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After successfully dealing with the remaining fishman minions, Li Mingyuan nodded slightly upon seeing that Nami and Karina were still alive and kicking.

I'm somewhat satisfied; my technique hasn't deteriorated.

Immediately, Li Mingyuan turned his attention back to the main building of A Long Paradise. There was nothing to worry about after dealing with the small fry, since they were just small fry. The focus now was still on A Long.

He was slightly puzzled as to why there had been no movement inside for so long.

"With the skill I have in slaughtering fishmen, I could have retaliated ten or eight times already, so why are they still nowhere to be seen?"

Li Mingyuan narrowed his eyes with a sense of worry.

Now that he no longer needed to worry about Nami and Karina's safety, he could take the initiative without any problem. The most important thing was that he hadn't seen Arlong for a long time, and he was really worried that the other party might be secretly preparing some kind of 'surprise'.

"There's no other way but to go up and see for ourselves."

Li Mingyuan stretched his neck and wrists, took a deep breath, aimed at the collapsed hole, and prepared to jump directly onto it.

As long as they have chakra, ninjas can easily scale walls and rooftops, so for someone like him, a few stories high is nothing.

However, it was at this moment that...

Ah Long Paradise, inside the main building.

Contrary to Li Mingyuan's wary suspicion of an ambush, the fishman A Long, on whom the fishmen had placed their hopes, was actually lying in the room that had been smashed to pieces, unable to get up for a long time.

Forget about launching any counterattack against Li Mingyuan; his injuries were more serious than expected, and he even lost consciousness for a moment, his eyes rolling back in his head.

This is also the reason why Ah Long has not made any moves for quite some time.

Even Li Mingyuan was unaware of this.

After all, this was the first time he had used a combination of chakra taijutsu and fishman karate.

Li Mingyuan's chakra taijutsu combined with Fishman Karate: Thousand Tile Punch was far more terrifying than he had imagined. The reason why Xiao Ba was able to withstand a punch and stand up earlier was because he was a special being, an octopus fishman, whose body was more inclined towards softness.

After Ah Long took the punch head-on, he couldn't even move his body. He felt as if his chest had been punched through, and his whole body felt like it was falling apart. He lay in the ruins, barely able to stand up.

"no."

"I can't just give up like this!"

In his hazy consciousness, time seemed to stretch out and then shrink. The sounds around him were blurred as if through a layer of mist. He didn't know how much time had passed. Just as Arlong was about to completely faint, the images of his fellow fish-men suddenly appeared in his mind. They had once taken revenge on humans together, and they had also held banquets and drunk fine wine together. Especially... the time when he was in the Sun Pirates and under that person's command.

"My compatriots are still waiting for me."

When I thought of my compatriots who were still abroad, my scattered consciousness inexplicably regrouped.

Arlong struggled to his feet from the rubble, gritting his teeth, "I cannot give up until I avenge myself on these damned humans. The Arlong Empire has only just begun!"

Focus attention on the outside of the wall that had been blasted through.

Right now, there is an eerie silence in the outside world.

There was no sound at all, not only the voices of my fishman companions, but even the voices of those humans had disappeared. What happened outside? Could it be that those humans had already retreated?

"No! Impossible!"

"It would be one thing if it were anyone else, but that man... that man who exudes an ominous aura, there's no way he'd let us go so easily and leave like that!"

A strong sense of unease surged into Ah Long's heart, and he immediately realized that something was about to happen.

The very next second that the thought flashed through his mind.

call!

With a strong gust of wind, Ah Long opened his eyes wide and looked in front of him.

Despite the castle being several stories high, a figure suddenly leaped up and reached its height!

"Oh? I knew it was here."

"What are they planning after all this time without any movement?"

Li Mingyuan lightly leaped into the blasted hole, looked at A Long in front of him, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Humans..."

Ah Long stared intently at the man before him, especially at his scarlet, three-tomoe-like eyes. He had never imagined that in the weakest of the East Seas, someone could push him to this point.

Even so, even if he were to face the other party directly, he would never back down even half a step.

In the past, even when facing a human lieutenant general who was many times stronger than himself, he would rather die than surrender. Now, how could he possibly be afraid of a guy whose origins are unknown?

"Is there any way I can deal with this guy?"

Ah Long clenched his fists, staring at Li Mingyuan with a fierce yet wary gaze.

Seeing this, Li Mingyuan looked at Ah Long, who was still not moving even though he had already come up to him. He couldn't help but wonder what the fishman was hesitating about.

But no matter what.

This can't go on.

"Aren't you going to make a move? Just now, and even now that I've jumped upstairs, you're still just staring at me without doing anything. Are you just going to keep watching?"

"Well then, by the way, let me tell you something."

Li Mingyuan suddenly chuckled and said, "While you were still pondering here, I had already taken care of all those fishmen down there."

"What?!"

Ah Long was startled.

Even the thoughts in his mind went blank. He looked at Li Mingyuan in disbelief, his expression completely frozen. "All of it? You mean, all of it?"

"Don't understand? Then let me explain it in simpler terms—now, you're the only fishman left in Arlong Paradise."

"If you haven't thought of any way to retaliate while you've been here, then you'll soon become one of them."

Faced with A Long's astonishment, Li Mingyuan simply said, "This insignificant help is just a personal gift from me to your A Long Empire."

As Li Mingyuan finished speaking, Ah Long, who was filled with anger, could no longer suppress his emotions.

"Unforgivable, absolutely unforgivable—!"

"You bastard!! Just how far do you want to go to fool us fish-men!?"

Ah Long's eyes changed completely, and he roared angrily, "Shark Arrow!!"

In his complete outburst, Ah Long no longer cared about what the opponent's weaknesses were. He stomped his feet hard on the ground and tilted his head back, pointing his naturally serrated nose at Li Mingyuan.