Recaps

Uchiha Xin left Tashigi to continue her increasingly even duel with Hawk Eyes, then used spatial power to appear aboard the Red Force with Robin and Perona. Shanks questioned whether Xin intended to wage all-out war against the World Government, but Xin gave no direct answer before Shanks warned that the Marines had another major operation planned and the Whitebeard Pirates had been drawn into it.

• Beckman and Lucky Roux observed that Tashigi was adapting to her power and beginning to regain the initiative against Hawk Eyes.
• Uchiha Xin decided Tashigi could defeat Hawk Eyes without his help and shifted his attention to Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates.
• Uchiha Xin transported himself, Robin, and Perona across the island and onto the Red Force, startling Shanks's crew with his untraceable spatial ability.
• Shanks confronted Uchiha Xin and listed the Marines, World Government, and Warlords he had antagonized before asking what he planned to do.
• Uchiha Xin asked whether he needed to explain himself, and Shanks clarified that he wanted to know whether Xin intended an all-out war against the World Government.
• Shanks warned Uchiha Xin that the Marines had another major operation coming and that the Whitebeard Pirates had been drawn into it.

Uchiha Xin rejected Shanks's demand that he stop interfering with the Navy, World Government, and New World, and challenged him to prove his strength. Uchiha Xin struck first and kicked Shanks off the Red Force, leaving the Red Hair Pirates stunned as Beckman searched for him.

• Shanks advised Uchiha Xin to keep a low profile and stop disrupting the balance of the seas, but Uchiha Xin refused and threatened to make the Four Emperors one short.
• Shanks told his crew to stand down and said he would stop Uchiha Xin if his actions disrupted the era's plans.
• Uchiha Xin challenged Shanks to stop him with strength and accused him of bringing the Red Hair Pirates because he expected a fight.
• Uchiha Xin unleashed his power and kicked Shanks through his Advanced Armament Haki, sending him flying more than a thousand meters into the sea.
• Beckman fired a Haki-coated bullet at Uchiha Xin, but Uchiha Xin vanished before it could hit, and Beckman searched for him with Observation Haki.

Perona and Robin stopped the Red Hair Pirates from pursuing Uchiha Xin after he sent Shanks into the sea. Perona held off Beckman and redirected his Haki-coated bullets, while the Red Force remained trapped and Shanks's fate was still unknown.

• Robin used her Flower-Flower Fruit powers to lock the Red Force in place, while Perona blocked Beckman from leaving to support Shanks.
• Beckman attacked Perona with a full-strength Haki-coated punch, but she stopped it with her floral parasol and pushed him back.
• Perona declared herself Uchiha Xin's first dependent and principal wife, then challenged Beckman to serve as practice.
• Beckman fired Haki-coated bullets at Perona's vital spots and charged in behind them.
• Perona unleashed Hollow Divine Vacuum Attack, using hollow arms to shatter the bullets' Haki and send them off course.

Perona overwhelmed the Red Hair Pirates aboard the Red Force with ghost clones and killed Beckman in a barrage of explosions. Shanks survived Uchiha Xin’s kick but was left with a badly injured arm as the battle continued.

• Beckman charged Perona but was blasted through the Red Force and injured by her ghost arms.
• Yasopp ordered the crew to attack together, but Perona’s ghost clones broke their encirclement and wounded Yasopp, Lucky Roux, and the other pirates.
• Beckman unleashed his full strength and fought through the ghost clones, but Perona summoned a much larger swarm and attacked with Ghost: Great Explosion.
• Perona’s repeated explosions shattered Beckman’s Armament Haki and killed him, while Robin protected the Red Force from being destroyed outright.
• Shanks stopped himself above the sea after Uchiha Xin’s kick, but his right arm was badly injured and his advanced Armament Haki had dispersed.

Shanks fought Uchiha Xin and realized Xin was stronger than he had expected, then tried to persuade him to stop fighting. Xin saw that Robin and Perona had overwhelmed the Red Hair Pirates, and Shanks discovered Beckman was dead.

• Shanks and Uchiha Xin clashed with their Haki, and Xin steadily overpowered him.
• Shanks acknowledged Xin’s strength and argued that fighting the Navy and World Government would cause more deaths, but Xin rejected his plea.
• Uchiha Xin used Observation Haki to check the Red Force and saw Robin and Perona had trapped the crew after Beckman’s death.
• Shanks sensed the Red Force’s condition and learned that Beckman had been killed by Perona.

Shanks confronted Uchiha Xin over the Red Hair Pirates’ losses and demanded that he stop the fighting, but Xin overwhelmed him with King’s Haki and challenged his claim to defend the innocent. Shanks remained determined to stop Xin and warned that greater powers existed beyond the Navy, the Four Emperors, and the World Government.

• Shanks unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki and demanded that Uchiha Xin tell his subordinates to stop, citing Beckman’s death.
• Uchiha Xin refused to accept blame for the fight, and Shanks drew his sword to attack him.
• Uchiha Xin activated King’s Haki, crushing the surrounding sea and forcing Shanks’s Conqueror’s Haki back to within a meter of his body.
• Shanks accused Uchiha Xin of endangering ordinary people, while Xin argued that pirates also profited from plunder and bloodshed.
• Shanks insisted he had to stop Uchiha Xin and warned that the sea held terrifying powers beyond the Navy, the Four Emperors, and the World Government.

Uchiha Xin overwhelmed Shanks in a fight, defeating him with a devastating punch and then battering him in midair. Shanks remained unable to land a hit as the Red Force crew watched in alarm.

• Uchiha Xin unleashed dark lightning, but Shanks crushed it with his bare hand and chose to fight with Taijutsu instead of his sword.
• Shanks attacked from the side, but Uchiha Xin outpaced his Observation Haki and shattered his defenses with a single punch.
• Uchiha Xin struck the sea with Armament Divine Vacuum Attack, blasting Shanks into the seabed and sending towering waves toward the Red Force.
• Shanks forced his way back above the water and charged Uchiha Xin, who evaded him and knocked him back into the sea with a kick and elbow strike.
• Uchiha Xin chased Shanks through the air and pummeled him while Shanks's crew watched; Yasopp said the captain could not touch Uchiha Xin, and Robin restrained Lucky Roux.

Uchiha Xin defeated and killed Red-Haired Shanks after Shanks warned him that Imu ruled the world from the Empty Throne. By absorbing Shanks's abilities and experience, Uchiha Xin strengthened his Haki and swordsmanship, leaving the surviving Red Hair Pirates unconscious aboard the damaged Red Force.

• Uchiha Xin overwhelmed Shanks with a barrage of attacks, then restrained him with Banshō Ten'in as Shanks warned him about Imu and the World Government's hidden power.
• Uchiha Xin revealed that he knew the world's secrets and used Tensei: Rinne to extract and shatter Shanks's soul, killing him.
• The system awarded Uchiha Xin Shanks's Taijutsu, Haki, and swordsmanship, converting duplicate abilities into proficiency.
• Uchiha Xin's King's Haki surged, splitting the clouds, caving in the sea, damaging the Red Force, and knocking out the conscious Red Hair Pirates.
• Uchiha Xin absorbed Shanks's swordsmanship experience, adding Shanks's mastery of Haki-coated swordplay and Future Sight to his own skills.

Uchiha Xin absorbed the swordsmanship of Golden Lion and Shanks and broke beyond the limits of a great swordsman, demonstrating that his will alone could split the sea and its seabed. He named his new level the Sword Saint Realm while Tashigi and Hawk Eyes continued fighting on the distant island.

• Uchiha Xin's breakthrough unleashed sword intent that cut the sea without a blade, forcing Robin and Perona to retreat.
• Uchiha Xin swept his hand and opened a vast, deep sword scar through the sea and seabed.
• Robin and Perona concluded that Uchiha Xin's casual strike surpassed Hawk Eyes's strongest attacks, and Robin said Hawk Eyes could not withstand him.
• Uchiha Xin judged that his strike had used less than thirty percent of his strength and declared himself the first Sword Saint.
• Perona looked toward the island, where Tashigi and Hawk Eyes were still locked in a fierce sword fight.

After Uchiha Xin became a Sword Saint, his swordsmanship synchronized with Tashigi’s and raised her to the same realm. Tashigi overwhelmed Hawk Eyes, who had regained the advantage, and sent him crashing into the island’s cliff.

• Uchiha Xin explained that Tashigi’s swordsmanship synchronized with his and that she had broken through to the Sword Saint realm.
• Hawk Eyes regained the initiative against Tashigi while worrying that Shanks, Beckman, and the Red Hair Pirates had been defeated.
• Tashigi received Uchiha Xin’s new swordsmanship foundation through their bond and effortlessly split Hawk Eyes’ full-power slash.
• Tashigi overpowered Hawk Eyes in a clash between Black Blade Yoru and Gryphon, forcing him to retreat.
• Tashigi’s next slash broke through Hawk Eyes’ defense and sent him crashing through rocks into the cliff.
• A streak of green sword light burst from the rubble and blasted away the rocks pinning Hawk Eyes down.

Tashigi overwhelmed Hawk Eyes in their duel, controlling every exchange before defeating him with a space-warping slash. Hawk Eyes was left grievously wounded beside his broken Gryphon.

• Hawk Eyes recognized that Tashigi’s swordsmanship had surpassed the realm of a great swordsman and charged again, determined to keep fighting.
• Tashigi blocked more than a hundred of Hawk Eyes’ strikes without moving her feet, controlling his every attack.
• Hawk Eyes continued despite his bleeding hands and his awareness that Shanks, Beckman, and the other Red Hair Pirates could no longer fight.
• Tashigi bypassed Hawk Eyes’ slash and struck him with a space-warping sword energy attack.
• Hawk Eyes tried to block the attack, but Gryphon snapped and the slash cut through his shoulder, chest, abdomen, and ribs, throwing him into a boulder.

Tashigi defeated Hawk Eyes with a strike from the Sword Saint realm, and Uchiha Xin explained that the realm surpassed Great Swordsman. As Hawk Eyes neared death, Uchiha Xin kept him alive and raised him ten thousand meters into the air so he could witness Uchiha Xin's true strength.

• Tashigi's strike broke Gryphon, pierced Hawk Eyes, and left him unable to fight.
• Uchiha Xin arrived and told Hawk Eyes that Tashigi had reached the Sword Saint realm, beyond Great Swordsman.
• Hawk Eyes learned that Shanks was dead and accepted his death without seeking revenge.
• Hawk Eyes asked to see Uchiha Xin's true strength, and Uchiha Xin agreed to grant his final request.
• Uchiha Xin used gravity and Divine Transference to lift Hawk Eyes ten thousand meters into the air and restore his fading perception.
• Uchiha Xin stepped onto the sea below as Tashigi, Robin, and Perona watched.

Uchiha Xin demonstrated the Sword Saint Stage by turning the surrounding world into a sword and unleashing a slash that tore through the sea and sky. Hawk Eyes accepted his defeat and watched as the passing sword qi destroyed his body, leaving only his protected soul.

• Uchiha Xin raised his empty hand, and Tashigi, Robin, and Perona sensed his sword intent gathering through the sea, air, and sky.
• The gathering sword intent forced the sea to sink and rubble to rise as Hawk Eyes realized a Sword Saint could make everything in heaven and earth into a sword.
• Uchiha Xin slashed upward, sending a three-thousand-meter blade of sword energy through the sea and far into the sky.
• Robin explained that Xin's slash gathered strength from its surroundings, while Tashigi recognized how far beyond her own Sword Saint abilities he had advanced.
• The passing sword qi dissolved Hawk Eyes's body, leaving his soul protected by Uchiha Xin as he watched the heavens split open.

Hawk Eyes Mihawk accepted his death after witnessing Tashigi's swordsmanship and dissolved into light. Uchiha Xin left Robin, Tashigi, and Perona to return to Sky Island while he went alone to search for a Poneglyph.

• Hawk Eyes Mihawk praised Tashigi's sword strike and said he could die without regrets before his soul vanished.
• Tashigi kept Black Blade Yoru, and Uchiha Xin explained to Perona that Mihawk had no desire to live after fulfilling his final ambitions.
• Perona complained that Uchiha Xin had killed Shanks before she could fight him, and Tashigi challenged her to face a future Emperor herself.
• Robin, Tashigi, and Perona teased Uchiha Xin about his strength as they headed toward the island.
• Uchiha Xin told the others to return to Sky Island while he went to look for a Poneglyph, prompting Robin to ask whether he had found one.

Uchiha Xin left the Red Hair Pirates alive after defeating them and traveled to the island where Shanks had hidden a Red Road Poneglyph. He absorbed the stone, advanced the Eye of God to its full eighth stage, and learned that gathering all four Road Poneglyphs could bring it to the perfected eleventh stage.

• Uchiha Xin sent Robin, Perona, and Tashigi back to Fish-Man Island, then left the defeated Red Hair Pirates alive so word of their defeat would spread.
• Uchiha Xin used Shanks's memories to find a remote island and unearthed a Red Road Poneglyph hidden there.
• Uchiha Xin discovered that the stone was the missing fourth Road Poneglyph and understood that Shanks had intended to use it to help Luffy reach Laugh Tale.
• Uchiha Xin absorbed the Red Road Poneglyph, completing the Eye of God's eighth-stage evolution and raising his Limit Sharingan proficiency to 836 million.
• Uchiha Xin learned that collecting all four Road Poneglyphs could let him advance the Eye of God to its perfected eleventh stage.

Uchiha Xin absorbed the red Road Poneglyph, stabilized the Eye of God's eighth stage, and set out to track down Zou using spatial jumps. Meanwhile, confirmation that he had killed Red-Haired Shanks and devastated the Red Hair Pirates spread throughout the seas, leaving the world to reckon with his power.

• Uchiha Xin absorbed the red Road Poneglyph and stabilized the Eye of God's eighth stage.
• Uchiha Xin reviewed Robin's intelligence on Zou, set a route using spatial coordinates, and continued across the sea with Divine Transference.
• Pirates and merchants discovered the wrecked Red Force and confirmed that Shanks and Benn Beckman were dead while the remaining Red Hair Pirates were seriously injured.
• Marine intelligence confirmed that Uchiha Xin had killed Shanks, and news of the Red Hair Pirates' defeat spread among the Marines.
• Newspapers announced that Shanks had died at the Thunder Emperor's hands, and pirates debated whether Uchiha Xin had truly earned his Four Emperors and One Emperor designation.

After Uchiha Xin killed Shanks and nearly wiped out the Red Hair Pirates, the surviving Four Emperors and the Marines assessed his strength. Kaido decided to challenge Uchiha Xin, while Sengoku and the Marine leadership absorbed the news.

• Whitebeard and the Whitebeard Pirates learned that Uchiha Xin had killed Shanks, and Whitebeard concluded that Uchiha Xin had overpowered him and surpassed the Four Emperors.
• Big Mom dismissed Shanks as a junior from Roger’s crew and insisted that Whitebeard remained the strongest, while Katakuri questioned her judgment.
• Kaido acknowledged Shanks’s strength, became eager to fight Uchiha Xin, and ordered his crew to prepare a ship and send a challenge.
• Sengoku reviewed reports confirming Shanks and Benn Beckman’s deaths and the near-destruction of the Red Hair Pirates as the Marine leadership sat in silence.

After Uchiha Xin killed Red-Haired and the Red Hair Pirates, the Marines debated the Five Elders’ order to capture or kill him. Vice Admiral Tsuru argued they should prioritize Ace’s execution and Whitebeard’s defeat, using the resulting turmoil to pit Uchiha Xin against Kaido and Big Mom.

• Sengoku, Akainu, Kizaru, Aokiji, Garp, and Vice Admiral Tsuru discussed how Uchiha Xin’s victory over Red-Haired had made him a threat beyond the Four Emperors.
• The Five Elders ordered Sengoku to apprehend Uchiha Xin immediately and kill him if he could not be captured.
• Akainu volunteered to pursue and eliminate Uchiha Xin, but Vice Admiral Tsuru warned that diverting forces would jeopardize Ace’s execution and the operation against Whitebeard.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru explained that Uchiha Xin was difficult to locate or contain because of his spatial abilities and had already surpassed the Four Emperors.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru argued that after Red-Haired’s death and Whitebeard’s expected fall, Kaido and Big Mom would inevitably clash with Uchiha Xin, while Aokiji warned that the New World’s order would collapse.

Sengoku chose to proceed with Ace’s execution and the operation against Whitebeard, despite the risk that Uchiha Xin might intervene. The Five Elders ordered Kong, the Navy admirals, and CP0 to prepare to eliminate Xin if he appeared, leaving the Navy’s plan to target Ace, Whitebeard, and potentially Xin in place.

• Tsuru outlined the Navy’s options, and Sengoku decided to execute Ace and attack Whitebeard before pursuing Uchiha Xin.
• Akainu said he would personally deal with Xin if he appeared, while Garp stayed silent under Sengoku’s warning.
• Sengoku reported the Navy’s plan to the Five Elders, and Tsuru explained why pursuing Xin immediately could leave Marineford vulnerable to Whitebeard.
• The Five Elders ordered Kong to oversee the operation and CP0 to stand by so they could attack Xin if he appeared.
• Sengoku accepted the Five Elders’ orders to execute Ace, eliminate Whitebeard, and seize an opportunity to kill Xin.

Sengoku ordered Marine Headquarters to prepare for the Whitebeard Pirates’ attack and instructed the Marines to confront Uchiha Xin if he interfered. While searching for Zou, Uchiha Xin encountered the Kuja Pirates and used his spatial power to appear aboard their ship, where Sandersonia and Marigold recognized him.

• Sengoku ordered Marine Headquarters to reach full combat readiness and ensure Ace’s execution proceeded as scheduled.
• Marine officers prepared warships and supplies, and Akainu vowed to kill Uchiha Xin if he appeared.
• Uchiha Xin continued searching for Zou, crossed into unfamiliar waters, and spotted the Kuja Pirates’ ship.
• Uchiha Xin decided to pursue Hancock and teleported onto the Kuja Pirates’ ship.
• Marigold told Sandersonia that Uchiha Xin had appeared aboard the ship, and the sisters reacted in alarm.

Uchiha Xin appeared aboard the Kuja Pirates' ship, leaving Hancock and her sisters wary of his overwhelming strength. He told Hancock he had come because he was interested in her.

• Sandersonia and Marigold warned Hancock that Uchiha Xin had appeared aboard the ship.
• Hancock dismissed her sisters' plans to flee or fight, then went to meet Uchiha Xin on deck.
• Hancock ordered Sandersonia and Marigold to stand back and asked Uchiha Xin why he had come.
• Uchiha Xin said he could defeat everyone aboard with one finger, and Hancock recognized the truth of his warning.
• Uchiha Xin told Hancock he had come because he was interested in her.

Hancock attacked Uchiha Xin twice with Slave Arrow, but the power had no effect on him. He restrained her, and her clothes shifted to reveal the Hoof of the Soaring Dragon mark on her back, leaving her terrified that he had seen it.

• Hancock decided to incapacitate Uchiha Xin and escape, then fired Slave Arrow at him, but the arrows bounced off without affecting him.
• Hancock launched a second, larger wave of Slave Arrow, but Uchiha Xin remained unharmed and told her that his interest in her did not mean her power could control him.
• Uchiha Xin vanished and seized Hancock from behind, easily stopping her as she struggled and threatened him.
• Hancock tried to use her Love-Love Fruit and Conqueror's Haki, but Uchiha Xin held her firmly and dismissed the threat of Amazon Lily.
• Hancock's clothes shifted during the struggle, exposing the Hoof of the Soaring Dragon mark on her back, and she begged Uchiha Xin not to look.

Uchiha Xin reassured Hancock that the Hoof of the Soaring Dragon did not define her worth, then used his power to remove the brand. Hancock saw that her back was clear and, with Sandersonia and Marigold confirming it, broke down in tears of relief.

• Hancock feared Uchiha Xin would see her as lowly after discovering the Hoof of the Soaring Dragon on her back.
• Uchiha Xin told Hancock the brand did not define her identity or diminish her beauty.
• Uchiha Xin used his power to remove the Hoof of the Soaring Dragon without hurting Hancock.
• Hancock checked her back in a mirror and found the brand had vanished.
• Sandersonia and Marigold confirmed the mark was gone, and Sandersonia embraced Hancock as she cried with relief.

Uchiha Xin erased Hancock’s slave mark and asked her to become his woman, while respecting her choice to decide in her own time. He brought her to Amazon Lily, where Hancock publicly called him her husband and broke the island’s rule against men; he remained there for several days as she grew closer to him.

• Hancock thanked Uchiha Xin for erasing her slave mark, and he told her he wanted her to become his woman.
• Hancock said she would consider his proposal and decided to return to Amazon Lily to confirm his identity.
• Uchiha Xin used spatial power to bring the Kuja Pirates’ ship and its passengers to Amazon Lily.
• Hancock introduced Uchiha Xin to the island as the husband she had brought home, and the warriors did not challenge her.
• Uchiha Xin stayed on Amazon Lily for several days, during which Hancock treated him warmly and said she would accompany him while he finished his business.

After Hancock submitted to Uchiha Xin, the system revealed that two more supreme beauties were needed to complete the Eye of God’s evolution. Uchiha Xin decided to let Shirahoshi learn and choose for herself, while Amazon Lily moved to Sky Island and its warriors prepared for enhancement.

• The system absorbed Hancock’s law power but told Uchiha Xin that Nami and Shirahoshi were still needed to complete the evolution.
• Uchiha Xin and Robin agreed to let Shirahoshi learn about the sea, power, and dependents before deciding whether to accept.
• Hancock ordered Amazon Lily’s warriors to relocate to Sky Island, and Robin used the Float-Float Fruit to lift and move the island safely.
• Uchiha Xin arranged basic and advanced enhancements for Amazon Lily’s warriors, and thirty-six selected fighters agreed to undergo the painful process.