Recaps

Lin Yuan continued recovering and training while blind after his battle with Garp, then welcomed Dragon and his companions to the island. Koala recognized Lin Yuan as the person who had saved her years earlier, and the reunion left her overwhelmed with joy.

• Lin Yuan reflected on his abilities, trained his Armament Haki and swordsmanship, and resolved to be more careful while fighting blind.
• Three days later, Lin Yuan sensed Dragon approaching and invited him to come ashore with his two companions.
• Dragon was shocked to learn Lin Yuan had gone blind fighting Garp, and Lin Yuan assured him that Garp had survived and lost the fight.
• Koala recognized Lin Yuan and reunited tearfully with him, Erza, and Emile.
• Sabo introduced himself to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan told Dragon that Sabo, Ace, and Luffy were sworn brothers, then offered Revolutionary Army support in exchange for three conditions. Dragon agreed to the first two and heard Lin Yuan demand that Kuma not go undercover, leaving the third condition awaiting his response.

• Lin Yuan told Sabo that Ace and Luffy were dead, triggering Sabo's memories and causing him to collapse before Lin Yuan revealed they were safe and the three were sworn brothers.
• Lin Yuan explained Ace's identity as Roger's son to Dragon, then heard Dragon's request for deeper cooperation with the Abyss Chamber of Commerce.
• Lin Yuan offered the Revolutionary Army money, weapons, and food if it accepted three conditions and grew strong enough to challenge the World Government.
• Dragon agreed that the Revolutionary Army would help Lin Yuan once without holding back, and promised to provide at least thirty names of heinous pirates or Devil Fruit Users each year.
• Lin Yuan demanded that Dragon stop Kuma from going undercover, and Dragon was surprised that Lin Yuan knew about Kuma's secret plan.

Lin Yuan pledged overwhelming financial and military support to Dragon’s Revolutionary Army and taught him revolutionary strategy, while Dragon volunteered to confront two World Government assassins who had infiltrated the island. The chapter ended as Dragon’s hurricane surrounded the masked intruders.

• Lin Yuan offered Dragon’s Revolutionary Army ten billion Beli, weapons, food, and two flying warships, urging him to build strength quickly.
• Lin Yuan taught Dragon and Koala about revolution while Sabo recovered and learned about his situation with Ace and Luffy.
• Lin Yuan sensed two powerful intruders and suspected the World Government had sent them to assassinate him.
• Dragon offered to fight the assassins, and Lin Yuan agreed to let him handle them.
• Dragon transformed into wind and confronted the masked intruders as they approached Lin Yuan’s location.

Dragon and Lin Yuan’s allies defeated two World Government assassins, after which Dragon departed and Borsalino returned to the island. Borsalino met Lin Yuan cautiously, and Lin Yuan challenged him about whether he wanted another fight.

• Yamato and Erza blocked the assassins’ escape while Dragon fought them with his wind abilities and Dragon Claw.
• Dragon killed one assassin by crushing his heart and trapped the other in a tornado until he disappeared, then burned the first assassin’s body to ash.
• Dragon praised Lin Yuan’s strength, said he could not stop any of the Navy’s Three Admirals from escaping, and left the island as wind.
• Lin Yuan sent Sabo and Koala back to Abyss headquarters and continued waiting for Borsalino.
• Borsalino arrived aboard a warship and hovered above the island, where he noticed traces of Dragon’s battle.
• Lin Yuan asked Borsalino whether he wanted another fight, and Borsalino said he did not want to fight him again.

Lin Yuan completed the exchange with Borsalino, giving him two billion Beli and inviting him to join the Abyss Chamber of Commerce, but Borsalino refused and departed with the Marines. Lin Yuan and his companions left, and Yamato eagerly discussed the bounties they might receive as the group headed into the sky.

• The Marines recovered Yamakaji, Onigumo, and three thousand soldiers, while Lin Yuan let them take the warships and handed over the agreed compensation.
• Lin Yuan invited Borsalino to talk, thanked him for holding back in the past, and offered him two chests as an annual salary to join the Abyss Chamber of Commerce.
• Borsalino refused the offer, citing his own justice, but Lin Yuan sent two billion Beli to his flagship as thanks for the Marines’ trouble.
• Borsalino ordered the fleet back to Marine Headquarters, and Lin Yuan departed with his companions and more than twenty chests of Beli.
• Yamato asked Lin Yuan whether they would receive bounties and become pirates, then excitedly discussed the prospect with Erza and Emile.

After the Abyss Chamber of Commerce defeated the Marines, the World Government issued enormous bounties for its members and tacitly recognized Lin Yuan as the Fifth Emperor. The other powers reacted with fear and caution, while Fish-Man Island and the Revolutionary Army sought closer ties, and Hawk Eyes resolved to challenge Lin Yuan.

• The Abyss Chamber of Commerce expanded its control across nearly a fifth of the first half of the Grand Line as the World Government and Marines refrained from attacking again.
• A week later, the World Government issued bounty posters for dozens of Abyss Chamber of Commerce members, including Lin Yuan at 5 billion Beli and seven members with bounties above 1 billion.
• The Four Emperors and Marine Headquarters grew wary of the Abyss Chamber of Commerce, while Red-Haired Shanks reconsidered doing business with it and Big Mom Charlotte Linlin pulled back her forces.
• Dragon and the Revolutionary Army studied Lin Yuan's revolutionary program, while King Neptune asked Jinbe to invite Lin Yuan to Fish-Man Island.
• After losing to Koshiro, Hawk Eyes vowed to challenge Lin Yuan, and Koshiro looked at Kuina's bounty poster and encouraged her to keep pursuing her path.

On Amazon Lily, Boa Hancock learned that Lin Yuan had become the Fifth Emperor but lost his sight during his clash with the Marines. She ordered the Kuja Pirates to sail to the Abyss Chamber of Commerce headquarters to see him, defying Granny Nyon’s warning about the danger to Amazon Lily.

• Kikyo brought Hancock the latest bounty posters, and Sandersonia recognized Lin Yuan’s name and photograph.
• Hancock and her sisters identified Erza, Emile, and Stella on the posters, confirming that Lin Yuan was the man who had once saved them.
• Kikyo reported that Lin Yuan had defeated Garp and Borsalino, captured three thousand Marines, won thirty billion Beli in compensation, and lost his sight.
• Hancock released her Conqueror’s Haki in anger and ordered Sandersonia and Marigold to prepare the Kuja Pirates to sail for Lin Yuan’s headquarters.
• Granny Nyon tried to stop Hancock, warning that the World Government had placed bounties on the Abyss Chamber of Commerce, but Hancock kicked her aside and departed with her sisters and Kikyo.

Lin Yuan trained Crocodile in Haki before returning to the Abyss Chamber of Commerce to inspect a Seastone coffin Kaido had made. He tested the coffin by sealing a captured pirate inside and crushing him, leaving the gathered members stunned that the Seastone did not weaken him.

• Lin Yuan trained his Armament Haki against a mountainside while Crocodile repaired it with his Sand-Sand Fruit and practiced Armament Haki.
• Lin Yuan subjected Crocodile to Observation Haki training, while Enel arrived to report that Kaido had finished making the requested item.
• Lin Yuan, Enel, and Crocodile flew back to headquarters, where the Abyss Chamber of Commerce members welcomed Lin Yuan.
• Tesoro showed Lin Yuan a huge coffin made of high-purity Seastone, and Pain removed its covering.
• Shadow 1 brought in a captured Black Cat Zoan user, whom Lin Yuan killed after he was placed inside the coffin.
• Lin Yuan pressed the coffin lid shut without being weakened by the Seastone, astonishing the people watching.

Lin Yuan used a Seastone coffin to create a Devil Fruit from a deceased user’s ability and gave it to Shadow 1, revealing a way to produce more Devil Fruit users. The chapter ended with news that the Kuja Pirates had entered his territory and their Empress wanted to see him.

• Lin Yuan sealed a Seastone coffin and sensed the trapped energy enter an apple, creating a Devil Fruit.
• Shadow 1 identified the fruit as the Zoan-type Black Cat Fruit, and Lin Yuan gave it to him as a reward.
• Shadow 1 ate the fruit, transformed into a giant black cat, and received Lin Yuan’s orders to seek out evil Devil Fruit users and develop his ability.
• Tesoro celebrated the potential of the Seastone coffin, while Lin Yuan ordered everyone to keep it a top secret.
• Shadow 1 reported that the Kuja Pirates had arrived in Lin Yuan’s territory and that their Empress wanted to meet him; Lin Yuan went to see her.

Lin Yuan met Hancock and the Kuja Pirates after they traveled to the Abyss Trading Company's headquarters, and he was surprised by how powerful they had become. He reunited with Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold, leaving the reason for the Kuja Pirates' strength unexplained.

• A Shadow Secret Guard member led Hancock, Sandersonia, Marigold, and the Kuja Pirates toward the Abyss Trading Company's headquarters.
• Hancock used the Devil Fruit Lin Yuan had given her, while Gloriosa worried that the visit could bring trouble to Amazon Lily.
• Lin Yuan sensed that every Kuja Pirate had awakened two types of Haki and that Hancock and two others had grown exceptionally strong.
• Hancock ordered Kikyo to stand down as Lin Yuan landed on the Kuja Pirate Ship and greeted her.
• Hancock asked why Lin Yuan had not visited, and Lin Yuan explained that he had been busy fighting powerful enemies and avenging her by killing Celestial Dragons.
• Lin Yuan recognized Sandersonia and Marigold when they asked whether he remembered them.

Lin Yuan reunited with Hancock and the Kuja Pirates, learning that Hancock had grown to Admiral-level strength and that Amazon Lily had thousands of Haki users. At the Abyss headquarters, Hancock greeted Emile as her sister, leaving Robin and the others suspicious of her relationship with Lin Yuan.

• Sandersonia and Marigold reunited with Lin Yuan, and Gloriosa joined them as he thanked her for caring for Hancock and her sisters.
• Hancock told Lin Yuan she had reached Admiral-level strength, demonstrated that her Love-Love Fruit could petrify a wooden stool, and offered him Amazon Lily's Haki-using soldiers.
• Lin Yuan assessed the Kuja Pirates' strength and learned that Hancock had personally selected the crew's elite warriors.
• Lin Yuan brought Hancock and the Kuja Pirates to the Abyss headquarters, where Emile and the others came out to greet them.
• Hancock greeted Emile as her sister, and Robin pinched Lin Yuan's waist and asked what was going on.

Lin Yuan tested Hancock’s Haki and Devil Fruit powers, then welcomed the Kuja Kingdom into the Abyss Chamber of Commerce through a secret alliance. He also ordered his forces to capture Gecko Moria and secretly contact Jinbe, aiming to bring more of the Shichibukai under his influence.

• Lin Yuan fought Hancock using Haki and asked her to demonstrate her Devil Fruit abilities.
• Hancock’s Slave Arrow failed to petrify Lin Yuan, but her Medusa’s Gaze: Endless Curse injured him and petrified his clothes.
• Hancock joined Lin Yuan for a day and night, then announced that the Kuja Kingdom was joining the Abyss Chamber of Commerce.
• Lin Yuan arranged to keep the alliance secret from outsiders, provide supplies to Amazon Lily, and send Shadow Secret Guard members there to train.
• Lin Yuan ordered Enel and the Shadow Secret Guard to capture Gecko Moria and told Pain to arrange a secret meeting with Jinbe.

Lin Yuan captured Gecko Moria and obtained the Clear-Clear Fruit, then welcomed the formation of the Shichibukai as an opportunity to expand his influence in the Marines. The chapter leaves him preparing a major bribery and infiltration campaign ahead of the Shichibukai meeting.

• Lin Yuan sent Enel, Crocodile, and Kuina to capture Gecko Moria and retrieve Perona, Absalom, and Shusui.
• Kuina returned with Shusui, having received guidance from Shimotsuki Ryuma and made a breakthrough; the group also brought back Brook.
• Lin Yuan took the Clear-Clear Fruit from Absalom and persuaded Gecko Moria to cooperate by promising to protect Perona.
• Half a year later, Hancock, Crocodile, Jinbe, and Gecko Moria agreed to join the Shichibukai, while Marine leaders including Sakazuki and Sengoku protested the system.
• Lin Yuan ordered Tesoro, Stella, and the Shadow Secret Guard to place allies in Marine branches and use Beli and rare items to influence the Marines.

The Shichibukai gathered at Marine Headquarters, where Doflamingo insulted Hancock and was nearly beaten to death before Marine officers intervened. After the meeting, the Shichibukai departed, with Doflamingo vowing revenge and Dracule Mihawk left bewildered by the others’ strength and exits.

• Hancock, Crocodile, Jinbe, Gecko Moria, Bartholomew Kuma, and Dracule Mihawk gathered at Marineford for the Shichibukai meeting.
• Doflamingo insulted Hancock, prompting the others to attack him while Hancock unleashed Admiral-level strength and overpowered his Conqueror's Haki.
• Kuzan, Garp, and Sakazuki intervened to save Doflamingo, who apologized before the meeting continued.
• Sengoku explained the Shichibukai's rights and obligations, and Crocodile mocked the lengthy meeting before leaving.
• Doflamingo flew away and threatened revenge, while Hancock and the others departed and Dracule Mihawk watched them go.

A year after the Abyss Chamber of Commerce expanded its power, Lin Yuan set out for the Drum Kingdom to investigate the Munch-Munch Fruit and seek information from Kureha. He found Chopper and sent Erza and Emile to greet him, leaving Chopper convinced they were ghosts.

• Crocodile, Jinbe, and Gecko Moria decided to spare Doflamingo after Hancock intervened and escorted her back to the Abyss Chamber of Commerce.
• The Abyss Chamber of Commerce grew into a powerful commercial empire, while Tom and the others returned to Water 7 under Lin Yuan's protection.
• Lin Yuan examined the Clear-Clear Fruit and an unidentified silver Devil Fruit, then decided to visit the Drum Kingdom to find Wapol and speak with Kureha.
• Lin Yuan traveled to the Drum Kingdom with Erza and Emile after spending seven days with Robin and the others.
• Lin Yuan located Chopper at a cabin and watched him shovel snow before Erza and Emile approached him.
• Chopper saw Erza and Emile's identical faces, panicked, and shouted for Doctorine to save him from ghosts.

Lin Yuan reassured Erza and Emile that he would find Pure Gold to keep them young, then met Kureha, who recognized him and invited the group inside. Erza and Emile eagerly sought Kureha’s advice on staying youthful.

• Chopper raced into the house after seeing Lin Yuan and the women, while Erza and Emile realized Lin Yuan had set up the surprise and playfully confronted him.
• Erza worried that she and Emile would grow old and lose Lin Yuan’s affection, so Lin Yuan promised to find Pure Gold and keep them young.
• Erza and Emile joked about finding Lin Yuan other women when they grew old, including Kuina and Tashigi, and teased him about his desires.
• Kureha appeared and asked whether they had scared Chopper, then recognized Lin Yuan as the Hidden Emperor and Erza and Emile as the Twin Goddesses.
• Erza and Emile warmly called Kureha their sister and asked about maintaining their figures, and Kureha invited the group inside.

Lin Yuan asked Kureha how Blackbeard could wield three Devil Fruits, and she revealed that a surgery involving Rocks D. Xebec gave Teach three souls and the ability to withstand their powers. Kureha said her research could let a sufficiently powerful person survive an attempt to take another Devil Fruit, leaving Lin Yuan stunned by the possibility.

• Lin Yuan asked Kureha why she was willing to host them, then asked where Chopper was; Chopper appeared but hid from the group.
• Lin Yuan asked Kureha whether she had operated on Teach to let him eat three Devil Fruits, and her startled reaction confirmed she knew about it.
• Kureha explained that more than thirty years earlier, Rocks D. Xebec had brought her three dying children and asked her to transplant the two girls' hearts into the boy, Teach.
• Kureha said the operation gave Teach three souls and revealed that Devil Fruits might contain an independent energy; Rocks suppressed the girls' consciousnesses and speculated that someone might devour that energy to gain another fruit's power.
• Kureha told Lin Yuan that after thirty years of research, she could ensure a sufficiently strong person survived an attempt to withstand another Devil Fruit, even if the attempt failed.

Lin Yuan tested his soul power with Kureha to find out whether he could survive eating a second Devil Fruit. After Kureha confirmed his soul was strong enough, Lin Yuan ate the Time-Time Fruit, and his Zhu Jiuyin power began to react as he transformed and vanished.

• Lin Yuan ignored Erza and Emile’s warnings and asked Kureha to test his soul power.
• Kureha gave Lin Yuan a bubbling liquid to drink, and he felt clearheaded as his Observation Haki strengthened.
• Kureha said Lin Yuan’s soul power surpassed Rocks’s and matched Teach’s, so he could likely eat a second Devil Fruit.
• Lin Yuan ate the silver Devil Fruit, which he recognized as the Time-Time Fruit, and its power surged through him.
• Lin Yuan’s Zhu Jiuyin ability awakened in response, dragon features appeared on his body, and he vanished from the room.

Lin Yuan survived fusing with the Time-Time Fruit and became a dual-fruit user. After promising to save Drum Kingdom from Wapol, he took Kureha and Chopper with him and prepared to pursue the Munch-Munch Fruit.

• Lin Yuan endured a day of agony as the Time-Time Fruit's power merged with his dragon form, while Erza, Emile, Kureha, and Chopper watched anxiously.
• Lin Yuan completed the fusion, returned to human form, and reassured Erza and Emile that he was safe.
• Lin Yuan thanked Kureha, promised to save Drum Kingdom from Wapol, and asked her and Chopper to live in his territory.
• Kureha agreed to leave with Lin Yuan, and he carried the group into the sky on Flame Clouds.
• Lin Yuan used Observation Haki to locate his target and set out to claim the Munch-Munch Fruit.

Lin Yuan destroyed Drum Kingdom’s nobility, made Dalton its new king under the Abyss Chamber of Commerce, and later gave Tom the Munch-Munch Fruit for metalworking. Tom eagerly proposed building a new Pluton.

• Lin Yuan used his Eye of Karmic Sin and lightning to kill nearly all the nobles in the royal capital, then knocked Wapol unconscious.
• Lin Yuan ordered Dalton to become king under the Abyss Chamber of Commerce, and Dalton announced the change throughout Drum Kingdom.
• Lin Yuan later killed Wapol, whom he had sealed inside a Seastone sarcophagus.
• Tom arrived at the chamber of commerce headquarters with Iceburg and Franky, and Lin Yuan gave him the Munch-Munch Fruit.
• Tom realized the fruit could let him create metals with chosen properties and proposed building a new Pluton.

Lin Yuan backed Tom’s plan to build Pluton and gave the Munch-Munch Fruit to Iceburg, whose new ability could transform materials. As Tom and the others began preparations, Lin Yuan considered obtaining the More-More Fruit from Impel Down to amplify Pluton’s power.

• Tom said he was eighty percent confident he could build Pluton in two years if he had enough metal, and Lin Yuan promised the chamber of commerce’s full support.
• Lin Yuan reassured Tom that Pluton would be used against the World Government and that Fish-Man Island’s people could move to a hidden island if they faced danger.
• Tom gave the Munch-Munch Fruit to Iceburg, who ate it and used black smoke to transform a metal rod into a special metal.
• Lin Yuan told Tom to prepare for the project while Tesoro arranged a separate island for construction and testing; Tesoro estimated Pluton would cost eighty billion Beli.
• Lin Yuan considered using the More-More Fruit to increase Pluton’s destructive power and thought he might have to attack Impel Down to obtain it.

After nearly a year of searching, Lin Yuan found the lanternfish and rescued Doctor Acier and Olga from inside it. He recovered the Pure Gold and left the reunited pair free in the sky.

• Lin Yuan trained his Devil Fruit powers while Fish-Man Island sent tens of thousands of Fish-Men to search for the lanternfish.
• Tesoro told Lin Yuan that a Fish-Man had found the lanternfish on the fourth route of the Grand Line, and Lin Yuan took the Fish-Man's Vivre Card.
• Lin Yuan traveled alone to the lanternfish, ordered the Fish-Men to withdraw, and waited until the area was clear before attacking.
• Lin Yuan transformed into a dragon, captured the lanternfish, killed it, and cut open its enormous lantern.
• Lin Yuan rescued Doctor Acier and Olga from inside the lanternfish, and the two recognized each other as father and daughter.
• Lin Yuan destroyed the lanternfish's remains and examined the glowing gold, recognizing it as Pure Gold.

Lin Yuan reunited Doctor Acier with Olga, obtained a huge reserve of Pure Gold, and brought them to Sky Island, where Olga was cured and Doctor Acier agreed to develop new inventions. After settling them and Kureha and Chopper, Lin Yuan returned to training, intent on developing his control over time.

• Lin Yuan gave Doctor Acier and Olga food, then learned that Pure Gold had been created to preserve Olga while she suffered from South Blue Emperor Fever.
• Lin Yuan revealed a head-sized mass of Pure Gold inside Lord Lanternfish and offered Doctor Acier Devil Fruits and equipment to attempt further research.
• Lin Yuan told Doctor Acier and Olga that Olga's illness could now be cured, and they thanked him before he took them toward Sky Island.
• Lin Yuan settled Kureha, Chopper, Doctor Acier, and Olga on Sky Island; Chopper cured Olga, and Kureha accepted Pure Gold in exchange for helping with research.
• Lin Yuan returned to the trading company's headquarters and resumed training, focusing on developing time acceleration, stasis, and reversal.

After two years of Lin Yuan’s absence, the Abyss Chamber of Commerce faced attacks from the Big Mom Pirates, Hachinosu, and three underworld kings. Tesoro approved Robin’s plan for a coordinated assault, leaving the chamber ready to strike.

• While Lin Yuan stayed out of sight, the Seven Warlords of the Sea and Revolutionary Army expanded their influence, and pirates repeatedly attacked the Abyss Chamber of Commerce’s goods.
• Stella reported that Giberson, Umit, and Du Feld were targeting the chamber, while Ying said Shadow Secret Guards had been killed in Hachinosu and the Big Mom Pirates had taken over the chamber’s business in their territory.
• Naguri revealed that Hachinosu had been Rocks’s base, prompting Tesoro to propose withdrawing from Big Mom’s territory, demanding compensation from the three underworld kings, and destroying Hachinosu.
• Robin backed a simultaneous attack on the underworld kings and Hachinosu, and Tesoro put her in command of the operation.
• Robin arranged for Naguri to notify Whitebeard Newgate and Yamato to speak with the Beasts Pirates, while the chamber planned to deploy the Ark Maxim Fleet, Fish-Man forces, guards, and Shadow Secret Guard.

The Abyss Chamber of Commerce mobilized its forces to wage war against those who had attacked it, while Lin Yuan approved the plan and decided to go to Hachinosu himself. He gave Erza and Emile necklaces set with Pure Gold, promising they would stay young forever.

• Tesoro mobilized the Abyss Chamber of Commerce, assembling warships, 300,000 troops, elite fighters, Fish-Man warriors, and Enel's Ark Maxim airships.
• Naguri contacted the Whitebeard Pirates, Yamato called Kaido, and both pirate crews prepared to act.
• Lin Yuan heard Erza and Emile explain the chamber's plan and agreed to its deployment, assigning Whitebeard Newgate and Kaido of the Beasts to occupy the other emperors.
• Lin Yuan changed the plan by sending Naguri, Enel, Tesoro, Erza, Emile, and Yamato after the three underworld kings, while he chose to go to Hachinosu.
• Lin Yuan gave Erza and Emile necklaces containing Pure Gold, which would preserve their appearances, and they excitedly embraced him.