Recaps

Nami defeated a pack of Sea Kings as the crew reached Loguetown, where Sanji asked Lin Xuan for training after feeling outmatched. Lin Xuan accompanied Isuka to Ipponmatsu’s weapons shop, and the chapter ended as Isuka touched a strange sword in the bargain barrel.

• Nami used her Clima-Tact to kill seven or eight Sea Kings, while Carina also shot one and Lin Xuan examined the bodies.
• Sanji told Lin Xuan he did not want to be dead weight, and Lin Xuan gave him heavy wrist weights and challenged him to kick the sea to a boil.
• The crew reached Loguetown, where Zoro stayed aboard to train and Lin Xuan headed into town to inspect the weapons shop.
• Isuka hurried into Lin Xuan, then let him accompany her to Ipponmatsu’s shop as she sought to buy Yubashiri.
• Ipponmatsu refused to sell Yubashiri to Isuka despite her offer of three million Beli, and Isuka tried to help Lin Xuan choose a sword instead.
• Isuka reached for a strange, ominous-looking sword in the shop’s barrel, and it hummed as her fingers touched its hilt.

Lin Xuan received Sandai Kitetsu and Yubashiri from Ipponmatsu after suppressing the demon sword, but a giant mantis attacked the shop before he could leave. Zoro arrived and killed the monster with Three Sword Style: Oni Giri.

• Lin Xuan caught Sandai Kitetsu before it could cut Isuka and subdued it with his killing intent.
• Ipponmatsu recognized Lin Xuan's Murasame and tried to give him Sandai Kitetsu and Yubashiri, despite his wife's protests.
• A bloodied Marine warned Isuka that monsters had appeared throughout town as a giant mantis smashed into the shop.
• The giant mantis knocked Isuka into the counter and prepared to attack again.
• Zoro entered the shop and killed the giant mantis with Three Sword Style: Oni Giri.

Lin Xuan and his companions defeated two monsters in Loguetown before Marines recognized him from a secret Headquarters notice. Golden Lion Shiki appeared above the town and threatened to destroy it, and Smoker charged at him.

• Zoro and Sanji arrived at Lin Xuan’s damaged weapon shop after Zoro broke two swords, and Sanji killed the wounded mantis.
• Carina shot the giant ape in the eye, and Nami electrocuted it in a puddle with her Clima-Tact.
• Isuka questioned Lin Xuan’s identity, but arriving Marines recognized him from a confidential Headquarters notice and lowered their weapons.
• Golden Lion Shiki floated above Loguetown on a massive airborne island and announced his intention to destroy the town.
• Smoker launched himself toward Shiki and vowed to stop him from attacking Loguetown.

Lin Xuan challenged Golden Lion Shiki after using Conqueror’s Haki to knock out the mutant beasts threatening Loguetown. Shiki drew him onto his floating island for a duel, leaving his friends and the Marines behind as the battlefield rose into the clouds.

• Golden Lion Shiki defeated Smoker with a casual strike, and Smoker ordered Isuka to evacuate the Marines and civilians.
• Shiki unleashed hundreds of mutant beasts on Loguetown, but Lin Xuan’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked them all unconscious.
• Lin Xuan told Isuka to get Smoker and the others to safety, then faced Shiki as Smoker struggled to stand.
• Shiki offered Lin Xuan a place at his side, but Lin Xuan challenged him to a fight with his head as the stake.
• Shiki lifted his floating island and drew Lin Xuan aboard; Lin Xuan told Carina to take the others back to the ship and disappeared into the clouds with Shiki.

After learning that Golden Lion Shiki had taken Lin Xuan away from Loguetown aboard his floating island, Garp demanded an immediate rescue. Sengoku ordered Kizaru to search the East Blue and keep Lin Xuan alive until Garp could reach him.

• Garp threatened to force Kizaru to search for Lin Xuan, and Sengoku broke up their confrontation before it escalated.
• Sengoku ordered Garp to leave for the East Blue and tasked Kizaru with locating Shiki’s floating island and protecting Lin Xuan until Garp arrived.
• Kizaru agreed to head out using the speed of his Glint-Glint Fruit.

Lin Xuan fought Golden Lion Shiki’s drug-enhanced beasts on Merveille after Shiki ordered the creatures released to test him. After easily defeating a giant mantis, Lin Xuan charged toward Shiki’s palace, where a silver-backed wolf attacked him.

• Garp hurriedly boarded the Dog-Head Warship and ordered it to sail at full speed toward Lin Xuan.
• Shiki and Dr. Indigo opened a jungle gate to release a mutated bear as a test for Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan sensed pirates watching him, then unleashed his spiritual pressure and made the giant bear collapse.
• Lin Xuan blocked a giant mantis’s scythe with Armament Haki and destroyed it with one swing of his Wooden Sword.
• Lin Xuan charged toward Shiki’s palace, prompting the pirates to open every cage; a silver-backed giant wolf then lunged at him.

Lin Xuan unlocked a power that let him control the fragments of his shattered Demon Sword Murakumo and slaughtered the beast hordes and pirates across Floating Sky Island. He then headed toward the central tower, where a powerful presence still waited.

• The hook-handed pirate sent flying monsters and acid-spitting rats to attack Lin Xuan after the beasts failed to stop him.
• Lin Xuan's Wooden Sword broke, and he drew Demon Sword Murakumo, which shattered as his new Thousand Blades ability awakened.
• Lin Xuan controlled the sword fragments to cut down the attacking beasts, then used them to kill the pirates in the fortress after slicing its upper half apart.
• Lin Xuan crossed the ruined outer region and approached the central tower, drawn by the powerful aura remaining there.

Lin Xuan fought Golden Lion Shiki after destroying his forces, rejecting Shiki’s offer to recruit him and overpowering him in their first sword exchanges. As Lin Xuan cut through Shiki’s stone-lion attack, Shiki used the dust to launch a surprise attack.

• Dr. Indigo reported that Lin Xuan had killed the thousands of beasts and test subjects defending the island, and Shiki confirmed their deaths with Observation Haki.
• Shiki confronted Lin Xuan among the floating ruins and offered him a place as his right-hand man, but Lin Xuan demanded that Shiki withstand his blade first.
• Lin Xuan struck Shiki with overwhelming strength, drove him backward, and battered him through the air with repeated attacks.
• Shiki retaliated by using his Float-Float Fruit to shape rocks and earth into giant stone lions that lunged at Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan split the stone lion before him with a two-handed slash, and Shiki suddenly pierced through the dust toward him.

Lin Xuan unleashed his newly materialized Spiritual Pressure and fought through Golden Lion Shiki’s attacks, forcing the legendary pirate to escalate his assault. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan splitting apart Shiki’s giant stone lion and closing in on him through the falling debris.

• Golden Lion Shiki struck Lin Xuan at close range, but Lin Xuan met his swords head-on and sent both fighters flying with a tremendous clash.
• Lin Xuan rose from the rubble despite his wounds, and Shiki acknowledged him as the strongest rookie on the seas before gathering the island’s rocks into a deadly cage.
• Lin Xuan drank from his flask, removed his weighted gear, and unlocked the materialization of his Kenpachi Zaraki Spiritual Pressure.
• Shiki attacked with Lion: Thousand-Cut Valley, but Lin Xuan charged through the Slashes, breaking most of them with his Spiritual Pressure.
• Shiki formed enormous stone lions and trapped Lin Xuan beneath them with Lion's Majesty: Sky Roll-Wild Dance of Lions.
• Lin Xuan charged the largest stone lion and split it apart with a single swing, emerging from the stone dust as Shiki’s stunned face drew near.

Lin Xuan defeated Golden Lion Shiki by cleaving through his island-sized Earth Roll, but Shiki survived long enough to acknowledge his loss and offer Lin Xuan the swords Oto and Kogarashi. As Shiki began to fall, Lin Xuan asked what he meant by giving them to him.

• Lin Xuan's slash broke through Golden Lion Shiki's Haki and cut across his chest, sending him crashing into the Floating Main Island.
• Shiki rose from the crater, tore the embedded ship's wheel from his skull, and unleashed Lion's Might: Earth Roll: Endless.
• Lin Xuan disabled Pain Suppression, transformed Murasame into a thousand-meter blade, and cleaved the enormous stone lion apart with Slaughter.
• Shiki admitted defeat and lamented that Roger had died before witnessing Lin Xuan's strength.
• Shiki pulled Oto and Kogarashi from his severed legs and sent the swords toward Lin Xuan as he began to fall.
• Lin Xuan asked Shiki what he meant.

After defeating Golden Lion Shiki, Lin Xuan fell with the collapsing islands and landed on Sky Island’s White Sea. He encountered the Shandia, who claimed the fallen land as their Vearth, and the chapter ended with Wyper ordering his warriors to drive him away or kill him.

• Golden Lion Shiki fell, and Lin Xuan’s template fusion progress rose to 45%, unlocking Yami Sukehiro’s subordinate character template.
• The floating islands collapsed without Golden Lion Shiki’s power, and Lin Xuan used Oto and Kogarashi to slow his fall before landing on the White Sea.
• Lin Xuan recognized that he had landed on Sky Island and spotted Shandia warriors celebrating the fallen islands as valuable Vearth.
• Wyper sensed Lin Xuan hiding among the wreckage, and Lin Xuan stepped out and confirmed that he had fallen with the land.
• Wyper claimed the Vearth for the Shandia and ordered his warriors to drive Lin Xuan away or kill him.

Lin Xuan withstood Wyper and the Shandia warriors’ attack, then overpowered Wyper before confronting Enel’s lightning strike. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan cutting the El Thor pillar apart in midair.

• Wyper and the Shandia warriors fired on Lin Xuan, but their attacks left him unscathed.
• Wyper and Kamakiri charged Lin Xuan, whose Spiritual Pressure knocked down the Shandia warriors and halted Kamakiri.
• Wyper forced his way through Lin Xuan’s killing intent with a Reject Dial, but Lin Xuan kicked him into a tree before he could attack.
• Enel summoned El Thor from a thundercloud, and Lin Xuan leaped up and severed the lightning pillar with Oto and Kogarashi.

Enel learned that Lin Xuan had cut apart his lightning and set out to meet him, while Lin Xuan dismissed the Sky Island warriors and offered to kill Enel in exchange for a meal. The chapter ended with Gan Fall and Wyper stunned by Lin Xuan’s bargain.

• Satori and the other priests warned Enel that a powerful Blue Sea man had defeated the Shandia forces, and Enel revealed that the man had cut apart his lightning strike.
• Enel ordered the priests to hurry the Ark Maxim’s preparations and vanished to confront Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan mocked the defeated Wyper and the absent god, while Wyper struggled back to his feet to defend Shandia’s honor.
• Gan Fall arrived, restrained Wyper, and asked Lin Xuan who he was; Lin Xuan identified himself as a Marine Headquarters trainee who had gotten lost.
• Lin Xuan asked Gan Fall for food and offered to cut down Enel in return, leaving Gan Fall and Wyper stunned.

Lin Xuan rejected Enel’s offer to become his priest and wounded him with an Armament Haki-coated slash, exposing the god’s vulnerability. Enel lost his composure and launched a lightning attack while appearing behind Lin Xuan.

• Wyper warned Gan Fall that Enel was too powerful to defeat, but Lin Xuan dismissed Wyper’s objections and demanded food.
• Lin Xuan ate with Aisa and described the Blue Sea before Aisa sensed Enel approaching.
• Enel arrived aboard the golden ark and offered Lin Xuan a position among his priests, but Lin Xuan mocked him and refused.
• Enel challenged Lin Xuan to touch him within a minute, but Lin Xuan struck him with an Armament Haki-coated blade and sent him crashing into the ruins.
• Enel raged at being wounded, summoned El Thor above Lin Xuan, and appeared behind him.

Lin Xuan tested his new Dark Magic against Enel’s Thunder God Avatar and proved he could withstand and break through its attacks. He appeared before Enel’s face, leaving the fight poised for a close-range counterattack.

• Lin Xuan faced Enel’s Thunder God Avatar and used Dark Magic to stop its giant Golden Trident from striking him.
• Enel attacked with a Thunder Bird and another trident thrust, but Lin Xuan’s golden skeleton caught the weapon while his Haki-coated hand gripped it.
• Lin Xuan broke Enel’s Golden Trident with his bare hand and dismissed him as too soft.
• Enel unleashed a 60 Million Volts: Thunder Dragon, but Lin Xuan shattered it with Spiritual Pressure and charged straight through.
• Lin Xuan appeared directly before Enel’s Thunder God Avatar.

At Marine Headquarters, Garp demanded a search for the missing Lin Xuan, but Akainu dismissed the recruit as weak and unworthy of the Navy’s resources. Garp nearly fought Akainu before Sengoku intervened, and he insisted Lin Xuan was still alive.

• Garp blamed Golden Lion Shiki for Lin Xuan’s disappearance and demanded to search for him.
• Tsuru noted that Lin Xuan’s Vivre Card showed he was alive and that traces at the scene suggested an upward air current.
• Kizaru remarked that Shiki might have taken Lin Xuan high into the sky, while Sengoku urged him to stop joking.
• Akainu opposed using Marine Headquarters’ resources to find a recruit and said the weak did not deserve justice’s time.
• Garp’s killing intent flared as he confronted Akainu, and Sengoku stepped between them to stop a fight.
• Garp told Sengoku that Lin Xuan would not die.

Lin Xuan returned to Marineford after defeating Golden Lion Shiki and claimed Shiki had likely fallen into the sea, though he could not confirm his death. His survival and possession of Shiki’s famous sword Oto stunned the Marines, while Sengoku pressed him for a report.

• Lin Xuan crashed into Marineford’s plaza, survived the fall, and greeted Garp and the officers watching from the Fleet Admiral’s Office.
• Isuka recognized the sword Lin Xuan used as a walking stick as Oto, leading the Marines to suspect that he had defeated and disarmed Golden Lion Shiki.
• Lin Xuan said Shiki would never need to trim his toenails again, implying that the Golden Lion was dead.
• Sengoku demanded to know whether Shiki was dead or alive, and Lin Xuan said Shiki had probably fallen into the sea and been eaten by Sea Kings.
• Lin Xuan dismissed Shiki as a pushover whose Haki had deteriorated, saying the fight had failed to excite him.

Garp suggested Lin Xuan take his place, but Akainu erupted over their talk of shirking Marine duties and prepared to attack. Lin Xuan stopped Garp from intervening and faced Akainu as his Spiritual Pressure surged, leaving battle on the verge of breaking out.

• Garp offered Lin Xuan his position, promising him the freedom to avoid office work and orders.
• Akainu overheard Garp and Lin Xuan discussing how to slack off and declared he would clean house in the name of justice.
• Garp moved to defend Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan held him back and challenged Akainu.
• Lin Xuan's Kenpachi Zaraki Template accelerated, and his Spiritual Pressure erupted against Akainu's aura.

Lin Xuan challenged Akainu for the Admiral Candidate position and overwhelmed him in a brutal fight at Marine Headquarters. After Akainu unleashed a barrage of magma attacks, Lin Xuan broke through them and struck him down again, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lin Xuan’s Spiritual Pressure and Conqueror’s Haki knocked out thousands of Marines, and Tsuru ordered the field cleared for his fight with Akainu.
• Lin Xuan summoned Murasame and attacked Akainu, who answered with Hell Hound; Lin Xuan split the magma attack and charged through Akainu’s defenses.
• Lin Xuan struck Akainu with a powerful blow that sent him crashing through stone statues and into Marine Headquarters’ outer wall.
• Akainu rose in a rage and unleashed Canine Red Lotus and Great Eruption across the plaza.
• Lin Xuan charged through the falling magma, struck Akainu in the abdomen with his sword hilt, and kicked him back before questioning his Absolute Justice.

Lin Xuan removed his weighted Shihakusho and unleashed his full speed and spiritual pressure against Akainu. Akainu countered Lin Xuan’s charge with Great Eruption, then dropped Meteor Volcano across the dock, leaving the battlefield submerged in lava.

• Lin Xuan and Akainu traded sword energy and magma blows, damaging the plaza and nearby Marine Headquarters buildings.
• Akainu summoned Meteor Volcano despite Sengoku’s warning that the attack could destroy Marineford and endanger the soldiers still there.
• Lin Xuan tore off his weighted Shihakusho, and its impact shattered part of the reinforced breakwater.
• Lin Xuan’s spiritual pressure surged, and he charged Akainu through the falling lava meteors at extreme speed.
• Akainu struck Lin Xuan with Great Eruption, then brought down Meteor Volcano, destroying the dock and filling the area with lava.

Lin Xuan survived Sakazuki’s close-range magma attack and used a dark-coated slash to send the Admiral flying into the sea. As Sengoku ordered a rescue, Lin Xuan remained injured on the reef, and the Marines rushed to save Sakazuki from drowning.

• Lin Xuan smashed Sakazuki’s lava hound with his shoulder despite suffering severe burns.
• Lin Xuan unleashed Dark Coating: Dimensional Slash, cutting through Sakazuki’s defense and wounding his shoulder.
• The slash hurled Sakazuki beyond Marineford’s ruined edge, and he fell into the sea as the dark energy disrupted his Devil Fruit power.
• The Marines watched in shock as Sakazuki disappeared beneath the water while Lin Xuan stood on a reef, badly injured.
• Sengoku ordered the medical team and diving unit to rescue Sakazuki, and Marine soldiers rushed into the sea.

Lin Xuan let the Marines believe his strange black power came from the Dark-Dark Fruit after defeating Akainu, then dismissed Sengoku’s offer to help him develop it. The battle ended with Akainu defeated and Lin Xuan’s true abilities still concealed beneath the misunderstanding.

• Garp reached Lin Xuan after his clash with Akainu and scolded him for taking Great Eruption head-on, while Lin Xuan regretted that Akainu had not awakened his Devil Fruit.
• Yamakaji rescued the weakened Akainu from the sea, and Akainu prepared to attack Lin Xuan again before Sengoku intervened and declared the battle decided.
• Akainu claimed Lin Xuan’s black slash had nullified his magma powers and suspected Lin Xuan possessed the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Lin Xuan neither confirmed nor denied the claim, instead forming a black gravitational vortex that convinced the gathered Marines of his supposed power.
• Sengoku offered Lin Xuan access to Marine records to develop the Dark-Dark Fruit, but Lin Xuan rejected the offer and said Devil Fruit fighting was boring.

After Lin Xuan defeated Akainu at Marineford, Sengoku proposed promoting him to Admiral, and news of the battle reached Whitebeard’s crew. Marco identified Lin Xuan’s power as the Dark-Dark Fruit, leaving Teach horrified because he had spent decades searching for it.

• Lin Xuan, badly wounded and exhausted, left Marineford with Garp and Nami after Sengoku accepted his choice and threatened to charge Garp for the damage.
• News Coos spread reports of Lin Xuan defeating Akainu and Sengoku proposing an exceptional promotion that would make him the Navy’s fourth Admiral.
• On the Moby Dick, Whitebeard and his pirates initially dismissed the report as a Navy fabrication, but Marco cited accounts that Lin Xuan had nullified Akainu’s magma with gravity.
• Marco concluded that Lin Xuan had most likely eaten the Dark-Dark Fruit, causing Teach to drop his cherry pie and panic over the loss of the fruit he had sought for years.
• Teach hid his distress from the crew and spotted another news item that gave him an idea for dealing with the crisis.

After Lin Xuan’s defeat of Akainu made him a target of the Four Emperors, the pirates reacted to his power and Sengoku watched Marines draw inspiration from his training. The chapter ended as Lin Xuan completed ten thousand sword swings.

• Teach urged Whitebeard to recruit Fire Fist Ace, and Whitebeard sent Marco to find him.
• Kaido dismissed the news of Lin Xuan’s promotion but warned that he would attack if Lin Xuan threatened his plans with Joker.
• Shanks worried that Lin Xuan’s power and influence could disrupt the future he had bet on through Luffy.
• Big Mom ordered her crew to invite Lin Xuan to become her forty-fourth husband, threatening to take him herself if he refused.
• At Marineford, Lin Xuan’s sword practice inspired the gathered Marines, while Sengoku decided not to interrupt him.
• Lin Xuan completed his ten-thousandth practice swing without using Spiritual Pressure or his Devil Fruit ability.

Lin Xuan completed ten thousand sword swings, then spent nearly all his points on a defective Senzu Bean and a modified gravity training room that could improve Haki awakening chances. The chapter left Zoro still training until he finally reached his limit.

• Lin Xuan shattered a bluestone with the shock wave from a wooden sword swing, astonishing the Marine soldiers as Zoro struggled to keep pace.
• Lin Xuan’s daily quest increased his Kenpachi Zaraki template unlock progress by only 0.1%, and he concluded that combat would be more effective than safe training.
• Lin Xuan checked his attributes and saw that his Doriki Value had reached 4,200, surpassing Rob Lucci’s future Enies Lobby value.
• Lin Xuan refreshed the system shop and found a defective Senzu Bean and a modified gravity training room that increased the chance of awakening Haki by 50%.
• Lin Xuan spent 8,000 points on the training room and 3,000 on the Senzu Bean, leaving only a few hundred points.
• Zoro continued swinging his training swords until he reached 5,100 repetitions and finally hit his limit.