One Saber Stained with Blood

After taking a hit, he would immediately strike back.

This was the most typical ultimate technique of an awakened Zoan ability user.

The principle was to convert their own powerful defense and unreasonable recovery ability into effective offensive power.

If they could successfully trade injuries, it was equivalent to gaining an advantage in battle.

As one of the Four Emperors of the New World and the possessor of the Azure Dragon Form, Kaido had pushed this characteristic to its extreme.

Aside from a handful of top-tier powerhouses like Charlotte Linlin, Kaido could undoubtedly achieve a level of invincibility in one-on-one combat by relying on this injury-trading ultimate technique.

In the original story.

The reason Luffy, who had unleashed his full firepower, was defeated in the blink of an eye was that Kaido had forcibly withstood Luffy's attack, gaining an opportunity to pour all the damage into Luffy.

If this injury-trading ultimate technique were described with numbers, it was equivalent to Kaido using just 1 point of damage taken to deal 100 points of effective damage to Luffy.

But in this battle against Maud, with Conqueror's Haki Coating involved, Kaido effectively had to use 80 points of damage taken to deal 100 points of effective damage to Maud.

Most of those 80 points of damage could still be offset by the recovery power of an awakened Mythical Zoan.

This was precisely the strongest weapon of Zoan ability users in the later stages of battle.

It was because Kaido understood this so deeply that he had gone to such lengths to create an army composed purely of Zoan ability users.

Back to the matter at hand.

Kaido's madness just now had been an embodiment of the technique known as the Seven Injuries Fist.

He knew how threatening Maud was, but this was