One Piece: The Salted Fish Fruit

"I will give you an explanation!" Xiong looked at the devastated ground around him, which was covered with countless wires, energy stones, mechanical parts, external armor, cold weapons and axe blades, white clouds, gravel powder, and black charcoal, and slowly replied.

"Confess! Confess! You took advantage of the moment when I was attacking them and ambushed them one by one, sending them flying and forcing them to leave this island! How are you going to explain this?!" Sentomaru, in pain from his broken arm, raised his voice and roared loudly!

A deafening roar suddenly echoed through the heavens and earth, and countless branches in the sky snapped and fell to the ground.

Ignoring the scathing insults directed at him, Mamoru, supporting his broken arm, looked out and saw a mushroom cloud clearly appear in the distance through the dissipated bubbles!

"This is the power of Grandpa Kizaru! What on earth happened?!"

My schedule is becoming increasingly unpredictable. I'll try to write one more chapter and post it regularly in the evening!

Chapter 171 Another Comeback! Observation Haki Activated!

"Holy crap! That's a nuclear explosion! Generals are no ordinary people!" Salty Fish Mabi exclaimed, looking at the towering mushroom cloud.

With his arms outstretched, his spatial abilities spread outward to form a sphere, making him appear from a distance like a cross, fixed in the air to defend against the shockwaves from the explosion's epicenter.

"The lens is broken again!"

As the light in the distance faded, a figure slowly materialized, holding a pair of sunglasses in his hand and gazing leisurely at the broken one of the sunglasses, as if the giant navel on the sea was not his masterpiece but just something he was playing around with.

He then put on the sunglasses, which only had one lens left, and looked at the black dot in the distance. A faint coordinate kept reminding him of the target's existence.

"Yata no Kagami!"

The arms, holding a series of golden lenses, formed a straight line in the air and stretched into the distance.

"Salted Fish Suppresses the Void!" The surrounding spatial barrier was canceled, and with a single wave of his hand, the spatial area several hundred meters in front of him was solidified to block and obstruct the flow of energy.

"Kusanagi Sword! Laser Waterfall!"

As Kizaru, about to enter the Zhenkong area, sped into the sky, leaving the area far behind. He clasped his hands together and then separated them again, thus creating a golden longsword! With a single swing, a golden light curtain burst forth from the blade, rushing towards the space area imprisoned by Mabi and instantly exploding into a golden stream of air. Countless golden waves of air covered the area, forming a giant golden sphere with a diameter of hundreds of meters.

"Instantaneous Void! Void Slash!" The figure vanished and reappeared behind the opponent, drawing his sword and slashing horizontally.

With a crisp clang, a golden blade appeared before him, intercepting the blade imbued with spatial power by the salted fish Mabi! The spatial ability attached to it further severed the blade at the point of contact, forming two silver-white crescent blades that shot out from the blade, slicing past Kizaru's clothes and crashing into the distant rolling sea, creating two bottomless chasms.

"Hehehe! What terrifying power!" Seeing Mabi raise her sword to strike again, Mabi held her sword with both hands and waved it to intercept!

The flash of light and the impact of space collided, producing a violent collision sound! Endless shockwaves surged and rolled into the distance!

Below them, on the turbulent sea surface, appeared a bottomless abyss leading to an unknown seabed.

"Hahaha! I've learned your strength! This little bit of power is barely enough to hurt me! Salty Fish Sky Slash!" Salty Fish Mabi laughed loudly as he felt the force rebounding from the blade. His spatial abilities erupted from his arm, frantically gathering towards the blade in his hand. He twisted his waist again, gathering strength, and slashed down at the weapon held by his opponent! Ignoring any defense, he was determined to cut his opponent in two!

Clang! The two different energies collided once more, unleashing a terrifying shockwave that destroyed everything around them!

In his extreme excitement, Salty Fish Mabi used the force of the rebound to leap high into the air. He activated his spatial ability, instantly solidifying the space beneath his feet. He bent his legs and slammed them onto the solidified space, returning to his original position. Spatial cracks appeared around him as he moved, frantically cutting through the surrounding space.

Clang! Clang! Clang! The sounds of continuous clashes rang out! Salty Fish Mebi's agile figure leaped through the air like an elf! Every direction—front, back, left, right, up, down—was a place where he could step and use leverage, and the long sword in his hand attacked the figure wielding the golden longsword in the center, following the momentum of his body's movement.

"Yay! That feels good! That feels good!" As time went on, the salty fish Mabi ignored the wounds on his body caused by the opponent breaking through the spatial rift due to his carelessness, and continued to attack with his long sword.

"Hehehe! Really? I can feel your power decreasing!" Kizaru, suspended in the air, leisurely swung his two longswords, feeling the impact of the attack, and chuckled as he turned and moved to avoid the spatial blades that spread around him.

"Is that so? Well, that's the warm-up! What's next?" Salty Fish Mabi dodged a golden blade of air that was tens of meters wide, and looked down at the enemy with a chuckle, his tattered clothes gleaming. As the second personality that often hid under the main personality, he knew that this state wouldn't last long, so he naturally had to end the battle as quickly as possible! The opponent, a naval officer who had sailed the seas for decades, naturally understood the price of gaining such great power.

"Turning over again!" The power of the Salted Fish Fruit exploded once more within his body, stimulating his blood, bones, muscles, and nerves, causing his physical abilities to explode and double again!

"Salted Fish Steps Through the Air!" Salted Fish Meibi stepped into the air, instantly creating a silvery-white, fragmented light that stretched for tens of meters in radius, like quicksand. Countless tiny particles, the various suspended particles in the surrounding air, became clearly visible with the amplified senses.

A humanoid object, shining like the sun in the distance, appeared clearly in his senses. Below him, broken pebbles and pieces of fish in the seawater, as well as the seabed reefs thousands of meters below, and all matter within a radius of tens of kilometers centered on him, were clearly visible at this moment, as if they were three-dimensional figures, thanks to his powerful senses.

Even the arrogant salted fish Mabi calmed down at this moment. This power of knowing everything around him was far different from his previous ability to judge the surrounding situation by the shape of air fluctuations. This was the ability to directly scan the surroundings, including all things that exist in the physical world!

Observation Haki! It's finally activated!

With his eyes closed, his figure flashed and reappeared on the spot of light. All his strength was poured into the blade, causing a series of crisp cries that resounded throughout the world.

"Salted Fish! Shattered Void!"

"Boom!" Kizaru, wielding the Ame-no-Tsurugi, immediately felt an unusually powerful force coming from the hand of the lazy Mabi. He was no longer as lazy as before. The spatial force that was impacting him was no longer like the spatial cracks that appeared before. Instead, it spread like powder across the sword, causing it to shatter and disappear!

Seeing the sudden burst of power from Salty Fish Mebi, and the flashing figure radiating that power, they quickly retreated.

"Still too slow!" Mebius said slowly, sensing the shattering of the opponent's sword and the retreating body immersed in his own extraordinary power.

With each step, his entire body broke through layers of space, following the opponent's movement like a shadow. A silver-white river, like a dancing ribbon, appeared beside him, moving forward with his body. He clenched his fist with one hand, and a fine silver-white spatial power instantly filled his fist like quicksand before he suddenly swung it downward.

"Boom!" The contact between the fist and flesh was like fine sand. The spatial ability spread around the opponent's body, imprisoning all space and making it difficult for him to break apart. A semi-circular white sonic barrier mist instantly appeared around him, carrying strong wind pressure and blasting him into the sea.

He pulled the entire space back again, forcibly gathering the surrounding seawater to smooth out the giant hole with a diameter of 100 meters that he had just blasted out, submerging people in the ocean.

The faint coordinates in his senses suddenly disappeared. Salty Fish Mei knew that this was a sign that the Salty Fish Duel was over. After all, once the duel began, the two people's mental energy was connected and they provided each other with the location of each other's existence until they fell into unconsciousness and died.

"Haha! This power is really strong! It's a pity that it only lasts for three seconds! I can only leave it to that weakling next!" Salty Fish Mebi raised his hand and looked at the dense bloodstains covering his arm. This was due to the incompatibility between his explosive power and physical fitness. Now his head was starting to feel dizzy and the side effects were about to kick in.

He took out the Life Paper to check the direction, and his body rapidly moved, causing an island to reappear before his eyes.

"Phew!" The dozens of teleportations required to get here now only require one. After using it, his head felt heavy and dizzy again. He forced himself to aim at a tree trunk and teleport again.

"Bang!" A dull thud resounded.

Mabi's frail body crashed heavily onto the towering Yarchiman mangrove tree. Her eyes rolled back and she lay motionless on the thick branches, completely powerless. If anyone had passed by at that moment, Mabi would have been in grave danger!

After a long while, an elderly man with glasses and a white beard appeared beside Mabi, smiled at his tired face, and reached out to lift him onto his back.

Chapter 172 Aftermath!

"Is it over? Where is the Admiral? He hasn't shown up yet!" Hawkins coughed up blood as the ship's doctor beside him cut open his already pierced and charred wound, and blood gushed out like a fountain!

"Our boss was lured away by a member of the Straw Hat Pirates, and we haven't heard from him since!" A man in a black robe beside him hurriedly replied.

"The Straw Hat Boys were intercepted? Where are they now?"

"call!"

Hearing his captain's question and answer, he took a deep breath and replied, recalling the terrifying scene he had witnessed while hiding to the side!

"They all disappeared and their fates are unknown amidst the siege of eleven Marine cyborgs and the Seven Warlords of the Sea! Their commander, whose strength was comparable to that of a Vice Admiral, was severely injured, and all eleven cyborgs were torn to pieces!"

Upon hearing his subordinate's reply, Hawkins calmly began to speak.

"Eleven? No wonder they're known as the Mad Pirates for daring to attack Enies Lobby!"

Hearing his boss's assessment, the man in black breathed a sigh of relief and once again voiced his concerns to his captain!

"Boss! They're too strong! If they hadn't been surrounded by the Seven Warlords and Admirals, they would definitely have a place in the New World with their strength!"

“Is that so? Then we’ll wait and see!” Hawkins said calmly.

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has it ended?

This information, along with the disappearance of the Straw Hat crew and the retreat of the Navy, immediately brought a sigh of relief to the pirates of Sabaody Archipelago. At the same time, the record of the Straw Hat crew's counterattack, which was recorded by bystanders and influenced by Den Den Mushi, was also transmitted to everyone.

That was enough to sever the flying strike of the Yarchiman mangrove!

A colossal fist shadow capable of destroying the heavens and the earth!

An air cannon capable of blasting apart warships!

A sea of ​​fire burning like purgatory!

A thunderstorm resembling the end of the world!

Golden chains flying in the sky!

A dense barrage of laser beams!

A dense cluster of white cloud pillars, like a jungle!

A gigantic monster roaring to the sky!

Everything, everything was presented before everyone's eyes, and everyone who watched was shocked by these powers, which were rare even in the New World! How did they grow up in this paradise? How much courage did that captain have to make everyone obey his orders and stay on a ship?

The mangrove trees of Yarqiman, whose trees were destroyed and broken more than a dozen times, still span over everyone's heads! They serve as a reminder that what everyone sees is real and not a video transmitted from some monster group in the New World.

"Haha! Haha! Those lunatics really have incredible strength! Trafalgar Law and our three crews fought tooth and nail to dismantle just two cyborgs, while these cyborgs were dismantled like toys by the Straw Hat crew. If it weren't for that Bartholomew Kuma's sneak attack, they would have crushed those cyborgs and remained unharmed." Kid, his body wrapped in bandages, leaned back on the sofa, looking at the video Den Den Mushi in his hand, and turned to shout at Law beside him.

"No! They're missing one person! With him here, these cyborgs are no threat!" Maureen, who had been repeatedly observing the combatants on the field, raised a question.

His heart was heavy. He had promised to help them, but when he arrived at the scene after receiving the news, all that was left was the broken earth and the remains of the Straw Hat crew. No one else was there. So he snatched a Den Den Mushi from the onlookers.

"There's another person?" All the crew members present looked over. As people who needed to be familiar with the forces of the sea, they naturally knew that all the Straw Hat Pirates were present, even though they were all on the screen.

"Boss! The brothers who are replenishing supplies elsewhere said that 'Kizaru was lured away by someone.' Could it be the one you mentioned, Captain Maureen?"

"A swordsman in black?"

"It looks like that?"

"That's it! That's why Admiral Kizaru didn't show up." Maureen slowly exhaled and lay back down on the sofa.

"You mean the Straw Hat Pirates have someone comparable to an Admiral?" Kid asked, suppressing his laughter.

"Yes? Luffy himself said that their vice-captain is very strong, but they don't know exactly how strong he is!" Maureen, lying on the sofa with her slender body, slowly replied while staring at the ceiling. This bastard still left the most dangerous part to her, just like when he faced that demon!

Upon hearing her older sister's reply, the girl standing beside her, her hand wielding a weapon, asked worriedly, "Big Sister! Will Sanji and the others be in danger?"

"Luo! I'm not going to the New World for now. I promised to help them, but I didn't help them at all. Now that everyone has disappeared, their ship is still here. I'm sure many people will want to take it. I'm going to protect their ship until someone returns."

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"Ah! Ah! Ah! Mabi! Where is he? Kizaru is an Admiral-level fighter!" After watching again, Ford knelt on the ground, desperately pounding his eyes and crying in pain as he saw that resolute black figure.

"Wake up!" A huge tiger paw descended from the sky, forcefully stomping his head into the mud and roaring angrily.

"Captain! First mate!" The pirates who had gathered around shouted upon seeing this.

“My younger brother disappeared in that battle! Without their bodies, everything is unknown! According to you, your brother’s combat strength has never been fully displayed, maybe he was able to escape from that general!” Alice clenched her black and white tiger paws tightly together, trying hard not to let her tears fall.

"Woo! Woo! Woo!" It tried to struggle out of the mud, but the tiger's paw above its head held it firmly, making it difficult to move.

"First Mate Alice, lift your foot quickly! The captain will suffocate if this continues!"

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"Is this the craziest pirate crew among all the rookies? They really have terrifying strength. I wonder what kind of impact they would have if they entered the New World!" Countless reporters quickly took screenshots of the few leaked images and sent the information to their newspapers. This kind of important news must be sent out as soon as possible. As the most powerful source of information on the sea, it would definitely be exhausted in the shortest time if this continued.