Recaps

Gu Zimei emerged from the Devil Fruit Space and openly confessed to killing Xiao Yun’s children, provoking him to transform and attack her. Wen Zheng then asked whether she had seen his missing daughter Wen Jing, and Gu Zimei’s answer suggested Wen Jing was dead.

• Xiao Yun attacked Gu Zimei as she emerged from the Devil Fruit Space, but she easily dodged his feline-paw strike.
• Gu Zimei admitted that she had killed Xiao Xue and Xiao Yun’s son, then described how she disposed of their bodies.
• Xiao Yun transformed with his Horse-Horse Fruit ability and threatened to tear Gu Zimei apart.
• Wen Zheng stopped Xiao Yun and asked Gu Zimei whether she had seen Wen Jing inside the Devil Fruit Space.
• Gu Zimei said Wen Jing had not come out and asked whether corpses were not teleported out.

Gu Zimei admitted that she had killed Wen Jing and other family heirs after they tried to kill her in the Devil Fruit Space. When Xiao Yun attacked her, she blocked his strike and revealed a Power Level that alarmed Light City's great families.

• Gu Zimei told Wen Zheng that she had killed Wen Jing and explained that the Devil Fruit Space had not returned the bodies.
• Gu Zimei said she had probably killed Zhao and Wu family heirs who followed Wen Jing and claimed their grievances were settled.
• Xiao Yun transformed and attacked Gu Zimei with his Armament Haki-coated claws.
• Gu Zimei dodged Xiao Yun's strike, blocked it with Armament Haki, and activated Lightning Release Chakra and the first two gates of the Eight Gates of Limitless.
• The Horsepower Testers measured Gu Zimei at 24154, nearly matching Xiao Yun at 24310, and the great families realized she threatened them all.

Gu Zimei battled Xiao Yun and Wen Zheng, revealing her overwhelming Armament Haki and ability to withstand Wen Zheng’s strongest attack. She left Wen Zheng gravely injured and unable to use his Spring-Spring Fruit ability, while the gathered families prepared to surround her.

• Wen Zheng sensed Gu Zimei’s Level Five strength and Armament Haki, then ordered his steward to summon acting Governor Wen Fan.
• Gu Zimei overpowered Xiao Yun in close combat, tearing open his transformed arm and forcing him to retreat.
• Wen Zheng attacked Gu Zimei with his Spring-Spring Fruit ability, but she used Observation Haki to face his strongest strike head-on.
• Gu Zimei emerged from the crater unharmed, seized Wen Zheng, and struck him while an unusual power prevented him from using his Devil Fruit ability.
• Xiao Yun helped the badly injured Wen Zheng, who warned him that Gu Zimei’s ability seemed to nullify his own.

Gu Zimei used the Dark-Dark Fruit to kill Wen Zheng and wipe out Xiao Yun, the other clan fighters, and much of Light City's Law Enforcement Team. Exhausted after unleashing the fruit's power, she was caught by Wen Fan, who trapped her in his swamp.

• Gu Zimei tested Dark Water, pulled Wen Zheng toward her, and killed him with an Armament Haki strike.
• Xiao Yun ordered the clan fighters to attack Gu Zimei, but she absorbed their attacks and released the darkness in a devastating Liberation.
• Wen Fan escaped the darkness by turning into swamp, while more than a hundred fighters disappeared.
• Gu Zimei collapsed from exhaustion, and Wen Fan trapped her in his Swamp-Swamp Fruit power.

Zheng Huan used his Devil Fruit ability to foresee danger and fled to Great Chu, while Gu Zimei escaped Wen Fan’s swamp and killed him before heading for Sheshan. In Great Chu, Chu Wuhen prepared to use Shang Feng’s newly strengthened Door-Door Fruit to open a passage to a world with a Ninja Inheritance.

• Zheng Huan learned that Gu Zimei had killed members of Light City’s clans, used his Devil Fruit ability to divine a safe path, and decided to flee to Great Chu.
• Wen Fan trapped Gu Zimei in a swamp, but she used lightning to stop him and opened the fifth gate of the Eight Gates of Limitless to break free.
• Gu Zimei caught Wen Fan and killed him with a strike strengthened by Armament Haki, then decided to claim a mountain in Sheshan.
• Gu Zimei returned to the Gu Family mansion to collect supplies while an undetected yellow-haired, blue-eyed boy followed her.
• Shang Feng told Chu Wuhen that his Level Seven strength let his Door-Door Fruit open a passage to another world, and Chu Wuhen declared his intention to bring that world into Chu Kingdom.

While fleeing to Sheshan, Gu Zimei learned that the Qing Kingdom had issued a Level One Wanted Order with a five-billion bounty, while Consort Xu in the Great Qian Empire ordered Prince Qing Wuji to be summoned. Gu Zimei fought through an elite team sent to stop her and escaped into Sheshan.

• Consort Xu recalled her deal with Gu Changsheng to keep Gu Zimei alive, dismissed him as useless after the Perennial Youth Operation, and ordered someone to call Qing Wuji.
• Gu Zimei packed her notebook and her father's keepsakes, vowed to avenge Gu Changsheng, and set out for Sheshan with Qi Yuan beside her.
• The Qing Kingdom issued a Level One Wanted Order for Gu Zimei, drawing bounty hunters toward Light City with a five-billion reward.
• Several assassination attempts delayed Gu Zimei, and she found Sheshan sealed off by an elite Huainan Province Governance Office team.
• Gu Zimei activated the Dark-Dark Fruit's Liberation, engulfed most of the team in darkness, and ran into Sheshan as the surviving Logia users watched in horror.

After fleeing the Qing Kingdom’s forces, Gu Zimei encountered a dangerous blond boy in Sheshan who wielded immense Chakra and asked about Huameng and Tianchi. Their clash ended with Qi Yuan’s seal protecting her from the boy’s Rasengan.

• Qing Wuji ordered the Marquis of Huainan to capture Gu Zimei alive and obtain her Eight Gates technique.
• Gu Zimei escaped deeper into Sheshan, killed a tiger, and roasted it for food.
• A blond boy appeared, stole some meat with a golden tentacle, and demanded information about Huameng and Tianchi.
• Gu Zimei recognized the boy’s immense Chakra, suspected a connection to Qi Yuan, and attacked with the Sixth Gate’s Morning Peacock.
• After Gu Zimei collapsed and refused to reveal anything, the boy launched a Rasengan, but Qi Yuan’s seal activated Earth-Style Wall to block it.

Kurama attacked Gu Zimei, but seals placed inside her by Qi Yuan and Huameng repeatedly activated to shield her and counter him. The battle left Kurama restrained by black rods, while Gu Zimei was left stunned by the power she had witnessed.

• Kurama’s Rasengan struck a barrier that rose from Gu Zimei, and he recognized the chakra as a seal placed by someone else.
• Kurama used a Spiral Shuriken, but Qi Yuan’s stored Sage Art Spiral Shuriken erupted from Gu Zimei and met it, unleashing destructive shock waves.
• Kurama transformed into a giant nine-tailed fox and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Gu Zimei’s seals raised the Four Red Yang Formation to block it.
• Golden Adamantine Sealing Chains burst from Gu Zimei and bound Kurama, but he changed back into a boy and escaped them.
• Black rods emerged from Gu Zimei and pierced Kurama, paralyzing him as he recognized them as embryonic Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Gu Zimei recovered and surveyed the devastated clearing, shaken by the strength of the battle.

Kurama recognized Qi Yuan’s chakra in Gu Zimei’s shadow and unleashed his newly developed Baryon Mode, breaking free of the Black Rods. As he prepared to attack Gu Zimei, Qi Yuan began emerging from her shadow earlier than expected.

• Kurama realized the chakra signature belonged to Qi Yuan and questioned Gu Zimei about him.
• Fearing that Qi Yuan might treat him as a pet, Kurama awakened his Baryon Mode and broke free of the Black Rods.
• Kurama’s power surged across the world, and Tianchi and Huameng discussed using the God Tree to reach kekkei mōra.
• Qi Yuan’s seals protected Gu Zimei as Kurama transformed into the Nine-Tailed Fox and burned through the Wood Golem’s attacks.
• Kurama stopped forming a Tailed Beast Bomb after sensing something unusual in Gu Zimei’s shadow, and Gu Zimei realized Qi Yuan was emerging early.

Qi Yuan’s Limbo Clone reached the Six Paths Level and defeated Kurama’s Baryon Mode. After Kurama revealed his origins and pleaded to return to the Shinobi World, Qi Yuan agreed to help him, but said he would sign the Summoning Contract with Gu Zimei.

• Qi Yuan emerged from Gu Zimei’s shadow, and Kurama recognized him as a Limbo Clone.
• Qi Yuan’s clone transformed into his Six Paths form, dispelled Kurama’s Tailed Beast Bomb, and cut him apart, ending Baryon Mode.
• Qi Yuan noticed that Kurama had a physical body and could sense his shadow, and Kurama explained that he was the Nine-Tails, separate from Huameng.
• Kurama told Qi Yuan that Huameng and Tianchi were in the Great Yan Empire and warned him not to activate Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Kurama offered to become Qi Yuan’s summoning beast in exchange for help returning to the Shinobi World, and Qi Yuan agreed to have him sign the contract with Gu Zimei.

Qi Yuan assigned Kurama to accompany Gu Zimei as she sought fruit abilities and pursued the Kekkei Mōra level. After Qi Yuan returned to her shadow, Kurama explained that combining the Dark-Dark Fruit with the Chimera Technique might make that goal possible, and asked which abilities Gu Zimei would seek first.

• Qi Yuan told Kurama to remain in human form and accompany Gu Zimei to the human world, and Kurama reluctantly agreed to work with her.
• Kurama told Qi Yuan and Gu Zimei that Tianchi and Huameng had taken control of a kingdom in the Great Yan Empire and sought to control the Land of Yan.
• Qi Yuan revealed that Tianchi and Huameng were planting the God Tree to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi, then promised to consider helping Kurama return to the Shinobi World if he assisted Gu Zimei.
• Qi Yuan urged Gu Zimei to find more fruits and reach the Kekkei Mōra level before his Limbo: Border Jail Shadow ended and he returned to her shadow.
• Kurama explained that combining the seven attributes with the Dark-Dark Fruit and Chimera Technique might allow Gu Zimei to reach the Kekkei Mōra level, then asked whose fruit abilities she planned to seize.

Gu Zimei and Kurama discussed which Devil Fruit powers she would need to steal to pursue Kekkei Mōra, while Gu Changsheng watched footage of his daughter and refused Consort Xu’s demands. Gu Changsheng recalled finding Gu Zimei as a baby in a spaceship, whose recording showed her mother destroying a planet and promising to return when her daughter came of age.

• Kurama explained which Devil Fruit powers could provide elemental abilities and suggested the Dark-Dark Fruit for Yin Release and the Nika or Golden Buddha form for Yang Release.
• Gu Zimei agreed to gather information and hunt powerful Devil Fruit users, while sparing those who were good people.
• Consort Xu confronted Gu Changsheng in secret and demanded the method behind Gu Zimei’s sudden power, threatening her life.
• Gu Changsheng watched Gu Zimei defeat an enemy on a screen and silently believed her inheritance would bring ruin to her enemies.
• Gu Changsheng recalled finding infant Gu Zimei aboard a spaceship and seeing a recording of her mother destroying a planet before promising to return when Gu Zimei came of age.

Consort Xu ordered Gu Zimei’s capture while the Qian Emperor remained in seclusion, as Great Chu prepared to open a passage to another world. In Great Yan, Tianchi and Huameng manipulated the Yan Emperor and planned to delay the opening because Qi Yuan could threaten their plans.

• Gu Changsheng warned Consort Xu not to harm Gu Zimei, but she dismissed him and ordered her subordinate to hurry the capture from Sheshan.
• Consort Xu refused to disturb the secluded Qian Emperor for the Great Chu envoy, who then left and announced that the other empires would develop the New World without Great Qian.
• Chu Wuhen learned from a Hollow’s memories about another world powered by chakra and spent years preparing to open a passage using a Door-Door Fruit wielder.
• The Yan Emperor agreed to Chu Wuhen’s plan, while Tianchi and Huameng revealed that they had been controlling him and feared Qi Yuan might discover them.
• Tianchi decided to assassinate the Door-Door Fruit wielder to buy time for the God Tree to mature.

Gu Zimei woke up in the mountains and prepared to face a Huainan Province force sent to capture her. When Wang Guanghua’s group arrived, she opened the Sixth Gate and attacked them with Morning Peacock.

• Gu Zimei woke and ate roast meat with Kurama, who sensed a group of about a hundred people approaching.
• Wang Guanghua led the Huainan Province force to Gu Zimei’s location, where they found signs of a devastating battle and feared a powerful Fierce Beast was nearby.
• Wang Guanghua identified Gu Zimei and accused her of atrocities and abducting Kurama.
• Wang Guanghua’s detector measured Gu Zimei’s strength at Level Five Middle Stage, but she opened the Sixth Gate and her Power Level surpassed three million.
• Wang Guanghua and his men tried to flee, but Gu Zimei leaped into the air and unleashed Morning Peacock.

Gu Zimei defeated Wang Guanghua and faced the Marquis of Huainan, who tried to seize the Eight Gates technique. Kurama revealed his Nine-Tails form and killed the marquis, leaving Gu Zimei ready to claim his Ice-Ice Fruit ability.

• Gu Zimei used Morning Peacock and the Eight Gates to destroy most of Wang Guanghua’s squad, then defeated Wang Guanghua after he attacked her with his tusks.
• The Marquis of Huainan froze Gu Zimei’s legs, killed Wang Guanghua, and demanded that she hand over the Eight Gates technique.
• Gu Zimei revealed that Kurama also knew the secret, but the marquis mistook the boy for a hostage and attacked them both.
• Kurama’s food froze, provoking him to transform into the Nine-Tails and crush the marquis’s ice before killing him.
• Gu Zimei approached the marquis’s corpse and prepared to take his Ice-Ice Fruit ability.

After the Marquis of Huainan died pursuing Gu Zimei, Zheng Huan joined the Champion Marquis’s expedition to a newly opened world. As a Chu army entered the Nine Provinces World, Qi Yuan’s shadow returned to him, revealing that the worlds’ gateway had opened and intruders had reached his nursery.

• Qing Wuji learned that the Marquis of Huainan and his squad had been found dead, and officials suspected they had encountered a powerful Fierce Beast.
• In Great Chu, Zheng Huan sought a position from the Champion Marquis, divined repeated omens of great fortune, and agreed to join his expedition.
• Three days later, the Champion Marquis led the first contingent of ten thousand troops through a gate opened by a Level Seven Door-Door Fruit Ability User.
• Gu Zimei watched Qi Yuan’s shadow depart after he promised to return, while Nine-Tails suspected his Limbo: Border Jail Shadow had been summoned back to his true body.
• Beneath the God Tree in the Nine Provinces World, Qi Yuan, Hongye, and Yanling sensed that someone from another world had entered his nursery.

After the Chu Army entered the Otherworld, Chu Wuhen sensed a powerful shadow slip through the closing portal. Tianchi later killed Shang Feng, leaving the expedition stranded and Chu Wuhen wary of the unknown world.

• Shang Feng opened a passage, and the Marquis Champion led ten thousand Chu Army soldiers into the Otherworld before Shang Feng collapsed from exhaustion.
• Chu Wuhen sensed a flat black shadow with strange purple eyes enter the Otherworld through the nearly closed portal, and he realized it was stronger than him.
• Tianchi confronted Shang Feng while he rested, but Shang Feng escaped into the Mirror World using the Door-Door Fruit.
• Tianchi entered the Mirror World through a Space-Time Portal, killed Shang Feng, and reflected on the dangers of the Devil Fruit World.
• Chu Wuhen learned Shang Feng had died, realized the ten thousand soldiers could not return, and suspected the Qian Emperor before deciding to seek a breakthrough himself.

Qi Yuan learned from his Limbo Clone about the Devil Fruit World and Gu Zimei, while Hongye confronted the invading Chu Kingdom forces in the Nine Provinces World. Hongye captured most of them and absorbed Marquis Champion’s magma, leaving Zheng Huan and the Champion alive for now.

• The Chu Kingdom forces emerged into a barren Foreign Races Space, and Zheng Huan sensed extreme danger as King Yong received Qi Yuan’s warning about their arrival.
• Qi Yuan learned his Limbo Clone’s memories, including that Gu Zimei had grown up in the Devil Fruit World, and reflected on the three worlds and their different flows of time.
• Yanling used the recorded coordinates to prepare to visit the Devil Fruit World, while Qi Yuan stayed behind to await the God Tree’s fruit.
• Marquis Champion and the Chu Kingdom forces gained the upper hand over King Yong’s alliance until Hongye arrived and trapped most of them with Divine: World of Trees Birth.
• Hongye absorbed Marquis Champion’s magma ability, while Zheng Huan and Marquis Champion remained uncaptured.

Hongye defeated the Marquis Champion and destroyed his elite troops, while Gu Zimei learned that Qi Yuan and Kurama came from the Nine Provinces and that Qi Yuan’s Limbo: Border Jail Shadow had returned to him. Gu Zimei learned Qi Yuan would come back and prepared to target Qing Wuji next.

• Hongye used Shinra Tensei to send the Marquis Champion flying, then trapped him with Advent of a World of Trees as Zheng Huan watched in terror.
• After months without Qi Yuan, Gu Zimei asked Kurama where Qi Yuan came from and whether he would return.
• Kurama told Gu Zimei about the Nine Provinces World, Qi Yuan’s Rinnegan, and how his Limbo: Border Jail Shadow had returned to his original body.
• Kurama assured Gu Zimei that Qi Yuan would come back because their enemy remained in her world.
• Gu Zimei celebrated the prospect of conquering the world and becoming empress beside Qi Yuan.
• Gu Zimei, who had gained the Ice-Ice, Float-Float, and Flame-Flame Fruit abilities in addition to her Dark-Dark Fruit ability, set her next target as Qing Wuji.

Gu Zimei attacked Qing Wuji to seize the Sand-Sand Fruit, but after a fierce fight she killed him and was carried away with his corpse by a giant beast claw. The Great Qian Empire placed a historic bounty on her and sent its Three Grand Marquesses after her, while Cui Jing and Consort Xu feared what she would do if she learned the truth about Gu Changsheng.

• Gu Zimei confronted Qing Wuji in the Qing palace, using her Ice-Ice and Float-Float Fruit powers before opening the Gate of Wonder to pursue him.
• Qing Wuji fled, but Qi Yuan's Sealing Jutsu trapped him with Gu Zimei, who struck him with Daytime Tiger and killed him.
• A pale-golden giant beast claw carried away Gu Zimei and Qing Wuji's corpse as the Qing Kingdom's people watched in horror.
• The Great Qian Empire issued its highest-ever bounty for Gu Zimei and dispatched the Three Grand Marquesses to track her down.
• Cui Jing worried Gu Zimei would discover that he had captured Gu Changsheng, and considered using his Mirror-Mirror Fruit power to retrieve him as leverage.
• Consort Xu learned Gu Changsheng had escaped and feared Gu Zimei's retaliation, but resolved to rely on the Qian Emperor when he emerged from seclusion.

Qi Yuan absorbed the ripened God Tree Fruit and began advancing to the Kekkei Mōra level. Meanwhile, Ōtsutsuki Haishiki and Ōtsutsuki Yatakuya arrived at the wrong world and discovered that it held powerful Ōtsutsuki clansmen and formidable opponents.

• Hongye searched Zheng Huan's memories and learned about Gu Changsheng, the Qian Emperor's Nika fruit, and the Devil Fruit World.
• Black Zetsu told Qi Yuan that the God Tree Fruit had ripened, while Hongye offered Zheng Huan a chance to live and ordered Black Zetsu to take him to Yu Wang for questioning.
• Qi Yuan plucked and ate the God Tree Fruit, releasing a beam of light as he began absorbing its energy and advancing toward the Kekkei Mōra level.
• Ōtsutsuki Haishiki and Ōtsutsuki Yatakuya realized they had arrived at the wrong world, then used a lens to detect four Six Paths Level powerhouses and more than a dozen Half-Step Six Paths Level powerhouses.
• Ōtsutsuki Haishiki recognized Tianchi, Huameng, and Yanling as Ōtsutsuki clansmen with impure auras and declared that he would turn them into Chakra Pills.

Yan Yunque awoke in the floating city and sent his shadow toward Great Yan, while Ōtsutsuki Haishiki and Yataku entered the Devil Fruit World to claim its immature God Tree. Haishiki found the tree feeding on the life force of mummified natives.

• The Previous-previous Yan Emperor, Yan Yunque, awoke in the floating city and realized that many of the ancient emperors had died while the Sun God remained asleep.
• Yan Yunque wondered about Great Yan and whether the current Qian Emperor could help the Sun God achieve rebirth, then sent his shadow toward the Land of Yan.
• Ōtsutsuki Haishiki and Yataku surveyed the sleeping powerhouses in the floating city and discovered a God Tree within Great Yan.
• Haishiki opened a spatial gate and traveled with Yataku to the God Tree, where he saw mummified natives feeding it their life force.

Ōtsutsuki Haishiki approached the God Tree to claim its nearly mature flower, while Tianchi and Huameng prepared to defend their plans. Yanling entered the Devil Fruit World and headed to find Gu Zimei and Nine-Tails.

• Ōtsutsuki Haishiki flew toward the God Tree’s blood-red flower, hoping to gain power before it fully matured.
• Tianchi and Huameng discussed Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha’s inherited powers and planned to sacrifice their bodies to accelerate the God Tree’s growth.
• Tianchi and Huameng sensed an Ōtsutsuki presence approaching their God Tree and opened a Space-Time Portal to confront the intruder.
• Yanling entered the Devil Fruit World through Kamui, killed a Level Seven fierce beast, and sensed Tianchi, Huameng, and two other chakra-powered figures.
• Yanling decided to visit Gu Zimei and Nine-Tails before dealing with the others.

Tianchi and Huameng confronted Ōtsutsuki Haishiki and his servant at the God Tree, sparking a battle over the tree and its fruit. Meanwhile, the Yan Emperor resisted the control in his mind by awakening the String-String Fruit, and its expanding birdcage began devastating the Land of Yan as Tianchi tried to stop it.

• Tianchi and Huameng emerged before Ōtsutsuki Haishiki and Ōtsutsuki Yataku as they prepared to harvest the God Tree's flower.
• Ōtsutsuki Haishiki recognized Tianchi as Ōtsutsuki Ikeshiki and rejected his offer to share the world, so Tianchi and Huameng attacked.
• Tianchi used Amenotejikara to strike at Ōtsutsuki Haishiki, but Haishiki shrank to evade the attack and countered with an energy blast.
• The old Yan Emperor's shadow saw the battle and decided to awaken the others in the Floating City, while the Land of Yan's Law Enforcement Team was wiped out approaching the fight.
• The Yan Emperor resisted the control in his mind and unleashed the String-String Fruit's awakened birdcage, which killed people across the Great Yan Palace, Yan Capital, and nearby lands.
• Chu Wuhen, the Yu Emperor, and the Qi Emperor headed for the Land of Yan as Tianchi urged Huameng to help him defeat Ōtsutsuki Haishiki and stop the birdcage.

The Old Yan Emperor used the Shadow-Shadow Fruit to save Yan Xuan’s consciousness and learned that strange beings were harvesting people to cultivate a God Tree Fruit. In the Great Qian Empire, Gu Zimei went to Imperial Capital University to confront those she blamed for taking her father.

• Tianchi and Huameng joined forces with Susanoo and the Golden Nine-Tails to battle Ōtsutsuki Haishiki, while the Old Yan Emperor prepared to awaken the powerful figures in the Floating City.
• The Old Yan Emperor discovered Yan Xuan’s Birdcage was killing the people of the Land of Yan and found Yan Xuan near death in the Great Yan Palace Hall.
• The Old Yan Emperor pulled out Yan Xuan’s shadow, dispersing the Birdcage and preserving Yan Xuan’s consciousness in a corpse.
• Yan Xuan told the Old Yan Emperor that Tianchi and Huameng planned to use people to cultivate a God Tree Fruit, and the Old Yan Emperor ordered him to warn the other empires.
• Gu Zimei arrived at Imperial Capital University to seek revenge on Cui Jing and identified its president, Qian Kunlei, as the wielder of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and her target for the lightning attribute.