Recaps

After the Forbidden Magic Book transported Ye Yang from Earth to the world of One Piece, it explained that it could unseal imprisoned figures or absorb their abilities using rule power. Ye Yang learned that Devil Fruits contained this world’s rule power, leaving him ready to explore the possibilities of his new life.

• Ye Yang woke on a wooden bed beside the sea and learned from the Forbidden Magic Book that it had merged with him and brought him to a parallel world.
• The book transferred memories to Ye Yang, who recognized the world as One Piece and accepted that he could not return to Earth for now.
• Ye Yang vowed to roam the world and become strong.
• The Forbidden Magic Book explained that it could unseal figures from myriad worlds or merge one of their abilities into Ye Yang.
• The book identified Devil Fruits as the tangible form of rule power needed to unseal figures and abilities.

Ye Yang unsealed Madara Uchiha in the Forbidden Magic Book and merged with his power, gaining the Rinnegan and strength to survive in the pirate world. After waking aboard a merchant ship bound for the Sabaody Archipelago, he decided to find a Log Pose rather than spend two more days sailing.

• Ye Yang accepted the Forbidden Magic Book's free unsealing and discovered that it had revealed Madara Uchiha.
• Ye Yang chose to merge with Madara Uchiha's power and gained his abilities, including the Rinnegan.
• Ye Yang went out on deck and learned from a merchant that the ship was on the Grand Line and heading to the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Ye Yang ate the meal the merchant offered and learned the ship would reach Sabaody in two days.
• Ye Yang decided to find a Log Pose so he could travel to Sabaody without waiting aboard the slow ship.

Ye Yang decided to repay the merchant crew that had saved him by fighting the Blood Axe Pirates, whose captain, Blood Axe Kuangsi, was preparing to head for the New World. As the pirates attacked, Ye Yang stepped onto the sea and mocked Kuangsi, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• The merchant crew identified Blood Axe Kuangsi's pirates as murderous Supernovas and feared their 130-million-Beli captain.
• Ye Yang chose to defend the merchant crew and test Madara Uchiha's power against the pirates.
• The Blood Axe Pirates fired on the merchant ship, whose single cannon could not match their four guns.
• Ye Yang leaped onto the sea's surface, prompting the merchant crew to believe he might be a Navy fighter.
• Blood Axe Kuangsi boasted that he would defeat Whitebeard and become the strongest before an unseen voice mocked him.

Ye Yang confronted Blood Axe Kuangsi and the Blood Axe Pirates to obtain Kuangsi’s Log Pose. He destroyed their ship with Wood Release: Wood Dragon Jutsu and left with the Log Pose.

• Ye Yang appeared at the bow of the Blood Axe Pirates’ ship and noticed Blood Axe Kuangsi wore a Log Pose on his wrist.
• A pirate attacked Ye Yang, but Ye Yang caught the sword blade between two fingers.
• Ye Yang used Wood Release: Wood Dragon Jutsu, summoning a massive wooden dragon that terrified the pirates.
• The wooden dragon smashed the pirate ship and swallowed everyone aboard, then brought Ye Yang Blood Axe Kuangsi’s severed arm.
• Ye Yang took the undamaged Log Pose from Kuangsi’s arm and tossed the arm into the sea.

Ye Yang learned that negative points could restore the powers of characters he unlocked in the future, though they could not strengthen the full power of Madara Uchiha he had already inherited. After leaving the merchant ship, he reached Sabaody Archipelago and decided to seek out Dark King Rayleigh for information about Devil Fruits.

• The Forbidden Magic Book explained that negative points came from others’ negative emotions and could upgrade newly unlocked characters, while Madara Uchiha’s full inheritance could not be increased.
• Ye Yang learned that restoring a character’s full power could require 150,000 negative points and grumbled that he should have tortured the Blood Axe Pirates to earn more.
• Ye Yang thanked the merchant captain for saving him and feeding him, then ran across the sea toward Sabaody Archipelago.
• Ye Yang arrived in Area 27, surveyed the Lawless Zone, and decided to look for Devil Fruits to unlock more characters.
• Ye Yang remembered that Dark King Rayleigh was on the island and considered seeking him out.

Ye Yang found Rayleigh at Shakky's bar and traded information about Gol D. Roger's orphan for Haki training and knowledge of Devil Fruits. After learning about an upcoming auction in Area 1, Ye Yang studied the bounty posters and planned to hunt pirates for money, suspecting three Supernovas were still in the Sabaody Archipelago.

• Ye Yang entered Shakky's bar and asked Shakky to call out Dark King Rayleigh.
• Ye Yang claimed to know where Gol D. Roger's orphan was, prompting Rayleigh to arrive and confront him.
• Ye Yang agreed to reveal the orphan's whereabouts if Rayleigh taught him the Three Types of Haki and shared what he knew about Devil Fruits.
• Rayleigh told Ye Yang that a Devil Fruit would be auctioned in Area 1 in five days.
• Ye Yang asked Shakky for the latest bounty posters and decided to earn Beli by hunting pirates.
• Ye Yang saw that three of the remaining Supernovas might still be in the Sabaody Archipelago.

Ye Yang left Shakky’s bar after naming Portgas D. Rouge, which left Rayleigh conflicted. He then confronted Supernova Fierce Tiger Reika in a pirate bar, confirmed Reika’s identity, and moved to claim his bounty.

• Rayleigh demanded proof that Ye Yang was telling the truth, and Ye Yang answered with the name Portgas D. Rouge before leaving.
• At a bar in Area 21, Fierce Tiger Reika’s lackeys boasted that he had killed four bounty hunters with one move.
• Reika declared that he would become the Pirate King and insulted the other pirates as unworthy trash.
• Ye Yang mocked Reika, confirmed his name and 180-million-Beli bounty, and said he wanted the bounty.
• Ye Yang swiftly appeared before Reika, told him to rest in Impel Down, and the lackeys collapsed behind him.

Ye Yang confronted Fierce Tiger Reika in a bar, blocked his punch with one finger, and attacked him with a Great Fireball Technique. Reika emerged transformed into a giant tiger and revealed that he could use Armament Haki to counter Logia users.

• Reika attacked Ye Yang, but Ye Yang stopped his enormous punch with one finger.
• Reika backed down and proposed ending the conflict, but Ye Yang refused because he had come for Reika’s bounty.
• Ye Yang used Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, blasting a hole through the bar as the pirates assumed he was a Logia user.
• Reika emerged from the smoke transformed into a giant tiger.
• Reika said Logia users had weaknesses and covered his arm with Armament Haki.

Ye Yang defeated and captured Fierce Tiger Reika, then learned that stronger people produce more negative points when they hate him. He left the bar carrying Reika, while the pirates realized how powerful he was.

• Lei Jia attacked Ye Yang with his Devil Fruit ability and Armament Haki, but Ye Yang stopped his punch with one hand.
• Ye Yang cut off Lei Jia's arm with a chakra Kunai, then struck him down when he tried to flee.
• Ye Yang spared Lei Jia because he planned to hand him over to the Marines and use his hatred to earn negative points.
• The Forbidden Magic Book awarded Ye Yang three hundred negative points and explained that stronger people generate more points.
• Ye Yang carried the unconscious Lei Jia out of the bar, leaving the pirates shocked by the capture.

Ye Yang returned to Shakky's Rip-off Bar and began Haki training with Rayleigh, quickly learning to use Armament Haki by copying Rayleigh's demonstration with his Sharingan. The chapter left Rayleigh repeatedly getting punched as Ye Yang tested his strength during Observation Haki practice.

• Ye Yang returned to Shakky's Rip-off Bar, where Rayleigh eagerly began training him.
• Rayleigh explained the Three Types of Haki and demonstrated Armament Haki.
• Ye Yang used his Sharingan to copy Armament Haki within minutes, then repeated the feat without the Sharingan.
• Rayleigh began teaching Observation Haki and asked Ye Yang to attack him.
• Ye Yang punched Rayleigh and sent him flying, then struck him again at full strength before Rayleigh could react.

Ye Yang tested his Sharingan technique on Rayleigh and then trained to develop Observation Haki. After dodging and catching Rayleigh’s thrown stones, Ye Yang demonstrated that he had learned both types of Haki.

• Rayleigh told Ye Yang that something had interfered with his ability to dodge, and Ye Yang explained that his attack technique disrupted Observation Haki.
• Rayleigh asked Ye Yang to attack without using the technique, and he dodged Ye Yang’s punches.
• Ye Yang asked Rayleigh to attack him and closed his eyes to test his ability to sense incoming attacks.
• Ye Yang dodged Rayleigh’s first two stones and caught all five of the stones thrown at him together.
• Rayleigh praised Ye Yang for learning Observation Haki, completing his mastery of both types of Haki.

After Ye Yang awakened Conqueror's Haki during training with Rayleigh, he declared that he would build his own faction, the Dark Forbidden Legion. Five days later, he arrived at an underground auction house in Area 1 to attend a Devil Fruit auction.

• Rayleigh released his Conqueror's Haki so Ye Yang could experience it, but Ye Yang resisted its pressure with his chakra.
• Ye Yang awakened and released Conqueror's Haki, knocking out nearby people and shocking Rayleigh.
• Ye Yang told Rayleigh that he belonged to neither the pirates nor the Marines and named his faction the Dark Forbidden Legion.
• Ye Yang explained that he intended to make the Dark Forbidden Legion a world power under his sole rule.
• After five days, Ye Yang arrived at the underground auction house, where a guard asked him to pay five million Beli to enter.

Ye Yang attended an illicit auction on Sabaody Archipelago, where his reputation as the Black Hunter kept others away. The auction’s final item was revealed to be a Paramecia Devil Fruit.

• Ye Yang paid the guards and entered the auction house, where he recognized the Supernova Jeraff in a private box.
• Pirates recognized Ye Yang as the Black Hunter and avoided sitting near him after recounting his capture of three Supernovas.
• Moss opened the auction and sold a supposedly Seastone blade, which Ye Yang recognized as a fake, for thirty-five million Beli.
• After more than an hour of bidding, Moss unveiled the auction’s final item: a Paramecia Devil Fruit.

Ye Yang outbid Cowardly Scoundrel Jeraf for an unknown Paramecia Devil Fruit, provoking Jeraf's anger. Just as Moss was about to sell it to Ye Yang for four hundred million Beli, a bidder in a third-floor box offered another one hundred million.

• Moss began the auction for an unknown Paramecia Devil Fruit with a starting price of one hundred and fifty million Beli.
• Bidders raised the price until Cowardly Scoundrel Jeraf offered three hundred and twenty million Beli and intimidated the crowd into stopping.
• Ye Yang bid four hundred million Beli, angering Jeraf despite his pirate warning that Ye Yang was the Black Hunter who had defeated Fierce Tiger Reika and others.
• Moss began counting down Ye Yang's bid after no one else responded.
• A bidder in a third-floor private box interrupted the count and offered one hundred million Beli for the Devil Fruit.

Saint Charlos used his status as a Celestial Dragon to take the Devil Fruit from Ye Yang for only a hundred million Beli, then ordered Marines to gouge out Ye Yang’s eyes. Ye Yang killed the Marines who tried to arrest him, and Vice Admiral Lorn confronted him as a fight became imminent.

• Saint Charlos overruled Ye Yang’s four-hundred-million-Beli bid and won the Devil Fruit for a hundred million Beli.
• Saint Charlos revealed himself and ordered Marines to gouge out Ye Yang’s eyes.
• Two Marines tried to arrest Ye Yang, but he killed them with a kunai before they could fire.
• Saint Charlos ordered Vice Admiral Lorn to capture Ye Yang and punish him.
• Vice Admiral Lorn confronted Ye Yang, who rejected his demand to surrender and prepared to fight.

Ye Yang defeated Vice Admiral Lorn’s slash with a massive fire attack, then stopped Jeraff and his men from escaping with the auctioned Devil Fruit. As Jeraff prepared to eat it, a kunai pierced his heart from behind.

• Vice Admiral Lorn attacked Ye Yang with Finger Pistol, but Ye Yang dodged and Lorn followed with Shadow-Splitting Slash.
• Ye Yang used Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame to overwhelm Lorn’s slash and blast Lorn, causing the auction house to shake as guests fled.
• Ye Yang spotted Jeraff and his men trying to escape with the Devil Fruit and used the Body Flicker Technique to block their path.
• Jeraff ordered his crew to hold Ye Yang off while he ate the Devil Fruit, but a kunai pierced his heart from behind just as he was about to bite it.

Ye Yang killed Jeraff, absorbed the Paramecia Devil Fruit’s power of rules, and refused to unlock a character while Vice Admiral Lorn remained a threat. He seized Saint Charlos and forced Lorn to promise Marine compensation, leaving Lorn agreeing through clenched teeth.

• Ye Yang used a clone to kill Jeraff and his subordinates, then absorbed the Devil Fruit’s power of rules without unlocking a new character.
• Ye Yang confronted Saint Charlos and killed the Marines guarding him.
• Ye Yang grabbed Saint Charlos by the neck as Vice Admiral Lorn emerged from the rubble and ordered him to stop.
• Ye Yang threatened to kill Saint Charlos and demanded compensation for the vanished Devil Fruit, his injuries, emotional distress, and torn clothes.
• Vice Admiral Lorn agreed to pay for Ye Yang’s losses and expenses.

Ye Yang held Saint Charlos hostage and demanded five Devil Fruits and one billion Beli from the Marines. After Vice Admiral Lorn reported the kidnapping to headquarters, Sengoku learned of the crisis and called it worse than a war between the Four Emperors.

• Ye Yang refused to release Saint Charlos until the Marines paid five Devil Fruits and one billion Beli.
• Vice Admiral Lorn ordered the G-7 Branch to bring its two Zoan Devil Fruits and five hundred million Beli to Area One, then reported the hostage situation to headquarters.
• Lorn described Ye Yang as having strength on par with an Admiral to request reinforcements.
• At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku received the report while Garp ate rice crackers.
• Sengoku ordered Lorn to keep Ye Yang calm and declared that a Celestial Dragon had been taken hostage.

After Ye Yang took Saint Charlos hostage and attacked him in the Sabaody Archipelago, Sengoku sent Akainu Sakazuki and Kizaru Borsalino to capture the unknown man, whom Vice Admiral Lorn had reported as having Admiral-level strength. Ye Yang emerged from the auction house with Charlos and struck him in front of a crowd, prompting pirates across the islands to flee as news spread.

• Garp questioned Sengoku about the unknown person who had taken a Celestial Dragon hostage, and Sengoku decided to send two Admirals after him.
• Sengoku summoned Akainu Sakazuki and Kizaru Borsalino and ordered them to arrest the criminal in the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Ye Yang carried Saint Charlos out of the damaged auction house while Marines and onlookers waited outside.
• Ye Yang slammed Charlos into the ground, shocking the gathered crowd and alarming the pirates.
• News that Ye Yang had beaten a Celestial Dragon spread across the Sabaody Archipelago, and pirates fled toward the harbor.

Ye Yang collected two Devil Fruits and five hundred million Beli from Vice Admiral Lorn in exchange for releasing Saint Charlos, while his Negative Points surged as the people of Sabaody resented him. Lorn attacked Ye Yang after the exchange, but Ye Yang defeated him and revealed himself atop a giant monster before the Marines.

• Ye Yang realized that beating up Saint Charlos had earned him a flood of Negative Points from the fearful and resentful people of Sabaody.
• Vice Admiral Lorn offered two Devil Fruits and five hundred million Beli in exchange for Saint Charlos's release, and Ye Yang accepted the goods.
• Ye Yang had the Forbidden Magic Book absorb the Devil Fruits, then sent Saint Charlos flying back to the Marines with a Whip Kick.
• Lorn charged Ye Yang with Shave and struck with Oni Giri, but Ye Yang sent Lorn crashing through houses and into a distant wall.
• A gust cleared the dust, revealing Ye Yang standing atop a giant monster as the Marines stared up at him.

Ye Yang killed a Celestial Dragon with a massive fire attack, leaving Vice Admiral Lorn to face the World Government’s punishment. He defeated Lorn but spared him, hoping Lorn’s resentment would keep generating Negative Points.

• Lorn tried to order the Marines to retreat, but Ye Yang launched four enormous fire dragons at them.
• The fire attack carved a huge crater into the ground, and Lorn concluded that the Celestial Dragon had died.
• Lorn blamed Ye Yang for ruining his life, and the Forbidden Magic Book awarded Ye Yang 1,000 Negative Points.
• Lorn charged Ye Yang with a Tachi, but Ye Yang’s wooden dragon swept him through several houses and left him unconscious.
• Ye Yang spared Lorn to harvest his resentment, dispelled the Wood Dragon Technique, and left.

Ye Yang used all three units of rule power to unlock and summon Ulquiorra Cifer, gaining a new ally for the Dark Forbidden Legion. He chose to extract Ulquiorra’s High-Speed Regeneration skill and left the other abilities unselected.

• Ye Yang went to the deserted harbor in Area One to wait for the Admirals and use his rule power to unlock a character.
• The Forbidden Magic Book used all three units of rule power and unlocked Ulquiorra Cifer.
• Ye Yang chose to summon Ulquiorra rather than merge with his power, and Ulquiorra arrived and pledged himself to Ye Yang.
• The Forbidden Magic Book explained that the forbidden mark on Ulquiorra’s head identified him as a summoned character and could let Ye Yang possess his body.
• Ye Yang reviewed the skills available to extract and chose High-Speed Regeneration.

Ye Yang gained Ulquiorra’s High-Speed Regeneration and appointed him the Fourth Forbidden Blade of the Dark Forbidden Legion and his guard. As Ye Yang considered how to strengthen Ulquiorra and reach the New World, Akainu received Sengoku’s order to send Kizaru ahead to Sabaody to stop the criminal who had killed a Celestial Dragon.

• Ye Yang inherited High-Speed Regeneration and tested it by cutting his wrist, which healed immediately.
• Ye Yang appointed Ulquiorra the Fourth Forbidden Blade of the Dark Forbidden Legion and his guard, then told him he no longer needed to kneel.
• Ye Yang checked Ulquiorra’s status and learned that three stars allowed first-stage Resurrección, while five stars were required for the second stage.
• Ye Yang asked about the Negative Points needed to upgrade Ulquiorra and decided he needed to reach the New World to earn more.
• Sengoku called Akainu and ordered him to send Borsalino ahead to Sabaody because the criminal who killed a Celestial Dragon must not escape.
• Kizaru complained about the assignment and vanished in a flash of light.

Ye Yang waited at the harbor for the Marines, and Admiral Kizaru arrived and attacked him for killing a Celestial Dragon. Ulquiorra blocked Kizaru, then unleashed a devastating Cero and Spiritual Pressure, leaving Kizaru shocked and recognizing what he thought was Conqueror's Haki.

• Ye Yang complained about the Marines’ delay, and Kizaru appeared and confirmed that Ye Yang was the criminal who killed a Celestial Dragon.
• Kizaru attacked Ye Yang with a Light-Speed Kick, but Ulquiorra appeared and blocked the strike with his Zanpakuto.
• Ye Yang ordered Ulquiorra to take care of Kizaru, and Ulquiorra fired a Cero that blasted a huge crater into the harbor.
• Kizaru reformed at the crater’s edge and took Ulquiorra seriously after nearly being caught in the attack.
• Ulquiorra released his Spiritual Pressure, and Kizaru mistook it for Conqueror's Haki.

Ulquiorra fought Kizaru, whose Logia abilities made him immune to Ulquiorra’s Cero. Ye Yang sensed three Navy warships approaching, including another Admiral, and realized the Navy had sent two Admirals to capture him.

• Kizaru questioned Ulquiorra about the Dark Forbidden Legion, and Ye Yang clarified that they were not pirates.
• Kizaru formed Ama no Murakumo and attacked Ulquiorra, who dodged his laser and fired a Cero through Kizaru’s chest.
• Kizaru’s body dispersed into light and reformed, and Ye Yang explained that Logia users required Armament Haki to be hit.
• Kizaru judged Ulquiorra to be Admiral-level and feared he could not handle both Ulquiorra and Ye Yang alone.
• Ye Yang sensed three approaching Navy warships and another presence comparable to Kizaru’s, identifying a second Admiral among them.