Chapter Summaries

Xia Chen brought the Going Merry to Upper Yard and explained that Enel and his followers guarded the gold. The crew split up to enter the four ordeals, leaving Xia Chen to face the remaining gate as the others expected him to go in.

• Xia Chen left the Shandia People behind, while Gan Fall stayed to help them and lamented their refusal to heed his warnings.
• Enel sensed that the Shandia People had vanished and prepared to enjoy one last fight before leaving for Endless Vearth, unaware that Xia Chen was approaching.
• The Going Merry landed near Upper Yard, where Luffy rushed off to search for gold and Xia Chen warned the crew that Enel and his followers might resist them.
• Zoro and Sanji argued over who would defeat their opponents, and Nami punched them both with Conqueror's Coating.
• The crew reached the four ordeal gates, and Zoro chose iron, Sanji chose string, and Luffy chose balls.
• When Xia Chen asked the remaining crew which ordeal they wanted, Usopp suggested that Xia Chen should enter the last one.

Xia Chen left the Straw Hats to handle the trials themselves, while Nami and Robin headed for the Sacrificial Altar. Zoro met Ohm in the Ordeal of Iron and decided to use the fight to practice awakening Observation Haki.

• Xia Chen refused to take a trial and vanished, leaving Usopp and Chopper to choose what to do.
• Nami and Robin left for the Sacrificial Altar, and Chopper goaded Usopp into entering the Ordeal of Swamp before following him in fear.
• Zoro wandered through the Ordeal of Iron until Ohm attacked him with Iron Cloud and introduced himself as the priest overseeing the trial.
• Ohm sent his dog Holy to test Zoro, but Zoro cut Holy down with a single sword attack.
• Ohm attacked Zoro, who recognized his Observation Haki and resolved to fight him to develop the same ability.

Luffy defeated Satori in the Ordeal of Balls, while Sanji defeated Shura in the Ordeal of String and Zoro forced Ohm to point out the cloud river. The three Straw Hats headed toward the Sacrificial Altar, leaving only the fight involving the two “brave” warriors unresolved.

• Sanji became trapped by Shura’s string clouds, but later defeated him and sent him flying with a kick.
• Luffy entered the Ordeal of Balls, dodged a snake, and overwhelmed Satori with a Gum-Gum Gatling attack.
• Zoro defeated Ohm and got him to point the way toward the cloud river.
• Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro headed toward the Sacrificial Altar as the battle involving the two “brave” warriors remained unresolved.

Usopp and Chopper encountered Gedatsu, the priest in charge of the Ordeal of Swamp, after Usopp accidentally pulled him from the ground while trying to lift a spider. They exploited Gedatsu’s confusion and blindness, then attacked him as Chopper charged in with a powerful strike.

• Usopp tried to impress Chopper by lifting a spider but pulled Gedatsu out of the ground instead.
• Gedatsu introduced himself as the priest in charge of the Ordeal of Swamp, then revealed that he could not see because his eyes had rolled back.
• Usopp and Chopper recognized Gedatsu as an idiot and quietly planned their attack.
• Gedatsu filled the area around himself with Swamp Cloud and challenged them to approach.
• Usopp hit Gedatsu with a Gunpowder Star, setting his clothes on fire, and Chopper leaped toward him with Kokutei.

Usopp and Chopper defeated Gedatsu, completing the defeat of all four priests, while Enel set out to confront the Blue Sea people himself. Xia Chen seized the Ark Maxim, then rushed toward a clash between Zoro and Enel, who wondered why Zoro’s attacks could hit him.

• Usopp and Chopper knocked Gedatsu out with a combination of kicks and an Impact Dial, then headed for the Sacrificial Altar to beat the others there.
• Enel sensed that all four priests had been defeated and left the shrine to face the intruders himself.
• Xia Chen knocked out the fifty Divine Soldiers with Conqueror's Haki and took the Ark-Ark Maxim from a cave.
• Xia Chen sensed a huge clash and hurried toward it after realizing Zoro had encountered Enel.
• Zoro and Enel fought amid lightning and sword slashes, and Enel asked Zoro why his attacks could touch him.

Zoro fought Enel, awakened Observation Haki under pressure, and used it to overcome Enel’s lightning attacks. He left Enel badly wounded but nearly exhausted.

• Enel attacked Zoro with lightning, and Zoro took heavy damage while struggling to land another hit.
• Zoro closed his eyes and awakened Observation Haki just before Enel’s Thunderbird struck, then split the attack with a sword slash.
• Zoro used Observation Haki to evade Enel’s Lightning Dragon, prompting Enel to realize Zoro had awakened Mantra.
• Zoro charged through Enel’s Discharge with a 108 Pound Phoenix and wounded him with Oni Giri.
• Zoro nearly collapsed from exhaustion as Enel unleashed a 100 million volt Discharge.

Zoro collapsed after fighting Enel, and Luffy arrived to take over while Xia Chen watched over the injured swordsman. Luffy used his immunity to lightning and Enel’s attacks to practice Observation Haki, leaving Enel increasingly frustrated as Luffy began dodging even with his eyes closed.

• Enel prepared to kill the badly injured Zoro, but Luffy punched him away and took over the fight.
• Zoro fell asleep while Xia Chen stayed beside him to keep him safe.
• Luffy’s immunity to lightning let him repeatedly strike Enel, who grew desperate after his attacks proved ineffective.
• Enel activated Mantra and dodged Luffy’s attacks, prompting Luffy to recognize it as Observation Haki and use the fight for practice.
• Enel discovered Luffy’s weakness to slashing attacks and charged with his trident, but Luffy kept dodging to improve his Observation Haki.
• Luffy eventually closed his eyes and continued evading Enel’s attacks, leaving Enel stunned.

Luffy mastered Observation Haki and defeated Enel while Xia Chen and the others watched. After killing Enel, Xia Chen tested whether the Rumble-Rumble Fruit would reincarnate into nearby fruit, and one pineapple transformed.

• Luffy thanked Enel for helping him master Observation Haki, then fought him with his eyes open.
• Sanji, Nami, and Robin joined Xia Chen and watched Luffy battle Enel while Zoro rested nearby.
• Luffy landed a Gum-Gum Rifle that knocked Enel unconscious and defeated him.
• Xia Chen kicked Luffy away from a basket of fruit, then crushed Enel's neck to kill him.
• A pineapple in Xia Chen's basket changed into a blue fruit with lightning stripes, confirming his experiment worked.

Xia Chen successfully recreated the Rumble-Rumble Fruit after Enel’s death and offered it to the crew. After the others declined, Nami decided to eat it.

• Xia Chen revealed that Enel’s power had turned a nearby fruit into the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and explained his theory about Devil Fruits reappearing after their users died.
• Xia Chen kicked the sleeping Zoro, who woke and started a fight with Sanji instead of confronting Xia Chen.
• Chopper and Usopp arrived, and Xia Chen gathered the crew to discuss the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp declined the fruit, each for his own reasons.
• Nami considered the chance to become stronger and told Xia Chen that she would eat the fruit.

Nami ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and produced only a tiny spark, then knocked Zoro out with Conqueror's Coating when he mocked her. Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji challenged Xia Chen to test their strength, and their opening attacks failed to harm him.

• Nami took a bite of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and discovered she could make only a tiny arc of electricity.
• Zoro mocked Nami's weak display, so Nami used Conqueror's Coating to defeat him.
• Luffy asked Xia Chen for a fight, and Zoro and Sanji joined the challenge.
• Xia Chen set up a barrier for the others to watch as he faced Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji.
• Luffy and Sanji hurt themselves striking Xia Chen, while Zoro's swords cut only his clothes and left his body unharmed.
• Xia Chen taunted the three fighters and said their attacks were too weak to interest him.

Xia Chen overwhelmed Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji in a fight, even after they unveiled stronger techniques. He sent all three crashing to the ground, and Chopper went to treat them after Xia Chen promised him cotton candy.

• Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy attacked Xia Chen, but he easily blocked their moves and knocked them down repeatedly.
• Luffy activated Gear Second and surprised Xia Chen with his speed and stronger punches, but Xia Chen endured his attacks and struck him down.
• Zoro used his Nine-Sword Style, Sanji activated Diable Jambe, and Luffy used Gear Third as they attacked Xia Chen together.
• Xia Chen countered with Thunder Bagua, leaving all three injured and sprawled on the ground.
• Chopper scolded Xia Chen for giving him more patients, then went to treat the three after Xia Chen promised him cotton candy.

Xia Chen revealed the Golden Bell, and Luffy rang it to prove the City of Gold existed and clear Noland’s name. The sound reached the Shandia, Gan Fall, and Cricket, while Xia Chen kept the bell and Gan Fall hurried to announce Enel’s death.

• Xia Chen showed Luffy and the others the Golden Bell and asked Luffy to ring it for Cricket.
• Luffy struck the bell with a Giant Elephant Gun, and its ringing spread across Sky Island and down to the Blue Sea.
• The Shandia elder recognized the sound as the Light of Shandora, and Wyper wondered whether Luffy and the others had lit it.
• Gan Fall heard the island’s song and rushed to Upper Yard, while Cricket recognized the Golden Bell’s ringing and rejoiced that Noland had not been a liar.
• Xia Chen returned the Golden Bell to his System Space and told Gan Fall that Enel was dead.
• Gan Fall flew off to tell Angel Island the news, and Luffy suggested that the group explore more of the island.

After defeating Enel, Xia Chen and the others left Sky Island, descended through the clouds, and admired the sunset. Days later, while the crew fished at sea, Zoro spotted something on the horizon.

• Luffy and the others said goodbye to Conis, her father, and Gan Fall before sailing away from Angel Island aboard the Going Merry.
• Xia Chen punched holes through the White-White Sea and White Sea, slowing the Going Merry's fall and then carrying it down with the Flying Nimbus.
• The crew watched the sunset as they descended, then spent several days at sea without reaching another island.
• Xia Chen blasted fish out of the water after failing to catch any, then scolded Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper for teasing him.
• Zoro, keeping watch at the bow, said he saw something out at sea.

Luffy and the crew opened a barrel marked as an offering to the Sea God, triggering a flare that may have drawn attention to them. After Nami steered the ship through a storm, Xia Chen identified their location as the Florian Triangle, the Devil's Sea where over a hundred ships disappear each year.

• Luffy, Usopp, Nami, Robin, and the others found an offering barrel, and Nami explained that it held provisions meant for the gods.
• Luffy prayed, then opened the barrel and was blasted away when a flare shot into the sky.
• Robin warned that the flare might have alerted someone to their presence, while Zoro and Sanji welcomed the chance to fight whoever came.
• Nami sensed an approaching storm and directed the crew to safety at its edge.
• Xia Chen identified the surrounding sea as the Florian Triangle, and Robin said more than a hundred ships disappeared there each year.

The Straw Hats encountered a ghost ship in the Florian Triangle, where stories of ghosts, skeletons, and zombies terrified Nami, Usopp, and Chopper but excited Luffy and the others. Xia Chen stayed with Nami at first, then sent a clone to join the group aboard the ghost ship, where they met a moving skeleton.

• Robin said ships and crews had disappeared in the Florian Triangle because ghosts killed anyone who entered, and Xia Chen confirmed that ghosts, living skeletons, and zombies existed there.
• A strange laugh sounded through the fog as a ghost ship approached the Going Merry, frightening Nami, Usopp, and Chopper while Luffy and the others eagerly anticipated exploring it.
• Luffy swung over to the ghost ship, and Zoro, Sanji, and Robin followed; Xia Chen agreed to stay aboard the Going Merry after Nami clung to him.
• Xia Chen revealed that he had sent a clone to the ghost ship, where Robin, Sanji, and the others heard footsteps and saw a dark figure approach.
• The figure emerged as a moving skeleton, and Luffy cried out in shock.

The Straw Hats met Brook, a polite but eccentric living skeleton who accepted Luffy’s invitation to join the crew before learning about Laboon. Brook then revealed he could not leave the waters, and Xia Chen invited him to explain aboard the Going Merry.

• Zoro and Sanji took fighting stances when Brook appeared, but he greeted the Straw Hats politely and joked with them.
• Brook asked to see Robin’s panties, and Sanji kicked him, sending him flying.
• Luffy invited Brook to join the crew, and Brook readily agreed despite Sanji’s objections.
• Sanji recognized Brook, and Luffy told him that Laboon had been waiting for his old pirate crew and had kept ramming the Red Line.
• Brook thanked Luffy for stopping Laboon, then accepted Luffy’s invitation to sail around the world and return to Laboon.
• Brook remembered he could not leave the waters, so Xia Chen invited him to explain the reason aboard the Going Merry.

Luffy brought Brook aboard the Going Merry, where the crew learned how Brook had returned to life as a skeleton and discovered that his shadow had been stolen. Brook said he could not leave the foggy sea until he got it back, but Luffy offered to help, and Brook revealed that Gecko Moria had taken his shadow.

• Brook introduced himself to the frightened crew, and Luffy announced that he had invited Brook to join the crew.
• Brook explained that the Revive-Revive Fruit had returned his soul to the living world after his body had decayed, leaving him a skeleton.
• Usopp noticed Brook had no shadow, and Brook explained that a man had stolen it and that sunlight would turn him to ashes.
• Brook said he had to remain in the fog-shrouded sea until he reclaimed his shadow, and Luffy offered to help him.
• Brook warned that the man was too powerful to risk the crew's lives, then revealed that Gecko Moria had stolen his shadow.

Xia Chen explained Gecko Moria’s standing among the Shichibukai and promised Brook the crew would help recover his shadow. When ghosts appeared, Xia Chen detected and seized the invisible Absalom, one of Moria’s subordinates, and confronted him.

• Xia Chen identified Gecko Moria as the likely thief of Brook’s shadow and explained that the Shichibukai varied greatly in strength.
• Luffy promised to help Brook get his shadow back, but Brook admitted he did not know where Moria was.
• Xia Chen sensed that their target had arrived and led the crew outside, where they saw ghosts flying around.
• Xia Chen used his senses to find the invisible Absalom and grabbed him by the throat, while the crew detected his faint presence with Observation Haki.
• Absalom struggled and warned Xia Chen that he served Moria, but Xia Chen stared at him coldly and asked if he thought he was afraid.

Xia Chen killed Absalom aboard the Going Merry and obtained the Clear-Clear Fruit, which Sanji declined. Brook revealed that they were inside Thriller Bark and left to deal with his stolen shadow himself.

• Xia Chen dispersed Perona’s ghost avatar with Haki, injuring Perona and prompting her to hurry to warn Moria about Absalom.
• Xia Chen shattered Absalom’s bones, killed him, and kicked his body into the sea.
• Xia Chen’s fruit basket transformed an apple into the Clear-Clear Fruit, but Sanji tossed it back and Xia Chen stored it away.
• Brook identified Absalom as one of Moria’s top officers and explained that the crew had entered Thriller Bark after opening the floating barrel.
• Brook jumped from the Going Merry and ran across the sea, telling the crew he would retrieve his shadow himself.

Luffy led the crew onto Thriller Bark to help Brook recover his shadow, while Xia Chen gained a major increase in strength from a system check-in. After the crew encountered and fought a three-headed beast, Perona warned Moria that their new prey had overwhelmed her and Absalom.

• Luffy insisted that the crew enter Thriller Bark, claiming they had a duty to help their friend Brook, and everyone set off despite Usopp and Chopper's protests.
• Xia Chen checked in at Thriller Bark, upgrading his Indestructible Vajra Body to advanced and reaching a physique he compared to Kaido's.
• The crew encountered a three-headed beast in a gloomy alley, and it bit Luffy before he persuaded it to release him.
• Luffy struck the beast after it let him go, while the crew watched.
• Perona told Moria that she and Absalom had been defeated by the newcomers and that she had seen Xia Chen crush her ghost.
• A subordinate arrived to report that he had learned the newcomers' identities.