Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Xuan activated a gravity training chamber to accelerate his recruits’ Haki training, and they entered despite doubts about the machine. He began their first session at twice normal gravity, leaving Nami and Carina struggling to breathe while he refused to let anyone help them.

• Lin Xuan deployed the modified training chamber and said its magnetic field could raise the chance of awakening Haki by fifty percent.
• Zoro entered first, followed by Sanji, Nami, Smoker, and Isuka, who all chose to undergo the training.
• Lin Xuan reviewed the machine’s warning and chose not to activate its maximum setting, then monitored the recruits from outside.
• The chamber activated at twice normal gravity, forcing Nami and Carina to the floor while Zoro, Sanji, and Smoker remained more capable of moving.
• Sanji tried to help Nami and Carina, but Lin Xuan ordered him to stay back and said they had to learn to breathe without outside help.

Lin Xuan's brutal training awakened Haki in Carina and Isuka, prompting Smoker and the other Marines to demand their own turns. At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku announced that Lin Xuan was being considered for promotion to Admiral, conditional on completing a difficult mission.

• Lin Xuan told Smoker that the trainees had finished learning after Carina displayed a brief flash of Armament Haki.
• Isuka stood and revealed a stronger burst of Haki, leaving Smoker alarmed that his subordinate had surpassed him.
• Smoker and the other Marines crowded around Lin Xuan and agreed to train in exchange for having the energy costs deducted from their allowances.
• At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku told the senior Marines that the World Government intended to promote Lin Xuan to Admiral if he completed a mission to earn enough merit.
• The Marines reacted in silence as Sengoku's announcement threatened to disrupt their established balance of power.

Marine Headquarters learned that Lin Xuan’s gravity training could awaken Armament Haki quickly, prompting a messenger and thousands of Marines to rush for a chance to train at the 153rd Branch. Sengoku and the other senior officers watched the crowd gather as the chapter ended with Headquarters overwhelmed by the scramble for East Blue passage.

• Garp, Tsuru, Kuzan, and Kizaru supported Lin Xuan’s potential appointment as Admiral, while Akainu objected because of his youth and lack of experience.
• Messenger Ailan reported that three ordinary soldiers had sensed Armament Haki within ten minutes of Lin Xuan’s training, and that Marines were fighting for places in the gravity training room.
• After hearing about an exclusive reward for the first ten Haki awakenings, Ailan demanded an immediate transfer to the 153rd Branch and rushed out to find transport.
• The senior officers heard a huge commotion outside and went to investigate, with Akainu following after briefly hesitating.
• Sengoku found at least thirty thousand Marines crowded into Headquarters’ central plaza, arguing over places on ships bound for the East Blue.

Sengoku and the Admirals discovered that Lin Xuan’s training had awakened Haki in dozens of junior marines, but the effect suddenly vanished and the soldiers turned against Akainu when he ordered them back to their posts. Sengoku intervened to defuse the confrontation, while Lin Xuan watched the standoff.

• Garp silenced the crowd and led Sengoku, the Admirals, and Tsuru into the plaza to investigate Lin Xuan’s training.
• Sengoku saw a Sergeant Major harden his fist with Armament Haki, and Tsuru sensed ninety-one more newly awakened users among the soldiers.
• The training’s effect disappeared, stripping the soldiers of their new sensations and triggering panic throughout the crowd.
• Akainu threatened the soldiers with charges of mutiny, but thousands of marines turned their bloodshot gazes on him.
• Lin Xuan recognized that the soldiers’ desire to grow stronger had overridden their fear of Akainu, and Sengoku stepped between them to regain control.

Sengoku assigned Lin Xuan to retrieve Alabasta’s heavenly tribute as his first test for the proposed fourth Admiral position, while quietly implying that he could tolerate trouble along the way. Lin Xuan accepted and left to prepare, with Sengoku left uneasy at how readily he had agreed.

• Sengoku told Lin Xuan that the Five Elders had approved a fourth Admiral post, but he would need major military achievements to earn it.
• Sengoku gave Lin Xuan a mission to retrieve Alabasta’s heavenly tribute, where Crocodile had been making moves.
• Lin Xuan questioned what would happen if he damaged property or killed important people during the mission, and Sengoku hinted that Headquarters would support him if the tribute arrived intact.
• Lin Xuan accepted the assignment and left to change clothes, while Sengoku worried that he had agreed too easily.