158 Shichibukai, Jinbe the Knight of the Sea

"Run. Hurry!"

Turning around, Jinbe's face drastically changed as he let out a furious roar. The overwhelming pressure descending from high above made his very soul tremble.

"Run, run away..."

Countless razor-sharp blades gleamed with a chilling light. A freezing aura permeated everyone's hearts, and the terrifying, crystal-clear crisis of imminent death loomed large.

At that moment, the abusive Fish-Men clamped their mouths shut. Turning on their heels, they fled for their lives; the human before them was simply too terrifying.

"It's over... Fish-Man Island is finished..."

Sinking to her knees, Shyarly wore an expression of utter despair. She finally understood why this man had come to destroy Fish-Man Island.

Cold and ruthless, his entire body wreathed in flames, Xuan Ye reached out and pointed a distant finger. In an instant, the very sky seemed to collapse. Dense, countless sharp blades fell from the heavens, accompanied by a shrieking roar that tore through the air.

"Water Shot: Infinite Mystery!"

Surging with power, Jinbe materialized in mid-air. His hefty body spun rapidly, and in a flash, countless currents of air wrapped around his hands, forming a towering wave that surged toward the sky.

"Whoosh... Whoosh..."

Earsplitting concussions and frantic bombardment shattered the surrounding terrain instantly, unleashing a tearing hurricane.

"Ah..."

"Save me... I don't want to die..."

"Please spare me..."

"Run!"

It was an indiscriminate attack. The blades were simply too numerous; Jinbe could only block a little more than half of them. The rest, save for those that missed their marks, pinned the Fish-Men directly to the ground.

At a glance, blood flowed in rivers. Countless Fish-Men were nailed to the earth by the blades, skewered like shish kebabs—a sight of unimaginable cruelty and horror.

"Boom... Boom..." Unending explosions echoed as wails and cries engulfed the entire scene.

A gust of wind pressure finally dissipated, revealing the horrific spectacle on the ground.

"Gulp..." Those who had miraculously escaped death turned their heads, their eyes wide with terror as they swallowed hard and collapsed limply to the ground.

"Ah... Ah..." Weeping and wailing bitterly, the distant Fish-Men stared at the bloody, mutilated scene at the center, tears streaming down their faces in sheer disbelief.

"A demon, he is a demon." A Fish-Man pointed at the blazing figure in the sky, his eyes filled entirely with remorse and helplessness.

"A demon... Fish-Man Island is finished..."

Some Fish-Men had completely suffered mental breakdowns. It was estimated that at least a thousand Fish-Men had died on the spot. The piled-up corpses were enough to shock the soul, and the gruesome, tragic manner of their deaths was cruelly vivid.

"Hah... Hah..." Panting heavily, Jinbe stood on the ground with bloodshot eyes, staring at the brutally slain Fish-Men around him as a blazing fury surged straight into the clouds.

"I don't care who you are, today, I will make you pay the price." Usually steady and gentle, Jinbe was truly enraged this time.

"What are you supposed to be?" With dazzling golden-white eyes, a figure materialized out of thin air right in front of Jinbe, wearing an expression of absolute disdain.

Jinbe's hair stood on end. Burning with rage, he instantly launched a counterattack.

"Five Thousand Tile True Punch!"

Channeling terrifying power, Jinbe clenched his fist tightly and blasted it toward Xuan Ye, shattering the atmosphere along its path.

"Bang..." Raising a hand casually, Xuan Ye grabbed Jinbe's fist directly and slowly forced it open. His golden-white eyes were icy cold as he spoke, "An arrogant fool who doesn't know his own strength. Since that's the case, then Fish-Man Island shall be destroyed!"

Surrounded by flames, a terrifying aura soared into the heavens. A golden crow slowly materialized on Xuan Ye's forehead, and his entire body began to transform.

Jinbe's pupils constricted, a chilling sensation striking his heart, for the aura of the man before him was completely different from before.

"Boom..." A terrifying shockwave erupted. The ground beneath Xuan Ye's feet cracked, instantly forming a web of spider-like fissures.

"Pfft..." With wide eyes, a distorted face, and blood spraying from his mouth, Jinbe's body bent like a boiled shrimp before he was sent flying backward like a streak of light.

Retracting his foot, Xuan Ye let out a light breath. Standing on the ground, his wicked yet overwhelmingly powerful figure shone like a dazzling sun, becoming the absolute center of the world.

"Bang..." Amidst flying rubble and shattered ruins, Jinbe forced himself to his feet, panting heavily while blood continuously spilled from his mouth.

"Cough... Cough... As expected of the ten-belly-billion-beery bounty Heavenly God Bird, someone who was once a match even for the Marine Headquarters Admirals." Looking somewhat battered, Jinbe wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth as his heart sank to the abyss.

"I have no interest in the grudges between Fish-Men and humans. I came here solely to hunt down a specific person. Since you Fish-Men foolishly provoked me of your own accord, I'll just waste a little time and put you all out of your misery."

The words were spoken softly and calmly, yet this voice of utter indifference caused Jinbe and all the surrounding Fish-Men to stiffen. A bone-chilling cold gripped them, plunging them into an abyss of despair.

"Swish!" The earth exploded, leaving behind a deep crater as Xuan Ye's figure vanished from the spot.

"Bang..." Crossing his arms, Jinbe's feet gouged two deep trenches into the ground as they failed to stop his momentum. A flaming knee slammed heavily into Jinbe's chest, drawing a muffled groan from him.

"Six Thousand Tile Fist."

With swirling air currents, Jinbe pulled back one arm, now pitch-black like ink, and smashed it fiercely toward Xuan Ye.

"Hmph." With a cold snort, Xuan Ye spun away, his other leg—imbued with Armament Haki and igniting the air—swept horizontally across.

"Crack..." The sound of breaking bones echoed. With a distorted expression, Jinbe was sent flying backward once more.

Landing lightly, Xuan Ye watched Jinbe's airborne, retreating figure. He reached out his hand, flames spiraling as a barbed spear rapidly took shape. Turning around amidst an explosion of the ground, he hurled it fiercely.

"God-Slaying Spear."

"Whoosh..." Rending the ground, an incomparable sonic boom pierced through everything.

Jinbe's face drastically changed; his hair stood on end as a crisis of fatal doom gripped his heart.

"Water: Winding Spiral."

While flying backward, Jinbe forcibly twisted his body as a mouthful of blood sprayed from his lips. His hands, shrouded in a peculiar power, continuously bound and resisted the incoming spear.

"Boom..." Landing heavily, his feet dug desperately into the earth, Jinbe gritted his teeth as the barbed spear advanced and pierced further forward. The immense force and searing temperature caused Jinbe's hands to gradually blur and scorch. Had it not been for the robust protection of his Armament Haki, his hands would likely have been completely crippled by now.

"Don't you humans loath humans? Then today, let me show you how a foolish human goes about destroying you."

Soaring high into the air, Xuan Ye's golden-white eyes gazed down while his unbound hair fluttered wildly. Folding his arms and looking up at the sky, he watched as countless flames converged and gradually intertwined. In an instant, the sky roared continuously, and a blazing blade of fire measuring over a thousand meters long hung suspended in the firmament.

"Super: Fire God Spear."

A visual shock: the mystical giant spear covered in golden-white runes resembled a pillar propping up the heavens, plunging straight down from the distant starry sky with an unstoppable, peerless momentum.

"No..." A shrill, desperate roar tore from his throat. If an attack spanning thousands of meters landed on the ground, a radius of ten thousand meters would undoubtedly be reduced to rubble, and it might even fracture the entire Fish-Man Island.

Throwing caution to the wind, Jinbe surged toward the heavens, bathed in blood. He had to stop the descent of the giant spear; otherwise, the countless Fish-Men within a radius of ten thousand meters would undoubtedly suffer catastrophic casualties.