Eight Gates was still on cooldown.
Yang Tao stepped out from the wooden door, scanning his surroundings with an arrogant, world-disdaining gaze.
Finally, his eyes landed on the two remaining Five Elders.
The Five Elders, who had always been below one, but above all living beings, finally felt what it was like to be drenched in sweat this time.
After all, they were still living beings, possessing the instinct to seek good and avoid harm.
He walked step by step towards Saint Saturn.
Saint Saturn was a burly, heavily-haired old man with a scar on his left cheek, white curly hair, and a bushy white beard.
Seeing the enemy approaching him, Saint Saturn couldn't help but question, "Why are you opposing us Celestial Dragons??"
Yang Tao immediately burst into laughter upon hearing this.
"Celestial Dragons are no different from ants; even if they're gone, new ones will immediately breed, Saint Saturn."
This sentence was actually Saint Saturn's famous maxim, the original content being: 'Humans are no different from ants; even if they're gone, new ones will immediately breed.'
Yang Tao merely borrowed it.
Akainu's figure appeared beside Yang Tao; for him, Yang Tao killing three Five Elders members right in front of him was an unerasable humiliation.
"Evil should disappear!"
Akainu's arm transformed into magma, taking the shape of a giant dog's head, and he fiercely swung his arm, smashing it towards Yang Tao's body.
The massive dog head savagely bit down on Yang Tao's body.
Everyone's faces showed expressions of surprise. Sakazuki's attack was naturally not to be underestimated. The enemy, now overconfident and hit head-on, even if he couldn't be defeated, would surely be injured.
Yes, injured.
Since the battle began, no matter what kind of attack Yang Tao was hit by, even entering the Five Elders' mouths, he didn't seem to suffer any damage, not even a wrinkle on his clothes.
But what everyone found unacceptable was that Yang Tao merely waved his hand lightly, dispersing the magma, revealing his unharmed body.
Instantly, Yang Tao appeared in front of Sakazuki, glanced at the Eight Gates' cooldown time, and a smile appeared on his face.
He flew up slightly.
Akainu, not believing it, raised his hand and slammed it towards Yang Tao's body again, but neither the soft magma nor the terrifying high temperature had any effect on Yang Tao.
"Sakazuki, you're not wrong; it's just a difference in position... The justice you pursue, in my opinion, was wrong from the start."
"Shut up!!"
Sakazuki's originally sallow face turned crimson; Yang Tao's actions were a blatant humiliation.
The temperature of the original red magma increased again, gradually turning a light blue.
"Die!"
Yang Tao still took Akainu's attack head-on, and the surrounding onlookers finally joined the queue to gang up.
One of the Rokushiki, 'Paper Art,' when digitized, exhibited its abnormal ability.
No damage will be taken within 7 seconds, cooldown time is 7 seconds. (Originally two seconds...)
Yang Tao pulled out a Sea stone in each hand and slammed them fiercely onto Sakazuki's body.
"You want to die, huh! You're willing to be a dog, huh!!"
Bang bang... bang bang!
"Akainu, taste the Sea stone!"
Yang Tao stepped on Akainu's chest, then took out a Sea stone pellet slightly smaller than a fist and stuffed it into Akainu's mouth.
Just then, a long sword as black as ink slashed towards Yang Tao's wrist with lightning speed.
'Iron Body...'
Bang...
The long sword struck Yang Tao's wrist, making a crisp clanging sound, like a cleaver hitting a marble floor.
One of the Rokushiki, 'Iron Body.'
After use, it grants increased resistance, slowness, mining fatigue, increased jump, temporary immunity to physical damage, and requires a 7-second cooldown.
It was someone he didn't know, but the opponent's strength was very good, very good indeed.
Missing with one strike.
The swordsman quickly retreated, and Yang Tao didn't pursue relentlessly. His gaze turned to Saint Saturn.
He pushed off the ground, a Yamato in one hand and a Sea stone in the other, charging towards the opponent with an unstoppable momentum. Saint Saturn's face turned very ugly; black Haki covered his arms as he met Yang Tao.
Pfft.
The digitized Yamato easily sliced through the opponent's pitch-black arms.
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Under various buffs, the Yamato caused super high damage, but when Yang Tao saw the opponent's three-digit health regeneration above his head, he unhesitatingly canceled the digitized attack.
You can regenerate, huh? Yamato, drain him dry for me!
The digitized Yamato is unstoppable, but the non-digitized Yamato can cut your maximum health.
Want to recover and revive? As long as the health bar disappears, Yang Tao guarantees the Five Elders won't even find soul fragments.
Various attacks surged forth; at this moment, no one paid attention to Saint Saturn, and the sole remaining Five Elder attacked the most enthusiastically, for if Yang Tao wasn't eliminated, he would surely be next to die.
The Yamato's edge was no longer visible, constantly and rapidly switching between digitized and non-digitized forms. Such an attack, even the Five Elders with their heaven-defying regeneration speed, couldn't withstand.
However, the power of the quantum armor on Yang Tao's body was also dropping rapidly; even with Iron Body and Paper Art alternating, it was impossible to completely immune all attacks.
Saint Saturn's health quickly dropped to half, with one-third of it being AOE damage from the Cipher Pol and the Navy. The damage wasn't high, but the quantity was too much.
So much so that Yang Tao suspected these guys were trying to take the opportunity to eliminate Saint Saturn.
He stopped his actions.
Saint Saturn finally got a chance to breathe, quickly moving out of Yang Tao's attack range, his body bleeding profusely and his clothes turned into rags.
"Heh... heh, it's over!"
Yang Tao looked at Saint Saturn with interest and said, "Sorry, cooldown time's up..."
The red aura reappeared, and Saint Saturn's eyes widened.
He turned to run, but an invisible punch instantly locked onto his body.
One Foot.
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Clearly, Saturn Saint's defense was not as good as Saint Peter's before.
'Night Guy!'
A set of skills, without any surprise, took out Saint Saturn.
In the remaining one second, Yang Tao appeared in front of Saint Warcury as if teleporting, this Five Elder whom he had attacked first but who had survived until the very end.
He raised his hand.
Slap... He slapped him across the face.
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[Dragon Knight mod Activated]
The Gate of Death's time was up.
Yang Tao's body fell straight to the ground, turning into smoke and disappearing, everything seemingly a re-enactment.
But this time, everyone nervously watched their surroundings.
As expected, the wooden door reappeared. This time, everyone didn't wait for the wooden door to open; countless attacks instantly engulfed the wooden door.
However, the wooden door stood firmly in place, silently mocking those present.
The wooden door opened, and the nightmare-like man appeared from within the door once again.
Only this time, when he emerged from the door, he didn't attack Saint Warcury, but instead looked up at the sky.
At some unknown point, a figure had appeared in the sky.
And even higher up was a small mountain-like metal warship.
"Imu?"