Recaps

Zoro revealed strength comparable to King, while four of the Five Elders assembled with Kaido to confront Bai Yu. As the group prepared to attack, Daps stopped Kaido and said their lord had taken an interest in Bai Yu.

• Zoro displayed strength that King believed could contend with his own, surprising everyone present.
• Kaido warned Bai Yu that four of the Five Elders had come to kill him.
• Daps, Killer, and Sals appeared, and Daps questioned how Bai Yu had anticipated their arrival.
• Bai Yu explained that Kaido had told Orochi he would be gone for twelve hours, exposing Kaido’s sudden appearance as a clue.
• Nusjuro and Kaido argued over the failed surprise attack until Daps ordered them to focus on Bai Yu.
• Kaido moved to attack Bai Yu, but Daps stopped him and said their lord had taken an interest in Bai Yu.

Daps revealed that Imu wanted Bai Yu brought back alive or dead, and Bai Yu chose to fight rather than submit. As the Five Elders and Kaido prepared to kill him, Bai Yu announced that he had reinforcements who could create an opening for him.

• Daps told the gathered fighters that Imu had ordered them to bring Bai Yu back, either alive or as a corpse.
• Kaido accused Daps of deceiving him, but Sals warned him not to insult Imu.
• Bai Yu rejected the offer to come willingly and said he would rather cut down his enemies.
• Zoro, Sanji, Nami, and the others expressed confidence that Bai Yu would not lose, while Yamato recognized the danger posed by the Five Elders.
• Nusjuro unleashed his aura and challenged Bai Yu, who revealed that hidden reinforcements could hold the Five Elders back and help him kill one of them.

Bai Yu used a power that summoned meteors to keep Kaido and Nusjuro from reaching him, then revealed that more were falling in a meteor shower. As the meteors descended over Udon, Daps ordered Sals and Killer to stop them while Kaido and Nusjuro prepared to attack Bai Yu.

• Kaido and Nusjuro charged at Bai Yu, but a meteor fell and forced them to stop and destroy it.
• A second meteor descended, and Kaido and Nusjuro shattered it as well before threatening Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu said he called the meteors a meteor shower, and dozens more appeared in the sky above Udon.
• Kaido urged Nusjuro to find a way through the attack, while Nusjuro ordered Daps and his men to stop the meteors.
• Daps ordered his group to act, and Sals unleashed a sea of bones toward the falling meteors.

Fujitora joined Bai Yu’s side and unleashed a devastating meteor rainstorm against the Five Elders’ defenses in Udon. After Law transported Kaido and Nusjuro apart, he revealed that splitting them up had been his mission, giving Bai Yu an opening to attack.

• Fujitora rejected the Five Elders’ offer of a Marine Admiral position and said he would pursue justice under Bai Yu’s command.
• Fujitora used Meteor Rainstorm to send over a hundred meteors crashing into Udon.
• Sals’s bone defenses collapsed, and Killer used his Space-Space Fruit to transport Sals and Daps away from the falling meteors.
• Kaido and Nusjuro emerged from the destruction and appeared to join forces while Bai Yu watched.
• Law used spatial fluctuations to transport Kaido and Nusjuro apart, then revealed that splitting them up was his mission to create an opening for Bai Yu.

Trafalgar Law used his Devil Fruit ability to separate Kaido and Nusjuro from the other Five Elders, while Fujitora and Wano’s allies confronted Daps and the remaining elders. Fujitora admitted he could no longer fight but revealed that Bai Yu had left him something he called a cheat.

• Trafalgar Law used ROOM: Tact! to teleport Kaido and Nusjuro far away, and Killer suppressed the blast’s aftershocks as the Five Elders realized Bai Yu had split up their forces.
• Daps argued that Kaido and Nusjuro could withstand Bai Yu, while Fujitora, Cat Viper, Duke Inuarashi, Ashura Doji, Kawamatsu, and their allies arrived to face the remaining elders.
• Daps claimed Fujitora had overtaxed his Devil Fruit and warned the group to retreat, prompting Ashura Doji to worry that they could not hold off the elders without him.
• Fujitora confirmed that his large-scale attack had left him unable to fight and said Bai Yu had given him something he called a cheat.

Fujitora deliberately let the Five Elders wound him to test the pea Bai Yu had given him, then swallowed it while Cat Viper and the others fought to protect him. Daps struck the group with a mental attack as Fujitora took the pea.

• Daps recognized the brocade pouch Fujitora pulled out and ordered Sals and Killer to stop him.
• Inuarashi rallied Cat Viper and the others to defend Fujitora and honor Oden's wish to open Wano Country's borders.
• Killer redirected Sals's bone spear behind Fujitora, and the spear pierced his chest and heart.
• Fujitora revealed that he had allowed the attack to test Bai Yu's cheat, then poured a green pea from the pouch.
• Fujitora used his Gravity Blade to pin down the next bone spears and swallowed the pea as Daps launched a Mental Shock that left the group stunned.

Daps used the Mind-Mind Fruit to stun Fujitora and the others, but Carina’s sniper shot disrupted his attack. The group regrouped and discovered that Fujitora’s pierced chest had completely healed.

• Daps mentally stunned Fujitora and the others, and Killer prepared to attack them while they were dazed.
• Carina shot Daps from several thousand meters away, forcing him to raise a Mental Barrier and breaking his mental lockdown.
• Daps explained to Killer that the Mind-Mind Fruit could attack minds and copy a person's will to resurrect them, and recalled how it had restored Nusjuro.
• Zoro joined Cat Viper and the others, explained that distance weakened Daps's mental attack, and urged them to check Fujitora.
• The group saw that Fujitora's chest wound had healed completely.

Fujitora recovered from the brink of death and joined Zoro and the others against the Five Elders, using gravity to disrupt their attacks. Sals then unleashed his strongest ability, transforming the battlefield into a vast realm of white bone.

• Fujitora fully recovered and vowed to honor his promise to Captain Bai Yu by stopping the Five Elders.
• Fujitora summoned a meteorite, but Sals pierced it with a gigantic bone spear while Killer and Daps trapped Zoro and the others with spatial and mental attacks.
• Fujitora used Gravity Blade: Hell's Journey to break the mental restraints and divert Killer's spatial hands, allowing Zoro and the others to escape into a deep pit.
• Daps ordered Sals to use his strongest killing move, and Sals spread White Bone Thorn Forest through the battlefield.
• Sals activated World-Destroying Bone Demon Realm, rapidly transforming the surrounding land into vast expanses of white bone.

Fujitora staked his life to keep Daps, Killer, and Sals from reaching Bai Yu, summoning a vast meteor shower despite the danger of overusing his power. He revealed that Bai Yu had given him a pouch of Senzu Beans, leaving Cat Viper and Denjiro eager to get some for themselves.

• Cat Viper and the others evaded Sals's bone spikes while Fujitora used gravity to protect them.
• Daps and Killer tried to leave for Nusjuro and Kaido, but Fujitora's gravity forced them back down.
• Fujitora unleashed a huge meteor shower and declared that he intended to stake his life to stop the enemy.
• Fujitora showed everyone a bulging pouch of Senzu Beans that Bai Yu had given him.
• Cat Viper and Denjiro asked Fujitora to share some of the beans.

Fujitora used a meteor shower to hold Daps and the others back while Cat Viper and his allies joined the fight. Law brought Kaido and Nusjuro to Bai Yu, who intercepted Kaido’s attack, and the distant meteor shower revealed that Fujitora was still buying time.

• Fujitora promised the gathered allies Senzu Beans and unleashed another meteor shower to delay Daps and his companions for two minutes.
• Sals transformed into a thousand-meter white-bone asura and smashed through the falling meteors.
• Cat Viper and the others attacked Daps and Killer to help Fujitora hold them back.
• Trafalgar Law transported Kaido and Nusjuro ten kilometers to the battlefield, then nearly collapsed from exhaustion.
• Kaido attacked Law, but Bai Yu caught Hassaikai and stopped the blow.
• Kaido said Daps and the others would arrive within three minutes, but a distant meteor shower showed Fujitora was still fighting to delay them.

Bai Yu challenged Kaido to a direct fight to the death, trading attacks instead of retreating. As Kaido resisted his slashes, Bai Yu unleashed Tenma Daizaijitenjin, whose overwhelming Sword Intent made Kaido feel the urge to evade.

• Bai Yu told Kaido he could kill him within three minutes and attacked with a golden blade aura.
• Kaido countered Bai Yu’s slash with Dragon Breath, then found Hassaikai immovably pinned as Bai Yu struck again.
• Kaido transformed into a dragon and met Bai Yu’s increasingly powerful slashes head-on, while Trafalgar Law watched from a distance.
• Bai Yu activated Realm of Void, blending a Zen chant with a murderous Sword Intent in his secret technique, Tenma Daizaijitenjin.
• Bai Yu’s Sword Intent manifested as an enormous Asura War Demon and shook Kaido’s resolve, making him want to retreat for the first time.

Bai Yu unleashed Six Paths Five Rings: Kurikara Tensho and severely wounded Kaido of the Beasts, making Kaido feel that Bai Yu rivaled Rocks. Nusjuro urged Kaido to join forces while they waited for Daps and the others, but Kaido angrily refused and insisted he could kill Bai Yu alone.

• Bai Yu used the system's power to unleash Ishana Daitensho and Six Paths Five Rings: Kurikara Tensho.
• Kaido of the Beasts called for Nusjuro's help and pushed his Haki to its limits as Bai Yu's slash struck.
• Bai Yu's attack blasted Kaido into a rocky mountain and left a deep, bleeding wound across his body.
• Bai Yu approached Kaido carrying his Zanpakuto and Kaido's Hassaikai, and Kaido judged him comparable to Rocks.
• Nusjuro asked Kaido to cooperate against Bai Yu while Daps and the others were delayed by Fujitora, but Kaido refused and vowed to fight alone.

Kaido and Nusjuro coordinated a surprise attack on Bai Yu, but Bai Yu broke free and focused his counterattack on Kaido. Kaido was left battered and panicked, discovering that his boasts about being impossible to kill had backfired.

• Kaido rejected Nusjuro's invitation to cooperate and charged Bai Yu, wrapping his massive body around him.
• Nusjuro seized the opening and struck at Bai Yu from behind with the First Kitetsu.
• Bai Yu released Nozarashi, expanded his golden Spiritual Pressure skeleton, and forced Kaido's tail open.
• Bai Yu ignored Nusjuro's slash and cleaved into Kaido, sending the wounded dragon flying.
• Kaido called Bai Yu a madman and panicked as he realized Bai Yu's attacks were making his boast of being impossible to kill backfire.

Bai Yu dismissed the weakened Nusjuro and pressed his assault on Kaido, while Kaido recovered through his awakened Zoan powers and joined Nusjuro in attacking him. The chapter ended as Bai Yu unleashed Morning Peacock against Kaido’s all-out Kongō Dite, and their attacks collided in a devastating shock wave.

• Nusjuro failed to break through Bai Yu’s golden skeletal defenses, and Bai Yu taunted him for his weakened strength.
• Nusjuro charged Bai Yu with a Conqueror’s Haki-coated First Kitetsu as Kaido’s awakened Zoan powers rapidly healed his wounds.
• Kaido and Nusjuro attacked Bai Yu from the front and rear, but Bai Yu focused entirely on Kaido.
• Bai Yu opened the Sixth Gate and unleashed Morning Peacock, forcing Kaido to enter his human-dragon form.
• Kaido abandoned his lost Hassaikai and countered with Kongō Dite, and the clash tore through the battlefield.

Bai Yu opened the Seventh Gate and severed Kaido of the Beasts’ arm with a powerful slash. He then unleashed the Eighth Gate and attacked Kaido, who opened the Fifth Gate while swallowing a hidden pill.

• Nusjuro saw that Bai Yu had grown stronger and warned Kaido that Bai Yu was charging again.
• Bai Yu opened the Seventh Gate and struck Kaido with Daytime Tiger, tearing through his Haki and severing his arm.
• Kaido roared in pain and threatened Bai Yu, but Bai Yu opened the Eighth Gate and activated the Creation Rebirth Technique.
• Bai Yu crossed the distance in an instant and brought a deadly slash down on Kaido.
• Kaido pushed his Armament Haki to its limit, swallowed a capsule hidden beneath his tongue, and opened the Fifth Gate.

Bai Yu beheaded Kaido after the Emperor swallowed a crimson pill, but Kaido revived as a blood-red devil with extraordinary speed and regenerative power. As Bai Yu fought the transformed Kaido, a voice revealed that another devil was ready to join the attack.

• Kaido opened the Fifth Gate and swallowed a crimson pill just before Bai Yu's Nozarashi struck him.
• Bai Yu's slash hurled Kaido across the rocky ground and beheaded him, and Bai Yu realized Kaido had taken the same kind of pill Nusjuro had tried to use.
• Kaido's decapitated body regenerated and transformed into a gigantic blood-red devil with horns, wings, and fleshy tendrils.
• Kaido charged Bai Yu at tremendous speed and traded blows with him, regenerating a severed arm as Bai Yu was knocked backward.
• A voice claiming to be one of the Five Elders taunted Bai Yu and announced that two great devils would attack him together.

Demonized Nusjuro used his awakened earth powers to trap and pierce Bai Yu, then urged Kaido to finish him. Bai Yu’s hair turned white and his aura changed, leaving Nusjuro and Kaido facing someone who seemed no longer to be Bai Yu.

• Nusjuro revealed that he had faked losing his Devil Fruit power and unleashed a vast field of stone spears against Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu answered with Daytime Tiger, but Nusjuro’s countless spears eventually pierced and surrounded him.
• Daps warned Nusjuro that his Vivre Card Piece was burning and that Bai Yu might have another trick, so Nusjuro ordered Kaido to kill him.
• As Kaido attacked, Bai Yu’s hair turned white and his aura restored Kaido’s clarity; Kaido exclaimed that he was not Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu shattered the spears impaling him, slashed Kaido as he passed, and walked toward a trembling Nusjuro.

Bai Yu transformed and overwhelmed Kaido, then used Tensa Zangetsu to create the Void Domain, where his sword strikes destroyed Nusjuro’s earthen attacks. He advanced toward Nusjuro, who was left panicked and unable to stop him.

• Nusjuro urged Kaido to team up against Bai Yu, but Bai Yu swiftly slashed Kaido apart.
• Bai Yu changed his sword into Tensa Zangetsu while Nusjuro tried to exploit the opening and trap him with Endless Hell.
• Bai Yu cut down the mass of earthen spears before they could reach him, startling Trafalgar Law.
• Bai Yu named the space-clearing technique Void Domain and walked toward Nusjuro as his attacks crumbled.
• Nusjuro’s nerves snapped as Bai Yu continued advancing.

Bai Yu let Nusjuro flee toward Daps and the other Elders, then revealed that his earlier slashes had already fatally wounded him. Nusjuro disintegrated as his Vivre Card Piece burned, while Cat Viper and Fujitora’s group arrived; Law then warned that something was wrong.

• Bai Yu advanced through Nusjuro’s attacks, shredding every spear and earthen lance within his Void domain.
• Nusjuro fled toward Daps and the other Elders, while Law asked Bai Yu whether they should intercept him; Bai Yu said to let him go.
• Nusjuro reached Daps, who showed him his Vivre Card Piece burning to ash, and Nusjuro realized he had been marked for death.
• Nusjuro’s hidden slash wounds burst open, tearing his body apart as he begged Daps to have Imu save him.
• Cat Viper and Fujitora’s injured group arrived, and Law warned them that the apparent victory was a trick.

After the Five Elders stole Fujitora’s pouch of Senzu Beans, Nusjuro ate the beans expecting to recover, but they had no effect and he died. Bai Yu revealed that the pouch had been a trap, while Fujitora had known the beans would fail.

• Cat Viper brought Fujitora and the others back after their battle with the Five Elders, and Law warned them of a trap.
• A Space Vortex appeared behind Fujitora, and a withered hand stole the brocade pouch of Senzu Beans from his waist.
• Bai Yu stayed calm as the others worried that the Five Elders could use the beans, while Fujitora told them to watch what happened.
• Killer gave Nusjuro a Senzu Bean, and Nusjuro swallowed it expecting his body to recover.
• When the bean did nothing, Nusjuro devoured the remaining beans in the pouch, but his body still failed and he died cursing Bai Yu.

Bai Yu killed Kaido and demonized Nusjuro, then forced Daps and the other Five Elders to flee before his power ran low. His main body template reached eighty-five percent, unlocking White's Arrancar form, and Cat Viper asked whether he was all right.

• Bai Yu taunted Killer over the useless pouches and challenged the remaining Five Elders to fight.
• Bai Yu opened the Eighth Gate and attacked Daps and the other two Five Elders with a blood-red dragon strike.
• Daps and the others used their abilities to escape with Nusjuro's shattered corpse, while Bai Yu's attack carved a vast ravine into the earth.
• Bai Yu dispersed his aura and reflected that Eight Gates Released and White's enhancement had consumed most of his power and strained his body.
• The system raised Bai Yu's main body template unlock progress to eighty-five percent and granted him White's Arrancar form.
• Cat Viper asked Bai Yu if he was all right, and Bai Yu said he had been considering how a fight against three Five Elders would have turned out.

Bai Yu said he now had a certain chance of killing the Five Elders after they fled Wano Country. In Mary Geoise, Orochi’s news that Kaido’s Vivre Card had burned away was followed by Nusjuro’s life statue shattering, leaving Rosa and Sengoku stunned.

• Bai Yu told Cat Viper and the others that his odds of killing the Five Elders had risen to one hundred percent.
• Rosa told Sengoku that the Five Elders had gone to Wano Country with Kaido to kill Bai Yu, while Orochi remained their puppet.
• Orochi discovered that Kaido’s Vivre Card Piece had burned away and told Rosa and Sengoku that Kaido was dead.
• Orochi suggested that the Five Elders had sacrificed Kaido as a disposable pawn and defeated Bai Yu themselves.
• Nusjuro’s life statue shattered, shocking Rosa, Orochi, and Sengoku.

After Daps, Sals, and Killer returned without Bai Yu, Daps claimed the badly wounded pirate had escaped and boasted about their supposed victory. Bai Yu then called to mock them, exposing their lies and leaving the Five Elders humiliated as Sengoku laughed and delivered Admiral recruitment documents.

• Rosa slapped Orochi for jinxing Nusjuro’s fate, then ordered Sengoku to stop worrying about Bai Yu and insisted the others would return with his corpse.
• Daps, Killer, and Sals emerged without Bai Yu, and Daps told Rosa that Bai Yu had escaped but was gravely wounded.
• Daps claimed Bai Yu’s chest had been pierced and his bones exposed, while Killer and Sals added fabricated boasts about cutting off his limbs.
• Bai Yu called Orochi on Kaido’s Den Den Mushi, mocked the group for fleeing without collecting the bodies, and challenged them to be worth cutting next time.
• Sengoku laughed at the Five Elders’ exposed lies and said he had come to deliver the Admiral recruitment documents.

The Five Elders dealt with the fallout from their defeat in Wano, killed Orochi, and reported Bai Yu’s threat to Imu. Imu confirmed that Bai Yu might have come from the heavens, like Imu, leaving the elders stunned by the possibility.

• After Sengoku left, Killer crushed Orochi to death, ending Orochi’s final life and destroying the Den Den Mushi he held.
• Daps and the others discussed their defeat in Wano and blamed Nusjuro’s decision to join the fight, while Rosa claimed she could have killed Bai Yu herself.
• Daps explained that Bai Yu’s strange healing beans let Fujitora Issho hold the Five Elders back long enough for Bai Yu to kill Nusjuro and Kaido, and said Bai Yu might have come from the heavens.
• When Killer voiced the possibility that Bai Yu came from the same place as Imu, a golden force struck him down and crushed him into the floor.
• Killer and the other elders begged Imu for mercy, and Imu confirmed that he also suspected Bai Yu had come from the heavens.

After Imu authorized the Recovery Plan and SSG Plan, the Five Elders moved to advance them while Wano’s news spread across the seas. Bai Yu’s victory over Kaido and Nusjuro made him a sovereign beyond the Four Emperors, leaving Charlotte Linlin fearful of what he might do next.

• Imu said Bai Yu was different from him and ordered the Five Elders to draw in their net early, approving the SSG Plan while warning them not to disrupt his plans.
• Daps, Rosa, and Killer agreed to begin the plans and use CP0 to handle Ryokugyu, whom they intended to harvest later.
• The Five Elders sent CP0 to intervene in the World Military Draft as Wano’s informants reported that Bai Yu had killed Kaido and Nusjuro and that Wano would open its borders.
• News of Bai Yu’s victory shook the balance of power, and the sea began calling him one sovereign alongside three emperors.
• Charlotte Linlin raged over Kaido’s death and asked Katakuri whether he had experienced any ominous premonitions.