Therefore, even though they were aware of Bullet's terrifying strength, knew that the World Government side had fallen into an absolute disadvantage, and even might die in the next moment, they still didn't retreat.
When the nest is overturned, no egg remains intact. Even the Celestial Dragons understood this principle. Once they retreated, the World Government side would collapse like a river dam breaking. In the end, they still wouldn't escape the Pirate Alliance's reckoning.
Only by stabilizing this battlefield now and waiting for the World King Imu above to defeat Nox, would Imu naturally kill all these Pirates completely. The final victory would still be theirs, the Celestial Dragons'!
"Chinjao's opponent is somewhat interesting. I haven't fought enough yet, so I'll choose him!"
After adjusting his state, Bullet looked around and chose another opponent, who was precisely Chinjao's current opponent.
In his opinion, Chinjao was undoubtedly stronger than his opponent, and defeating the other party was just a matter of time.
But on the battlefield now, what was most lacking was time.
Winning this war as quickly as possible, and then combining all the strength of the Pirate Alliance to deal with Imu with Nox, this was the best outcome!
Although he believed that Nox could defeat Imu without their help, he wouldn't forget that the World Government still had the Ancient Weapon Uranus as a trump card.
Therefore, regardless of whether Nox needed their help or not, it was very necessary for them to eliminate the World Government personnel as quickly as possible, and then disperse their forces to prevent being wiped out by the uranus!
"Damn it, Bullet is targeting me!"
Edward, who was fighting with Chinjao, noticed that Bullet was rushing towards him, and his face instantly darkened!
His battlefield was close to Bullet's original battlefield. After Antonine died, he had been keeping an eye on Bullet's movements, secretly praying that Bullet wouldn't choose him, but he didn't expect that Bullet really chose him!
"Hahahahaha, Chinjao, let's team up and beat this guy to death!"
After rushing over, Bullet laughed heartily and said to Chinjao.
Originally, Chinjao wanted to defeat his opponent in a one-on-one fight, but now Bullet was coming over to steal his opponent, so Bullet naturally had to greet Chinjao.
"No problem, let's team up!"
"Eight Impact Fist Cone Head!"
Chinjao naturally had no objection to this. In an instant, he leaped up, and the Cone Head on his head directly slammed into Sanchez.
"Eight Impact Fist Eightfold Power!"
Seeing that Chinjao had agreed, Bullet attacked Sanchez from the other side.
"Damn bastard, I'm not that clown Antonine!"
Sanchez's words were very tough, but his body was fleeing from here at the fastest speed. He could barely hold on against one Chinjao, but if another Bullet was added, he would definitely die.
So after realizing that Bullet was coming to deal with him, he immediately prepared to escape.
As for where to escape to, as long as he didn't have to face two enemies alone, he understood the principle of diverting trouble.
However, his little scheme had long been seen through by Chinjao and Bullet. The two of them tacitly surrounded Sanchez, not giving him any chance to escape!
In the sky:
"A mouse who wanted to steal the World King's throne is about to die. Now there's only one mouse left!"
Imu's cold voice came from his body, which was completely covered in darkness.
"If I'm a mouse, then you're mouse droppings that have lived for eight hundred years. The World King's throne has been ruined by you for eight hundred years, but mouse droppings are still mouse droppings, something pulled out of a mouse's butt. Now that the mouse has returned, the mouse droppings should also give way!"
Nox never lacked the ability to use words as a weapon, but most of the time, he didn't have a target or opportunity to use it, because often, before he could even speak, the enemy's head had already been cut off by him.
Despite saying that, Nox still entered his Human-Beast form immediately, and the Seven Star Sword also appeared in his hand from within his body.
Countless amounts of fresh blood surged from his body, solidifying into blood-colored armor that he wore. This was very similar to Imu's state of covering his entire body with the power of darkness.
However, Nox's blood power wasn't as strange and overbearing as the other party's dark power. His blood power was more about enhancing internal physical strength, rather than external destructive power!
"Slash!"
Perhaps stimulated by Nox's words, before he could even finish the last two words, the dark slash that made Golden Lion fear had already cut through the sky.
Only when facing Imu's dark slash in person did Nox truly understand why this slash was so strong.
In addition to the Grand Swordmaster peak-level Sword Intent and the power of darkness, the most important thing was the incredibly overbearing Busoshoku Haki that was integrated into the dark slash.
This Busoshoku Haki was simply incredibly powerful. If the world's top-level Busoshoku Haki was liquid, then Imu's Busoshoku Haki was completely solid.
This Busoshoku Haki was a level stronger than their Busoshoku Haki, and Imu's technique for using Busoshoku Haki was extremely brilliant. At least, Nox couldn't understand what technique was used for that Busoshoku Haki, but it could unleash the power of Busoshoku Haki to the extreme!
Facing Imu's dark slash, even though Nox had the speed to dodge, he still didn't dodge at all. This was the arrogance of being the World's Greatest Swordsman. No one in the world's slash was worthy of him dodging!
The moment he gripped the Seven Star Sword with both hands, an incredibly powerful Sword Intent erupted. This Sword Intent had already surpassed the scope of Sword Intent in this world, and it could even no longer be called Sword Intent, but Sword Soul!
After Nox's Sword God Body Tempering Art reached the ninth layer of perfection, he completed blood refinement and cultivated a true Sword God Body.
His three types of Sword Intent: Limitless Sword Intent, Sea Abyss Sword Intent, and Bloodlust Sword Intent, also completed a further transformation on the basis of having already reached their peak.
However, at this time, Nox did not choose to transform all three Sword Intents together. After all, the original Sea Abyss Sword Intent and Bloodlust Sword Intent were derived from the Limitless Sword Intent, and could be said to be two extreme manifestations of the Limitless Sword Intent.
Taking advantage of the transformation, he turned the Bloodlust Sword Intent and Sea Abyss Sword Intent into nourishment for the Limitless Sword Intent, pushing the Limitless Sword Intent to a new peak again, and then allowing the Sword Intent to enter the soul, transforming into Limitless Sword Soul!
If having Sword Intent in this world could lead to becoming a Grand Swordmaster, then the current Nox, who had transformed his Sword Intent into Sword Soul, was the world's first Sword God with a Sword Soul!
"Limitless Sword Soul Blood Moon Soaring to the Sky!"
As the Seven Star Sword slashed down, the Limitless Sword Soul, Busoshoku Haki, and blood power completely fused, and a blood-colored moon wheel slash soared into the sky, like a blood moon with a soul ascending into space.
When the dark slash and the blood moon slash collided in the air, the power of the two slashes completely erupted, and terrifying might swept across the entire world.
Layer after layer of earth-shattering impact aftershocks spread out from the air. Even though the two slashes collided at an altitude of ten thousand meters, Mary Geoise, which was ten thousand meters below, was still hit by this shockwave, forming a Category 12 hurricane. Even the already ruined Mary Geoise developed countless larger cracks as a result!
If Golden Lion's final desperate move "Heaven and Earth Burial" was equivalent to a cannon exploding, then the collision between Imu and Nox was like the power of an Explosive Rock exploding. The two were completely not on the same level!
The dark slash carried Imu's Sword Intent, but in front of the Limitless Sword Soul, it was easily cut down.
However, Imu's Busoshoku Haki was too strong, and the devouring power of darkness was also too strange. Nox's Busoshoku Haki was inferior to Imu's Busoshoku Haki, and his blood power was also inferior to the devouring power of darkness, causing the two slashes to be in a stalemate in the air.
"Rip!!!"
But the stalemate was only for a moment. As the Limitless Sword Soul cut down the Sword Intent in the dark slash, under the power of the Limitless Sword Soul, all of Imu's detached dark power and Busoshoku Haki were cut down by the Limitless Sword Soul. Even the blood moon slash still powerfully and invincibly slashed towards Imu.
"This is a brand new Sword Intent, no, it should be said to be a brand new sword road, surpassing the boundaries of the world!"
Seeing his dark slash being defeated, Imu looked at the oncoming blood moon slash with some surprise. In this slash, he saw something far exceeding his own Sword Intent.
He was very familiar with that kind of thing, because his Busoshoku Haki also formed one of his strongest powers after surpassing the boundaries on the original basis!
"But this is not enough to defeat me!"
Imu's surprise instantly disappeared. Facing the oncoming slash, he also did not retreat, raising his hand and throwing a punch.
Sword road was just a branch in his power system. His strongest asset was still his fist!
"Crack!!!"
Imu's completely black fist punched the enormous blood moon slash, and in an instant, the entire blood moon slash was shattered by Imu's punch, turning into countless fragments that dispersed in the air.
"Interesting power!"
Imu looked at his fist with interest. Although his fist was wrapped in incredibly hard Busoshoku Haki and had the power of darkness attached to devour all damage, his fist did not suffer any injuries from the blood moon slash. However, he clearly felt a long-lost sensation of pain from his fist.
Seeing that his fist had no injuries, he knew that this pain did not come from his physical body, but from his soul.
In other words, that slash just now injured his soul. Although the damage was not significant and could easily recover, Nox had indeed injured him, causing him to be injured for the first time in eight hundred years!
Mary Geoise battlefield:
"Is this the power of the World's number one Nox? It's too terrifying, is this really a power that humans can master?"
The collision between Nox and Imu at an altitude of ten thousand meters shocked many top powerhouses fighting on Mary Geoise.
Even from such a distance, it could still cause such a huge tremor on Mary Geoise. Even the aftershocks injured many people, which was simply incredibly powerful.
"How can this Sword Intent be so strong? This is clearly not Sword Intent, but a being on a higher level than Sword Intent, otherwise it wouldn't even cause my Sword Intent to become blocked!"
Compared to other powerhouses, those Great Swordsmen were truly shocked. They originally thought that in this world, Sword Intent was already the highest realm of the sword road, but they didn't expect that there was a higher and stronger power above Sword Intent!
This made many sword road powerhouses fearful yet excited, because the sword road had a new breakthrough, which meant that the sword road had no upper limit, it was just that they had not reached that level.
Among the many Great Swordsmen, the one most affected was undoubtedly Nasujuro Saint, one of the Gorosei. The moment the power of the Limitless Sword Soul erupted, Nasujuro Saint's sword, which he was about to unleash, suddenly revealed a flaw!
"As Shadow Follows!"
Drake seized this flaw and instantly appeared behind Nasujuro Saint using the power of the dark night.
"Horizontal Sword Technique Horizontal Strike in Eight Directions!"
With one sword strike, it was like eight swords striking simultaneously. Eight Drakes, transformed by the power of the dark shadow, used eight different horizontal sword techniques from eight different directions to completely envelop Nasujuro Saint.
"Not good!!"
Seeing this situation, Nasujuro Saint wanted to step into the air to dodge, but the power of the dark shadow had already locked him in place, and he had no choice but to take Drake's sword!
"Crack!!!"
In his desperation, Nasujuro Saint used the First Generation Ghost Tormentor and his exquisite sword technique to block four of Drake's swords, but four swords still struck his body.
His horse bone body was instantly cut into pieces by Drake. Each hard bone was cut in two by a single sword, and Nasujuro Saint himself directly fell from the air to the ground.
But Drake knew that although Nasujuro Saint appeared to be seriously injured, in reality, for Nasujuro Saint, who possessed an immortal body, this level of injury was not fatal at all.
"What is that thing that surpasses Sword Intent?"
After Nasujuro Saint stood up from the ground, his tattered horse bone body began to constantly regenerate, but his gaze was fixed on Drake.
He stood at the pinnacle of world power as one of the Gorosei, but at the same time, he was also an experienced Grand Swordmaster.
He also had a strong pursuit of the sword road.
Now that he had seen a new peak of the sword road, he naturally wanted to know what it was.
As the son of Nox, the founder of the new peak of the sword road, Drake must know what it is!
"That is Sword Soul. Above Sword Intent is Sword Soul, and it is also the new peak of the sword road!"
Although they were enemies, the other party was also a Grand Swordmaster pursuing the sword road. Drake naturally did not hesitate to answer this question.
In fact, he had long known about the existence of Sword Soul. After Nox's breakthrough, he had allowed his sons and daughters to personally experience the existence of Sword Soul and its power.
But even now, Drake still couldn't break through the Grand Swordmaster realm and reach the Sword God realm.
That realm was too vast and ethereal. Even though he had felt the power of the Sword Soul realm several times, he still had no clue how to break through.
Even if Nox revealed the key to the breakthrough, breaking through was another matter!
"Sword Soul?"
"But even if Nox broke through the blockade of Sword Intent and reached the Sword Soul realm, he is still not a match for Lord Imu. Lord Imu's power is far beyond your imagination!"
Nasujuro Saint said firmly.
They, the Gorosei, were deeply confident in Imu's strength. No one in this world could defeat Lord Imu, who had lived for eight hundred years. Even Joy Boy from eight hundred years ago was defeated by Lord Imu, and Nox from eight hundred years later also couldn't win.
"Hmph, there is no one that my Father's sword cannot kill. That World King has long since been designated as a soul under my Father's sword!"
Drake snorted coldly.