviathan, where he killed Shipbreaker Doriano with One-Finger Nukite.
• Yas flashed across the fleet and killed pirate leaders including Blast Disco, Venom Q, and Griffin.
• Within fifteen seconds, Yas killed the fleet's dozen or so leaders, and their markers disappeared from G-1 Branch's sea chart one by one.
• Yas returned to the command center and told the commander to clean up the remaining pirates.
• After seeing the scattered grunts and exhausted Marines, Yas decided to clear them himself and test his new toy's area attack.

Yas unleashed the Spear of Divine Punishment on the pirate fleet gathered off G-1, erasing the fleet and devastating the sea while sparing the fortress. After the stunned Marines arrived, Yas announced that his next target was Impel Down.

• Yas activated the Spear of Divine Punishment and targeted the center of the G-1 waters.
• Garp, Sakazuki, and the other Marines witnessed the colossal azure spear descend from the sky.
• The attack erased the pirate ships and their crews, carved a vast cavity into the sea, and left the G-1 Fortress unharmed.
• Yas returned to G-1 as Garp, Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Borsalino arrived and stared at him in fear.
• Yas told the Marines the cleanup was over and declared that his next target was Impel Down.

Yas declared that Impel Down was his next target and used Divine Punishment to purify its prisoners, then turned his attention to the Holy Land Mary Geoise. The Five Elders watched in terror as Yas announced that the next phase of his spring cleaning would target them.

• Yas rejected Garp, Sengoku, and Sakazuki’s objections and vanished from G-1 harbor to attack Impel Down.
• News of Yas’s destruction of the Destruction-User United Fleet spread worldwide, alarming the Four Emperors, the Revolutionary Army, and the World Government’s affiliated nations.
• Yas entered Impel Down’s Infinite Hell, where he repelled Magellan and the jailers with God's Pure Land.
• Yas used a beam of purifying light to erase the prisoners on levels one through six, nearly a hundred thousand criminals in total.
• Yas gained experience and upgraded God's Pure Land as the Five Elders watched from Mary Geoise.
• Yas declared phase one complete and named the filth in the Holy Land as his next target.