Alone and Infinite.

Chapter 643 Li Xia's Terrifying Slash
Im's discovery even stirred a sense of panic within him. After observing carefully for a while, he finally confirmed his guess.

The wounds healed at an extremely fast speed, as if they had never been injured, which was very consistent with his immortality.

Did the super soldiers created by the giant kingdom even anticipate this?
Im sat on his throne, his dark red eyes watching the chaotic battle before him. The nineteen kings from eight hundred years ago seemed to have the upper hand and possessed immortality, but in reality, they could only leave shallow damage to their opponents despite their best efforts, and they disappeared without even taking a breath.

He was shrouded in darkness, seemingly as steady as a rock, but in reality, he was starting to panic.

Even Li Xia himself knew that Im must be panicking at this moment. The final boss in this pirate world was completely different from the final enemies he had encountered before. He was cowardly, willful, and easily angered.

If we have to make a comparison, the feeling that Im gave Li Xia was very similar to that of Muzan Kibutsuji.

Immortal, possessing bizarre yet powerful abilities, and absolute control over his subordinates, he can grant them special abilities and regenerative capabilities through 'contracts'.

But—he's as timid as a mouse.

After Muzan Kibutsuji was nearly killed by Yoriichi Tsugikuni, he hid for a hundred or two hundred years before daring to come out. When he saw Tanjiro Kamado, who resembled Yoriichi Tsugikuni, he was so frightened that he hid in an alley and broke out in a cold sweat.

After being beaten up by Joy Boy, Im hid in the flower room at the very back of Pangu City, not daring to go out for eight hundred years. Or, like Muzan, he would secretly possess his subordinates and take a look.

For hundreds of years, they did everything, frantically expanding their ranks and capturing slaves to increase their vitality.

So when Li Xia alone displayed 'overbearing aura surpassing Rocks', 'physical skills stronger than Garp', and 'immortality like himself', plus Im's own imagined 'super soldier of a giant kingdom'.

How could he not panic!

Meanwhile, Li Xia gradually adapted to the siege of the Nineteen Kings. In fact, whether it was the Nineteen Kings or the One Hundred and Ninety Kings, only a few people could attack him at the same time.

There aren't enough attack positions, and with too many people, the offensive moves become less varied, which could lead to friendly fire.

However, these nineteen kings seemed to have been cooperating for a long time. If one attack missed and they lost their position, someone would immediately fill in, making the offensive appear to be continuous, wave after wave.

Once Li Xia gradually adapted, even the minor scratches that could be barely inflicted before no longer remained.

Under Im's increasingly gloomy gaze, the gleaming silver spear moved back and forth beside Li Xia like a dragon emerging from the sea, and amidst a series of dense clanging sounds, it seemed to move with increasing ease and grace.

Even occasionally, with the addition of limb movements, he could send the attacking Nineteen Kings flying.

As the fight progressed, Li Xia frowned. At the current rate, it wasn't impossible to exhaust Im, since the Five Elders and the Knights of God outside also needed life force to sustain themselves.

However, the bodies of the strong in the world of One Piece are inherently strong. In many cases, they can withstand a lot of damage with their own bodies. Only injuries such as severed limbs or penetrating wounds require the use of life force to repair.

Therefore, Im's life force is not declining rapidly, and has only decreased by 70,000 to 80,000 so far. The largest decrease is due to the series of meteors that Fujitora was caught off guard by after Aowu accelerated.

We must find a way!
Li Xia stared directly at Im, his Observation Haki gathering around his body to form a sphere with a radius of about five meters, as he pondered a way to break the deadlock.

But his hands never stopped moving. He flicked his spear to block the slashing sword, and with a very slight tremor, struck the blade.

With a dull thud, the man wielding the knife was unconsciously swayed and slashed at a figure beside him who was about to launch a sneak attack.

With his left hand, he pinched the tip of the sword that was thrusting towards his throat. With a little force, he used the force of the thrust to twist the longsword into his hand, nimbly flipped it around, and used the longsword to slice through the heads of the two people behind him.

At the same time, with a slight exertion of his legs, he leaped into the air, his feet quickly swinging out in mid-air.

One after another, pale white storm kicks detached from his feet, densely engulfing the enemies directly in front of him.

Finally, he kicked his feet hard to the sides of his body, landing squarely on the chests of the two kings. With a series of cracking sounds, they groaned as their chests caved in and they flew off.

Taking advantage of the brief opening in the encirclement, Li Xia suddenly lowered his body.

His coat and hair fluttered, and waves of energy emanated from his feet, while dark red lightning formed by Conqueror's Haki appeared, transmitting immense power from his body to the ground.

With a hiss, the ground seemed to have been struck by something heavy, and large cracks spread out from under their feet, with gravel and soil shooting into the sky with a powerful gust of air.

Although no one knew what Li Xia was doing, the sheer aura he was wielding was terrifying enough.

Im's pupils contracted, and he stood up abruptly:

"Stop him!"

But it was too late; Li Xia swung his spear in an exaggerated manner in front of him.

Buzz————

A white arc of light, wrapped around tiny lightning bolts imbued with Conqueror's Haki, spread outwards from his body like ripples.

It expanded by hundreds of meters in an instant and continues to spread outwards at an extremely fast speed.

The people in the midst of a fierce battle in Mary Geoise were stunned and immediately stopped fighting, looking towards the direction of Pangaea City.

A dark red light flashed in his eyes, and his expression changed drastically as he leaped into the sky.

The instant they jumped off the ground, a white halo flashed past their feet with a buzzing sound.

The rebels reacted extremely quickly, but the Five Elders and the Knights of God, having transformed into monsters, were too large to react immediately. Among the Five Elders, only Saint Nassuro, who had transformed into a centaur, managed to leap up in time, while Saints Grin, Saint Shamrock, and Saint Junko of the Knights of God also leaped up to avoid the ring.

buzzing
Shanks looked down at the ring that had spread out for nearly a thousand meters, his eyes widening as a fine layer of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

Wherever the ring passed, everything seemed to come to an absolute standstill. As the wind blew, it slowly moved away, revealing a smooth, mirror-like fracture.

Everything within a radius of thousands of meters was cut open, including the Celestial Dragons.

"This kind of slash."

Rayleigh and Jabba are both masters of slashing, and Shanks can rival Hawkeye in swordsmanship. Circular slashes and slashes in one direction are not at all the same level of difficulty.

Aokiji landed on the ground, looked around at the city ruins that had been neatly cut in half, and exhaled a chilling breath:
"Hey, you're kidding, right?"

Garp suddenly burst into laughter. Although he didn't know swordsmanship, he had seen pigs run so much that he knew a thing or two.

That last move clearly showed the shadow of his old rival and friend Roger's miraculous evasion.

Sabo, looking at the Five Elders and the Knight of God who had also been sliced ​​open opposite him, suddenly exclaimed in surprise:
"They haven't recovered!"

"That's because their healing was slowed down by their domineering aura. You came here to fight, didn't you know that, kid!" Jabba pushed up his sunglasses with the handle of his axe, grinning as he looked into the distance.
"Looks like that kid's in trouble. This level of slash is no joke—"

"boom!"

With a tremendous crash, a figure shot out of the dust like a cannonball, slid across the ground several times, and rolled, leaving a deep trench in the earth.

The figure was only stopped when the members of the Knights of God, their expressions twisted with terror, rushed forward.

"Lord Im! Lord Im!"

Green knelt on the ground and helped the figure up. The other five elders, who had been cut open but were still alive, were shocked because the one who had been hit like a baseball was Im!

Footsteps echoed from the smoke and dust, and a figure slowly came into focus. An invisible force field seemed to surround him, gently pushing the smoke and dust away.

Li Xia walked back through the dust amidst everyone's stunned silence, and sighed helplessly.

That move he just made was a super-wide-range circular slash created by combining divine evasion with slow-speed slashing, the "Ring of Annihilation".

Because they were enveloped in a large amount of Conqueror's Haki, after being cut open, the nineteen kings were not able to recover as quickly as before.

Li Xia seized the opportunity to rush in front of Im, but he did not expect Im to be so decisive, directly summoning a powerful bomb from the magic book and detonating it.

Now he finally understood the difficulty of defeating Im: it was the 'massive health points' of Im, the nineteen kings dominated by Im's dark transformation, and the power built up by the Five Elders, the Knights of God, and the Navy.

Judging solely from Im's own strength, aside from the black transformation and contract abilities, he is not actually very strong.

Therefore, the tactics must be changed.

As Li Xia pondered, he walked towards his own side, passing through the Five Elders and the Knights of God, yet no one dared to move, watching him leave with unwavering eyes.

Aowu, who was comfortably nestled inside the dragon egg and livestreaming, suddenly burst out laughing at the scene and said to Heitan with a sigh:

"Little cat, think back to the last time we came here, we were on the front lines, standing like lackeys."

"That little girl from the garbage collector just randomly picked two members of the Divine Knights: Garin and Shamrock."

Aowu waved its paw: "That sense of oppression, that despair, they could crush us like ants."

Now, in just a few months, when he returns to pirates, he'll be hands in his pockets, oblivious to what a worthy opponent he is.

Look at the Five Elders and the Knights of God, they don't even dare to make a move!

Is the gap in strength really so large that it's insurmountable?
Aowu and Heitan thought about it and realized it might actually be true.
If Aowu and Heitan felt the changes brought about by their soaring strength, then the rebels felt pure surprise.

"summer!"

Several people gathered around, sized up Li Xia, whose clothes were slightly dirty, and their morale visibly lifted.

Only Shanks, with a worried expression, lowered his voice:

"Did you encounter any problems?"

He was the one who knew Im and the Knights of God the most among them. It was precisely because of this understanding that he was increasingly afraid of Im. Although he had expectations, he always had doubts.

"Yes, there is a problem, but it's not a big one."

Li Xia nodded, watching the Five Elders and the Knights of God kneel before Im, the two sides currently in a delicate halftime state.

He needed time to explain Im's special abilities to others, while Im needed time to allow his body, which had been cut open by Haki, to recover.

"I've pretty much figured out Im's background."

Li Xia's voice was very soft, but it made the powerful figures present hold their breath:
"What he relies on is his immense vitality, and it is this vitality that sustains his, the Five Elders, and the Knights of God's immortal bodies and long lifespans."

The Five Elders are one level higher than the Knights of God. In addition to having indestructible bodies, they generally live for hundreds of years. However, the Knights of God are different; they age and perish.

After Li Xia recounted what he had discovered, the entire battlefield fell silent.

What's even more sinister is that these words were recorded by Aowu's remote microphone, meaning the whole world heard what he said.

The crowd, who had initially just been watching the spectacle, slowly lowered their heads, revealing the origins of the Celestial Dragons' existence, their power to arbitrarily capture slaves, and the truth behind it.

Thanks to the immense vitality accumulated from cannibalism, the holy city of Mary Geoise appears to be situated atop the high red earth, but in reality, it is formed from a dense accumulation of corpses.

What nobility, what creator? It's nothing but a shameless ambush and betrayal by a bunch of lowly people who have realized they are about to lose their noble status and can no longer be superior to others.

On the warships heading towards the Sabaody Archipelago, the marines' breathing grew heavier and heavier, their eyes gradually filled with rage, their hands gripping their guns trembled slightly, and their knuckles turned white from the excessive force.

On each warship were groups of soldiers filled with anger, feeling they had been fooled and deceived.

On the flagship of the Navy Admiral, Sengoku frantically stuffed senbei into his mouth. What Li Xia said was too shocking, even subverting everyone's understanding.

Crane's gaze was unusually calm, but beneath that calm lay a deep worry.

After this statement, if Im loses, that's fine; but if Im wins, the whole world will descend into utter chaos.

People will no longer follow Im's rule, and the flames of rebellion will be ignited throughout the world.

Indeed, once you've seen the light, how can you go back to the darkness?
Until then.
Crane felt a chill run through his body, fearing that the whole world would be shrouded in bloodshed and countless lives would be lost.

Those nations will perish, islands will sink, and the sea will expand further until it swallows up all the land on earth.

卡普
He looked at the stubborn old man standing beside Li Xia, who was still old, but whose body seemed to be burning with an inextinguishable flame.

Is this the kind of monster you want to fight?
Really are.
Hero.

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