Recaps

Wang Hao uncovered the threat posed by the World-Destroying Evil Baleful Intent, enlisted Hamura and Mito to transform it, and resisted the Sage of Six Paths’s forces with Cloud. After learning that the Land of Lightning and Land of Iron faced future destruction, he began preparing to move people to the Devil Star and returned to the Leaf to confront the Hyuga Clan over his mother’s death.

• Wang Hao armed A Yotsuki and Killer B, investigated the ancient battlefield beneath Cloud Lightning Ravine, and discovered the World-Destroying Evil Baleful Intent and its origins in the fallen Gods and Devils.
• Wang Hao reached the Ōtsutsuki ancestral lands, exposed the genjutsu that had manipulated Dōjin Ōtsutsuki, and helped Hamura Otsutsuki begin his revival as Hamura released Yuki Ōtsutsuki from her engagement.
• A Yotsuki and Killer B forced their way into the Leaf to bring Mito Uzumaki to Cloud, while Wang Hao brought Hamura to the village and Mito cut ties with the Leaf after learning the Senju had withheld ancestral artifacts.
• Wang Hao gathered Hamura, Mito, and Qianming at Cloud Lightning Ravine, where Hamura drew down solar energy and Wang Hao used the Nine Extremes Heavenly Thunder Grand Formation to transform the baleful intent into Destruction Divine Baleful Intent.
• The Sage of Six Paths manipulated a vast army against Cloud, and Wang Hao defeated the controlled forces, sealed away Killer B’s purified spirit, and warned the Third Raikage that the Land of Lightning would become a dead zone.
• Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha arrived from the future and tried to absorb the Destruction Divine Baleful Intent with the Box of Ultimate Bliss, then returned to their own time after the box consumed it.
• Wang Hao told the Third Raikage and A Yotsuki that he planned to move people to the Devil Star, then discussed the danger with Danzō Shimura and Orochimaru and gave Danzō three days to consider joining the plan.
• Wang Hao broke through the Leaf’s defensive barrier with his Thousand-Armed Tathagata and marched on the Hyuga compound, demanding that the clan surrender those responsible for his mother’s death after identifying its Branch Household members as scapegoats.

Wang Hao defeated the Ōtsutsuki ancestor and Heavenly Mandate, but spent his life saving Tsunade before awakening in the body of the weakened Admiral Z. He began gathering discharged Marines and preparing to seize Sabaody, while drawing powerful officers toward his cultivation methods.

• Wang Hao helped Tsunade gain the Shinra Legacy, exposed Black Zetsu to the Sage of Six Paths’ trap, and brought Kakashi a new inheritance before taking the Kaguya Clan to safety and reshaping Ancient Moon as a base.
• Wang Hao led his army through the Devil Star and against the Otsutsuki Ancestral Planet, where he burned the Ancestral God Tree and fought the Ōtsutsuki ancestor as his cultivation advanced.
• Wang Hao reached the Celestial Person Realm, killed Ōtsutsuki with the Great Dao of Force, and survived Tsunade’s emergence from the giant egg only long enough to suppress the destructive powers inside her before dying.
• Wang Hao returned in Z’s body, learned that his mission was to make Boa Hancock the World Protagonist and win her love, then set out to help the disabled Marines discharged by Sengoku.
• Wang Hao traded cultivation manuscripts for ships and supplies, healed his failing lungs with an artificial Devil Fruit, and impressed the Marines with Tsuru’s renewed youth and his Yin Seal method.
• Wang Hao sailed with more than a hundred warships and planned to claim Sabaody’s first twenty-nine mangroves as a home for disabled Marines and a mobile base.
• Wang Hao encouraged Kizaru, gave him the Golden Light Sword Canon, and explained that the unfinished Yin Seal could store and circulate Armament Haki.
• Kizaru reported Wang Hao’s plans to Sengoku, and Akainu, Garp, Aokiji, Gion, and other officers rushed toward Sabaody seeking cultivation methods, while Tsuru stayed at headquarters.

Wang Hao defeated the forces threatening Sabaody and Fish-Man Island, rescued Otohime, and moved the island beneath Sabaody. He then gathered allies and knowledge across the seas before Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates landed in his treehouse, where Wang Hao began trying to make Luffy give up piracy.

• Wang Hao defeated the Sabaody pirates, distributed cultivation methods to Marine officers, and began helping them develop their Devil Fruit powers.
• Wang Hao traveled to Fish-Man Island, removed poison from Shirahoshi, and helped Illya preserve Otohime’s soul after the queen died.
• Wang Hao and the Marines defeated the CP0 attackers and destroyed Noah’s Ark, saving Fish-Man Island from destruction.
• Wang Hao lifted Fish-Man Island from the seabed and anchored it beneath Sabaody, where Binz began growing Sunlight Tree Eve.
• Wang Hao recruited Rayleigh and Shakky to help prepare pirates for an approaching calamity, then visited Hancock and erased the Celestial Dragons’ brands from her and her sisters.
• Wang Hao moved Ohara’s foundation and the Tree of Knowledge onto the New Noah, brought Dragon and Nico Robin into his plans, and began teaching Robin a cultivation manual.
• Wang Hao studied Roger’s medical record, suspected the World Government and Imu were connected to a hidden enemy, and planned to use the Summit War to test Imu.
• Two years later, Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates landed in Wang Hao’s treehouse, and Wang Hao claimed kinship through Garp before trying to persuade Luffy to stop being a pirate.

Wang Hao defeated Imu and the Heavenly Mandate, but was expelled from the universe, leaving Hancock to take charge of the Air Force. The story then shifted to Tsunade’s return to the Leaf, where revelations about its leaders and history drove Sasuke to sever ties with the village.

• Wang Hao fought the World Government and its allies at Marine Headquarters, defeated several powerful enemies, and helped the Marines capture Whitebeard and the surviving pirates while Ace was resurrected as Alice.
• Wang Hao destroyed the World Government’s new base at Reverse Mountain and fought Imu in the hidden Heavenly Kingdom as Luffy and the others opened the Gate of Heaven and entered.
• Wang Hao defeated Imu with his final attack, destroyed the Heavenly Mandate, and was expelled from the universe, while Hancock vowed to find him and took leadership of the Air Force.
• Tsunade returned to the Leaf and confronted Tobirama over his dealings with the Hyuga, while Nawaki arrived with his pregnant wife Orochi Hime, whom Tsunade recognized as Orochimaru.
• Tsunade summoned Danzō, who defended his plan for great unification as a way to reduce war, while Itachi explained to Sasuke how the Leaf’s distrust and politics had led to the Uchiha Clan’s destruction.
• Shisui demanded his eyes back, Hashirama condemned Hiruzen for taking them, and Danzō and Hiruzen disputed responsibility for the Leaf’s betrayals, including the trap that targeted Nagato and Konan.
• Sasuke rejected Naruto’s comfort, destroyed his Leaf forehead protector, and left the village, with Itachi following him as Tsunade questioned whether Hiruzen had truly acted for the Leaf.