Chapter 463: All is Fair in War

'Long-range attacks are ineffective, I must engage in close combat with him!'

Aokiji, with his incomparably rich combat experience, made a judgment instantly.

"Ice Saber!"

Grasping into the void, a military saber made entirely of cold ice, radiating incomparable coldness, appeared in his hand.

At the same time, an extremely smooth ice path appeared under his feet, rushing straight toward Zhang Jie.

Aokiji, holding the military saber, used the ice path to rush toward Zhang Jie at a speed exceeding the speed of sound.

'I've been waiting for you!'

Zhang Jie pulled out from the void, and a long saber black as ink appeared in his hand.

Both of them had eyes as sharp as swords, clashing violently in the air, and the saber and sword in their hands were about to collide.

'You kid is still too young!'

Aokiji's eyes suddenly became cunning, and an incomparable coldness instantly permeated from his body,

and spread to Zhang Jie's side at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people.

Being suddenly approached by such a coldness, Zhang Jie's movements couldn't help but slow down by a beat.

This has nothing to do with fighting will, but is the most real physical law.

Absolute Freezing Qi!

Equivalent to a domain skill, the coldness permeating the surroundings is constantly

giving the opponent fighting Aokiji a debuff of paralysis, cold, and frostbite.

'Ice Age Moment!'

Aokiji approached and immediately wanted to release an attack that complemented the Absolute Freezing Qi.

Through physical contact, the Ice Age Moment instantly freezes the opponent into an ice sculpture, reducing all combat power.

'There is no killing intent in Aokiji's heart.'

It seemed that he would die at Aokiji's hands in the next second, but this thought surfaced in Zhang Jie's heart.

Creatures frozen by the Ice Age Moment enter a state of suspended animation, losing all combat power,

but as long as the ice sculpture is not shattered, they can still be saved by methods such as melting ice with warm water.

'It's over.'

A smile appeared on the corner of Aokiji's mouth.

As long as Zhang Jie is frozen, this sparring session is over.

Although the attack power of the Ice Age Moment cannot freeze a monster like Zhang Jie forever,

but one step behind, every step behind, as long as he doesn't make a mistake, he has almost locked the victory.

"What?"

But in the next instant, the smile on Aokiji's face froze.

I don't know when, Zhang Jie's left hand had already made a palm shape and slammed into his abdomen!

"Flying Dragon in the Sky!"

A lifelike golden dragon with horns, scales, and dragon whiskers,

presented in translucent gold, suddenly leaped from Zhang Jie's left palm.

There seemed to be a flash of joy in the dragon's eyes, and it bombarded Aokiji's abdomen with the sound of wind and thunder.

Zhang Jie's *Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms* had actually reached the legendary realm they envisioned of hitting a dragon with one palm!

Placed in the *Heavenly Dragon* and *Heaven-Dependent* worlds, it is absolutely a legendary realm that shakes the past and present and should be respected as a martial arts myth.

'This kid is tricking me!'

Aokiji now understood that Zhang Jie's stiff movements were entirely acting to trick him.

'I spend all day hunting geese, but I didn't expect to be pecked by a goose today!'

With a trace of helplessness, Aokiji, who took a solid palm of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, was suddenly knocked away.

'Elementalization!'

Aokiji naturally wouldn't sit still and wait for death. The moment he found that Zhang Jie's attack could not be dodged at all,

he had to activate the ability that had the most dominance in the early stage of Logia—Elementalization.

The elementalization of the Ice-Ice Fruit can turn him into a mass of ice and snow,

no matter how strong Zhang Jie's attack is, how can it hurt a mass of ice and snow?

With a thought, the abdomen where Aokiji and Zhang Jie's palm power touched instantly turned into ice and snow.

But the next second, the severe pain from the abdomen did not decrease but increased.

Aokiji couldn't help but smile bitterly: 'This kid is as cunning as a ghost, I'm afraid he added Armament Haki to this attack long ago.'

The elementalization of Logia can immunize against most attacks, but Armament Haki is not within the scope of immunity.

The essence of elementalization is that Logia ability users can turn their bodies into elements in nature (such as light,

fire, sand), thereby allowing physical attacks to pass through,

which is regarded as a state of "dodging" or "voiding," capable of dodging most physical attacks.

But Armament Haki is a power derived from spirit and will.

When the attacker wraps will (Haki) around the attack,

this attack is no longer a simple physical strike, but an impact with "spirit/will."

When an attack wrapped in Haki touches an elementalized body,

Haki will force the ability user's elemental body to return to a solid state,

making it unable to pass through the attack, causing the ability user to suffer substantial damage.

Boom!

Aokiji, like a cannonball, was knocked away for several kilometers, and then slammed into the floating ice,

and all the floating ice that blocked him along the way was smashed into powder.

'All is fair in war, it does not deceive me.'

Zhang Jie slowly retracted his palm, and a layer of black metallic luster flashed away on it.

He had long known that Aokiji had the ability to weaken opponents and strengthen himself, so he naturally wouldn't make no preparations.

In fact, as early as the moment he discovered Aokiji, the Black God suit had been changed by him into a thin layer covering his whole body.

Even on his face, he changed its color and covered it.

Although seeing Aokiji do this made him feel a bit distrustful of Aokiji's character,

but Zhang Jie has always adhered to the principle of not having the heart to harm others, but having the heart to guard against others,

and is not afraid to speculate on others from the most sinister angle.

Aokiji, a Marine Admiral, although there is still justice in his heart,

but to say that he is as pure as a white lotus,

and has not done anything against his conscience, then it is completely telling a joke.

Zhang Jie has not forgotten how Robin's hometown, Ohara, was destroyed.

With such a layer of armor that can withstand various extreme environments in the universe,

Aokiji's freezing gas doesn't say it has no effect on him,

but it has also been significantly weakened and does not affect his movements.

Thump!

The next second, Aokiji's somewhat embarrassed figure, but without any damage, appeared in the sky full of wind and snow.

Zhang Jie was not very surprised by this.

Although Haki can hit Logia, this does not mean that elementalization is completely ineffective.

There is a game process of "prediction and reaction" here:

First is passive failure. If the Logia ability user does not notice,

or cannot react, and is directly hit by an attack with Haki,

then the automatic defense mechanism of elementalization will fail, and he will be directly injured.

And if the ability user possesses powerful Observation Haki, and predicts the opponent's attack trajectory,

he can still actively control the body to deform (for example, opening a hole in the body,

or letting the body flow to avoid the attack) to actively dodge the damage of Haki.

In the Summit War, when Aokiji and Kizaru faced the attack of Whitebeard, who possessed extremely strong Haki and attack power,

they cooperated with Observation Haki to advance the elementalization deformation of the body, thereby avoiding damage. ===== CHAPTER 464 =====