The FIVE-WAY Battle of God Valley Revealed! One Piece Chapter 1160 Full Spoilers!

In the previous One Piece chapter, we learn of how the God Valley Incident began, of Shakky’s kidnapping, the death of Shanks’ mother and Rocks’ real name.

One Piece Chapter 1160 is titled, “The God Valley Incident”.

This chapter has 17 pages.

It is finally here!

Now on Volume 42 of the Oni Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, we see Yamato visit Oden’s shrine located above the Flower Capital.

The Buccaneer Joy Boy is Davy D. Jones?

The chapter begins where the last one ended when the master of ceremonies among the Celestial Dragons brings out around nine members of the Davy Clan to the stage, with young Teach and his mother being two of them.

Teach’s mother resembles Nico Robin and her mother Olvia but with messy light-colored hair.

Could this imply that Robin has some ties to God Valley?

Considering how similar God Valley’s erasure from history was, perhaps Blackbeard can find a kindred spirit in Robin somehow.

Two of the Davy men among them were quite large.

Garling and Saturn stand together, which makes sense considering Garling is the commander of the Knights of God.

The Celestial Dragons among the audience jeer and throw knives and axes on the Davy Clan slaves, saying the Davy Clan are a despised lineage.

One of the Celestial Dragons even said that the Davy Clan might be Buccaneers too.

With two large men present and Blackbeard’s unique biology, this might as well be confirmed.

While kid Teach looks terrified, his mother protects him from all the thrown objects.

The master of ceremonies warns them that there will be penalties for killing the “rabbits”.

Imagine the worth of a human life is on the line depending on their point value for a game.

This is a less fashionable version of Squid Games anyways.

Saturn praises Garling for finding the Davy Clan and we see that unlike his older self, Garling is more respectful here, saying that it was “fate” that he found them.

Indeed, Shanks is a child of fate and Garling found the Davy Clan here.

Is it also possible that Garling actually had a child with a Davy Clan member after all?

It is one thing that Garling killed the woman because of her low status but what if he is hiding a bigger societal shame of having relations with a Davy woman.

Perhaps this is all the work of fate, in the island of fate.

The Straw Hat Culture

One of the large Buccaneer Davy Clan members was shown wearing a straw hat.

A large straw hat, just like the frozen one found in Mary Geoise kept frozen by Imu.

We discussed a bit about the possibility of Davy Jones being Joy Boy in the spoiler clarifications but now we have a lot more proof here.

First, we must consider that we have almost undeniable proof that, at the very least, Joy Boy was a Buccaneer.

In Emet’s flashback, we see that Joy Boy was smaller than the Iron Giant, who was around the size of an Ancient Giant.

When compared to Luffy, Joy Boy was clearly much bigger than Luffy.

Of course, there are large humans like Whitebeard and Big Mom but with the association between Buccaneer and high crimes, like with the gargantuan, island-bearing elephant Zunesha’s penance, it could mean that Joy Boy is the reason why the Buccaneer race was condemned.

The Straw Hat is recognized by the audience as a symbol of resistance unknown to the oppressors (like the One Piece flag used in real life).

Reversi as Principle

Like with Loki and Rocks, Oda is performing a giga-brain level of inversion for the story, where the most wicked villains with heinous crimes actually did not even go that far or without care.

Both men follow a ruthless philosophy of might makes right but have the capability to care for others, with Rocks sacrificing himself for his wife and son.

Elbaph seems to be consistently about role reversal, with the literal “Domi Reversi” ability Imu uses on the Giants to turn them into Demon-Giants, of Loki and Rocks being the most hated villains of Elbaph and the world respectively becoming the saviors of their specific situations.

Davy Jones is said to be a wicked pirate who is cursed to wander the depths of the sea, collecting ships and anything downed to the sea belonging to him.

Such a curse by the sea makes him a Devil hated by the sea.

Yet Imu is the user and ironically praises demons as the ultimate lifeform.

However, Imu also fears the D, a “Devil” like Davy and Joy Boy and does everything to suppress their religious ideology of freedom, the Sun God Nika.

With Loki’s character in the Elbaph Arc, we might see the marriage between these two seemingly opposing branches, like an ecumenism of One Piece’s secret religion.

Bartholomew Kuma was a priest of Joy Boy serving the Sorbet Kingdom.

Like Jesus in real life, he held three offices: priest, prophet and king but more literally.

As a priest, he healed the sick

As a prophet, he joined the Revolutionaries.

As a king, he ruled Sorbet Kingdom for a time.

Here we have Blackbeard, the heir of Xebec and Davy Jones’ ideology.

Two distant relatives of the same Buccaneer race holding a cherished belief in fate from different sources might have the same one all along.

Counter-Argument

However, there are also as many in the fandom who refuse to see Joy Boy being the same man as the ancestor of Ace’s killer, Blackbeard.

And the answer lies in the same clue that could confirm Jones is Joy Boy, the Buccaneer with the Straw Hat.

A Straw Hat being worn by one Buccaneer could also represent a hidden counterculture in the Davy Clan.

After all, Xebec identifies himself as a worshiper of Davy Jones, his ancestor.

What if this Straw Hat wearer worships Joy Boy or even Sun God Nika?

By wearing the Straw Hat, he would be standing out from the rest of his crew but also at the same time, show the Celestial Dragons the face of their most feared enemy.

Being Davy and being Buccaneer are taken as two different things.

In Kuma’s flashback, the Buccaneer race was condemned for committing heinous crimes, likely due to their association with Joy Boy.

Here, the Davy Clan are condemned 

This is both an argument and counterargument: the argument being that Joy Boy and Jones are the same person and reason why both the clan and race are condemned and the counter being that to make both classes distinct.

But to be clear, not all Davy Clan members are confirmed Buccaneers nor are all Buccaneers exclusively from the Davy Clan.

It is most likely confirmed that Blackbeard and Xebec are Buccaneers due to their unique bodies, just like with Kuma.

After all, where else did Blackbeard get his body from if not his powerful father?

Jaguar D. Saul was not a Giant of Elbaph but only moved there after surviving the Ohara Incident 22 years ago and he viewed the Elbaph Warriors as barbarians.

Perhaps the same schism can be seen in the Buccaneer race.

The Bartholomew Family are worshippers of Nika while the Davy or Rocks Family worship Davy Jones.

However, remember what Elbaph’s mythos is all about: the question of whether Nika is a liberator or destroyer.

Luffy’s path proves he is actually both but not in the most direct way.

He destroys to liberate from the broken system but liberates by his own will and not for some grander cause or fate.

This question that is central to Elbaph’s themes fits not only Loki and Xebec but even Joy Boy.

What if he was actually Davy D. Jones, the “devil” and “destroyer” of the system, and the name of the “dawn” and “liberator” is Joy Boy?

God’s Loyal Blade

We spend 5 full pages dedicated to the atrocities on God Valley

We see Shanks and Shamrock’s mother saying her last words to Dragon.

She says she will not make it but she prays that her children will be raised by someone with a warm heart, so she begs Dragon not to let Garling, their father, have the boys.

And she dies without us the audience ever seeing her face at all, just like how the boys will never know their mother’s face at all.

Dragon expresses his wish to save the children or else he would not live with himself.

Indeed, one part of this promise would be fulfilled.

Shanks would be adopted by the kindhearted Gol D. Roger and his crew.

Dragon will eventually put one of the boys in the chest while Garling fights against the Rocks Pirates.

However, Shamrock will end up back to his father, being a reflection of his younger crueler self.

We go back to the tournament and the announcer declares the 13 “Super Rare Rabbits” worth 10,000 points, with them being Teach, his mother and 9 other Davy Clan members.

There are 150 “Rare Rabbits” and the announcer gives the citizens an hour headstart to run.

One of the super rare rabbits is the young Buccaneer Kuma himself, who is running.

Some citizens say they should survive the 3 weeks while others suggest escape.

Both routes lead to death either way.

A woman begs for the Celestial Dragons to not kill her husband.

One family is hiding behind rocks but their baby is crying.

This leads one Celestial Dragon to shoot them dead.

The Celestial Dragons still on Mary Geoise are watching the tournament from large screens with Projection Den Den Mushi.

Meanwhile, we see Garling flexing like he did in Chapter 1096, with all the swooning female Celestial Dragons in tow.

Two Celestial Dragons bring up Garling and Shepherd as the top contenders.

A new Celestial Dragon family has been namedropped: the Babetto (Babette) Family.

This brings the total families revealed to 12 identified Celestial Dragon families, meaning we might possibly have 12 of the First Twenty, counting the Nefeltaris who left the Holy Land.

We see Gunko appear, using her Aro Aro no Mi to kill runaway civilians swiftly and easily.

We see her name here as: “God’s Loyal Blade” Saint Gunko of the Manmayer Family.

The moniker could represent her strong connection to Imu, the God of this world.

In Japanese, the kanji used for her moniker is a pun that can sound like “God’s Prisoner”, representing Gunko’s status as a pawn, a vessel to be possessed by Imu.

The Marines seem enamored by Shakky’s beauty, seeing Garling as the fated winner.

The Revolution has Begun!

A young, beardless Sommers chases after a clings to a tree, kicking the tree to make him fall and using his Iba Iba no Mi as a cushion when he does drop down.

The boy’s father begs for the Celestial Dragon to spare him and rushes to catch the boy but we do not see if they do.

Sommers seems to be the type to create tragic stories for his amusement, befitting his twisted philosophy on love.

Meanwhile, Dragon rushes into the Native Hunting Tournament and worries that if he directly defies the Celestial Dragons, his whole battalion will be killed for one cadet’s insubordination.

The Marines on his battalion’s ship are looking for him.

Then, Dragon sees Kuma and Ivankov talking about escaping from the game, like in Chapter 1096 and then he sees a Celestial Dragon about to shoot Kuma for the 10,000 points, so Dragon shoots at that Celestial Dragon first with a tranquilizer dart to save Kuma. 

The start of a lifelong friendship and Kuma might not have known about this.

Suddenly, there was an explosion on the south coast of the island.

The Players Arrive

The Rocks Pirates finally arrive on God Valley, with this scene taking place before the one we saw in Chapter 1096: “Kumachi”

Ochoku avoided going to God Valley, making the excuse that he will protect the Island and keep every other Pirate from entering Shakky’s bar.

Last chapter, we confirmed that he was the traitor who sold out Shakky to the Celestial Dragons.

To keep his rowdy crew from infighting, Xebec states their three priorities: Shakky, Treasures and Devil Fruits and they will split the loot fairly.

Barbel asks how they are going to split Shakky up since she is one woman.

Shiki says that Shakky will obviously fall for the guy who helps her the most, so everyone competes for Shakky’s rescue, including Newgate, who says he will do this as a friend but he would not mind her falling for him.

Gloriosa says that if she rescues Shakky, she wonders if Roger will thank her, which makes Gloriosa look bad since Shakky is her friend and she cried when she got kidnapped.

But then again she is saying this in front of the ruthless Rocks Pirates, so this is definitely not her main motivation.

Meanwhile, Linlin and Kaido are only thinking about Devil Fruits, with Kaido revealing Linlin actually promised him one.

This flashback is furthering their sibling-like bond since Kaido is just begging for favors from her and Newgate like a little brother.

But now, more trouble comes in the form of the Roger Pirates in a scene that takes place after their introduction in 1096.

Roger commands his men to get the treasures while he goes for Shakky but instead, they trample on him and take care of the rescue.

The Marines think this is the end of the world as two of the most infamous pirate crews have appeared.

Amidst this chaos, Dragon manages to rescue the twin babies and is surprised to see that when they woke up, they were not crying.

Seems Garling was too busy to have someone take care of his future heirs.

Knights of God Revealed

We now see the Knights of God all gathered to protect the Celestial Dragons.

What was a panel in Chapter 1096 is now a full page, revealing the six total members of the order.

Figarland Garling is obviously their leader, alongside Shepherd Sommers and the Manmeyer woman.

Gunko is not among them, only acting as an overseer.

We see two new members:

The first one is a huge creature similar to a yeti with horns and wings. 

The second one is a big woman with horns, sharp fangs and black/white messy hair. She wore sunglasses and smoked a cigar. This woman looked a lot like Killingham but we don’t know yet if they are related. 

The chaos worsens as we see Garp’s fleet arrive, with Garp throwing cannonballs at the pirates.

Editor’s Note: “The legends have assembled!!!”

One Piece will be on break next week.

This means we will not see the actual battle but have spent all this time building suspense and setup.

One Piece Chapter 1161 will be released on September 29, 2025.

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