Chapter Summaries

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.

Katakuri urged Charlotte Linlin to seek allies against Bai Yu, and King arrived with Bullet and a mysterious regenerative monster. King claimed the monster was the key to defeating Bai Yu, leaving the Big Mom Pirates stunned and eager to hear his explanation.

• Katakuri said the Big Mom Pirates could either surrender to Bai Yu or cooperate with others, then summoned potential allies.
• Bullet entered and clashed Conqueror's Haki with Charlotte Linlin before Katakuri reminded him that he had come for revenge.
• King explained that Kaido had sent him to gather forces in Wano, but he fled after Kaido's Vivre Card Piece burned to ash.
• King summoned a black, winged monster that survived Charlotte Linlin's Emperor Sword and rapidly healed its wounds.
• King produced a bottle and declared it the key to defeating War Demon Bai Yu.

King offered Charlotte Linlin Devil's Medicine, which could multiply a user's strength, and recruited her to help take revenge on Bai Yu. He planned to use the medicine to target people Bai Yu cared about and clip his wings before killing him.

• King revealed that the Five Elders had supplied Devil's Medicine, which awakened the devil within a user and greatly increased their strength.
• Charlotte Linlin asked why Kaido had died if the medicine was so powerful, and King explained that Kaido had rejected it as an insult.
• King began to leave when Charlotte Linlin questioned whether Bai Yu could truly be defeated, but she stopped him and promised to kill Bai Yu with the medicine.
• King said he had a foolproof plan to exploit Bai Yu's attachment to old ties and strike at those close to him before confronting Bai Yu.

After leaving Wano Country, Bai Yu arrived at a bustling island with Kozuki Hiyori, Yamato, and his retainers. He invited the women to a bathhouse, where Hiyori misunderstood his intentions before discovering the baths were separated by gender.

• Three days after the battle in Wano Country, Bai Yu's group docked at an island, where reports had made Bai Yu the sole emperor and Blackbeard a new Four Emperor.
• Kozuki Hiyori and Yamato asked Bai Yu where they were going, and he said he wanted to find a bathhouse and invited them along.
• Hiyori assumed the bath would be a chance to get closer to Bai Yu and asked Yamato to cooperate with her.
• Bai Yu explained that the bathhouse had separate men's and women's baths, then went inside alone.
• Carina and Nami comforted the embarrassed Hiyori and said Bai Yu had teased them in similar ways before.

After an awkward bathhouse encounter, Bai Yu took advantage of a quiet day to drink alone and reminisce about Windmill Village. At a tavern, he met a masked giant who claimed to have drunk with the Pirate King and dismissed the current Pirate Emperor as a brat.

• Carina and Nami followed Kozuki Hiyori into the bathhouse and went searching for Yamato.
• Yamato joined Bai Yu in the men's bath, realized she was a woman, and fled after the women outside screamed.
• Bai Yu left the bathhouse and went to a tavern, where he thought about Makino and his time in Windmill Village.
• A masked old man sat beside Bai Yu, bought him Bloody Marys, and claimed he had once drunk with the Pirate King.
• The drunk old man said he would challenge the current Pirate Emperor if they ever met, unaware that Bai Yu was sitting beside him.

Bai Yu encountered an old pirate who claimed the old era surpassed the new one and demonstrated his power by slaughtering pirates in a tavern. The old man carried Bai Yu away to show him how thirty years of pent-up rage could destroy an island, and Bai Yu recognized him as Bandy World, the World Destroyer.

• Bai Yu questioned the old man about whether he had once drunk with Roger, and the old man said he had returned after thirty years to remind the world of his terror.
• A pirate from the Big Mom Pirates attacked the old man, who caught and shattered the blade with Armament Haki.
• The old man hurled enlarged blade fragments through the tavern, killing the attacker and dozens of other pirates.
• The old man challenged Bai Yu to compare the old era with the new era, and Bai Yu said the old era had been strong.
• The old man put Bai Yu on his shoulder and raced away to show him how thirty years of pent-up rage could destroy an island.
• Bai Yu identified the old man as Bandy World, the World Destroyer, who possessed the More-More Fruit and had a five-hundred-million-Beli bounty.

World brought Bai Yu aboard the Groceade, the massive ship his crew had built during his imprisonment, and declared that they would attack the Celestial Dragons at Sabaody Archipelago. Despite Byrnndi Jack’s warning that the World Government might be luring them into a trap, World ordered the crew to set sail and test the ship’s cannon.

• World showed Bai Yu the enormous Groceade as it emerged into the harbor, and its arrival frightened the pirates at the docks.
• World carried Bai Yu aboard and reunited with Byrnndi Jack, Gairam, Sebastian, and Nightingale.
• World explained that he had brought Bai Yu along to witness the strength of the old era and announced his plan to attack the Celestial Dragons at Sabaody Archipelago.
• Byrnndi Jack warned that Marine Headquarters or the World Government might have set a trap, but World dismissed the danger.
• World ordered the World Pirates to set sail and said he would use the Groceade’s cannon to destroy any scheme against them.

Bai Yu was taken aboard World's enormous ship, while Smoker and CP0 arrived at Sabaody Archipelago to confront World's remnants and meet the new Marine Admiral, Ryokugyu. The chapter ended as Ryokugyu sensed the target approaching across the sea.

• Byrnndi Jack urged Bai Yu to stay out of danger aboard the Groceade, and Bai Yu decided to contact Fujitora and the others before testing the Five Elders' plans.
• World used his More-More Fruit to set the enormous Groceade sailing.
• Smoker and Tashigi arrived at Sabaody Archipelago with Marine warships as Rob Lucci and former CP9 members arrived aboard another ship.
• Rob Lucci taunted Smoker and Tashigi about Bai Yu and announced that CP0 had come to welcome the new Admiral replacing him.
• Tashigi questioned where the other World Military Draft candidate, Fujitora Issho, had gone, and Ryokugyu said he wanted to test their opposing ideas of justice.
• Ryokugyu sensed World's ship approaching and declared that the target had arrived.

World's giant ship, the Groseade, arrived at a Marine ambush, where he turned the Marines' cannon fire back on them and Smoker intercepted it. A masked youth then urged World to fire on the newly appointed CP0 and leave, and World began preparing a hundredfold cannon attack as the agents faced him.

• Seven Marine warships opened fire on the approaching Groseade, and World slapped their cannonballs back while using the More-More Fruit to enlarge them tenfold.
• Smoker used Smoke Wave to intercept and destroy the enlarged cannonballs, earning cheers from the Marine soldiers.
• Rob Lucci dismissed Smoker's defense and led six other CP0 agents toward the Groseade.
• A masked youth told World that the approaching figures were CP0, urged him to bombard them at a hundredfold, and warned that a troublesome person was on the island.
• World agreed to fire and ordered Byrnndi Jack to ready the ship's cannon, leaving the CP0 agents alarmed by its size.

World fired a hundredfold-enhanced cannonball at Rob Lucci and the CP0 agents, unleashing an explosion that overwhelmed Smoker’s smoke defense. As the shock wave threatened the Sabaody Archipelago, a Marine with long, wavy hair raised a massive wall of trees to block it.

• Smoker warned the Marines to scatter because CP0 could not stop World’s cannon attack.
• World enlarged the cannonball a hundredfold, then accelerated it a hundredfold toward Rob Lucci and the other CP agents.
• Rob Lucci and the CP agents raised their strongest defenses, but the cannonball exploded and sent a huge shock wave across the sea.
• Smoker shielded seven fleeing warships with a massive cloud of smoke, but the blast hurled them back toward the Sabaody Archipelago.
• A Marine with long, wavy hair used Tree Iron Shield to raise an enormous wall of intertwined tree trunks before the shock wave reached the island.

Ryokugyu stopped World’s attack on Sabaody, while Smoker challenged Rob Lucci over whether the new Admiral could replace Bai Yu. World ignored Byrnndi Jack’s warnings and fired another hundredfold cannonball, leaving Bai Yu to watch as World’s strength and age became increasingly apparent.

• Ryokugyu used rapidly growing trees to repel the blast and tsunami threatening Sabaody.
• Smoker asked the battered Rob Lucci whether he still believed Ryokugyu could replace Bai Yu.
• World dismissed Byrnndi Jack’s concerns and declared that he would raze Sabaody even if he had to fight alone.
• World fired another Moa Moa 100x Cannonball toward Sabaody, and Bai Yu judged that World would struggle to make the attack more effective.

Bai Yu considered spending System Points to unlock an unknown system permission while the World Government fought Byrnndi World at sea. World collapsed from exhaustion after his attacks failed, and a dark figure reached him first, declaring that the old era had no ship left to carry it.

• The system offered Bai Yu an unknown permission for fifty thousand System Points, but he had only twenty-nine thousand one hundred and wondered whether to unlock it.
• World fired another accelerated cannonball at the Groseade, but Ryokugyu formed a giant wooden dragon that swallowed and suppressed the blast.
• Byrnndi Jack urged World to retreat, but World threw him aside and tried to fire again.
• World coughed blood and collapsed after exhausting himself with prolonged acceleration and repeated hundredfold attacks.
• A dark figure crossed the sea to World and told him that the old era had no ship left to carry it.

World’s old crew stayed by his side, resolving the misunderstanding that had weighed on him for thirty years, while Bai Yu’s allies arrived to stop Rob Lucci and the Wood Dragon. The rescue left World and his companions facing a new group of powerful young men.

• Rob Lucci attacked the exhausted World, but Sebastian blocked his strike and Nightingale knocked him away.
• Gairam steadied World as Byrnndi Jack and the others explained they had stayed behind thirty years earlier to build his dream ship and had meant to rescue him.
• World realized his crew had never abandoned him, and he wept with joy as they reunited.
• The Wood Dragon lunged at World and the others while Rob Lucci prepared to attack Bai Yu, but Sanji intervened and blocked him.
• Zoro destroyed the thousand-meter Wood Dragon with One Great Three Thousand Worlds and landed beside Bai Yu.
• Sanji and Zoro addressed Bai Yu as their captain, revealing they had come to rescue him and teasing him about pretending to be weak.

Bai Yu revealed himself to World and offered to carry the old era aboard the Groseade, while Marines and former companions reacted to his return. After Tashigi tested her improved swordsmanship against him, Smoker warned Bai Yu that Kizaru stood in his way if he intended to take World.

• Bai Yu removed his mask, offered World a place aboard his ship, and said he wanted the Groseade.
• Tashigi challenged Bai Yu with Kashu Sea Severing, cutting a Sea King in half and tearing only a slit in Bai Yu’s clothes.
• Bai Yu praised Tashigi’s slash and invited Smoker to fight, but Smoker declined and asked whether Bai Yu had come to interfere in the conflict over World.
• Kizaru appeared on a tree extending from Sabaody and said that taking World away would be difficult because he had pledged allegiance to Marine Headquarters.

Bai Yu faced Ryokugyu as Marine Headquarters’ former Admiral and new Admiral prepared to clash, while Rob Lucci tried to turn the Marines against Bai Yu. Fujitora revealed that he had joined Bai Yu, and Ryokugyu formed a giant Wood Dragon as Bai Yu agreed to settle their fight quickly.

• Rob Lucci warned Smoker to support Ryokugyu, but Smoker said he would back the Admiral if needed, and Bai Yu invited the Marines to attack him together.
• Tashigi confronted Rob Lucci over his dirty tactics, while Fujitora emerged and offered to fight Ryokugyu in Bai Yu’s place.
• Byrnndi Jack identified Fujitora as a World Military Draft Admiral candidate, and Fujitora revealed that the Five Elders had known for three days that he had joined Bai Yu.
• Rob Lucci urged Ryokugyu to let him help, but Ryokugyu refused and asked Fujitora why he had chosen Bai Yu over Marine Headquarters.
• Ryokugyu formed a thousand-meter Wood Dragon, and Bai Yu told Fujitora that he would handle the fight himself and end it quickly.

Bai Yu defeated Ryokugyu in an instant and let him live, prompting Ryokugyu to concede and allow Bai Yu’s group to leave. Watching the Marines’ admiration for Bai Yu, Ryokugyu understood why Fujitora had followed him and accepted that he could not replace him.

• Ryokugyu joked with Fujitora about fighting Bai Yu, but Fujitora predicted Bai Yu would win in five moves.
• Bai Yu appeared behind Ryokugyu in a flash and declared the outcome decided; Ryokugyu admitted defeat.
• World explained that Bai Yu’s speed had been too great to follow and said Ryokugyu might have died if Bai Yu had intended to kill him.
• Fujitora told Ryokugyu that Bai Yu was the reason he had chosen to follow him.
• Ryokugyu ordered Smoker and the Marines to withdraw, then conceded wholeheartedly and left for the Sabaody Archipelago on a Wood Dragon.