"John, I hope you can be sensible!"
Li Yuan thought to himself as he looked down at John from above the island.
Logically speaking, as the Captain of the Infinite Pirates, knowing that John would never submit to him, he should have captured John alive and replaced his will, allowing his own people to control John's body.
After all, John had consumed the Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit, the Human-Human Fruit, which granted him immense power. Coupled with John's own top-tier strength, acquiring him would mean gaining another loyal powerhouse.
However, Li Yuan did not take that route.
He remembered that when he first joined the Rocks Pirates, it was John who had stood by him, allowing him to be exceptionally chosen as an officer by Rocks.
Later, during his time in the Rocks Pirates, John had even tried to recruit him. When that failed, he never offended him and often shared drinks at banquets. It could be said that John was one of the few people Li Yuan could sit down and drink with.
Thus, as long as John did not infringe upon his interests, Li Yuan would not actively seek to kill him. After all, as time passed, the number of people he could drink with in this world would only decrease.
"Damn it, something really happened at Impel Down!"
Not long after John left, Sengoku arrived at Impel Down. Looking at the ruined gates, Sengoku immediately used Moon Walk to fly into the prison without waiting for the warship to approach.
"Tell me clearly, what the hell happened here!"
Upon arriving at Impel Down, Sengoku found a few surviving guards to inquire.
"Admiral Sengoku, it was the Infinite Pirates, it was Li Yuan, it was Esdeath! They defeated Director Magellan and freed many prisoners!"
Seeing Sengoku, the guards felt a sense of relief and quickly shared the information they had.
"Damn it, that guy Li Yuan again!"
Hearing the guards' words made Sengoku grit his teeth in hatred for Li Yuan, but he dared not send the Navy after him. Instead, he could only report the matter to the Five Elders, leaving them to deal with the headache.
After all, Impel Down was not a subordinate institution of the Navy; it was directly under the World Government, so all losses could not be attributed to the Navy.
North Sea, Graystone Island: Aramaki was trapped in the Dark Night Domain, suffering from Wei Zhuang's bizarre and violent attacks. At this moment, if it weren't for the continuous life force granted by the Mori Mori Fruit, he would have long since collapsed.
"Ahhhhh, die already!"
Driven to a dead end, Aramaki screamed in madness, rapidly expending his stamina to unleash his abilities.
"Flower Realm Descends!!"
In an instant, green light filled the ground, and enormous ancient trees shot up from the earth, towering dozens to even hundreds of meters high, covering a radius of kilometers.
Within this area, Aramaki could clearly sense that his previously suppressed Observation Haki had finally returned.
Atop the ancient trees bloomed red flowers, exuding an incredibly rich fragrance. Once the enemy inhaled this scent, they would unknowingly become poisoned and hallucinate.
"Wood Realm Strangulation!"
With his Observation Haki restored, Aramaki could clearly detect Wei Zhuang's location. With a thought, all the trees in the forest began to move, transforming into massive tentacles that surrounded and strangled Wei Zhuang.
"Just a final desperate struggle!"
Even faced with hundreds or thousands of giant wooden tentacles, Wei Zhuang was still able to nimbly evade the countless branches attacking him.
More importantly, this forest was also shrouded in the Dark Night Domain, and the trees could not contain the power of the night, as it was omnipresent!
As Wei Zhuang exited the range of Aramaki's Wood Realm, he instantly vanished from his original spot and reappeared above the Dark Night Domain, looking down at Aramaki.
The black lightning on Futsunomitama perfectly adhered to the sword, merging flawlessly with his dark powers and Haki.
As Wei Zhuang spread his wings and dove down rapidly, all the power within the Dark Night Domain was mobilized.
"Horizontal Sword Technique: All Directions Kill!"
The dense dark power of the entire Dark Night Domain was completely diluted, then continuously condensed and compressed into ten massive shadow slashes, each a hundred meters long.
As Wei Zhuang dove down, those ten slashes flew toward the center of the Wood Realm where Aramaki was located from ten different directions.
Wherever the shadow slashes passed, all the ancient trees were easily severed as if they were made of straw.
Aramaki's last proud move was utterly powerless against Wei Zhuang's attack, easily destroyed.
"No!!!!"
Seeing this scene, Aramaki screamed in despair, frantically channeling all his strength to block the ten shadow slashes, even attempting to evade.
But no matter how hard he tried, he could not block those ten shadow slashes, which even changed direction, leaving him no room to escape!
"Ripping!!!" × 10 The ten shadow slashes simultaneously tore through the wooden armor that had protected Aramaki, shredding the Armament Haki that covered his body.
At this moment, Aramaki was like a prisoner being executed, his entire body brutally slashed by the ten shadow strikes.
"Poof!!!"
A mouthful of blood erupted from Aramaki's mouth, and despite his weakened state, he relied on his immense life force to remain standing.
"This ends now!"
However, just at this critical moment, Wei Zhuang, wielding Futsunomitama, descended like a long-planned reaper, slashing down from Aramaki's forehead as if to split him in two.
In that instant, Aramaki was completely frozen in place, watching helplessly as Wei Zhuang slowly sheathed his Futsunomitama before him.
"Bang!!!"
Faced with Wei Zhuang's indifferent gaze, Aramaki's body collapsed to the ground, the vibrant life force within him completely dissipating, as endless darkness surged into his body, sealing away all his vitality.
"I won't accept this!!"
Just before his vision turned dark, Aramaki could hardly believe that he had been defeated so thoroughly, without even a chance to escape!
"No one cares about the unwillingness of the defeated; you can only blame yourself for being too weak!"
Wei Zhuang seemed to hear Aramaki's thoughts, snorting coldly. Then, Aramaki's entire body was enveloped in darkness and vanished into the shadow behind Wei Zhuang.
"Captain, all World Government personnel on this island have been completely eradicated!!"
Lafitte flew over, flapping his bat wings.
"Clear away all traces of our Reverse Current Sand, then retreat. The Navy's reinforcements should be arriving soon!"
Wei Zhuang instructed.
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