Hawk Eyes looked down at the sea.
There were no knives there.
Uchiha Xin simply raised his right hand.
Keep your five fingers together.
Point the edge of your palm toward the sky.
Hawk Eyes paused for a moment.
"Still not using the sword?"
His voice was soft, yet it carried clearly below.
Uchiha Xin looked up.
"At the Sword Saint Stage Realm, whether you have a sword or not makes no difference."
Hawk Eyes did not refute.
He had already seen Tashigi's sword.
Having just broken through to the Sword Saint, he was able to sever the Supreme Grade Sword Gryphon.
Uchiha Xin's level will only reach higher.
Hawk Eyes still couldn't imagine what kind of sword strike Uchiha Xin could deliver without using any weapons.
Tashigi gripped the Black Blade Yoru tightly with both hands.
The blade is vibrating slightly.
It was not caused by an external impact.
Before Uchiha Xin could even unleash his attack, all the surrounding sword intent had already converged upon him.
Black Blade Yoru was also responding to that power.
Tashigi glanced down.
"Just from the opening move, he can already influence Black Blade Yoru?"
She has just entered the Sword Saint Stage Realm.
She sensed this power more clearly than Robin and Perona.
seawater.
Air.
Clouds.
Sunlight.
At this moment, they all seemed to have become the sword in Uchiha Xin's hand.
He did not draw his sword.
Because this world has replaced the sword.
Perona flew to Robin's side.
"He hasn't made a move yet, has he?"
"No."
Robin controlled the Float-Float Fruit, carrying her further upwards.
"Retreat a little further."
"Refund?"
Perona glanced at the distance between them.
They were already several kilometers away from Uchiha Xin.
"Not enough."
Robin's Observation Haki had just extended when it was cut off by an invisible sharpness.
"This sword strike is different from the previous one."
Perona did not press the matter further.
She immediately followed Robin to a higher position.
Tashigi also activated her flight ability.
She did not sheathe her Black Blade Yoru.
Instead, he held the knife horizontally in front of him, wanting to experience the sword strike himself.
Hawk Eyes saw the three men's movements and finally smiled.
Even Tashigi, who had already reached the Sword Saint Stage Realm, had to retreat.
This is exactly the power he wanted to see.
Uchiha Xin stood on the sea.
Slowly raise your right hand.
The sea began to recede in all directions.
It lacked any Haki impact.
No sword energy fell.
The sheer amount of sword intent that was constantly gathering was enough to overwhelm the seawater beneath their feet.
A depression several kilometers in diameter quickly appeared.
The ocean current in the distance was forcibly cut off.
At the same time, rubble from the island rose up.
Dense sword marks appeared on the surface of each piece of gravel.
Tashigi's grip tightened.
"Is this his true sword intent?"
She is already Sword Saint.
However, compared to Uchiha Xin, the gap is still astonishingly large.
She needed the help of Black Blade Yoru when she defeated Hawk Eyes.
The final sword strike incorporated Haki, physical strength, and all the essence of sword intent.
Uchiha Xin had nothing at that moment.
With just the sword intent, the entire sea area began to sink.
Perona felt a chill run down her spine.
She had just thought that Uchiha Xin's casual cleavage of the ocean was already an exaggeration.
In retrospect, that sword strike wasn't even a real attack.
"What exactly does the master intend to kill?"
She looked up at the sky.
" Hawk Eyes is up there."
"If this sword strikes, he won't even have a soul left, will he?"
Robin shook his head.
"Xin will control the power."
" Hawk Eyes wants to see is the limit of swordsmanship."
"It wasn't simply an instant kill with a single sword strike."
High in the sky, Hawk Eyes also sensed the ever-increasing sword intent.
He could no longer hold a knife.
His body was on the verge of death.
But at this moment, he seemed to have returned to his peak.
All attention was focused on Uchiha Xin's raised right hand.
That wasn't a hand.
Rather, it is a sword powerful enough to cleave the world in two.
Hawk Eyes watched for a few moments, then suddenly laughed.
"I see."
" Great Swordsman only infuses his power into his sword."
" The Sword Saint, however, can transform all things in heaven and earth into his own sword."
"I've cultivated for decades, and I've even gotten the direction wrong."
His voice carried across the island.
Tashigi looked up at him.
You're not going in the wrong direction.
"It's just that no one is there to take the next step for you."
Hawk Eyes chuckled softly:
"I admit defeat to you."
"To witness this sword before death means my life wasn't in vain."
Uchiha Xin did not wait any longer.
Raise your right hand to its highest point.
Point the edge of your palm at an altitude of 10,000 meters.
The sword intent was fully concentrated at this moment.
The sea suddenly became still.
The surging waves stopped in mid-air.
The falling pebbles have stopped falling.
Even the clouds high in the sky seemed to be frozen in place.
The next instant, Uchiha Xin raised his hand and slashed.
There was no sound of a sword.
No collision.
A giant sword aura, three thousand meters long, shot straight up from the sea!
boom!
The entire ocean exploded on the spot.
The seawater, thousands of meters deep, parted to both sides.
The seabed rock strata split in two the instant the sword energy appeared.
The sword energy stretched upwards for three thousand meters.
The air along the way was completely cut off.
The 10,000-meter-high cloud layer split apart.
The thick sea of clouds continuously collapsed on both sides of the sword energy.
The entire sky looked as if a hole had been forcibly torn open.
Tashigi only glanced at it before her hands began to go numb.
Black Blade Yoru let out a long cry.
She immediately used her sword intent to protect her body.
Even though she was still thousands of meters away from the sword energy, she could still feel the illusion of the blade pressing down on her.
"Is this his full-power sword strike?"
Tashigi looked up at the sky.
The sword energy had already soared over ten thousand meters into the sky.
But it did not weaken.
On the contrary, it continues to accelerate.
20,000 meters.
Fifty thousand meters.
One hundred thousand meters.
Wherever it went, the sky was completely pierced through.
The clouds broke off in the middle, leaving behind a huge passage that seemed to stretch endlessly.
Perona opened her mouth wide.
The floral umbrella in her hand swayed continuously in the aftershocks.
"It flew out!"
"The 100,000 meters haven't disappeared yet!"
"Is this really swordsmanship?"
Robin's Observation Haki continued to track the sky.
It wasn't until the sword energy had traveled nearly 100,000 meters that her senses could no longer lock onto it.
"This is not ordinary sword energy."
Robin stared at the rift that pierced the sky.
"Xin incorporated all the surrounding power into his strike."
"The farther the sword energy travels, the more power it gathers."
"The sword energy unleashed by Hawk Eyes and Tashigi only diminishes after leaving the blade."
"His sword, however, continues to grow stronger between heaven and earth."
Tashigi didn't respond.
She understood the gap better than anyone else.
They are both Sword Saint.
She has only just surpassed the limits of Great Swordsman.
Uchiha Xin, however, had already progressed far beyond this level.
The sword energy wasn't aimed directly at Hawk Eyes.
They simply passed by him.
Even as the sword energy passed by, Hawk Eyes's body still began to disintegrate.
First, the legs.
Then comes the chest and abdomen.
Finally, the head.
No blood splattered.
His flesh, bones, and internal organs all turned into tiny specks of light within that sword intent.
A moment later, the physical body completely disappeared.
Only a nearly transparent soul remained, protected high in the sky by Uchiha Xin's power.
Hawk Eyes looked down at himself.
The body is gone.
The injuries are healed.
The pain also disappeared.
He had only a sliver of consciousness left.
The three-thousand-meter-long sword aura had already flown to the edge of sight.
The sky was completely torn apart.