Chapter 288

Imu made her move.

She held her long sword and slashed toward Luo En from afar.

No sword qi, no sword pressure, as if there was nothing at all.

Luo En's figure vanished on the spot.

The next second.

On the building behind where he had just been, a perfectly smooth cut line appeared, slowly sliding down; in the sky behind it, a straight rift ten thousand meters long also appeared.

It was as if an invisible line that could cut through all things had just swept past, and wherever it passed, all things were split in two.

"Your sword Dao contains a trace of space—no, the power of spacetime…"

Luo En, holding Blood Blade Moon in his hand, appeared at Imu's side, his azure-blue eyes fixed on her: "If I'd been hit by that sword, it probably would've been very bad."

Imu turned her head to look at him, a hint of surprise in her dead-still eyes, as if she hadn't expected him to dodge that slash.

"Have you lived so long that you possess power but no idea how to use it?"

Luo En's free left hand made a grasping gesture toward her from afar.

The power of the Ice Imperial Tool erupted.

Around her in the air, sharp and massive ice spikes appeared one after another, then stabbed down at her in unison.

But before those hard, sharp ice spikes could get close to her, they were twisted and shattered by an abnormal force.

"Oh?"

Luo En's eyes narrowed slightly.

Immediately after.

He swung his sword in one stroke, wielding Blood Blade Moon.

A flash of crimson sword light vanished in an instant.

In a flash, countless crimson threads appeared before Imu, like a woven great blood-colored net, slicing toward her in an overwhelming tide.

Imu did not draw her sword; a glint of dark light flashed in her eyes.

Then the space around her assumed a strange posture of twisting and interlacing, like a series of interlaced whirlpools at the bottom of water.

The blood-colored net formed of sword qi fell into it, following the trajectories of those spatial whirlpools, and dropped into the boundless void.

It couldn't touch her at all.

Seeing this, Luo En gradually confirmed his guess about her power in his heart.

It was very likely a Devil Fruit power related to the force of 'distortion'!

The moment Luo En tried to peer into a corner of the future through his Observation Haki, he found the future blurred and unclear; even though his Observation Haki had already reached lv8, it was hard to glimpse it.

Imu raised her free left palm and slapped it toward Luo En from afar.

The air in front of Luo En, like glass, shattered layer by layer toward him under that terrifying distorting force.

Sensing danger, Luo En activated lv5 Supreme Mastery of Force and swung his sword.

A thick crimson slash, wrapped in lv9 Flowing Sakura Haki, spread outward in a ring from around Luo En and collided with that distorting force.

Two powerful forces collided.

Heaven and earth fell silent for an instant.

Then terrifying power erupted with a tremendous roar!

Boom boom boom!

A terrifying shockwave swept in all directions!

The ground between the two gradually sank, cracked, rubble floated up, and then was obliterated into ash.

After those two forces collided.

The ground between the two finally vanished, forming a bottomless canyon that separated them.

One held a long sword, the other held a blood blade, each standing on one side.

In the sky between them, a massive rift stretching tens of thousands of meters also appeared; the golden and blood-colored lightning produced by the collision of their powerful Conqueror's Haki flickered and intertwined within it.

The scene was extremely shocking to the soul.

"You… are not of that clan, but… you are also very dangerous. I must… erase you."

Imu's lifeless eyes gazed at Luo En as she raised the long sword in her hand.

Her voice was young, yet carried an ancient air.

Having lived in this world for over eight hundred years, even if her body did not die, her thoughts and soul had long since rotted.

She could only remember the mission of her existence in this world.

To erase the existence of that clan, to erase all dangers that threatened the World Government.

249, The Sword That Split the Red Line Continent (combined chapter)

Imu's figure vanished on the spot in an instant.

The next second she appeared before Luo En, raised her hand, and with one sword strike sent Luo En flying.

"Spatial movement? No, even spatial movement leaves traces; it's impossible to completely evade these eyes of mine."

Luo En, a spray of blood blooming on his chest, flew backward through the air, his azure-blue eyes fixed tightly on Imu, who stood at the spot he had just occupied.

A bold guess rose in Luo En's heart.

"Most likely… she just distorted time."

She had twisted and folded the time it took for her to arrive before Luo En, and what was presented to Luo En was the appearance of her instantly appearing in front of him.

This was probably the most reasonable explanation.

Otherwise, Luo En—with his Transparent World and Observation Haki active, plus these Tenseigan eyes—absolutely could not have failed to 'see' the slightest trace!

Luo En, flying backward through the air, landed both feet on the ground, leaving a long trail on the surface; drops of fresh blood dripped from his chest, but he paid it no heed, a pair of azure-blue eyes fixed tightly on Imu in the distance.

"It can distort space, but can it distort time too… That's truly a monstrous-level ability."

Undoubtedly.

This is a realm only achievable through the awakening of a Devil Fruit.

Imu stared at Luo En nearby, whose chest wound was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a flicker of doubt crossed those dead-still eyes.

Is this a body a human should possess?

That sword strike just now, she had intended to cut him clean in half.

But the toughness of his physique exceeded expectations.

Add to that his timely reaction, pulling back to widen the distance.

So her sword only left a wound on his chest, and did not cut into his internal organs.

But that was by no means a minor injury.

How could a human body recover and heal this fast?

Even an Awakened Zoan probably couldn't reach such a monstrous degree.

Indeed so.

Even an Awakened Zoan Mythical-Class ability user doesn't possess such terrifying self-healing (excluding the Phoenix), but something akin to Kaido's Immortal Body can reach this step.

Now, with his Qi and Blood value exceeding 5,000 points, combined with Luo En's perfect fusion of the Immortal Human Body, in terms of vitality alone, he can completely contend with Kaido's Immortal Body!

Now, fifteen seconds after being cut.

Luo En stood on that shattered ground, draped in an open black long coat, his long black hair flowing behind him in the wind, each strand tough and resilient, the upper garment on his chest split open by that sword strike, revealing perfectly proportioned chest and abdominal muscles; that terrifying, ghastly sword wound had already completely healed, not even a scar remaining, only some bloodstains.

His right hand held the blood blade Moon, and he smiled at Imu:

"An attack like that just now — how many more times can you use it?"

Imu did not speak.

Luo En, whose entire body radiated waves of blood-colored aura, flashed and vanished from the spot without any warning.

Imu likewise vanished from the spot at the same instant.

The next second.

The two appeared simultaneously in mid-air, a longsword and a blood blade wrapped in terrifying Haki slashing toward each other.

Before the longsword and blood blade even collided, the two sides' Haki clashed first.

Boom!

A tremendous roar of air-pressure explosion.

The air within a few hundred meters around the two shattered like glass.

Countless strands of crimson and blood-colored lightning swirled around the two as they crossed and collided!