Chapter 78

"Very well, I accept your challenge. Come on!"

Hearing Lei Li's words, Luo En did not strike, but instead turned his head to look around.

Although this tavern was somewhat remote, there were still residents living not far away in all directions.

Lei Li glanced around and quickly realized the situation.

"Should we change locations?"

Luo En nodded.

"There's no extra open space left on the Sabaody Archipelago; if we're changing places, we'll likely have to go to another small island."

Lei Li looked at the sky, scratched his hair, and said, "It's a bit late tonight; how about tomorrow?"

"Good."

Time flashed by.

The next day arrived.

Luo En followed Lei Li away from the Sabaody Archipelago to a remote Wurendao, an island filled with huge beasts.

Yet as the two stepped onto this island, not a single giant beast dared approach them; their instincts warned them that the danger posed by those two beings was greater than anything else on this island.

It was as if merely approaching those two beings would result in being instantly torn apart...

Luo En followed Lei Li all the way to the heart of this island.

In a clearing within the mountain forest formed by gigantic trees, Luo En and Lei Li stood facing each other, separated by a distance of over twenty meters.

"Come on! Let me see your strength."

Lei Li said, looking at Luo En.

Luo En did not stand on ceremony; he pushed off with his foot, his figure instantly vanishing from the spot, while the ground beneath his original position instantly formed a sunken crater.

"Oh?"

A trace of surprise flashed in Lei Li's eyes.

The next instant.

Accompanied by the whistling sound of fierce wind tearing through the air, an incredibly sharp roundhouse kick that conjured layer upon layer of afterimages smashed toward Lei Li from the side!

Activating his Observation Haki, Lei Li leaned his upper body backward, dodging this extremely domineering and sharp kick.

Watching the sharp gust of wind brought by that kick fly past the tip of his nose like a slashing attack.

Lei Li's eyes became slightly more serious.

Before the next strike could arrive, Lei Li raised a fist and punched toward the direction from which the attack was coming.

Boom!

Their fists collided!

Their auras also collided!

In an instant, electric sparks flashed wildly in the air, and violent winds spun rapidly around the two, as if a hurricane had erupted from the ground!

Centered on the two, the soil on the ground was blown outward in layer upon layer of cracks by visibly violent air waves, while the gigantic trees in the outer layers shook violently, sending leaves and grass debris flying.

The entire mountain forest was stirred by this.

And this was only the beginning.

Every subsequent collision was heavier than the first.

The two figures darted and weaved through the mountain forest formed by gigantic trees; every collision shook the forest, and one gigantic tree after another, caught in the wake of their attacks, crashed to the ground with a thunderous roar.

The giant beasts in the mountain forest scattered in all directions in sheer terror, fleeing far from the central area.

Boom!

Luo En was punched flying by Lei Li, who had removed his jacket; he flew a hundred meters, snapping countless giant trees along the way, before finally embedding himself into a mountainside.

"To think mere physical strength could reach this level... truly worthy of the Dark King, Lei Li."

Luo En pulled himself out of the mountainside, rubbed his chest, and grinned broadly at the figure speeding toward him.

His eyes were filled with blazing fighting spirit.

Immediately, he stepped firmly on the ground and rushed to meet the speeding Lei Li.

"The appetizer is over; now it's time for the main course!"

"Armament!"

Accompanied by the sound of Haki hardening, Luo En's right arm instantly turned black as steel!

His Armament Haki, now at level 5, instantly increased the power of this punch by nearly ten times!

"He even possesses Armament Haki..."

A trace of shock flashed through Lei Li's eyes.

But seeing the fist wreathed in Armament Haki drawing closer, he had no time for further thought; with a mere thought, an Armament Haki far more powerful and terrifying than Luo En's level 5 wrapped around his own fist, without even needing to harden.

Bang!

A black fist hardened by Armament Haki collided with a fist merely coated in Armament Haki.

The ground beneath them instantly shattered, and the gigantic trees within a radius of a hundred meters snapped in half in an instant!

A terrifying air wave, more than ten times more violent than before, accompanied by the heat wave born from the clash of their Haki, burst outward in all directions!

Boom!

Gigantic trees snapped outward ring by ring; for some giant trees close to the two, the soil beneath them was blown away layer by layer, exposing bare roots, which were then blown away along with the trees themselves.

When the Yu Wei finally dissipated.

Within the lush mountain forest formed by gigantic trees, a clearing had appeared; at the center of this clearing was a circular pit dozens of meters in diameter and several meters deep.

Lei Li stood at the center of the circular pit, while Luo En was nearly ten meters away from him; between the two were two long scratch marks, left behind by Luo En being knocked back.

Luo En's right arm trembled, but he paid it no heed, his gaze locked onto Lei Li, his eyes filled with an undisguised, restrained, fervent, and burning fighting spirit!

"Again!"

His foot stamped down, the ground cracked apart, and Luo En, having used Soru, appeared before Lei Li.

A kick reinforced with Armament Haki swept toward him!

Lei Li, who had activated Observation Haki, was just about to counter when he suddenly sensed a feeling of being spied upon. His eyes narrowed, his body flashed backward, instantly dodging that strike while simultaneously putting distance between himself and Luo En.

Seventy. Lei Li was somewhat shocked—where did this little monster come from? (7/8, please subscribe!!)

"That strange feeling is…"

Lei Li fixed his gaze on Luo En.

What was that strange feeling of being completely seen through just now?

It didn't seem like Observation Haki…

Could it be a Devil Fruit ability?

Lei Li naturally didn't know that Luo En possessed the Transparent World ability, but he still detected the anomaly.

"So this is the combat instinct of a top-tier powerhouse…"

Luo En bared his teeth in a grin.

He no longer deliberately suppressed the range, directly unleashing and fully activating his level 3 Observation Haki and Transparent World!

Like a domain of space unfurling from his body, it silently spread over the surroundings. Every minute detail of everything within that space was presented before Luo En's eyes in a slow, deliberate manner—including Lei Li, who was enveloped by this domain. The flow of qi and blood within his body, the beating of his heart, the movement of his muscles—all of it was taken in by Luo En.

"That strange feeling again… as expected, it's a Devil Fruit ability?"

Lei Li, instinctively feeling spied upon, narrowed his eyes.

He watched as Luo En's figure flashed in the distance.

Lei Li no longer held back either. He closed his eyes, and his own immensely powerful Observation Haki was also fully unleashed.

"Where is he…"

The corner of Lei Li's mouth lifted slightly.

Then his body shifted to one side.

The next second.

Luo En's kick came crashing down from above.

It struck empty air.

The ground within a radius of over ten meters suddenly sank, then cracked open from the center outward!

Massive clouds of dust rose into the air.

Within that dust.