Recaps

Xia Chen denounced Rocks for betraying him and challenged the Five Elders to choose whom to attack. The Marines and CP0 joined the battle, and Rocks overwhelmed Kong as the other fighters engaged their opponents.

• Xia Chen accused Rocks of being an ungrateful villain who feared Xia Chen would threaten his ambitions.
• The Five Elders chose to send Kong, Garp, Sengoku, Zephyr, the Marines, and CP0 into battle while remaining near Xia Chen.
• Kong and Rocks exchanged blows, and Rocks's Haki and strength forced Kong back.
• Garp attacked Whitebeard, Sengoku fought Golden Lion, and Zephyr engaged Big Mom.
• Kong recognized that Rocks had mastered Observation Haki Killer and charged at him again, determined to keep fighting before asking the Five Elders for help.

Whitebeard and Golden Lion kept Garp and Sengoku occupied while Rocks fought Kong, and the clashes exposed how badly the Marines had underestimated Rocks. Golden Lion decided to continue holding Sengoku back for the moment, but planned to flee if Rocks lost.

• Whitebeard mocked Garp’s attempt to persuade him to stop Rocks, then struck the distracted Garp and sent him flying.
• Whitebeard exchanged a knowing smile with Xia Chen before running after Garp.
• Golden Lion and Sengoku fought to a standstill, with Sengoku’s Buddha-form palm shattering Golden Lion’s Flying Slash.
• Golden Lion judged that Rocks was no match for Xia Chen and decided to keep Sengoku occupied only because Rocks had once sheltered him.
• Golden Lion blocked Sengoku’s palm strike with Kogarashi, then used Lion’s Might: Earth Roll to raise earthen lion heads beneath Sengoku.
• Sengoku retreated and blasted a shock wave at the approaching lion heads.

The Roger Pirates landed on God Valley and rescued Ginny and her companions after Roger intercepted an attack aimed at them. They confronted Saint Figarland Garling, who had been hunting the fugitives, and Rayleigh promised to protect them as Garling challenged Roger and unleashed his Conqueror's Haki.

• Roger led the Roger Pirates ashore toward the fighting on God Valley, and he blocked an enormous flying slash with Ace.
• The clash sent three children in slave clothing flying, and Rayleigh and Gaban rescued them before they hit the ground.
• Ginny told Rayleigh and Gaban that she and her companions were Celestial Dragon slaves, while secretly hoping to gain the Roger Pirates' help.
• Saint Figarland Garling approached and sent another flying slash at Roger, who countered it with his blade.
• Ginny identified Garling as the man who had been slaughtering civilians and slaves, and Rayleigh promised to protect the children.
• Garling confronted Roger and unleashed his Conqueror's Haki.

Roger confronted Saint Figarland Garling in battle while Xia Chen watched from afar and gave Kaido the Devil Fruit he had promised him. Kaido swallowed it and offered to fight the Rocks Pirates, leaving Xia Chen to decide what he would do next.

• Rayleigh had pirates carry the unconscious Ginny and the others back to the ship as Roger faced Saint Figarland Garling.
• Garling identified himself as a Celestial Dragon and attacked Roger, who charged forward to meet him.
• Xia Chen sensed Roger and Garling fighting and recognized Garling as the man he had dealt with during the Paramount War.
• Xia Chen tossed Kaido the promised Devil Fruit, and Kaido swallowed it whole before waiting for its effects.
• Kaido offered to help Xia Chen fight the Rocks Pirates and explained that he felt no loyalty to their crew.

Xia Chen refused Kaido’s offer to attack the Rocks Pirates’ captains and sent one of the World Government’s Devil Fruits flying in a purple ice ball. When Saint Saturn demanded the remaining fruits, Xia Chen encased them in ice and prepared to kick them away too.

• Kaido asked Xia Chen whether he should target the Rocks Pirates’ captains, but Xia Chen told him to keep fighting the Marines and CP0 while learning to use his fruit.
• Xia Chen kicked one of the five remaining Devil Fruits beyond the horizon inside a purple ice ball, leaving its discovery to chance.
• Saint Saturn confronted Xia Chen and demanded that he hand over the four Devil Fruits still with him.
• Xia Chen refused, encased the four fruits in purple ice, and lifted them into the air as Saint Saturn shouted for him to stop.

Xia Chen overwhelmed Saint Saturn and the other four Elders, while Whitebeard told Garp that Xia Chen’s power made him a formidable potential enemy. Whitebeard said he would let Garp go support Kong only if Garp survived his next strike.

• Xia Chen struck Saint Saturn with a punch and sent the other four Elders flying with ice balls, leaving all five beaten.
• Xia Chen mocked the Elders for failing to defeat him five against one, as the battlefield’s fighters reacted to his strength.
• Whitebeard told Garp that Xia Chen had killed the Marines’ Three Admirals with ease and that none of them could match him.
• Garp questioned Whitebeard’s allegiance and asked why he was stopping him from helping Kong fight Rocks.
• Whitebeard said he belonged to Xia Chen’s camp or neither side, then leaped into the air and raised Murakumogiri for a Haki-coated strike at Garp.

Xia Chen told the Five Elders that they would all be killed in the future, then attacked Saint Topman Warcury with purple ice and crimson flames. The explosion blasted the other Elders away, and Xia Chen emerged unharmed behind a golden shield as the smoke cleared.

• Garp and Whitebeard clashed with powerful attacks, while Rocks warned Kong that he would reveal his true strength and began transforming.
• Saint Marcus Mars questioned Xia Chen about coming from the future, and Xia Chen confirmed it and said the Five Elders would all be killed.
• The Five Elders rejected Xia Chen's claim that they would die, so he said he would kill them a second time.
• Xia Chen encased Saint Topman Warcury in purple ice and detonated crimson flames around it, sending the other Elders flying and destroying the platform.
• Pirates and Marines fled or defended themselves as the explosion spread, and Golden Lion watched Xia Chen emerge from the smoke inside a golden shield.

Xia Chen summoned four powerful clones to fight the transformed Five Elders while revealing that Rocks had the Mythical Zoan White Tiger Fruit. Rocks, wary of Xia Chen’s hidden strength, asked Kong to join forces with him.

• The remaining four Five Elders transformed into Mythical Zoan forms and charged at Xia Chen, deciding he was a greater threat than Rocks.
• Xia Chen created four clones, each with eighty-five percent of his strength but without his rock, fire, and ice abilities, and sent them to fight the Five Elders.
• Xia Chen recognized Rocks’s Mythical Zoan Cat-Cat Fruit, Model: White Tiger, and remarked that he had not expected Rocks to possess it.
• Rocks regretted turning against Xia Chen and, believing he still had a trump card, quietly asked Kong to team up.

Rocks and Kong agreed to temporarily unite their forces against Xia Chen, but many Rocks Pirates rejected Rocks and left the crew. Xia Chen offered the departing pirates a chance to leave the island before the battle against him began.

• Rocks persuaded Kong that their battered forces had to join together to face Xia Chen, and Kong agreed to a temporary alliance.
• Rocks and Kong ordered the pirates and Marines to stop fighting and unite against Xia Chen, but Golden Lion and Kaido continued their battles.
• Golden Lion declared that he was leaving the Rocks Pirates, and Whitebeard, Charlotte Linlin, John, and most of the other officers and captains followed.
• Rocks threatened the deserters, while Xia Chen mocked him and told anyone unwilling to fight to leave the island or risk dying.

Golden Lion gathered the pirates who wanted to escape onto his floating island, but Rocks attacked him before they could leave. Xia Chen protected Golden Lion, knocked Rocks into a crater, and allowed the pirates to depart as the Marines and CP0 prepared to face him.

• Golden Lion raised an island with his Float-Float Fruit and offered to take the pirates away, while Whitebeard, Big Mom, and John persuaded him to let their crews aboard.
• Rocks attacked Golden Lion, but a golden shield protected him from the punch.
• Xia Chen struck Rocks with the Jingu Bang and sent him crashing into a crater, then reminded him not to defy his order to let the pirates leave.
• Xia Chen allowed Golden Lion to take the departing pirates, and Whitebeard and Big Mom hurried to board while the Marines and CP0 stood aside.
• Xia Chen called to Kaido and told him to hurry over before the coming fight.

Xia Chen unleashed a rain of flaming rocks on God Valley while the pirates escaped on Golden Lion’s floating island. The attack shattered the island, and God Valley sank beneath the sea.

• Golden Lion lifted the pirates into the air, and they flew away from God Valley as Whitebeard and Kaido called out to Xia Chen.
• After the island carrying the pirates departed, Xia Chen summoned enormous golden rocks from black holes above the Marines and CP0 agents.
• Kong ordered the Marines to attack Xia Chen, but Xia Chen launched the rocks in flames with Fire and Earth: Splitting Rock.
• The flaming rocks struck God Valley, creating explosions and a shock wave that reached the fleeing pirates.
• God Valley cracked apart and sank into the sea, disappearing from the world map.

Xia Chen revealed that his flames had stopped Rocks and the Five Elders from regenerating, forcing them to set aside their grievances and join forces against him. As Garp surfaced with the badly wounded Sengoku, Rocks claimed he had a way to deal with Xia Chen.

• Xia Chen found Rocks holding the four surviving members of the Five Elders above the sea and noted that all five were badly wounded.
• Saint Saturn and the other Five Elders discovered their injuries were no longer healing, and Xia Chen explained that his flames had entered their wounds.
• Saint Saturn proposed that Rocks and the Five Elders work together against Xia Chen, and Rocks agreed, saying the four Elders should create an opening for him.
• Garp surfaced carrying the gravely wounded Sengoku and complained about Devil Fruit users who could not swim.
• Garp emerged with his left arm missing and blood pouring from his left shoulder.

Garp sacrificed an arm to save Kong and urged Zephyr to take him and Sengoku to safety, while Kong chose to remain behind. Xia Chen let the three Marines leave, then struck down the Five Elders and Rocks before turning to confront an attacker behind him.

• Garp told Zephyr to flee with Sengoku, explaining that the Marines could not afford to lose more people, and revealed that he intended to stay and die.
• Kong knocked out Garp, credited him with saving his life, and ordered Zephyr to escape with Garp and Sengoku while he stayed behind.
• Xia Chen told Zephyr, Garp, and Sengoku they could leave, but refused to spare Saint Saturn, the other Five Elders, or Rocks.
• Xia Chen used Godfall to strike the Five Elders and Rocks into the sea, and Kong jumped in to rescue the Devil Fruit users.
• Zephyr flew away with Garp and Sengoku as Xia Chen turned and struck at someone behind him.

Xia Chen killed Saint Figarland Garling and tried to freeze Rocks and the Five Elders beneath the sea, but Imu intervened. Imu confirmed his identity and, believing Xia Chen was connected to Joy Boy, resolved to kill him.

• Saint Figarland Garling attacked Xia Chen, but Xia Chen struck him with Godfall and killed him.
• Xia Chen saw Kong carrying Rocks and the Five Elders toward the surface and sent purple frost to freeze the sea around them.
• Imu appeared and stopped Xia Chen's frost with a flame, then confirmed his identity after Xia Chen named him.
• Xia Chen said he knew Imu had lived for over eight hundred years and compared their encounter to Imu's pursuit of Joy Boy.
• Imu questioned how Xia Chen knew so much and decided to kill him, suspecting a connection to Joy Boy.

Xia Chen fought Imu in a physical clash and discovered that Imu's golden, god-level Haki could counter his peak king-level Haki. Eager to use the fight to break through, Xia Chen asked Imu to help him cultivate.

• Xia Chen attacked Imu with the Jingu Bang, and Imu blocked the blows with his fists.
• Xia Chen and Imu traded powerful strikes, while their shock waves swept Kong and the five people he carried through the sea.
• Xia Chen and Imu paused, and Xia Chen identified the golden light around Imu's hands as god-level Haki.
• Xia Chen decided to keep fighting with physical combat so he could use Imu as an opportunity to advance his Haki.
• Xia Chen pointed the Jingu Bang at Imu and asked him to help him cultivate.

Xia Chen abandoned his weapon to draw out Imu’s strength and push himself toward god-level Haki, but Imu exploited his excitement to strike him into the sea. Imu believed Xia Chen was helpless and prepared to finish him with flames.

• Roger and Rayleigh watched the battle from the wreckage of the Jackson and marveled at Xia Chen and Imu’s strength.
• Xia Chen put away the Jingu Bang and attacked Imu with Haki-coated fists, deliberately accepting the pressure to help himself break through.
• Imu blocked Xia Chen’s relentless attacks, then vanished and struck him in the chest, sending him crashing into the sea.
• Imu deduced that Xia Chen had abandoned his weapon to seek a breakthrough and believed battle could not grant him god-level Haki.
• Imu locked onto Xia Chen beneath the sea and raised a hand wreathed in flames, intending to kill him.

Xia Chen broke through to god-level Haki during his fight with Imu and struck Imu down. Believing Imu had won, the Five Elders confronted Rocks, but Xia Chen returned to attack them.

• Xia Chen matched Imu’s pillar of flame and used a brief command to freeze Imu before striking him into the seabed.
• Xia Chen realized he had awakened god-level Haki, an ultimate fusion of the three types of Haki that greatly enhanced his attacks.
• Xia Chen spotted Rocks and the others nearby and sent a golden shock wave toward them with the Jingu Bang.
• Saint Saturn and the other Five Elders celebrated, believing Imu had killed Xia Chen.
• Rocks asked who Imu was, and Saint Nusjuro refused to answer before drawing Kitetsu I and challenging Rocks.

Rocks revealed that he possessed both the White Tiger Fruit and the Dark-Dark Fruit, then used the latter to attack the Five Elders. He stripped Saint Saturn of his Devil Fruit powers and grabbed him, while Saint Mars's attempt to intervene ended with Rocks absorbing his flames.

• Rocks withdrew his wind power, but Saint Mars kept the Five Elders and Kong airborne with flame clouds created by his Garuda fruit.
• Rocks unleashed the Dark-Dark Fruit's Dark Domain, enclosing himself, the Five Elders, and the others in a sphere of darkness.
• Saint Mars lit the darkness with flames and realized Rocks had eaten two Devil Fruits, while Rocks admitted he lacked confidence against Xia Chen.
• Rocks appeared behind Saint Saturn, used his darkness to suppress Saturn's Devil Fruit powers, and grabbed his throat.
• Saint Mars transformed into his Garuda form and attacked Rocks with flames, but Rocks used Dark Water to absorb them.

Rocks and the Five Elders tried to stop a golden shock wave, but it overwhelmed their attacks and broke through Rocks’s Dark Abyss. From far away, Xia Chen sensed their deaths and prepared to fight Imu again, whose appearance left Xia Chen stunned.

• Rocks punched Saint Saturn’s skull inward, but the other Five Elders and Kong stopped their attack when they sensed a terrifying threat overhead.
• Rocks and the Five Elders unleashed their strongest attacks against the golden shock wave, but it dispersed them effortlessly.
• Rocks used Dark Abyss to absorb the shock wave, but the vortex collapsed and golden light engulfed the battlefield.
• Xia Chen sensed the others’ presences disappear and prepared to fight Imu at full strength.
• Imu emerged from the sea, demanded to know why seawater did not affect Xia Chen, and declared that Xia Chen would die.
• Imu let his robe turn to ash, and Xia Chen stared at what was revealed in shock.

Xia Chen discovered that Imu had taken over Queen Lily’s body and watched her transform using the Mythical Zoan Amaterasu Omikami Fruit. Imu began to explain that her fruit was one of the two strongest, but Xia Chen interrupted her by naming the other as the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika.

• Xia Chen recognized Imu’s face as identical to Vivi’s and asked about her connection to Queen Lily of Alabasta.
• Imu revealed that she had performed the Op-Op Fruit’s Perennial Youth Operation on Lily, then taken over Lily’s body.
• Xia Chen challenged Imu and asked to see Zeus’s and Athena’s powers, but Imu did not recognize those names.
• Imu transformed into her black-and-gold Amaterasu Omikami Form and sent a wave of flames at Xia Chen, who blocked it with a golden rock wall.
• Imu declared herself the Sun Goddess and said her fruit was one of the two strongest Devil Fruits, but Xia Chen interrupted to identify the other as the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika.

Xia Chen asked Imu why her Devil Fruit and Luffy’s Nika fruit were considered the strongest, and Imu explained that they could awaken a second time. Their fight continued as Xia Chen broke through Imu’s Flame Shield and knocked her into the sea, but her defenses held; Imu then launched a flaming sun at him.

• Imu explained that her Amaterasu Omikami fruit and Luffy’s Nika fruit could undergo a second awakening, which greatly increased their strength.
• Imu questioned Xia Chen about his powers, and Xia Chen identified his fruit as the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Great Sage Equaling Heaven Form, and said it would kill her.
• Imu attacked Xia Chen with Flame Spears, which he shattered with his Jingu Bang and God-Level Haki.
• Imu enclosed herself in a Flame Shield that absorbed the force of Xia Chen’s first staff strike and sent its flames crawling toward him.
• Xia Chen used Overturn Heaven to break through the shield’s outer defenses and blast Imu’s sphere into the sea, but Imu emerged unharmed.
• Imu acknowledged the force of Xia Chen’s attack and launched a flaming sun at him.

Xia Chen and Imu traded powerful attacks in their battle, with Xia Chen breaking through her defenses and summoning an enormous Jingu Bang. The chapter ended as Xia Chen froze Imu briefly and the Jingu Bang struck her.

• Xia Chen used purple ice to try to stop Imu's black-and-gold fireball, then evaded it with an afterimage and attacked her from behind with the Jingu Bang.
• Imu's spherical flame shield weakened Xia Chen's strike, but the blow sent her skimming across the sea and left her bleeding.
• Xia Chen enlarged the Jingu Bang to enormous proportions and brought it down on Imu as she countered with the Blade of Amaterasu.
• Xia Chen's golden light dispelled Imu's flaming blade, and the Jingu Bang struck the sea and seabed, creating a vast hollow, a fissure, and tsunamis.
• Imu escaped the falling blow and attacked Xia Chen with a flame blade, but he evaded her and froze her just before the Jingu Bang hit her.

Xia Chen unveiled his golden flames and used them to overwhelm Imu, who had transformed with six wings and challenged him with her Amaterasu flames. When Imu’s barrier withstood his barrage, Xia Chen surrounded her with rotating rings of fireballs and prepared to fire his Zeperion Ray.

• Imu formed six wings from her black-and-gold flames, declared she would end the battle, and charged Xia Chen.
• Xia Chen put away the Jingu Bang and transformed his crimson flames into golden flames that shattered Imu’s flaming punch.
• Xia Chen declared himself the Sun God Venerable and fired a stream of golden flame bullets at Imu with his Flame Gatling.
• Imu tried to block the bullets with her Amaterasu flames, but the golden shots pierced through and bombarded her black barrier.
• Xia Chen surrounded Imu with rotating rings of fireballs and announced his Zeperion Ray.

Xia Chen defeated Imu with black ice and golden flames, then killed her with an enormous fireball. After Imu warned that the world would eventually sink beneath the sea, Xia Chen headed toward Whitebeard’s Vivre Card, planning to greet familiar faces before returning to his own era.

• Imu countered Xia Chen’s golden flame lasers with black flame lasers, but Xia Chen froze her in black ice and overwhelmed her with golden flames.
• Xia Chen blasted Imu with golden lasers, leaving her gravely injured and too weak to escape when he froze her again.
• Xia Chen called himself the Sun God Venerable and sent a giant golden fireball down on Imu.
• Imu warned Xia Chen that the world would face destruction and ultimately sink beneath the sea before the fireball struck her and evaporated seawater.
• Xia Chen dismissed Imu’s warning, decided it was time to return to his era, and used Whitebeard’s Vivre Card to set off toward familiar faces.

The Straw Hat Pirates fled Totto Land after stealing a rubbing of Big Mom’s Road Poneglyph, while Luffy stayed behind to face Katakuri. Big Mom pursued the crew, and Zoro and Sanji prepared to hold her off as the others escaped.

• Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, Nami, Robin, Chopper, Franky, Brook, and Jinbe fled Big Mom after obtaining a rubbing of her Road Poneglyph.
• The crew recalled learning on Zou that four Road Poneglyphs revealed the location of Laugh Tale, and that Luffy had chosen to take Big Mom’s rubbing.
• Jinbe told the crew he had prepared a ship by the shore, while Brook and Zoro said they trusted Luffy to defeat Katakuri and rejoin them.
• Big Mom pursued the Straw Hat Pirates and offered to let them go if they returned the rubbing, explaining that she was showing restraint for Xia Chen’s sake.
• Big Mom unleashed her Conqueror’s Haki when the crew ignored her, and Zoro asked Sanji to help hold her off.