On the side of the World Government, the four remaining Five Elders were still finding it difficult to break free from the Chibaku Tensei's binding.
Seeing the sky full of golden chains rushing out from behind Luo Chen, they immediately roared:
"Quick, shatter those chains!"
Once the spatial blockade was complete, it would be too difficult to summon Saturn back.
Garling and Shamrock of the God's Knights swung their long swords.
However, as soon as the sword beams rushed out, they were affected by the gravitational force on the Five Elders and deviated from their trajectories.
The gravity acting on the Five Elders was becoming stronger and stronger.
Junko, Chiringomu, and Somasz of the God's Knights were already plastered tightly against Topman Warcury's wild boar body.
No matter how they struggled, they could not break free.
The stronger Supreme Commander Garling and Captain Shamrock were still resisting with all their might.
However, they still could not escape the fate of crashing toward the Five Elders.
Garp, Kizaru, and Akainu were in the same situation.
Especially Akainu; because he was heavily injured and completely unable to resist, he was stuck tightly against Marcus Mars's snake-bird body.
His cold, severe face, squeezed flat by the snake scales, was filled with rage.
On one hand, the posture was too humiliating.
On the other hand, he had been ambushed by Aokiji before the battle even started, losing his combat effectiveness and becoming a burden.
Kizaru turned into a man of light and flew out a few meters, only to be sucked back a few meters in the blink of an eye.
His old, wrinkled face was covered in sweat.
Garp struggled for a while, then directly gave up resisting. Covering his whole body in Armament Haki, he slammed heavily into Nusjuro's skeleton horse body.
Several bones on the horse's body cracked.
Nusjuro revealed a look of pain and glared angrily at Garp.
This bastard, knowing he was going to crash into him, actually used Armament Haki to increase his hardness.
He obviously did it on purpose.
Garp sneered, crossing his arms over his chest to observe all directions.
He wanted to see how the Five Elders could still deal with Luo Chen.
The Chibaku Tensei had thoroughly sealed the movements of the Five Elders and the God's Knights.
The golden chains also completed the blockade at this moment.
The entire Sea-Suppressing Star Hub was enveloped by golden chains, making the space incredibly stable.
Only the controller, Luo Chen, could shuttle freely through this space.
His gaze was sharp, and his Conqueror's Haki poured out.
The Five Elders and the God's Knights were all within the coverage range.
The four monsters roared unwillingly, but eventually, they reverted to their human forms.
The arrow strips floating around Junko turned into ordinary bandages and hung down.
Chiringomu Sei's Qilin head reverted to a human form.
Kizaru's elementalization could no longer be used; he helplessly gave up resistance and flew backward, crashing into the bald Elder and Garp.
Seeing that only Garling and Shamrock were still resisting, he sighed silently: "Isn't this a defeat?"
"How can this gravity and Conqueror's Haki be broken?"
Now, the Five Elders and the others were in a state of "imprisonment."
Squeezed tightly together, they could not move.
A large amount of seawater was rushing toward them from below.
Everyone could only launch attacks again and again to scatter and repel the seawater, delaying for a short time.
Luo Chen stood in the void, pitch-black patterns emerging on his face.
Sage Mode activated.
The sea surface beneath his feet surged with an astonishing arc, and a Thousand-Armed Kannon statue over a thousand meters high revealed itself to the world.
Luo Chen landed on the head of the Kannon statue, and azure energy surged out of his body like a vast ocean.
This azure energy surrounded the exterior of the Thousand-Armed Kannon statue, instantly condensing into majestic armor.
Susanoo clad over the Thousand-Armed Great Buddha!
The forms of the two ultimate moves completely merged, turning into an Azure Martial God Giant over a thousand meters tall with a thousand huge arms.
Each thick arm, resembling a long dragon, held a giant sword hundreds of meters long.
Wrapped around the giant swords were Armament Haki, Conqueror's Haki, and the power of Kamui.
A thousand huge sword bodies obscured the sun in the sky, casting a boundless shadow.
The one thousand spatial vortexes slowly rotating at the edges of the blades looked like the eyes of demons.
The space above the entire island distorted slightly, rippling like the surface of a lake.
The sky full of golden chains trembled violently.
The light in the air bent, presenting a colorful display.
Kizaru looked up at the thousand terrifying giant swords in the sky, his face twitching.
Now he could not move.
He could not use his Fruit's elementalization either.
If he were hit, he would definitely die.
Standing on the back of the wood dragon in the distance, Aokiji spoke up to persuade them:
"Kizaru, surrender."
"Mr. Garp, Luo Chen has already promised to rescue Vice Admiral Tsuru; there is no need for you to fight anymore."
His task was mainly to persuade the two to surrender.
As for the reason Garp joined the war, Aokiji had heard about it.
When he was in the Kamui dimension, he had informed Luo Chen of this matter.
Garp and Kizaru looked conflicted.
They did not possess immortal bodies.
If hit by this move of Luo Chen's, they would absolutely die.
They could not defend against it.
Both of them had witnessed Luo Chen killing Greenbull earlier.
Greenbull couldn't even use Armament Haki to defend himself.
In other words, if Luo Chen wanted to kill them, it would be equivalent to slashing directly at physical bodies with no defensive measures.
Those one thousand giant swords wrapped in numerous powers were enough to chop them into mincemeat.
Luo Chen was in no hurry to bring down the giant swords; he said calmly, "Kizaru, Akainu, Garp."
"For the three of you, those who surrender will not be killed."
"As for Vice Admiral Tsuru, Garp, I can help you rescue her."
"Today, no one from the Five Elders or the God's Knights can leave."
"Exchanging them for one Tsuru is easy."
If Garp was willing to surrender, Luo Chen could help him rescue Tsuru.
Regarding the East Blue incident, the culprits were ultimately Onigumo and Sengoku.
All decisions were made by Sengoku.
Tsuru was powerless to stop it even if she wanted to.
If she had a fault, it was at most not exposing it to the world after learning the truth.
In Vice Admiral Tsuru's position, on one side was her old friend Sengoku, with whom she had lived and died; on the other side was adhering to justice and exposing the crime.
It was indeed a difficult choice.
Luo Chen's promise moved Kizaru and Garp.
The two of them had no intention of fighting Luo Chen from the beginning.
Kizaru was worried about being hunted down by the World Government.
Garp was worried about Tsuru's safety.
Now that Luo Chen had suppressed many strong individuals of the World Government and promised to rescue Tsuru, the worries of both men were resolved.
Garp was the first to state his position, sighing, "I am willing to surrender."
After speaking, he looked dispirited, as if he had aged more than ten years.
In the past, he was the Marine Hero who chased Roger all over the world and suppressed the major pirates.
Today, he actually surrendered to a young pirate.
Garp never thought there would be such a day.
He truly felt that he was old.
Too old to swing his fists, unable to save any friends, only able to pin his hopes on Luo Chen.
Only Luo Chen could help him rescue Little Tsuru from the hands of the World Government.
Sengoku was gone; Garp absolutely could not let Tsuru suffer danger again.
Even if the price was that he, the world-renowned Marine Hero, submitted to Luo Chen, submitted to a pirate emperor...
Garp's surrender made Kizaru look at him involuntarily.
He met the gloomy gazes of the Five Elders and the God's Knights, met Akainu's angry stare, was silent for a moment, and said:
"I am also willing to surrender."
Today, not surrendering meant death.
Kizaru just wanted to find a stable place to work.
The World Government insisted that he risk his life to deal with Luo Chen.
Not surrendering and throwing away his life for a job, wouldn't that be being a fool?
Kizaru's surrender completely enraged the Five Elders and Akainu.
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