Chapter 172

Permanent buff: The True Meaning of Thousand Hammerings and Hundred Forgings (binding…)

Lightning resistance: 50%.

Weapon: Daikatana Twenty-One Works — Lei Qie.

Daikatana Twenty-One Works — Heidao Qiushui.

Sakura Jū, Moku Kō.

Armament Haki Lv6. (Second Stage)

Observation Haki Lv6. (Second Stage)

Conqueror's Haki Lv4. (Second Stage)

Shave: Lv10.

Moon Step: Lv10.

Tempest Kick: Lv10.

Special Skills: Mechanical Mastery, Navigation Mastery, Language Mastery, Lv2 Healing Arts, Purification Arts.

Special Artifact: King's Treasure, Infinite Flask, Silver Revolver with Six Shots Per Day.

Special Item: Senzu Bean…】

While checking his current stats with his consciousness.

Luo En took out a set of clothes from his system space and put them on.

"I have many abilities and techniques now, so I have no real weaknesses—but when fighting top-tier powerhouses like Huang Yuan, I still can't truly threaten them."

The upgraded Nuclear Kick should have enough power, but it's hard to land.

And this technique is Luo En's most destructive finishing move—if it doesn't kill in one strike, I'll be left exhausted and at their mercy…

That's why Luo En didn't kick Huang Yuan at Drum Island.

150: Sudden attack—He Fangshensheng?

"The Float-Float Fruit ability and sword techniques are long-range, wide-area attacks. If you want to fight top-tier powerhouses up close, physical body and Haki are paramount."

Luo En thought to himself.

Of course, this is under the condition that the Tensei Eye remains sealed.

If the seal on these Tensei Eyes were lifted, without doubt, Luo En's overall strength would leap another major tier, truly reaching or even surpassing the ceiling of strength on this sea!

"I must continue refining my physical body and training Observation Haki and Armament Haki, breaking through these bottlenecks as soon as possible."

Luo En had a feeling that once Observation Haki and Armament Haki broke through their bottlenecks, if he met Huang Yuan again, it would be him who had to run…

…

Luo En stayed another day on the empty Lei Island, familiarizing himself with the increased strength from over a hundred extra blood points, then returned to the Traveler, floating above Lei Yun.

It had been nearly a week since he fell into Lei Island.

When Luo Bin and the others saw he was unharmed, they all breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Captain, it's only been a few days—how did your hair grow so long?"

Konis looked at Luo En curiously, "Does getting struck by lightning help hair growth?"

"No, I just heard it turns into a spiky mess."

Boni, whose appearance shifted between girl and young woman, sat cross-legged beside the deck.

"Captain with a spiky mess…"

Konis imagined the image in her mind and couldn't help covering her mouth with both hands, giggling.

That would be too funny.

"Want me to cut your hair for you?"

Luo Bin walked up to Luo En with scissors, smiling.

"Huh?"

Guina, who had been standing with arms crossed, glancing occasionally at Luo En's long hair, was startled and asked, "Are you going to cut it off?"

"If you don't, it'll be inconvenient."

Luo Bin, holding the scissors, looked at Luo En: "What do you think?"

"It's a bit troublesome, and I'm a man—why keep hair this long?" Luo En touched his head.

"But…"

Guina hesitated.

"But what?"

Luo Bin, Konis, and Boni all turned curious eyes toward Guina.

Under their gaze, Guina blushed, lowered her head, turned her face aside, and whispered softly: "Luo En with long hair… has the feel of a wandering swordsman… looks quite handsome…"

Luo Bin, Konis, and Boni froze for a moment, then couldn't help smiling.

"Ahh~~ So Guina likes this style?"

Boni teased from the side, "Then maybe the Captain should just keep it."

"No, I don't…"

Guina blushed, flustered.

Luo Bin watched her with smiling eyes.

Guina was usually calm and reassuring, but when it came to things she wasn't good at, she became flustered and shy.

It was unexpectedly cute…

"Enough, Boni. Don't tease Guina—she can't take it."

Luo En spoke up.

"My hair really has gotten a bit long — it'll get in the way during a fight. Luo Bin, come cut it for me."

"Okay."

After leaving that stretch of the Lei Ting sea region, where hardly anyone set foot and almost no one ever came near.

The Voyager dropped from the sky into the sea, passing island after island of every size in the New World.

At the same time, the news of their appearance and their movements in some stretch of sea in the New World had already spread.

…………

That day.

Not long after Luo En's group had just left an island in the New World called Hillers.

A fierce cannon shot came flying at them from the sea dead ahead.

Luo En — clad in black, a black blade at his waist, eyes closed, half-long black hair fluttering in the wind — stood on the deck and drew his sword in a single slash.

A vertical slash a thousand meters long, black as a crescent moon, split the sea ahead, cleaved that cannon shot clean in two, and kept going forward without losing momentum.

"Hmph, a slash from a Great Swordsman, is that it…"

A burly figure leapt up from a ship on the sea horizon dead ahead, his right arm — a massive Smasher — wrapped in Haki as he threw a punch that shattered that sea-splitting slash to pieces in a single blow.

That figure kept its momentum, leaping toward the Voyager.

Kuina gripped her sword's hilt.

The others' faces also grew solemn.

But Luo En slowly sheathed his blade: "You don't need to step in. This one isn't an opponent you can handle."

Luo En, eyes still closed, faced upward, the corner of his mouth lifting slightly. The moment he heard that voice, he already knew who had come.

"!"

Luo Bin and the others, hearing Luo En's words, were somewhat shocked.

Just who on earth could it be?

And before they could even ask, that burly figure had already fallen from above, the massive Smasher on his right hand smashing down toward Luo En below. Before it even landed, the air was already giving off an unbearable creak-crack, and that terrifying wind pressure made everyone's hair whip about, pressed lightly on their shoulders, and sent the seawater around the ship's hull churning outward.

Hum!

Luo En's right fist hardened with Armament Haki, and he threw an upward punch as well!

The massive Smasher and his steel-black fist collided.

Bang!

The Voyager sank down a notch,

A ring of shockwave, accompanied by a gale, swept outward in every direction. Luo Bin, Koniis, and the rest were all blown back a few steps.

As the force of their fists and Haki collided, powerful shockwaves spread out for nearly a thousand meters, and the waves around the ship rolled outward from it as their center!