The moment he finished speaking, the muscles in both his arms swelled. This was the transformation brought about by partial beastification.
Black and crimson patterns appeared across his arms. His bones grew denser, his muscle fibers rearranged, and his strength tripled in an instant!
This was one of the Qiong Qi Fruit's abilities: partial beastification.
It allowed him to restore one part of his body to a ferocious beast's original form while remaining human, granting him tremendous strength and defense.
He put force into both wrists, drove the blade forward, and brought it down.
Whoosh—!!!
A hundred-meter-long vertical slash tore through the repulsion barrier like a wrecking ball!
Like a hot knife through butter, the enormous blade of energy split Luo Tian's Shinra Tensei clean in two.
The severed repulsion field lost its integrity. Its energy structure collapsed, and it vanished in an instant.
But the slash kept going, bearing down on Luo Tian!
Luo Tian's pupils contracted slightly.
At the instant the blade of energy reached him, he blurred out of sight with a Spatial Jump.
He reappeared three hundred meters away, above the sea.
The enormous slash cut through empty air and struck the sea below.
The ocean split open, leaving a terrifying trench more than thirty meters wide and unfathomably deep, stretching for several kilometers.
The seawater parted, the cut as smooth as a mirror.
An invisible force held back the water on either side of the trench, preventing it from closing. For a time, it formed a "sea canyon" leading down to the ocean depths.
But Claist's Observation Haki had already locked onto Luo Tian's presence, following him like a shadow.
The moment Luo Tian teleported, Claist's Observation Haki caught the trajectory of the spatial disturbance and predicted where he would appear.
He had already anticipated