I guarded Impel Down for a hundred years in the pirate world.

Monster! That wretched monster!

At this point, he had no desire to compete with Figo anymore; he only wanted to escape far away!

Amidst a sharp whistling sound from afar, a knife flew swiftly toward them. Demis glanced at it out of the corner of his eye and a hint of surprise appeared on his face. Figo then turned his gaze to the side.

With a clang.

Figo, who had flashed past, gripped the hilt of the knife, freezing the blood-red blade in mid-air. A cry of surprise, belonging to a little girl, emanated from the blade.

Demis, however, was not surprised but delighted.

As Lingxiao's sword intent rose, he swung his blade in a slash.

Another highly condensed white line of sword energy slashed towards Figo's arm holding the knife!

"Ok?"

Figo, who was trying to activate his Armament Haki defense, suddenly found that his Armament Haki was strangely weakened. He was familiar with this feeling. He immediately relaxed his hand and was able to gather Armament Haki again to shatter the sword energy.

The knife quickly ran into Demis's arms and asked, "Grandpa, are you alright?"

“Something’s happened. Grandpa was almost killed by bad guys. Nicole, you have to help Grandpa.” Demis managed a forced smile: “Grandpa knew you wouldn’t ignore Grandpa.”

"You forged the progenitor of this demon race into a sword?" Figo asked.

"Nicole, Nicole, he's a bad guy. Don't believe anything he says." Demis had already thrown his original sword aside and was now gripping the Ancestral Sword tightly with both hands, as if he had grasped at a glimmer of hope.

"Um... Grandpa, Nicole was in so much pain before, and you wouldn't open the door no matter how much I knocked. Nicole really wanted to ignore you," the little girl said coquettishly.

"It's Grandpa's fault. It's Grandpa's fault. But Nicole, just bear with the pain for a little while, and it'll be over. Then Nicole can stay with Grandpa forever." Demis 'confessed his true feelings' to the girl in front of Figo without any concern.

“I remember… you seem to be a bit older than me, over 110 years old, right?”

Figo sighed: "I didn't intend to say anything, but how could the renowned First Sword Saint, whose fame resounds throughout the Eastern Universe Sea, have fallen to this state?"

Demis chuckled dismissively.

Fame is nothing compared to power!

The number one swordsman of the Eastern Universe Sea? You're nothing in the Central Universe. Do you even understand the humiliation I suffered there?!

Holding the Ancestral Sword, he could influence Figo's armor and mind network, giving him a renewed courage to face Figo. Unfortunately, Nicole was not yet fully developed and was still some distance from awakening, so he could only slightly affect the power of the armor and mind network, not completely erase it. Otherwise, he was confident that he could turn the tide of the battle.

Now... we still have to escape.

Jian Fanxing's foundation could no longer be taken care of.

He watched Figo warily as he slowly ascended into the air.

Figo rose to prominence even faster than him!

The giant fist swung down again, and Demis defended with the Ancestral Blade. But as expected, the ability to weaken Figo's power failed to work. The fist still maintained its terrifying power and once again slammed him into the abyss!

"Nicole?! What are you doing?!"

"Grandpa, he... he seems to be with Nicole..." the little girl said hesitantly.

The power of the demon race!

Two purple horns suddenly sprouted from Figo's forehead, silently looking down at Demis.

"You...?!" How could you even imitate demons?!

"Nicole, don't be fooled by him! He's a fake! He's not one of your kind!" Demis cried out in shock and anger as he crawled out of the pit. "Don't hesitate any longer! Do you want to see your grandfather die?!"

"But...but...Nicole's abilities seem to be ineffective against him..."

"...What did you say?!" Demis exclaimed incredulously, "Nicole, don't joke with your grandfather, you are the progenitor of the demon race!"

"It's really not working anymore..."

"Is it really possible?" Figo thought to himself. "The demonic power I awakened through the prison files is not subordinate to the power of the demon progenitor. As long as I am strong, I can suppress the weak... or rather, I am an alternative demon progenitor myself."

This is a good thing.

But for Demis, this robbed him of his last hope. His expression gradually turned deranged as he roared madly, "Stop him!!"

whoosh-

He used all his strength to throw the Ancestral Blade at Figo, a flying knife strike!

Nicole gasped and instinctively obeyed Demis's words. After being blocked, she automatically launched an attack on Figo. The girl, who was not yet used to the blade, attacked clumsily and was caught by Figo in just a couple of moves.

Then Figo raised his sword, pointing the blade towards the sky, and Demis's figure was fleeing into the sky without looking back, moving away from the starry sky!

"Grandpa?" Nicole murmured sleepily.

Figo sighed again.

In the sky, Demis emerged from the planet's protective membrane, about to flee towards a nearby planet and his old friend, when he suddenly paused.

In the distance, a special flying boat with a double-horned skull printed on it is flying rapidly toward Jian Fanxing!

Are they demons?

He hesitated for only a second before his face turned deathly pale. A hand grabbed his ankle and pulled him back into the protective membrane of the Sword Starry Sky Sphere, plunging him from a height of ten thousand meters!

boom--

The earth cracked and the sky collapsed!

In the abyss, Demis watched in despair as Figo charged at him again. Was this retribution?! He made a final struggle, roaring, "Did you see that?! The demons are here! Sword Star needs me! Together! Together!"

Figo's momentum did not stop.

"Are you sympathizing with demons like those naive fools?! Demons, no..."

boom--

The iron fist, imbued with the force of ten million tons, crushed Demis's words! The earth within a radius of hundreds of miles churned and trembled, and the mountain where the Sword God Mountain Dojo was located ultimately could not escape this calamity!

It completely collapsed!

"It has nothing to do with the demon race."

"I'm here to kill you, not because you turned a demon child into a sword spirit, nor because you killed five adventurers from Qinghai."

"I came to kill you simply because, as a swordsman, I'm very unhappy to discover that the number one swordsman of the Eastern Universe is someone like you."

"You are not worthy to lead the Holy Land of Swordsmanship."

The giant foot rolled over his body, his bones healing only to be crushed again. A terrible pain struck, and before his consciousness sank into darkness, Demis heard these words from Figo in his ear.

He glanced at Figo's six-meter-tall frame and well-developed muscles with a dazed look.

As a swordsman? I am not worthy?

You're not worthy!

Chapter 157 The Lock of Power

[Prisoner: Demis]

[Rank: UR4]

[Status: Detained]

Crime Index: 1088

[Participation rate in the arrest: 100%]

[Benefits: Swordsmanship, Forging, Teaching, Star Charting, Infant Care, Physique, Sculpting]

[Character Events: ...]

Although the optional benefits are randomized from the prisoner's abilities, based on Figo's decades of experience, the prisoner's strongest ability is more likely to be randomly selected.

Demis's two abilities to ignite flames—swordsmanship and physique—were randomly selected. Faced with this choice, Figo no longer considered swordsmanship and gave up in despair.

Choose physical fitness!

Physique +177040 → 1920855

Level 6, Starry Night Lamp

The one-tenth increase caused Figo's muscles to swell slightly again, but they quickly recovered under the adjustment of the Body Lamp, restoring his size to about four meters. He then loosened the chains hanging on the hands of the gradually dying Demis and checked his own data in the prison file.

Armament Haki didn't improve, but with the improvement in physique, the original ignition success rate of 71% has increased to 85%. Igniting the second lamp is indeed closely related to the 'brightness' of the first lamp, probably a product of the two percentages?

At that moment, several figures landed one after another not far from Figo, and Ana, who was in the lead, looked at Figo with a slightly different expression than before.

Before the battle just now, she only thought Figo was a troublesome guy and didn't think she might be no match for him, but now, she was a little unsure.

The two sides are not enemies, but the basis for cooperation is very weak. The possibility of the strong and the weak being switched makes her feel insecure. Figo once said, "If she goes too far, I'll beat her to death."

The realism of Kefigo's disguise as a demon made her very 'heart flutter' again.

Can we fool the real demons?

if it is possible……

Never mind, we'll talk about that later.

She cleared her mind of distractions and asked Figo, "The demon race's airship has arrived? Have you been discovered?"

Figo: "Not sure, probably not. Did you light the lamp with your body?"

"Not yet. I can only stay in the vicinity of a nearby planet for a short period of time; if I stay there for too long, I will get lost," Ana answered honestly.

"Roger, go and look after the child." Figo nodded and tossed the Progenitor's Blade to Roger.

Ever since the little girl saw Demis use her to delay Figo so he could escape, she stopped moving and resigned herself to being captured by Roger.

Roger, now relegated to childcare work, smiled helplessly and drew his two swords, Wind and Thunder. The two little sword spirits quickly noticed their new 'older sister' and started chattering away.

Nicole, the progenitor of the sword, seemed to have regained some vitality.

Roger thought for a moment and said to his companion, "I plan to go back to Qinghai and stay for a few years. The Star Sea is too vast. In more than ten years, we have only superficially visited a few dozen landmark planets. We have learned a lot of random things, but we have not had time to study them in detail. We should seriously cultivate for a while."

We are still a long way from venturing into the central universe.

Jabba agreed: "I had the same idea. Let's go back and light the lamps first."

Some people were a little sad: "Captain, this time when I go back, I may not come out again. This time, I... have been a bit of a burden to everyone. I'm getting old and can't keep up anymore."

Roger fell silent.

This is a very real problem. Not everyone has the talent to explore the stars. In the Star Sea, SR4 and SR5 are already powerful forces.