Blackbeard: What Almighty Push?

"Liberation!"

The matter previously drawn in by Blackbeard Teach's Black Vortex was released all at once.

Tons of matter shot toward the sky, intended to stop Ye Yu's terrifying attack!

Boom!

The dark matter exploded the instant it came into contact with the Buddha Palm in the sky. Piles upon piles of matter surged upward, only to explode and lose their power in the air before falling straight down.

Blackbeard Teach's face turned deathly pale. The ability he had always been so proud of was completely useless against Ye Yu's Haki!

Still, Blackbeard Teach refused to give up. Straining with every ounce of strength, he mobilized all the darkness within his body and condensed it into an enormous mass of dark energy.

The immense pressure actually pushed Blackbeard past his limits, making him even stronger than before!

"Black Heaven, Dark Earth!" Blackbeard roared furiously.

"Zehahahahaha! Ye Yu, didn't expect that, did you? I've gotten stronger again! Zehahahahaha!" Blackbeard laughed wildly without restraint.

Violent winds raged around all of Robina Island, and the sky grew incomparably dim. Every villager on the island wore an expression of terror.

"The end of the world! This is the legendary end of the world!"

The residents stood frozen in fear. Even the animals across the island fled in every direction, while those too close to the battlefield were forcibly drawn in by Blackbeard's terrifying energy and became part of the dark energy!

The village chief and his group, watching from afar, saw nothing but darkness through their telescopes.

Lily clung to an unusually thick tree beside her to keep from being blown away by the gale, but her mind kept racing. If... that powerful Blackbeard pirate won in the end, would he take his anger out on the island's residents...

Just thinking about it was terrifying. By then, every resident on the island would be brutally slaughtered!

The pitch-black matter collided head-on with the transparent Buddha Palm in the sky. Thunder suddenly rumbled across the heavens as bolts of lightning crashed down.

Rumble! Rumble!

After a brief stalemate, light gradually returned to the sky. Ye Yu's Conqueror's Haki had completely suppressed the dark energy!

The corners of Ye Yu's lips curled up slightly. The transparent Buddha Palm in the sky suddenly doubled in size and slammed down heavily toward Blackbeard Teach!

Blackbeard Teach's dead-fish eyes bulged wide. Feeling that overwhelming pressure, his lips trembled as he muttered, "You've got to be kidding me. This brat is actually this strong?!"

With a thunderous crash, the enormous Buddha Palm smashed Blackbeard Teach straight into the ground, making all of Robina Island quake violently.

A huge Buddha Palm imprint was left in the ground where it struck. Ye Yu slowly walked to the cracks around the handprint and looked down. Blood poured from Blackbeard Teach's mouth as he lay paralyzed in the collapsed pit, beaten beyond recognition.

His eyes stared at Ye Yu in terror.

It was simply unimaginable. A young man not even twenty years old possessed such terrifying power. The attack power of his invisible Conqueror's Haki was even more frightening than Blackbeard's strongest blow!

"C-Captain of Zero Division, I surrender! Spare me, and I'll offer you all my treasure!" Blackbeard Teach had none of his previous arrogance left.

Ye Yu narrowed his eyes and looked down at Blackbeard in the ruins.

"Blackbeard Teach, I told you that today would be the day you die. I'll give you one more chance—end your own life. That way, you'll die more easily," Ye Yu said coldly.

The sharp chill in his gaze made Blackbeard's heart shudder.

Watching Ye Yu slowly raise his hands, Blackbeard finally broke. If he took another blow like that enormous Conqueror's Haki Buddha Palm, there was no doubt his life would be over.

Blackbeard Teach used all his strength to barely crawl up, then dropped to his knees before Ye Yu with a thud and wrapped both arms around Ye Yu's legs.

"Captain Ye Yu, for the sake of us having served in the same pirate crew, spare my life!" Blackbeard shouted miserably, forcing himself to endure the pain.

Ye Yu remained utterly unmoved. He knew Blackbeard Teach far too well. This was nothing more than an act! Ye Yu did not have Whitebeard's soft heart!

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I have a way to save Ace! I can contact the Marines again and have Ace brought here!" Feeling Ye Yu's killing intent, the terrified Blackbeard shouted.

"Hm?" Ye Yu narrowed his eyes.

"Let's hear it," Ye Yu said indifferently.

Blackbeard had to be executed, but Ye Yu was curious what method Blackbeard Teach could possibly have to save Ace.

Blackbeard Teach crawled and scrambled to Ye Yu's feet, panting heavily.

"Don't... don't kill me... Captain Ye Yu. I'll tell you the method right now..."

"Dark Water!" The exhausted Blackbeard's gaze abruptly became sharp again.

In an instant, he gathered every last bit of his dark power into his hand and viciously slammed it toward Ye Yu's forehead.

"Ace has already been locked up in Impel Down! There's no way you'll ever save him now! Zehahahahaha!"

"You're still too naive, Captain Ye Yu. Not having Observation Haki will be your greatest weakness! Zehahahaha! Pay the price for your arrogance!" Blackbeard Teach's bloodied mouth twisted into a vicious grin once more.

Yet when his fist was just one meter from Ye Yu's forehead, it could not advance even an inch...

Ye Yu's passive defense activated automatically! An invisible barrier shielded Ye Yu from every angle, a flawless 360-degree defense.

"This is... an invisible barrier?" Blackbeard was dumbfounded at first. His fist felt as though it had struck hard Seastone and could not move forward at all!

As fear rose from the depths of his soul, Blackbeard's face filled with shock and disbelief. His eyes widened. "Th-This is... Conqueror's Haki?!"

It was impossible to imagine that the young man before him had such a trump card hidden away.

He could control Conqueror's Haki—the power Blackbeard had dreamed of possessing—as freely as he wished, with offense and defense merged into one. Looking at the young man again, Blackbeard was reminded of someone: Rocks!

A monster this terrifying at such a young age could only be compared to Rocks on these seas! Even Whitebeard and One Piece Roger had never possessed such terrifying Conqueror's Haki!

The corners of Ye Yu's mouth rose slightly. "Congratulations, Teach. You got it right! As a reward, I'll give you your first taste of Almighty Push!"

Blackbeard had not even processed it yet. What the hell was that? "What Almighty Push?"

The next moment, the barrier suddenly expanded and exploded. A terrifying force surged madly outward from Ye Yu at its center. Even the surrounding air became distorted beneath that overwhelming energy!