Now, all the swordsmanship insights he left behind after his death are filling in the last missing part of Uchiha Xin.
boom!
A surge of sword intent erupted from Uchiha Xin's body.
The sea level below sank instantly.
Countless tiny sword marks appeared out of thin air.
No sword energy fell.
There was no blade contact.
The seawater, however, seemed to have been slashed thousands of times, splitting apart in large sections to both sides.
Robin and Perona hovered high in the air.
The Float-Float Fruit supported their bodies.
Perona looked down at the sea, her expression changing.
"Master didn't bring a knife, did he?"
"No."
Robin could see it very clearly.
Uchiha Xin was simply standing high in the sky.
Shanks' soulless body was still locked nearby by gravity.
He didn't draw his sword from beginning to end.
Perona pointed to the sea.
"What's going on down there?"
"The water has all been cut away!"
"It's not sword energy."
Robin felt the power rising continuously from Uchiha Xin's body.
"It's sword intent."
Perona suddenly looked at her.
"Can sword intent alone cut through the ocean?"
Robin did not answer.
Her Flower-Flower Fruit have fully Awakening.
Observation Haki has also been enhanced.
But when she tried to sense the situation around Uchiha Xin, all the power that reached out was cut off by an invisible sharp edge.
That wasn't an attack directed at her.
It was simply the sword intent that Uchiha Xin naturally emitted when he broke through.
Even with only a portion of her power leaking out, she couldn't get close.
Robin immediately stopped his body from rising any further.
"Stay away."
Perona followed and flew upwards.
"Still want a refund?"
"If you don't retreat now, your Ghost Clone will also be shredded."
Perona looked around her.
As soon as the white ghosts approached within a hundred meters of Uchiha Xin, numerous cracks appeared on their bodies.
She quickly withdrew her power.
"This is outrageous!"
Hawk Eyes and Tashigi are still fighting on the island.
"Even if their sword intent were combined, it wouldn't be as terrifying as our master's, would it?"
Robin looked at the figure high in the sky.
They can no longer be compared.
Uchiha Xin didn't pay attention to their reactions.
He is feeling the changes within his body.
Golden Lion's swordsmanship is domineering and direct.
Shanks, on the other hand, has combined Conqueror's Haki with swordsmanship to the extreme.
The swordsmanship foundations of two top experts from the sea have now been fully integrated into his top-notch swordsmanship.
The path of swordsmanship, which had already reached its end, took another step forward.
It's not just a simple increase in strength.
It's not that the slashing range has increased.
Uchiha Xin's understanding of the sword has completely broken the boundaries of Great Swordsman.
Everything can be a sword.
Whether or not one has a weapon is no longer important.
A blade, a finger, a gaze, or even a thought can all be transformed into a strike.
Swordsmanship is no longer limited by specific moves.
If Uchiha Xin is willing, all the surrounding power can bear his sword intent.
Air is acceptable.
Lightning is possible.
Seawater can also be used.
In the past, Great Swordsman needed to unleash their strikes through the blade in their hands.
The current Uchiha Xin no longer needs this process.
His will is the sword.
Uchiha Xin raised his right hand.
There is no Black Blade Yoru.
No weapons were assembled.
He simply waved his hand casually downwards.
Swish!
An invisible sword aura fell from the sky.
A black line first appeared on the surface of the sea.
The next moment, the entire sea parted to both sides.
Boom!
The seawater continued to recede.
A giant sword mark, thousands of meters long, appeared on the sea surface.
The sword mark continued to extend downwards from the center.
The invisible slash stopped sinking only after the seabed, hundreds of meters deep, was completely exposed.
The seawater on both sides was blocked as if by an invisible wall.
A large amount of seawater was piled up high, but it could not penetrate the sword mark.
The seabed rock layers were also neatly cut open.
The crack stretched into the distance.
Robin and Perona stopped at the same time.
Perona held up the floral umbrella, her fingers gripping it so tightly they turned white.
"That was just a casual wave of the hand?"
He doesn't even have a sword!
Robin's Observation Haki spread along the surface of the sea.
Even when her senses reached their limit, she still couldn't find the true end of that slash.
That sword mark, hundreds of meters deep, sliced the sea in two.
Seabed exposed.
The reef broke apart.
The nearby ocean currents were also forced to change direction.
Robin said in a low voice:
"This attack is even stronger than the Hawk Eyes energy Hawkeye used to unleash with all his might."
Perona immediately retorted.
"More than just strong!"
"Could Hawk Eyes's full-power sword strike cleave the sea to this extent?"
"Absolutely impossible!"
She had personally witnessed Hawk Eyes fight Uchiha Xin.
Back then, Hawk Eyes was still the World's Greatest Swordsman.
Black Blade Yoru's slashes were powerful enough to slice through islands and instantly cleave through swathes of ocean waves.
But the sword strike before them was not meant to cleave the waves.
Instead, they cut open the ocean, hundreds of meters deep, along with the seabed.
More importantly, Uchiha Xin did not use any weapons.
No power was charged up.
He didn't even assume any sword-drawing stance.
It was just a casual wave of the hand.
Perona looked at the sword wound that wouldn't heal for a long time, and her voice lowered.
"If Master were to draw the Black Blade Yoru and unleash a full-force strike..."
Robin continued her sentence.
"Its power will only increase."
Perona swallowed hard.
Even if Hawk Eyes unleashed his full power, he couldn't stop it, right?
"It can't be stopped."
Robin's answer was very direct.
"The gap is at least three times."
"Moreover, Xin didn't even use his full strength just now."
Perona fell silent.
Hawk Eyes challenges Uchiha Xin once again in order to reclaim the Black Blade Yoru.
As a result Uchiha Xin had no interest in fighting him personally.
By only putting Tashigi in the game, Hawk Eyes was dragged into a tough battle.
If Hawk Eyes had seen that sword strike back then, he probably wouldn't have even considered continuing the challenge.
The two sides are no longer on the same level.
Hawk Eyes remains Great Swordsman.
Uchiha Xin, however, had already completely crossed that line.
Uchiha Xin looked down at the sword marks and withdrew his right hand.
This attack used less than 30% of its power.
If they unleash their full power, cutting through the sea in front of them wouldn't be difficult.
For him now, the Black Blade Yoru is merely a weapon that can enhance the power of his strikes.
Even without any Famous Sword, no swordsman on the high seas could withstand a single strike from him.
"Great Swordsman" is no longer enough to describe his current level of skill.
The Golden Lion did not reach that point.
Hawk Eyes doesn't.
Shanks didn't have that either.
In the past few centuries, no one has ever truly broken through the limits of Great Swordsman.
Uchiha Xin was the first.
Since there is no corresponding realm on the sea, he shall name it.
Above the Great Swordsman.
" The Sword Saint Realm "
Uchiha Xin's voice rang out.
Robin looked at him.
" Sword Saint?"
"Good."
Uchiha Xin stood above the cleaved sea.
"The Saint of Swords"
"From this day forward, the Great Swordsman is no longer the limit of swordsmanship."
" Hawk Eyes, Golden Lion, Shanks are all just at the level of Great Swordsman."
"And I am already Sword Saint."
Upon hearing this, Perona immediately looked towards the distant island.
On the island, Tashigi's battle with Hawk Eyes is not yet over.
The two sword intents clashed repeatedly.
The sword energy shot out from the center of the island, cutting through all the rocks and ground along its path.