One Piece: From the Rocks Era to King of the World

Chapter 370 Barrett Promoted to Vice Captain
The Promise Pirates:
Barrett originally wanted to go to Elbaf to challenge the Titans, but because he had a fight with Kaido and realized the Conqueror's Haki Entanglement, he went straight back to the Infinite Pirates and fought with a group of cadres in order to consolidate and master the use of his Conqueror's Haki Entanglement ability.

Finally, half a month later, Barrett began to challenge Li Yuan for the position of vice-captain of the Wuji Pirates!
"Is Barrett finally going to charge towards that position? He's so fast! I thought it would take him at least three years to reach this level of strength. I didn't expect that he has mastered the technique of entanglement with Conqueror's Haki!"

"The Conqueror's Haki Entanglement Technique? Wait, I will figure it out soon too!"

"That's right, we can't let Barrett suppress us!"

"Well, let's work hard to get promoted to core cadres. The position of vice captain is still too far away for us!"

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In the training base of the Infinite Pirates in the Calm Belt, almost all the cadres who did not have any field missions came here. This was a grand event for the Infinite Pirates, how could they not come to witness it?

Only the cadres have the opportunity to witness it. The other captain-level pirates don't even have the chance to witness it because they are not qualified!
Barrett and Li Yuan stood on the wasteland on the left side of the island. Even though they did not exude any aura, the non-core cadres who were watching the battle from afar felt a sense of pressure.

"Barrett, let me see how you grow. It's not easy to be the vice-captain of the Promise Pirates!"

Li Yuan clenched the air, and the Seven Star Sword suddenly appeared in his hand. The scarlet blood aura condensed and did not dissipate. When people looked at it, it was like looking into a blood abyss, extremely terrifying!
"Hahahahahaha, I'll be the deputy captain!"

Barrett laughed loudly, and then immediately transformed into human-beast form. Facing his own captain, Barrett did not dare to hide anything and used his most powerful strength from the very beginning!

"Life returned, power strengthened!"

Barrett's already very strong muscles became even more swollen at this moment, and his whole body was filled with a sense of power and ferocity.

Barrett will only use this state when he is really fighting desperately. Even when he fought Kaido before, Barrett did not use this trick.

This move was created by him using the technique of life return, which can greatly increase his own strength. The King Kong Titan mythical beast species itself has given him a huge increase in strength. Now with the power enhancement of life return, he has the courage to challenge Li Yuan!

"Gravity Fist, Tyrant Entanglement, Titan Power!"

Barrett mobilized all his strength, the majestic armed color domineering, the gravity condensed into a black hole, the domineering color entanglement he had recently comprehended, and the power of the Eight Punch Fist he had learned, and completely combined them into his fist.

As Barrett threw a punch, the sky and the earth suddenly lost their color. In an instant, the island's magnetic field rioted, and the gravity changed from a vertical square to a horizontal one, pressing towards Li Yuan along with the punch.

"That's a very good punch, but your strength is too dispersed!"

Looking at Barrett's punch, Li Yuan calmly began to find fault. When Barrett's fist got close to him, he raised the Seven Star Sword in his hand and chopped it down casually!

Li Yuan did not use the Conqueror's Haki, he only used the power of his three sword intents and Armament Haki.

This seemingly simple and ordinary sword perfectly combines Li Yuan's sword intent with his armed color domineering as well as his own swordsmanship and force techniques, exerting 150% of his strength.

In this regard alone, the power of Barrett's punch only reached 80%, and he was unable to exert even 100% of his strength!

"Tear!!!"

The originally gloomy sky was instantly illuminated by the ordinary yet dazzling sword. All the power in Barrett's fist was torn apart by this sword. Even his proud domineering entanglement and his majestic armed domineering were easily defeated by this sword.

Even the skin on Barrett's fist was cut, revealing his finger bones. If Barrett hadn't covered his finger bones with the Armament Haki, his finger bones would probably have been cut off by this sword!

"This sword!!"

Barrett's pupils shrank. He felt that the power of this sword was not very strong, but it could easily defeat his fist. There was a technique on it that he could not understand.

What shocked him even more was that Li Yuan didn't even use his Conqueror's Haki, and still easily defeated his strongest punch under normal circumstances!
However, while Barrett was still shocked by Li Yuan's sword, Li Yuan disappeared from Barrett's sight in the blink of an eye.

"not good!"

Instinctively feeling the strong sense of crisis behind him, Barrett subconsciously covered his entire body with armed color domineering.

"Tear!!!"

But just when Barrett wanted to turn around and use his hands to resist the crisis, Li Yuan's Seven Star Sword slashed Barrett's back first!
Even though Barrett possessed high-level Armament Haki and the defensive power of a mythical beast Titan, in front of Li Yuan's Seven Star Sword, that defense seemed like ordinary steel and was easily cut through by the Seven Star Sword!

Barrett instinctively rushed forward to avoid being cut by the Seven Star Sword, but a huge wound that penetrated deep into the bone marrow and spanned the entire back was still left on his back.

If Li Yuan had not suppressed the blood-sucking power of the Seven Star Sword, Barrett would have even lost a lot of blood.

"call out!!!!"

The moment Barrett dodged, Li Yuan slashed in the air, and suddenly a blood-red slash spanning five hundred meters surged towards Barrett.

Obviously this strike was half the size of Li Yuan's previous strike of over a thousand meters, but Barrett felt that this strike was more threatening than the previous strike of over a thousand meters!

Barrett's feeling was absolutely correct. This was because Li Yuan felt that the power of his slashing blow could not be enhanced even if it continued to grow, so he did the opposite and compressed and made the slash smaller.

But this kind of compression is not something that can be achieved just by wanting to do it. Instead, it requires precise control of the sword intent. Even Li Yuan spent a year to condense his strongest slash to the 500-meter level.

"So fast!!"

Barrett felt the burning pain in his back, but he had no time to care about it because he once again felt the strong sense of threat from behind.

He had just turned around when he saw the huge 500-meter-long slash coming towards him, leaving him no chance to dodge or even punch. He could only subconsciously use his hands to block in front of him.

"Pfft!!!"

Even though Barrett tried his best to block the extremely sharp attack, he was still knocked back hundreds of meters, and the bones on both arms were broken. "Open it!"

After retreating thousands of meters, the power of the slash was weakened. Barrett roared and raised the slash directly into the sky.

The dark clouded sky was instantly broken by the slash that went straight into the sky, allowing the sunlight to shine onto the island.

"Barrett, although your strength is great, your speed is too slow!"

Barrett had just gotten rid of the slash, but Li Yuan had appeared behind Barrett without him noticing. The terrifying speed made Barrett unable to react at all!
"Tear!!!"

Barrett was slashed in the back by Li Yuan again, but Barrett wanted to continue charging like before to reduce his injuries. However, Li Yuan predicted Barrett's idea one step faster. Before Barrett charged, his Seven Star Sword directly broke through Barrett's defense, but when he slashed Barrett's spine, Li Yuan slowed down and did not slash Barrett's spine directly.

"Oh my god, is the Captain so strong? Barrett has mastered the technique of Conqueror's Haki Entanglement, but he was beaten by the Captain without any chance to fight back, and the Captain didn't even use Conqueror's Haki Entanglement!"

"What do you know? The captain's armament has reached the top level, and his swordsmanship is the best in the world. In addition, the captain's physique is very strong. Even if the captain does not use his full strength, he can still defeat Barrett. Do you really think that the strongest man in the world can be caught up by Barrett so easily?"

"Yes, I remember that the captain had already mastered the technique of Conqueror's Haki when he was in the Rocks Pirates. In other words, Barrett's current strength is almost equivalent to the captain's strength more than ten years ago before the establishment of the Wuji Pirates. Now, more than ten years have passed, and the captain's strength has reached a height that we cannot see!"

"By the way, now that Barrett has been beaten so badly by the captain, can he still pass the challenge and become the vice-captain?"

"I remember the captain said that if you want to become the vice-captain of the Wuji Pirates, you need to survive under the captain's sword for six hours, and you will pass the test!"

"Barrett has thick skin and flesh, he should be able to survive for six hours!"

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All the officers present were watching this thrilling and brutal battle. They thought that Barrett would be able to catch up with the captain after mastering the Conqueror's Haki entanglement technique, but they did not expect that Barrett was still so far behind.
Seeing Barrett's continuous defense and persistence, many of them no longer had confidence in Barrett becoming the vice-captain.

"Come again!!"

Although Barrett has always been in a position of being beaten, he never loses his mind or lets his fighting spirit weaken. It is precisely because he has been suppressed that Barrett's fighting spirit has become even stronger.

"Gravity Fist, Tyrant Entanglement, Eightfold Power!!"

Barrett followed Li Yuan's advice and made his own strength more solid, or in other words, he combined his physical skills with gravity and domineering power more perfectly, so that his own strength could be better exerted!

"Not bad!!"

Seeing that Barrett's eightfold fist power had been compressed and condensed, and was about to transform into the seventh-fold power, Li Yuan nodded with great satisfaction, and then ruthlessly defeated Barrett's fist with another sword, cutting it flying hundreds of meters away.

“Come again and again!!!”

Barrett really likes the feeling of making continuous progress in battle.

It took him two full years to master the eightfold strength of the Eight-Charge Fist, and in the end, it was enough to prove the power of the eightfold strength.

But now, according to the captain's progress instructions, this eight-fold strength must be compressed back to the first-fold strength little by little, until all the eight-fold strength is returned to the first-fold strength. Then, in the end, the eight-fold strength will be completely integrated and transformed into the first-fold strength. What kind of power will burst out in the end? Barrett felt excited just thinking about it!
Although Li Yuan let Hai go, he just didn't kill him. He wouldn't indulge in other aspects. He just used Barrett to practice. No, while helping Barrett train, he was also training his own slashing skills.

Having a sandbag is always better than releasing a slash facing the sea, or in other words, having an opponent makes it easier for Li Yuan to compress his slash and make it stronger.

Barrett was bathed in his own blood, like the Hell-Blood Demon, becoming stronger and stronger as he continued to bathe in his own blood.

Even though he was wounded time and time again by Li Yuan's Seven Star Sword, he was able to endure the severe pain in his body and punch Li Yuan again every time. The key was just one word: fight to the point of madness, fight to the death!
As the battle continued, Barrett had forgotten the initial assessment for his promotion to vice-captain, and even forgot his own pain. All he did was keep punching, trying to shatter Li Yuan's determination to strike.

Even once, even if he could only break it once, he would be satisfied!
Another 500-meter-long slash came out from Li Yuan's hand. If Barrett had paid close attention, he would have found that this slash was a few meters smaller than the previous one, but it had become a little stronger.

"Ah, break it for me!!!"

"Gravity Fist, Tyrant Entanglement, Eightfold Power!"

Barrett roared, and he, who originally possessed the eighth level of strength, broke through at this moment, compressing and crushing the eighth level of strength into the seventh level of strength. However, the seventh level of strength was even stronger than the previous eighth level!
"boom!!!"

However, even though Barrett's Eight Punch ability had broken through, all the power attached to his fist was still shattered by Li Yuan's slash, and his entire body was blown away by the slash and fell to the ground.

This time, Barrett did not stand up again as he did before, but just lay on the ground and fainted.

"He fainted from excessive blood loss!"

Li Yuan saw through Barrett's current condition at a glance. Even though Li Yuan did not use the blood-sucking ability of the Seven Star Sword, Barrett now had too many sword wounds on his body, and they were all very deep. As a result, even if Barrett's life was restored, he could not stop his own blood loss, so that he now fainted due to lack of blood.

"Carry Barrett to the hospital for treatment. Also, Barrett has been under my command for seven hours and has met the requirements for promotion to vice-captain. From today on, Barrett is the vice-captain of the Promise Pirates!"

Li Yuan looked at the group of cadres and medical staff who were ready in the distance and said.

"Great, Barrett really becomes the vice captain!"

After hearing Li Yuan's words, Hermes and other cadres were happy for Barrett. Similarly, they also knew clearly that Barrett had set an example for them, and in the future they would also become deputy captains like Barrett today!
"Okay, Hermes, Green Pepper, I haven't taught you for a long time. Come over here now and I'll teach you something!"

Li Yuan looked at the cadres and smiled.

He had just found the feeling of compressed slash, but he didn't expect Barrett couldn't hold on. Fortunately, there were still many cadres of the Wuji Pirates present.

(End of this chapter)