Chapter 36: Crocodile, first encounter! (Third update, seeking flowers)

However,

facing the Qingshuang Sword that had just severed Mr. 5's arm with one strike,

Ms. Valentine decisively chickened out!

She hurriedly changed her weight,

and stopped in mid-air!

However,

she stopped falling,

but the Qingshuang Sword would not stop!

Li Xiao pinched a sword seal,

and the Qingshuang Sword shot straight up!

In an instant,

blood sprayed!

Accompanied by a cry of pain,

a figure fell from the sky,

and smashed under a tree nearby!

Well,

don't think too much,

this sword did not go from bottom to top,

but slashed at her abdomen!

After all,

using it to kill pigs or chop trees was one thing,

but if Li Xiao were to use it for a "thousand years of death" poke,

then the Qingshuang Sword would probably really go on strike!

Just at this moment,

a gust of yellow sand swirled around Li Xiao,

and immediately after,

a golden hook flashing with cold light suddenly appeared from Li Xiao's side,

heading straight for his neck!

Li Xiao seemed to have anticipated this strike long ago,

and did not change his expression, with no intention of dodging at all!

At the very moment the golden hook was about to pierce Li Xiao's neck,

the Qingshuang Sword appeared instantly,

slashed at the golden hook,

and knocked it away! ===== CHAPTER 117 =====

Meanwhile,

the yellow sand slowly condensed,

eventually forming a tall man,

wearing a black fur coat,

who was none other than one of the current Seven Warlords of the Sea,

known as the Sand Crocodile, Sir Crocodile!

Crocodile shook the golden hook that had clashed with the Qingshuang Sword,

tilted his head slightly, and said to Li Xiao:

"You have a lot of nerve, attacking my people on my turf!"

Li Xiao glanced at him,

and said slowly:

"So what, do you have a problem with that?"

Crocodile chuckled,

and retorted:

"And what if I do?"

Li Xiao raised his hand slightly,

and the Qingshuang Sword instantly returned to his hand.

Immediately,

Li Xiao held the Qingshuang Sword,

pointed the tip at the ground,

and replied indifferently.

"If you have a problem, then bottle it up!"

Hearing this,

Crocodile was stunned for a moment,

then his expression sank slightly,

and he sneered:

"Kid, you're courting death!"

After saying that,

Crocodile's arm turned into yellow sand,

and then quickly condensed into a giant sand blade,

which he slashed down toward Li Xiao!

"Desert Spada!"

Seeing this,

Li Xiao held his sword with one hand,

and met the blade head-on!

The next moment,

a huge shockwave swept toward the surroundings,

and the surrounding trees and boulders shattered instantly under the aftermath,

being blown far away by the shockwave!

Li Xiao circulated the spiritual power in his body,

the cyan light on the Qingshuang Sword became increasingly dazzling,

and it actually slashed the giant sand blade into several pieces,

while the Qingshuang Sword continued its momentum toward Crocodile's chest!

Facing this sword,

Crocodile immediately elementalized,

turning his body into vast yellow sand,

attempting to evade the attack!

However,

the next moment,

a sharp pain came from his chest!

With no time to think,

Crocodile instinctively retreated rapidly!

Only after retreating to a safe distance,

did he look down,

and saw that a deep sword mark had appeared on his chest,

with blood constantly dripping out!

Seeing this,

Crocodile raised his head,

looked at Li Xiao with a face full of horror,

and spoke subconsciously:

"How is it possible, your sword can actually hurt me!"

"Haki? No! That sword didn't have Haki attached, it was pure sword intent!"

At this moment,

Crocodile's heart was filled with shock and suspicion!

Because he couldn't understand,

how Li Xiao's sword had managed to hurt him!

He had consumed the Logia Sand-Sand Fruit,

and could perform elementalization,

turning any part of his body into sand,

thereby becoming immune to physical attacks!

However,

he had clearly elementalized just now,

and the sword of the person in front of him had no Haki attached,

yet it had still caused him damage,

and the injury was not light!

Crocodile shifted his gaze to the Qingshuang Sword in Li Xiao's hand,

and a guess emerged in his heart.

Could it be,

that this sword was made of Seastone?

But soon,

he overturned this guess!

The reason was simple,

although he couldn't recognize the material of this sword,

he could clearly see it wasn't Seastone,

that point was not hard to distinguish!

Thinking of this,

Crocodile was even more confused!

No Seastone weapon,

no Haki attached,

and not even water, ===== CHAPTER 118 =====

Then how exactly did he hurt him?

In fact,

the reason Li Xiao was able to hurt the elementalized Crocodile,

was simply because this sword strike was infused with spiritual power!

In Li Xiao's view,

the elementalization used by Logia Devil Fruit users,

is essentially the temporary transformation of the body into an element,

which is a form of energy!

Therefore, they can be immune to physical attacks,

because ordinary physical attacks cannot hit energy!

A certain great mage once said—you must use magic to defeat magic!

Armament Haki can attack elementalized ability users,

which is essentially the same principle,

because Haki is also a form of energy! ===== CHAPTER 119 =====

And the spiritual power Li Xiao possessed was also a form of energy between heaven and earth,

and it was an even higher-level energy!

Therefore,

with this sword strike infused with spiritual power,

it could naturally and easily cut the elementalized Crocodile!

The principle was simple,

but for Crocodile, who knew nothing about spiritual power,

he couldn't figure it out even if he racked his brains!

And Li Xiao naturally wouldn't be kind enough to explain it for him!

Crocodile covered the wound on his chest with one hand,

and asked Li Xiao with a solemn face:

"Who exactly are you?"

Facing Crocodile's question,

Li Xiao spread his hands,

and replied:

"I'm just an ordinary cultivator!"

A cultivator?

Crocodile searched his memory for a long time,

but couldn't find any relevant information about this strange term.

A moment later,

Crocodile continued to ask with an uncertain expression:

"What is your purpose in coming here?"

Hearing this,

Li Xiao immediately looked at him with a look of concern for the mentally challenged,

and retorted:

"Didn't your people bring me here?"

"Originally, I was just passing by, came in to play a few rounds, thinking of earning some cat food money for the cat at home!"

"Who knew your casino had such a small layout, unwilling to even give a little cat food money, and instead wanted to kill me to silence me!"

Hearing Li Xiao's words,

Crocodile immediately turned to look at Mr. 5, who had lost an arm,

and asked in a deep voice:

"What's going on? He only won a few rounds and you attacked? Who gave the order?"

"If people can't walk out of Rain Dinners after winning just this much money, who will dare to come in the future!"

Speaking of this,

Crocodile couldn't help but get a little angry!

On one hand, for such a small amount of Berries,

provoking such a fierce person,

was really not worth it!

On the other hand,

Rain Dinners was an important industry he had built,

and most of Baroque Works' income came from here!

And once this kind of behavior happened more often,

it would undoubtedly greatly affect the business of Rain Dinners!

Hearing this,

Mr. 5 used his only remaining hand to adjust his broken sunglasses,

and said slowly:

"He, won over four hundred million Berries..."

As soon as these words were spoken,

Crocodile fell silent instantly!

He turned to look at Li Xiao,

and asked expressionlessly:

"Does your cat eat gold?"

Li Xiao touched his chin,

and after thinking for a moment,

nodded seriously and said:

"That seems to be correct!"

"I raised a little thief cat, not only does she eat gold, she eats everything else that is valuable!"

"To be precise, she likes to eat Berries!"

Hearing this,

Crocodile's face turned gloomy instantly,

and he said in a deep voice while suppressing his anger:

"Are you playing me?"

Li Xiao shook his head,

and said slowly:

"Everything I said is true, and those four hundred million Berries were won by my own ability!"

"What, are you going to welch on the debt?"

As he spoke,

Li Xiao raised his hand, ready to swing his sword!

Seeing this,

Crocodile shouted hurriedly:

"Wait! Four hundred million Berries, I can give them to you! But I have one condition!"

Li Xiao raised an eyebrow and said:

"Speak!"

"Join my organization!" ===== CHAPTER 120 =====