One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

"Hahaha! Can you keep up with my speed?"

Before the laughter died down, Shiqi's figure disappeared from the spot, turning into a series of afterimages, moving quickly in the air like a ghost, forming a tight encirclement, tightly covering Newgate in the middle.

Newgate did not move at all, standing quietly in the same place, his face as calm as ever, allowing the enemy's figure to sway back and forth around him.

He has more combat experience than most people on the sea.

If you know this situation and become impatient, you will be easily affected by your opponent's rhythm and be completely manipulated by him.

After all, that idiot whose mind was filled with only the word fighting fell into the enemy's trap so easily, forcing him to go for support.

However, the responsibility is not entirely his.

The enemy is performing an ultra-high-speed movement that constantly changes positions, and can even quickly switch between the entity and the clone, making it difficult to capture him using the Observation Haki.

There are probably only three or four people in the world who can master such skills.

There is only one way to crack this trick.

The sonic boom caused by Ski's flashing figure kept ringing in his ears, but Newgate seemed not to hear it. He raised his right hand as if nothing had happened and grabbed the air in the sky.

Wow!

A sound of glass breaking rang out from the air, and the space began to vibrate violently. With the position where Newgate's five fingers were pulling as the center, thin cracks spread rapidly around like a spider web, and the residual images of the places they touched dissipated like smoke. Suddenly, a golden light flashed, and a figure rose into the air at lightning speed, stagnating in mid-air, looking down proudly at the opponent who had not given him any advantage.

At the same time, the remaining afterimages disappeared one by one, leaving no trace.

"You reacted quite quickly. I thought that blow could have hurt you more or less." Looking up at the figure in the sky, Newgate could not help but exclaim in admiration, and his tone seemed to reveal a hint of regret for the enemy.

"Use a large-scale vibration to crush all my clones in one go? Do you have a way, Newgate?"

The proud trick was shattered in an instant. There was no resentment on Shi Ji's face. Instead, he was so excited that he couldn't express it in words. His hands began to tremble slightly.

It's like a child passing by a shop window and seeing his favorite toy, and he feels an unprecedented sense of excitement.

——How long has it been since I was so excited? Even the second-in-command has such ability, and the one who can make him willingly submit must be an even more remarkable person.

——I’m becoming more and more interested in you, Rocks!

——Let me give you a good understanding of the true power of the "Floating Fruit"!

Holding his beloved swords "Kuroki" and "Sakura Ten" respectively, Shiki spread his arms, drew a semicircular arc upwards, and raised them high in the air.

The surrounding mountains shook violently, but this time they did not collapse into rubble. Instead, they twisted and deformed visibly, turning into lifelike rock lions with intricately carved hair, wild eyes flashing with brilliance, and hideous faces. They raised their hooves and crawled forward, and each step they took created a deep pit, accompanied by a deafening roar, which gradually surrounded Newgate in the core.

Glancing at the rock lions that were watching eagerly, Newgate's face showed no emotion as he asked calmly, "This is the highest application of the Devil Fruit, the awakening of the fruit, right?"

"Hahahaha, you have quite a wide range of knowledge!"

Shiki pointed the blade of the "Deadwood" at the man trapped in the center by the rock lions, and a sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "In just a moment, I will send you to a scenic spot called hell!"

"Lion Power? Earth Scroll!"

Following his order, countless giant rock lions roared earth-shakingly, like the roars of evil spirits from the underworld, shaking the entire island and sweeping towards Newgate with overwhelming momentum.

In an instant, the group of rock lions swallowed the man's body like a raging tsunami, shrinking and squeezing inwards madly, forming a huge rock mass with every seam fitted together, like a towering mountain standing on the earth.

All the creatures sucked in seemed to be crushed into meat paste, and no sound was heard anymore.

In a moment, dense cracks appeared on the surface of the rock, and beams of dazzling white light shot out from the cracks.

Immediately, the entire rock mass was blasted into countless pieces by the vibration force coming from within, and broken rocks of varying sizes were ejected in all directions.

Newgate's figure stood majestically in the bright light. There was not a speck of dust on the corners of his clothes fluttering in the wind, and there was not a trace of blood on his body.

The next moment, his feet cracked the ground, and he shot up into the sky like a white lightning, constantly shuttling and jumping among the rubble floating in the air, rushing towards Shiqi's position.

"I have some skills! But it's a pity that there is much more to it than that!"

Seeing Newgate effortlessly break through the group of stone lions and rush towards him, Shiqi became even more excited and snapped his right fingers.

In the sky as dark as night, dark clouds seemed to be under invisible pressure and quickly gathered towards the center, gradually condensing into one five-hundred-meter-high lion head after another, covering the entire Baihu Island. With great oppression, they stared at everything on the earth fiercely, as if they were ferocious beasts that broke free from their chains and escaped from the underworld. Their dull roars sounded continuously in the sky like thunder.

"The power of the lion? Imperial palace scroll!"

When all the lions heard Shiqi's cry, they opened their bloody mouths and roared through the sky, rushing downwards with an overwhelming force, as if they wanted to devour everything in the world.

In front of the mighty lion group, Newgate's figure was as small as a grain of sand.

However, his face revealed a cheerful smile that he had never seen before.

The dark domineering aura was poured into his favorite sword, "Kurokumo-Kiri". A circle of shining white light was wrapped around the blade, and black lightning was dancing wildly.

The armament color, domineering color and fruit ability merge into one like flowing water, becoming one and harmonious in an instant.

The naginata slashed horizontally from left to right.

The earth-shaking roar came to an abrupt end, and the surging lion group seemed to be split in half by a sharp sword. The violent air waves spread to both sides, forming two strong wind pressures, twisting and tumbling like a tornado, sweeping in all directions with a whistling sound like a storm, and the surrounding air became distorted, as if the space could not withstand the impact of this force.

Dense cracks spread outward wildly from the forehead of each lion, breaking into pieces like a water ball exploding, and turning into water droplets pouring down from the sky.

Newgate shot straight up like an arrow, and its high speed did not slow down at all.

"Interesting! Your desire to destroy you is extremely strong! Let this move decide the winner!"

Shi Ji's expression had reached a point of near madness. He held the famous sword high in both hands, and the lightning roaring in the clouds gathered on the sword.

"Golden Lion King Slash!"

In an instant, Shiki's whole body was wrapped in dazzling golden light. The golden waves lingered on the blade, continuously extending forward, and condensed into two giant light blades about ten meters long.

Immediately, he stomped his feet hard into the air, causing a series of sonic booms. He swooped down like a golden lion with the force of thunder. The light blade in his hand chopped down with unparalleled power. Even if there were thousands of troops in front of him, they could not stop his attack.

"Well done!"

Newgate shouted, and the white light surrounding the blade became brighter. Black waves spread out, blasting up into the sky in circles, causing holes to appear in the clouds ahead.

This is the most powerful attack he has ever used since he became a pirate!

The golden and white lights approached each other rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, the distance between them was reduced to only one meter.

"Hahahaha! Go to hell!"

"It's you who should fall!"

Accompanied by two roars of unyielding momentum, the naginata and the light blade flashed with their own beliefs and slashed towards each other with a fatal blow, and were about to collide in the next second.

In just a breath of time, a loud laugh that was both arrogant and generous suddenly rang out.

"Hahahaha! Let me get in on the fun too!"

In an instant, a pitch-black figure came rushing over at lightning speed, like a meteor, flashing between the two of them, pulling the thick scarlet electric current with both hands, punching outwards to the left and right, and stopped before making contact with their weapons.

At this moment, time seemed to stand still.

Pitch-black lightning exploded with a loud bang, and extremely violent air waves spread out in the surroundings with them as the center. Countless mountains collapsed into tiny stone chips, and the entire Baihe Island shook violently. Spider-web-like cracks appeared in every corner of the island, and the surging waves rose and fell, rolling up hundreds of meters high.

The clouds seemed to be bombarded by invisible pressure, surging to both sides, forming a bottomless gully that was more than a hundred meters wide and extended to a place where no end could be seen.

The raindrops that had been pouring down like the Milky Way until just now gradually became softer and finally stopped falling.

The pirates of the Flying Pirates, the slaves, the government agents, Uno, Stussy, Guroliosa... everyone stopped what they were doing at this moment, and looked up at the sudden abnormality in the sky with astonishment on their faces, as if they had forgotten that they were still in the fight.

Among them, Newgate and Ski felt the strongest.

The two men only felt an invisible and powerful pressure on their chests, and their blood surged like a raging sea. The weapons in their hands could no longer move forward at all, as if they were blocked by an invisible wall. They jumped downwards involuntarily.

Affected by the strong inertia, they rolled several times, trying their best to maintain their bodies, and barely landed on the cracked ground.

This time, Newgate and Ski no longer looked at each other, but shifted their gazes to the man who was standing steadily in front of them. The complexity of their eyes could not be described in any words.

The man's hair stood up like porcupine's spines, and he always had a wicked smile on his face. He wore a long cape that fluttered in the wind. The three of them stood together, and the man's height did not seem very outstanding. Not to mention Newgate, who was over six meters tall, even Ski was taller than him. But the domineering aura he exuded was far beyond the reach of the two of them combined.

For Shiqi, this was the first time in his life that he felt a sense of fear and uncertainty.

——What’s wrong with that guy? His fist hasn’t even touched me yet, but I can’t bear it anymore?! This has never happened before!

——Not only that, is that amazing domineering aura really possessed by humans? Compared with Newgate, it is not even in the same dimension! Could he be...

Before Shiqi could pronounce the name in his mind, Newgate at the side shouted out in a complaining tone: "Why do you always like to interfere with other people's battles without any warning, Rocks!"

"Hahahaha! Are you going to wait until both of you are defeated before building two graves?"

The hedgehog-haired man spoke bluntly, laughing at his long-time partner, and said, "I was bored after I finished my work, and you guys used my speedboat again, so I had no choice but to ride on the anti-aircraft missiles to go to Baihe Island to check the situation, and then I saw you guys fighting like that!"

"Finished?"

Shiqi suddenly remembered something and said in surprise, "You mean..."

“I noticed that.”

The man named Rocks waved his right hand, pointed back at the smoke-filled sky, and said word by word, "Although it took a long time, I destroyed all the fleets you brought without leaving a single one alive!"

When he said this, his tone was very calm, as if it was a matter of course for him, but Newgate and Ski were both shocked when they heard it, their heads buzzed, and they froze in place for a moment.

Especially Shi Ji, he was shocked beyond words.

——That was a huge fleet that I spent ten years to build! Although there was still a part that I didn't bring with me, it was enough to roam everywhere. That guy actually said that he destroyed it all in one go?

——Rocks, who are you? !

After a brief silence, Shiki said slowly with a tense face: "Although I am unwilling to accept it, I can say that I have been completely defeated this time. Even if I risk my life, I am far from being able to defeat you."

He threw "Sakura Ten" and "Dead Wood" casually, and they landed on the ground with a crisp sound. Then he sat cross-legged on the ground and said in a deep voice, "Hurry up and take my head. This is the honor you deserve as a victor!"

Rocks looked at him with interest for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter.

Seeing this, Shi Ji couldn't help but angrily said: "What are you laughing at? A head worth billions is not enough, and you want to trample on my dignity as well?!"

"He's so strong, but his reaction is as slow as someone else's." Newgate stood aside with his arms folded across his chest, unable to help laughing. He had already guessed what the man who did whatever he wanted was going to do.

Sure enough, Rocks said in a heroic voice: "It would be a pity to bury your ability here. Why don't you lend me a hand and turn this world upside down together!"