Chapter 62: Wu Xiang Yi Dao VS Wuxian Quan Gu

"One move to decide the victor?"

Karp stood on a fragment of the desolate island, his smile inexplicable.

"Little brat, do you have some technique that requires a long time to charge before release? You are indeed clever, to come up with such an excuse."

Who said Karp was reckless?

Deducing so much information from just two short lines of dialogue, Karp was truly too sharp.

Saint Saint Saiwen remained expressionless.

"What? Does the Marine Hero fear?"

In fact, with the bond of Rouge and Ace, mother and son, Saint Saint Saiwen and Karp, in a sense, stood on the same side.

The two shared the same wish—

That Ace, Luo Jie's child, could grow up without worry, live a peaceful life, and not be dragged into the grudges of the older generation.

One to keep a promise, the other out of gratitude for the captain's years of care and teaching.

Karp knew the World Government's habit of rooting out the problem completely; he reckoned he could protect Ace for at most another twenty or thirty years, but Saint Saint Saiwen was different. Barring accidents, Saint Saint Saiwen could protect Ace for a lifetime.

Provided Saint Saint Saiwen had such a thought.

Even later, when Dragon had children, Saint Saint Saiwen might give face for Ace's sake.

A seventeen-year-old Emperor of the Sea, as long as he didn't meet the fate of Rocks encountering Imu, could live freely and happily on the seas for a lifetime.

After a moment, Karp raised his iron fist.

"Come, come, come! I simply don't believe you, a half-grown little brat, can unleash any earth-shattering technique. I haven't seen everything in my life?"

Even if he used Luo Jie's Gomu Gomu no Pistol, what then?

In the years Karp chased Luo Jie, he hadn't endured a hundred Gomu Gomu no Pistols, but eighty or ninety, yet he still lived and jumped around like nothing happened.

Judging by the confidence overflowing on the brat's face, it shouldn't be Gomu Gomu no Pistol; could it be the Spirit of the Wild?

It couldn't be Kagu-tsuchi of Fire, Hui Shi, could it?

At such a young age, if he could truly unleash Luo Jie's strongest technique, he would need to be locked up in Impel Down even more; the rest of his life would be spent watching this kid.

Saint Saint Saiwen raised his thumb.

"Mr. Karp, you are a man of principle."

Having spoken, Saint Saint Saiwen flew up a bit more, ensuring sufficient safe distance to counter Karp using Soru or striking the ground to rebound and close in.

When mixing it up, being cautious is never wrong.

Especially facing Black-Haired Karp; this was not the seventy-eight-year-old Karp on Honeycomb Island twenty-odd years later, bet on by the Escape King in the New World.

Seeing this, Karp pouted.

"This brat is truly a natural calamity."

Logically, a powerful Emperor of the Sea, so young, would have some arrogance, even wishing to look down on others with his nostrils.

Well, with young Saint Saint Saiwen here.

He was simply overly cautious.

Truly, I don't know whether this kid will be a blessing or a curse for the Marines in the future.

However, a fellow recognized by Dragon should hold strong hostility toward the World Government, yet the Five Elders maintain an ambiguous attitude toward this kid.

As the sea breeze blowing gently suddenly grew fierce, Karp's face grew serious; he saw the purple-glowing longsword in Saint Saint Saiwen's hand, its blade flashing with a blindingly intense light.

The wind howled, and giant waves lashed against the reefs.

The clouds were torn apart by red-black Haki; dense purple thunder descended from the sky, and all of it converged upon that purple-bladed longsword.

Crack~

Amidst lightning and thunder, the purple-bladed longsword's glow intensified, becoming the only light between heaven and earth.

"Hah~"

Karp exhaled a turbid breath, driving his three types of Haki to the extreme, his twin fists wrapped in red-black Haki like lightning.

Among the three types of Haki, the collision of Conqueror's Haki was the most earth-shattering, with the greatest visual impact.

The instant the two different Conqueror's Haki collided, the sky split directly open; not a simple tear, but a direct cleaving of the heavens, breaking into two halves.

The standard for a strong Conqueror's Haki clash: cleaving the heavens.

On the distant sea surface.

The two parties on the Donghai Dihuang and the Doghead Warship, maintaining a reasonable safe distance, had their entire attention captured by the strange phenomenon above the desolate island.

Jin Ni sat on Kuma's shoulder, as if returning to many years ago, when the God's Valley was just like now, with the sky severed by several red-black Haki.

Among them were Rocks, Karp, Luo Jie, Whitebeard, Charlotte Lingling, Kaido...

Finally, at a certain moment.

Saint Saint Saiwen poured out all he had learned in his life, unleashing the "Wu Xiang Yi Dao," condensed from Great Swordsman swordsmanship, Conqueror's Haki, Devil Fruit ability, innate divine strength, and the flames of the Lunarian race—

"Wu Xiang Yi Dao."

Karp tightened his fists, his body showing no sign of evasion, and shouted amidst wild laughter—

"Wuxian Quan Gu."

Karp admitted he had ultimately underestimated Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen; this young fellow who stood out in the Great Pirate Era was indeed formidable.

This is what fighting feels like!

The purple blade light and the black-red fist shadows collided violently.

A massive boom exploded; a mushroom cloud larger than the island rose above the desolate island. Even just the shockwave of the explosion had already raised towering waves.

The island, originally split into four pieces, was directly blasted into fragments. Karp slapped the sea surface and rebounded into the sky; looking closely, where was Barzab's figure?

"Barzab, don't run."

Saint Saint Saiwen shot upward at a speed far exceeding the explosion's shockwave, circling the giant waves; in almost the blink of an eye, he flashed instantly to the Donghai Dihuang.

Then, without a word, he took the helm, the electric current swirling around his fingertips surging into the electric propulsion system.

Before the shockwave of the explosion could reach them, the Donghai Dihuang accelerated fivefold, shooting through the waves like an arrow loosed from a bow with a swift "whoosh."

By the time Koby stepped on the dog-headed warship using Soru, he saw the sails severed by the shockwave, the Marines staggering about, and—

the adjutant Bogart, who was in the midst of drawing his blade.

On the horizon, the red sails of the Donghai Dihuang could still be seen in the distance.

Koby lowered his head, looked at the bloodstains on his chest, and casually tore off the tattered Marine cloak from his back.

"This kid is actually far stronger than Luo Jie was in his youth."

With such a prodigy emerging among the pirates, I must tell Sengoku upon returning to increase the training intensity for the younger generation of Marines; otherwise... years later, the Marines will have no one capable of standing against him.

Koby's mood was deeply conflicted, worrying for the future of the younger Marines while also feeling fortunate for Ace.

Ace has indeed found a powerful backer.

Should his identity be discovered in the future and the Marines prove unable to tolerate Ace, he could join the Revolutionary Army under Dragon or follow Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen.

But what will become of the younger generation of Marines in the future?

Will they be forced to live in the shadow of Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen? Or is it as Luo Jie revealed in Impel Down—that Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen will not become an enemy of the Marines?

Koby had previously held a skeptical attitude, but after speaking with his eldest son Dragon, he gradually came to believe the words Luo Jie had once spoken.

"Bogart, pack up and let's head back."

"Understood." Only then did Bogart stop drawing his blade.

In the South Blue seas, aboard the Donghai Dihuang.

Beside the helm, Jin Ni gently touched Saint Saint Saiwen's arm with her finger: "Captain, are you alright?"

After fighting Mihawk, the Vice-Captain, for two days and two nights, and then sinking an island with the Marine hero Koby, he still had the energy to steer the ship.

Jin Ni was utterly shocked by this; what kind of physique could support the Captain's endurance to such a degree, it was almost more terrifying than the Giants.

Saint Saint Saiwen shrugged: "What could possibly be wrong with me?"

Not only was he fine, he felt somewhat exhilarated inside.

Without consuming a Senzu Bean, he fought Mihawk to the full extent, then gathered his strength to unleash the Wuxian Quan Gu, forcing Koby to deploy his ultimate move, the Wuxian Quan Gu, in response.

Such a battle record was truly invigorating.

Compared to when Ohara fought Akainu, Saint Saint Saiwen was not just a little bit stronger.

These fifty thousand points were truly well spent.