Arc 7The Final Sea Route

Allen and the allied forces defeated the Heart of Destruction, rescued Sanji, and restored the ravaged world before setting sail toward the Final Road. As the crew crossed strange spacetime regions and encountered survivors fleeing the World Devourers, the route ahead opened onto a wider cosmic conflict.

  • Allen led the expedition into the Spacetime Crevice, where the team fought the world-destroying projection and Pluton’s Purification Nova-fire helped destroy it, but Sanji was pierced by its destructive will.
  • Allen carried Sanji into the destruction nest and fought the Heart of Destruction, sacrificing himself to wound it and preserve Sanji’s life in a fragile time loop.
  • Law, Luffy, and Ace extracted a fragment of the Heart of Destruction, and Law used it to restore Allen through Sanji’s dragon soul mark.
  • Allen rebuilt his body, healed the world’s damaged lands, and reunited with Sanji before the crew departed Lodestar Island aboard the upgraded Thousand Sunny · Modified.
  • The crew crossed the chaotic Final Sea Route, where Allen repelled Void Seekers, absorbed laws from a dangerous sea of manifested laws, and forced open a path through the Corridor of Choices.
  • The Thousand Sunny · Modified crossed a graveyard of wrecked starships, where the crew fought scavenger craft and learned that the World Devourers had erased civilizations.
  • Allen helped Keith’s Ark of Hope fragment escape approaching Predator warships, then disabled the final warship as the Straw Hat Pirates fought off the rest.
Chapters 151–175 Vol. 2 Read

Ch. 151The Spacetime Torch Dragon, Reshaping Heaven and Earth

The world's fortune restored Allen after his body was shattered, awakening a stronger power over spacetime. With the rift's seal expected to weaken within three days, Allen and the allied leaders decided to take the fight into the unstable gap beyond it.

  • Sanji carried the dying Allen to a watchtower, where the world's concentrated fortune healed him and transformed his power and eyes.
  • Allen awoke, sensed that the sealed enemy remained alive, and warned Sanji that the real crisis was still ahead.
  • At Iron Shield Fortress, Allen told the allied leaders the seal could loosen within three days and proposed attacking the enemy in the gap around the Spacetime Closed Loop.
  • Luffy, Ace, Sanji, Jinbe, Sabo, and Law agreed to the offensive, with Allen estimating a seventy-percent chance of stabilizing the battlefield.
  • Sabo assigned Ace to select the strongest fighters, ordered Nami and Franky to ready Pluton, and told the remaining forces to defend the fortress as the enemy struck the seal harder.

Ch. 152The eve of the expedition, hidden edges

As the expedition into the spacetime interstice approached, the allied fighters trained and prepared Pluton while the entity sealed inside the rift began probing Allen’s seal. Allen and Luffy, Ace, and Sabo pledged to face the coming battle together, leaving the expedition set to begin at dawn.

  • Luffy sparred with Allen, who used his new spatial perception to evade and slow Luffy’s attacks, while advising him to sense the folds in space.
  • Ace and Sanji trained their attacks, Jinbe worked on controlling his water energy, Law tested his ROOM against demonic creatures, and Sabo planned for the expedition.
  • Nami and Franky recalibrated Pluton’s Purification Pulse, shields, and targeting systems for the interstice’s chaotic spacetime.
  • The entity inside the Spacetime Closed Loop slowly eroded Allen’s seal and sensed the threatening, enticing aura of the Torch Dragon.
  • Allen met Luffy, Ace, and Sabo atop the watchtower, and the four clasped hands and vowed to fight side by side.

Ch. 153Rending spacetime, marching into the crevice

Allen opened a passage into the Spacetime Crevice, and Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Sanji, Jinbe, and Law entered with him. The group encountered Admiral Candidate-level monsters in the chaotic realm, where their first battle began.

  • Sabo rallied the allied army to defend their home while the expedition entered the Spacetime Crevice.
  • Allen transformed into his Torch Dragon Awakening Form and reversed the closed loop, opening a passage through the rift.
  • Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Sanji, Jinbe, Law, and Allen plunged into the passage, which sealed behind them as Allen's power weakened.
  • The team entered the chaotic Spacetime Crevice, where Allen's silver-purple glow shielded them from the turbulent laws and their abilities were disrupted.
  • Dark-red monsters attacked the expedition, and Sabo and Ace prepared to fight as the first battle in the crevice erupted.

Ch. 154Battle in Chaos, a First Show of Might

Allen and the allied fighters battled and defeated powerful monsters in the gap between space and time, gaining unusually rich fortune but struggling against the chaotic environment. As they regrouped, the red world-destroying behemoth arrived, and its terrifying presence threatened to break Allen’s protective halo.

  • Luffy, Ace, Sanji, Jinbe, Law, and Sabo coordinated their attacks to defeat the Admiral Candidate-level monsters while Allen maintained the team’s protective halo.
  • The fighters noted that the monsters were more difficult to fight in the gap between space and time, but their destruction granted them purer and greater fortune.
  • Sabo urged the team to adapt to the environment and use the battles as an opportunity to improve.
  • Allen sensed a vastly more powerful presence approaching and warned the team to prepare.
  • The red world-destroying behemoth’s projection appeared before the expeditionary force, its will causing Allen’s halo to ripple violently.

Ch. 155World-destroying projection, Emperor-level showdown

Allen and his allies fought the world-destroying projection, whose Emperor-level power overwhelmed their first attack. They barely stopped its destructive sphere, but the projection identified Allen as its main obstacle and prepared to target him.

  • The world-destroying projection appeared in the spacetime rift, and Allen shielded his allies while ordering them to search for a weakness.
  • The projection’s roar shattered the Spacetime Barrier, but Allen held the attack long enough for Luffy, Ace, Sanji, Jinbe, and Law to strike.
  • The projection’s destruction field blunted the allies’ attacks, leaving them with almost no effect.
  • The projection launched a black sphere at the group, and Law failed to teleport them clear because its gravity interfered with ROOM.
  • Allen slowed time and folded space around the sphere, allowing the allies to combine their attacks and detonate it, though the effort depleted him.
  • The projection suffered damage to its claw, then focused its fury on Allen as the greatest obstacle to its arrival.

Ch. 156Clash of titans, spacetime's shattering roar

Allen held off the world-destroying projection with a Spacetime Fault while the allied force damaged its claw, then clashed with its ultimate attack and was left nearly powerless. As the projection prepared to finish him, Nami fired Pluton’s Purification Nova-fire through the Spacetime Crevice, striking its wounded head and turning the battle into an uncertain new stage.

  • The world-destroying projection focused its attack on Allen, who trapped its descending claw in a Spacetime Fault and called for the team to strike.
  • Luffy, Ace, Sanji, Jinbe, and Law attacked the projection’s claw and damaged its joints and energy nodes.
  • The projection gathered energy for a dark singularity, and Allen countered it with Spacetime’s Return to the Void, leaving both Allen and the projection badly weakened.
  • As the projection prepared to attack the exhausted Allen, Nami fired Pluton’s Purification Nova-fire through the barrier and struck its wounded head.
  • The projection roared as purifying light and destructive energy engulfed it, while the expeditionary force gained a brief chance to recover.

Ch. 157Fortune Surged Like a Tide, the Torch Dragon Descended Again

Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Sanji, Jinbe, Law, and Pluton destroyed the world-destroying projection, and the fortune released by its core pushed Allen through a major breakthrough. Sanji took the projection’s final attack meant for Allen, leaving Allen to vow to kill its true body as the decisive battle began.

  • Pluton’s purifying light and the allies’ concentrated attacks destroyed the projection, releasing a vast surge of fortune that mostly flowed into Allen.
  • The fortune healed Allen and advanced his Torch Dragon Fruit ability, while Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Sanji, Jinbe, and Law also gained strength and insight.
  • The projection’s remaining destructive will fired a dark-red beam at Allen, and Sanji threw himself in its path and was pierced through the chest.
  • Law moved Sanji to his side but could not remove the destructive will without worsening his condition.
  • Allen completed his breakthrough to Four Emperor-level strength, froze Sanji’s injuries and the erosion temporarily, and vowed to kill the projection’s true body.

Ch. 158Bloodstained Ark Maxim, a dear friend at death's door

Sanji remained critically wounded by the destructive will, and Law could only keep his condition stable while Allen failed to reverse the injury. Allen carried Sanji through the unstable passage toward the rift’s source, leaving Luffy and the others to defend the outside.

  • Law determined that removing the destructive will would kill Sanji and that only powerful purification or time reversal could save him.
  • Allen said he could not reverse the wound because the will resisted temporal interference, while Sanji murmured about Zoro and his cooking.
  • Allen resolved to destroy the source of the will and asked Law to keep Sanji stable as long as possible.
  • Allen refused to let the others accompany him, saying his Zhulong power made him the only one able to enter the unstable passage.
  • Allen carried Sanji into the passage, leaving Luffy, Ace, Sabo, and the others behind to hold the defensive line.

Ch. 159Alone in the Abyss, Facing the Source

Allen carried the unconscious Sanji into the source lair of the destruction and confronted the ancient will at its heart. He survived their first law-level clash with a slight advantage, but Sanji’s protection was weakening and Allen still needed to find the source’s core.

  • Allen traversed the residual energy passage while protecting Sanji with his Power of Zhulong and Law’s ROOM.
  • Allen emerged into the source lair and sensed the true body of the destruction sleeping at its deepest point.
  • The source of destruction attacked Allen by disrupting space and time, so Allen sealed Sanji in spacetime crystal and established his Order Field.
  • The source formed the Light of Guixu, and Allen countered it with his Torch Dragon Ultimate Art: Creation of Heaven and Earth.
  • Allen’s attack cracked the destruction’s enormous eye and dimmed its energy, but Allen was injured and Sanji’s protections began to falter.

Ch. 160The Origin Core, a Race Against Death

Allen found the Heart of Destruction and used all his remaining power in a final attack against it. The resulting clash shattered Allen and left Sanji falling defenseless as the cracked Heart of Destruction continued to pulse.

  • Allen used the Power of Zhulong to find the Heart of Destruction deep within the nest.
  • The Heart of Destruction gathered the nest's energy and began pulling Allen's spacetime domain apart, while Sanji's protection cracked and his life signs weakened.
  • Allen abandoned his defenses and poured his remaining power into a final strike, the Spacetime Singularity Big Bang.
  • The Heart of Destruction fired the Scar of the End, and the two attacks collided in an explosion of opposing laws.
  • The resulting ripples shattered Allen, destroyed Sanji's protection, and left Sanji falling as the Heart of Destruction remained cracked but pulsing.

Ch. 161A Glimmer of Hope, the Price of a Miracle

Allen’s surviving spacetime imprint kept Sanji’s dying condition in stasis, allowing the crew to retrieve him from the destruction nest. Sanji was saved, but Allen remained missing, and the [Heart of Destruction] survived, leaving the war unresolved.

  • Allen’s spacetime imprint merged with Sanji and trapped the destruction eroding his wound in a fragile time loop, preserving Sanji’s life.
  • The [Heart of Destruction] sensed the imprint and gathered its remaining energy to destroy Sanji.
  • Luffy, Ace, Law, and the others detected Sanji’s faint life signal, while Nami and Franky located it aboard Pluton.
  • Nami and Franky used Pluton for a risky precision retrieval, pulling Sanji out of the destruction nest just as the [Heart of Destruction] fired.
  • Luffy and the others gathered around the unconscious Sanji, whose wound remained in stasis, and Sabo said Allen had sacrificed himself to save Sanji and wound the enemy.
  • Sabo warned that the war was not over because the [Heart of Destruction] and the rift remained.

Ch. 162Embers rekindled, the rift transformed

After Allen's final strike destabilized the spatial rift, a catastrophic torrent of destructive energy threatened the real world. Allen's lingering power formed a broken chain that slowed and weakened the leak, giving the allied forces a chance to fight back as the final battle approached.

  • At Pluton's medical center, Sanji remained critically wounded in a life-support pod while Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Jinbe, and the others watched over him.
  • An alarm alerted the crew that the spatial rift's seal was unraveling, and Nami explained that Allen's strike had destabilized its source of destruction.
  • A breach opened in the rift and sent a torrent of destructive energy toward the real world, forcing Sabo to order Pluton to raise its shields and the allied forces to retreat and prepare defenses.
  • Law spotted silver-purple motes gathering inside the rift, where they formed a broken chain of order that slowed and partly purified the energy leak.
  • Ace and Luffy rallied the crew to help Allen's remaining power, and Sabo ordered Pluton to bombard the weakened torrent while ground forces established a second defensive line.

Ch. 163A spacetime brand, an undying dragon soul

Law discovered that Allen’s spacetime imprint remained scattered across the rift and Sanji, and devised a plan to revive him using the Heart of Destruction’s essence. The chapter ended with Law, Luffy, and Ace preparing to enter the rift and retrieve it.

  • Law found that the spacetime power sustaining Sanji resonated with Allen’s scattered imprints, and Sanji’s dragon-shaped mark brightened as the motes at the rift began gathering.
  • Law explained that Allen could be revived by using Sanji as a vessel and the Heart of Destruction’s essence as a catalyst.
  • Luffy, Ace, Sabo, and Jinbe volunteered, but Law chose Luffy and Ace to escort him while he used his Op-Op Fruit ability to seize the core’s essence.
  • Sabo assigned Nami and Franky to support the assault with Pluton, Jinbe to handle extraction, and the others to hold the defensive line.
  • Law, Luffy, and Ace prepared to enter the rift and reclaim Allen.

Ch. 164Into the End, a Battle to Seize a Soul

Luffy, Ace, and Law entered the rift in Pluton and fought their way to the Heart of Destruction, where Law extracted a Fragment of the Origin of Destruction. They escaped the core’s final collapse with the fragment and Allen’s remaining dragon soul imprints, leaving Allen’s rebirth as the next step.

  • Law used ROOM to guide Luffy and Ace through the rift’s destructive energy and chaotic spacetime currents.
  • Luffy and Ace protected Law as he reached the Heart of Destruction and extracted the Fragment of the Origin of Destruction.
  • The Heart of Destruction began to self-destruct, but Allen’s dragon soul imprints froze it in spacetime long enough for Law to use Shambles to escape with Luffy and Ace.
  • Luffy, Ace, and Law survived the blast and returned to Pluton’s receiving platform with the fragment in Law’s hand.

Ch. 165The dragon soul reignited, the return!

Law used the Fragment of the Origin of Destruction to restore Allen’s dragon soul through Sanji’s mark. Allen’s will awakened, though his body and connection to Sanji still needed time to recover.

  • Law prepared the energy stabilizer and warned that refining the Destruction Origin could destroy Sanji’s consciousness or Allen’s imprint.
  • Luffy and Ace stabilized Sanji’s body with Haki, while Sabo, Jinbe, Nami, and Franky supported the procedure.
  • Law refined the origin fragment and guided its energy into Sanji’s dragon soul mark, triggering a violent clash of silver-purple and chaos-colored light.
  • Allen’s will and shattered spacetime laws gathered within Sanji’s consciousness as the dragon soul absorbed the energy and took shape.
  • Sanji’s condition improved, his wound began healing, and Allen’s voice reached everyone through the mark.

Ch. 166Reborn through Destruction, Illuminating Eternity

Allen awakened after his near-death rebirth with his Power of Zhulong fused with the source of destruction, gaining far greater control over spacetime and reaching Four Emperors-level strength. With the rift closed and his companions safe, he began preparing to separate his dragon soul from Sanji and return to his own body.

  • Allen examined his transformed powers and discovered that his dragon soul had become fully compatible with the Torch Dragon Fruit.
  • Allen sensed Sanji and his companions, then reached out through the mark in Sanji’s consciousness and reassured them that he was alive.
  • Allen saw that the rift in the sky had vanished and recognized that the source of destruction had been defeated.
  • Allen began guiding the fusion and separation of his dragon soul and Sanji’s body so he could return.
  • Ace, Luffy, and Sabo welcomed Allen’s recovery and looked ahead to rebuilding and exploring the world.

Ch. 167The Dragon Soul's First Cry, All Things Renewed

Allen awakened in Sanji’s body and mastered the power of his dragon soul, then used spacetime to restore lands damaged by the war. He said he would reconstruct his own body and work with his companions to shape the world’s future.

  • The life-support pod’s energy surged as Sanji’s body showed signs of awakening, and Luffy and Ace realized Allen’s power was becoming unstable.
  • Allen opened his eyes and contained the rampaging spacetime energy, then explained that Sanji’s consciousness was still recovering and he needed time to leave the body and rebuild his own.
  • Allen appeared outside the chamber and told Sabo, Jinbe, Law, and the others that the world’s wounds still needed healing.
  • Allen spread his spacetime power across the war-torn lands, restoring vegetation, purifying polluted waters, and clearing rifts and tainted energy.
  • After the exertion left him pale, Allen told his companions they would work together to forge the world’s future once his body was reconstructed.

Ch. 168The dragon returns to the sea, body and soul as one

Portgas D. Allen left Sanji’s body and rebuilt his own through an incubation pod, reuniting his dragon soul with a new body. Reunited with his companions, Allen prepared to lead them toward the Final Road and the sea of stars.

  • Allen entered his dragon soul into the incubation pod while Sanji remained asleep and recovered from their symbiosis.
  • After three days and nights, Allen emerged from the pod with a new body perfectly compatible with the Power of Zhulong.
  • Chopper, Brook, Franky, Nami, Robin, Law, Luffy, Ace, and Sabo welcomed Allen back.
  • Sanji awoke and joined the others, carrying breakfast as he continued recovering.
  • Allen and his companions agreed to prepare to sail toward the Final Road and the sea of stars.

Ch. 169The Final Route, the Torch Dragon Sets Sail

The Straw Hat Pirates prepared the upgraded Thousand Sunny · Modified for their voyage along the final route, with Portgas D. Allen joining them. Allen opened a calm passage through the dangerous waters, and the crew sailed toward the unknown and the sea of stars.

  • The allied forces restored order while the Straw Hat Pirates prepared to depart from Lodestar Island aboard the upgraded Thousand Sunny · Modified.
  • Ace and Sabo saw the crew off, giving Allen an encrypted Eternal Pose and a Den Den Mushi with intelligence about the final route and threats beyond the world.
  • Luffy called for the crew to set sail, and the Thousand Sunny · Modified left port as the gathered factions cheered.
  • Allen smoothed the chaotic waters ahead with his power, allowing the Thousand Sunny · Modified to surge across the sea and vanish beyond the horizon.
  • The crew settled into life aboard ship as Allen looked toward the final route and their journey to the sea of stars.

Ch. 170Prelude to the Sea of Stars, Ripples in Spacetime

The Thousand Sunny · Modified entered a region of chaotic spacetime on the way to Laugh Tale, where Allen guided the crew through dangerous distortions. The crew discovered a stable node connected to another world and continued toward the deeper waters.

  • The crew discussed the Final Sea Route as they approached its strange, potentially world-spanning waters.
  • Allen warned that spacetime would soon become chaotic, and the Thousand Sunny · Modified entered the distorted region.
  • The crew struggled with shifting gravity, time, and navigation instruments as Allen sensed a safe path and briefly froze a spatial vortex.
  • Allen stopped the ship beside a stable spacetime node and sensed laws of machinery, code, and void from a miniature cross-world passage.
  • The crew reacted excitedly to the possibility of other worlds, then sailed onward into the chaotic waters.

Ch. 171Beyond the rift, whispers of the void

The Thousand Sunny · Modified encountered Spacetime Vengeful Spirits and a rift through which Void Seekers tried to capture Allen. Allen closed the rift, and the crew continued toward Laugh Tale wary of dangers beyond their world.

  • Chopper warned the crew about translucent tentacles, and Robin identified them as Spacetime Vengeful Spirits.
  • Zoro's sword attack failed to harm the spirits, while Ace's flames scorched them and Allen slowed their advance with Spacetime Imprisonment.
  • A purple-black rift opened beside the ship, and Void Seekers sent chains toward Allen after detecting his special spacetime laws.
  • Allen used Torch Dragon Secret Rite: Spacetime Return to Oblivion to collapse the rift's spacetime anchor and repel the Void Seekers.
  • Allen warned that threats from beyond their world awaited on the Final Sea Route, and the Thousand Sunny · Modified continued toward Laugh Tale.

Ch. 172A dragon's roar across the starry sea, the first resonance of laws

As the Thousand Sunny · Modified crossed the Sea of Manifested Laws, Allen absorbed a chaotic law impact and used the Power of Zhulong fused with nothingness to break it down and integrate its rule information. He gained a preliminary ability to simulate and command fundamental laws, and the crew continued toward Laugh Tale.

  • Allen and the crew navigated spacetime anomalies and strange creatures, honing their abilities during the voyage.
  • The Thousand Sunny entered the Sea of Manifested Laws, where dense law fragments swarmed the ship and Allen raised a barrier to protect everyone.
  • The region's pulsing orb targeted Allen with a chaotic beam of laws, and Allen deliberately let it strike him.
  • Allen unleashed “Torch Dragon Origin · All Laws Return to the Abyss!” and broke down the law energies, absorbing useful rule information into the Power of Zhulong.
  • The orb and law fragments faded as the Thousand Sunny emerged into a starry sea, and the relieved crew admired Allen's transformation.
  • Allen looked toward the ocean ahead as the crew continued along the Final Sea Route, with Laugh Tale's coordinates flickering before them.

Ch. 173The Stargate Maze, the Road to Freedom

The Straw Hat Pirates reached the Stargate Ruins, where three gates offered paths that Allen recognized as traps. He opened a new route through spacetime, and the crew sailed toward the unknown on a path of their own choosing.

  • Nami, Allen, and Brook sensed a strange spacetime node and discovered three gates appearing over the sea.
  • Robin identified the gates as the Corridor of Choices, while Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji distrusted the paths laid out before them.
  • Allen examined the gates and explained that each would imprison or erase those who entered.
  • Allen used his Torch Dragon Ultimate Secret Rite to force open a route through the spacetime singularity at the gates' center.
  • Luffy leaped onto the new route, and Jinbe steered the Thousand Sunny · Modified after him as the three gates vanished.

Ch. 174Drifting Among Stellar Wreckage, Gravestones of Civilizations

The Thousand Sunny · Modified entered a vast graveyard of ancient starships and discovered a warning about the World Devourers, beings that fed on worlds and civilizations. After the Straw Hat Pirates destroyed three scavenger craft, Allen warned that their route might lead them closer to the World Devourers as they continued into the stars.

  • The crew found a vast belt of wrecked starships and artificial celestial bodies, and Robin identified it as a battlefield ruin.
  • A damaged starship broadcast a warning about the World Devourers erasing civilizations before its signal cut off.
  • Three hostile spindle-shaped craft attacked the Thousand Sunny · Modified, and Allen identified them as scavengers prowling the wreckage.
  • Jinbe, Zoro, Sanji, Luffy, Franky, and Brook fought back and destroyed all three craft.
  • Allen sensed that the wrecks were ancient and warned that the World Devourers had left such graveyards behind as they consumed civilizations.
  • Luffy rallied the crew, and the Thousand Sunny · Modified continued through the wreckage along the free passage.

Ch. 175Ark survivors, a glimmer of the flame

The Straw Hat Pirates found the last survivors of the Ark of Hope, who warned them that the World Devourers had destroyed their home system. Allen helped the survivors escape an attack by the Devourers’ Predator warships, and the Thousand Sunny continued its journey with a clearer understanding of the threat.

  • Chopper detected a life signal from a wreck-built station, where Keith told the crew that the World Devourers had destroyed his home system and left the Ark of Hope’s life-support systems failing.
  • Keith’s distress alarm sounded as seven or eight Predator warships approached, and Allen sensed that they were stronger than the Carrion Eaters.
  • Allen gave Keith safe jump coordinates and disrupted the warships’ targeting systems, allowing the Ark of Hope fragment to escape.
  • The Predator warships attacked the Thousand Sunny, but the Straw Hat Pirates fought them off, and Allen disabled the last warship’s engine with Spacetime Cutting.
  • The crew watched the Ark of Hope’s escape route and then set sail, hoping its survivors would carry word of the World Devourers onward.
Arc 7 of 21
Arc 7 of 21