Starting as a pirate, he rose to become the strongest Shinigami in Soul Society.

Chapter 273 Zoro: This world is not heaven, I am Ashura!

By the time Fubuki and the others arrived at the coast, Zoro and Katakuri had already made their way to the center of the island.

"Smoker! Penn!" Lieutenant General Dol saw the figures on the ground covered in glutinous rice balls and quickly went forward.

Although Penn's injuries were also serious, they were not yet life-threatening. On the contrary, Smoker looked like he was about to die and had already fallen into a coma.

"The injuries are too severe." Fubuki stepped forward to examine them, her brow furrowed. "Why didn't you use the healing potion I gave you before?"

As she spoke, Fubuki rummaged around on her body for a few moments and finally found an injection.

"It's not that we don't need it, it's that we've already used it all up. Otherwise, how could Smoker and Penn have held off Smoothie?" Dol said with a serious expression, taking out an injection from his own body as well.

Then, she quickly peeled away the glutinous rice dough stuck to Peng En's body, pulled him and Tashigi out together, and then quickly stuck a needle into his body.

On the other side, Smoker also received an injection, but the healing agent was indeed very effective, immediately bringing his bleeding wound under control.

"Dr. Genus's advanced technology is indeed very useful," Tina said with a sigh of relief as she watched Smoker's breathing gradually stabilize.

"It can only stabilize the injury; you still need to recuperate properly afterward." Fubuki shook her head, then added, "Actually, there are even more potent healing supplements. Based on experimental results, one injection can be so effective that it can even heal this kind of injury in just over ten minutes."

"Hmm?" Major General Peacock asked curiously, "If it's so powerful, why don't you take it out and use it?"

"Because the side effects are very strong, they will seriously deplete vitality, thus affecting lifespan and even causing premature aging," Fubuki said, shaking her head.

Soon, Fubuki and Dol began issuing orders for the remaining naval soldiers on the island to evacuate immediately, and nearby warships also launched a large number of lifeboats to provide assistance.

In just over ten minutes, the entire navy on the island had withdrawn, and the warships no longer lingered near the shoals, turning their backs on the island.

In the middle of the island, Zoro cleaved the giant mochi fist in two with a single slash. As he flipped in the air, he flicked his wrist, sending two dazzling bolts of lightning, like lasers, straight at Katakuri.

Without even dodging, Katakuri thrust his trident forward, and in the blink of an eye, a wall of rice-sized steel rose from the ground affected by his awakened ability, providing formidable defense and completely blocking Zoro's thunderous attack.

In mid-air, lightning crackled around Zoro's body, the dense lightning element transforming into rolling plasma, coiling around him like a dragon, making him appear as if the god of thunder had descended to earth.

The two had only been fighting for a little over twenty minutes, but they had already exchanged blows no less than a hundred times. Despite such intense clashes, neither of them had been truly injured so far. It was a perfectly balanced exchange of blows, with neither side getting hurt.

After this exchange, Zoro floated in the air, his cold gaze fixed on Katakuri on the ground.

Meanwhile, Katakuri's feet were covered in glutinous rice slurry, and his expression was equally cold, holding a trident with a slight frown.

After exchanging glances for two breaths, a warship on the sea launched a firework that exploded in the sky above the sea.

Without turning back, Zoro's gaze shifted slightly as he observed the situation, and he said, "Now that I have no more worries, I can go all out."

Katakuri's expression turned serious; he probably guessed what Zoro meant by those words.

Since their first encounter, although Roronoa Zoro has been frequently using the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit in conjunction with his swordsmanship, the legendary Rumble-Rumble Fruit, which is said to be invincible, seems not to have truly shown its power. The world-destroying power of Logia-type abilities has not been demonstrated at all!

As soon as the thought crossed his mind, Katakuri felt a sense of urgency. His power surged beneath his feet, and the glutinous rice paste burst forth, the surging force propelling him directly into the air as he lunged towards Zoro.

However, Zoro, who has always faced Katakuri head-on and countered his moves, did not choose to fight this time. Instead, a flash of electricity appeared on his body, and he instantly activated the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, disappearing from the spot.

By the time Katakuri's trident strike missed, Zoro had already ascended hundreds of meters into the air.

As he flashed out, he slammed his hand down on the four knives hanging at his waist!

That's right, four swords. After defeating the Moria Pirates in the Devil's Triangle, Zoro acquired the famous sword Shusui. Although he still uses the three-sword style, he now carries four swords with him.

The intense electric current seemed to stimulate the four famous swords at his waist. The four swords shot out rapidly, carrying dazzling lightning, and flew towards the white clouds in the sky. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared into the clouds.

Immediately afterward, Zoro's pupils quickly glowed white, which then rapidly transformed into indigo blue. Intense lightning elements flowed and emanated from the corners of his eye sockets. Moreover, his breath also carried flickering lightning power.

The naval justice cloak he wore fluttered in the wind, and the plasma that swirled around him like a thunderous dragon roared up, following the trajectory of the four swords, disappearing into the clouds!

Crackling lightning flashed continuously in the air around Zoro, and the dense lightning element in the air gradually turned into a column of liquid, which poured into the clouds in the sky centered on his figure.

In mid-air, Katakuri watched this scene and felt his hair stand on end. His Observation Haki was constantly sending him extremely dangerous signals.

Just then, a muffled thunderclap exploded in the clouds, the rolling thunder seemingly sweeping across the entire island. The originally white clouds, under the sound of this thunder, were like thick black ink spreading out, transforming at an extremely fast speed into black clouds that seemed intent on destroying the entire island.

"If one commits a minor evil act with body, speech, or mind, and gives rise to pride, arrogance, self-importance, excessive pride, great pride, wrong pride, and the loss of all good roots, one will fall into the realm of Asura." The lightning on Zoro's body gradually faded, but he began to chant.

Katakuri couldn't understand what he was saying at all, but he could sense the danger that was about to come. He made a quick judgment and plummeted to the ground from mid-air. His power surged and he used his awakened power to quickly assimilate everything around him, preparing to deal with Zoro's seemingly extraordinary move.

Zoro, completely ignoring Katakuri's actions, calmly stated, "When the ten karmas converge, it becomes the Asura realm; this is the Asura realm!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zoro suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the sky, a burst of lightning erupting from his fingertip, vanishing in an instant like a dream.

But at this moment, the dark clouds that swept across the entire island's sky trembled, and in a daze, endless lightning seemed to condense into a huge, ugly but ferocious and majestic phantom of Asura within these clouds.

Lightning flashed and dark clouds intertwined, as if a passage had been opened between this world and the 'non-celestial realm' where the Asuras resided.

At almost the same moment, Ashura, whose lightning had coalesced, and Zoro's gaze locked onto Katakuri, who was also poised to strike on the island's surface.

Then, Zoro uttered softly, "I am Ashura, and I will slay them all!"

Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!

The next second, thunder roared and lightning flashed. Wado Ichimonji, like lightning, slashed down from the sky and struck Zoro's hand precisely.

Holding the Wado Ichimonji, Zoro roared and swung his hand down with a slash!

As he moved, the phantom of Asura in the clouds suddenly disintegrated, and then endless lightning fell from the sky, as if to destroy everything in the world!

The surging thunderous energy, like a waterfall cascading down, poured continuously from the dark clouds. Its elements were so concentrated that they were completely liquefied. On the warship at the edge of the sea, Fubuki watched this scene, as if the Milky Way were hanging upside down in the sky above the island, and that the nectar was about to fill the entire island.

The lightning elements that emanated from the edge of the island fell into the sea, and the rapid current surged everywhere, killing a large number of marine creatures. In no time, even the sea around the warship was covered with the corpses of fish, sea beasts, and even sea kings.

"Hey, don't touch it!" a commodore exclaimed, seemingly trying to warn a sailor.

It was too late. The naval soldier's hand landed right on the anchor chain, and in an instant, he was charred and died on the spot. At the same time, the thick, ancient tree-like chain began to turn red, as if it had been smelted by lightning.

"Is this the supposedly invincible Rumble-Rumble Fruit?" Fubuki's eyes flashed with shock as she murmured involuntarily.

She is also a Logia-type Devil Fruit user, and possesses the powerful Sand-Sand Fruit. She could destroy an island, but she could not do something as devastating as this, with such earth-shattering power!

At this moment, the entire island of Skånečić had been completely transformed into an ocean of lightning elements. Everything on the island seemed to be 'bathed and immersed' in lightning plasma, with the dense lightning elements engulfing everything on the island.

The scorching heat instantly turned all the greenery on the island into ashes. Buildings began to deform, melt, and crystallize. All life on the island, including small animals and insects, vanished into this ocean of lightning.

There were no explosions, not much noise; as far as the eye could see, it was all an indigo blue world.

Deep underground, Katakuri's expression twisted into a ferocious grin as he revealed his true nature, previously hidden beneath his scarf. His powers surged, generating massive amounts of mochi paste to replenish the mochi defenses that were being eroded by lightning.

However, he was not a true Logia-type Devil Fruit user. As a Paramecia-type user, no matter how special he was, he could not unleash that boundless energy with the same surging passion as a Logia-type user.

The spherical glutinous rice paste defensive wall began to char and crack continuously, and Katakuri's attempts to fill it seemed to be unable to keep up with the pace of consumption.

Just then, a slash cleaved through the glutinous rice's defensive barrier, and a large amount of lightning magma surged in like a tidal wave. Katakuri, shrouded in Haki armor, resisted the lightning magma that was gradually engulfing his body.

Everything around him was so dazzling that he felt he was about to go blind. The whole world was completely indigo blue, and he vaguely saw a figure of a demon wielding a knife walking out from the world of endless thunder.

"Damn it," Katakuri cursed under his breath, and the next second, he felt a sharp pain all over his body.

(End of this chapter)