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Chapter 214 Battle with Kaido
Chapter 214 Battle with Kaido
"This is not a fair fight."
"This is my world."
"Here, I am the rule."
"I am the law."
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"I am everything."
Her blade pierced Jin's chest.
This time, the blade was not blocked.
Because those threads had altered Ember's fire energy, making it impossible for him to maintain his defensive form.
There was no flame behind him.
The blade pierced his skin, his muscles, and his bones.
Fresh blood gushed out.
Jin's eyes widened suddenly.
A smile spread across his face.
"I see----"
"I never imagined your abilities could change like this."
Unohana Retsu's lips curved into a smile.
"You finally understand."
She pulled out the blade, and blood gushed from Jin's chest, staining his leather coat red.
With another flick of her finger, the threads loosened from Jin's body, turning into a red liquid that flowed back into her blade.
Jin lost his balance and knelt on the ground.
His hands were braced in the blood-red swamp as he gasped for breath.
The puncture wound on his chest was bleeding.
It has not healed.
Because in this world, no wound will heal unless Retsu Unohana herself allows it.
"You lost, Jhin."
Jin raised his head, looked at her, and a hint of resentment flashed in his eyes.
"I haven't lost yet."
"My body—can still move—"
"My knife—is still in my hand—"
"My will—has not collapsed, and Mr. Kaido's dream has not—"
He struggled to his feet, gripped the Flame Blade tightly, and charged towards Unohana Retsu.
But this time, he was very slow.
So slow that Unohana Retsu could clearly see his every move.
She slightly turned her body to the side, dodging his knife.
Then, with a gentle swing of her Zanpakuto, she left a wound on his arm.
Fresh blood gushed out.
Jhin swayed slightly, but he did not fall.
He raised his sword again and slashed at Unohana Retsu.
Unohana Retsu dodged again and swung her sword once more.
Another wound.
Jin's body was covered in wounds and blood.
But he remained standing.
He was still holding the knife.
He still didn't fall.
Retsu Unohana looked at him, a hint of admiration flashing in her eyes.
"Your will is very strong."
"Your strength is worthy of your bounty."
"Your pride is worthy of your race."
"Your fighting style is worthy of your title."
She paused.
"but----"
A smile curved her lips.
"Your luck isn't very good."
"You've met me."
She raised her Zanpakuto, and the red liquid on the blade began to condense.
"The final blow."
Her voice was very soft, so soft it sounded like a sigh.
This strike will bring you down.
Her body disappeared from the spot.
No, it didn't disappear.
It was incredibly fast.
It was so fast that even Jin's eyes couldn't see it.
The next second, she appeared behind Jhin.
The Zanpakuto pierced his back and went straight through his heart.
Jin's body suddenly stiffened.
He looked down at the blade protruding from his chest and a smile spread across his face.
"So this is... your swordsmanship. What a terrifying woman!"
At the same moment that Retsu Unohana defeated King, on the other side of the battlefield, the battle between Kaido and Shiraha reached its climax.
Kaido's body has transformed into a beast, becoming a gigantic blue dragon.
His body was covered in blue scales, each scale shimmering with a metallic luster.
He has two curved horns on his head, and lightning bolts are wrapped around the horns.
His mouth had two rows of sharp teeth, each one like a dagger.
He exuded a terrifying aura.
That was Kaido's true strength.
That was the oppressive aura of the world's strongest creature.
Bai Yu stood before him, her black trench coat fluttering in the wind.
He held the long sword in his hand, its blade wreathed in black energy.
His face was expressionless.
"You are very strong, Uchiha Hakuha."
"You are stronger than I thought."
He paused.
"But my brother seems to be having a tough fight, so I won't go easy on him."
The roar of the Azure Dragon tore the sky apart.
Kaido's body hovered in mid-air, his blue scales reflecting an eerie luster in the firelight.
His dragon whiskers fluttered in the wind, each one crackled with black lightning.
Those vertical pupils coldly looked down at the white feathers on the ground, like a god looking down at an ant.
But Bai Yu is not an ant.
He raised his head, and his three-tomoe Sharingan slowly rotated under the reflection of the dragon fire. The pattern deep in his pupils began to change, and the three tomoe joined together.
Kaleidoscope Sharingan.
Kaido's pupils contracted slightly.
"interesting."
The Azure Dragon spoke in human language, its voice like thunder: "Those eyes—they remind me of that guy Rocks mentioned, who also had a pair of very unusual eyes."
Bai Yu did not answer.
He held a long knife in his right hand, the tip of which pointed diagonally at the ground.
Black Armament Haki began to cover the blade, not as ordinary hardening, but as flowing, living black patterns that wrapped around it layer by layer.
At the same time, he slowly raised his left hand.
Blue chakra began to condense in his palm.
"Kid."
Kaido swung his massive dragon tail, the scales whistling sharply through the air: "This world is vast. Don't think you can challenge me just because you've defeated Linlin!"
"You probably don't know, but there's a rule in this world."
Kaido opened his dragon mouth, and crimson flames began to gather between his fangs.
"Might makes right."
"boom-!!"
Dragon breath spewed from Kaido's mouth; it was not ordinary flame, but Kaido's unique "heat breath."
The destructive power of temperatures high enough to melt steel instantly.
The crimson beam of light shot straight toward Bai Yu, carving a deep trench in the ground along its path, and the rocks vaporized directly under the high temperature.
Bai Yu did not dodge.
His Mangekyou Sharingan spun wildly, slowing down the speed of the heat breath in his vision. He saw the flow trajectory of the flames, the distribution of energy within the heat breath, and even the slight upward curve of Kaido's lips when he exhaled the dragon breath.
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation".
This was no ordinary extinguishing of a powerful fire.
Amplified by the Mangekyou Sharingan and combined with his understanding of Fire Release ninjutsu, Bai Yu's chakra made this attack far exceed the norm. A sea of fire erupted from his palm, colliding head-on with Kaido's heat breath.
The two flames collided in mid-air, unleashing a deafening roar.
The heatwave swept outwards, blowing away the rubble of buildings within a radius of hundreds of meters, cracking the ground, and filling the air with the smell of burning.
Kaido's eyes widened slightly.
"Use flames to counter my heat breath?"
He didn't stop, but instead increased the output of his heat breath.
The crimson pillar of light grew thicker and thicker, gradually engulfing the sea of fire.
Bai Yu frowned slightly.
He can certainly hold off the attack, but there's no need to fight head-on.
His body disappeared during the brief interval between the clashes of flames.
Instantaneous movement technique.
The next second, Bai Yu appeared to the side of Kaido's dragon head, his long sword wrapped in Armament Haki, and slashed towards Kaido's eyes.
Kaido reacted extremely quickly.
His dragon claw swept across, the nails on his five fingers like five curved blades, each wrapped with domineering power.
The black claw tip exploded, carrying a suffocating sense of oppression.
The knife and claws clashed.
"clang-!!"
The sound of metal clashing echoed through the sky, and shockwaves spread out from the point of impact, whipping up rubble on the ground and sending it flying in all directions like bullets.
Bai Yu's body was shaken back a few steps, but his feet landed firmly on the ground.
Kaido also felt that power.
A shallow knife mark was left on his dragon claw.
"Such powerful Armament Haki?"
Kaido's vertical pupils stared at the long sword in Bai Yu's hand: "No—your Haki is of very high quality, even comparable to those old guys who have trained for decades."
"It's time for the old guys to step down from the stage of the times."
Kaido was silent for a moment.
Then he smiled.
It was a heartfelt, unrestrained laugh.
"Hahahahaha!!"
The Azure Dragon's enormous body tumbled through the air, its laughter echoing across the battlefield like thunder.
His dragon whiskers danced wildly, and the scales on his body stood up slightly with excitement.
"Good! Good! Good!"
He said "good" three times in a row, each word carrying the oppressive aura of a Conqueror's Haki.
Black lightning spread outwards from his body, as if the oxygen in the air had been sucked out.
"Do you know how long it's been since I've encountered an opponent like you?"
Kaido's vertical pupils burned with fighting spirit.
"Ever since that old man stopped fighting me, I haven't met anyone who can make me take this seriously."
His dragon body began to shrink, the azure dragon form dissipated, and in its place was a human-beast form. His body was covered with azure scales, with two curved giant horns on his head, a thick dragon tail trailing behind him, and his hands and feet had turned into dragon claws.
This is Kaido's strongest fighting form.
He held the spiked club in his hand, and the black lightning on the club became even denser, crackling loudly.
"As a sign of respect, I will kill you with all my might."
Bai Yu's Mangekyou Sharingan spun around, and he saw the layer of black Haki wrapped around Kaido. It was not ordinary Armament Haki, but an advanced application of Conqueror's Haki, Conqueror's Haki Entanglement.
These are skills that only a very few people at the top of the world can master.
The overwhelming power of Conqueror's Haki is materialized and wrapped around weapons or the body, making each attack carry devastating force.
"Conqueror's Haki Entanglement—"
Bai Yu said in a low voice.
"Oh? You know him?"
Kaido was somewhat surprised.
Bai Yu closed her eyes, then opened them.
Black lightning also began to crackle around his body.
He also condensed, compressed, and coiled his Conqueror's Haki like Armament Haki.
His Mangekyou Sharingan helped him see through the flow of Haki on Kaido's body. Although he could also use it, he could also learn from it and make up for his own shortcomings.
Kaido's pupils suddenly contracted.
"What?"
He sensed it.
The oppressive aura emanating from Bai Yu, the overwhelming pressure that seemed to make the entire space tremble, was indeed due to the presence of Conqueror's Haki.
Moreover, the quality is not low.
"You little rascal, you're really something else—"
"Interesting! So interesting!"
He raised the Eight Precepts, and the power of the Conqueror's Haki surrounding the staff caused the air around it to distort.
"Come on, Uchiha Hakuha!"
"Let me see your true strength!"
Bai Yu did not back down.
He held his long sword horizontally in front of him, the Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki on the blade intertwining to form a unique pattern.
His Mangekyou Sharingan was fixed on Kaido's every move.
Then, the two of them moved at the same time.
"Thunderous Eight Trigrams—!!!"
Kaido brandished the Eight Precepts, and his spiked club, crackling with black lightning, swept towards Bai Yu like a black bolt of lightning.
The speed of this strike was extremely fast. The sonic boom generated when the stick cut through the air stirred up the rubble on the ground, creating a shockwave that was visible to the naked eye.
Bai Yu did not take the hit head-on.
His Mangekyou Sharingan predicted the trajectory of the attack, and at the last moment, his body leaned back slightly, the tip of the Eighth Regiment's staff grazing his nose.
But the black lightning struck the ground behind him.
"boom!!!"
The earth split open, and a bottomless chasm stretched for hundreds of meters from the point of impact.
The rocks on both sides of the ravine were crushed into dust by the Conqueror's Haki, and the ground shook violently, as if the entire island was trembling.
This is the Thunderous Eight Trigrams.
Kaido's signature move.
A terrifying killing move that can render any opponent incapable of fighting with a single blow.
Bai Yu dodged the attack, but his body tumbled several times in the air before he regained his balance.
Kaido gave him no chance to catch his breath.
The second strike followed immediately after the first.
"Bad wind—!!"
Kaido opened his dragon mouth and spat out sharp air blades, whose cutting power was comparable to the sharpest sword.
They flew towards Bai Yu from different angles, blocking all his escape routes.
Bai Yu's Mangekyou Sharingan spun wildly.
He saw the trajectory of each air blade and calculated the gaps between them.
His body weaved through the gaps, dodging left and right, each air blade grazing his skin by the slightest distance.
But there was a blade of air that he couldn't dodge in time.
"Susanoo!"
"Bang!!!"
Bai Yu's expression remained unchanged.
He glanced at the undamaged Susanoo, then looked up at Kaido.
"A very strong attack."
His Mangekyou Sharingan started spinning again.
This time, he will take the initiative to attack.
Bai Yu's body disappeared from the spot.
Instantaneous movement technique plus shaving.
The combination of the two speed techniques made him so fast that even Kaido's Observation Haki could only catch a blurry afterimage.
The next second, Bai Yu appeared behind Kaido.
The long sword, imbued with Conqueror's Haki, slashed towards Kaido's nape.
Kaido did not turn around.
However, his Observation Haki had already detected the attack.
His dragon tail swept across, the scales at the tip like serrated teeth, crackling with domineering lightning, colliding with Bai Yu's longsword.
"clang-!!!
""
Another loud bang.
Bai Yu's feet were firmly planted in the air, his long sword pressed tightly against the dragon's tail. The black lightning on the sword collided and tore at each other with the black lightning on the dragon's tail, producing a piercing crackling sound.