Chapter 192

The crushing wind pressure forced even those who had consumed artificial Devil Fruits to bend their backs, while those of lesser strength were pinned flat against the ground, unable to move a muscle!

Countless people were filled with terror.

"What an appalling sense of pressure!"

The Flying Six were stunned with fear.

Queen also stared at the sky, sweat beading on his face.

Even Kaido, transformed into a dragon, wore a grave expression.

He felt danger.

Fatal danger.

Just like when he faced Kozuki Oden's killing slash over twenty years ago!

The dragon Kaido fixed his bloodshot eyes on the tiny figure standing within the crimson sky, veins bulging across his dragon eyes.

"Yes! This is it!"

"This feeling of facing death—I haven't felt it in twenty years. How… nostalgic."

"Kid, thank you. After twenty years, you've let me feel this breath of death again!"

The dragon Kaido roared, his massive dragon body beginning to shift.

"Back then, twenty years ago, I fled from death—but not anymore."

"Even if Kozuki Oden returned, he couldn't kill me now. Neither can you."

His massive blue dragon form transformed into a humanoid shape, standing about eight meters tall, his entire skin covered in dragon scales, his vicious claws terrifying to behold, wielding a spiked club, radiating boundless ferocity.

In his beast-form, the strongest manifestation of his Zoan ability, Kaido, the undisputed greatest monster, looked up at Luo En in the sky and grinned savagely:

"Battle… is so exhilarating, kid. You feel it too, don't you?"

Since becoming one of the Four Emperors, Kaido had been lonely for too long.

Luo En, standing atop the crimson dome, did not answer him—he simply unleashed his current strongest killing technique.

His right leg, wrapped in crimson steam, golden lightning, crimson flames, and terrifying aura, tore through the sky, hurtling toward Kaido's beast-form with unmatched destructive force!

Under the crushing pressure, massive cracks spread outward across Kage Zhidao.

At this moment, even those who had consumed artificial Devil Fruits were crushed flat to the ground, let alone the waiting ones.

In his beast-form, Kaido, displaying his ultimate power, met the kick that seemed destined to obliterate heaven and earth by gripping his spiked club, wrapped in violet lightning and infused with his boundless arm strength, and swung it upward with a furious roar.

"Hakkeshō—Lei Ming!"

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169, Destruction of Kage Zhidao, Supreme Great Sword—Xue Dao Yue!

Level 3 Ascended Nuclear Kick.

A killing kick technique that enhances destructive power by 300%.

In reality, the power of this strike.

Is four times the ultimate destructive force Luo En could unleash at full strength!

When this kick, which seemed ready to shatter heaven and earth,

Collided with Kaido's Hakkeshō Lei Ming, unleashed in his beast-form,

The space around them warped, and countless pitch-black lines appeared around their bodies!

Any shattered rock that touched those black lines instantly vanished into nothingness!

Thick golden and violet lightning erupted from the point of collision between his foot and the spiked club, like endless lightning dragons whipping the earth with destruction!

Intense heat surged outward into a colossal vortex tornado, sweeping across the heavens and earth with a shockwave that shattered all in its path, clearing the sky of storm clouds.

Kage Zhidao could no longer hold.

Massive fissures spread outward from beneath Kaido's feet!

The palace and the entire island began to collapse and shatter!

Outside the island, unprecedented tidal waves surged, the sea overturned.

Queen and the Flying Six, as Zoan users, were forced to immediately beast-form into massive bodies just to avoid being blown away by the shockwave.

The other Beasts Pirates' true fighters, gift-givers, and waiting ones were flung away like countless boulders.

The flying kick wrapped in golden lightning and searing flames clashed with Kaido's violet-lightning-wrapped spiked club for several seconds.

Then, in Kaido's horrified gaze as he assumed his ultimate form,

His spiked club was shattered outright!

That world-destroying foot slammed into his chest!

Kaido's massive, burly body was kicked downward with such force it plunged endlessly into the earth, piercing through the entire Kage Zhidao in moments and carving a colossal abyss into the ocean floor.

"Cough!"

Blood trickled from Kaido's lips, his face twisted in agony.

This wasn't over.

At the center of Kaido's chest, crushed inward by the kick,

A compressed, glowing golden Lei Wen blazed brightly.

In Kaido's widened, horrified eyes,

It exploded violently!

Boom—

Accompanied by a deafening, earth-shattering roar,

A force worthy of annihilating heaven and earth erupted skyward, utterly obliterating the upper portion of Kage Zhidao!

A powerful shockwave instantly spread from Kage Zhidao across the entire Wano Country.

The residents of Wano Country in every region except Kage Island — Flower Capital, Kuri, Udon, Ringo, Hakumai — were all startled, turning their heads to look in that direction.

When they saw that pillar of destruction piercing heaven and earth, spanning dozens of li, visible even from the seas beyond Wano Country.

Their faces were full of shock and bewilderment.

"That direction… is Kage Island, isn't it?"

"The territory of Great King Kaido…"

"What happened over there?!"

"What a terrifying feeling…"

……

Kage Island was utterly destroyed.

It shattered into countless island fragments floating upon the churning, towering waves of Wano Country's inner sea.

Queen and the Tobiroppo, along with a great number of Beasts Pirates survivors, clung to these fragments, staring in a daze toward the direction where Kage Island had once stood.

"Kage Island… is gone…"

"Hey hey… you've got to be kidding…"

"Lord Kaido… lost?"

"Impossible!"

"Where did that guy go?"

Standing atop one of the island fragments, Yamato looked up toward the sky.

The sky was cloudless for ten thousand li, clearer than it had ever been.

"That person… is really, really strong."

Her crimson eyes shimmered with a brilliant light, and for the first time in her heart, a deep reverence arose within her for someone other than Kozuki Oden.

…………

On the sea surface at an extreme distance from them, amid waves over a dozen meters tall rolling and churning, a figure covered in bloodstains lay upon the sea, being pushed toward the distance by layer upon layer of giant waves.

The second day, early morning.

A figure, soaked through and bare-chested, walked ashore from the sea.

【Ding, detecting host's location — Wano Country, sign-in conditions met. Sign in?】

"Sign in."

【Sign-in successful. Sign-in reward obtained: Blood Qi +10.

Sign-in reward obtained: One of the Twelve Supreme Grade Blades — Blood Blade, Moon】

【One of the Twelve Supreme Grade Blades, Blood Blade Moon: A blood blade, and unlike black blades forged through the tempering of Haki, blood blades are slaughter weapons refined from the smith's killing intent — far rarer than black blades.