Recaps

Xia Chen killed Saint Saturn, claimed the Gyuki fruit, and confronted the remaining Five Elders and Figarland Saint Garling. As Xia Chen and his clones attacked them, Vista challenged Hawk-Eyes to a duel while Whitebeard remained occupied fighting Red Dog.

• Xia Chen destroyed Saint Saturn's heart and head, killing him, and obtained the Mythical Zoan Ox-Ox Fruit, Model: Gyuki.
• Saint Nusjuro and Saint Peter confronted Xia Chen, who mocked them and sent his original body and four clones to attack while two other clones headed toward Sengoku and Garp.
• Vista told Hawk-Eyes that Ace had been rescued and challenged him to a swordsman's duel while Whitebeard fought Red Dog.
• Hawk-Eyes warned Vista that he should be prepared to die, but Vista charged at him anyway.

Hancock and Moria turned on the Marines while Sanji defeated Black Snake with a series of scorching kicks. Sanji left Black Snake motionless in a crater, seemingly dead, and remarked that he was overcooked.

• Hancock turned Marines to stone with Perfume Femur and watched Xia Chen’s fight from a distance rather than risk distracting him.
• Moria attacked Marines who accused him of refusing to help, convinced that Xia Chen’s strength would soon overturn the world’s balance.
• Sanji struck Black Snake from behind and sent him crashing into the ice.
• Black Snake asked how Sanji had grown so strong, and Sanji taunted him before attacking with his heated right foot.
• Sanji’s final kick slammed Black Snake into a crater, where Black Snake lay motionless as his presence faded.
• Sanji walked away and remarked that Black Snake was a little too charred.

Zoro defeated Mole with his newly improved Three-Sword Style, while Nami and the others decided to retreat to the Ark Maxim after Xia Chen rescued Luffy's brother. The group still did not know where Zoro was as they prepared to leave.

• Zoro and Mole fought to a standstill, and Zoro challenged him to withstand his strongest move.
• Zoro struck Mole with Great Thousand Worlds, and Mole admitted defeat before collapsing.
• Zoro spared Mole and headed toward Nami and the others.
• Nami and the crew fought off Marine reinforcements, and Sanji urged them to retreat to the Ark Maxim.
• The crew agreed to leave without waiting for Xia Chen, but Chopper worried that Zoro was missing.

Sanji found Zoro while looking for him and immediately kicked him after realizing he had called him an idiot. Meanwhile, Luffy defeated Purple Rat after a grueling fight, then collapsed asleep on the ice.

• Sanji reflexively said the crew was looking for an idiot, mistook the target for Luffy, and then recognized Zoro and kicked him.
• Purple Rat and Luffy continued trading blows, each badly injured as the fight wore on.
• Purple Rat knocked Luffy down and believed he had won, but Luffy struggled back to his feet and charged again.
• Luffy and Purple Rat struck each other in the chest, and Purple Rat realized Luffy had used Armament Haki to attack inside his body.
• Purple Rat collapsed unconscious, and Luffy celebrated his victory before falling asleep on the ice.

Whitebeard and Akainu resumed their duel, while Aokiji froze Jozu and tried to reach the battle against Xia Chen. Ace intercepted Aokiji, forcing the admiral to fight him instead.

• Whitebeard shattered Akainu’s magma fists and mocked him, but Akainu pointed out that Whitebeard’s failing body and limited Haki were weakening him.
• Whitebeard dismissed Akainu’s offer of a dignified death and charged at him again.
• Aokiji froze Diamond Jozu, then assessed the battlefield and decided to support the Fleet Admiral against Xia Chen.
• Aokiji attacked toward Xia Chen’s battlefield, but Ace stopped him with Mirror Flame.
• Ace told Aokiji he would not let him interfere with Xia Chen, and Aokiji charged at Ace to capture him again.

Xia Chen defeated Sengoku and ordered the pirates to withdraw after rescuing Ace. Whitebeard covered his crew’s retreat but was struck by Akainu’s Hell Hound and left badly wounded.

• Xia Chen immobilized Sengoku with Freeze and knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Xia Chen announced that the pirates had rescued their target and ordered them to leave the battlefield.
• The escaped prisoners from Impel Down fled, while Whitebeard ordered his crew to retreat and stayed behind to cover them.
• Akainu struck Whitebeard with Hell Hound, melting a hole in his chest and knocking him to one knee.
• The Whitebeard Pirates’ commanders saw Whitebeard’s injury and shouted in alarm.

Akainu and Kizaru joined forces with CP0 agent White Dove to attack the badly wounded Whitebeard. As the three men launched their next assault, two of them were astonished and the third looked horrified, leaving the outcome unclear.

• Akainu attacked Whitebeard, but Whitebeard knocked him away with a powerful punch.
• Kizaru used a feint to reach Whitebeard and attacked alongside Akainu, but Whitebeard stopped both with his fists and blasted them back.
• White Dove stabbed Whitebeard through the back and introduced himself as a CP0 agent.
• White Dove asked Akainu and Kizaru to help defeat Whitebeard, and all three charged him together.
• Whitebeard resolved to kill White Dove and met the trio's attack with his fists, leaving two attackers astonished and one horrified.

Xia Chen stopped Akainu and Kizaru from killing Whitebeard and helped him escape Marineford. As the Marines and Whitebeard Pirates fled, Xia Chen stayed behind to face the approaching World Government forces and Admirals.

• Whitebeard charged White Dove, reasoning that he could still take one enemy down with him, and struck him hard enough to send him flying.
• Xia Chen and his clone intercepted Akainu's and Kizaru's attacks, then drove them back with their staffs.
• Kizaru held back as he waited for the Five Elders and the Holy Knights commander, but Akainu attacked Xia Chen with a magma fist and was blasted away.
• Xia Chen urged Whitebeard to leave with his sons, and Whitebeard boarded the Flying Nimbus and returned to his ship.
• Xia Chen unleashed Conqueror's Haki across the battlefield, knocking out most of the exhausted Marines and allowing the Whitebeard Pirates to flee.

Xia Chen held the Marines and World Government forces back while the pirates escaped, then revealed a towering stone monkey form after the Five Elders challenged him. He prepared to fight them in his new form as Whitebeard and the others hoped he would survive.

• Xia Chen split the ice with his staff strike and stood alone between the fleeing pirates and the Marines.
• Nami worried about Xia Chen's escape, while Zoro and Luffy trusted that he would return safely.
• Whitebeard called Xia Chen his crew's benefactor and ordered his crew to help him if he ever needed it.
• Saint Nusjuro confronted Xia Chen about his dwindling stamina, and Xia Chen admitted he was nearly exhausted but could still fight.
• Xia Chen transformed into a ten-meter silver-gray stone man, surprising the Five Elders and discovering strange new abilities.
• Xia Chen raised his fist and announced that the show was about to begin.

Xia Chen transformed the battlefield into rocky ground and devastated the Marines with rock spikes. As Akainu and the other fighters attacked him, Akainu’s magma punch failed to injure him, and Xia Chen struck back.

• Xia Chen used Rock World to turn the ice across the battlefield into rocky ground.
• Xia Chen unleashed Rock Spike, killing more than half the Marines and leaving many survivors severely injured.
• Akainu charged at Xia Chen, followed by Aokiji, Kizaru, Saint Mars, the other Five Elders, and Marine Vice Admirals, while Saint Nusjuro stayed behind.
• Akainu struck Xia Chen’s chest with a magma punch, but Xia Chen blew away the magma without showing any injury.
• Xia Chen asked Akainu whether he was giving him a magma bath and brought his enormous palm down toward him.

Xia Chen tested the formidable defenses and power of his Rex Lapis form after Akainu’s magma attack failed to hurt him. He left most of the Marines battered by a barrage of rock spears and sent Akainu flying with a punch.

• Akainu’s magma attack failed to injure Xia Chen, who announced that his Rex Lapis form had powerful offense and defense.
• The Marines decided to use Armament Haki with internal destruction and charged Xia Chen again.
• Xia Chen shattered the rock spikes around him, formed them into countless spears, and sent them raining down on the Marines.
• Xia Chen summoned several times more rock spears, injuring many Marines as pirates and prisoners watched from a distance.
• Xia Chen appeared beside Akainu and punched him so hard that he flew out of sight.

Xia Chen overwhelmed the remaining World Government fighters in his stone form, then summoned a massive meteor with Planet Befall. The Five Elders and the others scattered, but Xia Chen accelerated its fall toward them.

• Xia Chen used his stone form and Flying Nimbus to strike down fighters until only about a dozen near-Admiral-level opponents remained.
• Saint Nusjuro and the other Five Elders discussed their failed attacks and considered waiting for side effects or asking their lord to intervene.
• Xia Chen announced Planet Befall and summoned an enormous, exceptionally durable meteor from a rift in the sky.
• The Five Elders and the others scattered to escape the meteor, but Xia Chen swept his hand downward and accelerated its descent above them.

Xia Chen crushed the Marines and World Government forces with a meteorite, then trapped the remaining eight leaders in gigantic stone spheres. After changing back and putting on fresh clothes, he wondered what to do with his captives.

• The pirates sailed away as Xia Chen's meteorite struck the island, leaving Zoro and Luffy astonished by how much stronger he had become.
• Xia Chen inspected the crater and saw Kizaru arrive unharmed while the other survivors struggled to their feet.
• The injured CP0 agents collapsed, leaving four of the Five Elders, the Holy Knights commander, and three Admirals standing.
• Xia Chen used Planetary Devastation to encase the eight survivors in enormous floating stone spheres.
• Xia Chen changed back, put on fresh clothes, and wondered what to do with the people he had trapped.

Xia Chen rejected Shanks’s appeal to spare the World Government leaders, arguing that the Navy helped protect civilians but the World Government upheld its power through cruelty. He prepared to kill the Five Elders and Akainu, then challenged Shanks when he asked Xia Chen to show him some respect.

• Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates arrived while Xia Chen held his enemies inside eight stone spheres, and Shanks joked about Xia Chen once calling himself his nephew.
• Shanks asked Xia Chen to spare the captured Navy and World Government officials to preserve the balance of the seas.
• Xia Chen agreed that the Navy helped keep civilians safe but condemned the World Government and said the Five Elders must die.
• Xia Chen decided to spare Aokiji and Kizaru but kill Akainu and the Five Elders, then raised his hand to crush them.
• Shanks asked Xia Chen to spare the prisoners as a favor, and Xia Chen asked who Shanks thought he was.

Xia Chen refused Shanks's demand to spare the Five Elders and challenged the Red Hair Pirates to defeat him if they wanted to save them. After Shanks and his officers attacked, Xia Chen endured their blows and sent the officers flying, leaving Shanks to face him.

• Xia Chen told Shanks he would not spare the people trapped in the rock spheres, though he would spare Shanks once for Luffy's sake if Shanks lost.
• Shanks drew Gryphon and clashed with Xia Chen in Conqueror's Haki.
• Xia Chen entered his Stone Monkey Form and reinforced the eight rock spheres holding the prisoners.
• Shanks's officers attacked Xia Chen, but their blows failed to break through his defenses.
• Xia Chen slapped the officers away, and Shanks stopped them and said he would fight Xia Chen himself.

Xia Chen fought Red Hair, whose Divine Departure injured his stone fist before he instantly restored it. After Xia Chen sent Red Hair flying and the two clashed again, Xia Chen launched a storm of punches, eager to test his Stone Monkey Form against an opponent who could withstand him.

• Red Hair rushed Xia Chen and struck him with Divine Departure, cutting through Xia Chen’s stone fist.
• Xia Chen restored his fist with rock and told Shanks the attack had been very effective.
• Xia Chen used the Flying Nimbus to reach Red Hair and punched him, sending him flying despite Red Hair’s speed.
• Red Hair met Xia Chen’s next punch with Gryphon, and their clash sent shock waves through the area.
• Xia Chen spread his arms and rained punches down on Red Hair.

Xia Chen defeated Shanks in a close-quarters fight, and Shanks offered information about a Devil Fruit to secure a deal. The fruit turned out to be the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Pluton Hades, which caught Xia Chen’s interest, though Shanks knew little about it.

• Xia Chen outlasted Shanks’s attacks with his stone monkey form and landed a heavy punch that ended their fight.
• Shanks sheathed Gryphon and proposed a deal after admitting he could not defeat Xia Chen.
• Xia Chen dismissed Shanks’s offer of Devil Fruit information, saying he had no interest in such fruits.
• Shanks named the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Pluton Hades, and Xia Chen recognized it as the fruit Rocks had said he possessed.
• Shanks admitted he knew little about the fruit, and Xia Chen pressed him to share what he did know.

Xia Chen initially spared the Five Elders and their companions after Red Hair offered information about a powerful Devil Fruit. He returned moments later, killed the six wounded men, and began collecting their Devil Fruits.

• Red Hair told Xia Chen about a stone tablet describing a Devil Fruit and a cryptic sentence that might reveal its location, and Xia Chen agreed to spare the captives in exchange for the information.
• Xia Chen collapsed the rock sphere, warned the Five Elders not to provoke him again, and left on the Flying Nimbus.
• Saint Nusjuro vowed revenge, but Xia Chen reappeared and reminded them that he had said their next meeting would be their last.
• Xia Chen trapped Red Hair and his companions behind a rock wall, then used six clones to attack the Five Elders and the others.
• Xia Chen pierced the six wounded men's heads with Rock Spikes, killing them, and started retrieving their Devil Fruits.

Xia Chen drove Red Hair away, then staged his own death in front of Aokiji and Kizaru. Aboard the Moby Dick, he spoke with Whitebeard about his injuries and hinted that his future would be comfortable, leaving Whitebeard curious about how he escaped Marineford.

• Red Hair left with his crew after Xia Chen defended killing the Five Elders and warned that another clash would leave more corpses.
• Aokiji and Kizaru fled when Xia Chen approached, but he caught up to them on the Flying Nimbus and said he needed their cooperation.
• Xia Chen pretended to succumb to the side effects of his form, collapsed, and vanished in a burst of glowing motes.
• Aboard the Moby Dick, Xia Chen asked how much longer Whitebeard could live, and Whitebeard accepted his fate while urging the younger men to live well.
• Whitebeard warned Xia Chen that the World Government would retaliate for Marineford, but Xia Chen said he expected a comfortable life and Whitebeard asked how he had escaped.

Xia Chen explained that he had faked his death and recalled how Rocks revealed Imu’s pursuit of divine fruits and the danger of awakening Xia Chen’s own fruit. Rocks had invited him to join forces against Imu, but Xia Chen suspected Imu had lied about the fruits.

• Whitebeard asked Xia Chen whether he had killed everyone before faking his death, and Xia Chen said he had spared several people.
• Ace questioned whether Xia Chen’s fake-death plan would work and why he needed it, and Xia Chen said the world only had to see him die publicly.
• Rocks told Xia Chen that Imu sought Divinity from four god-named fruits to gain an immortal body, and that Imu had taken the Zeus and Athena fruits.
• Rocks revealed that he had once eaten the Zeus fruit, that Imu had absorbed its Divinity, and that the Netherworld Fruit had revived him after his death.
• Rocks identified Xia Chen’s fruit as the Hades model and warned that awakening it would draw Imu’s attention.
• Rocks invited Xia Chen to fight Imu, but Xia Chen privately concluded that Imu’s lies needed work.

Xia Chen concluded that the Rocks he had spoken with was actually Imu and guessed that Imu wanted him to die so he could awaken his Devil Fruit. After saying goodbye to Whitebeard and Ace, Xia Chen and his crew sailed away from the Moby Dick.

• Xia Chen realized that Imu had disguised himself as Rocks and reasoned that Imu might be trying to kill him to trigger his Devil Fruit awakening.
• Xia Chen told Whitebeard that his crew was leaving and joked that he would buy him a great big firework when he died.
• Luffy and Ace traded taunts about their next meeting until Marco and Nami punched them into silence.
• Xia Chen and his crew returned to the Ark Maxim and sailed away as Luffy waved goodbye to Ace.
• Whitebeard thanked Xia Chen and offered his pirate crew's help, and Xia Chen accepted.

Aboard the Ark Maxim, Xia Chen confronted Franky for sneaking aboard and demanded that he join the crew in exchange for his life. Franky refused because he wanted to stay in Water 7, but Xia Chen predicted that danger would eventually drive the people Franky cherished to send him away.

• Xia Chen found Franky on the Ark Maxim and reminded him that he had saved Franky's life at Marineford, then accused him of trespassing.
• Xia Chen offered to spare Franky if he joined the pirate crew, but Franky refused because he could not leave Water 7 and the people he cherished.
• Xia Chen accepted Franky's refusal without killing him, confident that Franky would eventually join the crew.
• Xia Chen warned that the World Government might target Franky because of his fame and his appearance on the Execution Platform.

Xia Chen welcomed Franky into the crew and asked about the Pluton Blueprints, which Franky revealed and then destroyed. Xia Chen began considering whether the crew should pause to grow stronger, but Franky was interrupted by someone calling him a pervert.

• Franky joined Xia Chen's pirate crew after agreeing that Water 7 could be destroyed by the World Government.
• Xia Chen asked Franky about the Pluton Blueprints, and Franky revealed he kept them inside his belly.
• Xia Chen said he knew where the real Pluton was but had no interest in the blueprints, and Franky offered them to him.
• Franky burned the Pluton Blueprints, deciding their destruction was best.
• Xia Chen considered discussing a period of training with Luffy and the others, but an unknown crew member called Franky a pervert and kicked at him.

After Sanji mistook Franky for a pervert and attacked him, the crew accepted Franky as their shipwright and planned to build a new ship. Xia Chen then urged the group to strengthen themselves before entering the New World, leaving them to consider how to prepare.

• Sanji kicked Franky after mistaking him for a pervert, and Xia Chen stopped him and explained that Franky was the shipwright they needed.
• Franky and Sanji argued and fought while Xia Chen, Robin, and the rest of the crew watched over tea.
• Luffy and Nami agreed that the crew needed a new, larger ship, and Franky promised to build it.
• Xia Chen warned the crew that they were not ready for the New World and proposed regrouping and improving their strength first.

After the Paramount War, Xia Chen’s crew agreed to pause their adventures and grow stronger, while Xia Chen also planned to investigate the mystery of his Human-Human Fruit. The chapter ended with everyone celebrating their decision at a banquet.

• Zoro agreed that the crew needed to grow stronger, then mocked Sanji, who attacked him in response.
• Nami said she wanted to study navigation, and Xia Chen offered to show the crew places where they could learn navigation, history, medicine, and mechanics.
• Usopp said he wanted time to train and master his White Tiger Fruit so he could help the crew.
• Luffy recognized that the crew had been unable to contribute much in the war and declared that he wanted to get stronger.
• Xia Chen considered investigating Red Hair’s riddle about the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Pluton Hades, then proposed a banquet to celebrate the crew’s decision.