Dual Haki Infusion! A Terrifying Strike

But all of that required luck.

Lin Ye had even considered that if he obtained a Devil Fruit in the future, he could find someone to eat it first, then make his move.

That way, he could gamble on the odds.

Especially with Logia types or Paramecia types with particularly outrageous abilities.

Of course, he was not picky.

Even a trash ability would be a net gain for him.

The two people he had set his sights on this time both possessed absurdly powerful abilities, yet were extremely weak themselves.

One had a time-related Devil Fruit ability, while the other had an ability that granted multiple lives, yet neither had used their powers to their full potential.

While deep in thought, Lin Ye suddenly turned his head.

From every direction, samurai from the Flower Capital and Orochi's ninjas surrounded him once more.

And this time, there were several hundred of them.

It seemed his arrival had truly frightened that bastard.

Lin Ye rested a hand on the hilt at his waist and calmly watched the people closing in around him.

Ever since he started letting people leave to spread the word, more than a hundred had come to deliver themselves to him.

Having them come one by one was indeed much easier than searching for them himself.

After all, if he went looking, he still had to distinguish between them. It was simply too troublesome.

But now, anyone who came here could be killed.

Behind a dirt mound in the distance, several figures crouched and watched Lin Ye's situation.

"Is that the man from the intelligence reports? Did he really kill more than a hundred of Orochi's men along the way?"

One person poked his head out for a glance and asked quietly.

"That's right. I followed him all the way here. Everyone who blocked his path died."

"Could he be Lord Oden's friend?"

Another person spoke up.

Kozuki Oden had gone out to sea for a time and met many powerful people across the ocean. It was said that he had even been aboard the King of the Pirates' ship.

"We don't know that. But this man is ruthless and never shows mercy. I examined those people's wounds. Every one of them died from a single slash.

Many were cut in two."

The speaker swallowed hard.

"He's definitely strong. But as things stand, this is great news for us. It looks like that bastard Orochi has provoked a powerful enemy this time.

Maybe Orochi will be killed by this man."

The first person to speak looked excited.

"Lord Oden..."

The moment he finished speaking, the woman beside him, dressed in a bodysuit, spoke in a subdued voice.

Kozuki Oden danced in a loincloth in the Flower Capital. To them, that was also a humiliation.

"Orochi is just too despicable. If he hadn't used the lives of civilians to threaten Lord Oden, how could this have happened?"

The woman's words made the others' faces twitch.

For samurai like them, loyalty and honor mattered most.

Yet the man they served was dancing naked in the Flower Capital. It was an immense disgrace.

"Shh, they're moving."

Someone suddenly spoke, and the others immediately fell silent, peering outside.

The surrounding samurai roared and charged forward with their blades raised.

Ssh!

A dark slash of sword energy shot forth.

Whoosh!

The upper bodies of twenty or thirty people flew into the air at once.

Even after being severed, those people seemed not to have noticed. They continued waving their swords, their faces twisted viciously.

Only after their bodies rose into the air did they realize what had happened. Their expressions shifted from savagery to pain, then to terror.

Gulp!

Behind the mound, it was utterly silent. Even the sound of swallowing was painfully loud.

Yet the battle outside continued.

Lin Ye's swordsmanship was exceedingly simple.

Over more than a year of fighting, Lin Ye had abandoned all those flashy sword techniques.

They might have looked magnificent, but they brought Lin Ye no real improvement.

He had never practiced any swordsmanship before. As for martial principles and such, he could say a few things, but when it came to actual application, he was useless.

His fighting style had been forged through countless battles, large and small, over the past year.

How could he reap lives in the fastest way possible?

Naturally, by driving the weapon in his hand into his opponent's vital points as quickly as possible.

A smile rested on Lin Ye's face as the sword in his hand harvested the lives of the surrounding samurai.

Lin Ye was very pleased.

Because the people who had come this time were clearly elites.

Every one of them had actually mastered Armament Haki.

Oh, right. In Wano Country, it was called Ryuo.

From their clash, it was obvious that these people had not cultivated their Armament Haki very far. They could not withstand his flowing Haki Infusion.

Yet among the bubble collection notifications, Armament Haki made up an extremely high proportion.

What a wonderful place.

He could come here often and harvest another batch.

Such a thought suddenly arose in Lin Ye's mind.

But the sword in his hand showed no mercy whatsoever.

"Hah!"

A fierce shout rang out from nearby.

Then two slashes crossed through the air toward Lin Ye.

The slashes resembled azure Wind Blades and were incredibly fast, reaching Lin Ye in the blink of an eye.

Lin Ye lightly tapped the ground beneath his feet. It seemed he had not used much force, yet the earth beneath him suddenly exploded.

Massive cracks spread in all directions as countless clumps of dirt erupted, flinging away the surrounding samurai and corpses.

Lin Ye's figure then seemed to teleport, appearing above the person who had unleashed the Flying Slashes.

Seeing the gaudy ninja outfit on him, Lin Ye's eyes turned cold. While still in midair, he raised his sword high before slashing down fiercely.

"Aah!"

Wind Blade, a ninja of the Oniwabanshu, watched Lin Ye's downward slash from above. He raised his twin blades in a cross, trying to block the attack.

But the moment their weapons collided, terror flashed through Wind Blade's eyes.

An enormous, irresistible force surged through his weapons.

He could not block it!

The thought had only just appeared when Wind Blade's body split in two, and a cloud of blood burst apart.

The remaining force of the slash flew onward, cutting down everyone in its path. The ground split open, and the sword mark extended into the distance.

After landing the blow, Lin Ye tapped his foot again. Even the air beneath him distorted, and a tremendous sonic boom rang out.

Lin Ye's figure flickered away and reappeared among several people dressed in ninja outfits.

They were all Orochi's Oniwabanshu ninjas.

Lin Ye knew of these people from his memories of King of the Pirates, but he had no impression of their individual members.

But none of that mattered.

Lin Ye could not be bothered to think about their identities. So long as they had come here, they had only one identity: dead men.

All Three Types of Haki erupted at once.

Boom!

An indescribably enormous pressure suddenly descended.

The vigilant ninjas below and the terrified samurai around them were stunned by Conqueror's Haki, while Haki Infusion wrapped around Lin Ye's blade.

Dual Haki Infusion.

Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki Infusion.

This was a slash Lin Ye had imitated from Divine Departure.

Terrifying Haki burst from the blade like lightning, its powerful aura battering the clouds overhead.

Huff!

With slight control, Lin Ye exhaled a wisp of white vapor, then gripped his sword in his right hand and twisted.

Boom!

This slash shot outward in a ring, seemingly carrying deep-purple lightning.

Boom!

Like a massive explosion, everything around Lin Ye was destroyed.

The surrounding samurai, ninjas, trees, and soil were all cut apart and flung away.

A massive number of bubbles appeared in an instant and swarmed toward Lin Ye.