This night will be a sleepless night even for ordinary people in the Sabaody Archipelago.
The bright moon hangs high in the sky, but the rumbling thunder is endless. People who are sleeping are awakened by the thunder. Listening to the dense thunder, people only feel an inexplicable palpitation, as if it is a sign of the coming of doomsday.
Those who were awakened found it difficult to fall asleep again. Although ordinary people like them knew little about the holy land, after seeing this unusual scene tonight, everyone felt that there was something unusual behind the thunder.
There are some strong men in the Sabaody Archipelago. In addition to Rayleigh and Shaki who live in seclusion here, countless powerful pirates who have traveled across the world aiming for the great treasure have also gathered here.
Some of these people have already cultivated Observation Haki through various means, and those who possess Observation Haki can also sense the various Conqueror's Haki that are filling the sky and intertwined at this time.
Such a horrifying scene made these young people from all over the world feel their own insignificance for the first time, and they were also deeply curious about why such a scene appeared in the sky.
Holy land.
Surrounded by many powerful men, Tsugikuni Yoshiichi did not choose to fight back, but instead hugged Sengoku's waist and quickly flew up to avoid the attack.
Although these people's strength cannot perfectly replicate their power in life, their domineering aura is still not weak. The encirclement of more than a dozen people can also pose a certain threat to Tsugikuni Yoriichi. Of course, the most troublesome thing for Tsugikuni Yoriichi is not how powerful these puppets are individually, but that he himself is unwilling to waste too much domineering aura on these puppets.
Yoshiichi Tsugakuni still doesn't know the full extent of Im's abilities. It's impossible for him to waste so much domineering energy on these puppets that he will have no energy left to deal with Im after he really finds her.
Some strength must be reserved to deal with unknown situations.
The appearance of these corpse puppets also made Ji Guoyuan full of vigilance towards Yim and the Holy Land. He didn't know whether Yim had other similar means hidden. If he didn't leave enough strength, tonight's operation would probably fail.
The figures of Tsugikuni Yoriichi and Sengoku soared into the air. At this time, Yoriichi had also entered a semi-mythical beast state. A pair of golden wings grew behind him, and golden patterns appeared on his cheeks, adding a sense of mystery.
In the state of semi-phantom beast, not only did Tsugikoku Yuichi's perception ability improve to a certain extent, but most importantly, his recovery ability also greatly improved.
Although there is no way to quickly recover domineering power in such a state, it can greatly enhance physical recovery ability.
Every mythical beast-type devil fruit user has terrifying endurance, and this is especially true for Yoriichi Tsugakuni.
The next moment, golden light illuminated the dark night sky. Jiguo Yuanyi held Zhan Guo's waist with one hand and held a long sword in the other. As Jiguo Yuanyi raised the long sword in one hand above his head, golden fireballs emerged behind Jiguo Yuanyi.
The fireball emitted a dazzling light, illuminating the night sky above the holy land.
These corpse puppets seemed to have retained some of their body's instincts. Although there was no sense of life in them, when a fireball appeared behind Ji Guoyuan, some of these corpses actually squinted their eyes.
Can a corpse's vision also be stimulated by glaring light? !
Ji Guoyuan also noticed these anomalies, and his mind changed, quietly changing his thoughts at the moment.
His original intention was to cover the entire battlefield with this attack and indiscriminately attack these corpse puppets. He had discovered that although these puppets were strong, once they were contaminated by his golden flames, it would not be so easy to disperse them.
When these people move, they will pay special attention to avoid touching the golden flames scattered in certain areas of the battlefield.
However, when Ji Guoyuan discovered that some of these corpse puppets retained some of their instincts in life, Ji Guoyuan focused his attack on these people.
As far as puppets are concerned, retaining instincts may not be a good thing. The instincts of the strong will make these puppets do things that are contrary to the will of the controller behind them during battle. For the puppeteer behind them, puppets with combat instincts mean increased difficulty in control.
If there is only one person controlling these puppets, attacking these difficult-to-control puppets at the same time will make it difficult for the person behind the scenes to cope.
As for whether there will be multiple puppeteers controlling these corpses!?
Jiguo Yuanyi did not rule out such a possibility, but the possibility was very small.
Within the Holy Land's power structure, only a minority of those aware of the existence of this power were truly aware. Even the Five Elders were still a question.
If the Five Elders knew that there was such a power hidden in the holy land, they would not have given up using it during the previous attacks on the new navy.
Or maybe the use of these puppets is subject to regional restrictions.
As thoughts raced through Yuichiro Tsuchikuni's mind, he pointed the long sword in his hand at the puppets below. The golden fireball behind him seemed to have received some kind of instruction, and as the long sword in Yuichiro Tsuchikuni's hand fell, it rapidly fell to the ground.
Dense golden fireballs covered the entire battlefield, and the scorching heat waves evaporated the moisture on the ground.
“Swish, swish, swish—”
The sound of breaking air was heard, and at the same time as the fireball fell, the puppets on the ground began to dodge rapidly, but the strange thing was that not all puppets were dodging. Some of the people who were targeted by Tsugakuin Yoshiichi actually raised their weapons, intending to break Tsugakuin Yoshiichi's attack with all their strength.
It is not known whether it was intentional by the puppeteers behind these people or the "will" of these corpses themselves, but in any case, the actions of these puppets on the battlefield began to become inconsistent when facing attacks.
Tsugakuin Yoshiichi's expression was slightly condensed. Without waiting for his attack to fall, his figure had already carried Zhan Guo away for a thousand meters. After putting Zhan Guo back to the ground, Tsugakuin Yoshiichi also flashed back to the battlefield.
When Yoshikazu Tsugakuni returned to the battlefield, the golden fireball he released had already fallen on the holy land.
"boom!!!!"
Golden flames exploded above the holy land. Several figures had no ability to resist Tsugakuni Yoshiichi's attack. Those people's domineering aura could not cut through Tsugakuni Yoshiichi's attack at all. They were directly swallowed by the golden fireball and their bodies melted in the flames.
Some people relied on their extreme domineering aura to break through Tsugikuni Yoshiichi's attack with a slash, and opened up a small piece of pure land for themselves. There were more than a dozen of these people.
More people chose to dodge before Tsugakuni Yoshiichi's attack arrived. Most of them left the battlefield early and avoided Tsugakuni Yoshiichi's attack. Only a few people were slow and were contaminated by the exploding golden flames.
But soon, black flames seeped out of their bodies, enveloping the golden flame of Tsugikuni Yoriichi and slowly dissolving Yoriichi's flame.
Although both puppets possess powerful domineering Haki, their combat capabilities are vastly different.
"Are these puppets only able to use the Conqueror's Haki at the front portion of their own strength?!"
Through these attempts at attack, Tsugikuni Yoshiichi's understanding of these puppets has become deeper and deeper. Part of his attention has always been focused on the puppet of Pirate King Roger. Through the power displayed by Roger in battle, he evaluates how much power these puppets can exert in their lifetime.
Because among all these puppets, the one he knew best and was most familiar with was Roger.
At the same time, Yoshikazu Tsugikuni was also carefully observing the various reactions of each puppet when facing attacks.
Whether it was dodging or counterattacking on the spot, Tsugikoku Yoshiichi discovered that these puppets had never used any devil fruit abilities from beginning to end.
He doesn't think that these trump cards "treasured" by the World Government were used with pure dominance during their lifetime. In this world, people who can stand at the top of the ocean have many ways to obtain devil fruits, and they will definitely not mind eating a devil fruit that suits them.
Just like Yoriichi Tsugakuni. If the power brought by the devil fruit is enough to cover its side effects, then it is completely acceptable.
In this era, whether it is Whitebeard back then, or his contemporaries Rocks and Big Mom, these people are all top users of Haki and are also terrifying people with special abilities.
The corpse puppet cannot use the power of the devil fruit, which is good news for Yoshikazu Tsugikuni.
In a flash of his figure, Tsugikuni Yoshiichi had already stepped into the battlefield which was now covered by golden flames.
The purpose of this attack by Yuichiro Tsuchikuni was to test the opponent's reaction and cause casualties, which were secondary. The main purpose was that Yuichiro Tsuchikuni wanted to create a battlefield environment suitable for his performance.
After this attack, the exploding golden flames covered the entire battlefield, and only a dozen or so puppets successfully opened up a small piece of pure land.
At this time, Tsugikuni Yoshiichi was moving freely in the sea of fire, harvesting the puppets surrounded by golden flames with the long sword in his hand.
Tsugikuni Yoshiichi's figure has completely merged with the surrounding environment. At this time, he almost no longer uses the power of Conqueror's Haki, but instead relies on the ability of the devil fruit to fight.
Yunyi's body was completely transformed into elements, and the long sword in his hand was also hovering in a certain flame.
"call--"
As a clear sound rang out somewhere on the battlefield, the figure of Tsugikuni Yoshiichi emerged from the flames. A flaming sword condensed in his hand. The moment his figure appeared, the flaming sword in his hand stabbed out, directly piercing through the vest of the puppet in front of him.
In just a breath, the golden flame had engulfed the opponent's body. As the opponent's body melted, black flames burst out from his body, but that flame was quickly melted away under the wrapping of Ji Guoyuan's golden flame.
Imu's black flame and Tsugikuni Yoriichi's golden flame seem to be devil fruit abilities of the same intensity. The difference between the two lies in quantity, not quality.
However, Im's mastery and exploration of that ability did not seem as deep as imagined. At least in Tsugikoku Yoshiichi's opinion, the other party's application of that ability was still somewhat lacking.
No matter how long one's life is, sometimes there is no way to make up for the absolute gap in talent.
The whereabouts of the completely elementalized Yoshiichi Tsugakuin became unpredictable. More than a dozen puppets were trapped by Yoshiichi Tsugakuin's golden flames, and the surrounding golden flames also blocked the ability of the puppets to share vision with each other.
Under the cover of this sea of fire, Yoriichi Tsugikuni was able to move freely between different areas without worrying about being discovered by the enemy, relying on his ability to see, hear and kill.
Just as the enemy was hesitating about how to respond, in just a few breaths, Tsugikuni Yoshiichi had already traveled to many places and completely destroyed several puppets.
Those puppets had powerful and domineering aura, but they had no way to capture the trace of Tsugikuni Yoshiichi, and there was no way to release this terrifying domineering aura.
Some puppets also tried to use slashing attacks to break through the sea of fire and escape, but after the slashing attacks plowed through the ground, the golden flames instantly blocked their way forward.
Some puppets also tried to leap into the air and directly cross the sea of fire, but when their figures soared into the air, they had to face not only the golden flames that enveloped them, but also the attack of Yoriichi Tsugikuni who was hidden in it.
With nowhere to gain leverage in the air, these puppets will only become sitting ducks for Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
Beneath the holy land, in the underground palace of the garden.
The original green lawn has lost its former beauty. In Im's small garden, there are deep pits all over the ground. If you count carefully, there are 65 pits on the ground of the small garden. They are densely packed and cover the entire garden, which is exactly the number of those powerful puppets.
At the end of the garden, there is a huge open iron gate. Inside the gate is a huge ice cellar, and inside the ice cellar is an empty display stand.
The huge straw hat that was once placed on the display stand in the ice cellar is now nowhere to be seen.
At this time, in the pavilion of the small garden, Im, wearing a soaring crown on his head, sat quietly on a stone bench with a changeable expression on his face.
As she lost contact with the puppet corpses on the land battlefield, Im's face became more and more ugly.
At this moment, his right hand unconsciously clenched the teacup on the stone table. The small and exquisite jade cup turned into powder under Yim's pinch.
Unspeakable anger filled Im's chest, and at the same time, a faint fear arose in her heart.
I don’t know how many years it has been. It has been many years since Yim had such complex emotions as he is now.
Over the years, countless powerful people have tried to overthrow the Holy Land, and most of them couldn't even get past CP0, the Five Elders, or the Knights of God.
Only a very small number of people successfully walked to the front of Im, and were then instantly swallowed up by her puppet army.
But only Tsugikoku Yoriichi
Only Yoshiichi Tsugakuni did not show any signs of fatigue after being attacked by her puppet army for a long time. In fact, her puppet army was quickly weakened under Yoshiichi Tsugakuni's attack.
Such a scene has never happened before.
Even Im himself had no way to deal with these powerful puppets he created with his own hands, but Tsugikuni Yoriichi was able to kill them at will. The opponent's strength even exceeded Im's cognition.
Tsugikuni Yoriichi's strength seems to have exceeded the upper limit of this world and reached another dimension.
(End of this chapter)
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