Fist Bone Impact, Strength of Heart

What would you do if you saw a gigantic warship over a hundred meters long tearing through the sky toward you?

At that moment, Critical Point felt as though the gale was nearly suffocating him. It was like an incomparably massive shockwave surrounding the ship, and amid towering waves, the warship arrived through the air.

In an instant, it passed the Grand Fleet. Even the Golden Emperor could only remove his sunglasses and stare at the colossal object in the sky in astonishment.

This was a terrifying sight that could only be seen when an individual’s power had completely surpassed certain limits. In this world, whenever such a sight appeared, it meant that… a terrifying monster far beyond conventional power levels had emerged.

"Ha ha ha ha…"

Amid that wild laughter, everyone knew who had arrived. On the white sail hanging from the warship, the words Justice snapped loudly in the gale.

Boom!

The warship crashed from the sky into the sea. The surface instantly caved in, followed by even more terrifying waves surging in every direction.

"Run! Garp really showed up!"

After just one glance, nearly two-thirds of the Grand Fleet’s ships split off and turned around. In the underworld, no one was willing to make an enemy of Garp. Everyone knew that this willful Marine hero vice admiral possessed terrifying strength.

Michelin and the others’ pupils trembled as well. Feeling the pressure of Garp’s arrival from such close range, that intense aura impact even dampened her desire for the Singularity.

Critical Point, meanwhile, was exceptionally calm. He controlled the speedboat as it weaved through the waves.

"We’ll follow behind Garp. It’s fine. We have a decent reputation in this world, and we haven’t committed much evil. Even Garp won’t attack us without cause…"

Garp’s Cloak of Justice was their greatest safeguard. Critical Point had originally planned to abandon the Reincarnators and events on Skuld Island, avoid the coming battle, and end things with zero points.

But Garp’s arrival let him smell an opportunity.

The Golden Emperor had also regained his composure. He was the richest man in the world, controlling over twenty percent of all Beli. As the golden emperor of the underworld, his influence was vast. He was not a bounty criminal, so naturally he did not fear Garp.

"Follow him!"

Garp stood at the bow with his arms crossed. He wore that dog-head hat, but his bearing was completely different from Dalmatian’s similarly dressed appearance earlier.

In an instant, the warship tore through the black mist and entered the waters near Skuld Island. The shattered warships and countless floating corpses on the sea darkened Garp’s expression.

The tragedy here was far worse than what headquarters had reported. It was not just the branch Marines from earlier—perhaps even many of the elites dispatched by headquarters had already perished.

Garp looked at the dark, eerie Skuld Island in the distance and frowned.

"What an unpleasant, stifling feeling."

From the black fog ahead, Garp could sense too many unsettling presences. It was neither the bloody smell of humans nor the stench of charred corpses, but a gloom that seemed to suppress countless desperate souls.

"One after another… if there really is that much despair, then throw your own fists and shatter it…"

"If one punch isn’t enough, then throw two. If two aren’t enough, then throw a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred million…"

Garp stood at the bow and stepped forward again. Across the surrounding sea, everyone felt an unusual presence erupt.

The sensation that made their skin tremble as if shocked by electricity… without a doubt, it was Conqueror’s Haki!

This Marine hero, this legendary marine soldier, possessed that quality.

Crimson lightning radiated from Garp. He suddenly bent his knees, then launched himself upward with force.

Buzz!

The warship and the sea beneath it violently sank, like an enormous spring.

With a deafening bang, Garp soared high into the air.

On Skuld Island, Enel at the outskirts was the first to sense that something was wrong. The air was stirring, and the electric ions in the atmosphere had been cleared away in an instant.

He turned around and saw that within what should have been his own domain of the sky, a powerfully built marine soldier was fully extended in the air, one fist raised high. Crimson lightning violently spread across that fist.

It was this power that made his electric ions completely unable to resist. This power… a power beyond his godly strength…

Enel’s heart jolted. He almost felt a more terrifying pressure descending from the sky than when that person had punched him away earlier. In an instant, Enel transformed into lightning and shot toward the outskirts.

Below, on the island, seven or eight monsters that had been surrounding Bai Cangshu and fighting him wildly—or rather, being wildly beaten and hunted by Bai Cangshu—simultaneously noticed the anomaly overhead.

The fiery red giant bird was the first to look up. It spread its claws, and countless transparent threads appeared in the air. Every thread was enough to tear apart a warship. The innumerable threads intertwined into something like a massive birdcage.

The enormous werewolf immediately lowered its body, instinctively trying to flee, but Bai Cangshu—his eyes white and completely controlled by killing intent—grabbed its tail and violently swung it backward into the ground.

The Flame Demon, wandering along the outskirts in his half-human, half-dragon form, was not in good condition, but he was somewhat relieved. He had no idea what Mercenary Tao had encountered, but he was terrifyingly powerful now, giving him a pressure far surpassing that of the genuine Mercenary Tao from that day.

That left arm ignored Enel’s lightning, ignored his own Radiant Flame, and ignored the Moon Demon’s slashes. It was unbelievably powerful. Moreover, the intense Satsui no Hado radiating from the other man proved that that idiot Rose Tiger had truly completed a deal with him earlier.

The powerful corrosive effect of the Satsui no Hado meant that even grazing it would cause injury. Fortunately, everyone present, including himself, was fairly tough and possessed powerful regenerative abilities.

More importantly, Mercenary Tao’s condition was clearly abnormal.

His strength fluctuated wildly.

At his strongest, Mercenary Tao had nearly instantly killed Black Death amid his and the Moon Demon’s attacks, then defeated the Moon Demon in an instant. Yet at his weakest, Mercenary Tao could be sent flying by the werewolf transformed from that CP9 agent, as though he was completely unskilled in battle and merely flailing on instinct.

That was the biggest reason they could continue fighting until now.

The Flame Demon guessed that Mercenary Tao had most likely been subjected to Body Snatching by God Hand: Roland, but the two were still contending on the level of consciousness, resulting in Mercenary Tao’s current bizarre state.

In other words, this was likely the perfect chance to kill both of these Special Reincarnators.

Not only those two, but the Moon Demon as well…

As he considered this, terrifying Conqueror’s Haki appeared once more. The Flame Demon initially thought Mercenary Tao had returned to that frightening state, but when he turned around, he saw Mercenary Tao was still mindlessly brawling with the werewolf. He had no technique at all, and even his movements for exerting force were wrong, carrying little killing power.

He looked up and saw only one person descending from the sky, throwing a punch. In an instant, the crimson glow of Conqueror’s Haki Infusion dispersed all the black mist. At that moment, the Flame Demon almost felt that the entire sky had been shattered.

That pure, unstoppable force tore open the heavens before striking through the earth in a single blow.

The Flame Demon wrapped himself in his wings, layers upon layers of barriers unfolding in an instant. Then that terrifying force completely erupted.

This was an attack from a true top-tier powerhouse of this world. Even a Reincarnator like him did not dare confront it head-on.

"Ha~ ha ha."

Amid unconscious, frenzied laughter, the Flame Demon saw Mercenary Tao kick the werewolf away, as if saving its life, then instead leap fiercely upward. His left hand clenched into a fist as crimson lotus flames erupted again.

Garp descended from the sky and threw a punch. The air above the entire island was swept up by overwhelming force and Haki, then smashed apart together. There was no room to deflect the force. This punch of his was aimed at the entire island.

If something like Eldorado could only bring about such tragedy, then it should sink to the bottom of the sea.

Yet beneath that immense pressure that should have crushed everyone under terrifying air pressure, a black-haired man actually fought madly upward against the current. As crimson lotus flames erupted, black Conqueror’s Haki surged toward Garp as well.

Garp’s expression tightened. He had no interest in who this person was or what he wanted. He simply drove his fist through to the end.

Fist Bone Impact!

The two surging waves of Conqueror’s Haki collided directly. The sky was completely torn apart, and the black mist around Skuld Island began to disperse as though it had truly been shredded by a gale.

Garp felt the surging force on that fist, as well as a madness of killing intent he had never experienced before, constantly corroding his body. Those dark purple ripples seemed intent on destroying everything.

But… this power was not firm enough!

A slight change appeared in Bai Cangshu’s whitened eyes. The crimson Haki pierced through his body, causing the Yin Spirits occupying the Throne of the Heart to nearly collapse in an instant.

Boom!

Space seemed to twist, followed by a terrifying force exploding in midair.

Rumble!

The terrifying force drove Bai Cangshu’s body straight into the ground. The enormous face in the earth cracked first, then shattered, and afterward the true lower layer beneath it began to break apart as well.

The island violently shook in an instant, its terrain collapsing. The place where the town had once stood directly split apart. Seawater emerged from underground, and the entire island began to crumble…

Within Bai Cangshu’s blank consciousness world, that crimson Conqueror’s Haki directly blasted into the space, almost scattering the black Yin Spirit Tower.

Countless weak Yin Spirits could not withstand that surging aura and directly dispersed, only to reform in the Yellow Springs.

Bai Cangshu also felt that straightforward, domineering will rampaging through his consciousness world.

"Tsk, these weaklings can’t bring out the full performance of this body at all…"

He mocked them, but his expression grew serious. He started walking, faster and faster, until he was level with Satoru Gojo on the other side.

"You people should recognize who the true master is by now…"

He walked faster and faster, his body becoming increasingly solid. Bai Cangshu casually tore apart the Yin Spirits before him. By the time he reached the Throne of the Heart, only four people remained.

Satoru Gojo, his head tilted slightly back and his eyelids lowered;

Bai Cangshu, leaning forward, his body so solid it was almost physical;

Roland, radiating white light, with nearly ten thousand Yin Spirits behind him devoutly pressing their hands together; and Corey, who was still trying to pull Roland back.

The marine soldier Corey was wrapped in white light, but he did not accept that hope at all. He used all his strength to tug at Roland and said to Bai Cangshu,

"Go! Fulfill that promise!"

Bai Cangshu, Satoru Gojo, and Roland reached out at the same time, touching the Throne of the Heart.

Almost instantly, their bodies began to press against one another as a clash of pure consciousness strength began.