From Demon Slayer: Thunder Swordsman

Therefore, in this battle, the Golden Lion can be said to have won an honorable defeat.

Afterwards, the Golden Lion was imprisoned in the sixth floor of the world's largest prison, "Impulse City", LEVEL6 Infinite Hell!

What’s even more legendary is that it happened the year after Roger’s death!

Impel Down, a prison that no pirate has ever escaped from since its construction, was broken by this man, Shiki the Golden Lion!

He became the first prisoner to successfully escape from "Impulse City"!

However, because of this, the Golden Lion also paid a heavy price.

In order to escape from the "Impulse City", the Golden Lion did not hesitate to cut off his feet that were bound by seastone shackles. From then on, his feet were replaced by two supreme swords, "Ying Ju" and "Mu Ku", as prosthetic limbs.

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In the palace of the floating island, the Golden Lion Shiki was having a banquet with his subordinates.

Just as his title "Golden Lion" suggests, Shiki has ground-length golden hair, just like a lion's mane. In addition, Shiki's sideburns and beard are golden, and his sideburns are also very long.

Unfortunately, there was a ship's rudder stuck in Shiqi's head at that time. Because it was inserted too deep, it would be life-threatening if it was removed, so the rudder has been retained.

Whenever he looked in the mirror and looked at the rudder, Shiki always thought he looked like a rooster. In addition, Shiki usually wore traditional costumes with orange and yellow stripes, which made him look like a big rooster.

So Shiqi really hates roosters.

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"Boom..."

After hanging up the phone with Uncle Zhan Guo, about two minutes later but less than three minutes later, accompanied by the roar of Jiujo Tachibana's sky steps, Tachibana had arrived right in front of the suspended island.

"Huh..." The air within dozens of meters around was sucked into Kujo Tachibana's body in the blink of an eye.

"bass..."

The black sword Thunder Dragon was unsheathed in an instant, and Jiujoju controlled the armed color domineering in his body, which was like a vast ocean, and rushed into his arms madly!

The purple-black arm raised the long sword!

The thunder dragon gathered its strength and moved forward, slashing down fiercely!

The blue-black flying slash started from the blade of the black knife and began to expand rapidly in an instant!

From a few meters to tens of meters, until it landed in front of the island!

It has turned into a huge moon blade hundreds of meters long!

He chopped hard at the floating island in front!

"boom..."

This huge slash spread over nearly a thousand meters on this huge floating island!

After leaving a terrifying crack over a thousand meters long and nearly a hundred meters deep on the island, the power of the slash was gradually consumed.

"Golden Lion, Shiki!"

"get out!"

The roar from Jiu Tiao Ju was like thunder, resounding throughout the entire floating island.

And the owner of this island is the golden lion Shiki!

Although he was still a little confused, he did not hesitate at all.

No one can provoke a lion and get away with it!

Just push your hands to the sides!

The ceiling of the palace was torn apart by it, but the golden lion, with two supreme sharp swords under its feet, did not move at all.

The body soared into the sky like a rocket.

...

Only a moment later, the golden lion came in front of Jiujo Tachibana.

I saw a golden lion floating in front of him, very close to Jiu Tiaoju!

With his hands folded in front of his chest, he looked down at the nine orange golden lions and roared loudly:

"Navy brat! Are you the one looking for death?"

"Do you really know who I am? How dare you come here alone?"

"I'm a golden lion! Hey!"

Jiujo Ju shook his head and said softly:

"Are you still immersed in the past?"

"No wonder you couldn't beat Roger back then."

"No wonder you died in the future when Luffy drove the third gear..."

Of course, Kujo Tachibana did not say the last sentence.

However, just these first two sentences were enough to anger the Golden Lion!

"Boy! Do you want to die?"

"Lion Power·Earth Scroll!"

As the golden lion spoke, the land of several thousand meters in radius suddenly turned into several giant lions hundreds of meters tall.

Sweeping towards Kujo Tachibana!

Chapter 33: The Flying Pirate

The golden lion just stretched out his right hand, and between the opening and closing of his palm, the land within a radius of several kilometers was controlled by him. In the blink of an eye, the sky collapsed and the earth collapsed!

Feeling the huge "lion" sweeping in from all directions, Jiujiaoju's eyes couldn't help but reveal a look of shock.

This kind of top-level devil fruit ability that is like a natural disaster, even though Kujo Tachibana has seen it many times in Infinity, but when he really faces it himself, he still can't help but feel a shock in his heart!

But fortunately, this kind of devil fruit ability also has a common problem.

That is, it has a wide range and great lethality!

However, for opponents of the same level or who have reached a certain level, this large-scale AOE skill is unlikely to be effective.

Because of this way of attacking, his power is too dispersed. For opponents of the same level, it is either not enough to break the defense or the speed is too slow. Generally speaking, the latter is more likely, except for Kizaru's Yasakani no Magatama.

But it must be said that this kind of incredible fruit ability is indeed a magical skill for Qingbing!

It is somewhat similar to some of the skills of the current three admirals of the navy, such as Akainu's Meteor Volcano, Aokiji's Ice Age, and Kizaru's Yasakani no Magatama. The main function is to clear soldiers in a large area and provide deterrence capabilities.

Destroying nature and terrain is more direct than harming the opponent itself.

Maybe this can be considered a characteristic of the top-level devil fruit ability!

Even though it is difficult for top-level physical skills and domineering masters to achieve this level, they can easily change the terrain and destroy the island.

However, the damage they cause to their opponents is not low at all, and it can even be said to be more intuitive and efficient!

This is because for top-level physical skills and domineering strongmen, even their casual attacks are the product of extremely concentrated strength and spirit.

If you don't move, it's fine. But when you move, it's like thunder!

...

"boom!!!"

Dark clouds appeared spontaneously, densely covering the entire floating island, and the roar of angry thunder resounded throughout the entire sea of ​​clouds.

Along with the roar of thunder and the "Lion's Might - Earth Scroll" sweeping in from all directions, Jiujo Tachibana whispered:

"Cut the body, the soul, and the heart!"

"The thunder from heaven falls upon the earth, and nothing can stand against me!"

"Thunder Breathing - Form Ten - Armament - Domineering Thunder Slash!"

The power of Thunder Breathing 3.0 and advanced Armament Haki once again produced a perfect chemical reaction. The Black Blade Thunder Dragon was wrapped in lightning and domineering, but it only launched a crescent-shaped slash that was only several meters long.

He slashed at the "Lion's Power·Earth Scroll" in front of Kujo Tachibana, and at the same time slashed at the golden lion high in the sky above!

In an instant!

The slash launched by Jiujo Ju had already penetrated the lion on the ground and headed straight for the golden lion in the air!

The hairs on the golden lion's body instantly stood up!

The golden lion looked as if facing a formidable enemy, his eyes fixed on the "slender" flying slash!

When his legs were still intact, Golden Lion was also a veritable great swordsman...

However, in order to escape from the Impel Down City, the Golden Lion had no choice but to cut off his legs that were equipped with seastone anklets.

Although he lost his legs, the Golden Lion can still move freely by relying on the power of the Float-Float Fruit.

But at the same time, the Golden Lion inevitably lost his top-level physical skills. Swordsmanship is of course a type of physical skill.

The Golden Lion only lost his legs, not his hands, why do you say that?

If you think so, you are wrong.

You have to know that every top physical martial arts expert has trained their bodies to the most perfect state that best suits them.

Although they could not reach the level of Kujo Tachibana who could see through the world every time they exerted force and mobilize the muscles and blood vessels throughout the body, they could still condense the existing strength of the whole body.

As the saying goes, a single move affects the entire body! That’s pretty much the concept.

However, having lost both legs and such a large part of his body tissue, the Golden Lion has lost this ability that symbolizes a top-level physical warrior.

Not only that, as Golden Lion gets older, his physical abilities will disappear at a faster rate than his fruit abilities!

The Golden Lion can now only rely on the power of the Float-Float Fruit to increase the damage of the slash to the level of a great swordsman.

However, the Golden Lion’s old vision has not been completely lost.

Golden Lion could see that the young sailor in front of him was only a little bit away from reaching the highest realm of swordsmanship.

So this arrogant navy brat is using me as a whetstone?

At this moment, the Golden Lion couldn't help but have an idea in his mind, which he thought was extremely absurd and unrealistic.

impossible! Absolutely impossible!

who is he?

He is the captain of the Flying Pirates!

The great flying pirate, Shiki the Golden Lion!

how come!

How could you allow such a little navy kid to be used as a stepping stone?

"Navy brat, you really have the wrong person!!"

The golden lion roared angrily, looking at the flying slashes from the nine oranges in front of him. He did not retreat even a step, but raised his legs and crossed them at a very fast speed, kicking out one after another, with huge slashes that were enough to cut through mountains!

"Lion Chikiriyani! Six consecutive slashes!"

...

The flying slashes launched by the two began to collide continuously in the sky!

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

After shattering the three flying slashes from the golden lion in succession, the power of the domineering thunder slash was finally exhausted.

Following closely behind the Flying Slash, Jiujo Tachibana, who had long since escaped from the attack range of Lion's Power and Earth Scroll, still sighed in dissatisfaction.

Although he shattered the three flying slashes of the Golden Lion with his flying slash, his domineering thunder slash was already his ultimate skill R, while the Golden Lion only used his basic skill Q at most...

How does this compare?

In this battle, Kujo Tachibana can only change his strategy.

At the beginning, he calculated the fighting power of Golden Lion based on the comic's theatrical version of "The Strongest Man in the World" which happened more than ten years later.

Who knew that the Golden Lion, who was defeated by Gear 3 Luffy, was so powerful more than a decade ago...