The air was torn apart, and the heavens and earth echoed with the thunderous roar of blades clashing against lightning.
Jin An and Imu became two streaks of swift light, crazily intertwining at the center of the battlefield.
Every collision came with a deafening explosion, while violent shockwaves swept in all directions from where they stood.
The ground around them shattered into countless fragments, and the air was thick with lingering smoke and dust.
Jin An's blade flashed with the thunderous radiance of the Azure Dragon Fruit, each strike carrying the power to tear through space itself.
Empowered by the Door-Door Fruit, his figure constantly shifted. After attacking from one angle, he would instantly appear from another, as though he were everywhere at once, pressing forward step by step.
His Haki was like towering waves, driving the power of every attack to its limit as it bore down fiercely upon Imu.
Imu, however, remained composed and calm. Her figure floated in the air, her hands moving with casual grace, yet every seemingly effortless strike contained unstoppable power.
Invisible barriers surged from her fingertips, blocking Jin An's blade one after another.
Her lightning raged like a tyrant, weaving together with Jin An's sword light into a brilliant tableau of destruction.
Yet even so, a trace of undisguised shock still flickered through Imu's eyes.
"This human..."
Imu pondered silently, her gaze narrowing slightly.
"His power can actually contend with mine head-on?"
She had originally believed Jin An to be merely another overconfident challenger. Even if he had come prepared, he could never have touched upon her true power.
But now, this man charging from the heart of the battlefield had forced her to take him seriously with his blade. He had even forcibly torn open cracks in the lightning formation she had