Starting with the Uchiha clan, they began cultivating demonic arts.

Chapter 264 Impel Down Massacre

Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and the Marine Headquarters ushered in the day of the Marineford War.

Then, just as the war was about to begin, Blackbeard vanished without a trace. Naval Headquarters searched the area but found nothing. All they knew was that they had stolen a warship, but no one knew where it ended up.

Sengoku had a bad feeling, but the die was cast, and nothing was more important than the imminent war. He could only suppress his anxiety and prepare for battle.

Then came the news that Uchiha Touyu had turned into a ball of blood and disappeared...

Leaving aside Sengoku's furious outburst, Uchiha Tou had already arrived above Impel Down prison, following the location assigned by his bloodline.

Impel Down prison was in complete chaos. Blackbeard had just entered the prison and immediately started causing trouble. He had already suffered a huge disturbance from the Straw Hat Pirates, who had then mysteriously disappeared after being taken to the Okama Land. Everything was in complete disarray.

Uchiha Touyu chuckled in the sky, then instantly exploded into countless bats, swooping down towards the ground.

Impel Down prison is a large prison where the strength of the prisoners increases from the first level down. The prisoners on the first level are mostly small-time pirates with average strength and bounties of around 1 million.

As a large number of blood-red bats flew in, these poor pirates barely had time to react before they became sacrifices to the bats. Each bat pierced through a pirate prisoner, taking away all his blood and turning into more than a dozen blood-red bats, leaving only a withered corpse on the ground.

One becomes ten, ten becomes a hundred, a hundred becomes a thousand, a thousand becomes ten thousand... In just a few minutes, the entire first level of Impel Down was covered by a swarm of bats. With the bats growing in number, they quickly wiped out all the prisoners and the messy jailers on the first level of Impel Down.

After that, a large number of bats rushed into the second level and started a new killing spree... The third level, the fourth level, and it wasn't until the fifth level that they truly encountered resistance.

There was no way around it; those blood-red bats looked like ordinary bats, but they were actually composed of pure blood energy, possessing near-elemental properties that allowed them to ignore all physical attacks.

These bats can merge with another person's body and manipulate their blood upon contact, instantly killing their opponent. They essentially lack Armament Haki and any special Devil Fruits; encountering them is a death sentence.

In the first four levels of Impel Down, there were very few prisoners who understood Haki or had powerful Devil Fruit abilities. It was basically a smooth push until they entered the fifth level, where they began to encounter some pirates who had the power to resist.

In addition, many of Impel Down's guards have also gathered here, preparing to stop the pirates from the sixth level of Infinite Hell. Ordinary guards are not much of a match for bats, but Impel Down's ultimate weapon, Warden Magellan, who has the Venom-Venom Fruit ability, is the best at dealing with this kind of group attack.

A large amount of venom gushed out, and the blood-red bats melted instantly upon contact. Even if they tried to dodge, there was nowhere to hide from the gushing venom bats like a tidal wave. Soon, the bats gave up their attack and instead clung together, turning into a blood-red storm.

The storm slowly dissipated, revealing Uchiha Tou's figure. With the battle about to take place at the summit, every second counted. He had no time for idle chatter. He immediately covered his body with his domineering aura, his blood flames burning, and then unleashed a Vampire Life Absorption attack.

Magellan's Venom-Venom Fruit is incredibly powerful, but it also has severe side effects. The toxins he breathes in are enough to cause him to be mildly poisoned even when he eats.

This toxicity wouldn't kill him, but it forced Magellan to spend most of his day in the toilet suffering from diarrhea. Subtracting the time for eating and sleeping, it's fair to say that this user of the Venom-Venom Fruit had absolutely no time to train his physique and develop his domineering aura.

Therefore, when faced with Uchiha Hiyu's life absorption, Magellan's Haki only offered a symbolic resistance before being completely ignored.

Then, the tall Magellan suddenly hunched over, as if he had shrunk in size. His once strong body became wrinkled, and his full head of black hair turned white.

"Damn it... what kind of ability is this..." Magellan said with difficulty. The vampire's life extraction did not affect his Venom-Venom Fruit ability, but the significant decrease in physical strength naturally caused a reduction in the amount of toxins he produced.

Uchiha Touyu had no intention of saying anything more to him. In an instant, the Sandai Kitetsu in his hand unleashed more than ten chaotic sword beams. With a scream, the poor Magellan was directly cleaved into several pieces.

With Magellan dead, the remaining Impel Down guards were even worse off; after just a few moves, they were all turned into blood bags for Uchiha Touyu.

In addition, there was an unexpected surprise: Blackbeard and his group had been knocked out by Magellan's deadly poison and were now rolling on the ground, completely powerless to resist.

Seeing Blackbeard lying on the ground groaning, Uchiha Touyu smiled. With a large amount of blood energy condensing, the demonic power in his body was briefly transformed into blood nerve magic power, and finally he grabbed Blackbeard's head.

The Yin Corpse Skin Painting Scripture was also activated at the same time. Koby's 200x effort talent did indeed allow Uchiha Touyu's strength to improve extremely quickly during this period. He was able to unleash the potential in his altered physique so quickly, which was entirely due to this.

However, at the level of top-tier strength in the One Piece world like Uchiha Tou, 200 times the effort is of little use. The One Piece world has a ceiling. Koby's ability can shorten the time to reach the ceiling, but once you reach the ceiling, it becomes ineffective.

No matter how hard he tries, Koby's ceiling is only that of a Marine Admiral. Reaching the strength of Zephyr or Garp is already the limit. Beyond that, it's beyond what effort can achieve.

However, Blackbeard's multiple Devil Fruit talents are power that can break through the ceiling, especially with Uchiha Touyu's Future Life Sutra, which allows him to awaken and strengthen his Devil Fruit power to the limit in the shortest possible time.

Koby's talent slowly faded away. Although the talent for accelerated training disappeared, the power he had forged did not. At the same time, Uchiha Touyu also felt some strange changes in his body.

"Can I eat two more Devil Fruits? Hmm... I'll take this Dark-Dark Fruit for now!"

"I remember there should be a Momo-Momo Fruit on Level 6 of Impel Down. To be precise, it should be called the Multiply-Multiply Fruit, which can easily increase the size of objects or increase one's own speed..."

However, while this Devil Fruit can increase speed, size, or energy, it does not enhance the user's physique, strength, or Haki. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called the Momo-Momo Fruit, but rather the Invincible Fruit.

Just imagine a physical prowess monster like Garp, whose physique, strength, and Haki have increased a hundredfold—he's practically a human-shaped Ancient Weapon! Kaido, Roger, Charlotte Linlin—he could easily smash their heads open with a single punch!

Even if it only increases speed and mass, this Devil Fruit's ability is already incredibly powerful. After a moment's thought, Uchiha Touyu decided to focus his attention on this Devil Fruit.

Anyway, once Uchiha Touyu has mastered the Blood Nerve, he can separate and create new Blood God Children. They can be separated and combined, and theoretically, he can even gather the power of all Devil Fruits, but it will take some time.

Therefore, there's nothing wrong with temporarily pursuing the Momo Fruit; it's just a matter of timing.

As the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit was absorbed by Uchiha Touyu, the faith residing in this fruit was also completely integrated into the fruit by Uchiha Touyu using the Future Life Sutra.

Darkness originates from humanity's oldest fears. Although the Dark-Dark Fruit and darkness cannot be completely equated, even the mere similarity has allowed this fruit to embody much of humanity's belief in darkness.

It can't compare to the Vampire Fruit, which has a clear target and a wide reach, but it's enough to push this Devil Fruit to the point of awakening.

As he reached out, endless darkness swept over him, and the corpses on the ground instantly turned into dried-up bones.

The Dark-Dark Fruit and the Vampire Fruit clearly have a synergistic effect, with 1+1 being greater than 2. At this moment, Uchiha Touya's full-force attack is like a black hole, continuously draining away life force, blood energy, and fruit abilities from anyone who gets too close to him.

Having stopped using his Devil Fruit powers, Uchiha Tou then entered the final level of Impel Down, the sixth level, the Infinite Hell.

Compared to the previous levels, the sixth level can be described as completely empty. With little change in size and area, there are only a little over a hundred pirates imprisoned in the entire Infinite Hell.

However, the pirates who can be imprisoned in the Infinite Hell must have a bounty of at least several hundred million Berries. It can be said that their strength is at least at the level of the main officers of the Four Emperors' crews. Although there are fewer of them, their quality has actually improved a lot.

These people are now imprisoned. As Devil Fruit users, they are being treated specially with Seastone. To Uchiha Touyu, they are like fish on a chopping board, requiring almost no effort from him.

Black flames spread out, and moments later, screams echoed through the Infinite Hell. Almost all the prisoners were slaughtered. In addition, the various Devil Fruit abilities were extracted by Uchiha Hiyu and temporarily stored in various shellfish.

"I've found the power of the Momo-Moo Fruit!"

As gusts of black energy swirled back, Uchiha Touyu finally selected his desired Devil Fruit. The energy of the Momo-Momo Fruit surged into his body, giving Uchiha Touyu a strange feeling.

"It's a pity that this Devil Fruit doesn't have any faith condensed within it. Otherwise, I would really like to see how terrifying its abilities would be if it were developed to the point of awakening."

It's unlikely that the Momo-Momo Fruit will be developed to a very powerful level in the short term, but once Uchiha Tou's reputation spreads this time, he will probably receive new faith power.

Moreover, he was quite famous in Alabasta and the first half of the Grand Line. This faith was directed at him personally and could be freely distributed among the three Devil Fruits. Although most of them had been absorbed by the Vampire Fruit, the remaining amount was enough to advance the development of the Momo-Momo Fruit to a certain extent.

Moments later, all the prisoners in the Infinite Hell were dead. Uchiha Hiyu turned into a ball of blood and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"MoMo Fruit - 100x Speed!"

The red meteor that rose into the sky from Impel Down was so fast that it was almost imperceptible to the naked eye. In less than ten minutes, Uchiha Tou returned to Marine Headquarters.

Meanwhile, at the Marine Headquarters, the Whitebeard Pirates' ship had just emerged from the water. A red light descended from the sky and landed on the plaza. The Marines were on high alert, wondering what kind of super weapon the Whitebeard Pirates had come up with.

However, a group of high-ranking naval officers recognized the red light. As Uchiha Hiyu's figure appeared, Sengoku angrily roared:

"Uchiha Touya, what are you doing?! Why aren't you following orders at Marine Headquarters?!"

Uchiha Touyu scratched his head and said with a helpless expression:

"I'm sorry, Brother Sengoku, something has suddenly come up that I need to take care of."

"But I'm here now, aren't I? In that case, let me lead the charge against the Whitebeard Pirates!"

At this moment, Uchiha Tou looked apologetic, making it impossible for anyone to imagine that he had just carried out a massacre in Impel Down, even killing the warden and a number of guards.

It's safe to say that, apart from the group of prisoners hiding in the 5.5 level of the transvestite park, and Luffy and Buggy who are also hiding in the transvestite park, there isn't a single living person left in Impel Down at this moment. If this gets out, Uchiha Touyu will have at least a bounty of over a billion on his head, and Sengoku and the Navy will probably take action to capture him immediately.

However, Uchiha Touya acted ruthlessly and quickly, wiping out the entire Impel Down castle, leaving not even a single Den Den Mushi behind, so he wasn't worried about the matter being exposed in the short term.

As for the end of the Marineford War... there's no need to wait until the war ends. Uchiha Tou will take direct action against the Navy halfway through the war, so a brief cover-up for Sengoku will suffice.

Ultimately, it was Uchiha Tou who wanted to wipe out both sides in one fell swoop. However, he didn't want to directly face the combined attack of the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marine Headquarters, so he was still in the Marine camp.

(End of this chapter)