"Hahahaha, I didn't expect you Celestial Dragon to have some skills! Again, again!"
After seeing Saint Garling's true strength, Nox laughed excitedly and charged forward again.
He had already confirmed that Saint Garling was still young, his strength had not reached its peak, he was even weaker than Kong, and he likely hadn't eaten a Devil Fruit yet. With this level of strength, it was completely possible for him to kill him.
"Three-Element Fusion Secret Art - Domineering Enchantment - Heaven and Earth Destruction Slash!"
Nox descended rapidly from high altitude like a meteor, his invisible Sword Intent transforming into a solid illusion of Mount Tai.
The destructive aura on the Seven Star Sword's blade, once unleashed, would collapse the sky and annihilate the earth!
"One-Sword Style - Whirlwind Slash!"
Countless extremely sharp blades spun, forming a blade storm.
At this moment, Saint Garling was like a blade tornado rising from the ground and shooting towards the sky, wanting to cut apart the meteor that was falling and destroying heaven and earth.
"Bang bang bang bang!!!"
However, the extremely overbearing figure falling from the sky suppressed everything with the might of Mount Tai, crushing all the blade tornadoes with an invincible posture.
The Seven Star Sword, descending like the Five Finger Mountain, pressed down forcefully on Ryusui. Saint Garling, holding Ryusui, felt intense pain throughout his body from the pressure, and a mouthful of blood gushed from his mouth.
Just as Saint Garling was about to forcefully push away Nox, who was pressing down on him, Nox suddenly changed his sword stance. The Seven Star Sword slid across the Ryusui's blade, then took an unconventional path, slashing horizontally towards Saint Garling's abdomen.
Saint Garling had not expected Nox to do this. Caught off guard, his abdomen was slashed by the Seven Star Sword. Fortunately, he instinctively pulled in his abdomen and retreated, avoiding the outcome of his stomach being cut open.
Even so, a three-centimeter deep sword wound, spanning his entire abdomen, was left on him.
Despite this, Saint Garling was incredibly calm at this moment. He suddenly retracted Ryusui and thrust it towards Nox's heart.
Nox did the same, immediately thrusting his sword towards Saint Garling's heart after retracting it.
With the same speed and targeting the same vital spot, if either of them had flinched, they could have avoided being injured by the other.
But these two were ruthless individuals. Even when injured, they insisted on giving the other a sword strike.
At the critical moment, both simultaneously turned sideways to avoid the heart area, covered their bodies with Busoshoku Haki for defense, and then thrust out their swords with full force.
"Rip!!" × 2
The Seven Star Sword and Ryusui simultaneously pierced into each other's bodies. Even with the defense of Busoshoku Haki, they couldn't block the sharpness of Supreme Grade Swords.
Saint Garling's body was directly pierced by the Seven Star Sword, while Ryusui, known as the sharpest, was stuck by Nox's muscles and could not advance an inch.
"How is this possible!!"
Seeing this scene, Saint Garling was shocked and incredibly angry. A mouthful of rebellious blood gushed out. His decision just now was a complete loss!
His own body was pierced, while the other party only suffered a minor, insignificant injury. His idea of trading injuries had failed!
"Bang!!!" × 2
Saint Garling and Nox simultaneously raised their feet and kicked each other. Both were kicked flying, and their swords were simultaneously pulled out of their respective bodies.
"Cough cough!!!"
Saint Garling immediately used Life Return to seal the wound, but the intense pain caused by the three types of Sword Intent lingering around the wound and the significant amount of blood absorbed by that demonic sword could not be recovered.
"Compared to me in physique, you're far behind!"
Nox sneered in his heart.
His physique had been tempered with advanced Haki on his skin and muscles, which was incomparable to Saint Garling's physique. This guy thought of trading injuries if he couldn't win directly, but he miscalculated!
"Hahahaha, again, again!!"
Seeing Saint Garling's injured and disheveled appearance, Nox laughed heartily, then frantically swung the Seven Star Sword in his hand, attacking wildly.
His swordplay, which was wild to the extreme, unpredictable, and could constantly find the opponent's weaknesses, made it difficult even for Saint Garling, a Grand Swordmaster, to parry.
Saint Garling's swordplay was both offensive and defensive, and very solid, but he met a sword road monster like Nox.
More importantly, Nox relied on his incredibly powerful physique and took risky moves. When he couldn't defeat Saint Garling in a short time, he forced Saint Garling to trade injuries with him as before.
And after knowing Nox's monstrous physique, how could Saint Garling be willing to do that?
So every time Nox forced him in this way, Saint Garling retreated again and again, not daring to trade injuries with Nox.
This was what made Saint Garling feel so stifled. His sword moves were broken, his attacks were neutralized, his physique was inferior, his swordplay was inferior, and he was injured. From the very beginning, he had fallen into an absolute disadvantage.
Even in a prolonged battle, he was led by the nose by Nox.
On the island, it wasn't just Saint Garling being suppressed by Nox.
CP0 Vice Chief Segun Colmi is a Mercury Devil Fruit user of the Logia type, who is countered by Golden Lion, who possesses the Float-Float Fruit ability. He was also being beaten back repeatedly.
After all, Golden Lion could manipulate things like seawater, islands, and Rocks to attack, and he also had the advantage of flight. It was only a matter of time before he defeated or even killed the CP0 Deputy Chief.
Although the five Gorosei all had Admiral-level strength, they hadn't fought for who knows how long. Many of their combat techniques were rusty, and they all fell into a disadvantage when facing Whitebeard and others.
They were barely maintaining an undefeated situation by relying on the almost infinite healing power of their Mythical Zoan forms.
Especially Scientific Defense Warrior God Saturn Saint, who was fighting Whitebeard, was beaten the worst. Whitebeard's exaggerated vibration power had immense destructive force.
Even with the healing power of a Mythical Zoan, Scientific Defense Warrior God Saturn Saint felt he couldn't last for a few more days.
After all, even healing power is a type of Mythical Zoan ability, and it requires consuming stamina. The moment stamina is exhausted is the moment they will be defeated.
"gura rara rara, is this the Gorosei? They're not as strong as I imagined!"
Holding Murakumogiri in his left hand, Whitebeard blocked the attacks of two of Five Elders Saturn Saint's spider legs and laughed heartily. Then, the moment he clenched his right fist, treasure-colored transparent vibration power gathered on his right fist.
"Air Quake!"
The moment his right fist punched out, space fractured, and the invisible vibration swept through Five Elders Saturn Saint's entire Ushi-Oni form. Even if his defense was stronger, it was useless. The vibration penetrated his body and directly injured his internal organs!
"Damn Whitebeard!!"
Five Elders Saturn Saint's massive Ushi-Oni body was sent flying hundreds of meters by Whitebeard. His face was terrifyingly grim. As a Gorosei, being beaten by a Pirate with no ability to fight back was simply a great humiliation.
He had faced Rocks in the same way back then. Six years later, facing Rocks' former subordinate, it was still the same. This was simply rubbing his self-esteem on the ground!
But he had no way to do anything about it. The current Whitebeard was too strong. Although not as strong as Rocks was back then, he was very close to Rocks' level at that time!
Now, whenever he thought of Rocks, he felt incredibly annoyed. Even after his death, that guy left behind a pile of messes.
"gura rara rara, the Gorosei are nothing special!"
Whitebeard laughed mockingly, then continued to charge up to torment the Gorosei.
However, while he was tormenting them, he wouldn't use his full power or go for the kill.
He wasn't like Golden Lion and Nox, those two ambitious guys who genuinely wanted to kill the Gorosei.
If the Gorosei died at his hands, he would definitely be severely retaliated against by the World Government.
He, Whitebeard, or rather, the Whitebeard Pirates, couldn't withstand the World Government's retaliation. This current alliance of interests could shatter at any moment. He couldn't rely on this alliance to have other Great Pirates help him when the World Government retaliated against him.
So even if he had the strength to kill Five Elders Saturn Saint, he wouldn't do it. He didn't want his child to die at the hands of the World Government in the future.
It wasn't just Whitebeard who thought this way. John and others who were also fighting the Gorosei thought the same.
Of course, they didn't have the ability to kill the Gorosei, and even if they did, they wouldn't have the thought of killing them. Instead, they would stall the opponents, wait for the other battles to end, wait for their subordinates to steal all the treasures, and then retreat.
"Hahahaha, Celestial Dragons, this is Celestial Dragons! Aren't you Celestial Dragons? Why are you so scared you're even peeing yourselves when you see me!"
After finding a group of fleeing Celestial Dragons, World easily killed two elite Vice Admiral-level members of the God's Knights. Looking at the Celestial Dragons who had wet themselves out of fear, he burst into arrogant laughter.
"You, you, you lowly Pirate, how dare you insult and slaughter noble Celestial Dragons! The Celestial Dragons will absolutely not let you go!!"
Among this group of Celestial Dragons, there were also some with backbone. They all pointed at World's nose and cursed.
They were Celestial Dragons, rulers of the World! To be threatened by a mere lowly Pirate was simply a great humiliation!
You know, at other times, even if a commoner harmed him, an Admiral would be dispatched.
But now, this lowly Pirate actually dared to kill so many Celestial Dragons!
At this moment, he regretted it. Why didn't he have his family send experts to protect him back then, instead of believing the God's Knights and the Gorosei could protect them?
If they were given another choice, they would absolutely have their families send out experts to protect their lives!
"Die!!"
Seeing that there were still Celestial Dragons daring to be arrogant in front of him, World instantly used Soru to appear beside him and twisted off his head.
"Hahahaha, so what if they are Celestial Dragons? I, World, am not afraid! I want to kill you Celestial Dragons and destroy this utterly boring World!"
World laughed wildly, mercilessly killing all twenty or more Celestial Dragons, then went to look for another target.
The Marine forces on the outer perimeter of Ballard had been overwhelmed by the Pirates. As the Pirates rushed onto the island, the Celestial Dragons and their escorts on the island were being surrounded and slaughtered by the Pirates.
"Follow me, I've found the direction that group of Celestial Dragons is retreating!"
Karoo, flying in the sky, shouted loudly.
Bullet, Karoo, and Ashura Doji of the Limitless Pirates, leading the members of the Limitless Pirates, followed Nox's previous instructions to plunder the groups of Celestial Dragons who were preparing to escape.
The Celestial Dragons couldn't take large amounts of treasure with them, so they would take small Devil Fruits. Therefore, most of the Devil Fruits were in the hands of those Celestial Dragons.
What the Limitless Pirates needed was not treasure; they were not lacking in treasure now. What they lacked were powerful Devil Fruits that could enhance people's strength.