Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan used his heavily modified 98K to devastate Krieg's flagship and drive Krieg into the sea, but the weapon's power drained him and risked leaving him vulnerable. He gave the rifle to Carina, who eagerly accepted it.

• Lin Xuan fired a high-energy shot that shattered Krieg's Wootz Steel Alloy armor and left him injured.
• Carina and Zoro reacted with shock as Lin Xuan prepared a more powerful shot and the modified gun consumed his energy.
• Krieg fled by jumping into the sea, but Lin Xuan's next shot blew up the Delidano and capsized two escort ships.
• Zoro questioned whether his sword training could match the rifle, while Carina became eager to use the weapon.
• Lin Xuan recognized the rifle's power came at a dangerous physical cost and tossed it to Carina.

At the Baratie, Lin Xuan watched the starving Krieg Pirates arrive after their fleet had been devastated, while Ace and Sanji prepared to defend the restaurant. The pirates fled in terror when Dracule Mihawk appeared, but Krieg attacked him, and Lin Xuan tensed as Mihawk casually swung his Black Blade.

• Lin Xuan told Carina to use the rifle to protect him, and she eagerly accepted the role.
• Ace and the Spade Pirates arrived at the Baratie, where Zeff noticed Ace's potential and sensed danger around Lin Xuan.
• The battered Krieg fleet reached the docks, and its starving pirates threatened to storm the restaurant for food.
• Deuce announced Ace's fifty-million-Beli bounty, but the hungry pirates and Krieg ignored the warning and continued toward the Baratie.
• A figure on a coffin-like boat appeared through the mist, and the Krieg Pirates recognized Dracule Mihawk as the man who had destroyed their fleet and tried to flee.
• Krieg attacked Mihawk with his poison-gas shield, and Mihawk drew his Black Blade and swung it with a casual motion.

Lin Xuan stepped onto the Baratie’s deck as Hawk-Eye’s arrival drew the Spade Pirates into a tense standoff. After Krieg tried to ambush him, Lin Xuan used Flash Step to evade the attack, leaving his next move poised to unfold.

• Lin Xuan left the restaurant carrying his Wooden Sword and stepped onto the outer deck.
• Ace recognized Lin Xuan as the Marine rookie, while Mihal panicked and Deuce observed that Lin Xuan did not seem interested in arresting them.
• Krieg clung to the deck and recognized Lin Xuan as the one who had fired at him.
• Krieg tried to kill Lin Xuan with a hidden blow dart and an explosive pistol.
• Lin Xuan stamped on the deck and used Flash Step, vanishing from Krieg’s attack as Zeff watched in shock.

Lin Xuan fought Ace’s Logia flames with overwhelming strength, splitting his attacks and cutting his body apart, though Ace healed from the blows. Ace then summoned his strongest technique, Flame Emperor, leaving Lin Xuan facing a colossal fireball.

• Ace attacked Lin Xuan with Fire Fist, but Lin Xuan split the torrent of flames with his Wooden Sword.
• Ace launched Shiranui and Fire Pistol, and Lin Xuan advanced through the attacks while batting the flames aside.
• Lin Xuan struck Ace with a massive air blade that cut him in half, but Ace rejoined his body with flames and remained unharmed.
• Zeff ordered the Baratie crew to flee as Ace’s heat intensified and he formed a fireball over a hundred meters across.
• Ace unleashed Great Flame Commandment: Flame Emperor, and the fleeing onlookers feared Lin Xuan would be consumed by it.

Lin Xuan defeated Ace’s Flame Emperor with a devastating sword strike, then struck Ace into the sea before Zoro intervened to stop Deuce. The chapter ended with Deuce pulling out a lit gas bomb and threatening to kill everyone nearby.

• Ace re-formed after Lin Xuan split the Flame Emperor, but Lin Xuan saw that Ace was shaken and vulnerable.
• Lin Xuan appeared behind Ace and hit him with a charred mast, sending him into the sea.
• Mihal jumped into the water to rescue Ace while Deuce charged at Lin Xuan.
• Zoro blocked Deuce and quickly disarmed and knocked him down.
• Deuce lit a specially made gas bomb and threatened to blow up everyone within range.

Lin Xuan reunited with Ace after defeating him, and the two revealed they were brothers before heading to the Baratie to eat. When Krieg’s crew tried to escape, Lin Xuan stopped Ace from burning them and moved to capture them for his performance credit.

• Ace surfaced with Mihal’s help, and Lin Xuan teased him while checking his injuries.
• Ace recognized Lin Xuan as his older brother, and the shocked onlookers struggled to believe the Marine and pirate were family.
• Lin Xuan and Ace set off for the Baratie to get food, ignoring the stunned crew and cooks.
• Krieg and Gin tried to flee with the surviving pirates while Lin Xuan and Ace headed toward the restaurant.
• Lin Xuan stopped Ace from attacking the fleeing pirates, saying he wanted them alive for his performance credit.
• Lin Xuan used Flash Step to reach Krieg’s flagship mast and towered over the frozen pirates.

Lin Xuan knocked out Krieg and his pirates with Conqueror’s Haki, then warned Ace not to rely too heavily on his Devil Fruit. Zeff offered them a meal at the Baratie, where Sanji prepared to cook, while a greedy survivor tried to claim Krieg’s ship.

• Krieg urged his pirates to attack Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan used Conqueror’s Haki to knock everyone aboard the ship unconscious.
• Zeff identified Lin Xuan’s power as Conqueror’s Haki, and Lin Xuan warned Ace that Haki stood above Devil Fruit powers.
• Lin Xuan and Ace realized they had no money for food, so Zeff offered them a meal and ordered Sanji to cook.
• Nami and Carina watched Lin Xuan, and Carina suggested that Nami stay close to him for protection.
• A bandaged pirate announced that he would take Krieg’s ship, and Sanji rushed out of the kitchen toward him.

At the Baratie, Sanji flirted with Nami and Carina before Zeff dragged him back into a fight, while Marines at Headquarters debated Ace’s bounty and Lin Xuan’s nomination as an Admiral candidate. Sengoku began showing the skeptical officers footage of Lin Xuan’s physical strength, leaving them stunned as the recording opened on a rocky island.

• Sanji kicked a pirate who threatened the Baratie, then offered to accompany Nami and Carina before Zeff knocked him down and ordered him back to work.
• Sengoku presented Portgas D. Ace’s proposed fifty-million-Beli bounty, citing his Flame-Flame Fruit and record of defeating Marine forces.
• Sengoku assigned Akainu, Kizaru, and Kuzan to separate duties, then announced a new Admiral-candidate selection.
• Sengoku revealed that Garp had nominated Lin Xuan, a Seaman Recruit from the East Blue’s 153rd Branch, prompting anger and disbelief from the Vice Admirals and Akainu.
• Sengoku played Garp’s combat footage of Lin Xuan, explaining that it showed physical strength alone, and the recording began with a rocky island surrounded by sea.

At Marineford, Sengoku defended Lin Xuan’s strength by revealing that he had defeated Onigumo, and the officers postponed deciding his rank until he arrived for assessment. In Loguetown, Isuka returned to find Captain Smoker injured and entered his room.

• Sengoku showed the officers reports of Lin Xuan’s exploits and asked Onigumo to explain how Lin Xuan had beaten him.
• Onigumo admitted Lin Xuan had overpowered his Haki-infused Eight-Sword Style, convincing the officers that Lin Xuan possessed combat power worthy of serious consideration.
• Akainu and Kizaru questioned Lin Xuan’s loyalty and control, so Sengoku delayed deciding his rank until Lin Xuan arrived at Marineford for exercises and an assessment.
• Sengoku worried that Garp had concealed the true nature of Lin Xuan as the meeting ended.
• Isuka returned to the Loguetown Navy Branch, learned Smoker had shut himself in his room after being hurt, and went upstairs to see him.

Smoker told Isuka that Lin Xuan had defeated him with Armament and Observation Haki and let Portgas D. Ace go, then ordered her to help clear pirates from Loguetown ahead of the annual gathering. As Lin Xuan and Carina sailed toward Loguetown, Carina killed an attacking Sea King, and the bloody sea began drawing more creatures toward their ship.

• Smoker told Isuka that Lin Xuan had defeated him with a single slash, and he suspected Lin Xuan used both Armament and Observation Haki.
• Smoker said Lin Xuan had beaten Portgas D. Ace but released him, relieving Isuka, who concealed her concern for Ace.
• Smoker ordered Isuka to help patrol Loguetown and clear out the pirates expected to gather there in two days.
• Smoker studied a blurry photograph of a ship approaching Loguetown beside an enormous underwater shadow but could not identify it.
• Lin Xuan and Carina weathered a storm near Loguetown, where Carina shot an attacking Sea King with an Explosive Bullet.
• As the Sea King's blood spread through the water, Lin Xuan noticed bubbles rising around the ship in numerous places.

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.