Chapter 284

The Blackbeard immediately recognized Li Xiao's identity,

and immediately laughed loudly, saying:

"Hahaha! Truly unexpected, to meet you right here! The cultivator with a bounty of 3.5 billion Berries—Li Xiao!"

Although he was laughing,

the look in Blackbeard's eyes as he gazed at Li Xiao was filled with full-blown caution!

Since Luffy set sail,

his bounty has soared continuously,

rising by 100 million Berries in just a few short months,

and his fame has skyrocketed!

However,

compared to Li Xiao,

that is truly a case of a dwarf standing beside a giant!

Li Xiao's bounty is a full 3.5 billion Berries,

and more crucially,

this is his first time being bountied!

An initial bounty of a full 3.5 billion Berries,

looking across the entire Great Sea,

can be said to be unprecedented and without equal!

Such an outrageous bounty,

certainly has part of its reason in the factor of having consecutively killed two Celestial Dragons,

but his strength is absolutely not to be underestimated!

Although this person has left few footprints on the Great Sea,

and almost no battle records can be found,

just based on his fighting alone against the two Admirals, Kizaru and Akainu, on Sabaody Archipelago,

and even more so on the point of withdrawing unscathed,

his strength, even if not comparable to the Emperor level,

is absolutely not far off!

Facing such a fierce man,

even now having obtained the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit,

Blackbeard is unwilling to easily clash with him!

Li Xiao glanced indifferently at Blackbeard,

and slowly spat out a single character!

"Get lost!"

Upon hearing this,

Blackbeard's expression immediately became somewhat ugly,

but he still forced a smile,

and said:

"Hahaha! Truly arrogant!"

"If I leave just like this, my Blackbeard would look very much without face!"

"How about this, I only want the Straw Hat Kid!"

"You hand the Straw Hat Kid over to me; as for everyone else, including the woman behind you, I will not touch any of them, how about that?"

As soon as Blackbeard finished speaking,

Li Xiao then already raised his hand and slashed with his sword!

"Mountain and Sea Sword Technique!" 767

Only to see a Mountain and Sea phantom instantly appear within the void,

and becoming increasingly solid,

accompanied by a massive green sword energy,

carrying the momentum of crushing mountains and severing seas, slashing straight at Blackbeard!

Seeing this,

Blackbeard's face immediately changed drastically!

As a Dark-Dark Fruit ability user,

although he cannot elementalize,

he can absorb attacks from other ability users!

But in fact,

not only attacks from other ability users,

he can absorb almost all attacks,

needing only to endure double the pain!

However,

the Dark-Dark Fruit's absorption of attacks has a limit!

Like this large-range, powerful long-range sword energy slashed by Li Xiao's sword right before his eyes,

It had already far exceeded the upper limit of what he could absorb!

Blackbeard immediately leapt up without the slightest hesitation,

his seemingly bulky frame moving with surprising agility,

covering over a hundred meters in an instant,

dodging Li Xiao's sword strike!

The next second,

that sword slash cleaved straight into the sea behind Blackbeard!

The calm sea surface instantly surged with violent waves,

a deep trench appearing upon the ocean!

Under the wrap of sword Qi,

the seawater on either side simply could not close back together for a long time!

This single sword strike,

seemed to split the entire sea clean in two!