One Piece: Kaido's adopted son, starts with the Eight Gates Formation.

It wasn't blocked.

The distance itself is no longer decreasing.

It was as if the one-centimeter space between Lynn and his knife had become an insurmountable chasm.

"A conceptual strike is indeed more interesting than those that emit glowing orbs," Lynn commented, then pinched the tip of the blade between two fingers and gave it a gentle push.

Wang Yue of Nimaiya was sent flying backward, tumbling more than a dozen times in the air before regaining his balance. His hand was split open, and blood dripped down the hilt of his sword.

"Impossible... The sheath was deflected?" His voice was filled with barely suppressed shock.

"Your knife is indeed very sharp." Lynn finally looked up at him, "but you've got one thing wrong—you're using 'slashing' against something that can't be 'slashed.' It's like trying to cut water with a knife; no matter how sharp the knife is, it's useless."

Wang Yue of Ermei House gritted her teeth.

"Wang Yue, that's enough." Hyosube Ichibei's voice came from behind.

I haven't—

"I've said enough." Hyosugi Ichibei's tone suddenly became very serious. "Didn't you see? He just caught your sword with two fingers. Two fingers. He didn't even use spiritual pressure."

Wang Yue of the Two-Piece House opened his mouth, then closed it again.

Of course he saw it. That's why he was unwilling to accept it.

"Let me try." Tani no Hikifune Kiryu stepped forward. Her expression was much more composed than that of Nimaiya no Etsu, but there was also a hint of unwillingness in her eyes.

Instead of using offensive methods, she activated her area of ​​expertise—"healing" and "body modification".

Her spiritual pressure transformed into a warm golden light, enveloping Lynn. This was not an attack, but a more advanced form of intervention—directly rewriting the target's "body composition."

If successful, she can reconstruct Lynn's body from the inside, turning him into a being composed of spiritual particles, thus enabling Hyosube Ichibei's abilities to take effect.

The golden light touched Lynn's body.

Then it disappeared.

It wasn't bounced away, nor was it absorbed.

It simply vanished. Like a drop of water falling on an endless desert, silently swallowed up.

Kiryu's face paled slightly: "His body composition... is something I can't understand at all. It's not spirit particles, not particles, not even any kind of 'matter' I know."

"That's why I said, there's no need to struggle." Hyosube Ichibei walked up to the group, holding a lollipop. "From the moment he turned my calligraphy brush into a lollipop, the outcome was already decided. He can turn a divine artifact that has existed for millions of years, formed from the will of the Spirit King, into a piece of candy—do you think he can't do the same to our bodies?"

This sentence silenced the other four people.

Shutara Senjumaru whispered, "So we're just going to surrender like this? The Zero Division is the Soul King's personal guard, the last line of defense for the three realms—"

"Do you want to be a hero, or a lollipop?" Hyosube Ichibei asked.

Shutara Senjumaru shut up.

Kirinji Tenjiro sighed, draping a towel over his shoulder: "The monk is right. Death is meaningless. It's better to live, at least we can see what this little guy is up to."

He was the most open-minded of the five and the first to understand things.

Nimaiya Oetsu sheathed his sword slowly, each step filled with reluctance. But he eventually finished.

"...Let's go," he said in a muffled voice.

Lynn nodded in satisfaction at the sight, then turned to Kaido and called out, "Dad! I'm going up now. You stay down here and watch the house for me!"

Kaido, who was having a contest with Whitebeard to see whose lollipop was bigger, waved his hand dismissively upon hearing this: "Go ahead! With me here, nobody can turn the world upside down!"

The white-bearded man added from the side, "Gulalalala, don't worry, kid, I'm keeping an eye on these monkeys."

BIGMOM chimed in, "Mommy'll keep an eye on things for you too! But if you see anything delicious up there, remember to bring some back for Mommy!"

Lynn: "...Understood."

He floated to Hyosube Ichibei's side and looked up at the sky.

There is an invisible passage connecting the Seireitei and the Soul King's Palace. Ordinary Shinigami cannot see or sense it; only members of the Zero Division can open it.