Recaps

Hogg and Enel fought fiercely inside the temple, with Hogg using Haki and swordsmanship to withstand Enel’s lightning attacks. Exhausted but refusing to surrender, Hogg vowed to defeat Enel and save Sky Island as Enel prepared to destroy him.

• Hogg defended against Enel’s 50 Million Volts: Discharge with Tekkai and Armament Haki, then drove Enel back with rapid strikes and Rankyaku: Kicking Bird.
• Enel recovered from being buried beneath rubble and attacked Hogg with Lightning Snake and a lightning-charged halberd, hurling him into the air.
• Hogg survived Enel’s Inazuma attack and refused Enel’s offer to become his subordinate, then charged at him with Crimson Flame Slash.
• Enel let the slash split his body and reformed from electricity, leaving Hogg exhausted and asking how Enel could use an ability he associated with Admirals.
• Hogg rejected Enel’s offer again and declared that he would defeat him and save the people of Sky Island, so Enel threatened to destroy him.

Enel defeated Hogg, but Hogg refused to surrender and challenged him once more, dying in their final clash. Luo Chen mourned his friend and promised to care for Hogg’s sister before Enel ordered him to drive intruders from Sacred Land Upper Yard.

• Enel struck Hogg with his 60 Million Volt: Lightning Dragon, leaving him charred and unconscious, then called out Luo Chen, who had watched the fight without intervening.
• Enel forgave Luo Chen and ordered him to carry Hogg back to the Blue Sea, but Hogg woke and insisted on fighting again as a marine.
• Hogg asked Luo Chen to care for his sister if he died, and Luo Chen reluctantly agreed before leaving him to face Enel.
• Hogg challenged Enel and swung his sword against Enel’s Thunder God form, but the lightning strike blasted a crater and silenced Hogg.
• Luo Chen wept over Hogg and silently promised to find and care for his sister, then Enel ordered him to drive intruders out of Sacred Land Upper Yard.

Aisa sensed a powerful stranger in Upper Yard, prompting Wyper and the Shandia warriors to set out against Enel despite Laki and the chief's warnings. In the present, they entered Luo Chen's Ordeal of Blood and were confronted by a familiar figure from Wyper's past.

• Aisa told Laki that a powerful voice had appeared in Upper Yard and was approaching Enel, frightening her with its strength.
• Wyper decided to attack Enel, and Braham, Kamakiri, and the other Shandia warriors agreed to follow him despite the chief and Laki trying to dissuade them.
• Several hours later, Wyper led the Shandia through the priests' trial grounds and warned them that Luo Chen was as dangerous as Enel.
• A deep voice praised the Shandia for staying alert, and a dark figure appeared on a tree branch, asking Wyper if he recognized him.

Luo Chen confronted Wyper and the Shandia after telling them that Enel had defeated Hogg, then overwhelmed their fighters with his speed and strength. He sent Wyper, Braham, and Kamakiri flying, leaving Kamakiri’s fate unknown as the others recoiled in fear.

• Luo Chen told Wyper and the others that Enel had defeated Hogg and announced that he had come to kill them.
• Wyper fired his Burn Bazooka at Luo Chen, but Luo Chen dodged and kicked him into a rock.
• Luo Chen struck Wyper again and sent him crashing through a boulder and several trees.
• Braham fired flash rounds at Luo Chen, who evaded them and punched Braham into a tree.
• Kamakiri charged Luo Chen with the Burn Blade, but Luo Chen used Rankyaku: Great Wind Blade to cut his chest and send him flying.

Wyper’s second Double Reject failed to kill Luo Chen, who returned and overwhelmed the Shandia warriors before striking Wyper down. Laki arrived in time to stop Luo Chen from killing him and offered to take responsibility as the Shandia surrendered.

• Wyper used Double Reject against Luo Chen and collapsed, while his companions feared Luo Chen had died and planned to continue toward Enel’s temple.
• Luo Chen revealed he had survived by taking the blast in his Shura True Form and used his full strength to knock the Shandia warriors unconscious.
• Luo Chen attacked Wyper with Shura: Hand of the Evil God, but Wyper survived the blow.
• Luo Chen prepared to finish Wyper with Shura: God-Slaying Arrow Feathers, but Laki intervened and begged him to spare the Shandia.
• Laki offered to bear Luo Chen’s anger, saying the Shandia would abandon their operation and surrender.

Luo Chen defeated the Shandia warriors, and Laki knelt to secure their lives before he spared them and left. Two years later, after continued training, Luo Chen sensed the Straw Hat Pirates arriving on Sky Island and recognized Nami approaching on a Waver.

• Laki fired at Luo Chen, but he dodged the bullets and knocked her down with a single punch.
• Luo Chen taunted Laki and demanded that she kneel and beg for mercy; despite Wyper’s plea, she knelt to protect the others.
• Luo Chen spared the Shandia warriors again and left, while the injured warriors returned to their base in silence.
• Wyper began brutal training after recovering, determined to become strong enough to defeat Luo Chen.
• Two years passed as Luo Chen trained until his physical strength and mastery of his abilities had greatly increased.
• Luo Chen learned that seven pirates had arrived on Sky Island and sensed the Straw Hat Pirates in town, with Nami approaching on a Waver.

Luo Chen watched Nami encounter the priests hunting an intruder, then secretly followed her back to the Straw Hat Pirates. Nami returned to find the crew facing an illegal-entry charge, but her attempt to avoid paying the fine ended with her Waver sending the White Berets captain flying.

• Luo Chen watched Ohm and the other priests chase an intruder through the forest as Nami hid nearby.
• Wyper attacked the priests, and Enel struck the intruder with lightning before targeting Wyper; Nami escaped on her Waver while Luo Chen followed her.
• Luffy and his group waited by their ship as the White Berets confronted them over their illegal entry to Sky Island.
• Nami returned and told the crew not to fight, then charged the captain with her Waver after Usopp told her the fine was seven million Beli.

Luo Chen arrived at the Straw Hats’ confrontation with the Sky Island guards and let Captain McKinley’s men attack them first. After Luffy defeated the guards, Luo Chen fought Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro, overpowering them and leaving all three sent flying.

• Captain McKinley recognized Luo Chen as a priest and greeted him, while the Straw Hats reacted warily to his identity.
• Luo Chen said he would not fight until the trial began, and Captain McKinley ordered his guards to attack the Straw Hats.
• Luffy defeated the guards with Gum-Gum Fireworks, astonishing Conis and her father.
• Luo Chen appeared before Luffy at incredible speed, blocked his Gum-Gum Pistol, and kicked him through a pavilion.
• Sanji and Zoro attacked Luo Chen, but he blocked them with Tekkai: Armament.
• Luffy struck Luo Chen with Gum-Gum: Rifle, but Luo Chen reflected the force with Tekkai: Utsugi Rotation and sent Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro flying.

Luo Chen stopped fighting the Straw Hats and told them they would take part in a trial, while Luffy eagerly accepted and Nami tried to escape Sky Island. The Going Merry was carried away by the Express Shrimp, and Luffy’s group prepared to chase after it, but Luffy abruptly said he no longer wanted to go.

• Luo Chen ended the fight, said the Straw Hats would take part in the trial, and left after telling Nami someone would explain it.
• Luffy wanted to join the trial, but Nami argued they should leave; Conis then showed Nami and the others a route back to the Blue Sea.
• The Express Shrimp seized the Going Merry and carried it away, and Zoro abandoned his attempt to stop it when Robin pointed out the giant fish pursuing them.
• Conis led Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji to the dock so they could rescue Nami and the others, then offered them her boat, the Crow.
• After criticizing the Crow, Luffy suddenly said he did not want to go anymore.

Luffy and his companions sailed toward Upper Yard to rescue Nami and Robin, learning that Conis had helped send their friends there under threat. After surviving the forest’s traps, they chose the Ordeal of Balls, where a mysterious black-haired man waited for them.

• Luffy rejected Conis’s boat, but Sanji scolded him and the crew set off toward Upper Yard on the Crow.
• Conis confessed that she had summoned the Express Shrimp and was leading them to Upper Yard because otherwise everyone would die; lightning struck, and Gan Fall rescued her.
• Luffy and the others continued toward Upper Yard, determined to rescue their companions, and entered the forest despite Usopp’s reluctance.
• The crew dodged guillotine blades, stakes, and boomerangs before reaching a fork with five ordeals.
• Usopp chose the Ordeal of Balls, while a black-haired man nearby recognized Luffy and waited for him to complete it.

Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji entered Satori’s Ordeal of Balls and were overwhelmed by the priest’s mantra and powerful attacks. Meanwhile, Luo Chen flew to Enel’s temple and announced that he intended to resign as a priest and return to the Blue Sea.

• Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji emerged from the dark passage and fell into the Ordeal of Balls, where Satori introduced himself as its priest.
• Satori dodged Sanji’s kick and struck him with an Impact, sending him crashing to the ground.
• Luffy and Usopp attacked Satori, but he anticipated their moves, exploded a ball against Luffy, and hit Usopp with an Impact.
• Luo Chen flew to Enel’s temple and told Oyama that he wanted to speak with Enel.
• Luo Chen told Enel that he was resigning as a priest and intended to return to the Blue Sea.

Luo Chen challenged Enel to ten moves so he could earn his freedom and return to the Blue Sea. After Enel’s escalating lightning attacks left Luo Chen battered and transformed into a Shura, Enel bound his ankles with lightning and engulfed him in a massive pillar of lightning.

• Luo Chen told Enel he had only served him temporarily and wanted to return to the Blue Sea, so Enel offered to let him leave if he survived ten moves.
• Luo Chen and Enel clashed with sword and staff, and Luo Chen cut apart Enel’s lightning wolves before overpowering his Thunderbird with Shura: Hand of the Evil God.
• Luo Chen blocked Enel’s lightning beam and overhead discharge, then struck him with a Rankyaku that sent him crashing into the temple railing.
• Enel turned his Golden Staff into a trident and drove Luo Chen through the temple wall, but Luo Chen pulled out the trident and demanded another attack.
• Enel unleashed a maximum Discharge, prompting Luo Chen to transform into a towering Shura and expel the current from his body.
• Enel bound Luo Chen’s ankles with Thunder Vine: Rope Binding and engulfed him in a massive pillar of lightning.

Luo Chen survived Enel’s El Thor and left the temple as Enel prepared to launch a survival game now that the Ark Maxim was complete. The Shandia set out to attack Enel, Luffy’s group reunited with Nami and the others, and Enel gathered his priests to announce himself as their god.

• Luo Chen withstood Enel’s El Thor, and Enel declared that he was no longer one of his priests and let him leave.
• Enel told Oyama that Satori’s voice had disappeared and that a survival game would begin, drawing in the priests, divine soldiers, Blue Sea pirates, and Shandia warriors.
• Aisa told Wyper and Laki that Satori’s and Gan Fall’s voices had vanished, prompting Wyper to rally the Shandia for an attack on Enel.
• Luffy and his companions reached the altar aboard the Crow and reunited with Nami and the others, while Usopp boasted about his role in defeating Satori.
• Enel summoned the priests, struck them with lightning when they argued, and declared, “I am your god... Enel.”

Enel ordered his priests to prepare for the coming attacks and announced that the Ark Maxim was nearly complete, while Wyper led the Shandia toward a final assault. As the Straw Hat Pirates prepared to search for gold, Luo Chen flew to their ship and interrupted Gan Fall's account of Enel's rise.

• Enel told his priests that the Shandia and Blue Sea People would attack Upper Yard the next day, and that he planned to finish his preparations to leave for Fairy Vearth.
• Wyper rallied the Shandia for an assault on Enel, warning them that they had to be ready to advance even over fallen comrades; Laki gathered up the Vearth he had scattered.
• Nami assigned Luffy, Zoro, Robin, and Chopper to search for gold while the others prepared the ship for their escape.
• Gan Fall explained to Nami and the others how Upper Yard had been taken from its original inhabitants and said the Shandia might have mistaken them for Enel's subordinates.
• Luo Chen sensed the Going Merry, flew to the ship, and interrupted Gan Fall as he began explaining that Enel had conquered Upper Yard six years earlier.

Luo Chen asked to travel with the Straw Hats and offered information about the City of Gold, but Enel appeared and revealed his survival game. After Enel left, Luo Chen warned that more enemies were approaching and agreed to face them.

• Luo Chen told Gan Fall and the others he had left Enel and asked to join their boat, offering information about the City of Gold; Nami accepted.
• Luo Chen explained that Enel had used much of the gold to build the Ark Maxim, though some might remain scattered by the rising current.
• Enel appeared in a bolt of lightning, announced his survival game and invitation to Fairy Vearth, then knocked Sanji and Usopp unconscious when they attacked him.
• Gan Fall asked about his captured subordinates, but Enel left without answering after glancing at Luo Chen.
• Nami rebuked Luo Chen for not helping, and he warned that two more enemies were coming; after Nami challenged him to prove himself, he called out Satori's two younger brothers.

Luo Chen protected Nami from Kotori and Hotori, Satori’s brothers, and defeated them in battle. After explaining why he had not joined Nami’s ordeal, he left her and Sanji to continue their own path while Luffy’s group walked ahead through the forest.

• Kotori and Hotori accused Nami of hurting their brother Satori and charged at her, but Luo Chen blocked their attack.
• Luo Chen struck Kotori with Rankyaku, then defeated him with his sword after Kotori attacked with a Slash Dial.
• Hotori attacked Luo Chen with an Impact, but Luo Chen stopped it with Shigan and left both brothers unconscious.
• Gan Fall praised Luo Chen, who explained that Enel had avoided fighting him again and that Nami’s group had to face its own ordeal.
• Sanji agreed that the group could not rely on others, while Luffy and Chopper played with sticks as Zoro watched.

Chopper and the Straw Hats were attacked by a venomous giant snake and scattered through the forest, each trying to find the way to their destination. Meanwhile, Shura trapped the Shandia warriors in his Ordeal of String and confronted the hidden Wyper.

• Chopper spotted a moving branch but kept quiet, and the giant snake emerged from the bushes to attack Luffy, Zoro, Robin, and Chopper.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Robin dodged the snake, while its venomous bite brought down a tree and Zoro's swords failed to pierce its hard scales.
• The snake scattered the group; Chopper, Zoro, Robin, and Luffy each became separated and headed in different directions.
• Shura trapped the Shandia warriors in nearly invisible cloud strings and revealed that Wyper had avoided the trap.
• Wyper emerged from his hiding place with his Burn Bazooka, and Shura mounted the Three-Jo Bird and thrust his spear at him.

Wyper defeated Shura with a Reject Dial, freeing the Shandia warriors before they split up to continue their mission. In the forest, Wyper fought Luffy until the giant snake intervened, and Luffy was swallowed into darkness when he tried to chase Wyper.

• Wyper let Shura pierce his shoulder, then used a Reject Dial to blast him off the Three-Jo Bird and into a boulder.
• Wyper destroyed the cloud threads holding the others and urged the Shandia warriors to split up and meet at the shrine.
• Wyper encountered Luffy in the forest and attacked him, while Luffy dodged his bazooka shots and fought back.
• A giant snake interrupted their battle, and Wyper left to pursue Enel while Luffy called after him.
• The giant snake opened its jaws in front of Luffy, who leaped into the air and found himself in darkness, crying for help.

The Shandia warriors and Enel’s divine soldiers fought across the forest as Enel treated the conflict as a survival game. Enel gave Kamakiri five minutes to attack him without resistance, but Kamakiri failed to hurt him and Enel fell asleep.

• A divine soldier used a Slash Dial to cut down a Shandia warrior, while Enel’s lightning killed Shandia warriors and several divine soldiers nearby.
• Genbo defeated Oyama’s divine soldiers with his cannon, but Oyama caught and returned a cannonball before cutting Genbo down with a belt of Slash Dials.
• Enel confronted Kamakiri and described the conflict as a game to determine the strongest, then offered to let Kamakiri attack him for five minutes without defending himself.
• Kamakiri struck Enel repeatedly with his spear and tried other attacks, but none harmed him.
• Enel woke after accidentally falling asleep and taunted Kamakiri for not giving up.

Enel defeated Kamakiri as Robin, Zoro, and Chopper each faced battles across the island. Chopper entered Ohm’s trial ground and learned that the priest intended to kill him.

• Kamakiri attacked Enel with his Gas-Burn Blade, but Enel revealed his lightning body and struck him with a 30 Million Volt Discharge.
• Robin reached Shandia’s ancestral ruins, defeated Oyama through clever tactics, and threw him off a cliff.
• Zoro defeated Braham with his 36 Pound Phoenix, then was launched into the air near the Lord of the Sky after a South Bird ambushed him.
• Chopper defeated Gedatsu, entered Ohm’s trial ground, and found several dead people beside Ohm and his dog, Holy.
• Ohm dismissed Gedatsu’s death and declared that he would set Chopper free by killing him.

Wyper confronted Priest Ohm at the giant vine leading to Enel's Shrine of God, while Zoro fell from the sky and joined the standoff. At the Going Merry, Conis reunited with Nami and the others, and the group began checking the ship so they could escape Upper Yard.

• Chopper fled from Ohm, who followed him and knocked him unconscious with an Iron Cloud slash.
• Wyper reached the base of the giant vine and attacked Ohm when the priest blocked his way to the Shrine of God.
• Zoro fell from the sky beside Wyper, and Wyper warned him not to get in his way.
• Conis and her father rode a Waver to the Going Merry, rescuing Aisa on the way and finding Nami and the others there.
• Conis apologized to Nami, who forgave her, while Conis's father treated Usopp and Sanji and told everyone to check the ship.
• Nami pulled Luo Chen along to inspect the Going Merry, but a Waver engine starting interrupted their work.

Aisa tried to reach her companions after sensing several voices disappear, but Nami rescued her and brought her back toward the ship. A giant snake swallowed Nami and Aisa and carried them to the standoff between Wyper, Zoro, Ohm, and Gan Fall.

• Aisa took Nami’s Waver toward Upper Yard, lost control of it, and fell into the White Sea before Nami rescued her.
• Luo Chen explained that Aisa’s Mantra was innate Observation Haki and that the vanished voices likely belonged to people who had died or lost consciousness.
• Nami comforted Aisa and persuaded her to return so they could find a way to save her companions.
• A giant snake appeared and swallowed Nami and Aisa while Luo Chen chose not to intervene, saying the ordeal was necessary to defeat Enel.
• The giant snake carried Nami and Aisa through the forest and up a vine to where Wyper, Zoro, Ohm, and Gan Fall faced off.

Robin discovered the hidden lower half of Shandora and reached the City of Gold. Meanwhile, Conis and her father guarded the Going Merry as fighting spread across the Upper Yard, where Wyper attacked Gan Fall and Zoro faced Ohm.

• Robin examined the ruins and inscriptions, then cut through the Island Cloud after realizing the lower half of the Blue Sea city might remain beneath it.
• Robin entered the buried ruins and recognized them as the City of Gold, Shandora.
• Conis and her father brought the Going Merry to the northeastern coast of God's Island, where they guarded the ship and kept watch over the unconscious Usopp and the others.
• The Shandia warriors pushed toward the shrine while Laki tried to stop Wyper from challenging Enel, who watched the island's fighting with Observation Haki.
• Wyper attacked Gan Fall, then struck the Lord of the Sky without harming its scales, while Luffy yelled from inside the serpent's belly.
• Ohm explained his Iron Cloud sword to Zoro, who blocked the attack and compared its changing shape to a whip.

Ohm and the survivors gathered in the Upper Ruins, where Holy enclosed them in a deadly White Barbed Wire arena. Nami and Aisa were swallowed by the Lord of the Sky, and Enel appeared behind Laki as she tried to warn Wyper, leaving her struck down by his lightning.

• Ohm and Holy joined the surviving divine soldiers and Shandia warriors in the Upper Ruins as Luffy tried to escape the Lord of the Sky’s belly.
• Nami and Aisa arrived on the Waver, but the Lord of the Sky swallowed them before Zoro and Wyper could help.
• Ohm and Holy wounded Zoro and Wyper, while Holy’s run around the ruins enclosed the group in White Barbed Wire.
• Laki arrived and told Wyper that Enel was in the forest and that Kamakiri had been defeated.
• Enel appeared behind Laki and electrocuted her as Wyper begged him to stop.

Wyper, Zoro, and the others fought Enel’s forces while Nami and her companions tried to escape the giant snake. Zoro defeated Ohm, and Robin discovered clues to Shandora’s history before Enel revealed that the Golden Bell had risen into the sky.

• Wyper and Zoro charged the giant snake as they battled Enel’s remaining soldiers and Ohm’s dog, while Nami and the others met Luffy inside the snake and planned their escape.
• Zoro struggled against Ohm’s Iron Cloud sword and Observation Haki, then cut through Ohm’s weapon with 108 Pound Phoenix and ended their battle.
• Robin explored Shandora, read the Poneglyph, and concluded that the city had been destroyed while protecting it.
• Enel arrived and admitted he had taken Shandora’s gold, prompting Robin to ask about the Golden Bell.
• Enel realized the Golden Bell had risen into the sky with Upper Yard and rejoiced at the prospect of finding it.