Heavenly Cloud Sword and Yata Mirror!

"Ice Age!"

Aokiji leaped onto the sea's surface and plunged both hands into the water. A bone-piercing chill immediately spread outward, and layers of frost began forming across the sea. In an instant, the waters within a thousand meters were completely frozen over. Even the ships were frozen in place, locked together and unable to move an inch. It was clear that Sengoku intended to trap them all in one fell swoop.

As the sea froze over, all the Marines disembarked from their warships. Weapons in hand, they gathered together and advanced toward the Immortal. At a glance, there were at least several thousand Marines, packed densely across the ice. Quite a few wore coats of justice, showing that there were many officer-level Marines among them. It seemed Sengoku had truly made up his mind to eliminate Li this time. After all, Gol D. Roger had caused them far too much trouble back then, and Sengoku had no intention of raising a tiger only to invite disaster.

"Shanks, Benn Beckman, no matter what happens, you must protect Boa Hancock and the other two. I'll deal with these Marines as quickly as possible. Until then..." Li said calmly without turning around. He had originally intended to use as little power from the Hokage world as possible, but the Marines clearly had no intention of allowing him a peaceful time to cultivate. In that case, he could only beat them until they were afraid. Otherwise, there would be no end to this in the future.

"Yeah. Until then, even if we die, we won't let the Marines get within half a step of the Immortal!"

Shanks and Benn Beckman nodded, then leaped off the Immortal and stood shoulder to shoulder on the ice, watching the steadily approaching Marines. Though their hearts were