Chapter 207: Bai Cangshu: I Am Gradually Understanding Everything (3k)

Enel watched as Bai Cangshu's pitch-black outer layer peeled away rapidly; the skin beneath was unscathed, and under the crimson flames, it even shimmered like scales.

Bai Cangshu straightened his body completely, gripped the twisted golden weapon, and took a step forward, closing the distance to Enel to just a single pace.

Zzzzt!

Intense electric current conducted through the gold, and in an instant, a blue-white light flashed—the appearance of a high-voltage discharge exceeding Liutianwanfute—but all the current vanished rapidly upon touching that arm radiating a scarlet glow.

Not only that, Bai Cangshu gripped the golden long blade tightly, and his Conqueror's Haki spread instantly; the blue-white electric light retreated rapidly. In the clash of these two forces, the Conqueror's Haki forced the power of lightning back with an almost crushing momentum.

Enel noticed this scene, but he also realized something else.

"The Conqueror's Haki left behind by that guy in this arm is decreasing in intensity. How much longer can you use this ability?"

Conqueror's Haki possesses a very special characteristic: it can be stored.

Only extremely powerful users of Conqueror's Haki can leave it behind in certain objects to be triggered and used by others.

Bai Cangshu could now be almost certain that this arm was left behind by the Black King, Luffy, who had just departed, due to unknown reasons, and it contained an overly powerful Conqueror's Haki.

When he had just attached the arm, the power of that Conqueror's Haki was almost enough to completely suppress the erosion of the Killing Intent Wave and the God Hand.

But this Conqueror's Haki was water from a source that had been cut off; as it was used, its intensity decreased and its reserves dwindled. This was the source of Enel's confidence at this moment.

But Bai Cangshu only smiled cruelly.

He was currently in a state of unprecedented power; Solitary Jealous Fire was fully stacked, and his attributes were amplified to the extreme.

【Sinful Reincarnator·ex051】

【Codename: Tao Baibai (Editable)】

【Basic Four-Dimensional Attributes】

【Strength: 20+ (Touching Extreme Value, Basic Efficacy)】

【Agility: 20+ (Touching Extreme Value, Basic Efficacy)】

【Constitution: 35 (Solitary Jealous Fire, Talent Manifestation) (First Order Efficacy·1.8)】

【Spirit: 32 (Solitary Jealous Fire, Talent Manifestation) (First Order Efficacy·1.7)】

Except for Strength and Agility, which could not gain efficacy enhancement or significant basic attribute boosts because they had not broken through the Extreme Value, Bai Cangshu's actual Constitution and Spirit had reached values equivalent to 60+ and 50+ in the First Tier under the conversion of First Order efficacy.

With the powerful efficacy of breaking through the First Tier, combined with the full-body amplification of the rank Tese 【Solitary Jealous Fire】 and the bizarre Talent Manifestation that had caused anomalies in Space Anchoring multiple times, Bai Cangshu was now roughly twice as strong as his previous self from the last world, purely in terms of numerical values.

The powerful resistance to abnormalities brought by his high Constitution and Spirit allowed Bai Cangshu's body to recover several times faster than before when struck by lightning. Furthermore, ordinary attacks could no longer break his defense, and even the surging Killing Intent Wave had its influence on Bai Cangshu greatly reduced at this moment.

And this was merely the boost to his basic attributes; Bai Cangshu was currently in a special state called Talent Manifestation, and he felt his perception had been amplified to the limit.

This perception was different from the precognition of Observation Haki; it was a state similar to a special kind of clarity.

He felt he had an extraordinary ability to accept and understand any information.

Just as he had only seen Garp use 【Fist Bone Collision】 and witnessed the Haoshoku Haki Entanglement between Luffy and Garp, he naturally understood the existence of 【Spirit】.

"Enel, unfortunately, the current me... heh, I feel like I can do anything."

At this moment, the frequency of Bai Cangshu's heartbeat was no different from an ordinary person's, but Enel's pupils dilated; the complexity of the sounds and the amount of information he heard from within Bai Cangshu's body completely exceeded his ability to comprehend.

Unlike the chaos when tens of thousands of souls were fighting for the Heart Throne before, there was only one voice and one will inside Bai Cangshu now.

Yet this one voice seemed to be thinking about and accepting hundreds of pieces of information simultaneously.

This volume of information already exceeded Enel's judgment capability; for a moment, he was actually unable to retrieve the opponent's combat intent from this information.

Zzz~

The sound of electric current rang out. In Bai Cangshu's wide-open pupils, the electrified Enel was naturally reflected. He turned around instantly to look behind him, and Enel happened to be solidifying into form from behind at that very moment.

Enel spread his arms, facing Bai Cangshu and the entire space behind him, and said in a low voice,

"Eighty million volts, Discharge!"

Zzzzt!

Blue-white lightning suddenly flared, and countless ionized particles that Enel had long since released into the air were activated; the powerful current intertwined like an electric net.

This large-scale, indiscriminate attack was intended to deal with Bai Cangshu's left hand, which seemed capable of immunizing against lightning strikes.

Bai Cangshu discovered that he had actually succeeded in predicting Enel's movements, and a surge of intense joy welled up in his heart.

At this very moment, Bai Cangshu felt he could understand the uncontrollable Arrogance and the "Honored One" stance Gojo Satoru had after the Huaiyu incident.

This power manifesting from his bones and his Soul, this feeling of gradually understanding everything and mastering everything, truly gave Bai Cangshu a sense of "Honored One" exhilaration.

Facing Enel's attack, Bai Cangshu did not need to think; the moment his muscles twitched, the breath of thunder also sounded in his nasal cavity.

The Five-Tier Setsuna, which he had not had time to fully activate before, bloomed completely at this moment.

"Five-Tier Setsuna~"

Bai Cangshu's tone carried an upward tremolo, an outward expression of his emotions, which were currently heightened to the extreme.

He could not see that his face at this moment, with his brows and eyes soaring, was radiating a faint spiritual light.

The pain of tearing muscles could not affect Bai Cangshu at all, and his figure vanished in an instant.

Bang bang bang...

A series of sonic boom clouds exploded afterward; just as Enel's lightning began to glow from his palms, a powerful impact had already appeared in front of him.

On that face, stretched until it was completely blurred, his pupils still clearly reflected the disbelief on Enel's face.

Boom!

Bai Cangshu's speed was so fast that before he had even fully executed the motion of throwing a punch, the intense air pressure, fist pressure, and the mass of air he had brought with him in his charge smashed Enel's figure into pieces with a bang.

Enel's figure solidified not far away, his expression now grave.

He realized something was wrong; the Worm before him seemed, due to a series of coincidences and changes, to be completely beyond his imagination in power at this moment.

Perhaps he shouldn't have appeared at this time; he could have waited for the opponent to leave this state and return to that chaotic appearance dominated by power before showing himself.

But Enel, eroded by the 【God of the Abyss】, clearly did not know of the existence called 【Causality】. He snorted coldly, his figure already pulling away.

"Forgot to use Haki? What a pity, there won't be another chance... for that."

Boom!

It was impossible to see the movements, and it was completely impossible to read any effective inner thoughts; a powerful impact appeared once again.

This time, Bai Cangshu brought his right hand together like a blade and thrust it out violently.

【Magic Spear】!

Pfft!

Enel's chest, which had actively elementalized, shattered; the scorching white mist that appeared as the air was shredded looked just like a long spear, piercing through Enel's body.

Bai Cangshu paused briefly, his figure revealed.

His eyelids drooped, and large areas of bleeding had already begun to appear on the surface of his body again, but Bai Cangshu was completely unaware; he only felt the power he possessed at this moment, which was intoxicating.

Moreover, he was not only attacking but also collecting various pieces of information, whether it was the several injured Vice Admirals on the warships in the rear who were gathering the wounded, or Chaton, who wanted to land on the island to provide support at Cindy's request.

And further away, Garp's Conqueror's Haki appeared once again.

Time was running out, and his body could not support a battle at the Fifth-Order 32-times-speed Instant for too long.

More importantly, he had discovered the massive flaw that appeared after Enel was eroded.

Bai Cangshu's gaze focused on those four heads of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness; these things were foreign objects, and they were extremely discordant when Enel elementalized.

Enel's figure completely elementalized; the next moment, hundreds of electrical currents flowed and transmitted through the air, and Bai Cangshu realized in his heart that the opponent probably wanted to stall for time or even escape.

But at this moment, Bai Cangshu possessed an astonishing 【Intuition】; it was different from Observation Haki, and he did not understand what his current state was, but he just had a special instinct, and he knew the opponent's thinking.

He could even predict the opponent's thoughts.

The reason why so much information and thought activity appeared in Enel's 【Heart Net】 at this time was because Bai Cangshu discovered that he could currently simulate other people's thinking patterns and Logic of thought.

Just like imitating the opponent's physical abilities and even Haki, after he 【understood】 the opponent's personality and the essence of their thinking, he could think in the opponent's current thinking pattern as if it were only natural.

At the same time, he was playing the role of several people thinking, and among them, there was Enel himself!

Bai Cangshu opened his mouth and exhaled turbid air, the high-temperature breath rapidly liquefying in the air to produce a large amount of white mist; after he finished changing his breath, a flash of light appeared in his left hand, and the 【Dragon-Slaying Sword】 appeared once again.

Amidst the speed of the Fifth-Order Instant that transcended limits, Bai Cangshu could not ensure that his attacks would flow perfectly as he wished, and even Armament Haki and Killing Intent Wave could sometimes not be freely transmitted to the part where the attack occurred.

Just like the first attack, Bai Cangshu, moving too fast, had already knocked the opponent flying before he could even throw a punch.

At this moment, this 【Dragon-Slaying Sword】, which had turned into a Black Blade, did not have this concern.

Bai Cangshu gripped this exaggerated Claymore with his left hand and pointed it far into the sky.

Enel, who was continuously flowing toward the distance, suddenly felt an inexplicable panic in his heart; his 【Heart Net】 transmitted immense fear.

Bang bang bang...

Amidst a series of air explosions, a scarlet Conqueror's Haki suddenly flashed in the air, erupting indiscriminately.

It was as if a powerful hurricane was sweeping across the sea in the sky.

Overbearing, cruel, and resolute; this was an overbearing spirit as cold and dead as the River Styx. In an instant, whether it was Chaton preparing to provide support or Onigumo and the others, they could only block in front of themselves with their hands, letting the surging Conqueror's Haki rub violently against their bodies.

In the sky dozens of nautical miles away, a figure was pierced by scarlet lightning and instantly condensed into shape.

Enel's face was pale, and the four heads behind him simultaneously turned into expressions of fear.

"Damn it..."

Pfft!

A straight, pitch-black sword light suddenly lit up, as if it were the Longinus Spear about to pierce the sky, running through Enel's chest and stabbing through those four heads.

(End of this chapter)