Left Arm of the King (4K)

Bai Cangshu repeatedly kicked off the air with Moonwalk. He was already extremely fast, and with nothing obstructing him in the sky, even at full speed, the green light could not completely shake him off.

Bai Cangshu saw that the item, suspected to be a Fellow Traveler Card from the Hunter x Hunter World, had brought Moon Demon and the other woman back to the center of Skuld Island. The once-familiar town had now become a living hell.

Thunder rumbled across the sky as Enel returned. Bai Cangshu could not tell whether Moon Demon had chosen this place to use the chaos to shake him off, or whether he truly had the confidence to protect himself with the Netherworld opened.

The ground at the center of town had been completely corrupted by the Netherworld. Massive human faces emerged everywhere, replacing the sandy ground, while the buildings themselves sprouted flesh and blood.

The ground had almost become a human hell. Red-eyed islanders and Skypieans pounced on the Netherworld demons with both hands and feet, biting and tearing at them. Those twisted demons were even more straightforward, grabbing the infected humans and biting their heads clean off in a single mouthful.

These two groups, neither of them human any longer, had turned the center of the island into a feast of flesh and blood. The stench of blood was so thick it nearly drowned out the demons’ own odor.

Countless tiny faces covered the enormous arm, some crying, some laughing, displaying every emotion within the human race in vivid detail. The green light landed near the harbor, where all the ships had already been destroyed by naval bombardment.

Bai Cangshu descended from the air and casually swung his left hand.

Bang!

A red-eyed Skypiean who had lost a leg lunged at Bai Cangshu, only to crash straight into the punch.

His head burst like a watermelon, and his body flew backward like a rag doll before several Netherworld demons tore it apart in a scramble.

Bai Cangshu had already spotted Moon Demon and his companion in the distance. Moon Demon swung his sword, cutting down the Netherworld demons that approached.

These demons varied greatly in strength. The weaker ones were only somewhat stronger than ordinary people. They were no match for well-trained cold-weapon warriors and could even be torn apart barehanded by elite Marines.

But the powerful demons mixed among them possessed strength that completely crushed humans.

Seeing Mercenary Tao ignore the demons and continue pressing toward her, Jing knew he intended to kill her. Her breathing rhythm shifted, her hands opened, and an intense burst of Nen erupted from her body.

Whoosh—

Like a fierce wind, in Bai Cangshu’s eyes, the woman’s presence surged in an instant. She had initially felt somewhat weaker than him, but now she seemed to have become a ferocious beast.

Jing stood before Moon Demon, pointing her index finger at Bai Cangshu from afar. Her shoulder-length short hair was violently tossed by the Nen Aura constantly spilling from her body.

At the same time, her eyes turned scarlet.

"Mercenary Tao, I…"

Boom!

Blue-white lightning descended from the heavens, interrupting the woman’s threat. Bai Cangshu became an afterimage in an instant. The Soru he used was growing closer and closer to the original effect as lightning exploded against the ground.

But Enel did not seem to be targeting anyone this time. He was unleashing indiscriminate lightning strikes over a wide area. As Bai Cangshu evaded the lightning, he charged toward Moon Demon again.

The lightning injuries on Jing’s body healed rapidly. A fierce gust struck from behind, and she instantly spun around, throwing a punch. Golden Nen Aura erupted from her fist.

Bang!

The air cannon exploded instantly, but there was nothing before her. Instead, just as Moon Demon raised his sword to block, he was sent flying by a black shadow.

Jing’s expression changed. The ends of her hair began turning white. Nen Ability had a very special effect—Vows and Limitations.

Users of Nen Ability could greatly strengthen their abilities by establishing special Vows and Limitations.

Simply put, they imposed extreme restrictions on themselves in exchange for greatly enhanced Nen Ability. The higher the price paid, the better the enhancement gained.

Jing’s limitation was particularly unusual. Her Nen Ability could only be used on Reincarnators, and each use consumed a great deal of her lifespan. In exchange, she received an explosive increase in Nen Aura and forcibly changed her Nen Ability’s nature into the Enhancement type.

At the same time, because of her Sabretooth Mutant bloodline, the lifespan she could expend was extremely high. This was the foundation of her extraordinary combat power.

Jing curled her toes. In the next moment, the human faces on the ground exploded into great masses of flesh and blood. At the same time, her speed rose to its limit. In this state, she could finally clearly see Mercenary Tao, whose body moved like an afterimage.

Yet when Mercenary Tao saw Jing’s movement, a crueler smile appeared on his face instead.

"Third-Order Instant!"

Bang!

A sonic boom cloud appeared instantly. In Jing’s eyes, Mercenary Tao’s figure became a blurred afterimage again, while the Blazing White sonic boom cloud remained before that afterimage. At that moment, Moon Demon truly felt the threat of death.

His heart pounded as though convulsing. Adrenaline flooded his system, pain vanished from his body, and in an instant, Black Blade: Yoru completely disappeared.

Buzz!

An azure lotus bloomed again as the terrifying Peerless Sword Dance erupted.

Bai Cangshu saw it clearly. There was not the slightest opening in this strike. Dense sword light covered every angle completely, but he had no intention of waiting for a Reincarnator of this level to reveal a weakness.

He drew a deep breath, and his right arm swelled completely. Extreme speed transformed into ultimate force. His right hand flattened into a blade, golden Ripples flowing behind his arm like a dazzling golden trail.

Immortal Path: Grand Demonic Spear!

Pfft!

Emerald sword light swept across Bai Cangshu’s body. The sounds of muscle and bone being sliced apart rang without end, but Bai Cangshu seemed unable to feel pain and had no intention of dodging. The Magic Spear struck directly at the center of the emerald sword-light lotus.

Flesh burst apart in an instant. Bai Cangshu’s right hand was swallowed by sword light, but the immense force traveled along his arm bones, completely piercing through the sword momentum and stabbing into Moon Demon’s chest.

"You…"

Moon Demon raised Black Blade: Yoru high and stared at the unrecognizable Mercenary Tao. Blood sprayed from his mouth and nose as Netherworld demons all around them lunged in to feed. A vicious expression appeared on his face.

Moon Demon was deeply unwilling to accept this. If not for that shot from Critical Point, if not for Enel’s Raigo, if not for Flame Demon’s Brilliant Flame Blast that traded injury for injury…

If even one of those conditions had been absent, he would never have been severely wounded.

But those conditions had appeared at the same time, allowing even a Reincarnator at Mercenary Tao’s level a chance to reach his heart.

A piece of trash like this, such a lowly thing, could decide whether he lived or died?!

Immense unwillingness mixed with the pain and terror of his heart being pierced by bone. Moon Demon’s eyes rolled completely white, and his muscles swelled again in an instant. The muscles and bones in his chest clamped down on Mercenary Tao’s right arm, allowing the other’s right hand to regenerate within his chest, while both hands gripped Black Blade: Yoru overhead.

Powerful Armament Haki covered both hands, and Black Blade: Yoru rang with a sword cry from thin air.

"Die…!"

She brought Black Blade down fiercely, but Bai Cangshu was just as ruthless now. As his heart pounded violently, bloody steam began to rise, and his entire body expanded by more than a full size.

As the sword fell, he merely tilted his head aside and let the strike slash into his shoulder blade. His regenerated right hand inside Moon Demon’s body felt that warm heart, and intense energy gathered within it.

"Die!"

Wail—

The roar of energy erupted sharply, crashing forward at the speed of an afterimage.

Bang!

Blood mist scattered as Bai Cangshu was flung away, but he laughed wildly. A blood hole as wide as a bowl had appeared in Moon Demon’s chest, and beyond it, the heart was nowhere to be seen.

Jing watched this scene and futilely stretched out a hand. Green light radiated from Moon Demon’s entire body, circling around him. He did not fall, only staggered a step and drove Black Blade into the enormous human face beneath his feet to support himself.

You have suffered an attack from XX53562211. Based on the Mental Power gap between both sides, you have obtained the following information.

You have suffered an attack from Dodon Ray. Cardiac function has been lost. Your vital point has been completely destroyed.

You have entered a near-death state...

Sequence Ability: Indomitable Will activated. Your injuries will be fixed. This state cannot be dispelled by any ability with equal or lower priority. While Indomitable Will lasts, you will ignore damage and remain alive. Once Indomitable Will ends, you will die.

Despair filled Moon Demon’s heart. This was a team battle world, and they had triggered a special cooperation mission. It was impossible for it to end in a short time. Without the space’s treatment, he was likely already…

Pain like burning flames pierced Moon Demon’s nerves. The terror of death closing in was far worse than the shock of death itself. The time before Indomitable Will ended was like a countdown to death.

"Aah!"

Moon Demon roared. His voice shifted from a deep male voice to a high-pitched female one, becoming shrill and piercing. Moon Demon no longer cared about anything. She slashed out with her sword, and the sword light once again stretched for a thousand meters. The enormous human faces on the ground split one after another, blood gushing forth.

Jing watched the scene, her heart sinking. Moon Demon seemed beyond saving…

The white in Jing’s hair had reached her temples. Looking at Mercenary Tao being pursued by Moon Demon at the end of his rope, she turned to leave.

"Are you abandoning me?!"

The massive voice shook heaven and earth. Jing felt as if it had pierced straight through her body. She froze in place, her muscles straining as she slowly turned around bit by bit. Upon the enormous palm a thousand meters high, a huge figure had changed from blurry to solid.

What horrified Jing even more was that the giant figure twisted ceaselessly, as though its body had no fixed shape. Yet amidst its constant distortion and transformation, its eyes remained fixed directly on her, unchanged in the slightest.

You have suffered the gaze of Special Reincarnator Roland. You have suffered the corruption of God Hand.

Exemption check in progress...

Check failed.

You will undergo transformation.

Damn it. Jing’s heart jolted. She had no choice. She charged directly toward the base of the giant palm, golden Nen Aura blazing violently across her body. At this moment, she was actually somewhat glad that this thing had been judged to be a Reincarnator.

Her shoulder-length short hair began turning white in an instant. She had completely burned her lifespan in exchange for an extreme enhancement of her Nen Aura. Her skin began to wrinkle, but a gigantic Buddha statue appeared behind Jing.

With a palm strike, the air for hundreds of meters was completely enveloped by Nen Aura, as though the enormous Buddha behind her had toppled forward along with the entire space.

Buddha’s Kowtow!

Pfft!

The giant human hand a thousand meters tall collapsed in an instant. Blood burst forth like a riverbank breaking, flooding the space that had once been a small town.

Jing did not hear a kill notification. She only felt incomparably refreshed as the blood submerged her.

In the distance, Moon Demon watched Jing completely release her vow. His body twisted bit by bit, crying faces emerging across his muscles and face, while his sword momentum grew ever more despairing.

Moon Demon suddenly felt an itch in his body. Looking down, he saw that his right hand holding the sword had also begun to mutate.

Rip!

Thunder rolled in the sky, and blue-white ions began flickering in the air again. This was the sign that Enel was activating Raigo, that terrifying wide-range ability.

Feeling the numbness across his skin, Bai Cangshu did not choose to flee. Instead, he looked at Jing, whose movements had stopped due to her bodily mutation, and lunged at her the moment thunder exploded.

His hands turned into afterimages as countless fists rained down.

A freezing intent of death surged in an instant.

Splurt!

As countless crying faces shattered together, Bai Cangshu heard a relieved sigh.

You have killed Reincarnator MJ60040036 in a team battle world.

You have suffered the gaze of Special Reincarnator Roland. You have suffered the corruption of God Hand.

Exemption check in progress.

At that instant, countless figures flashed before Bai Cangshu’s eyes like scenes in a lantern show, finally stopping on the moments when he used the capsule to kill Mercenary Tao and harvested Homelander in New York.

"You betrayed them…"

Check failed.

You will undergo transformation.

Bai Cangshu felt the vitality of his body begin increasing abnormally, as though another will was beginning to emerge.

At the same time, gray Ripples swept across the entire sea. In the distance, a monster transformed into a giant gray wolf threw Blueno, whose hair resembled bull horns, from its mouth. Black Death, wearing a mask, was struck by lightning while fleeing, and his body also began to mutate.

Moon Demon stood motionless in the distance, both hands pressing on his sword, his body tilted. He returned from the frenzy of death closing in to utter stillness, holding back a final desperate strike before death.

"Roar of the Fire Dragon!"

Boom!

Massive flames exploded from behind, high heat sweeping across nearly a thousand meters. An enormous Fire Dragon appeared in the sky. Though his surface bore injuries, Flame Demon was thick-skinned and tough-fleshed after Dragon Transformation, undoubtedly one of the more survivable types.

Bai Cangshu watched the cells across his body twitch, then suddenly grabbed his left arm and tore hard.

Splurt!

The severed arm and blood drew in a large number of demons. Bai Cangshu laughed loudly, throwing the arm out for the demons to devour. Then light flashed in his hand.

Thump!

It was as though the world had skipped a beat.

A withered arm appeared in Bai Cangshu’s hand, and he immediately pressed it against his severed shoulder.

Warning, Great Sin Reincarnator EX051. You are attempting to equip an unverified Bio-Implant. This action may cause you to suffer unknown infection, mutation, consciousness invasion, or bodily rejection.

Bai Cangshu showed no reaction. He still resolutely forced the withered severed arm into the place where his arm had broken off, before his body regrew the arm, before his body completely mutated.

Crackle—Boom!

Blinding lightning erupted in an instant. Raigo swept through everything. Netherworld demons began vanishing one by one within the indiscriminate lightning, while the giant human-face palm a thousand meters tall was ignited and turned black.

At that moment, Moon Demon’s eyes widened. Black Blade: Yoru suddenly moved, slashing toward Bai Cangshu.

Thump, thump, thump…

Rip!

Black lightning erupted from thin air.

Bai Cangshu felt an incomparably surging aura erupt from within his body. That was… Conqueror’s Haki!