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Chapter 216 Victory and Defeat
Chapter 216 Victory and Defeat
Heat.
The crimson beam of light shot straight toward Susanoo's face.
Bai Yu's Mangekyou Sharingan caught the attack.
Susanoo tilted its head slightly, and its heat breath grazed the giant's cheek, vaporizing a small mountain in the distance.
But Kaido's attacks didn't stop there.
Kaido wrestled with Susanoo using his dragon tail, parried the long sword with his dragon claws, and continuously spewed out hot breath from his mouth.
One after another.
Each strike was aimed precisely at Susanoo.
Bai Yu's Susanoo dodged left and right, while his long sword slashed continuously, striking Kaido's dragon claws one after another.
Blood splattered.
The scales shattered.
But Kaido did not retreat.
Kaido laughed wildly, his dragon roar shaking the heavens and the earth.
"That felt great! That felt great! That felt great!"
"This is the kind of battle I've been waiting for!"
"This is the kind of opponent that gets my blood pumping!"
Blood-red light surged from his dragon eyes.
He unleashed his full power of Conqueror's Haki.
It's not about entanglement or compression, but a pure, primal release, like a tsunami.
Blood-red lightning spread outwards from his body, turning the entire sky dark red.
Bai Yu sensed it.
The oppressive force was more than twice as strong as before.
In his full dragon form, Kaido's Conqueror's Haki has reached another level of intensity.
But Bai Yu did not back down.
He also released Conqueror's Haki from Susanoo.
Black lightning and blood-red lightning collided in the air, tearing at each other and devouring one another.
The entire sky was trembling.
The island of demons on the ground is shaking, rocks are cracking, and buildings are collapsing.
Those Beast Pirates members who remained on the island fainted one after another as the two Conqueror's Haki clashed.
Some people bleed from all seven orifices and their bodies convulse uncontrollably.
Some people suffer cardiac arrest and collapse.
At the edge of the battlefield, Yamato gritted his teeth, covered his ears with his hands, and crouched behind the ruins.
The veins on her forehead bulged, and a trickle of blood escaped from the corner of her mouth.
But she did not faint.
Her eyes were fixed on the battle in the sky.
Staring at that azure dragon.
Staring at the black giant.
Staring at the black-haired young man between the giant's eyebrows.
"Father----"
She said in a low voice.
"You've finally met your match. Is it Oden returning? Is it Oden's will? Will you be defeated by Oden, and then Wano Country will open its borders?"
The battle continues in the sky.
Kaido's dragon body tumbled in the air, unleashing all his attack methods: dragon claws, dragon tail, dragon breath, and dragon roar.
White Feather's Susanoo wielded a long sword, parrying and counterattacking with each strike.
Each collision shook the sky.
Each shockwave cracked the earth.
This is not a battle fought by humans.
This is a battle of gods.
Kaido's dragon claws came down again, five sharp claws crackling with blood-red lightning.
Susanoo's longsword met the attack head-on, the black lightning on the blade clashing with the crimson lightning.
"boom--!!!"
The point of collision between the two forces exploded in mid-air, forming a huge energy ball.
The energy ball expanded rapidly and then burst.
The shockwave spread outwards, engulfing everything within a one-kilometer radius.
Shiraha's Susanoo was knocked back dozens of meters, and fine cracks appeared on the giant's armor.
Kaido's dragon body was also shaken and slid backward, several scales on his dragon claws were broken, and blood flowed freely.
The two faced off in mid-air, panting heavily.
Kaido's dragon eyes stared at Bai Yu's Susanoo, a hint of seriousness flashing in his pupils.
"Your power—has not yet reached its limit."
Bai Yu's Mangekyou Sharingan spun, and blood from his pupils flowed down his cheeks.
"You probably don't have that either, right? If that's all there is to it, you're still far from it, Kaido."
Kaido fell silent.
Then he smiled.
"right."
"I don't have any either."
His dragon body began to shrink, but instead of reverting to his human-beast form, he compressed all his power to the extreme.
The Azure Dragon's length shrank from 300 meters to 100 meters, but its scales became denser, its muscles became stronger, and its claws became sharper.
He was enveloped in a layer of blood-red domineering aura.
That was the ultimate application of Conqueror's Haki, an advanced version of Conqueror's Haki envelopment, compressing the pressure of Conqueror's Haki to the surface of the body, forming an invisible armor.
"I have never used this move before, because whether or not I can use it is not up to me."
Kaido's voice turned low.
"Because no opponent has ever forced me to this point."
"You are the first, Uchiha Hakuha."
Bai Yu's Mangekyou Sharingan spun wildly.
He saw it.
The crimson Haki on Kaido's body is not just a simple defense, but a completely new power that combines Conqueror's Haki, Armament Haki, and Devil Fruit abilities.
The destructive power of this force is enough to destroy an island in a single blow.
Bai Yu took a deep breath.
He compressed the power of Susanoo from 100 meters to 50 meters, and from 50 meters to 20 meters.
The black giant grew smaller and smaller, but the patterns on its armor became denser and the light brighter.
In the end, Susanoo shrank to about the same size as Shiraha's body, like a layer of black armor covering his body.
While Susanoo is generally stronger the larger it is, Bai Yu compresses all of Susanoo's power to the surface of his body, making every attack of Bai Yu carry the destructive power of Susanoo, and every defense unbreakable.
He drew his long sword, the blade wreathed with Conqueror's Haki and Susanoo chakra.
The two forces intertwined, forming a strange black-gold light.
Kaido made a move.
His dragon body transformed into a streak of blood-red lightning, hurtling straight toward Bai Yu.
The speed was so fast that even Bai Yu's Mangekyou Sharingan could only catch a fleeting afterimage.
"The Eight Trigrams—Fire Dragon Torch—!!!"
Kaido clenched his dragon claws into a fist, and the crimson Haki on his fist condensed into a huge energy ball, which he smashed down towards Bai Yu.
Bai Yu did not dodge.
His Mangekyou Sharingan caught the trajectory of the punch.
He raised his long sword, and the black and gold light on the blade surged.
"cut!!!"
The knife clashed with the fist.
No sound.
There was no shockwave.
All the force was concentrated at the point of impact, forming a small sphere with a diameter of less than one meter.
Inside the small ball, two forces are tearing, colliding, and annihilating each other.
The outer wall of the ball trembled, and fine cracks spread across its surface.
Then, the ball exploded.
It didn't explode outwards, but collapsed inwards.
A black hole-like sphere of energy appeared in mid-air, sucking everything around it in—light, sound, air.
Even time seemed to stand still.
Bai Yu's Mangekyou Sharingan stared at Kaido's dragon eyes.
Kaido's dragon eyes stared into Bai Yu's eyes.
Kaido's dragon scales were mostly shattered, and blood gushed from dozens of wounds. Cracks appeared on his dragon horns.
"Uchiha Hakuha————"
Kaido's voice was very soft, so soft that only Shiraha could hear it.
"You are the strongest opponent I have ever faced."
A smile curved Bai Yu's lips.
"Is that so? It seems you haven't dared to make a move against other powerful opponents, Kaido!"
Then, his Mangekyou Sharingan started spinning again.
Kaido subconsciously looked away and noticed that Uchiha Shiraha had drawn his sword again after closing it at some point.
"Shatter, you illusion, you mirage."
Kaido's dragon eyes suddenly narrowed.
He saw Bai Yu draw his sword. The long sword should have already slashed out and collided with his fist, causing the energy sphere between the two to collapse inward.
But now, the knife is back in its sheath?
No, why do we need to do this repetitive action?
A sense of confusion flashed through Kaido's mind.
But he didn't have time to think.
Bai Yu's figure disappeared before his eyes.
It wasn't a teleportation technique, nor was it due to excessive speed; it was a true disappearance, as if it had never existed.
Kaido's dragon tail instinctively swept behind him; this was a muscle memory he had developed over decades of fighting, and any enemy that disappeared from his sight would reappear behind him.
Where the dragon's tail swept, the air was torn apart, and a trail of blood-red domineering aura was left in the air.
But there was nothing there.
Kaido suddenly turned around.
Bai Yu stood ten meters to his left, the long sword still not drawn, simply watching him quietly.
"Where are you looking?"
Bai Yu's voice was soft, but every word clearly reached Kaido's ears.
A flash of anger crossed Kaido's dragon eyes.
His dragon claw clenched into a fist, once again condensing a blood-red energy ball, which he then smashed towards Bai Yu.
He used all his strength in that punch.
The fist passed through Bai Yu's body—no, not through, but Bai Yu's body twisted and dissipated the instant the fist touched him, like a reflection in water.
phantom.
Kaido's pupils contracted sharply.
The real attack came from his right side.
A black blade of light precisely struck the most vulnerable part of Kaido's dragon body, at the joint of his left forelimb, where a scale had been cracked in the previous battle.
A flash of light, and blood gushed out.
Kaido's left forelimb was almost severed by a single strike, leaving only skin and flesh connecting it.
"roar--!!!"
Kaido let out a painful dragon roar.
His dragon tail thrashed wildly, his dragon claws swung erratically, and his Conqueror's Haki was unleashed in all directions without reservation.
But Bai Yu's figure disappeared again.
No, it's not that it disappeared; it's that everything Kaido saw, heard, and sensed lost its meaning at this moment.
Kaido was panting heavily, and dragon blood gushed from dozens of wounds.
He looked down at his body, wondering when those wounds had appeared.
He remembered that he had clashed with Bai Yu seven times, each time with a sword and a fist, and each time the two were evenly matched.
But he had seventeen knife wounds on his body.
Each cut was deep enough to see bone, each one precisely struck the gaps in the scales, and each one avoided the area of his strongest defense.
"No—no!"
Kaido growled in a low voice.
He remembered dodging Bai Yu's longsword seven times.
However, he had seventeen wounds on his body.
He remembered hitting Bai Yu three times, and each time he heard the sound of bones breaking.
But Bai Yu was now standing in front of him unharmed, without any injuries.
"What did you do?!"
Kaido's dragon eyes were fixed on Bai Yu, a rare hint of doubt appearing in his pupils.
Bai Yu calmly met Kaido's gaze.
"You never even met me in the first place."
Kaido's breath hitched.
Every scene from the battle just now flashed through his mind. After Bai Yu drew his sword, he struck Bai Yu three times. The first time was when the dragon claw struck Bai Yu's chest, the second time was when the dragon tail swept Bai Yu's waist, and the third time was when the heat breath grazed Bai Yu's left arm.
The sensations were so real.
He could even clearly remember Bai Yu's expression when he was hit: pain, gritted teeth, and blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
"impossible."
Kaido said in a low voice.
"Those feelings—"
"It's fake."
Bai Yu interrupted him.
"Everything you feel, everything you see, everything you hear is an illusion."
Kaido's dragon eyes widened suddenly.
He remembered.
I remembered that moment, the instant when Uchiha Hakuha drew his sword and then closed it again.
I want to steal those eyes.
"What kind of ability is that? A Devil Fruit?"
Kaido's voice was deep, but the previous brutality was gone, replaced by a calm scrutiny.
Bai Yu did not answer.
His fingers tapped the scabbard of the longsword, producing a crisp sound.
"bite"
Kaido felt his vision begin to distort.
The sky became the earth, and the earth became the sky.
His dragon body was clearly coiled in the air, but the direction of gravity he perceived was completely reversed.
Kaido abruptly closed his eyes.
He tried to use Observation Haki to perceive everything around him. This was his last resort. Observation Haki is not misled by sight or hearing. It perceives "aura" and "intention".
He unleashed his Observation Haki.
Kaido's dragon eyes snapped open.
He can't perceive anything.
Kaido's dragon body began to tremble.
It wasn't out of fear, but because my body had broken through its limits.
Blood gushed from the numerous arrow wounds, staining the entire sky red.
His consciousness began to blur, and the light in his pupils began to dim.
But he did not fall.
Kaido of the Beasts, the strongest creature, will not fall due to blood loss.
He gritted his teeth, clenched his remaining right claw into a fist, and once again exuded a blood-red aura of dominance.
"interesting----"
Kaido laughed, a laugh tinged with a kind of crazy stubbornness.
"Interesting! So interesting!"
"This ability—this ability—"
"Kang admits he can't do anything about it!"
"But I won't give up!"
"Kaido of the Beasts will not admit defeat!"
Bai Yu looked at the man in front of him, who was covered in blood, with broken claws and claws, yet was still standing.
Bai Yu's lips curved into a smile.
"Kang knows."
"So Kang never intended for you to admit defeat in the first place."
"I intend to—"
Bai Yu gripped the longsword tightly, and the black and gold light on the blade surged, illuminating the entire sky.
"—I'll kill you."
The long sword slashed down.
This strike was devoid of any fancy moves or techniques; it was pure power—the full power of Susanoo, the full power of Conqueror's Haki, and the full power of chakra, all concentrated in this single strike.
The blade flashed like a black waterfall, descending from the sky and heading straight for Kaido's head.
The glint of the blade was reflected in Kaido's dragon eyes.
He wanted to dodge, to block, to counterattack.
But his body was no longer under his control.
Excessive blood loss, severe injuries, and blurred consciousness.
He could only watch helplessly as the blade flashed.
Then, "BOOM—!!!"
The blade struck Kaido.
Blood poured down like a torrential rain, turning the entire Oni Island red.
The ground shook, rocks cracked, and smoke billowed.