The natural system started off strong, but the navy finally reached its peak!

"Tsk, what a troublesome ability!"

His left hand vibrated, and white light gathered again, but instead of attacking, he pressed it down into the void below!

"Heavenly Tremor - Sea-Covering Seal!"

"Whoosh—!" The atmosphere was violently shaken, generating a huge recoil force that caused Gern to be thrown sideways several meters in the air.

They narrowly avoided the center of the venom explosion and the most important spider limb puncture!

"Boom!!" Venom grazed the tattered fragments of his cloak and landed some distance away, instantly creating a violent explosion.

The purplish-black poisonous fire and corrosive energy soared into the sky, melting everything in that area!

A few drops of venom landed on Gern's Armament Haki-covered arm, immediately hissing and emitting white smoke, bringing excruciating pain.

Without even flinching, Gern slammed into the ground the moment he landed, sending shockwaves through the air as he moved with lightning speed, closing in once more!

He gave Satan Saint no chance to breathe, unleashing a barrage of sword flashes and fist strikes like a storm!

"Not enough! Not enough! Not enough! You old man! Show me the restoration!!"

In an instant, every slash of the Black Blade Eight Desolations carried an overwhelming aura and vibration that could tear everything apart, leaving deep wounds on Satan Saint's hard body, sparks flying everywhere, and scales flying everywhere!

The swirling, vibrating fists and feet were like heavy hammers, each strike shaking Satan Saint's massive body, causing black mist to swirl around him and his skin to tear open!

Satan Saint wielded his massive bull hooves and sharp spider limbs to parry and counterattack. His movements appeared slow, but they were actually incredibly powerful, and each collision shook the earth!

Occasionally, the venomous spits from his mouth would explode, forcing Gern to constantly change positions in an attempt to disrupt his smooth offensive.

The battlefield was completely turned into chaos.

Shockwaves, powerful lightning, venomous explosions, and mental shocks collided, annihilated, and spread continuously.

The ground was not intact, and the two figures crisscrossed and collided at high speed, each contact unleashing a heart-palpitating roar of energy!

Gern's breathing became heavy, and the sweat that had just seeped out of his pores was evaporated by the domineering aura and shockwaves surrounding him.

He abandoned all defense and increased his attack frequency to the extreme, attempting to suppress or even surpass the opponent's unreasonable recovery ability with absolutely ferocious output.

In the brief moment of close combat, Satan Saint's cold, inhuman eyes suddenly flashed with an eerie light, locking onto Gern's head!

"Fierce eyes!"

That invisible yet powerful spiritual impact, capable of crushing the souls of ordinary people, struck silently and instantly once again!

However, just as the attack was about to hit, the dark red Observation Haki light that was already flashing in Gern's eyes suddenly burst forth!

"I see it now, it wasn't an invisible attack after all!"

Almost instinctively, with a beast-like fighting instinct, Gern turned his head sharply at the last second!

The invisible impact almost grazed his temple, and the force of the wind it generated instantly turned a few strands of hair on his forehead into nothingness.

Even though he dodged the direct hit, the dissipated force still caused a sharp, needle-like pain in Gern's head.

"Hmm?" Satan Saint let out a low, nasal sound, clearly surprised.

He never expected that his "fierce eye," which he had almost never missed, would be dodged by his opponent in such a thrilling way, purely by relying on his top-notch Observation Haki prediction and reaction speed!

'He actually managed to dodge it?!' A ripple stirred in Satan Saint's frozen heart.

This sudden accident was more than enough of a weakness for Gern!

"Expressions, the same trick can't be used on a Saint Seiya a second time!"

"Besides, I'm tired of your tricks!" Gren growled, seizing the fleeting opportunity as his opponent's mind wavered slightly.

"Shockwave!"

His body was instantly enveloped by high-frequency vibrating pure white particles, not for attack, but for extreme acceleration!

His entire body transformed into a white flash that distorted space, suddenly detaching from his original position in a way that was imperceptible to molecular jumps, and instantly appeared to the side and behind Satan Saint!

Almost as soon as he appeared, Gern had already drawn his sword!

On the blade of the Black Blade Eight Desolations, an unprecedentedly powerful and domineering aura and vibrating energy were compressed and fused together, emitting a terrifying aura that caused the surrounding space to continuously crack and collapse!

“Heavenly Tremor…” Gern sheathed his sword and sighed.

There were no earth-shattering slashing movements, only an extremely condensed, thin as a thread, dark purple line that seemed to contain endless destructive will, silently slicing across!

This slash was faster than sound, as if it was not cutting through space, but cutting through the mind itself!

Satan didn't even have time to fully turn around and block!

"laugh!"

"Divine Sense Slash." A soft sound, like a sharp blade cutting through rotten leather.

All the bristle-covered, sharp limbs supporting the massive spider body of Satan Saint were severed at the root by that thin, thread-like slash at the same horizontal level!

The incision was as smooth as a mirror, and blood didn't even spurt out immediately. Instead, the tissue was instantly annihilated by the terrifying shock and domineering force!

Having lost the support of all its lower limbs, the massive upper body of Satan Sainta suddenly tilted to one side.

Like an ancient tree that had been felled, it crashed heavily to the ground with a loud thud!

It stirred up clouds of dust and debris, and the whole earth trembled!

From within the smoke and dust came a muffled groan from Satan Saint, a suppressed rage.

But the next moment, thick, inky black mist, as if it had a life of its own, surged wildly from his broken torso, enveloping those terrible wounds.

The black mist writhed violently, and from within came the sickening sounds of bones and flesh regenerating.

The severed spider limbs began to regrow at a speed visible to the naked eye, outlining a grotesque silhouette...

The terrifying regenerative power of the immortal body is once again on display.

...........

[Comment from a user: The Five Elders' immortal regenerative abilities are definitely stronger than those of the Divine Knights.]

Even Luffy's Gear 5 couldn't stop the regeneration. To be honest, God Rider can be limited by Haki, but the Five Elders' immortality is a bit disgusting!

It depends on how Oda explains it! It'll probably be a restrained form of Haki, but we don't know how strong it will be! After all, Haki at the level of Joy Boy isn't something you can get just by trying.

By the way; it's been a while since I've added any main character images. I've posted an illustration of Gern recruiting Hawkeye (purely hand-drawn with AI rendering) on ​​Xianyu.

Chapter 331 The Demon (Part Two)

"Whoosh~" The thick black mist quickly gathered, and Satan Saint's severed spider limbs were restored to their original state, with the newly grown carapace even shimmering with an even darker luster.

Then its massive body stood up again, its eyes locked onto Gern, and it let out a mocking sneer: "A futile attack."

“On any level, you have no way to truly defeat me.” Before he finished speaking, his newly regenerated, sharp spider legs suddenly straightened!

At the sharp tip of each leg, a pool of deep, purplish-black venom, exuding a nauseating stench, had now coalesced.

The corrosive energy caused the surrounding air to hiss and crackle.

"Death puncture!"

The next moment, all the spider legs, like uncontrolled, powerful springs, stretched and stabbed wildly at an astonishing frequency!

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!"

The speed was so fast that it left countless afterimages, as if dozens or even hundreds of poisoned, deadly spears were weaving a death net that covered all of Gern's dodging space!

However, facing this fierce attack that even Luffy and Nikka had to run and dodge, Gern did not retreat at all!

With his eyes flashing with Observation Haki and his vibration perception fully activated, any attack from the opponent would inevitably cause air tremors.

As a member of the Skyquake Man, Gungar's awakened Devil Fruit ability, combined with his Observation Haki, allowed him to precisely detect the attack trajectory and gaps of each spider leg.

So Gern continued to stride forward unhurriedly, facing the deadly storm of poisoned spears.

The body begins to sway slightly at a frequency and amplitude that seems both thrilling and just right, turning to the side and tilting the head.

The venom grazed his hair, the hem of his clothes, and his skin, the resulting gust of wind stinging his skin, yet it could never truly touch him.

The scene was like dancing on a knife's edge, with the extreme danger and the extreme control creating a breathtaking contrast.

"It's fast enough, but the trajectory is too straightforward, old man!" Gern sneered inwardly.

In the interval between another round of intense thrusts, the subtle rhythm was captured.

"Earthquake..."

Gern whispered something, and his left hand, which had been hanging down, suddenly rose up, his five fingers spread open, and the pure white vibrating particles that had been condensed to the extreme on it hummed violently as if boiling!

Immediately afterwards, he clenched his fist!

"The walls shake in all directions!"

"Boom, crack!!!"

Centered on his left fist, an incredibly violent shockwave did not move forward, but instead exploded violently in eight directions—up, down, left, right, front, and back—without any blind spots!

"Buzz!!!!" The atmosphere emitted a deafening roar as if it could no longer withstand the pressure!

The transparent vibration ripples, like a solid wall, crashed violently into the spider legs that were stabbing at them from all directions!

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

Countless ear-piercing sounds of impact rang out as the poisoned, sharp limbs seemed to have struck an invisible, absolute defense.

All the thrusting attacks were forcibly blocked and deflected by this all-encompassing shockwave!

Even some of the slender ends developed fine cracks during this violent tremor!

Taking advantage of the brief moment of stiffness and the resulting reaction force, Gern pushed off the ground with both feet, his body shooting into the air like an arrow released from a bow.

With a nimble somersault, he leaped directly above the massive body of Saint Satan!

He was upside down, his hands gripping the black blade Eight Directions tightly, the tip pointing directly at Satan Saint's round, spider-like abdomen below.

"Wow, that's a big butt!!!"

A fierce glint flashed in Gern's eyes as he poured all his strength and the power of the shockwave into the tip of his blade, stabbing it down fiercely like a meteor falling to earth!

"Pfft!"

The black blade, wreathed in swirling lightning and vibrating white light, was incredibly sharp. It instantly pierced through the hard carapace and deeply penetrated Satan Saint's body!

But the attack was not over!

Just as the blade pierced through, Gern roared, and the black blade, Eight Desolations, which had been thrust into it, shuddered violently!

"Eight Desolations Flow!!"

"Boom!"

The residual vibrational energy from the previous all-encompassing "Eight Directions Tremor" seemed to be guided and amplified by the Black Blade Eight Desolations.

Centered on the point of penetration, it surged, tore apart, and erupted wildly in eight directions like a flood bursting its banks!

"You like being a spider, right? You already have eight legs, so you can't be without a body!!"

In an instant, from the outside, Satan Saint's enormous spider body stiffened abruptly.

Immediately, eight enormous, terrifying cracks shimmering with white light "bloomed" from the inside out on his body surface, like a flower of destruction in full bloom!

The intense pain caused Satan to unleash his most furious and agonizing roar since the start of the war.

Its massive body convulsed violently, almost torn into pieces by the terrifying internal shockwave!

The black mist surged wildly toward the massive fissures, attempting to repair them, but the rate of destruction seemed to temporarily suppress the rate of regeneration!

"Ughhh!!!"

Satan let out a roar of pain that was beyond human comprehension, and eight enormous fissures spread wildly across his massive spider body.

Inside, white light and black mist were fiercely intertwined, as if they were about to completely disintegrate at any moment!

The internal "Eight Desolations Flow" shockwave brought unprecedented pain, even temporarily exceeding the rapid recovery limit of his immortal body.

"Get out of my way!!!" Thick, almost tangible, destructive black mist suddenly erupted from every crack in his body.

The shockwave from the explosion forcefully sent Gern, along with his knife, flying away as he tried to continue the destruction!

Gern managed to adjust his posture in mid-air, and after landing, he still staggered back several steps before dissipating the brutal impact.

He frowned slightly; the impact of the black mist just now, with its fierce 'eyes,' had made him feel slightly dizzy.

In the instant before he regained his footing, Satan Saint had just repaired the massive spider's hind leg, which still bore some cracks.