Recaps

Rocks continued training to master Observation Haki Killer and worried about Xia Chen’s strength, then announced a plan to intercept a Heavenly Tribute shipment. Xia Chen and Whitebeard set out for the Vatali Kingdom, with Kaido serving Xia Chen tea aboard their ship.

• Rocks neared mastery of Observation Haki Killer but doubted he could defeat Xia Chen, whose full abilities remained unknown to him.
• Rocks told the Rocks Pirates’ senior members that a Heavenly Tribute shipment would leave the Vatali Kingdom for Mary Geoise in three days and asked who would intercept it.
• Xia Chen volunteered to go and invited Whitebeard, who agreed to join him.
• Xia Chen and Whitebeard departed Hachinosu aboard a pirate ship with Whitebeard’s division commanders and crew members.
• Kaido served Xia Chen tea after joining him, having agreed to follow him and grown stronger under his guidance.

Xia Chen, Whitebeard, and Kaido ambushed Admiral Black Crocodile as he escorted the Heavenly Tribute from the Vatali Kingdom. Kaido provoked Black Crocodile and was overwhelmed, but an unidentified member of the group struck the Admiral through several mountains.

• Xia Chen, Whitebeard, and Kaido arrived in the Vatali Kingdom and waited for the Heavenly Tribute escort.
• Black Crocodile and another man collected the tribute and began transporting it under Marine guard.
• Whitebeard confronted Black Crocodile, while Kaido taunted him and identified himself as the rookie Kaido.
• Black Crocodile attacked Kaido and knocked him flying after their fists collided.
• An unidentified figure punched Black Crocodile, sending him through seven or eight mountain peaks.

Xia Chen confronted the Marines’ ambush at the Heavenly Tribute convoy and learned that three Admirals and a CP0 agent had gathered to kill him and the Rocks Pirates. He declared that none of them would leave alive.

• Xia Chen stopped Kaido from being overwhelmed by Black Crocodile and scolded Kaido for provoking an Admiral.
• Xia Chen recognized Brown Turtle and Purple Foot as the other two Marine Admirals, and Whitebeard realized all three Admirals had been deployed.
• Purple Foot explained that the Marines had used the Heavenly Tribute as bait to draw out and weaken the Rocks Pirates, targeting Xia Chen, Whitebeard, and Kaido.
• Xia Chen inferred that the Marines had an informant in the Rocks Pirates and threatened to tell Rocks to investigate.
• Brown Turtle and Purple Foot insisted their four Admiral-class fighters would prevent anyone from escaping, but Xia Chen vowed to kill everyone there.

Xia Chen brutally overpowered Black Crocodile, whose injury and rage led him to transform and charge back into the fight. As Brown Turtle and Purple Foot flew to intervene, Xia Chen prepared a powerful attack with the Jingu Bang.

• Brown Turtle and Purple Foot discovered that Xia Chen’s punch had shattered Black Crocodile’s jaw and left him bleeding.
• Black Crocodile tore off his dangling jaw, transformed into his Ancient Zoan hybrid form, and charged at Xia Chen.
• Xia Chen struck Black Crocodile repeatedly with the Jingu Bang, battering him across the sky as Whitebeard and Kaido watched.
• Purple Foot and Brown Turtle flew toward Xia Chen to stop him from killing Black Crocodile.
• Xia Chen surrounded the Jingu Bang with black-and-red lightning and announced his attack, “Godfall!”

Xia Chen killed Black Crocodile with a devastating staff strike that reduced the surrounding town to ruins. Brown Turtle and Purple Foot survived the impact, but their attempt to negotiate a truce failed as Xia Chen made clear he intended to kill them and take the Heavenly Tribute.

• Xia Chen smashed Black Crocodile into Brown Turtle and Purple Foot, sending all three crashing into the ground and destroying the town around them.
• Kaido and Whitebeard saw the devastation and recognized the overwhelming force of Xia Chen's attack.
• Brown Turtle and Purple Foot recovered at the bottom of the crater and found Black Crocodile dead, then used Geppo to escape the pit.
• Xia Chen confronted Brown Turtle and Purple Foot, who regretted underestimating him and feared they might not survive.
• Brown Turtle offered the Heavenly Tribute and proposed ending the fight, but Xia Chen mocked the offer and declared that he would kill them and take the tribute regardless.

Xia Chen fought Brown Turtle and Purple Foot while Kaido and Whitebeard took on the Marines and a CP0 agent. Xia Chen sent the two Admirals flying, and Kaido continued battling the Marine forces with confidence in his strength.

• Xia Chen assigned Kaido to fight the Marines and Whitebeard to confront the CP0 agent.
• Brown Turtle and Purple Foot attacked Xia Chen, but his Jade Shield blocked them before he struck them and sent them flying into a distant mountain.
• Kaido fought through the Marines and was hit by Rear Admiral Helde's Crushing Fist, but he laughed off the blow.
• Kaido used Thunder Bagua to knock Helde away, then charged back into the Marines.

Xia Chen unleashed a massive wave of crimson fire against Purple Foot and Brown Turtle, sending it racing across the battlefield. Kaido fled from the flames, while Whitebeard and a CP0 agent prepared to meet the oncoming wave with their attacks.

• Whitebeard struck the CP0 agent with a Tremor-Tremor Fruit attack and followed with a powerful shock wave.
• Xia Chen teased Purple Foot and Brown Turtle before rising into the air and summoning a vast mass of crimson flames.
• Xia Chen's flames erupted into a wave that blasted Purple Foot and Brown Turtle away and melted rocks into magma.
• Kaido spotted the approaching fire and ran, prompting the Marines fighting him to flee after him.
• Whitebeard and the CP0 agent turned toward the fire and unleashed Air Quake and Rokuogan as it reached them.

Xia Chen tested his power by shaping his crimson flames into Flame Brother Monkey, then faced Brown Turtle’s rock giant. Brown Turtle attacked Xia Chen, who remained still as the punch approached.

• Whitebeard admired the strength of Xia Chen’s flames and charged back toward the CP0 agent.
• Purple Foot and Brown Turtle survived the escaped wave of fire by covering themselves in Armament Haki, but their clothes burned away.
• Xia Chen settled the flames and formed Flame Brother Monkey, then challenged the two Admirals to show their strength.
• Brown Turtle transformed into a towering rock giant and confronted Flame Brother Monkey.
• Brown Turtle swung a massive rock fist at Xia Chen, who stood motionless as it closed in.

Xia Chen’s flaming Brother Monkey overwhelmed Brown Turtle’s attacks and defenses, while Xia Chen redirected an attack to kill Purple Foot. The story left Xia Chen advancing on a terrified Brown Turtle, the last of the Marines’ Three Admirals.

• Brown Turtle’s stone fists and spears melted against Xia Chen’s crimson flames, and his assault left him exhausted.
• Kaido watched the fight from a distance, relieved he had escaped the flames and determined to become Xia Chen’s number one underling.
• Brown Turtle raised an earthen wall and claimed his defenses would withstand Xia Chen, but the flaming Jingu Bang vaporized the barrier.
• Xia Chen redirected the staff to intercept Purple Foot’s ambush, then struck and burned him to ash.
• Xia Chen turned toward the frightened Brown Turtle and walked toward him, promising to kill him next.

Xia Chen and Kaido regrouped after Xia Chen defeated the Navy’s Three Admirals, while Whitebeard fought a CP0 agent. The agent charged Xia Chen and was consumed by his Samadhi True Fire, leaving Whitebeard and Kaido stunned by the power of Xia Chen’s Flame-Flame Fruit.

• Xia Chen praised Kaido for quickly defeating the marines, and Kaido credited Xia Chen’s wave of fire.
• Whitebeard mocked the CP0 agent, arguing that his teammates’ defeat meant the battle was already lost.
• The CP0 agent calmed himself and charged Xia Chen, determined to test his strength before dying.
• Xia Chen countered the agent’s God Rokuogan with Fire Fist, overwhelming him and leaving a river of magma.
• Whitebeard asked Xia Chen about his fruit, and Xia Chen identified it as the Logia Flame-Flame Fruit, Samadhi True Fire Form.

After the Marines learned that two Admirals had died and Purple Foot was missing, Kong ordered the surviving Marines treated and called the senior officers together. At sea, Xia Chen’s crew encountered the Roger Pirates, and Xia Chen hinted that he could create a place for Whitebeard to fight Roger.

• Kong learned that Admiral Black Crocodile and Admiral Brown Turtle had died in the Vatali Kingdom and Admiral Purple Foot was missing.
• Kong questioned whether Purple Foot had survived, then ordered the wounded Marines cared for and summoned every Marine Vice Admiral or higher.
• On the ship, Kaido asked Xia Chen about an unidentified Devil Fruit, and Xia Chen advised him to wait before eating it.
• A lookout reported that the Roger Pirates were approaching, and Whitebeard welcomed the chance to test his recent growth against Gol D. Roger.
• Xia Chen agreed that fighting at sea was inconvenient and suggested that he could change that, leaving Whitebeard stunned.

Aboard the Oro Jackson, Roger and his crew learned that Xia Chen had killed all three Navy Admirals, then encountered an immense expanse of purple ice that resisted Roger’s attacks. The ship landed on the ice, and the crew spotted a black speck in the sky.

• Gaban and the Roger Pirates were shocked by a newspaper report that all Three Admirals of the Navy had died.
• Roger identified Xia Chen as the Rocks Pirates’ new captain and discussed how the Navy might replace its fallen Admirals.
• Roger attacked the advancing purple ice, but his ordinary slash barely opened a gap and his Divine Departure made little difference.
• Rayleigh launched a spherical slash beneath the Oro Jackson, sending it into the air to avoid being trapped as the purple ice spread below.
• The Oro Jackson landed on the ice, and Roger noticed a black speck high in the sky.

Roger and Whitebeard clashed on Xia Chen’s purple ice battlefield after Xia Chen revealed that his claimed Flame-Flame Fruit power had been a lie. Their fight threatened the Oro Jackson, and Rayleigh demanded they take it farther away.

• Xia Chen froze the sea into unusually cold purple ice and admitted to Whitebeard that he had lied about having the Flame-Flame Fruit power.
• Xia Chen kicked Whitebeard into the air toward Roger’s crew, joking that he was helping provide a battlefield.
• Roger and Whitebeard met above the ice and exchanged powerful blows, sending shock waves that cracked the Oro Jackson’s hull.
• Roger asked Whitebeard where Xia Chen was, and Whitebeard said he had gotten stronger after spending time with someone eccentric.
• Roger and Whitebeard resumed fighting across the ice until Rayleigh shouted at them to move away from the ship.

Xia Chen, the new captain of the Rocks Pirates, approached Rayleigh and Gaban while Roger and Whitebeard fought nearby. He revealed that he came from the future, leaving Gaban asking whether Xia Chen would tell them what lay ahead.

• Roger and Whitebeard's battle grew fiercer, while Rayleigh and Gaban watched from the Oro Jackson.
• Xia Chen appeared beside Rayleigh and Gaban, introduced himself as the new captain of the Rocks Pirates, and said he had come with Newgate.
• Rayleigh and Gaban grew wary, but Xia Chen cut their cheeks without them noticing and demonstrated how easily he could kill them.
• Xia Chen told Rayleigh he came from the future through the Time-Time Fruit and knew Rayleigh's future self.
• Gaban excitedly asked Xia Chen what would happen to them, and Xia Chen asked whether he was sure he wanted to know the future.

Xia Chen told Rayleigh and Gaban that Roger would become Pirate King, die by his own choice after contracting a terminal illness, and leave behind a world plunged into turmoil by the Great Pirate Era. He then punched Roger away during his fight with Whitebeard, while Whitebeard turned his attention to the Oro Jackson.

• Xia Chen enclosed himself, Rayleigh, and Gaban in a golden barrier and revealed that Roger would become Pirate King and later die after turning himself in because of a terminal illness.
• Xia Chen shared more of the future, criticized Roger for his family and the chaos caused by the Great Pirate Era, and said he intended to teach him a lesson.
• Xia Chen appeared during Roger and Whitebeard's evenly matched fight and punched Roger flying across the ice, saying he was venting anger for Ace.
• Whitebeard declined Xia Chen's offer to fight and then launched a shock wave at the Oro Jackson, prompting Rayleigh to curse him.

The Five Elders reported Xia Chen’s strength and the Rocks Pirates’ attacks to Imu, who ordered their secret plan to begin early and commanded them to eliminate Xia Chen and Rocks. Two days later, Xia Chen and Whitebeard returned to Hachinosu, where Rocks gathered the officers to share news.

• The Five Elders discussed Xia Chen’s ability to kill three Admirals and decided to seek Imu’s orders about starting their plan early.
• Saint Saturn told Imu about Xia Chen and the Rocks Pirates’ attacks on the World Government.
• Imu ordered the plan to begin ahead of schedule and commanded the Five Elders to eliminate Xia Chen and ensure Rocks died.
• Two days later, Xia Chen and Whitebeard returned to Hachinosu and went to the meeting hall at Rocks’s request.
• Golden Lion praised Xia Chen’s recent victory and traded barbs with Whitebeard before Xia Chen asked Rocks why he had called them together.
• Rocks said he had received some news over the past two days.

Rocks gathered his officers to announce the Celestial Dragons’ Native Hunting Competition on God Valley and planned to attack it for the Devil Fruits and the chance to kill many Celestial Dragons. Xia Chen agreed to go, and a month later the chapter ended with a fighter charging forward with Thunder Bagua.

• Rocks told his officers that the Celestial Dragons would hold their Native Hunting Competition on God Valley in one month, offering six powerful Devil Fruits as prizes.
• Rocks said he wanted to seize the Devil Fruits and kill the Celestial Dragons, advancing his ambition to overthrow the World Government.
• Rocks asked Xia Chen for his opinion, and Xia Chen agreed that they should attack God Valley.
• Rocks ordered the crew to set out for God Valley in one month, and Xia Chen left, privately anticipating the incident.
• A month passed as Marines returned to Headquarters and the Rocks Pirates trained on Hachinosu; a fighter then charged at a figure and shouted “Thunder Bagua!”

One month after Xia Chen defeated Kaido with a single finger, the two prepared to go to God Valley, where Xia Chen promised to seize the Azure Dragon Devil Fruit for Kaido. At Marineford, Kong finished training Garp, Sengoku, and Zephyr to Admiral-level strength before ordering them to prepare for the coming battle.

• Kaido failed to move Xia Chen's finger despite his great improvement, and Xia Chen praised his progress.
• Xia Chen told Kaido that the God Valley competition's prizes included the Mythical Zoan Fish-Fish Fruit, Azure Dragon Form, and promised to help him take it.
• Xia Chen wondered whether Imu would appear if he slaughtered the World Government forces at God Valley.
• Kong told Garp, Sengoku, and Zephyr that their month of training had raised all three to Admiral-level strength.
• Kong warned the Marines to recover before the Celestial Dragons' competition, while Garp said he would target the Rocks Pirates and refuse to protect the Celestial Dragons.

Roger, Rayleigh, and Gaban trained as they prepared for the battle at God Valley, while Roger worried that Xia Chen might side with Rocks. On Hachinosu, Rocks mastered Observation Haki Killer and considered how his hidden ability could counter Xia Chen’s Devil Fruit.

• Roger fought Rayleigh and Gaban, then admitted he was unsure about the coming battle at God Valley because Xia Chen might join Rocks.
• Roger recalled Xia Chen’s overwhelming strength and chose to believe that he would ultimately join forces with Garp to defeat Rocks.
• Rocks prepared to leave Hachinosu with only his strongest captains, keeping the weaker pirates behind.
• Rocks mastered Observation Haki Killer and grew more confident about fighting the World Government and Navy.
• Rocks worried that Xia Chen could still outmatch him, then smiled as he considered how his hidden ability could counter Devil Fruit users.

Garp and the Marine elites prepared to sail for God Valley alongside the Celestial Dragons, CP0, and all five of the Five Elders. After Saint Nusjuro stopped Garp from striking a Celestial Dragon, the Dragon threatened Garp’s family, and Garp advanced on him with murderous intent.

• Garp complained to Kong about having to travel with the Celestial Dragons and revealed that he wanted to avenge Purple Foot by killing Xia Chen.
• The Five Elders, Celestial Dragons, and CP0 agents boarded the Marine warship, while the slaves were sent to another ship.
• After Celestial Dragons insulted the Marines, Sengoku and Zephyr restrained Garp when he began to confront them.
• A Celestial Dragon ordered Garp to kneel, so Garp punched at him, but Saint Nusjuro blocked the blow with his scabbard.
• The Celestial Dragon threatened to kill Garp and his family, and Garp asked what he had said as he walked toward him with murderous intent.

Saint Nusjuro struck a Celestial Dragon to prevent a conflict with Garp, then allowed the Navy and World Government forces to depart for God Valley. On the Rocks Pirates’ flying island, Xia Chen questioned whether this era belonged to a parallel spacetime and planned to seek answers from Imu.

• Saint Nusjuro knocked out the Celestial Dragon and offered Garp a way to end the dispute, which Garp accepted.
• Sengoku wondered why the Five Elders treated Garp with such deference, while Kong warned Garp not to act impulsively.
• Kong ordered all forces to move out for God Valley after speaking with the Five Elders.
• Xia Chen recalled that the news agency head knew nothing about Eternal Night Island or Hades, Zeus, and Athena, leading him to suspect this was a parallel spacetime.
• Xia Chen decided he could test his theory by asking Imu whether They had Athena’s and Zeus’s powers.

The Navy and Celestial Dragons arrived at God Valley to begin a tournament in which slaves would be hunted, while Garp wrestled with his role in the event. Saint Figarland Garling slaughtered a village as three child slaves hid in a cave, wondering whether they could escape.

• Saint Saturn ordered the slaves released onto God Valley, and they fled into the forest as the Celestial Dragons watched with excitement.
• Kong arranged for the Navy’s warships to guard against incoming pirates, then urged Garp to obey orders and fight pirates; Garp eventually headed onto the island.
• Saint Figarland Garling massacred everyone in a village while searching for slaves to kill.
• Three children in slave clothing hid in an underground cave, where the pink-haired girl quietly asked whether they could escape.

Ginny, Emporio Ivankov, and Bartholomew Kuma hid in an underground cave and waited for pirates to distract the World Government so they could escape. At God Valley, a huge meteor appeared over the gathered Marines and World Government officials, forcing them to combine their attacks against it.

• Bartholomew Kuma offered to leave the cave to check the situation, but Ginny stopped him and said they should wait for the pirates drawn by her warning to arrive.
• Emporio Ivankov agreed that the three had a better chance of escaping once the pirates fought the World Government.
• At God Valley, Sengoku and the others waited uneasily as no pirates appeared near the six Devil Fruits guarded by CP0.
• A massive meteor darkened the sky above the platform, and Saint Nusjuro's first slash barely scratched it.
• Saint Nusjuro called for everyone to attack together, and the assembled fighters concentrated their strikes on one spot of the meteor.

Xia Chen’s allies arrived at God Valley after the meteor was destroyed, and Rocks tried to turn the Five Elders against Xia Chen. Xia Chen appeared on the platform where the Devil Fruits had been kept, holding one as a CP0 agent attacked him.

• The Five Elders, Marines, and CP0 agents survived the meteor’s destruction as a small island remained floating overhead.
• Rocks, Newgate, Shiki, and Linlin descended with Shiki’s power and landed near the Five Elders.
• Rocks taunted the Five Elders and tried to provoke them into targeting Xia Chen, while his officers recognized his self-serving motive.
• Saint Saturn asked where Xia Chen was, and Xia Chen appeared atop the platform with one of the six Devil Fruits in his hand.
• A CP0 agent charged at Xia Chen, who called him a bug and raised his hand.

Xia Chen burned a CP0 agent to ash, then confronted the Five Elders and revealed that Rocks was their real target. He promised to stay out of their way until they killed Rocks, then face them himself.

• Xia Chen burned a CP0 agent with crimson flames, shocking Kong and Saint Nusjuro, who could not identify the ability as any recorded Devil Fruit power.
• Saint Saturn warned Xia Chen to consider the Five Elders’ authority, but Xia Chen mocked them and called them beasts.
• Xia Chen reflected that Imu might be keeping the Five Elders alive and planned to ask about it before killing Imu.
• Xia Chen pointed out that the Five Elders’ true target was Rocks, and their surprise confirmed his guess.
• Xia Chen promised not to attack or flee until the Five Elders killed Rocks, then said he would face them afterward.