Slaughter

Amid this encirclement of six thousand people slaughtering one another, Li Yuan's Observation Haki unconsciously spread out. The emotions of that frenzied bloodbath surged into his heart, making him equally bloodthirsty and murderous.

Rather than deliberately suppressing those emotions, he accepted them completely.

Since his awakening, he had never taken part in such a large-scale slaughter. It seemed that, deep within his heart, he had always craved this endless killing.

"Kill!!!"

Li Yuan drew the Longsword in his hand, but he did not unleash massive slashes to reap the pirates' lives.

Instead, he used the Limitless Sword Technique, taking one step and making one strike, severing the necks of the surrounding pirates one by one. Any pirate who approached him was beheaded with a single slash, without exception.

In just a few minutes, within a radius of dozens of meters around Li Yuan, heads rolled everywhere. Not a single pirate remained standing; all of them had become headless corpses strewn across the ground.

"Kill!!!"

More than six thousand pirates had all gone bloodshot with slaughter. Seeing Li Yuan display such terrifying might here did not make them afraid.

Instead, they charged at him even more frantically. Here, not a single pirate feared death.

"Kill!!!"

Faced with the endlessly charging pirates, Li Yuan naturally showed no mercy. He patiently lopped off every one of their heads, one sword strike at a time.

Their heads rolled across the ground like balls, and the blood beneath his feet had already formed a river, yet the slaughter did not lessen.

"Jiehahaha, as expected of someone I had my eye on. He looks so aloof, but he's actually this crazed and bloodthirsty!!"

Li Yuan's frenzied slaughter naturally caught Golden Lion Shiki's attention. Besides, he had noticed Li Yuan from the very beginning—the man who had clashed Conqueror's Haki with him a month ago.

"Oh? Shiki, is there someone down there you've taken a liking to?"

Upon hearing Shiki's words, Whitebeard opened his eyes and asked.

"There, that guy down below who's having the time of his life killing. A month ago, he was the one who brought Shakky back."

Shiki pointed at Li Yuan, who was continuously massacring pirates below.

"I see. Being able to rescue Shakky from the World Government's hands certainly isn't bad. I just wonder what his true strength is like."

Whitebeard said.

"If you want to know, why not test him yourself later?"

Golden Lion Shiki urged.

"Give it a rest. Since you knew him before, why don't you test him yourself?"

Whitebeard was no fool. It was obvious that Shiki was trying to use him as a pawn.

Although Shakky's position in the Rocks Pirates was not as high as that of an officer, no one would provoke Shakky, who controlled intelligence, for no reason.

So, for Shakky's sake, Whitebeard had no intention of doing something so thankless.

As time passed, the more than six thousand pirates became increasingly crazed as they killed, and the more crazed they became, the more they killed.

Li Yuan's killing efficiency was incredibly high. Nearly every two seconds, a pirate was beheaded by him.

Such astonishing efficiency naturally drew the attention of the Rocks Pirates Officers.

In merely a quarter of an hour, the original force of more than six thousand pirates had been reduced to just over three thousand. More than a thousand of them had been killed by Li Yuan.

Even the pirates who had already gone mad with bloodlust no longer dared approach Li Yuan.

At this moment, Li Yuan also stopped killing. The crimson in his eyes had cleared, the Black Longsword in his hand had turned Dark Red, and the killing intent around him remained incomparably intense.

The immense pressure that had accumulated before had all been released during this unrestrained slaughter, while his swordsmanship had advanced further through the constant killing.

"Since none of you dare come over, let's end this battle!"

Li Yuan snorted coldly as he looked at the pirates still slaughtering one another around him.

"Rumble!!!!"

The violent Blood Red Conqueror's Haki erupted wildly from his body, sweeping in all directions with him at its center. A fierce storm of Blood Red Lightning instantly brought all the pirates still fighting to a halt at the same time.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!!!"

At the same time, the pirates with weak wills were knocked unconscious the moment Li Yuan unleashed his Conqueror's Haki. Li Yuan did not even need to lift a hand against them.

For a moment, of the more than three thousand pirates, only a few hundred were still struggling to resist. Everyone else had fallen.

"Conqueror's Haki!!!"

Seeing Conqueror's Haki erupt from Li Yuan's body, the pirates still desperately resisting were utterly horrified.

They had never expected that this man, who had been crazily beheading people all this time, was actually a wielder of Conqueror's Haki.

It was not only the pirates taking part in the battle. Aside from Golden Lion Shiki, the Rocks Pirates Officers all looked at Li Yuan in surprise.

They had not expected this madman to possess Conqueror's Haki like them. Judging by its intensity, it seemed quite powerful as well.

"Jiehahahahaha!!!"

Seeing Li Yuan unleash his Conqueror's Haki, Golden Lion Shiki's arrogant Golden Conqueror's Haki erupted as well, crashing against Li Yuan's.

"Gurararararara!!!"

Seeing Golden Lion Shiki do this, Whitebeard also unleashed his own Conqueror's Haki, creating a three-way standoff.

"Mama, I'm joining in too!!"

Charlotte Linlin, who loved stirring up trouble, stopped eating Cake and unleashed her own Conqueror's Haki as well.

"You all seem so enthusiastic. I'll join too."

At that moment, as though it had triggered some sort of reaction, Ochoku, Silver Axe, John, and even Kaido unleashed their Conqueror's Haki, letting it clash without restraint.

The pirates who had still been able to endure finally lost consciousness and collapsed under the impact of so many Conqueror's Hakis.

Of the pirates who had attended the Rocks Pirates Recruitment Meeting, Li Yuan was the only one still standing.

"Wahahahaha!!!"

Just as the many Conqueror's Hakis clashed without any of them yielding, an even more powerful Dark Red Conqueror's Haki shot into the sky.

It shattered all the other Conqueror's Hakis and forcefully bore down on Li Yuan.

Feeling the unfathomable Conqueror's Haki emanating from Rocks, like a red abyss—

Li Yuan's Conqueror's Haki was forcibly compressed back into a ten-meter radius around him. Even so, it continued to be compressed.

"Hold the line!!!"

Although Rocks' Conqueror's Haki was incredibly powerful, Li Yuan's will was equally resolute.

He knew his Conqueror's Haki could not compare to Rocks', so he stubbornly defended his own small patch of ground, determined not to let his Conqueror's Haki be completely crushed.

Under this intense pressure, Li Yuan's desire to win was completely ignited. His Conqueror's Haki rose to an even higher level as a result. Even Rocks could not suppress him through Conqueror's Haki alone.

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