One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

Seeing Rocks shatter the diamond shield covering the entire grassland island with just one punch, and defeat Rubail, who made him feel almost helpless, with just one blow, Kaido's eyes widened, and his inner shock and astonishment were beyond words.

In the past battle on Shirakko Island, Kaido fell into a coma due to overdrawing his physical strength early on, so he was completely unaware of the move that Rocks made on the island later.

It was not until now that he witnessed with his own eyes the amazing strength displayed by Rocks, and he felt as if the whole world had been turned upside down.

Kaido racked his brains but couldn't think of any words to describe how powerful that man was.

He didn't even reveal the power of his devil fruit, but just relied on his domineering aura to instantly turn the already unfavorable situation around.

Being able to attack the opponent without any contact is a domineering skill he has never seen before, or in other words, it is a field that he has not yet touched.

——How far am I from the throne I’ve always dreamed of?

——Am I really...getting stronger...?

In an instant, a very complicated emotion surged in Kaido's heart, his facial muscles twitched slightly, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

No matter how hard he tried to run, the distance between him and the man showed no sign of shortening. Instead, it kept getting longer and longer.

It was as if the man was an unreachable star, and he was just a wolf galloping across the wilderness chasing the star but could never touch it at all.

"Hey, how long are you going to lie there?"

Just as Kaido was thinking, a deep and hoarse voice sounded beside his ear, and the tone was still as arrogant as usual. He knew who it was without looking up, and his eyes were still looking up at the sky, complaining reluctantly: "How can anyone be like you, fighting with a guy of that level and still be safe and sound..."

The footsteps stopped abruptly. Rocks walked up to him and stopped, folding his arms over his chest. After staring at the exhausted boy for about five seconds, he grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth, and kicked him in the waist with just the right amount of force: "Haha! That means your domineering aura is not well-trained yet. It's too early for you to deal with those guys called generals!"

"Damn it! It hurts!"

Kaido shuddered all over and couldn't help cursing. He raised his head and glared at the man with the hedgehog head. The mocking expression on his face made him feel angry. "And what you said always makes people angry! It's obviously you who held others back and made them clean up the mess for you! Damn cactus bastard!"

Faced with the young man's unreasonable behavior, Rocks was not angry at all. He stared at him intently and said word by word in a very calm tone: "Losers don't need to make excuses. It's your greatest luck to have survived. Think carefully about what you should do after that."

At this point, he paused and slowly turned around, as if he didn't want the other person to see his expression at the moment. He lowered his voice and said, "Although I don't want to say this, if it weren't for you, it would take me a long time to destroy the crystal, and I don't know what bad things would happen during that time."

"Thank you very much."

His last words were almost inaudible, like the sound of the breeze blowing through the leaves. But Kaido still heard them clearly. He was stunned for a long time, then suddenly burst into laughter and said in a slightly teasing tone: "When I get back, I will tell those guys about this as a topic of conversation after drinking!"

After hearing this, Rocks grabbed the young man's right leg without saying a word and dragged him forward without any courtesy. Kaido wanted to struggle but he had no strength and could only yell: "Hey! I was just joking, there's no need to be so angry, right? Where are you taking me? Don't tell me you're going to throw me into the sea!"

Rocks didn't even glance at him. He kept walking and said calmly, "Go back to Beehive Island. Where else can we go? Even if I want to deal with so many navy ships at the same time, it will be a bit difficult."

"what?"

Kaido thought he had misheard and asked in confusion, "Even you can't deal with them? Are you kidding me?!"

Rocks snorted and stopped answering. The two previous Domineering Haki entanglements were indeed very powerful, but they almost drained all his physical strength. In his current state, he might not be able to defeat the remaining marines who were no less powerful than Rubel.

More importantly, something completely unexpected must be happening over on Beehive Island.

He raised his head and looked up at the two figures that kept crossing each other in the air. A strange color flashed in his eyes, and he murmured in a low voice: "The golden-haired boy who refuses to admit defeat like you is about to bring some unexpected surprises."

boom!

The sound of the double swords in Shiki's hands, which were surrounded by golden waves, colliding with Zefa's heavy fists, which were wrapped in dark and domineering power, resounded throughout the sky above the entire grassland island, causing the surrounding air to tremble constantly.

As the golden and black lightning suddenly exploded, a huge shock wave swept out, and both sides were bounced away. They quickly stabilized their bodies in the air and stood facing each other from a distance.

At this moment, the nerves of both of them were stretched to the limit. They stared at each other, neither of them took their eyes off the opponent. For a moment, the tense atmosphere filled the air, and even the sound of breathing became clearly audible.

After a while, Shi Ji slowly stretched out his left hand and pointed his beloved sword "Mu Ku" diagonally downward. He said loudly to the purple-haired man whose strength was comparable to his, as if a thunderbolt sounded in the air, "Hey! Did you notice?! I don't know when, that broken cover no longer exists!"

"I know that without you reminding me."

Zefa snorted and said coldly, his expression still calm, "I will not use such a boring excuse to avoid this battle."

After hearing the other party's concise reply, Shiki was slightly stunned, and was a little surprised by Zefa's attitude that seemed to have nothing to do with him. After a while, a hint of arrogant smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Hahaha! I appreciate men like you more and more! I must fight with you again if I have the chance!"

"Chance?"

Zefa didn't understand the meaning of his words for a moment, and shouted in a deep voice, "I don't remember giving it to you!"

"It's not up to you to decide!"

Before he finished speaking, Shiki slashed the air with the long sword in his right hand, and an extremely huge golden crescent took shape instantly, like an upside-down Milky Way, and with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, it shot straight towards the man.

--So fast!

Zefa's eyes became solemn. Facing the sword energy that seemed to be able to cut everything in the world in half, he did not dare to take it head-on. He quickly jumped to the side. The sharp golden sword energy passed by him at a high speed, neatly cutting through the clouds wherever it passed, and finally disappeared without a trace in the distant sky.

"Now! The Lion's Might: Goshoji Scroll!"

At the same time, Shiki, with an almost ferocious smile on his face, stretched out his two swords without hesitation and pointed them forward. In an instant, the flowing clouds that he had cut quickly surged and rolled, gathering into giant lion heads that covered the sky and the sun, rushing towards Zefa like a tidal wave.

"Varied......"

Zefa was caught off guard, and before he could react, he was swallowed up by the sweeping Lion's Head tsunami.

Shiki watched the lion heads twist and deform and finally condense into a huge cloud cocoon. He couldn't help but let out a smug smile. He was quite satisfied with the plan he had hastily come up with: "Just eat cotton in there slowly, you self-proclaimed righteous navy!"

"Asshole Shiki! How dare you use such a despicable trick!"

Zefa's angry curses could be vaguely heard from inside, and the huge cumulus cocoon swayed slightly with his voice, but the surface showed no signs of damage.

Shiki put his two swords back as if he didn't hear anything. He looked down at the ruined island and couldn't help but twitch his mouth: "Before that bastard gorilla comes out, let those idiots owe me a favor!"

As he spoke, Shi Ji clenched his five fingers on his right hand into a fist and placed it in front of his chest. With a sound that shook the earth, the entire grassland island suddenly shook violently, and the surrounding sea water also surged and splashed up water columns dozens of meters high.

"What happened? Who did it?"

Looking at the birds and beasts fleeing in the distance, Kaido, who was dragged by Rocks, had a puzzled expression on his face and said blankly. Before he could figure out what was going on, the ground where he and Rocks were suddenly out of the island, as if losing gravity, and quickly soared into the sky.

The misty clouds passed by quickly and were soon thrown under his feet. In the blink of an eye, the blue and boundless sky appeared before his eyes.

"Why did that boy fly?"

Lingling, who had just missed her strike and was about to readjust her movements, turned her head and looked at the floating stone in the air, muttering in surprise. At this moment, the several cubic meters of ground beneath her feet gradually floated up and flew straight into the sky.

In the same situation as her was the long bread whose eyelids and mouth corners were pulled by several clods of earth, and the two Horcruxes still hanging on the clothesline.

"Looking at the momentum, it's probably the work of Golden Lion, right?"

Vice Admiral He looked up at the rocks that were rising up, his face still looking calm and composed. He sighed slightly, "It's a bit embarrassing to let them retreat like this."

"Tsk, that guy Shiqi always likes to meddle in other people's business!"

Newgate frowned, feeling quite dissatisfied with Ski's presumptuous decision, and his body continued to rise as it floated above the ground. He scratched his wavy hair, turned around and said to his opponent, "You probably think so, too, right?"

"You bastard Newgate...want to escape from the battlefield?!"

Zhan Guo gnashed his teeth and looked up at Newgate in the air, his right hand covering his heaving chest, a trace of bright red blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. Although he looked quite embarrassed, he still had an unconvinced attitude on his face, and roared, "Come down and fight me if you dare! I'll let you know what will happen if you underestimate justice!"

"Looking frustrated doesn't suit you."

Newgate looked at Sengoku, who was still strong enough after being hit by his six consecutive attacks of Conqueror's Haki. A trace of surprise appeared on his face. In his heart, he felt a little admiration for the man who was stubborn but extremely powerful. So he raised the naginata in his hand, pointed the blade at the huge Buddha statue below, and said word by word, "This battle that has to be interrupted will be decided next time. Goodbye."

"Wait a minute!"

Zhan Guo stretched out both palms upwards, and just as he was about to send out a shock wave, his body suddenly twitched and he couldn't help but kneel on one knee on the shattered ground, gasping for breath. Beads of sweat as big as soybeans oozed from his forehead, like pearls that had broken off the string, and slid down his cheeks, forming spots on the ground. The scattered water stains clearly reflected his astonished face.

——Damn it! Is my body reaching its limit? How can I just give up like this!

"Oh, it seems I was right."

Guloliosa sat on the floating ground, holding his chin with both hands, leisurely looking at the island that was even more broken than before, with an intriguing smile on the corner of his mouth, "I believe that kid will never make mistakes. I have to give him some reward when I go back."

"How about rewarding him with entry into Impel Down?"

A voice without any emotion sounded in her ears. Gu Loli Bodhisattva's heart trembled. She turned her head quickly and saw a round door suddenly appear in the air. The CP9 member who had just fought with her quickly jumped out of it and swooped over like a big bird. His speed was as fast as lightning.

"Haven't you suffered enough? Let me do it..."

"Lion Power·Earth Scroll!"

Before she finished her words, another louder voice exploded in the sky like thunder. Before CP9 could react, a lion with bared fangs and claws suddenly rose from the ground and held him tightly in its mouth in an instant. No matter how the man struggled, it was useless.

At the same time, stone pillars rose up from the ground of Grassland Island. They were constantly twisted and deformed into lifelike lion heads. After a deafening roar, they engulfed all the navy on the island with overwhelming force. Even Sengoku, He and Rubair who collapsed on the ground could not avoid it.

"Oh ha ha! The army that claims to be 'just' is nothing more than this!"

Kaido, who was suspended in the air, couldn't help but feel elated as he looked at the densely packed, varying heights of the huge rock masses scattered all over the island. Just as he was about to make a few sarcastic remarks, someone suddenly said coldly behind him: "Idiot! If you leave them alone, those monsters will soon come out and cause trouble again!"

The voice was powerful and heroic. Kaido didn't know how many times he had heard it. Turning back, he saw a graceful woman who had come nearby at some point. She held a broad sword behind her head and a pair of beautiful eyes staring at him as if she was going to devour someone. Who else could it be but Charlotte Linlin?

"Then what do you want to do?" Kaido picked his nose and asked casually.

"I really got you."

Lingling held her forehead and sighed, then walked forward and poked Kaido's head with her right index finger and shouted, "You've forgotten the trick used by the Kingdom of Etel so quickly?!"

Kaido suddenly understood what was going on when he heard this, and an awkward smile reappeared on his face: "I remember now! It's the one from the giant tribe, right?"

Lingling looked at him with a very complicated look and said in a deep voice: "If you haven't forgotten, hurry up! Don't act like you're about to die!"

Rocks, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, watched everything coldly. Seeing the two people's completely different attitudes, he couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Hahaha! Are you two flirting?"

"This is none of your business!"

The two of them stood on the same front at this moment and scolded in unison. Rocks was bored and obediently covered his mouth with his hands.

"In short, we don't have much time left, so let's get rid of them as soon as possible."

Lingling faced the island below, which had become unworthy of its name after a large-scale battle. She raised the long sword in her hand high, and poured dark domineering energy into the blade. Thin and long lightning spread across the blade. "It's unreasonable not to let the people who deceived me leave anything behind."

"It's rare to agree with you."

Kaido propped himself up from the ground, and as if by telepathy, he took out the mace from his back, and quickly took a step forward, standing shoulder to shoulder with Linlin, holding up the mace surrounded by dark purple waves in both hands, "Let the world remember the consequences of those who dare to go against us!"

"Bahai!"

Almost at the same time, the two shouted and swung their weapons vigorously.