"Where was the Golden Emperor?!"
"Just as I thought, no one can defeat Whitebeard."
"Even the Gaia Great Emperor is no match for him."
"How foolish. He actually tried to match Whitebeard in strength."
As the whole world watched in tense anticipation, a bloodied hand suddenly reached up from the abyss and grabbed its edge. Then Chaos leaped back up.
But Chaos was in terrible shape.
A streak of blood ran down his right cheek, his chest was caved in unevenly, and his left arm was bent at an unnatural angle. His hair hung loose, and his body was drenched in blood. Even the hot steam billowing around him could not hide how badly he was battered.
He looked far worse than Whitebeard.
Crack, crack!
A sound that made people's scalps crawl rang out. The sunken parts of Chaos's body visibly returned to normal, and his left arm snapped back into place. He flexed his hand as if nothing had happened.
"Life Return."
"I didn't expect the Gaia Great Emperor's Life Return to have reached this level."
"Of course. The Golden Emperor is the man who ushered in the Cultivation Era."
"Life Return is a further manifestation of the Six Powers."
"If my Six Powers could reach that level, then..."
"He'd be impossible to kill."
A fresh uproar erupted around the world. Life Return was no secret.
It was one of the Six Powers spread by the Golden Emperor, a development comparable to the further awakening of a Devil Fruit.
Over the past four short years, plenty of people had awakened Life Return.
It wasn't for nothing that people said the Six Powers were as common as dogs and Haki as plentiful as grass.
Considering the world's population, even if only one person in a million awakened Life Return, who