Chapter 211

At Ma Erke's reminder, the Whitebeard Pirates surged toward the gap.

Sengoku could not sit idly by and immediately ordered the ice beneath the seabed cleared.

Yet the walls of the gap still did not rise, for Little Oars had blocked them with his massive body.

Accordingly, Little Oars was killed by the Navy's concentrated fire.

On the Steps of the Sea of the Seven Warlords.

Moria looked at Little Oars's dead body and thought proudly in his heart:

"This Little Oars is too weak; he is not even one-tenth of the Demon Oars!"

"When the Navy attacks the Sabaody Archipelago, I will make them know the might of the strongest zombie!"

Thanks to Little Oars's delay, the Whitebeard Pirates finally reached the plaza of Marineford.

Only half the distance remained to the execution platform of Fire Fist Ace.

But this half-distance was not so easy to cross.

For blocking them were not only one hundred thousand Marines, but also the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and the three Admirals, the highest combat power!

However, among the Seven Warlords, Moria and Empress Already were Luo Xing's people; they would not truly fight for the Navy.

Of the remaining Seven Warlords, Blackbeard had long vanished, Whitebeard II was a weakling, Hawk Eyes was a loner, and only the emotionless tyrant Bartholomew Kuma would fight for the Navy.

However,

the first of the Seven Warlords to act was not Kuma, but Hawk Eyes.

Hawk Eyes's voluntary step forward drew the attention of the entire battlefield.

"That loner Hawk Eyes actually intends to act? How rare!"

At the seats of the three Admirals, only Huang Yuan sat leisurely for the moment.

Sengoku also glanced aside.

Even Empress Already looked at Hawk Eyes with caution and thought in her heart:

"The world's greatest swordsman; it is said that meeting his gaze sends shivers down one's spine."

"Hmph, but in my view, he is nothing; far inferior to my beloved man!"

Empress Already had sunk into the river of love with Luo Xing.

On this great sea, no man could compare to even a single hair of Luo Xing.

Hawk Eyes went straight to the very front of the steps and said in a cold voice:

"I am merely testing how far the distance is to the world's strongest!"

Having spoken,

Hawk Eyes swung his black blade Yoru, unleashing a colossal slash hundreds of meters wide.

The slash wave was overwhelmingly powerful, sweeping everyone in its path away and leaving a deep trench in the ground.

Facing such a mighty slash, Bai Huzi narrowed his eyes.

At the critical moment, Diamond Jozu rushed fiercely in front of Bai Huzi and hard-blocked Hawk Eyes's slash.

Hawk Eyes frowned, leaped down from the steps, and seemed about to launch another attack.

Wuuu~~

Countless vibrant petals suddenly drifted from one side toward him.

The petals contained sword qi potent enough to kill a person.

"Hey, fight me! I have long wanted to meet you!"

Hawk Eyes stopped, swung out a slash wave to shatter the petals, and with a sharp gaze saw it was the Whitebeard Pirates' Flower Sword Vista.

Before the Beasts Pirates rose to power.

The reason the Whitebeard Pirates were recognized as the strongest of the Four Emperors was partly due to Bai Huzi's renown, and partly because the captains under the Whitebeard Pirates were all extremely powerful.

The Phoenix Ma Erke, Diamond Jozu, Flower Sword Vista, and even Fire Fist Ace, who was about to be executed, all possessed the ability to briefly contend with Four Emperor or Admiral-level strongmen.

With Flower Sword and Hawk Eyes engaged, the Whitebeard Pirates continued their charge.

Admiral Aokiji prepared to attack Bai Huzi, but Diamond Jozu blocked him again.

Seeing this, Huang Yuan knew he could no longer slack off.

Huang Yuan leaped into midair and clasped his hands:

"Yasaka Magatama!"

Golden light bullets shot forth one after another.

Yet they all struck a giant blue bird.

Huang Yuan tilted his mouth and said:

"Oh my, oh my, Phoenix Ma Erke, it seems my attacks are useless against you."

Enveloped in the blue flames of the phoenix, Ma Erke grinned and said:

"How could you interfere with our King?"

Huang Yuan was also blocked.

But the most aggressive Akainu, at this moment, did not launch an attack.

Instead, he strangely appeared before the captain of one of the Whitebeard Pirates' subordinate pirate crews.

That captain was greatly alarmed and quickly raised his long sword to aim at Akainu. Akainu sneered:

"Still want to fight me to the death? I truly feel pity for you. Bai Huzi is merely using your lives for his own selfish motives!"

Akainu then went on to say that Bai Huzi had long conspired with the Navy to exchange the lives of tens of thousands of pirates for the life of Fire Fist Ace.

Upon hearing this, that captain immediately trembled all over, utterly shocked..........

He was the Great Whirlpool Spider Squard.

Squard did not want to believe Akainu from the bottom of his heart, but having long felt that Bai Huzi favored Ace, the more he thought about it, the more reasonable Akainu's words seemed.

Especially seeing the icebergs around them, frozen by the earlier tsunami, which effectively cut off the retreat route to the New World.

Squard gritted his teeth and believed Akainu's ghostly lies.

Blinded by anger, he even took his sword and circled behind Bai Huzi.

Since he was a famous captain under the Whitebeard Pirates, the pirates did not suspect him, let alone stop him.

But Bai Huzi felt a bit surprised.

Why did Squard come behind him for no reason?

According to the original story, given Bai Huzi's terrible physical condition, he could barely use his Haki.

But after being treated by the Senzu Bean, his Observation Haki had recovered quite a bit.

Thus, he sensed Squard's arrival.

However, Bai Huzi did not take it to heart; he trusted his son utterly.

But Squard disappointed him, thrusting his sword straight into his back while crying out in grief and rage:

"Old Man, why did you betray us?!"

Bai Huzi's body instinctively dodged, allowing Squard to strike only his side.

His majestic figure turned around.

Squard's body trembled with fear.

The entire scene was stunned by this sudden event, falling into a momentary pause.

"When did I betray you, Squard?"

Bai Huzi said in a heavy voice.

Squard suppressed the fear in his heart and roared out everything Akainu had told him.

The Whitebeard Pirates immediately turned pale with shock.

"Old Man had already conspired with the Navy to trade our lives for Ace's life?"

"No, impossible! Old Man is absolutely not that kind of person!"

"This must be the Navy's conspiracy and trickery!"

"But then, what about the ice walls surrounding us that block our retreat?"

The pirates could not help but feel shocked and suspicious.

Among them, quite a few actually had no real friendship with Fire Fist Ace.

They came to fight purely to repay Bai Huzi's kindness.

But if Bai Huzi sold them to the Navy, that kindness would be equivalent to a complete severance of bonds!

"Old Man, answer us! Did you really make arrangements with the Navy long ago?"