Fierce Battle! Heaven Collapsing and Earth Shattering!

Beyond Rocks, the others were equally curious—whether this Luo Tian, whose first bounty had soared to 2.5 billion berries, was truly as terrifying as the rumors suggested.

In particular, Ochoku and Kaido, who had always been at odds with Luo Tian, stared intently at his figure on the island, their gazes complex.

At this moment, in the center of the desolate island.

Luo Tian and Shiki stood a hundred meters apart, facing each other from a distance.

The moment their gazes met, it was as if two invisible, majestic auras collided in mid-air, erupting with sharp, crackling sounds.

"Luo Tian, kid—!"

Golden Lion Shiki was the first to activate his ability, his entire body shooting into the sky like a golden streak of light, hovering a hundred meters above the ground.

Before his voice had even faded, the earth began to tremble; the very structure of the island began to loosen and groan under the power of the Float-Float Fruit.

That's right—Shiki had unleashed his full strength, placing this desolate island entirely within his domain of control.

He could make it float, flip it, or even... tear it apart completely at will.

"Come on!" Luo Tian's fighting spirit boiled within his chest as he slowly drew his supreme grade sword, Black Dragon, from his waist.

Seeing this, Shiki pressed his hands to his waist and slowly drew his beloved blades—the great grade swords Oto and Kogarashi.

The moment the twin blades were unsheathed, golden Ryuo Haki coiled around them like raging flames.

He lowered his stance, crossed his blades in front of his chest, and shouted in a low voice:

"Lion Threat: Earth Roll—!"

BOOM!!!

In an instant, the ground across the entire battlefield shook violently! Countless massive boulders tore from the surface and rose into the air.

Each one was imbued with fierce, peerless sword energy, spinning at high speed and reorganizing in the sky.

"ROAR—!!!"

In the blink of an eye, three giant lions formed from solid rock appeared, heads held high.

Each one stood over twenty meters tall, forming a pincer formation that trapped Luo Tian in the center.

"WHOOSH—!"

Shiki swung his blades down suddenly, his Observation Haki locked firmly onto Luo Tian.

A vicious golden cross-slash tore through the air, ripping through the night sky and heading straight for Luo Tian!

At the same time, the three giant rock lions surrounding Luo Tian opened their ferocious maws, lunging from the rear, left, and right sides!

There was no way to the heavens, and no door into the earth.

At this moment, Luo Tian appeared to be a trapped beast.

A cold glint flashed in Luo Tian's eyes.

Shinra Tensei!

HUM—!!!

An indescribable, terrifying repulsive force erupted from his center, forming a hemispherical force field that expanded and crushed everything in its path!

BOOM—!!!

A deafening roar swept across the entire island, stirring up massive waves even in the surrounding sea.

The moment the three rock lions touched the repulsive force field, they crumbled and disintegrated like sandcastles, turning into dust that filled the sky.

The awe-inspiring golden cross-slash collided with an invisible, absolute wall, shattering piece by piece until it vanished into nothingness.

With Luo Tian as the center, the ground within a hundred-meter radius was completely "leveled."

All protrusions, rocks, and trees vanished, leaving behind only a smooth, concave crater.

Debris and dust shot into the sky, forming a dense cloud that temporarily obscured the entire battlefield.

Within the swirling dust, a pair of eyes glowing with red light suddenly ignited.

Luo Tian had already activated his Observation Haki, and before the dust could even settle, he had "foreseen" Shiki's next position.

He gripped the hilt of Black Dragon tightly with his right hand, pushed off the ground, and shot forward like a black bolt of lightning!

"Gwahahaha... as expected of you, kid! To think you'd neutralize that so easily!"

Shiki's Observation Haki also captured the trajectory of Luo Tian's surprise attack, and amidst his loud laughter, the sword intent around him surged once more.

Golden Haki boiled like flames on his blades as he performed several high-speed changes in direction in mid-air.

Each flicker left behind an afterimage; seven afterimages bloomed like a lotus of blades, unleashing seven lethal strikes from completely different angles!

Seven strikes, seven trajectories, sealing off all room for evasion!

Luo Tian pressed his left hand forward into the void: "Space Refraction!"

In the next instant, the flight paths of those seven fierce slashes twisted and deflected in the air in a bizarre fashion.

Four of them actually collided with each other, canceling one another out.

Yet there were still three strikes left, their trajectories shifted, yet they still struck with cunning precision.

Shiki raised an eyebrow, immediately channeling the power of the Float-Float Fruit to forcibly fine-tune the final landing points of the remaining three slashes.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The crisp sound of metal striking metal exploded!

Luo Tian swung Black Dragon, the blade light forming a curtain as he precisely shattered the final three slashes right in front of him.

The first round of the exchange seemed to be a draw.

But the true fierce battle had only just begun.

The two moved almost simultaneously!

Like two meteors, they charged at each other ferociously!

Two distinct yet equally brilliant sword beams collided with a roar in mid-air once again!

"Clang---!!!"

The Supreme Grade sword Black Dragon and the twin blades Oto and Kogarashi clashed violently, their edges locked tightly together, erupting with blinding sparks and turbulent energy!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle--!!

Two terrifying sword auras tore and consumed each other frantically, while Haki lashed out like lightning, whipping the surroundings!

Centered on their point of impact, the air within a hundred-meter radius was churned into a boiling vortex, with visible, violent shockwaves spreading outward in frantic rings!

"No, that's impossible, right?! Executive Luo Tian and Executive Shiki... the aftermath of their clash has completely altered the island's terrain!"

On a pirate ship in the distance, a crew member pointed at the island, letting out an incredulous cry.

They watched with their own eyes as a small hill, dozens of meters high, had its peak sliced off smoothly by a stray, minor ripple of sword aura.

"It's not over yet! Look at the sky--!"

Someone pointed at the sky, trembling.

They saw that within the thick sea of clouds, a massive rift hundreds of meters long, like a chasm in the sky, had clearly split the clouds in two!

"The... the sky has been cut open?!"

"Idiot! That's just the clouds being completely dispersed!"

"Is this... is this the level of the executives, no, is this the duel of the sea's top-tier combatants?!"

The pirates clung tightly to the ship's railing, staring unblinkingly at the battle on the deserted island, their scalps tingling from the sight that defied their imagination, with cries of shock rising one after another.

Some pirates who had never witnessed such grand spectacles had never imagined that a battle could reach such a cataclysmic scale.

Compared to this, their usual skirmishes were like children playing.

The gazes of Ochoku and Kaido had not shifted even a fraction since the first moment Luo Tian and Shiki clashed.

They had to admit—the level of energy erupted in just that one collision was already terrifying.

But clearly... this was still far from the point where both sides were giving it their all!

The surging shockwaves continued to wash over the area.

In mid-air, Luo Tian and Shiki remained in a stalemate, blades pressed against each other, neither retreating even half a step.

Where the blades met, dark red Haki collided intensely, and the black lightning that erupted spread across the night sky like a spiderweb.

Their gazes pierced through the chaotic energy flow, meeting once again in the air.