I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

The mark of the Sky Dragon's Hoof on his body suddenly appeared during the battle in Water Seven, when he was greatly shocked. Barrett seized the opportunity to knock him into the sea, where he was swallowed by a tsunami.

Later, he also experienced a series of untold twists and turns...

He clenched his fist suddenly, but eventually let it relax.

Regardless... their primary objective at present remains the world government.

Im also cares a lot.

She was surrounded and beaten by six people, and a sense of bewilderment kept flashing through her mind.

why?

Why did it turn out like this?

She is clearly the Void Throne ruler who has lived for 800 years and deceived the entire world; she is clearly the biggest mastermind behind the scenes.

But why did this battle turn out this way?

As one secret after another is revealed about Sig, Im realizes that Sig is far more complex than the "mountain" she remembers.

Oh, and there's also "mountain".

She's not the only one who has lived for eight hundred years without dying.

"Perhaps there's a seventh clone, Shan? After all, his name is Sig now."

Sig is a monster just like her.

Sometimes, when Im's gaze fell on Sieg, who was sitting on a coffin basking in the sun, she even had a strange feeling that she might have wandered onto the wrong set, and that she herself might be the one challenging the mastermind behind the scenes.

This wasn't Im's original plan.

In her plan, Im had no intention of engaging Sig in a direct confrontation.

The blood-stained serpent was supposed to be the ultimate means of crushing everything.

This giant serpent, capable of shattering the entire surface of the planet with a mere flip, is enough to crush any obstacle and wipe out the so-called Liangshan Marsh in one fell swoop; it is something that no human can stop.

There have just been too many changes...

Wounds appeared on Im's body, bleeding profusely, yet they continued to heal as his body constantly adjusted, evolved, and improved itself.

A sharp gust of wind whistled from my side as the three-meter-tall Sun Bear raised its foot to kick, its toes unleashing an incomparably sharp storm kick.

Admiral Higuma, the Black Dragon General, is a physical master who ascended to the rank of Admiral by continuously modifying and strengthening his body through the Life Return technique without cultivating Armament Haki.

From this perspective, his life-restoring adjustments and modifications are similar to Im's evolution fruit.

Im's eyes flickered slightly, but she did not back down and kicked out with her own foot.

Clang!

The two powerful kicks collided in mid-air, tearing the ground beneath their feet apart and sending up a fierce gust of wind.

After a brief stalemate, a streak of blood shot out from Higuma's calf. He was forced back more than ten meters by the Tempest Kick, and the wound was so deep that the bone was visible.

"Just as I thought." Im nodded to himself.

She repeatedly suffered setbacks against Sig's illusory clones, not because she was weaker than them, but because their moves were too bizarre, almost all of which Im had never seen before.

When Dracula, King Sig, Bat King, and others from the past, thanks to Sig, had their physical abilities enhanced to the point that they could rival Im, the destructive power of their respective tricky moves also increased accordingly.

The piercing Dracula of the old era was infamous, but that was mainly because he was ruthless enough, and his actual strength was not particularly impressive.

But what if a man whose strength rivals that of Higuma happens to prefer to stab ASS from behind?

But the Japanese bear is different.

As a naval admiral, Higuma is most proficient in life restoration techniques and physical techniques such as the Six Powers.

Both the Six Powers and Life Return are skills of the World Government, CP0, and the Navy.

For Im, who has lived for eight hundred years and has already perfected these physical skills, Higuma's moves are not difficult to deal with.

The tough ones to deal with are Dracula, King Sieg, and Bat King.

When facing Higuma, Im suddenly rediscovered the pride of being the mastermind behind everything.

Im's slight confusion vanished, and he regained his composure.

She regained her confidence.

"Again!"

Higuma was not discouraged. He glanced at the deep, bone-revealing slash wound on his leg, bent one knee, and leaped forward again like a cannonball.

Finger pistols against finger pistols!

Storm kick against storm kick!

Both sides moved with lightning speed, effortlessly executing various basic and derivative moves of the Six Styles of the Navy, their finger strikes creating a dazzling display.

Meanwhile, streaks of blood-red light continued to shoot from the body of the Sun Bear, putting it at a disadvantage.

“Finally---” Im sneered, his fingers forming a gun, about to strike the sun bear through the temple.

But suddenly her vision went black, her head felt a little dizzy, and her movements faltered slightly.

"Poison? When were you poisoned?"

Suddenly, the image of the sun knight with a sunny disposition flashed through her mind, along with the giant cross in his hand, the top of which seemed to have an eerie purplish-black hue.

"Is there poison on the cross?"

"You're spouting nonsense." The Sun Knight weighed the massive, purplish-black cross in his hand:

"This is clearly the result of years of tempering with Armament Haki, which has transformed the cross into an unparalleled Great Cross."

As he spoke, a drop of purplish-black liquid fell from the cross to the ground, quickly corroding and turning the metal floor beneath his feet black.

"It seems that after my Armament Haki was trained to its limit, it has become incredibly refined and liquid," the Sun Knight said without batting an eye.

"They really are all Sig... Their appearance and identity are just a facade..." This thought flashed through Im's mind.

The next instant, a scorching gust of wind swept over us.

In the brief moment when Im's movements faltered due to the spread of the toxin, Higuma had already closed in.

The erupting Emperor Engine propelled his movements to incredible speed. His arm, like a blade, whistled through the air as it slashed into Im's chest.

The thick Armament Haki surrounding his body was brutally torn apart by this tremendous force!

Skin torn, flesh ripped, bones broken!

The hand that pierced her chest cavity spread its five fingers, penetrating the inside of her chest cavity, and then grabbed hard.

Broken organs and fragments of broken bone were exposed.

But a look of astonishment flashed across Higuma's face at that moment.

"You...have no heart?"

There was no normal human heart inside Im's chest cavity; her chest cavity was completely empty.

"Heart?"

Im's eyes were as cold as a deep pool as she gripped the hand that had pierced her chest tightly.

"I no longer have those human weaknesses."

An immense force, disproportionate to her size, suddenly erupted in Im's palm, tearing off Higuma's arm.

The flesh and blood kept writhing, and the hole in Im's chest cavity was quickly filled.

Moria, the user of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, can seize the shadows of a thousand people through techniques like "Shadow Gathering Place," combining all the shadows into one. This caused Moria to suddenly grow in size from a sluggish Shichibukai to someone powerful enough to shatter the island of Thriller Bark with a single punch.

Im, in terms of both the development of his abilities and his personal strength, is incomparable to the nerdy Moria.

She arranged for countless laborers to enter the Red Line to power the Bloodstained Serpent, and of course, she also arranged for a large number of batteries in Pangaea, not just the maximum number of a thousand that Moria could reach.

The life force of tens of thousands of laborers was temporarily combined into one body. At this time, Im possessed inhuman life force. Fatal wounds of ordinary people could be healed quickly, and her body continued to improve and advance further.

"How come my arm is broken again?" Higuma stepped back a few paces, looking at his severed arm.

"Wait, why did I say 'again'?"

He's not like Im; he doesn't have the ability to regenerate severed limbs.

However, since the current illusory body is not a real human body, it's fine if it's broken.

More importantly, Rikuma is not a single person.

The six people are different aspects of the same person, originally one entity. At the moment when the sun bear lost its arm, the other six people had already taken their own actions.

“Dark Water Flame!” a cold voice rang out.

An invisible force of gravity erupted, and a hand emerged from the darkness, a small black vortex spinning rapidly on the hand, enveloping Im's hand.

The technique "Dark Water" is the core ability of the Dark-Dark Fruit, and the key to why it is called the bane of Devil Fruit users.

Although its range of effect is small and it can only be used at close range, once it hits, it can temporarily suppress the user's ability.

Black flames swirled around Lox's palm, rapidly spreading to Im's body and quickly burning her flesh and bones to nothingness.

The other five rushed towards Im and attacked him one by one.

At the same time.

The seventh dark figure finally emerged from the abyss surrounding Lox.

At this moment, countless people on the battlefield couldn't help but turn their heads to look.

"There's... a seventh person?"

"Just how many more unrevealed false identities does Sieg have?"

"How much has he actually done behind the scenes all these years? What roles has he held?"

"Who is it this time? Don't tell me it's the Pirate King Roger? Speaking of which, he seems to have a deep connection with Higuma. Could Roger be a fake too?" Some people were so shocked by the series of facts that they lost their composure and even began to question Roger's existence.

"...Yes, yes, I'm fake, all fake." Roger was speechless; he didn't want to talk anymore.

The black mist dissipated with the strong wind, and the seventh dark figure finally revealed its true form.

This seventh person, like "Wang Xige," looks very much like the current Xige.

However, Wang Xige is younger than Xige, but this Xige looks much older and has entered middle age.