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

Chapter 277 One Against Two: Bane Battles Kaido and Charlotte Linlin!

After exchanging a shout with Kaido, Bane was now in high spirits. He waved his hand and said, "Since you said I should go first, then I'll go first. Don't you dare make a move, let me give it a try."

"One against two?" Sakazuki raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

"That's right, one against two!" Bane grinned maliciously. "Wait until I've had my fill before you make your move."

Sakazuki and Ichisho naturally understood what "having a good time" meant.

In other words, they will only intervene when he is no longer able to win.

"Very well, I and Yixiao will back you up!" Sakazuki thought for a moment and immediately agreed.

Let Bane go up and try first. To be honest, it's been a long time since Sakazuki has fought Kaido and Charlotte Linlin. He doesn't know much about the current strength of these two monsters. Let Bane fight first, so he can observe from the sidelines.

Yi Xiao nodded in agreement and said, "Then I won't disturb your enjoyment any longer."

Seeing this, Bane didn't say anything more. Sakazuki raised his hand, and the fleet immediately began to lower anchor and furl the sails, no longer approaching Butter Island.

Then, Bane raised his arms, stretched, and then, with a stomp of his foot, propelled himself off the warship.

Moonwalk flashed alternately in the air and on the sea, his figure leaving several afterimages as he rushed toward Butter Island at an extremely fast speed.

On the airship in the sky, Morgans, with a maniacal smile on his face, took pictures while writing in his notebook: "Admiral Bane, like a tiger unleashed from its cage, showed no intention of backing down in the face of two famous pirate captains of the New World. He single-handedly ventured into Butter Island, and thus began the great battle that would determine the future order of the New World."

On the beach, Kaido watched Bane's approaching figure, a glint of excitement in his eyes. "That brat's even more confident and arrogant than last time! He dares to charge at us all by himself, he really doesn't take us seriously!"

Before Charlotte Linlin could even speak, Kaido's already massive body underwent a rapid transformation.

A thick, blue-scaled dragon tail grew from his tailbone, the horns on his head looked even more ferocious, his muscles bulged and rippled, and fine dragon scales covered his entire body, transforming him into a dragon-human form.

No sooner said than done, as Kaido wrapped his Conqueror's Haki around the Eight Rings in his hand, Bane's foot landed right on the edge of the Butter Island beach.

The moment he abruptly left a footprint on the sparse sand, he was already standing in front of Kaido in the next instant.

"Well done!" Kaido's Observation Haki instantly locked onto Bane's figure, and as the Eight Guards in his hand exploded in the air, he suddenly swung them forward.

Just as the Eight Guardians formed a semi-circle in front of Kaido, Bane's iron fist slammed into them.

The sharp spikes on the spiked club pierced precisely into Bane's fist. First, there was an explosion of Haki. The two men's equally matched Conqueror's Haki showed no intention of fighting or grappling. The moment they touched, they exploded, creating a violent airflow that shattered the air with a shockwave.

Immediately afterwards, Kaido's expression darkened, as if he had been subjected to some extremely strong force. His feet involuntarily sank into the sand beneath his feet, and then the surging power flowed from his feet and was released onto Butter Island.

With a bang, the loose sand beneath Kaido's feet trembled, kicking up a large amount of dust. Before the dust could dissipate, the force generated by the collision of the spiked club and the iron fist slammed it into the ground, instantly compacting the soft sand into a solid plane.

The plane didn't even last a second before it cracked open with a snap, spreading for hundreds of meters and a crack three or four meters wide, stretching from Kaido's feet backward. Wherever the crack passed, even the hard reefs were helpless against it, either cracking along with it or exploding into pieces. This shows how strong the force of their collision was!

As the crack spread, the thorn on the Eight Precepts could not withstand the force of Bane's punch. After a moment of stalemate, it twisted and cracked, and was flattened by Bane.

Before Bane and Kaido could even determine who was superior in their attack, Charlotte Linlin seized the opportunity. A fierce glint flashed in her eyes, and her Emperor Sword emitted intense flames, as if it were about to ignite the air, as she slashed fiercely at Bane's figure.

"Blade Mother Flame!!!"

As Charlotte Linlin made her move, Bane also changed his tactics. His fist, which was pressed against the Eight Precepts, suddenly transformed into a claw, hooked onto the Eight Precepts, and pressed down hard. Using this force, he made his figure flip half a circle in the air, and then kicked Charlotte Linlin's Emperor Sword hard.

This attack wasn't meant to fight against anything, but rather to borrow strength.

With a kick to the Emperor's sword, Bane's figure soared into the air again, rising more than thirty meters high. He rolled up his cigarette, seemingly preparing for another attack.

However, how could he possibly gain the upper hand every time in a battle between top experts?

Before Bane could even finish his move, Kaido unleashed a scorching breath that distorted the air in its path, reaching Bane in the blink of an eye.

This forced Bane to abandon his offensive. The black smoke on his fist changed and suddenly opened up, like a dark shield blocking his way. Kaido's violent and scorching attack immediately struck the dark shield, but it didn't produce any impact at all. Like swallows returning to their nests, it disappeared into the darkness without a sound.

That wasn't all. Just as the breath was being completely swallowed by the darkness, Bane flipped his hand, turning the dark shield over. Then, the breath that had been swallowed up in the previous instant burst out from the dark side, as if Bane had fired it, and blasted it towards Charlotte Linlin.

"Darkness Flips!"

Charlotte Lingling, being a top-tier expert, naturally possessed first-rate reaction speed. Facing the surging, scorching breath, she remained completely calm. Emerald green soul energy emanated from her hand as she neither dodged nor evaded, but instead grabbed at the breath, declaring, "Soul Awakening!"

The surging power of the soul was injected into the breath the moment it came into contact with it. Then, the originally violent breath seemed to come alive at this moment, possessing its own life and will, and became docile. It coiled up Charlotte Linlin's arm like her pet snake that she had raised for many years, and reached her shoulder.

However, the breath seemed to have found its mother, but Charlotte Linlin showed no mercy. Grabbing the tail of the breath, she whipped it like a long whip, striking Bane in mid-air.

No sooner said than done, Charlotte Linlin and Kaido seemed to have an uncanny understanding; as she lashed out with her whip, Kaido's figure vanished from the beach.

Bane's Observation Haki immediately detected Kaido's vanished figure, above him!

"Resurrected Three Worlds - Naraku!!!" Kaido roared, slamming his spiked club down from above.

This attack was incredibly powerful. Lightning flashed out of thin air, leaving a trail of afterimages. Even the speed at which Conqueror's Haki could attach couldn't keep up with the Eight Precepts' fall, leaving a trail behind them. The sound of the air exploding was deafening!

At this moment, Bane seemed to be sandwiched between Kaido and Charlotte Linlin, with the scorching fire whip below and the incomparably powerful Naraku above.

Bane, who was being used as the filling, remained completely calm. A composed look flashed in his eyes, and he stomped his foot hard, creating ripples in the air. In that instant, he stabilized himself in mid-air.

Then, you can see him move with perfect balance, his previous fierce momentum softened considerably, one hand on top and the other on the bottom.

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

"My flowing water is three thousand feet deep," Bane uttered in a low voice.

First came Kaido's Naraku, a powerful and unparalleled strike that landed on Bane's palm. However, there seemed to be a gentle force in his palm that neutralized the initial pressure. Then, with a swift movement, Kaido used the force of the strike to push and pull the Naraku to the side, causing it to deviate from its original trajectory and forcefully bypass Bane.

At the same time, his other hand, like a serpent, entangled with the breath whip that Charlotte Linlin had drawn. His wrist twisted and guided the whip with fluid, smooth movements, breaking through the pincer attack in an instant!

But while Bane is highly skilled, Kaido and Charlotte Linlin are no pushovers either.

Almost at the same time that Bane used this soft-to-hard technique, Kaido and Charlotte Linlin's eyes met for a moment, and they changed their moves in perfect unison!

"Go!" Charlotte Linlin shouted, loosening her grip. The breath immediately coiled around Bane's body, and without his soul, it exploded.

Bane seemed to have been caught off guard by this turn of events and was instantly engulfed by the rapid explosion. At the same moment, Kaido's Eight Rings slipped and completely veered off course, but his other arm muscles rolled, and using the speed of his fall, he plunged headlong into the smoke of the explosion, his arm suddenly hooking around Bane's shoulder!

At this moment, it was as if Kaido and Bane were best buddies, arm in arm.

However, before this loving scene could last even a second longer, Kaido's arm muscles bulged again, and his powerful strength hooked onto Bane's neck. A burst of thunder swept across, like a hot, lightning-splitting blade, and sent Bane flying.

Before Bane could react, he was sent flying through the air for hundreds of meters by Kaido's attack, crashing into the solid ground on the island with a bang.

As the saying goes, "strike while the iron is hot," Charlotte Linlin had no regard for morality or martial ethics. As Kaido sent Bane flying with a single blow, a raging fire fell from the sky like a meteor, instantly disappearing into the crater in the ground created by Bane.

"Heavenly Fire!!!" Charlotte Linlin roared.

With a deafening roar, a scorching blast of air swept in, completely engulfing and igniting the surrounding area for hundreds of meters, its power ferocious and devastating.

On a warship in the distance, Sakazuki's cheek twitched slightly as he said, "Is that considered having enough fun?"

Although he couldn't see the smile, he seemed much more relaxed than Sakazuki, a slight smile playing on his lips as he said, "I think Bane is only just 'warming up' himself, isn't he?"

Sure enough, as soon as the joke ended, black flames suddenly erupted from the crater that had been burning with scorching heavenly fire, engulfing all the surrounding firelight. Then, Bane, his body radiating dark elements and resembling a demon from the abyss, stepped out.

He raised his hand to rub his neck, saying with a hint of complaint, "You almost broke my neck, Lei Li?"

Kaido didn't seem surprised by Bane's condition, and grinned, "It was just a casual strike, but it seems to be quite effective. Lightning Blade? Nice name. I'll just consider it a new technique I developed, ahahahahaha."

(End of this chapter)