One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

Suddenly, Vidruwe heard the sound of wind behind him, his face changed abruptly, he turned around and swung out with both palms, and with a "bang" sound, they hit the mace that the young man was smashing at him. The two of them were shocked at the same time and jumped back.

"..."

Vidruvi said nothing, glancing at the hole he had just smashed. Ripples were rippling around the figure lying inside, slowly becoming transparent and gradually disappearing. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, "I see. So that's how it is. Did the afterimage left behind by the hit make me think he was knocked down?"

"Although I don't know what I did to you before, you hit me hard just now."

Kaido wiped the remaining blood stains from the corners of his mouth, knocked on his chest, making a "clang clang" sound of metal knocking, and smiled with a little effort, "If I hadn't used the armed color to defend in time, I might have been on the way to the Sanzu River!"

"I have to admit that your current awareness is completely different from before. This is why your death was delayed by a few minutes."

As if recognizing his former subordinate, Vidruwe clapped his hands gently, then took a step from his left foot to his right foot, with his toes pointed inward. He bent his right elbow in an arc and slowly pulled it back in front of his left shoulder, with his little finger slightly tilted upward. He twisted his upper body half a circle to the right, put his five fingers together on his left hand, with his palm facing up, and his half-smile seemed to carry a hint of melancholy. "After this battle, your shadow will probably remain in my heart forever."

"It's not like you to say something that's impossible to achieve."

Kaido swung the mace in a circle, and the surface of the pure white stone stick was covered with a layer of dark domineering. He held the mace tightly in both hands and held it upright in front of his chest. He lowered his waist and half-crouched, with his back straight, and said in a deep voice, "It's time to make a break, the army commander of the Woka Kingdom, no! The government's running dog, Vidruwe!"

The two stood quietly on the ground, staring at each other intently, forming a confrontation, waiting for an opportunity to find the other's flaws. For a moment, the only sound around them was the sound of rain falling on the ground.

While observing Vidruwe's every move, Kaido recalled an incident that happened half a year ago.

"Too slow, kid!"

"Eh?"

On an open space above the skull on Beehive Island, before Kaido could swing the iron rod in his hand, Newgate stepped in front of him, flipped his naginata, and slapped Kaido's face with the back of the blade, causing him to fly back a distance and fall heavily to the ground.

Newgate pointed the blade at his head and said coldly: "With your current abilities, you are still a hundred years away from challenging Rocks!"

"Bastard!"

Kaido struggled to raise his upper body, touched his swollen right cheek with his hand, and shouted in shock and anger, "What happened? It's as if you saw through my every move in advance!"

"It's not like it's true, it's definitely true."

Newgate put his naginata back and said calmly, "Observation Haki can easily sense the opponent's movements. I'm sure you know this basic common sense."

"When one's Observation Haki is cultivated to a certain level, one can even foresee the short future. You have seen this before."

Kaido opened his eyes wide, listening to his last words in a daze, recalling the surprise attack launched by Newgate on Hilluk on the ship that day, and seemed to understand something in an instant.

"Hey, you want to ask me how I reached this level?"

The sudden question startled Kaido, and he asked hesitantly, "How do you know..." He stopped talking halfway, his face slightly red.

"Gulala! You have a shy side too!"

Newgate looked at his expression and couldn't help laughing. There was no malice in his voice. After a while, his laughter gradually died down. He turned around and said calmly: "Since you have persisted in challenging me, I will share some of my experience with you, but you have to buy me a good drink."

After saying that, he jumped off the cliff without looking back, leaving the young man sitting there at a loss.

As the bean-sized raindrops fell on the tip of his nose, Kaido's mind returned to the present again. His eyes were fixed on the enemy who was ready to attack, and his gaze never left him for a moment.

——Forget everything around you and feel the other person's breath with all your heart and soul... That guy Newgate, it's easy to say, but it's not that easy to do!

——But I don’t know what happened, although it was very short, I seemed to gradually feel which direction the opponent would attack from.

Suddenly, thunder resounded through the sky, and lightning flashed like dancing dragons, shuttling between the dark clouds and illuminating the entire sky like day.

Almost at the same time, two figures jumped up from the ground and rushed forward.

Their speed is faster than lightning.

"Six Styles: One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Swimming Bagua Palm!"

"Jundali·Long Shengjun!"

Two thunder-like sounds of breaking through the air overlapped together, the azure blue and dark purple light reflected each other, countless sparks splashed in a moment, and the two figures were like ghosts, constantly flashing and jumping, leaving a trail of afterimages on the ground.

Vidruvi ran quickly, his feet following the eight trigrams, and spun around Kaido's body, moving forward and backward, turning left and right, trying to dazzle the opponent, and when the opponent stopped turning, he would take the opportunity to attack his vital parts. There were many famous pirates with over 100 million in assets, but they all fell under his trick.

After several rounds of fighting, Kaido slowly figured out some clues. He swung his mace tightly to protect his vital parts and prevent the opponent from taking advantage of the opportunity. At the same time, he kept changing his steps, moving back and forth in the palm wind, avoiding more than 80 backhand palms, turning around and swiping away with a club. Vidruvi leaped up, his whole body spinning like a spinning top, and fell straight down while keeping the spinning posture, upside down, and attacked more than 30 palms in one breath, each of which set off a fierce wind.

Faced with such a swift attack, Kaido raised his mace high and spun it rapidly, making a whirring sound, turning it into a huge windmill, colliding with Vidruvi's endless palm power. Thick and long lightning shot out, raging in the air with its fangs and claws, sweeping across the nearby mountains, leaving a criss-crossing series of cracks.

Seeing that he could not break through the defense in a short time, Vidruve became more and more anxious. He rolled over and jumped away, stomped his feet on the air and leaped up, flying in the air as fast as a meteor, leaving a series of tracks in an instant.

Through the combination of Moon Step and Shave, not only can the speed reach a level that cannot be captured by the naked eye, but also high-speed movement can be performed anywhere. This amazing skill is currently mastered by only Vidruvi in ​​CP0.

On top of that, he could easily block his own aura. Even opponents who were good at observation Haki would hardly be able to detect his presence, which was quite useful in assassinations. With this, he quickly climbed to the second position of CP0.

Therefore, he has such an alias within the government.

"Silent" Vidruvi. As the name suggests, it approaches the target silently and takes the opponent's life silently.

Of course, nothing is perfect. Vidruvi's breath blocking is not without weaknesses, but so far, no one has been able to find its flaws.

However, not everything is static.

Just like a donkey that usually carries salt but one day changes its load to carry cotton, and when it falls into the river, it is no longer as light as before, but sinks deeper and deeper.

Kaido noticed that he had lost track and even the sound of movement could not be heard. He stopped turning the mace in his hand and slowly closed his eyes.

It was quiet in the darkness, as if time had stopped flowing. Kaido stood there, concentrating and calmly feeling the moment when the other party's breath was revealed.

Suddenly, a grey outline vaguely appeared in the field of vision, turned three circles, and slapped his back six times in a row. The series of actions were as fast as lightning and it was impossible to defend against them.

This did not happen at the moment, but was a sneak attack launched by Vidruwe five seconds later when Kaido was caught off guard.

This scene only existed in Kaido's mind for 0.5 seconds, but for him, the amount of information revealed in this short time was enough for him to quickly counterattack.

——Does that mean that at the moment of attack, his hidden aura will be exposed? Exactly!

He slowly exhaled a puff of mist and placed the mace on his left shoulder with both hands. The black and purple domineering aura flickered and jumped on the mace, making a crackling sound.

"Thunder gossip!"

With a roar that shook the world, the mace swept out with overwhelming force, surging like a raging sea. Suddenly, a green light flashed, and it disappeared after colliding with the oncoming mace in an instant, leaving a few scattered pieces of clothing and sticky blood on the mace.

Then, a slightly turbid breathing sound came from his side.

"Huh...Huh...You saw my movements clearly..."

Vidruvi leaned against the rock wall, touching his bruised chest and gasping for breath. Fine beads of sweat slid down his cheeks. The long period of blocking his breath caused his domineering spirit to be rapidly depleted. He was only grazed by the stick that Xing Ruting had hit him with just now, and his breathing became extremely disordered, and he felt as if his internal organs were about to turn over.

Despite this, he forced a smile on his pale face, as if he was the one laughing last.

"You are the first and last man to see the essence of Baguazhang. I'm afraid that even with that small fleet, it won't be able to stop Rocks. Before that, I will ruthlessly annihilate you!"

Kaido remained calm, holding the mace across his chest, and said in a cold voice: "I should be the one to say this! You'd better roll into the grave of the old times! You're a puppet with almost no self-awareness!"

As if slightly touched, Vidruvi's expression changed subtly, and only a moment later he showed a bitter smile again, "...You are so harsh with your words."

He paced forward a few steps, crossed his chest with his left palm facing upwards, stretched his right foot to the right side of his body, pointed his left toe inward, bent his left knee and half-crouched, and extended his right foot forward in line with the movement trajectory of his right leg. A Tai Chi Bagua pattern appeared under his feet, spinning rapidly in a clockwise direction.

At the same time, his eyes became colder than ice.

"Six Styles? The Secret of the Swimming Eight Diagrams Palm? The Dance of the Swimming Dragon."

In a flash, surging air waves surged up around him, wrapping him up, and transformed into a pale blue dragon that circled into the air, glaring at the ground below with its claws and teeth bared, as if it was demonstrating to its enemy.

Kaido showed no fear when he suddenly saw such a huge monster. He grinned and said, "This is quite impressive. I will practice a similar move someday!"

"That's only if you can survive this battle, kid!"

With a low and melodious dragon roar, the blue dragon swooped down and grabbed Kaido's head. Kaido dodged to the left, but the claw turned several arcs in the air. Kaido's pupils suddenly contracted, and he blocked his chest with the mace. With a loud bang, the dragon's claws hit Kaido's mace heavily. Kaido felt a huge force rushing towards him, and the whole person flew backwards.

In a flash, Kaido aimed his foot at the wall of a rock mountain and stomped heavily on it. Circles of cracks suddenly exploded on the surface of the wall. With the help of the reaction force, Kaido rushed forward again like an arrow, holding the mace high in both hands, spinning at high speed with unparalleled momentum, dragging a long lightning, and smashing it down hard at the oncoming dragon.

"Descend to the third world? Lead to Naraku!"

In an instant, the sky burst into dazzling light, the purple thunder dragon and the blue dragon intertwined and shuttled past each other, and the surrounding air was distorted by the collision of these two powerful waves.

"Well!"

The dragon's sharp claws rubbed Kaido's left shoulder like lightning. Kaido's body trembled violently, and he struggled to stabilize his body in mid-air and fell back to the ground. He endured the severe pain and turned his head to look at his injuries. He saw a deep bloody scratch on his shoulder, and his entire left arm had lost sensation and was completely unable to move freely. He couldn't help but frown.

——After changing into that form, can he seal the opponent's acupuncture points no matter how he attacks? His strength and speed are also on a different level than before. He is indeed the man who once defeated me!

However, what he didn't know was that Vidruwe was also in a bad condition. Although he had hit the acupuncture points on Kaido's shoulder, he had paid a heavy price for it. He turned into a giant dragon, and blood kept flowing from his forehead. His chest seemed to have been hit by a heavy hammer, and he immediately vomited a large mouthful of gastric juice, feeling shocked and angry.

——Impossible! The kid was clearly conscious, his domineering aura couldn't be that strong! Could it be that he hadn't fully recovered from being drunk, so the effect of the enhanced domineering aura was still there?

In fact, Vidruwe was only half right. When Kaido was drunk, the increased domineering aura was slowly integrated into every part of his body, making him stronger than before. This was inseparable from his special bloodline and his monster physique that was different from ordinary people.

Of course, Kaido himself doesn't know about this. This ability is not innate, but was awakened by chance one year after he left the Woka Kingdom. Vidruwe naturally couldn't know this.

Kaido took a deep breath and poured some of his domineering energy into his shoulder, actually breaking through the acupuncture points that had been pressed. Although there was still some numbness and soreness, his left arm could move again.

"Only this time, I have no reason to lose."

Kaido held the mace tightly with both hands and placed it flat in front of his chest. The purple-black domineering aura gathered on the shaft of the mace, and his eyes became extremely firm. "Let's decide the winner with this move."

No longer confused, he only understood one thing at this moment, that is, he must make a break with the man in front of him in order to climb to a higher place.

"Arrogant."

The blue dragon soared into the sky like a cloud, hovering in the clouds, looking down at everything below with cold eyes, "It was destined from the first time we met that your fangs will never be able to touch me. Now I will also engrave this impression in your brain forever."

Before he finished his words, the dragon spun around, transformed into a blue storm, swooped down towards the ground, and opened its bloody mouth as if it wanted to swallow the young man into its stomach.

All of a sudden, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, which was so painful that he could hardly bear it. He stretched out his claws and covered his chest tightly.

——Oops! The place where I was hit by that little devil before has left a hidden wound!

His movements revealed a slight flaw at this moment, and his body twitched inadvertently. At the same time, Kaido's mace swung out violently.

"Mingdy!"

A dazzling purple beam of light shot up into the sky amid roars, like a bolt of thunder striking the sky. Caught off guard, Vidruvi was hit head-on. The beam of light burst out from his back and continued to fly into the air, creating a huge hole in the dense dark clouds.

It started raining again, and it was raining blood.

The blue dragon's body shrank rapidly, returning to its original human form, and fell to the ground like a kite with a broken string.

Looking up at the figure in the sky that was getting closer and closer to him, Kaido's eyes flashed with a sense of relief that he had never felt before.

I once felt that even your back was out of reach, but now I will eventually surpass you.