Chapter 243

"What are you looking at?"

Moria turned his head in confusion and looked over there.

When he saw the figure gradually appearing from within the sky.

His eyes slowly widened, and an expression of disbelief crept over his face.

"Th-this, how is this possible!"

"That was an attack from two Admirals! How could it not have done the slightest thing to him?!"

Luo En stood calmly in the sky, his long black hair whipping about, his black clothes flapping loudly.

Forget being injured, he wasn't even touched by a speck of dust!

Huang Yuan's fierce attack, like a raging storm, powerful enough to level several mountains, hadn't even damaged his clothes!

He smiled at Huang Yuan in the distance and said: "Is your full-power attack only at this level?"

The expressions on Huang Yuan and Aokiji's faces gradually grew solemn.

Luo En's azure eyes glanced at the plaza where fighting raged on every front, and at the execution platform behind Bingshan.

Under the wary gazes of Huang Yuan and Aokiji, he slowly drew the blood blade 'Yue' from his waist and casually slashed toward Bingshan.

"Annoying thing."

A crimson slash in the shape of a half-moon descended upon that hundred-meter-tall ice wall, which resembled a continuous mountain range. Under the shocked gazes of Sabo, Luffy, Jinbe and the others before the ice wall, that crimson slash bloomed like a lotus flower, with hundreds and thousands of incomparably sharp crimson sword energies spreading out in all directions, and in an instant completely slicing the entire massive ice wall to pieces!

Mihawk saw this scene, his eyes shining brightly.

"Magnificent swordsmanship!"

Sabo and Luffy came to their senses and immediately charged toward the execution platform ahead.

"Ice River World!"

"Ame-no-Murakumo!"

Aokiji and Huang Yuan simultaneously launched attacks at Luo En.

Luo En swept a glance at the two, a brilliant light flashing in his azure eyes.

"Kage."

A terrifying repulsive force erupted from his body!

Whether it was Aokiji's cold air or Huang Yuan's slash, all of it was scattered by that terrifying repulsive force, and Aokiji and Huang Yuan themselves were blasted away in an instant by the bursting repulsive force!

After the two steadied themselves, they looked at Luo En in horror.

"That just now was...?!"

This scene also made Sengoku's pupils contract, and a storm of shock rose in his heart.

The others were even more astounded.

"That can't be real..."

"Two Admirals... both repelled?!"

"Am I dreaming?"

Without even looking at the two, Luo En stood in the air holding the blood blade Yue, his azure eyes looking toward the execution platform as he smiled and said: "The Marines still have quite a bit of fighting force that hasn't been deployed, haven't they? Don't hold back, bring everyone out."

Saying so, the blood blade in his hand slashed toward the execution platform once more.

A crimson slash that pierced heaven and earth shot straight from the plaza toward the execution platform, cleaving everything along its path in two!

Tsuru and Fujitora simultaneously drew their swords and slashed at that slash.

"Turbulent Stream Forty-Eight Strikes!"

"Gravity Blade!"

But the slashes of the two could not shake that slash.

That slash continued unyieldingly toward the execution platform.

"You've got to be kidding!"

Gion's face was drenched in cold sweat, her expression one of horror, "Even Tsuru and that Fujitora can't stop it?!"

Sengoku stared at the crimson slash cleaving toward him from ahead, his fists clenched tight:

"I didn't expect his swordsmanship—no, his strength—had actually reached such a level!!"

"No helping it then."

Garp stood up, stared at the crimson slash ahead that seemed as if it would cut Marineford itself in two, and grinned: "Let this old man go meet that kid!"

Having said that, he stomped his foot, leapt high into the air, and hurled his right fist—hardened with Armament Haki—at the slash.

"Fist Bone. Shattering Mountain!"

Boom!

Two astonishingly powerful forces collided.

The earth shook and the mountains trembled!

The shockwave from the collision of Haki and sword energy continuously spread outward in all directions!

The fierce gale it kicked up blew the pirates and Marines below flying!

"Aaaah!!"

Luffy was also blown away.

"Luffy!"

Sabo grabbed him in one swift motion.

"Vice Admiral Garp has entered the fight too?!"

Smoker looked toward the execution platform and said gravely.

Tina, meanwhile, looked toward the plaza, gazing at that slender figure holding the blood blade and standing on the plaza, her voice carrying a hint of shock: "Is he going to take on Admiral Aokiji, Admiral Huang Yuan, and Vice Admiral Garp all by himself..."

"Impossible… right?"

Tashigi said blankly.

Under the stunned, awed gazes of everyone on the battlefield, and the entire world.

Black hair whipping wildly, Luo En carried the blood-red blade Yuki wrapped in a fresh-crimson sword momentum, and walked step by step toward the execution platform across the shattered plaza floor.

Whether pirate or Marine ahead, all involuntarily retreated to either side, their eyes filled with terror and dread as they watched that tall, slender figure.

"What a crushing pressure…"

Luo said in shock.

"I feel like I'm seeing the old man in his youth…"

Ma Erke stared at that figure and said blankly.

"This is… an invincible aura!"

Hawkeye Mihawk's eyes burned as he fixed them on that figure.

"Could he really be about to take the title of the world's strongest from Whitebeard, in the name of a swordsman?"

Two Hundred Eleven, Myriads… Heaven Pull

"Haaah!"

Accompanied by a furious roar.

Garp's iron fist shattered that flawless, perfectly-formed fresh-crimson slash of sword intent.

The sword Qi shattered like glass in the air.

Cloaked in his Justice coat, Garp fell heavily from the sky onto the plaza below, his burly frame blocking the front of the execution platform.

Ryokugyu and Tsuru also dropped from the high platform behind the execution platform to his left and right.

"It's Vice Admiral Garp!"

The Marine elites and a host of officers scattered around the area, as if they had found their backbone, immediately converged toward this side.

Garp stood before this group of Marines, arms crossed, and laughed heartily toward the front: "Today this old man wants to see just who can break through to here!"

Standing there, he was like a mountain itself.

Add Ryokugyu and Tsuru at his side, along with those solemn-faced, morale-fused Marine officers and elite Marines, and it looked just like a wall of bronze and iron blocking the front of the execution platform!

The sense of intimidation it gave off was immense.

Sabo and Luffy, under the cover of Jinbe and Ivankov, charged toward this wall of bronze and iron like a strange troop breaking through enemy lines.

"It's Garp."

Ivankov said, somewhat panicked, "What do we do? Force our way through?"

"Now there's no choice but to force our way through, is there."