Chapter Summaries

Xia Chen fought Imu at Mary Geoise and discovered that her growing strength and divine weapons made her a formidable opponent. After Imu boasted that no one could match her, Xia Chen sent her crashing into the city, injuring the Five Elders as well; Imu then removed the energy preventing their wounds from healing.

• Xia Chen and Imu’s flames clashed evenly, showing him that Imu had become stronger than before.
• Imu petrified Xia Chen with Medusa’s shield and pierced his chest with a golden spear, but Xia Chen restored his body and healed his wound.
• Imu claimed her strength had surpassed Joy Boy’s and that no one in the world could match her.
• Xia Chen struck Imu through her shield and sent her crashing into Mary Geoise, where the impact damaged the city and injured the Five Elders.
• Imu and the Five Elders rose to face Xia Chen, and Imu used pale blue energy to remove the golden light that was preventing the Elders from healing.

Imu and Xia Chen clashed above Mary Geoise, each unleashing immense power. After their battle destroyed the holy land, Imu stopped holding back and charged Xia Chen with her shield and spear.

• Imu sent the Five Elders down to protect Mary Geoise from the shock waves as she prepared to fight Xia Chen.
• Imu revealed the combined powers of Zeus and Athena, and Xia Chen inferred she had mastered them only recently.
• Xia Chen and Imu exchanged attacks with their weapons, unleashing shock waves that shattered Mary Geoise and knocked out the Five Elders.
• Imu realized Xia Chen's strength was close to hers and, with Mary Geoise destroyed, charged him at full power.
• Xia Chen returned the Jingu Bang to its normal size and swung it at Imu.

Xia Chen battled Imu above the Red Line, overpowering her giant construct with the Jingu Bang. He revealed his strongest form, Mimicry Great Sage Equaling Heaven, as Imu lay severely injured below.

• Xia Chen struck Imu into the Red Line, but she recovered and rose to face him.
• Imu combined black flames, blue lightning, and golden energy into a giant humanoid form and attacked Xia Chen with a spear.
• Xia Chen's Jingu Bang shattered the spear and pierced through Imu's energy, sending her giant form flying apart.
• Imu's chest caved in, and sacred golden light prevented her injuries from healing as she crashed into the Red Line.
• Xia Chen formed golden armor modeled on the Great Sage Equaling Heaven and revealed his Mimicry Great Sage Equaling Heaven form.

Xia Chen nearly killed Imu, but the Heavenly Dao appeared and repeatedly protected her from his attacks. Imu regained her confidence, only to be struck when the Heavenly Dao unexpectedly failed to intervene.

• Xia Chen restrained Imu with golden light and tightened it until she was close to dying.
• The Heavenly Dao appeared, identified itself to Xia Chen, and erased his attack on Imu.
• Xia Chen attacked the Heavenly Dao with the Jingu Bang, but it effortlessly blocked every blow without counterattacking.
• After recovering, Imu taunted Xia Chen, claiming the Heavenly Dao would keep her safe until she could resume her plans.
• Xia Chen sent another shock wave at Imu, and it struck her directly when the Heavenly Dao did not block it.

After failing to kill Imu, Xia Chen flew to Marineford as Sengoku proposed that the Marines break away from the World Government and seek help from pirates. The Marines agreed to oppose the World Government, with Sengoku and Garp insisting that cooperation with pirates was necessary to stop its massacres.

• Xia Chen left Imu severely injured and flew toward Marineford.
• Sengoku condemned the World Government's massacres of civilians and said the Marines must stop supporting its atrocities.
• Sengoku proposed making the Marines independent of the World Government, and the assembled officers agreed.
• Aokiji warned that the Marines lacked the strength to fight the World Government alone.
• Sengoku proposed seeking help from the Red Hair Pirates, the Beasts Pirates, and the Straw Hat Pirates, and Garp supported cooperating with them.

The Marines decided to break away from the World Government and stop its slaughter of civilians, but Xia Chen arrived at Marine Headquarters and revealed that he had already destroyed the World Government. He left the Marines to handle the aftermath, and Sengoku ordered Kizaru to verify what had happened at Mary Geoise.

• Sengoku ordered the Marines to confront the World Government and stop its operation against civilians.
• Xia Chen appeared at Marine Headquarters, and Garp invited him to help the Marines overthrow the World Government.
• Xia Chen told the Marines he had killed the Celestial Dragons and the Five Elders at Mary Geoise, leaving only its crippled ruler alive.
• Xia Chen warned the Marines to handle the aftermath and vanished, leaving Sengoku to understand his warning.
• Sengoku sent Kizaru to Mary Geoise to verify Xia Chen's account.

After settling Amazon Lily's postwar affairs and spending time with Hancock, Xia Chen headed for Elbaf when Luffy called. Kaido and Shanks also set sail for Elbaf, where the final contenders would compete for the last Road Poneglyph rubbing and the title of Pirate King.

• Xia Chen stayed on Amazon Lily to handle postwar matters and spend several days with Hancock.
• Luffy called Xia Chen from Elbaf and told him the Straw Hats had arrived, so Xia Chen set off to join them.
• Kaido visited the cenotaph he had built for Big Mom, then decided to sail to Elbaf and compete for the last Road Poneglyph rubbing.
• Shanks and Benn Beckman headed toward Elbaf, where Shanks anticipated seeing Luffy and competing for the Pirate King position.
• The chapter identified Luffy, Kaido, and Shanks as the final contenders for Pirate King.

Xia Chen collected the seventh Awakening Stone in Elbaf and learned that awakening would unlock his fruit’s final form. In West Village, Luffy and the others reunited with Dorry and Brogy while they waited for Xia Chen to arrive.

• Xia Chen received the seventh Awakening Stone and asked what awakening would do.
• Luffy greeted Dorry and Brogy in West Village, and the group reminisced about their meeting in Little Garden.
• Dorry asked where Xia Chen was, and Luffy said he was in Amazon Lily but would arrive soon.
• Brogy praised Luffy for becoming one of the Three Emperors, while Dorry and Brogy reflected on Xia Chen’s destruction of the World Government.
• Xia Chen appeared before the gathered group and greeted them.

Xia Chen reunited with Luffy and the others in Elbaf, then joined Dorry as he showed them Warrior’s Spring and the Walrus School. The group learned that Saul had founded the school twenty years earlier, and Sanji spotted something that caught his attention.

• Xia Chen arrived and greeted Luffy and the others, then asked where Robin was; Usopp said she was talking with Saul at the Owl Library.
• Dorry offered to continue showing the group around Elbaf, and Luffy and his friends eagerly set off with him and Xia Chen.
• Dorry brought the group to Warrior’s Spring and explained that it was a beach formed from part of Treasure Tree Adam, where giant children played.
• Luffy asked about the houses and swings built around the tree, and Dorry identified them as the Walrus School, founded by Saul at the king’s request twenty years earlier.
• Sanji reacted with surprise that Saul had founded the school, then fixed his gaze on something nearby.

Xia Chen reunited with Robin and met Gaban, the Pirate King's Left Arm, in front of Luffy and the others. The revelation left the group shocked and eager to hear more about Gaban's connection to Rayleigh.

• Robin played on a giant swing with Saul in giant-style clothing, and Sanji fainted after seeing her.
• Robin and Saul joined the group, and Saul felt the weight of Xia Chen's presence when their eyes met.
• Xia Chen greeted Robin after returning, while the others caught up with them.
• Gaban approached the group, and Dorry and Brogy welcomed him as Mr. Mountain.
• Xia Chen explained that Gaban knew Rayleigh well and revealed that Gaban had been the Pirate King's Left Arm, shocking Luffy and the others.

Gaban arrived to visit his old friends and learned how easily Xia Chen could defeat everyone present. After teasing Gaban about fathering a child with a giant, Gaban joined Brogy’s plan to show Luffy and the others around the island.

• Dorry asked Gaban why he had come, and Gaban said he wanted to visit his old friends.
• Gaban asked Xia Chen how strong he had become, and Xia Chen said he could easily beat everyone there with one hand.
• Xia Chen praised Gaban for having a child with a female giant and asked how he had managed it.
• Gaban reflected on his wife, his approaching death, and his relief that the World Government had been destroyed.
• Brogy said he planned to show Luffy and the others around the island, and Gaban asked to join them.

Dorry recounted how Mother Carmel took in Charlotte Linlin and left Elbaf with the children after Linlin destroyed a village. Xia Chen challenged the giants’ belief that Carmel was their benefactor, suggesting her rescue of Dorry and Brogy might have been staged with the Marines.

• Dorry explained that Sheep's House was an orphanage founded by Mother Carmel, not a place for raising lambs.
• Dorry told the group that Charlotte Linlin destroyed a village during the Winter Solstice Festival, fatally injuring Elder Jorul, and that Carmel persuaded Jarul to spare her.
• Dorry said Carmel left Elbaf with Linlin and the children, and that Carmel likely died after the Soul-Soul Fruit appeared in Big Mom.
• Dorry and Brogy said they revered Carmel because she had saved their pirate crew from execution by the Marines.
• Xia Chen suggested Carmel and the Marines might have staged the rescue, leaving Dorry and Brogy stunned.

Xia Chen revealed that Carmel had secretly trafficked children from the Sheep's House and staged the rescue of Dorry and Brogy to build her reputation. Dorry and Brogy struggled to accept the truth, while the others found Xia Chen credible.

• Xia Chen told Dorry and Brogy that Carmel had operated as a child trafficker while posing as a benevolent nun.
• Xia Chen explained that Carmel had staged the Giant Warrior Pirates' rescue with the World Government to strengthen her reputation and sell children to the government.
• Xia Chen revealed that Vice Admiral John Giant was one of the children Carmel sold and that she had planned to sell Big Mom as her final deal.
• The Straw Hat Pirates and Gaban believed Xia Chen, but Dorry and Brogy found the revelation difficult to accept because they had been grateful to Carmel for saving them.

The Straw Hat Pirates and the giants explored West Village and discovered that a Sunstone could draw rainbows in the sky. Chopper tried the stone after enlarging himself with a Rumble Ball and successfully drew a rainbow of his own.

• The group set aside the old story about Carmel and continued exploring Elbaf.
• At the cliffs of West Village, the Straw Hat Pirates marveled at a huge rainbow hanging close above them.
• Brogy explained that he had drawn the rainbow with a Sunstone and demonstrated the stone’s power.
• Chopper asked to try the Sunstone, swallowed a Rumble Ball to grow large enough to use it, and drew a rainbow.
• Everyone listened in stunned silence as Chopper hummed in his enormous reindeer form.

Luffy transformed into Nika Form to use the Sunstone, prompting Dorry and Brogy to explain the giants’ legends about Nika. They revealed that the world had been destroyed twice and identified the second Nika as Joy Boy.

• Luffy entered Nika Form, enlarged himself, and used the Sunstone to draw rainbows in the air.
• Usopp explained that Luffy’s awakened form was called Sun God Nika Form, startling Dorry and Brogy.
• Dorry and Brogy said giant lore described Nika as a liberator who appeared during great upheaval, though some giants saw him as a destroyer.
• Dorry explained that Nika had appeared twice in history and that the world had been destroyed during both appearances.
• Dorry revealed that the first Nika was a giant warrior from before the Void Century and the second was Joy Boy.

Robin learned that Joy Boy caused the second destruction of the world by misusing the Ancient Weapons, while Dorry and Brogy wondered what Luffy, the third Nika, might bring. Xia Chen asked to visit Elbaf’s Underworld, and Dorry agreed despite briefly hesitating over someone imprisoned there.

• Robin told Dorry and Brogy what she knew about Joy Boy, and they explained that he sank the world by two hundred meters through his misuse of the Ancient Weapons.
• Dorry and Brogy called Luffy the third Nika, and Dorry said the World Government’s destruction made any future upheaval seem less significant.
• Xia Chen asked Dorry to take the group to Elbaf’s Underworld, prompting Luffy and the others to ask what it was.
• Dorry explained that Elbaf included the Sun World, the Heaven World atop the Treasure Tree Adam, and the snowy Underworld at its lowest level.
• Dorry hesitated over someone imprisoned in the Underworld, then decided Xia Chen could handle the danger and led the group there.

Dorry led the group down a suspension bridge toward the Underworld, where Loki’s castle was hidden by mist. After Xia Chen assured them the mist was harmless, Luffy drank a barrel of absinthe and fell asleep, while an unseen voice accused Dorry of ruining its plan.

• Dorry warned the group that Loki had taken over the former giant detention center and that they might clash with him.
• Zoro welcomed the prospect of a fight, and the group crossed the suspension bridge toward the Underworld.
• Mist concealed the castle, but Xia Chen used his Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils to inspect it and told everyone it was safe to enter.
• The group found barrels of absinthe, and Dorry explained that the liquor was called the Green Fairy because it could knock drinkers out.
• Luffy drained a barrel of absinthe, passed out, and was kicked onto Dorry’s shoulder by Sanji.
• A voice from the mist accused Dorry of ruining its plan.

Loki rushed up to Xia Chen and knelt, calling him the Lord God who had saved the world. Xia Chen denied knowing why Loki believed this, while the Straw Hat Pirates and Elbaf warriors reacted with shock and amusement.

• Loki emerged from the mist and hurried toward Xia Chen with a fanatical look.
• Loki dropped to his knees before Xia Chen and called him the Lord God he had been waiting for.
• Dorry and Brogy struggled to believe that the arrogant Loki had knelt before anyone.
• Xia Chen asked Loki why he called him Lord God, and Loki declared that Xia Chen had saved the world and kept it alive.
• Zoro teased Xia Chen about his exalted status, and the others burst into laughter.

Xia Chen stopped Chopper from attacking him and made Usopp back down with a display of his strength. He then ordered Loki to stop calling him “Lord God” and lead the group through the castle to the Underworld.

• Usopp and Chopper laughed at Xia Chen, so he mocked their bounties and called Chopper a tanuki.
• Chopper charged at Xia Chen in his combat form, but Xia Chen froze him with a single word and left him immobilized.
• Usopp reconsidered confronting Xia Chen and quickly denied wanting to dance when Xia Chen challenged him.
• Xia Chen told Loki not to call him “Lord God” and ordered him to take the group through the castle to the Underworld.
• Loki agreed and led everyone toward the castle.

Loki showed Xia Chen and the others his miniature building-block world, where he kept many pets. Luffy rode and accidentally knocked out Loki’s Bee Soldiers, and Loki gathered them up while insisting he was not angry.

• Loki welcomed everyone into his miniature building-block world and explained that he had built it.
• Luffy grabbed a Bee Soldier and climbed onto its back, inviting the others to ride too.
• The other Bee Soldiers attacked Luffy, who knocked them all unconscious.
• Loki gathered the Bee Soldiers into his palm and explained that they were his pets.
• Luffy apologized for hurting the Bee Soldiers, and Loki assured him he was not angry.