Starting with Kengan beating up the Pirate King

Chapter 116 Burning Prison Tiger's Back
Before coming to Elbaf, Guan Yi's worst guess was that Kaido had been captured by the Five Elders and Gringu, and that he had been caught in an even more inescapable trap than the Marine Headquarters.

But Guan Yi never imagined that Kaido would be controlled by Im Black.

After all, Kaido's hometown isn't Elbaf. If Im possessed the ability to control others regardless of their location, she would have already dominated Kaido or Big Mom on Whole Cake Island. She would have become the true ruler of the world long ago and wouldn't have been afraid of Rocks or Laugh Tale.

But the facts are right in front of Guan Yi: they made a huge mistake in their assessment of Im's abilities and paid the price for it!

"There must still be limitations, but is there some kind of triggering condition that we haven't discovered yet?"

Looking at Kaido, whose eyes were filled with increasingly intense crimson malice, Guan Yi sighed inwardly: "I'm sorry, Kaido. We should have acted together. I misjudged the World Government's actions and sent you to Elbaf alone."

"...Kid, are you trying to humiliate me?"

Kaido's voice grew low and dejected as he laughed loudly, "We're allies! You're facing the elite of the Marine Headquarters over there, and if I can't even split up, what kind of allies are we?!"

With a thunderous roar, he slammed his fist into the rock wall, and huge cracks instantly spread out. Amidst the crashing sounds, rubble and debris continued to accumulate on his body, but suddenly a red glow appeared on the right side of the disintegrating rock wall!
“Roger and his gang of bastards were dishonest, or maybe someone else disguised the Poneglyphs on this road sign, but I found it.” He stood up, his massive, blackened form bursting through the cave.

"Go, go to Laugh Tale! Of course, if you have the ability, kill me first!"

"Roar—" A roar that was not human erupted from Kaido's mouth, and the depths of his eyes were gradually replaced by a scarlet luster.

In order to wait for Guan Yi's arrival and to hand over the Road Poneglyph found at the last moment, Kaido endured for half a month with his strong will, but finally fell into the clutches of Im's dark transformation and became a demon who only knew how to kill!

Amidst the impact and explosions, the man-made cave collapsed completely, leaving only a huge red road sign with its historical inscription standing there.

Guan Yi retreated and shot out, looking at Kaido who had completely turned into a demon, flames slowly rising from his body.

[Hit Value +49850]

Is there no hope?

He stepped forward with his left foot, and incandescent flames burst forth from between his knuckles. The scorching flames quickly condensed into a cold, hard, metallic flame shield in front of him, blocking the dark, corrosive dragon breath spewed by the demon Kaido's roar, preventing it from advancing an inch!

At the same time, a crimson-gold wing several hundred meters long suddenly unfolded behind Guan Yi, and in an instant it transformed into countless chains of fire that shot out from all directions, binding Kaido's body.

The blazing flames relentlessly burned away the dark energy emanating from Kaido's scales, causing the demon Kaido to let out a shrill scream. But as that dark power waned, or rather, as his demonic transformation deepened, Kaido's size actually expanded further, revealing even greater power!

puff!puff!puff!
The fiery chains exploded and extinguished, turning into streaks of fire that drifted between heaven and earth. The demon Kaido swung his spiked club backhand, unleashing a thunderous attack with unprecedented intensity, striking Guan Yi with the Thunder Bagua.

The Conqueror's Haki wrapped around it was no longer pure; the part belonging to Kaido had weakened considerably, but the Conqueror's Haki accumulated by Im had become even stronger.

Guan Yi raised his right arm, and flames, flowing cherry blossoms, and Conqueror's Haki intertwined with his flesh, transforming into a massive, molten state of astonishing energy, fiercely clamping down on the smashing spiked club.

Boom! !

The shockwave spread outwards.

The land within a radius of hundreds of miles churned and undulated in an instant, then was wiped out into a vast expanse of sand by the magnificent energy. The spiked club was burned to a glassy color by Guan Yi's flames, and the Conqueror's Haki entangled on it was quickly wiped out and disinfected by Guan Yi!

"I suppose you wouldn't want to live as Im's demon henchman, Kaido."

The flames on Guan Yi's body grew even hotter.

I'm sorry, Kaido, but the last thing I can do is perhaps to help you find peace!

hum-

With a flick of his right arm, Kaido's spiked club was deflected to one side, tearing through the air with a hum. Guan Yi's figure flashed, and his flying kick struck Kaido's chest with a bang. The terrifying force erupted, shattering the demon Kaido's scales, and his massive body arched as he shot into the distance!

……

Rumbling--

The shockwaves from the battle at the top of the sea gradually spread from the underworld to the mortal realm, and the giants living in the western village of the giant race suddenly felt the earth beneath their feet trembling violently.

"what happened?"

"Earthquake?!" "Quickly protect the children!"

At the walrus school, several teachers nervously evacuated the children who were in class. Not far from the school, an elderly man with an ordinary build and wild gray hair tied in a ponytail looked solemn as he gazed toward the underworld.

"This is……"

"Jabbar!" A slender, beautiful giantess rushed over from afar: "Is that Kaido of the Beasts fighting someone? He hasn't left yet?!"

"Ah, that should be right."

Jabba nodded: "Lipley, take good care of Koron and the children, I have to go check on them!"

"...Be careful!"

"Don't worry, I'm a 'Mountain Eater'!"

Jabba laughed loudly, went home, retrieved his two giant axes, and headed towards the underworld.

Skobard Jabba, a former crew member of the Pirate King Roger's ship, is known as the Pirate King's left arm and is a strongman who can compete with Rayleigh for the 'second-in-command' position!
After the Roger Pirates disbanded, he went into seclusion in Laugh Tale, where he married Liple, a giant woman, and they had a son named Koron.

More than half a month ago, the Pirate Emperor Kaido of the Beasts descended upon Elbaf, causing quite a stir in his search for the fourth Road Poneglyph.

He did not show himself because he knew that he was too old to contend with Kaido, a pirate emperor at the peak of his power. His appearance would only bring more trouble. So he entrusted a giant to tell Kaido that the Poneglyphs were in the underworld.

He wasn't lying; he had hidden the historical text on that road sign himself.

He lived in seclusion in Elbaf, precisely to protect the historical text of this road sign!
It's not that I don't want it to be found by others, but I want to witness firsthand the future that Roger has initiated, and see who can obtain it—I will directly tell the location of those he approves of, and let those he doesn't approve of find it in the underworld themselves.

He had guessed that this day would come as soon as the news of the Three Emperors Alliance came.

Collecting all four Road Poneglyphs doesn't guarantee reaching Laugh Tale, and Kaido doesn't seem like the person Roger was waiting for. Jabba simply didn't want the peace of Elbaf to be disrupted. But he never imagined that half a month had passed, and Kaido still hadn't found the Poneglyph and hadn't left?

"Such astonishing Conqueror's Haki... This level is comparable to Roger's! No, perhaps even stronger than Roger's!"

"Who is his opponent? Could it be...?"

As soon as Jabba descended to the underworld through the safe passage, he felt a suffocating aura.

The strong wind tousled his hair. Jaba paused for a moment before running toward the center of the battlefield.

"Is that 'Flame Tiger'? That newly crowned world's strongest already possesses this kind of spirit? Aren't they allies? Why are they fighting..."

As he ran, a series of questions flashed through his mind, until he sensed a familiar yet uncomfortable feeling from Kaido's Conqueror's Haki, at which point his pupils suddenly contracted.

"Could it be that……"

Approaching against the fierce winds, about ten kilometers away from the center of the battlefield, Jabba, who had climbed to the top of the energy crater, saw the enormous figure of the demon Kaido and was shocked.

Has the story of God Valley repeated itself?!
But what shocked him, or rather, what attracted him even more than Kaido, was something else!

Right next to the demon Kaido, a shirtless youth engulfed in flames was ravaging the demon Kaido—yes, ravaging him!

It was almost an unequal battle. Under the watchful eyes of such a powerful figure, Kaido's attacks were almost effortlessly neutralized, while his counterattacks often caused great damage to Kaido!
In a moment of evasion during the fight, Jabba witnessed something even more astonishing.

The young man's back muscles clenched violently as if they were alive, clearly a personified burning tiger's head! The trapezius and infraspinatus muscles formed the glaring tiger's eyes! The stretched latissimus dorsi muscles transformed into the outline of a roaring jawbone! The muscle groups undulating along the spine were like tiger stripes trembling in the wind! With each exertion, sparks of hair flickered between the tiger stripes!
Under the gaze of the 'Burning Tiger's Spine', Jabba, merely staring at it from afar, felt a surge of fear. For the first time, the left arm of the Pirate King had encountered something 'absolutely invincible'!
He instinctively reached for the flask at his waist, only to find that the metal flask was already scorching hot from the battlefield's radiation, and the alcohol inside had already evaporated through the cracks, making it no longer drinkable.

"This is really..."

Without any preparation or precaution, how could the strong of the new era become so powerful?!

The raging flames forced Jabba to retreat, and he slowly shook his head. He couldn't stop this battle, nor could he intervene!
　The next chapter will be later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)