Heaven-Slicing Sword-Drawing Technique

Since Akainu had already mastered the opening trajectory of his Door-Door Fruit, Garp and Sengoku must have discovered it too. Yet those two old codgers were still acting like they had no other choice, and Garp even kept taking hits. In an instant, a sense of alarm arose in Lu Ge's heart: Damn! Are these two old codgers trying to play me?

After all, when facing Eagle Eye, he had quickly discovered the trajectory of the Dark Door. It stood to reason that these two old codgers were even stronger than the current Eagle Eye—who was still only in his youth and had yet to reach his peak. Since Eagle Eye could sense it, there was no way the two of them couldn't. Then there was only one truth: these two old codgers had been hiding their strength all along and had actually already figured out a way to deal with his Door-Door Fruit?

Did they want to lull him into complacency, then wait for the right moment to deal a single decisive blow?

You crafty old bastards!

Lu Ge's eyes narrowed slightly. Since you want to play, I'll play along with you.

Facing the giant magma fist descending from the sky, Lu Ge ignored it entirely. He took a step forward, walked through a door, and appeared directly in front of Sengoku. Sengoku's reaction was not sluggish; he immediately slammed a palm down.

Lu Ge countered with a punch, colliding with Sengoku's gigantic golden palm. While a terrifying shockwave erupted, a thought flashed through Lu Ge's mind: Revolving Door.

In an instant, Sengoku's body suddenly split into two sections. Hit by Lu Ge's punch right on the Buddha hand, his upper body immediately began to spin rapidly like a top, whirring away.

Sengoku let out a continuous stream of shrieks: "Whoa, whoa, whoa~~~ My head is spinning! I never expected... you brat... to actually have this trick...!!"

Lu Ge's expression was stern as he looked at the Sengoku before him, his right hand already gripping the hilt of the blade at his waist.

Seeing this, Garp cursed silently. If Sengoku in his current state took a slash from the World's Strongest Swordsman, even his Buddha body probably wouldn't be able to withstand it.

In the nick of time, with no time left to think, his figure flashed and he blasted toward Lu Ge with a punch in an instant!

The terrifying black fist shone with a dangerous aura and sheen.

Yet Lu Ge met the attack with a punch without the slightest bit of fear...

Seeing the smile blooming at the corner of Lu Ge's mouth, Garp was suddenly startled. Instantly recalling how Sengoku's huge body had been turned into a Revolving Door, he was alarmed, hurriedly checked his momentum, and leaped backward. He had no desire to follow in Sengoku's footsteps and turn into a Revolving Door spinning hula hoops out there.

Seeing this, Lu Ge seemed to have anticipated it long ago. A slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and then the fierce look in his eyes flashed and vanished. The katana at his waist was suddenly drawn: "One-Sword Style Technique: Heaven-Slicing Sword-Drawing Technique!"

This swordsmanship was a supreme sword technique he had comprehended by combining television dramas and novels he had once watched, repeatedly refining and pondering it with [Time Is on My Side].

The sword Qi was like light, filled with fierce slaughter.

Everyone saw the sword light flash before their eyes, and a peerless sword beam had already slashed down upon Sengoku's gigantic Buddha body!

Sengoku, who had been spinning around and around, had no way to react at all, and took such a slash squarely.

Accompanied by a squish and a muffled cry of agony, a huge gash abruptly appeared on the chest of the Golden Great Buddha, from which golden liquid gushed out like water.

"Sengoku!!!"

Garp and the others were all struck dumb with astonishment. The Golden Great Buddha's defense had actually been breached, and even his chest had been cut open.

"Ugh~~!!!"

Answering Garp and the others was a painful, muffled groan from Sengoku. Amidst shining golden light, his gigantic Buddha body rapidly shrunk, finally returning to his original appearance, except that a gruesome bloody gash had appeared on his chest, blood flowing endlessly. He looked on the verge of dying from heavy injuries.

"Lord Sengoku!!!"

Aokiji's figure flashed, appearing in front of Sengoku. Frost surged in his hands, instantly freezing his wound and stopping the overflowing blood, though Sengoku's complexion grew even paler by several shades.

"H-How is this possible! Lord Sengoku... actually got injured!" With magma flowing all over his body, Akainu, who had just landed, widened his eyes in disbelief.

Even with all his effort, it was very difficult for him to breach the defense of Sengoku's Buddha body. Even when facing the Pirate King Roger and Golden Lion Shiki in the past, he had never been in such a sorry state, yet now he was on the brink of death from heavy injuries.

Had the swordsmanship sharpness of the World's Strongest Swordsman grown to this extent?

"Cursed brat! I'll have you die!" Akainu roared angrily, leaping into the air once more. Transforming into a molten rock meteorite, he smashed down toward Lu Ge.

This time, Lu Ge did not dodge. His right hand once again gripped the scabbard hilt that had just been returned to it, and piercing sword intent flared: "One-Sword Style Technique: Heaven-Slicing Sword-Drawing Technique!"

"It's this move again!" Seeing this, Garp's pupils suddenly shrank, and he roared at the top of his lungs: "Akainu, get out of the way!"

At that moment, Akainu also felt his heart skip a beat, feeling his entire aura locked down. Dodge? Can I dodge this? Since I can't dodge, I'll meet it head-on and see if you, the World's Strongest Swordsman, are formidable, or if I, Akainu, am superior!

"Great Eruption!!"

At this moment, Akainu threw all caution to the wind. In his magma-transformed state, his fists blasted out multiple giant magma fists, constantly plummeting from the sky like a meteoric fiery rain and smashing toward Lu Ge's location.

Sword light traversed the air, as if trying to cleave the firmament.

In a flash, the seemingly terrifying magma fiery rain was instantly cut cleanly in half, and the remaining momentum of the sword light went straight toward Akainu.

Facing such a terrifying sword beam, Akainu let out an angry roar. His right hand, already transformed into magma, abruptly lashed out, colliding with the sword light. Amidst a deafening clang, the combination of Armament Haki hardening, the reinforcement of the Six Powers' Iron Body, and the innate properties of the magma itself only managed to hold out for barely a second in the air before a squish was heard—the giant magma fist was brutally cleaved right down the middle...

Seeing that Akainu was about to be sliced in half at the waist by the sword Qi, Garp let out an explosive roar and soared into the sky in a split second: "Brat! Don't get too arrogant! Fist Bone Impact!!!"

Boom~!!

The fist wreathed in Haki carried matchless, terrifying might and massive impact as it slammed into that stream of sword Qi. A destructive shockwave spread out, obliterating everything around them.

The sword Qi, whose might had already been mostly neutralized by Akainu, finally burst apart under such a terrifying blow from Garp. It transformed into ten thousand streams of sword light scattering like shooting stars, several of which grazed past Garp and Akainu's skin and bodies, causing the two of them to plunge from the sky. With a thunderous crash, they blasted a huge, massive crater into the ground.

Looking at his own blood-mutilated fist and the pierced bone of his right shoulder, Garp stared at Lu Ge ahead, his expression solemn to the extreme: "What terrifying swordsmanship! Is this the sword of the World's Strongest Swordsman? No wonder it could injure Sengoku. Truly fierce and matchless!"

If Akainu hadn't fought for his life to offset the majority of the sword light's power, probably even he wouldn't have been able to take it head-on.

The Heaven-Slicing Sword-Drawing Technique was truly terrifying.