Chapter 131

She turned her head to look at Luo En and smiled: "Sometimes I wonder—if I stopped chasing that blank history, and just kept traveling happily until the end of my life… wouldn't that be fine too?"

Luo En gazed at her, about to say something.

Suddenly his eyes sharpened, and he looked up at the sky.

In the night sky above the sea, a vast shadow drifted past, completely obscuring the moonlight and starlight falling upon the small boat.

"What is that…?"

Luo Bin stared upward, her spirit trembling.

When it drifted away.

Moonlight fell again.

Luo Bin clearly saw the outline of the massive shadow, and her heart shook violently.

"That's… an island?!"

An island floating in the sky!

"Floating Island."

A spark of brightness flashed in Luo En's eyes.

The user of the Pupa Pupa no Mi, Golden Lion Shi Ji!

He turned to Luo Bin, who was stunned beside him, and said: "I'm going up there to take a look. You stay here and wait for me."

He was about to step down and use Moon Step to chase after the Floating Island, when he suddenly remembered something and turned back to smile at Luo Bin:

"By the way, I think what you just said is wrong."

"A life with regrets isn't a complete life."

"If you get a chance, you should try—what's there to fear? That's what adventure for your dream truly means."

In Luo Bin's dazed gaze, Luo En stepped down, and the entire boat shuddered, sinking slightly.

His figure shot forward like a bullet from a cannon, hurtling toward the Floating Island drifting far away.

119, News That Shakes the Sea (Part 1) (Combined)

Upon the Floating Island Strong World.

The user of the Pupa Pupa no Mi, wearing a golden kimono, with a ship's helm stuck in his hair, and legs replaced by the legendary swords Sakura Jū and Mokkō, Golden Lion Shi Ji, smoked a cigar as he examined the results of violent mutations in rare beasts caused by IQ-component plants.

Beside him, dressed in a white lab coat, was his assistant, Dr. Indigo.

"How long until these rare beasts can be deployed?"

Golden Lion Shi Ji asked him.

"About two or three years."

"Two or three years… good! When the time comes, I'll use this power to give the World Government and the Navy a grand gift—heeheeheehee!"

Golden Lion Shi Ji laughed loudly.

"The East Blue—that weak sea—will surely be destroyed by me, Golden Lion! Heeheeheehee!"

Suddenly.

His arrogant, triumphant laughter cut off abruptly as he whirled his head toward one direction.

"Hm?"

Indigo asked, puzzled: "What's wrong?"

"It seems a guest has arrived."

Golden Lion narrowed his eyes, and a powerful aura of a supreme warrior instantly erupted.

"A guest?"

Indigo tilted his head.

This place is in the sky—where would a guest come from?

"You don't need to worry. I'll go see."

Saying this, Golden Lion drifted out of the laboratory and stepped outside.

Beneath the night sky, he immediately spotted a black-clad boy standing on the ground of the Floating Island, several kilometers away.

Their gazes met across the distance.

The black-haired boy smiled faintly at Golden Lion, then drew his black blade and slashed through the air toward him.

A hundred-meter-long black slash, wielding the power to cleave mountains, vertically sliced toward Golden Lion.

"Interesting!"

Golden Lion, who hadn't fought in a long time, felt a flash of excitement in his eyes, and his right leg's legendary sword Sakura Jū slashed out.

The two slashes collided violently, and the ground beneath them instantly became a spiderweb of deep, crisscrossing cuts from the sword qi.

After several seconds of stalemate, Luo En's black slash was severed in half; Golden Lion's slash continued unimpeded, sweeping horizontally toward the black-haired boy, leveling everything in its path.

A great swordsman…

Luo En, watching the incoming slash, instantly thought this.

To reach the peak of the Cutting Iron realm, one must comprehend the breath of all things—that is what defines a great swordsman, as Luo En learned from Peach Rabbit.

But he still lacked a little.

Facing Golden Lion's slash, capable of splitting dozens of miles of ocean, Luo En's eyes gleamed with excitement.

Without the slightest intention to dodge, Luo En stepped forward and swung his black blade, Shusui.

"Circle Dance."

Whoosh!

A ring of black sword qi, wrapped in crimson sword momentum, erupted instantly from Luo En's body in all directions, colliding with the incoming slash.

After fierce tearing and collision, both attacks vanished into nothingness—leaving only a crater dozens of meters deep in the ground hundreds of meters ahead of Luo En, surrounded by massive fissures.

"Oh?"

Floating down to the top of a hill about a thousand meters from Luo En, a golden-haired lion-man with his arms crossed, wearing a golden kimono, looked at the black-haired youth on the plains below and laughed:

"To think you could block my slash. Impressive."

"Dare to draw your blade against me. Do you know who I am?"

"The legendary Flying Pirate, Golden Lion Shi Ji."

Luo En, holding the black blade Shusui in one hand, looked at him in the distance and smiled: "So what?"

"Gyahahahaha!"

The Golden Lion laughed: "What an arrogant little brat."

"Is that so? I don't think my attitude is the least bit arrogant."

"After disappearing from the seas for over twenty years, do you really still have the power of your prime?"

The Golden Lion narrowed his eyes: "You can come and try."

"That was my intention."

Luo En smiled. His figure vanished from the spot in an instant, and the ground within a dozen meters around him sank with a thunderous boom the moment he disappeared, then crumbled outward inch by inch.

Appearing before the Golden Lion, Luo En swung his blade at his neck. The Golden Lion, arms still crossed, raised his left leg and kicked out. The famed sword Mokushiroku and the black blade Shusui collided violently edge to edge.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle!

As their sword momentum and sword intent cut and clashed against each other, sharp sword auras that tore through the air snaked out in all directions.

The two men's Conqueror's Haki collided, producing countless golden and blood-red lightning bolts around them.

Shockwaves, rippling outward like waves on water, brimming with intimidation and oppressive might, spread in all directions. Wherever they passed, the people on the island and those rare beasts fell one after another.

The floating island also began to tremble continuously.

Biting down on his cigar, the Golden Lion, upon sensing Luo En's Conqueror's Haki, his expression turned slightly solemn as he stared at the black-haired youth before him.

"I didn't expect you to possess the qualifications of a king as well, boy. State your name."

"Whether you know my name or not doesn't matter."

Holding the black blade and clashing it against the famed sword Mokushiroku on his leg, with visible gusts of air blasting out around them, Luo En, his black hair swaying, looked at the Golden Lion Shi Ji at close range and smiled slightly:

"Because... you will die here."

The power of the Float-Float Fruit — I'll take it.

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Sea Circle Calendar 1517, April.

Marine Headquarters, Marineford.

Vice Admiral Momousu (Peach Rabbit), who had just returned from the West Sea, heard that Tina, who had gone to the South Sea to capture pirates several days prior, had already returned, and went to find Tina.