The Celestial Dragons' wails echoed throughout Mary Geoise.
Countless once-arrogant Celestial Dragons fell in swathes beneath Ye Chuan's merciless blade, like wheat being harvested.
Their blood stained this so-called holy land the filthiest shade of crimson.
Ye Chuan showed no mercy.
He was merely carrying out a judgment eight hundred years overdue.
Yet just as he was about to raze all of Mary Geoise to the ground...
A supreme, terrifying will, seemingly belonging neither to this world nor to any dimension, descended without warning!
Ye Chuan's body abruptly stiffened!
He could clearly feel an irresistible force envelop his entire body in an instant!
It was Imu!!!
The true master of the Empty Throne, who had lived for over eight hundred years, hidden behind the World Government!
He had finally made his move!
Ye Chuan could not even see how Imu had acted, let alone detect his presence with [Observation Haki]!
He only felt his body forcibly stripped from this world by a more fundamental "law" at that moment!
The scene before his eyes began to distort rapidly.
Finally, everything dissolved into pure white.
When his consciousness cleared again, Ye Chuan found himself back in the boundless, pure-white Worlds Transit Station.
An invisible force had already completely healed his injuries and fatigue during his passage between worlds, restoring him to peak condition.
Looking at the two enormous doors before him, now firmly shut, bearing the words "Naruto" and "Pirate King" respectively, he was filled with mixed feelings.
"Imu..."
Recalling the irresistible, terrifying power that had forcibly banished him from the pirate world at the very end, Ye Chuan's gaze grew a little grave.
"That wasn't any form of attack. It was something more fundamental: rejection and exclusion by the world itself."
"It seems that, in terms of sheer combat power,