Teach suddenly grabbed a warrior's head and slammed it against his knee.
With a crisp *'crunch'*, the warrior instantly went limp like a rag.
The encirclement finally had a gap!
Teach, like a wounded beast, dragged his blood-soaked body, forcefully breaking through, leaving bloody footprints on the cloud ground with every step; his injuries made his eyes even more frantic.
When the last obstructing warrior was blasted through the cloud wall by his punch, the entire Shandorian camp was already filled with wails.
"Just you wait..." Teach panted, "When this old man comes back again... none of you will live!"
Wyper snorted coldly; this guy was indeed troublesome. Just as he was about to step forward and use the more powerful Reject Dial to finish off Teach, the arm holding the Dial suddenly froze in mid-air.
A furious roar exploded in the sky!
He looked up at the sky in astonishment—a roar, imbued with rage, tore through the clouds:
"Teach!!!"
The sound was like thunder, shaking the entire White White Sea!
Immediately after, a crimson, blood-red flame descended from the sky, like a spear of fire cast by a god, completely evaporating the clouds in its path!
The pillar of fire accurately struck the fleeing Blackbeard, and the air in its wake was scorched and twisted.
"This is...!" Wyper's pupils contracted violently, and he instinctively took half a step back. He had never seen such pure rage; the hatred contained within the flames seemed capable of incinerating everything in the world.
*"Boom—!!!"*
Amidst the deafening explosion, Teach stumbled out of the sea of fire in disarray! The upper half of his clothes had turned to ash, and his exposed skin was covered in scorch marks.
When he looked up and clearly saw the figure gradually forming in the flames, his usually sinister face showed shock for the first time:
"Ace??!"
The flames gradually receded, and Ace's figure stood proudly on the cloud, his fists burning with incandescent flames, and cold killing intent flickering in his black pupils:
"Teach... this time, let's see where else you can run!"
Teach's shock lasted only an instant, then a sinister smile appeared on his face.
He wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth, and Armament Haki surged like a tide, covering his hands: "Zehahaha... to kill me, you actually chased me all the way to Skypiea?"
His knuckles cracked, "Then let's see whose death day it is today!"
Wyper and the remaining Shandorian warriors unconsciously retreated several steps, clearing the battlefield for this sudden duel.
Two completely opposite auras collided amidst the clouds: on one side, the purifying fire that incinerated everything, and on the other, the fleeing Teach.
"For Thatch's life!" Ace's figure suddenly transformed into a streak of flowing fire.
"Let's see!" Teach's heavy punch was wrapped in dark Haki.
On the reconstructed street, two figures clashed like meteors. Teach grinned as he threw a heavy punch enveloped in Armament Haki, a barrier of dark Haki forming at his fist.
"Die! Ace!" In Teach's roar, his fist was just an inch away from Ace's face.
However, in the next instant, Teach's smile froze.
Ace looked at Teach, whose fists were covered in Armament Haki, and did not hold back. His right fist, though seemingly unremarkable, was thrown with a suffocating sense of pressure, striking first.
The Armament Haki covering that fist presented an eerie dark purple. He also used Armament Haki, but his Armament Haki was advanced!
Ryou!
*"Bang—!!!"*
The moment their fists collided, Teach felt as if his fist hadn't struck flesh and blood, but rather a giant mountain forged from Seastone.
Even more terrifying, a strange power actually penetrated his Haki defense, drilling into his arm like a venomous snake.
"This... what is this?!" Teach's pupils suddenly contracted.
That power surged wildly through his muscle fibers, and wherever it passed, the muscle bundles shattered as if severed by a sharp blade!
His bones emitted a grating *"crack, crack"* sound, and fine cracks spread from his finger bones all the way to his shoulder blade. The surface of his skin instantly swelled with countless blood blisters, which then burst with a *"pop,"* leaving his entire right arm a bloody mess!
"Ahhh—!!!"
Amidst the horrific screams, Teach flew backward like shattered rock, crashing through seven cloud houses before finally coming to a stop. He trembled as he raised his broken right arm, his eyes filled with disbelief:
"No... impossible! How could you master this level of Armament Haki?!"
Ace slowly withdrew his fist, dark red Haki slowly flowing around his knuckles: "This punch is for Thatch."
His voice was cold as ice, "This next punch is for the Whitebeard Pirates, whom you betrayed."
Wyper and the Shandorian warriors in the distance were already stunned. The Reject Dial they had cultivated for generations could also cause destruction, but the effect of purely using Haki to destroy the body's interior like this was simply unheard of!
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! It must be an illusion!"
"How can your Armament Haki be so strong!"
"That's clearly an Advanced Armament Haki technique! You couldn't have mastered it in such a short time!"
A stormy wave surged in Teach's mind, every cell screaming a warning. He stared intently at Ace's fist, which was wrapped in a dark purple flowing light, roaring madly in his heart:
This is impossible!
When they last fought, this kid's Armament Haki was clearly only at an introductory level!
How could he have reached the "Ryou" realm in just a few months?!
The Ace in his memory, the young captain who only relied on the power of the Mera Mera no Mi, was like two different people compared to the Haki-wielding powerhouse in front of him.
Teach's temples throbbed, and cold sweat mixed with blood dripped from his chin. He knew too well what advanced Armament Haki meant; it was a supreme realm that even an Admiral had to cultivate for decades!
"What are you staring at?" Ace's icy voice suddenly exploded in his ear.
Teach's hair stood on end. He saw Ace's left fist, wrapped in terrifying Haki, slamming towards his chest. The dark purple electric arcs flickering on that fist even scorched the surrounding cloud vapor into a vacuum!
*"Bang—!!!"*
This punch landed squarely on Teach's chest!
Advanced Armament Haki drilled into his body like a venomous dragon, and his ribs made a grating cracking sound. Teach clearly felt his internal organs violently shaking, his heart felt as if it was being tightly squeezed by an invisible hand, and his lungs and trachea instantly filled with a metallic taste of blood.
"Wah!" He spat out a large mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, and his sturdy body flew backward like a broken sack, plowing a hundred-meter-long trench in the ground.
When the tumbling finally stopped, Teach lay like a pile of mud at the bottom of the cloud pit. His vision was blurred, his ears buzzed, and he could only vaguely see Ace's figure slowly approaching, walking on flames.
What a joke, a plan I've been scheming for over a decade, how could it fail in a place like this!
But now he didn't even have the strength to stand up.
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