I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

The Dung Beetle Fruit is just an ordinary Zoan-type Devil Fruit. Although it can give him a certain boost in strength and stamina, it is very ordinary.

"It's all your fault, Sigurd... If it weren't for you, I probably would have already obtained the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and might even have completed the puzzle of becoming the strongest Mythical Zoan, the strongest Logia, and the strongest Paramecia-type Devil Fruit user!"

"This ugly side of me that I have never shown to the outside world is also thanks to you!"

Blackbeard gritted his teeth.

He was in so much pain... At this point, he no longer cared about his appearance or his dignity.

Although the dung beetle fruit is ordinary, it has a hard shell that can also enhance its strength and endurance.

"What does this have to do with me? Don't pin all the blame on me." Sieg shook his head, finding it utterly absurd.

He gripped a ball of black flame, preparing to seize the moment and continue his attack.

The fourth stage of the Dark Flame Master's power was rapidly depleting his chuunibyou energy, so he prepared to finish the battle quickly.

But at that moment, a low sigh suddenly came from behind.

"Wait, Sig."

"I'll settle Teach's matter."

Sig was startled, and Blackbeard was so shocked that his whole body stiffened, and he turned his head to look in the direction of the white operating tent.

Sometime later, Whitebeard had reappeared. His wounds had been quickly treated and were no longer bleeding. His complexion was better than before, and even his wrinkles had decreased.

"It only took four minutes; the surgery was completed ahead of schedule." Luo stretched his limbs beside him.

Performing surgery on this chaotic battlefield is no easy task.

"Whitebeard, that was just emergency surgery, not magic to bring you back to life," Crocus reminded him from the side.

In fact, Whitebeard's illness was not cured.

Before the day of his public execution, Higuma had used a Den Den Mushi to summon Law and Crocus to Whitebeard's ship to discuss Whitebeard's illness.

Even with the combined efforts of doctors Luo, Kulocas, and Marco, they could only alleviate the symptoms, not cure the condition.

Whitebeard looks quite well now, partly because his age has reversed, and partly because their emergency surgery has temporarily restored him to his former state.

"It's alright, that's enough," the white-bearded man whispered.

"There are always some things that can't be delegated to others..."

In the sky, the golden lion narrowed its eyes, looking down at the white-bearded creature at its feet, and muttered to itself:

"He seems a bit younger..."

Whitebeard's appearance didn't change much, but Shiki had also experienced a sudden rejuvenation, so he was particularly sensitive to such subtle changes and could tell at a glance what Whitebeard had gone through.

"Has Sieg finally lost his temper and made a move? It seems he still remembers his grand plan."

The golden lion nodded in satisfaction.

He was a ruthless and ambitious man who had once impressed Sig's high-level martial arts plan... This made him feel that the beasts he had raised on the Sky Islands over the past ten years were all useless.

The specifics of the plan, and whose plan it was, were not important to Shiki, so the two sides quickly reached an agreement.

............

Clang! Clang!

Whitebeard gripped his naginata and strode forward step by step.

Whitebeard is over six meters tall, as tall as a two-story building, and has a very strong sense of oppression.

Even when Blackbeard transforms into his dung beetle form, he's still a head shorter than Whitebeard.

Whitebeard gripped his naginata tightly in his right hand, his eyes now filled with a chilling killing intent.

The dark Armament Haki dyed the Naginata Murakumogiri black, while a faint ball of light shone from his left hand, within which the destructive power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit was brewing.

Before he even made a move, the devastating power fluctuations had already caused the surrounding navy to change color.

"Whitebeard has recovered?"

"No... this sense of oppression is even stronger than Whitebeard's at the very beginning of the war?"

"What magic did Sigu do in that circle of white cloth? Is Whitebeard's power being restored?"

Akainu and the others' faces darkened. Because of Higuma's interference and the meddling of the third party, Shiki the Golden Lion, they missed a great opportunity to kill Whitebeard!

And now.....

Has the Whitebeard, whom the Sengoku period called a man with the power to destroy the world, returned?

“Whitebeard…” Blackbeard gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with despair. He had noticed the change in Whitebeard, and his mind was now wavering.

But despite his wavering, he had reached a point where he had no way out!

"Dark acupoints!"

Blackbeard raised his hands high, and endless darkness gathered above his hands, forming a huge black hole. The twisted gravity pulled in the surrounding shattered ice, then crushed it to dust.

“Teach----------”

Whitebeard gripped his naginata tightly in his right hand and the ball of light from the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power in his left. He raised it high above his shoulder, his muscular left arm swelling up, veins bulging, and then he slammed it forward with a mighty hammer!

Clang!

The atmosphere shattered under the impact, and the invisible shockwave spread through the air, breaking apart the overwhelming black hole. It even shattered the glacier beneath Blackbeard's feet, creating huge ravines.

The frozen glacier of the blue pheasant was tens of meters thick, but at this moment it shattered completely, and the seawater below the glacier surged into the sky as waves.

puff!

Blackbeard coughed up another mouthful of blood and fell heavily to the ground. His limbs and bones were in excruciating pain. Even the hard shell on his back cracked, directly pierced by the shockwave, and blood flowed freely.

This attack not only struck Blackbeard but also isolated the glacier beneath his feet from the surrounding ice, leaving him separated from his crew and isolated.

Before Blackbeard could even get up from the ground, Whitebeard leaped up, his towering figure, two stories high, landing in front of Blackbeard, causing the ice to tremble, and casting a massive shadow over Blackbeard.

Blackbeard suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

He managed to lift his head and saw the white-bearded man's cold and stern face.

"Dad, I'm your son!" He was terrified and blurted out the words of begging for mercy.

However, Whitebeard simply gripped his naginata tightly, his dark Armament Haki swirling around it, and a faint ball of light began to form at the tip of the blade, the powerful force of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit converging at the tip.

"Teach, you're the only one who doesn't deserve to be my son!"

Whitebeard gripped his naginata tightly and finally unleashed a powerful slash!

"No----"

Panic spread rapidly through Blackbeard's heart. He could sense that this strike contained a power that he could not resist at all. At this moment, his entire body was covered in Armament Haki, and he frantically gathered all the remaining power in an attempt to block it.

boom!

The blade struck Blackbeard's arms directly. Even though his entire body was enveloped in Armament Haki and he had transformed into a dung beetle, it was to no avail. Blood gushed from his body, and Blackbeard's body and head were flattened into a ball by this overwhelming force, pressed tightly against the ground.

"No... I haven't completed the puzzle of my strongest ability yet!"

"My era is about to begin, just one step away!"

"I've waited my whole life on Whitebeard's ship, not for this moment!"

A myriad of thoughts raced through Blackbeard's mind, and his heart was filled with surging panic. He opened his mouth and let out a muffled roar, but no one could understand his resentment.

Click!

The power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit erupted completely, shattering the air once more. Amidst the deafening roar, Blackbeard's figure was cleaved into the depths of the sea beneath the glacier by this single strike.

The sky is shaking, the earth is trembling!

This strike was incredibly powerful; the towering glacier, tens of meters thick, shattered completely. Amidst the roaring waves, its momentum undiminished, it even managed to slice the sea beneath the glacier in two.

Blackbeard's deformed body was forcibly pressed into the depths of the sea and slammed onto the seabed.

The ocean began to tremble violently, with roaring waves carrying shattered glaciers skyward, and the exposed seabed cracking open in the tremors!

Whitebeard cleaved the sea in two with a single stroke, causing glaciers and the seabed to shatter, and roaring waves to surge into the sky!

A brief silence fell over the chaotic battlefield.

Countless shocked gazes turned to the old man who once held the title of the world's strongest.

At this moment, the navy belatedly realized just how much of a monster Whitebeard, whom Sengoku had described as possessing the power to destroy the world, truly was.

Without any admirals to restrain him, Whitebeard's ferocious destructive power was fully unleashed. It was a force comparable to a natural disaster, so powerful that it instilled despair in anyone who looked at him.

"It's over."

Whitebeard leaned on his naginata, silently watching the parted sea be covered by water again, while Blackbeard's deformed body remained forever on the seabed.

He took a slight breath and his face was a little pale.

In his anger, he delivered a blow no less powerful than he had in his prime, but he was ultimately a patient and was inevitably somewhat exhausted.

"I have this illusion that I've become younger again..."

Whitebeard couldn't help but turn his head to look at Sig beside him.

He could vaguely recall the scene before his surgery. His improved physical condition was inseparable from Sieg.

He suddenly remembered what Blackbeard Teach had told him before.

Many of the powerful figures of his time still possessed strength no less than that of his younger self.

For example, Shiki the Golden Lion.

Golden Lion and Whitebeard are the same age. When he first met Golden Lion, Golden Lion was already bald, but later he regained his youth and had a thick hair that was the envy of many.

And then there's Roger... When he returned as King Roger, he was clearly at least ten years younger than Whitebeard.

And then there's Lone Red Redfield... but the strangest of all is Seager himself.

Whitebeard didn't investigate the unusual age of these people back then.

But after experiencing a serious illness and personally witnessing the strangeness of the purple flames, Whitebeard suddenly felt a longing and understood some things.

"Could these people have experienced something similar to what I did?"

Chapter 1153 World's Number One Sword 6k