Chapter Summaries

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.

Xia Chen unexpectedly encountered Big News Morgans while searching for intelligence about the best islands for his crew to study and train on. Morgans accepted that Xia Chen meant him no harm and offered to help, leaving Xia Chen poised to explain what he needed.

• Xia Chen boarded Big News Morgans's ship and greeted him, surprising Morgans, who recognized him despite his reported death.
• Morgans revealed that he had never believed Xia Chen was dead because he knew what had happened during the Paramount War.
• Xia Chen explained that he needed information about islands suited to his crew's training and studies, and that he had planned to seek Doflamingo's help in Dressrosa.
• Morgans calmed down, believed Xia Chen's explanation that their meeting was a coincidence, and offered to help him.

Xia Chen asked Big News Morgans for information about islands with unusual landmarks, hoping to find the place described in Red Hair’s riddle about the Hades Fruit. Morgans identified Dark Night Island, but warned that it moved, could not be tracked by a Log Pose, and seemed to reveal itself only to certain people, leaving Xia Chen unsure whether he could reach it.

• Xia Chen accepted Morgans’s documents and Eternal Log Poses for islands that matched his requirements, planning to let Nami and the others choose where to go.
• Xia Chen asked Morgans about a strange gate, a red waterfall, and a valley of fierce winds in the North Blue.
• Morgans found a map of Dark Night Island, whose landmarks matched Red Hair’s riddle, and Xia Chen concluded it was the place connected to the Hades Fruit.
• When Xia Chen asked for an Eternal Log Pose, Morgans explained that the island’s magnetic field could not be recorded and that its location changed whenever it appeared.
• Morgans said only three people were known to have visited Dark Night Island, and Xia Chen wondered whether he could find an island that seemed to choose its visitors.

Xia Chen learned that Dark Night Island appeared in the Eternal Night Sea and returned to the Ark Maxim with information for the crew to choose their training destinations. After a farewell banquet, he took everyone to their destinations, beginning their six-month separation, then went somewhere alone as the system sounded again.

• Xia Chen learned from Big News Morgans that Dark Night Island appeared only in the Eternal Night Sea and gave Morgans a Den Den Mushi for emergencies.
• Xia Chen returned to the Ark Maxim and gave the crew information about islands where they could train.
• Chopper chose Birdie Kingdom, Franky chose Future Country Mechanical Island, and Nami and Robin chose different destinations from their original-story choices.
• Luffy proposed a banquet before the crew separated for six months, and Xia Chen joined in.
• Xia Chen used the Flying Nimbus to take everyone to their destinations, then went somewhere alone as the system sounded again.

Xia Chen upgraded his Conqueror's Haki to king level and unleashed it across the Sabaody Archipelago, knocking out countless people. Kid, Killer, and Rayleigh sensed the overwhelming Haki and headed toward its source, while Rayleigh concluded that a formidable newcomer had arrived.

• Xia Chen received king-level Conqueror's Haki and tested it by sending a powerful surge across Sabaody.
• Kid killed a man who bumped into him and dismissed the threat of the Marines as the Kid Pirates celebrated.
• Xia Chen's Haki swept over the islands, leaving Kid and Killer standing while their companions collapsed.
• Kid ran toward the source of the Haki, and Killer followed him as other powerful figures also moved toward it.
• Rayleigh sensed the Haki at Shakky's Rip-off Bar, compared its strength to Shanks's, and said a heavyweight had arrived.

Newly appointed Saturn reported Xia Chen’s resurrection to Imu, who suspected Xia Chen had awakened the Hades Fruit and planned to take its Divinity. Meanwhile, Xia Chen continued across the island and killed Eustass Kid with a single punch, leaving Kid’s fate settled as he moved on.

• Saturn told Imu that CP0 had seen Xia Chen alive in several places, and Imu dismissed him after hearing the report.
• Imu speculated that Xia Chen had awakened the Hades Fruit and resolved to absorb the Divinities of Hades and Nika.
• Xia Chen sensed people approaching and continued toward his destination, unconcerned by their presence.
• Eustass Kid confronted Xia Chen and demanded a chance to test his strength.
• Xia Chen struck Kid with a Conqueror’s Coating punch, sending him and the man who tried to catch him through a tree and killing them.
• Xia Chen continued onward without looking back.

Xia Chen met Rayleigh at Shakky's Rip-off Bar and asked him to train a group of people for six months. Rayleigh had not yet answered when Xia Chen offered him a substantial sum of Beli.

• Law and the other Supernovas watched Xia Chen kill Kid and Killer with a single punch, then reconsidered their own strength.
• Xia Chen entered Shakky's Rip-off Bar, recognized Rayleigh, and ordered drinks for them both.
• Rayleigh questioned Xia Chen about the news of his injuries and death, and Xia Chen joked that the news was simply wrong.
• Xia Chen admitted he had tested his newly improved Conqueror's Haki on the island.
• Xia Chen asked Rayleigh to teach some people for about six months and offered him a substantial sum of Beli.

Xia Chen hired Rayleigh to train the weak members of his crew, paying him with a huge chunk of gold. After finding the streets of the Sabaody Archipelago deserted from his Conqueror's Haki, Xia Chen encountered Celestial Dragon Mobus and his entourage, ending up behind Mobus as he boasted about striking a powerful pirate.

• Xia Chen offered Rayleigh three hundred million Beli to train his crewmates, and Rayleigh agreed.
• Xia Chen produced a huge chunk of gold as payment, then arranged to pick Rayleigh up the next day.
• Xia Chen left Shakky's bar and discovered that his Conqueror's Haki had knocked out most of the people nearby.
• Mobus arrived with his black-suited men and dismissed their warning that a powerful pirate might be nearby.
• Mobus boasted that he could slap the pirate without consequences, and Xia Chen asked from behind him how he planned to do it.

Xia Chen killed the Celestial Dragon Mobus and his guards on Sabaody, prompting alarm across the archipelago. At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku and the senior officers discussed a World Military Draft, while Sengoku mistakenly claimed Xia Chen had died in the war before catching himself.

• Mobus ordered his guards to seize Xia Chen, but they recoiled in fear when they recognized him.
• Xia Chen sent the guards flying to their deaths and killed Mobus with a blast of force.
• People on Sabaody awoke, found Mobus's corpse, and feared the consequences of a Celestial Dragon's death.
• At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku convened a meeting to discuss a World Military Draft because an Admiral position was vacant and the Marines needed stronger fighters.
• Momousagi supported the draft, and Sengoku praised her before describing the Marines' losses and claiming Xia Chen had died in the war.
• Sengoku stopped himself from saying the Marines had been slaughtered down to the last man when he remembered that he was still alive.

After learning that Xia Chen had killed Saint Mobus in the Sabaody Archipelago, Sengoku considered using the incident to restore the Marines’ reputation, but the culprit’s identity changed everything. The Marines and World Government both chose not to confront Xia Chen.

• A Marine reported that Saint Mobus had been killed in the Sabaody Archipelago, and Sengoku feigned grief while privately welcoming the chance to bolster Marine prestige.
• Garp mocked Sengoku’s performance, and the two argued over Garp’s rice crackers.
• Kizaru volunteered to go to Sabaody until he learned that Rex Lapis Xia Chen was the killer, then returned to his seat and denied knowing anything.
• Sengoku informed the World Government that Xia Chen had appeared in Sabaody and killed a Celestial Dragon.
• The World Government ordered Sengoku to leave the matter alone, and he lamented that Xia Chen was still alive.

Xia Chen searched the Eternal Night Sea for Dark Night Island and was about to give up when the island appeared from the water. He discovered it was formed entirely from black mist and prepared to investigate its strange nature.

• Xia Chen brought Rayleigh to teach Luffy and the others, then left to search the Eternal Night Sea using Big News Morgans's information.
• Xia Chen searched the sea with his Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils but found no island and turned back.
• Xia Chen sensed a growing disturbance beneath him as whirlpools and black mist appeared.
• Dark Night Island emerged from the water, but Xia Chen saw that its peaks, rivers, and trees were all made of black mist.
• Xia Chen prepared to descend and check whether the mist island had a physical form when something unexpected happened.

A spectral-blue Cerberus emerged from a black-mist gate and fought Xia Chen, matching his Dominion attack before freezing and striking him. The chapter left Xia Chen shattered out of his ice prison and flying backward after Cerberus’s counterattack.

• A black-mist gate opened beneath Xia Chen, and Cerberus emerged, freezing the mist island with its spectral-blue energy.
• Cerberus attacked Xia Chen with three blasts that merged into one, and Xia Chen countered with Dominion alongside a clone.
• Xia Chen and Cerberus’s attacks stalemated, leaving Xia Chen shocked that Cerberus could withstand Dominion.
• Xia Chen struck Cerberus with Heaven-Pillar and pursued it, but Cerberus froze him in spectral-blue energy.
• Cerberus shattered the ice with a paw strike and sent Xia Chen flying backward.

Xia Chen battered Cerberus with his staff and Dominion, but Cerberus survived and stood ready to continue fighting. On Amazon Lily, Hancock celebrated news that Xia Chen was alive, then kicked Elder Nyon away for reminding her how she had reacted to the false report of his death.

• Xia Chen struck Cerberus with his staff and Heaven-Pillar, sending him crashing through the ice.
• Xia Chen used Dominion to overpower Cerberus's hastily gathered energy attack and blast him into a crater.
• Cerberus rose from the crater, wounded and bleeding blue, while Xia Chen beckoned him to attack again.
• Hancock read news confirming Xia Chen was alive and celebrated, but Elder Nyon recalled that she had cried after reading the false death report.
• Hancock kicked Elder Nyon into the distance, and her sisters were distracted by her beauty and Love-Love Fruit power.
• Hancock gazed at Xia Chen's picture in the newspaper and sighed, "Lord Xia Chen~"

Xia Chen fought Cerberus on the ice, but the dog recovered with eerie blue flames and offered him a mysterious fragment to end the battle. Cerberus and the gate vanished, leaving Xia Chen with the fragment and no dog meat.

• Xia Chen repeatedly battered Cerberus from the Flying Nimbus, but Cerberus healed its wounds and restored its strength with eerie blue flames.
• Xia Chen decided to end the fight quickly, but Cerberus signaled that it wanted to stop fighting.
• Cerberus spat out a golden-glowing fragment, which passed through Xia Chen's barrier and released a brilliant flash when he touched it.
• Xia Chen stored the now-black fragment in his System Space and looked back to find Cerberus, the gate, and the ice gone.

Xia Chen reached the Waterfall of Blood and found a gigantic willow tree whose branches attacked him. After dodging its barrage, he transformed into his Stone Monkey Form and began overwhelming the tree with Rock Spike, leaving their battle underway.

• Xia Chen used Big News Morgans's map to locate the Waterfall of Blood and flew there on the Flying Nimbus.
• Xia Chen discovered a massive willow tree atop the blood-red mist waterfall and realized its branches could move without wind.
• The willow tree attacked Xia Chen with a relentless barrage of branches, but he evaded them on the Flying Nimbus until the tree appeared tired.
• Xia Chen identified the conscious willow as the Waterfall of Blood's boss and transformed into his Stone Monkey Form.
• Xia Chen summoned countless Rock Spikes, and the willow tree used its branches to shatter them as their battle continued.

Xia Chen defeated the willow with relentless rock spikes, a protective shield, a giant ape transformation, and a meteor, then collected a fragment that fused with the one he already had. The fused object remained incomplete, but Xia Chen recognized what its complete form would be.

• Xia Chen overwhelmed the willow with rock spikes until it formed a huge cone of branches and charged him.
• Xia Chen stopped the cone with Dominus Lapidis, transformed into a giant ape, and battered the willow with punches.
• Xia Chen used Planet Befall to crush the willow beneath a meteor, leaving a vast pit.
• A golden fragment rose from the pit, and Xia Chen collected it after closing his eyes against its light.
• Xia Chen brought out his earlier fragment, and the two fused into an incomplete object whose complete form he recognized.