One Piece: The Salted Fish Fruit

The silvery-white quicksand space fragments surrounding him had disappeared without him noticing.

Looking at Akainu's furious and vengeful face, which was less than a meter tall, Mabi revealed an evil smile and once again mobilized the spatial ability within her arm guard. The space around her body immediately decomposed and re-formed silver-white quicksand. Facing Akainu's arm filled with scorching magma, she swung her right fist straight up.

"Little Matchstick, disappear right now!"

The scorching dark red magma instantly dissipated and was compressed into particles by the spatial fragments. The remaining momentum of the silver-white quicksand showed no signs of diminishing, spiraling upwards along the opponent's compressed, solidified arm. The sharp spatial fragments, under Mabi's flipped state, were controlled many times more powerfully than before. The hard Armament Haki armor could no longer stop the silver-white quicksand from cutting, directly causing wounds on the opponent's dark skin that would not heal for a long time.

Silver-white quicksand swirled across his left arm, sweeping past him and striking the golden blade aimed at his neck. It blasted away the slightly lewd face of Kizaru behind him. The silver-white quicksand formed spatial worlds that filled the entire void, preventing his lightsaber from advancing an inch. The surging explosive waves exploded directly around the silver-white quicksand worlds, forming rings of colorless shockwaves that sent his body flying.

Withdrawing her arm again, the silvery-white quicksand remained in the distance, continuing to imprison this space. Her feet stomped directly on the void, leaving silvery-white footprints. Her entire body sped forward, crashing into Aokiji's arms, who was radiating a bone-chilling cold. The silvery-white quicksand surrounding her body, under Mabi's control, rushed towards him, and even the hard and thick ice layer could not stop her for a moment, directly piercing through and covering Aokiji's tall body.

Behind Mabi, the white waterfall of light rushed towards the ruins of Marineford, which had long been shattered and submerged beneath the sea, without any obstruction.

Wherever it passed, the hard soil and rocks vanished instantly. The various deep pits and ravines from the previous battles and bombings were swept away and annihilated by the white streak of light descending from the sky, leaving only a black abyss several kilometers in diameter that attracted all surrounding matter. Endless seawater, pulled by gravity, rushed straight down into the abyss, bursting out with a series of roars that resounded through the heavens and earth, before disappearing into the dark depths of the earth with the flow of water.

"Uranus!" Sengoku looked down at everything, his lips twitching as he raised his golden palm to deflect the golden lion's incoming slash. As the Fleet Admiral, he naturally knew what had caused this attack.

None of this was what he wanted to see. One by one, the legends of the past reappeared! And the Holy Land and the ancient weapons joined the battle, completely slipping out of his control and no longer under his command.

Looking out, the entire Marineford is a circular abyss similar to Enies Lobby, and the original islands are now just two small, dilapidated islands of about a hundred square meters each, standing unscathed on the edge!

The Naval Headquarters was completely annihilated and disappeared, existing only in historical documents!

It all started with that wretched transvestite brat! His power kept increasing, causing the situation to spiral out of control! Even Commander Kong was sent flying far away by the opponent's amplification!

Chapter 208 Im's Terrifying Abilities! (Part 3)

"Steelbow Sky! You can't protect them!" Mabi slashed horizontally with her long sword, looking at the old man covered in Armament Haki and smiling sinisterly.

"I don't agree to killing these children!" Kong Kong, his long silver-white hair standing on end, leaped high from the sea and appeared between Maggie and Akainu, glaring angrily at Maggie. His pristine white naval uniform was already tattered and soaked with blood.

The three behind them were also panting heavily, their bodies covered in blood. The elementalization under the spatial confinement and the powerful force that could break through Armament Haki were difficult for them to resist, even as the strongest Logia-type users.

"Time stop! He's an intruder! Kill him!"

A familiar voice entered Steel Bone Hollow's ears.

The black figure, dodging the streaks of light in the air, once again silently used the difference in the flow of time to control the past, present, and future, appearing directly beside Maby and trapping his body in the past, unable to move. It then used the flow of time to appear in the distance.

A white streak of light streaked across the sky behind him, relentlessly pursuing him. Countless streaks of light flashed across the entire sky, leaving him nowhere to stand.

Even in her flipped-over state, Mebina's extremely sensitive mind was completely unaware of his appearance; the change in the flow of time was far beyond the level that Mebina's immediate perception could break through.

"Yes!" Steel Bone nodded as he watched the black figure appear. Although he didn't know why this person would step out of the Holy Land, he didn't hesitate at all. He covered his iron fist with Armament Haki and directly hammered at Mabi's figure, which was still suspended in the air and had not yet fallen.

Whitebeard and Golden Lion are nothing to fear. Only this disciple of my old friend is the variable on the battlefield. Without that person's participation, everyone present would probably die at his hands within seconds.

"The Fall of the Yellow Springs!" A white crescent-shaped beam burst forth from the scabbard at Maby's waist, instantly filling the entire space with a bone-chilling cold. Steelbone's entire body froze for a moment, causing him to hesitate slightly. His iron fist, which was about to strike Maby, stiffened and paused in mid-air for half a second.

A phantom figure floated out of the scabbard at Maby's waist, appeared in front of Steelbone Kong, and roared!

"Steelbow Kuuga, this old bone of mine isn't completely dead yet!"

Gallup positioned himself between the two as Maggie's body plummeted into the ocean below, a white light suddenly appearing in his hand, forming a soul-shaped longsword that he swung out.

"This is not up to you. That lord also wants to kill him!" Steelbone Kong coldly replied, dodging the white crescent blade that made him hesitate, and threw another punch.

"Instead of staying in the Holy Land and hiding, you come out and cause trouble! If you want to kill my disciple, then try it!" Gallup sneered, and with a swift motion, his pale white soul blade slashed out a white line that struck the opponent's burly body.

"We haven't seen each other for many years. With the remaining power of your soul, how long can you exist? Does your sword sect still have the ability to give you a second life? To protect you? As expected, every generation of successors is so foolish, causing such a huge mess!" Steelbone Kong, who was already prepared, easily dodged the flying slash and sneered. He paid no attention to the opponent's slash. Once he was prepared, his ability to foresee the attack for several seconds was enough to make him invincible, even if it was his old friend.

The stomping of his feet caused waves and a piercing scream rang out. He appeared in front of Maby at a speed several times faster than the speed of sound. His iron fist swung and the entire space instantly solidified into a hammer, which struck Maby, who was still unable to move in the time freeze.

"For thirty years, my soul has weakened, and I can only recover through hibernation. But what does it matter if this soul dissipates for my disciple! Every generation of us has died to protect the next generation! Steel Bone Void is the frozen soul power that our sword sect summons from the Yellow Springs when we die, generation after generation. Do you dare to enter!"

Gallup, whose body was gradually becoming ethereal, watched as his apprentice was about to die under the opponent's fist, and let out an angry roar! The harsh conditions for taking on apprentices in each generation were enough to make him abandon any holder, until Maby appeared more than ten years ago, which aroused his desire to take on apprentices and pass on his school.

Rings of white waves emanated from Gallup and swept across the entire sky, even enveloping Im, who was also moving in the air.

The entire sky instantly transformed into a pure white sphere several kilometers in diameter, suspended above the sea eye below. The entire area seemed to open a passage to the Netherworld, and a chilling aura capable of freezing anyone's soul emanated from the hearts of everyone present.

"That bastard! He actually burned his own soul to summon the power of the underworld! Garp, let's go!" On the ruined island, Tsuru stood up, supported Garp whose body was bleeding profusely, and jumped directly into the sea, rushing towards the distant iceberg.

"That Gallup bastard! You want me dead?! The freezing of the soul is something that Armament Haki can't defend against! No matter how hard you try, even I would be frozen and killed by Sengoku in an instant! You old bastard, you're dead and still won't stop!" The golden lion cursed under his breath as he watched the white sphere spreading in the distance, and then instantly took off and left the area far away.

"This is the power of a person returning from the underworld after death." Sengoku, who also saw all this from afar, still walked away into the air. The aftershocks he emitted were enough to dull his senses. If the Golden Lion were to notice him, he would suffer a fatal blow.

"After death, one enters the underworld, using that special famous sword as a guide to open a passage between the underworld and the real world with one's own soul power, and brings out the power from there? What a terrifying existence! No wonder it is a legendary famous sword that can give people a second life." A man standing on the deck of a red ship's bow said, holding the long sword in his hand.

"Phew, getting out isn't so easy! After all, the passage between the two worlds isn't so easy to break! Little brat, please don't die! Once your soul enters the Underworld, unless that Underworld Fruit can come out intact, their sect is only borrowing some power from the Underworld, and there's a high chance they'll truly perish." The white-haired man exhaled the smoke from his cigarette and looked up at the sky as he replied.

"Boss! We've found Whitebeard! He's over there!" a pirate on the lookout tower shouted, putting away his binoculars.

"Let's go! Hopefully, Whitebeard hasn't run into any problems yet, so we can contribute our strength and help in the future battle." The red-haired man nodded and instructed the helmsman to change course.

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His slender figure moved through the clouds and mist, and the vast, white power that would make anyone tremble seemed to be nothing to him.

He appeared effortlessly in front of Maby, pointing a single finger at her and extending the time he was trapped in time. His muscles, blood, fluids, and thoughts were frozen in a single moment, rendering him completely unaware of the passage of time around him. His icy gaze was fixed on Maby's stiff body below.

"The remaining traitors, I never imagined that any of you would still survive. Back then, you distributed technology, which caused that kingdom's strength to increase dramatically, giving it the power to fight against us and capture us, which eventually led to its near extinction."

Fortunately, my mastery of time allowed me to escape their grasp during the time gaps, enabling me to exploit their own greed and desires to destroy that kingdom.

This power that returned from the underworld and froze souls is just what I need to stop Uranus's probe. Let me kill you!

But rest assured, my people will soon return. The peace you seek is nothing more than a minor inconvenience to us, merely slowing down the process of world annihilation.

At this moment, Mabi, who was imprisoned, had no feeling for anything happening outside. The seal of time kept him frozen in that previous moment!

As the layers of white mist parted, a transparent soul sped behind, letting out an angry roar, its long blade piercing directly through the black figure.

"The Yellow Springs have fallen! Die!"

Chapter 209 The End! The War is Over! (Part Four)

Time stands still!

With a single tap of his hand, he stopped the white, illusory longsword from its throes into the black figure. He then slowly inserted his palm into Mabi's heart, slightly turning his head to scan the transparent soul behind him. He allowed the blade formed from the other's palm to remain suspended within his body, uttering a calm voice.

"No living thing can avoid an attack on the soul. Even the strongest forces in the Navy Headquarters can only eliminate its influence on themselves through their own will, but it is insignificant in the face of time."

How long can a soul returning from the underworld endure without our support?

Time flies!

There was no fluctuation, no roar!

Life stands still under the constraints of time, everything is silent. As time accelerates, Gallup's illusory soul rapidly fades and dissipates without any ability to resist, leaving only a fleeting image of a distorted face.

The white soul power surrounding the entire sky instantly dissipated, and the stray streaks of light flying across the sky instantly found their way and rushed towards the black figure.

"Time flows!" The other party shook off the corpse hanging in his palm without paying any attention to it. Even a powerful person was like an infant that could be crushed with a pinch in front of him. His illusory figure disappeared again into the crack of time, avoiding the annihilation light that followed.

As the clouds dissipated, several figures, frozen solid and radiating from within their bodies, fell from the sky, creating ripples and waves in the sea.

The dark shadow vanished, and the white streak of light disappeared! Only Sengoku and Golden Lion remained in the entire sky; there was no one else in sight!

The remaining Marines on the distant iceberg observed everything before them. The appearance and enhancement of the Marines' top-tier combat power repeatedly boosted their confidence. However, the sudden increase in the pirates' strength, which had sent an Admiral flying, also caused their morale to plummet. Now, the appearance and dissipation of a giant white cloud, revealing a clear sky, only added to their bewilderment!

What on earth is happening?! What are we doing?! What are we supposed to do?! Why are we here?!

What about the cracks that could shatter the heavens and the earth?

What about the shockwave that obliterates everything?

What about the white light that pierced through the ocean to form the deep sea eye?

What about the pirates who could sweep through the entire Navy's top combat force?

In a mere half-minute, they experienced several dramatic shifts between hell and heaven! From the agonizing destruction of Marineford to the glimmer of victory that appeared when the admirals joined forces to kill Whitebeard, but that glimmer hadn't even fully materialized when a waterfall of light erupted from the Second Well directly above the ruins of Marineford, completely obliterating the ocean below with a despairing power. Then, a white, cloud-like sphere of light suddenly enveloped the entire sky until it dissipated, leaving the world utterly empty and still!

The enemies and high-level naval forces that were fighting in the sky have all disappeared, with only a few ice crystals falling into the ocean.

What on earth happened?

The remaining navy personnel were filled with confusion.

"Send a group of people to rescue them! Devil Fruit users will lose their fighting ability if they enter the ocean!" Tsuru, who was holding Garp in her arms, saw the ice crystals and let out a roar, which woke up the confused Marines.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" The first naval officer to regain consciousness nodded in agreement and jumped into the ocean to search for the naval admiral who had fallen into the water.

"Im! You dead salted fish!" Garp, covered in blood, lay helplessly in the crane's arms like a lonely old man, staring blankly at the distant sea. His apprentice's fall and the disappearance of the shadowy figure had turned him into a chaotic mess in an instant, leaving him with no fighting power left.

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"Huff! Is it over? Have decades of imprisonment made me disconnected from this world? The power to shatter and annihilate everything is emerging one after another! I'm really getting old. It seems that the fruit is inevitable." The white-haired old man looked at the distant, now-stopped melee, tossed his sweat-soaked braid, and panted. He stomped his feet on the sea, creating waves to keep himself afloat.

"The commander and his men have lost! But Barrorick Redfield, you should stay. If you leave, what face will our navy have left?" Zephyr held his mechanical prosthetic arm high, ignoring the distant battlefield, an orange flash appearing in his palm.

“Zeff, you want to keep me here? There are few in this world who can do that! Blackbeard is gone, my mission to stop him is complete.” Barolok Redfield tossed aside his cracked standard longsword and replied, dodging the oncoming explosion and disappearing into the distance, leaving only a shattering standard longsword as a symbol of his existence.

boom!

The orange-yellow explosion instantly covered the entire area in front of Zephyr, but under the opponent's powerful physical skills, he had already retreated far away on the sea surface, leaving only the endless sound of the waves crashing against each other.

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"Disappeared? The Navy still possesses this kind of power! Even the pirates who swept through the Navy's top forces were utterly powerless against that one and were killed?"

The man, whose muscles were bulging and who exuded a terrifying aura, glanced at the vanished figure, his black pupils slightly contracting as a hint of fear flashed across his face.

“Douglas Bullet! Luffy is Ace’s brother, and we will never let you hurt him,” Marco said in a deep voice, his wings radiating pale blue flames.

Looking back at Marco, the catching-up Merry, and the vanished unknown enemy, he knew that the battle could not continue!

"Then let him live a little longer! I really want him to experience the pain of being drowned in endless hell by the sea and having his limbs severed. I will take his life back sooner or later."

Ignoring the two people behind him, he burst forth with waves of energy and soared into the vast sky. Looking back down at Marineford, he saw the abyss that seemed to devour everything and the terrifying combat power unleashed by the two people earlier.

I'm not strong enough to defeat the Navy's top combat force right now!

The strongest in the world! Still a long way off!

"Are they gone? Brother Melli, let's go back!" Marco sighed with relief as the figure he had seen off disappeared.

"Is this the strongest Armament Haki? It can disrupt the entire spatial matter and distort the lightning." Merry asked, retracting the blue and white lightning all over her body.

“Yes! Superb Armament Haki can isolate energy and physical attacks. Before the opponent's stamina is completely exhausted, it will be difficult for our fire and lightning to injure his body. After all, Barrett's Armament Haki is among the strongest in this world.” Marco sighed, flapping his wings and swooping towards the ship where there was still a legendary figure whose battle was not yet over.