141. I’ll Go Back to Find You (3)

At the scene, regarding the actions of the Celestial Dragons, Xuanye simply cast a faint, indifferent glance before picking up the mermaid and walking straight toward the exit as if no one else was there.

In Xuanye’s eyes, this bunch of trash did not even exist. If it weren't for the fact that now was not the right time to break ties with the Marines, he would have already slaughtered these fools.

Moreover, as long as these three idiots weren't killed by his own hands, what did it matter if a Marine Admiral showed up? If they insisted on driving him into a corner, he would show no tolerance whatsoever. His only concerns were perhaps his master and Xiaojin and the others.

However, given the friendship between his master and Sengoku, Xuanye figured the Marines wouldn't make things difficult for them. If they truly suffered any harm, then for the rest of his life, the Marines would be annihilated.

"Damn it, damn it! That lowly, base scum actually dared to look at me like that! Father, brother, I want him as my slave! I want to torture him!" Charlia-gong's delicate face instantly twisted in rage, because Xuanye's gaze was the exact same way they looked down upon their slaves in the past.

"Father, my sister is right. A lowly piece of scum actually dared to use that kind of look—I want to make him kneel, begging for death!" Roswald-saint's face was equally filled with fury.

As the most noble beings in the world, when had anyone ever dared to look at them with such eyes? It was pure suicide.

"Rest assured, a Marine Admiral will be here shortly." Roswald-saint narrowed his eyes, making no rash moves. Even in his stupidity, he knew that until the Marines arrived, there was nothing he could do to the intruder.

As for Xuanye, dragging the trembling mermaid along, he walked toward the Marine base without a shred of gentleness, because he needed a quiet environment to question her.

Though a part of him wondered if the bracelet was merely something this mermaid had picked up from the ocean floor, even with a one-in-ten-thousand chance, Xuanye refused to give up.

In this vast world, any hair-thin clue could be the driving force that kept Xuanye alive.

Right now, the mermaid's emotional state was clearly unstable, so he had to find a quiet place to help her recover; otherwise, he would never get anything out of her.

"Halt! Daring to seize the goods of Lord Joker, it seems you have a death wish."

Just as he stepped outside, Xuanye was surrounded by several hundred people. Clearly, these were all the security forces of the auction house.

Handguns, cannons, and all sorts of weapons were aimed squarely at Xuanye. One had to know this was the property of a pirate-turned-warlord with a bounty of three hundred and forty million berries. Ever since it opened, aside from the occasional blind fool stirring up trouble, no one had ever dared to act so presumptuously here.

Little did they know, just a short distance away, a villa-sized patch of open ground was already piled high with white bones—the fate of all those who had overestimated themselves and offended this place.

"The Heavenly Yaksha?" Stopping in his tracks, the corners of Xuanye's mouth curled upward as he looked at the ringleader and said, "Put me through to Donquixote Doflamingo."

"Hmph, I'd do that even without you asking. Get ready to die!" Looking down arrogantly at Xuanye, the lead thug dialed the Den Den Mushi hidden in his sleeve.

"Bloop... bloop..."

"Hello!" After a moment, the call connected.

"Lord Trebol, this is Auction House Number One on the Sabaody Archipelago." Cautiously treading, the thug glared viciously at Xuanye.

"What is it?" Sniffling, Trebol leaned heavily on his cane.

"Some blind bastard just snatched the merchandise for today's auction."

"Who has the audacity?" Veins popped on Trebol's forehead.

"Give me the Den Den Mushi." At that moment, Doflamingo, sitting beside Trebol, reached out his hand.

"Yes, Young Master." Trebol handed over the Den Den Mushi with a smiling face.

"Fuffuffuffu... Who is it?" With a gloomy expression, Doflamingo smiled hideously.

"Re... reporting to my lord, I... I don't know where this bastard crawled out from."

"Kill him." With extreme arrogance, Doflamingo directly issued a death warrant.

"No need, they don't even have the qualifications for that." Suddenly flashing forward, the entire scene fell silent as Xuanye materialized out of thin air beside the lead thug, leisurely lifting the Den Den Mushi from his hand.

At that moment, blood sprayed from the thug's mouth, his eyes bulging wide as a long spear pierced straight through his chest, and his life rapidly faded away.

"Fuffuffuffu... Who the hell are you?! How dare you meddle in my business?" From an undisclosed location, Doflamingo wore his signature sunglasses, his expression turning increasingly savage.

"Who I am doesn't matter. What matters is—are you really that famous, Doflamingo?" With an icy expression, Xuanye gazed indifferently at the terrified crowd surrounding him.

" brat, are you trying to die?" Through the Den Den Mushi, Doflamingo forcefully suppressed the murderous rage boiling inside him.

"Do you even have the ability to do that? Rest assured, it won't be long before I come looking for you. For now, I'm just collecting a little interest. Everything you owe me, I will make you pay back a thousandfold." Crushing the Den Den Mushi in his grip, Xuanye feared he wouldn't be able to hold back his killing intent any longer.

"Boom..." With a ferocious expression, Doflamingo stood up, speaking one word at a time, "Investigate. I want to know who he is."

"Yes, Young Master."

Ahead of him, several figures gradually vanished into the darkness.

"Whoever it is, anyone who dares to touch my property must die." Doflamingo knew that he wasn't a Warlord of the Sea yet, and trying to secure territories and businesses bound him to certain constraints. Therefore, every single enterprise was a labor of love.

Having given his orders, Doflamingo turned his head to look at a document resting on his table, where a few prominent words immediately caught his eye: "Seven Warlords of the Sea."

"Fuffuffuffu... Perhaps becoming a Warlord isn't such a bad idea after all."

Meanwhile, on the Sabaody Archipelago, Xuanye crushed the Den Den Mushi, his gaze turning chillingly cold. With a wave of his hand, the sky above turned a brilliant golden-red, and countless sharp blades poured down like a torrential rain, blanketing a radius of a thousand meters.

"Boom... boom..." Raging explosions reverberated as the entire area was filled with billowing smoke and curling flames. Within moments, the ground was shattered to pieces, and countless corpses hung like roasted skewers, emitting a sickening, pungent stench.

Within a thousand meters, not a single blade of grass remained, and even the spacious auction house had now been reduced to ruins.

As the smoke cleared, only a few dozen people were left standing in place.

Aside from Xuanye himself, the Celestial Dragons, and a few attendants, everyone else had already become corpses.

"Don't kill me... please don't kill me..." In Xuanye's grasp, the mermaid's face was completely drained of color, her psyche on the verge of shattering. It was too cruel—beyond cruel. Could one even imagine the sight of countless people pinned to the ground like squids, roasted through and giving off the appetizing yet horrifying scent of cooked meat?

Even the three Celestial Dragons wore expressions of sheer terror; the overwhelming brush with death just moments ago had almost scared them into wetting themselves.

If it weren't for the fact that these few idiots couldn't be killed just yet, Xuanye would have unleashed an indiscriminate slaughter long ago. After all, everyone present in this area deserved to die.