Chapter 217

The pirates below recognized Huang Yuan, staring at him with cold sweat streaming down their faces, expressions of terror.

"He's gotten stronger again, that scary guy…"

Huang Yuan, wearing tea-colored sunglasses, stared down at Luo En below and spoke.

Usually, what he said to those weak pirates was only meant to mock and disgust them with a sarcastic tone.

But this time, Huang Yuan was serious.

Luo En held in one hand the Blood Blade Suigetsu, emanating an eerie blood-colored light, and in the other a blood-colored scabbard; simply standing there, he radiated a terrifying presence and sharp edge.

"No doubt about it."

Momotsu stared intently at the blood blade in Luo En's hand and spoke: "I never expected that this blade, which vanished from the sea for hundreds of years without ever appearing, would end up in his hands."

Tina looked at her in confusion: "A blade? Is that blade very special?"

Momotsu nodded with a serious expression: "Very special! If I'm not mistaken, that blade should be the Blood Blade Suigetsu, one of the Twelve Supreme Grade Blades! The world's number one blood blade—even among the twelve Supreme Grade Blades, it can rank in the top five."

"One of the Twenty-One Supreme Grade Blades, the world's number one blood blade, Suigetsu…"

Tina's face showed a look of shock.

Although she was not a swordswoman, she had some understanding of these things.

"A blood blade forged from killing intent is already extremely rare, and this one is the world's number one blood blade… and it's in his hands, so the power, or rather the attack force, it unleashes would probably be even greater than that of Hawkeye!"

Momotsu stared intently at Luo En, who held the Blood Blade Suigetsu.

A trace of worry flashed in her eyes.

For the first time, she felt worry for Huang Yuan.

But the next second, Luo En's actions caused a look of surprise to appear on her face.

She saw Luo En sheathe his blade, letting the Blood Blade Suigetsu sink into the ripple-like void before him.

"Oh? Not planning to fight?"

Huang Yuan stared at him and said.

"No, I just feel that using a sword would easily destroy this beautiful island. To deal with you…"

As Luo En spoke, his figure instantly vanished from the spot.

The next instant, his figure abruptly appeared before Huang Yuan.

Before Huang Yuan could react, an incomparably fierce and swift kick had already fallen toward him within his suddenly contracting pupils.

He didn't even have time to elementalize.

Huang Yuan's body, like a streak of light, tilted at an angle and slammed into the ground from a height.

"!!!"

Everyone below was dumbfounded.

Momotsu and Tina also gaped, staring in shock at the tall figure in black clothes billowing in the sky above.

Luo En stood in the air and spoke calmly:

"Fists and feet will do."

190, Huang Yuan at a Disadvantage

Huang Yuan, draped in his Justice coat, rose from the deep crater, looking up at the figure treading the air above; on his usually lazy and lewd face, a solemn expression appeared.

Although that kick just now hadn't caused him too much damage, the speed of that kick… slightly exceeded his imagination.

"Indeed very troublesome…"

The eyes beneath Huang Yuan's tea-colored sunglasses narrowed slightly, and his figure instantly photonized and vanished from the spot.

A fraction of a hundredth of a second later.

Huang Yuan's figure appeared behind Luo En.

His dazzling, glowing right leg side-kicked toward Luo En with extraordinary speed and force!

A Light-Speed Kick, faster and more powerful than the Flash Kick!

Huang Yuan had completely gotten serious.

But…

The Light-Speed Kick Huang Yuan delivered swept straight through Luo En's body.

Without any actual sense of touch.

Huang Yuan stared at the figure before him shattering like a moon reflected in water, and a look of surprise flashed across his face.

An afterimage!?

At this moment, Huang Yuan, who had unleashed his Observation Haki, suddenly sensed an intense sense of danger.

Coming from the side.

Without hesitation, his figure photonized and instantly vanished.

The next instant.

An air cannon covering an area of over a dozen meters, carrying fierce wind pressure, with the momentum to crush everything, directly pierced through where he had just been.

A distant hill was completely pierced through by this straight-line air cannon, rocks collapsing.

Luo En withdrew his right fist wrapped in Flowing Sakura Haki, turned his head toward the place where Huang Yuan had appeared, and smiled: "Observation Haki—it seems I'm the stronger one."

Huang Yuan stared at him intently, the frivolous and lazy look no longer on his face, a rare solemn expression present.

The Armament Haki wrapped around that fist just now was simply astonishing; to Huang Yuan, it felt no less than that of Zephyr at his peak.

If he had taken that hit squarely, even he would have been seriously injured.

And there was also the Observation Haki capable of predicting his movements, and that kind of speed.

This young man before him, only twenty years old, had unknowingly… already gained the power to threaten him.

"Let's continue."

Luo En's figure flashed and vanished from the spot.

Huang Yuan likewise turned his body into photons.

The two appeared almost simultaneously above a patch of grassland, a fist and a kick colliding in mid-strike,

Boom!

Haki and physical force clashed violently!

The powerful shockwave and wind pressure instantly tore apart the ground below!

Rolling gales howled out in every direction!

After the single exchange, the two vanished once more.

Two figures kept appearing all over Sabaody Archipelago, clashing, then vanishing again.

Even pirate strongmen with bounties in the hundreds of millions could barely make out their movements.

Sabaody Archipelago was completely shaken awake by their battle.

Nearly everyone stepped out of their houses and looked up.

"What's going on?"

"What happened?"

"You still don't know?!"

"Know what?"

"That's the Traveler Luo En and Marine Headquarters Admiral Huang Yuan fighting!"

"What did you say?!"

"The Traveler Luo En and a Marine Admiral…?! What on earth happened?"

"Looks like the Traveler Luo En attacked the Celestial Dragons, which drew the Marine Admiral here."

"Attacked the Celestial Dragons…"

"It's not just attacking, alright, I saw it with my own eyes — he killed a Celestial Dragon!!"

"!!!"

……

Upon learning the full story from start to finish, Sabaody Archipelago was utterly stunned!

Killing a Celestial Dragon — that was the kind of earth-shattering super-event that could shake the entire world!

The reporters of the World Economic Journal stationed on Sabaody Archipelago were instantly thrilled, immediately placing a live call to headquarters and informing the paper's president — the Big News Morgans.

"Killed a Celestial Dragon…"

Morgans, upon hearing this news, felt his heart jolt violently as well.