Chapter 1301: Siege

Gravel fell. Su Xiao walked out from the hole in the giant rock. His mouth was full of the taste of rust; it was the taste of blood.

Although Su Xiao wasn't clear whether Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying could wound Katakuri, judging from the previous clash, Katakuri had been subconsciously avoiding Checking Zhan Long Shan, even twisting his mochi-fied legs into a U-shape to avoid the blade of Checking Zhan Long Shan.

Katakuri could predict the future, and what he predicted, Su Xiao temporarily didn't know.

Of course, Katakuri's act of dodging Checking Zhan Long Shan could also be a trap set by the other party. Once Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying was ineffective against Katakuri, Su Xiao would very likely be heavily wounded by Katakuri, and if he wasn't careful, he might even lose his life.

Fighting Katakuri, of course, had the possibility of being killed by the other party at any time. This guy's comprehensive strength was too strong. There were no obvious weaknesses.

Roaring sounds came from nearby; it was Doflamingo and Katakuri fighting. Doflamingo had been searching for Cracker in the mochi earlier, intending to solve Cracker to eliminate future trouble.

The heavily wounded Cracker could be considered one of Katakuri's weaknesses. All three people on the field knew this. Katakuri appeared fierce, but in reality, he was tied up because of Cracker's heavily wounded state.

Both Su Xiao and Doflamingo discovered this, so the two wouldn't fight Katakuri head-on, but prioritize solving Cracker. As for whether it was despicable, no one cared, including Katakuri.

There were no rules or bottom lines in battle. Kicking the crotch or poking the eyes were all very practical moves, not to mention prioritizing solving the enemy's wounded.

Su Xiao looked at Checking Zhan Long Shan in his hand. After hesitating for a moment, he put Checking Zhan Long Shan away and instead took out a metal rod about 1.2 meters long from his storage space.

The metal rod was pitch black and weighed dozens of kilograms. This thing wasn't entirely metal in texture; it was also mixed with some kind of rare ore.

This ore was named Seastone. To the Navy, Seastone wasn't a resource that was too scarce, but to pirates, this thing was extremely precious, with a price exceeding gold, gems, etc.

This metal rod, forged by mixing Seastone, wasn't a piece of equipment, or rather, this thing hadn't been notarized by the Reincarnation Paradise.

Earlier, when Su Xiao was helping the World Government manufacture alchemy bombs, there was a large reserve of Seastone in that research institute. Originally, this thing was used to manufacture weapons for the 'Pacifista', but unfortunately, Seastone was too hard to mass-produce weapons.

Su Xiao naturally took the opportunity to get some Seastone. The project leader, Dr. Vegapunk, turned a blind eye. From a personal friendship perspective, Su Xiao's friendship with Dr. Vegapunk was clearly deeper than the World Government's. At that time, both Su Xiao and Dr. Vegapunk were in a state of semi-house arrest.

This Seastone metal rod was exactly what Dr. Vegapunk forged for Su Xiao. This thing belonged to high-tech in the Pirate world. It couldn't extend or eject; its only ability was hardness, hard to the point that even Dr. Vegapunk couldn't perform secondary modifications.

Therefore, this thing could only be considered a semi-finished product. When Su Xiao left the Pirate world last time, he had the opportunity to notarize this thing, but unfortunately, the notarization fee was too high, and the uses for this thing weren't extensive.

Items not notarized wouldn't be destroyed by the Reincarnation Paradise but would be stored. When Su Xiao arrived in the Pirate world again, he could regain the items stored in this world.

In general, this Seastone metal rod belonged to a special item that could only be used in the Pirate world. Su Xiao possessed the ownership of this thing, but he couldn't bring it out of the Pirate world.

The Seastone metal rod was similar in length to Checking Zhan Long Shan. Su Xiao prepared to use this thing as a long sword. As for why he didn't entrust Dr. Vegapunk to forge a Seastone long sword, that was basically impossible.

At that time, Kizaru was watching the two. Forging a metal rod could be understood as self-defense. Forging a sword was another concept. The World Government knew Su Xiao was good at using long swords, so Kizaru would definitely stop it. A metal rod with relatively mild lethality was already Kizaru's limit of tolerance.

Su Xiao lightly swung the Seastone metal rod in his hand. With this thing, even if Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy was ineffective against Katakuri, Su Xiao wouldn't be easily wounded or even killed on the spot by Katakuri. This thing wasn't manufactured specifically for Katakuri; Su Xiao was just guarding against encountering Logia-type fruit ability users in the Pirate world, and today it just happened to come in handy.

Most Logia-type Devil Fruits could elementalize, and even some Paramecia and Zoan types could perform pseudo-elementalization. To defeat this kind of enemy, one needed to master some special means.

In the cognition of some pirates, Armament Haki, seawater, and Seastone could all restrain Devil Fruit ability users. In reality, this concept was wrong.

The main role of Armament Haki was to capture the true body of fruit ability users and strike their true body. That is to say, with Armament Haki, one possessed the possibility of wounding or even killing elementalized fruit ability users.

Seawater could make fruit ability users lose all strength and be unable to actively use fruit abilities, but the fruit ability still existed.

As for Seastone, this thing was different from the former two. It was the nemesis of fruit ability users, the greatest nemesis, bar none.

Once a fruit ability user came into contact with Seastone, they would rapidly lose strength, the fruit ability would be temporarily 'sealed', and the elementalized body would turn into a flesh-and-blood body.

Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy surged on the metal rod. Su Xiao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and charged straight toward Katakuri.

Seeing this scene, Doflamingo, who was fighting Katakuri, frowned. According to his plan, one of the two had to go to assassinate Cracker to attract Katakuri's attention.

Su Xiao gave up on killing Cracker? Not at all. Bubu Wang and Amu had both arrived. They were waiting for an opportunity nearby.

Su Xiao charged straight toward Katakuri. The punch he took earlier nearly cracked his left lung. Now, breathing still ached vaguely.

"Spider Web Thread."

Doflamingo stretched his hands forward flatly. White threads wove into a spider web, blocking in front of him. Katakuri smashed a punch onto the spider web threads.

With a loud boom, Doflamingo's feet sank into the mochi on the ground. He had turned the sand and threads beneath his feet into threads earlier, but by now, the threads he had assimilated were all wrapped inside the mochi.

Doflamingo couldn't use the threads generated after his fruit awakening to fight, but the threads he formed were also interfering with the mochi Katakuri had assimilated. Large amounts of threads and mochi were mixed together. Katakuri couldn't control that mochi, and Doflamingo certainly couldn't control those threads.

Katakuri had just smashed a punch onto the spider web threads when Su Xiao arrived.

Su Xiao rushed behind Katakuri, the metal rod in his hand carrying a whimpering wind-breaking sound, smashing toward the back of Katakuri's head.

Red light flickered in Katakuri's eyes. He immediately leaned down to dodge.

With a swoosh, the metal rod grazed Katakuri's head. In fact, this strike couldn't possibly hit.

Doflamingo certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity. He kicked toward Katakuri's abdomen.

With a bang, Katakuri was kicked back a few steps. Su Xiao's metal rod, swung down again, missed. Clearly, Katakuri would rather take the attack of Armament Haki than touch the Seastone. ===== CHAPTER 1302 =====