Imu, possessing Gunko, glanced indifferently at the afflicted Saturn, her eyebrows twitching almost imperceptibly.
Comparing the Battle of God Valley with the present one, she suddenly realized that these five subordinates she had always used so conveniently were no longer as handy as they once were.
Leaving Mars (monster bird) aside, at least Ju Peter (sandworm) and Saturn were indeed unsatisfactory.
"Never mind, Mu will consider candidates after this battle ends. Mu still has use for them now."
With that, Imu paid no more attention to the three incapacitated Elders and flew lightly out of the gap Warcury had smashed open.
Drifting lightly like a fallen leaf, she arrived beside the regenerated Warcury and Venus within seconds.
She stared at York, and York stared back at her.
His pitch-black hair was ignited again by pure white flames, and the pristine white flame ribbon was once again dyed black.
York slowly floated into the air, flying to the same height as Imu.
Imu, possessing Gunko, suddenly spoke: "Mu has observed carefully and found that you and Joy Boy still have quite a few similarities."
"Haha!" York laughed and asked Imu back: "Then compared to him, which of us is more like the Sun God?"
Imu actually pondered this question seriously.
"Purely in terms of ability, you are indeed more like one, but... Joy Boy's title of Sun God is recognized by more people."
"Is that so?"
York extended his right hand and clenched it tightly.
"Then, starting today, I will usurp that title from him!"
"I will prove to the whole world! I am the true Sun God!!"
Imu's gaze darkened, and her voice lowered.
"No, you won't have a future anymore! Mu won't let you have a future again!!"
As soon as these words were spoken, Imu raised her hand to summon a pentagram magic circle.
A grimoire appeared in the magic circle, and a rapier slowly rose from the grimoire.
"Since pure ability is ineffective against you, Mu will use absolute strength to make you understand that Mu's world tolerates no shaking!!"
A fair, delicate hand gripped the hilt. Black-red lightning pierced the atmosphere, instantly covering the entire Hachinosu. Even Kaido, who had just finished off Wang Zhi behind the giant Skull Mountain, saw the lightning streak across the sky.
"What terrifying Haki..."
Kaido looked solemn, recalling the great battle between Rocks and that mysterious woman at God Valley.
"Did that woman come too?"
"Things are looking bad!"
"York! Don't get taken out like Rocks!!"
...
Back to York's side.
The Haki that erupted when Imu gripped the hilt also startled York slightly.
Truly facing Gunko possessed by Imu, he clearly felt the pressure Rocks faced back then.
"Such heavy Haki..."
"But..."
A grin appeared on York's face, his eyes gradually shifting from greed to madness.
"This makes me even more excited!!"
"Only by conquering a woman like you! Can I say I haven't lived in vain!!"
"Hahahaha!!"
Laughing towards the sky, Conqueror's Haki not inferior to Imu's erupted from York.
Rolling Haki turned into a black-red torrent, piercing the sky with him at the center, creating a column nearly a hundred meters in diameter.
The clouds, originally torn apart by the clash of powerhouses, gathered again, turning into a massive vortex slowly rotating around York's torrent of Haki.
Imu's pupils contracted slightly.
"This Haki..."
Its intensity was almost reaching the realm of her main body.
But York was only 25 years old this year!
He wasn't the Davy Jones she knew, nor the reincarnation of Joy Boy.
Could it be that a third "God" was truly going to appear in this world?!
York was entirely enveloped in the center of his erupting Haki torrent. Only his burning, flowing white flame hair and a pair of pupils radiating pure white light could be vaguely seen.
However, this appearance, at this moment, looked more like an evil villain than Imu.
Boom!!
The Haki dispersed. York's right hand was already gripping the miaodao he forged himself.
Black-red Conqueror's Haki and flowing Armament Haki were tightly wrapped around the blade. Just a slight movement of the blade in the air pulled out lightning-like trails.
"Come and fight! Imu!!"
"I will prove to you! I am not Joy Boy! But I will eventually be stronger than him!!"
As his voice fell, Imu hesitated no longer. Her fair hand gripped the rapier tightly, thrusting straight at York.
Seeing this, York's right hand gripping the long sword suddenly spewed raging fire.
Pure white flames completely enveloped the blade, their temperature immeasurable.
Then York swept his sword horizontally.
"Sweeping Thousand Armies!!"
Pure white flames mixed with Conqueror's lightning, turning into a thunder-fire curtain that separated the sky.
Imu's gaze focused slightly. Holding the long sword, she transformed into a sharp arrow, forcibly piercing through the curtain. A huge hole was punctured through the curtain composed of flames and Haki lightning.
Then Imu continued to thrust toward York like an aurora.
York had anticipated that this strike wouldn't stop Imu, so just before Imu could hit him, he also thrust his sword forward to counterattack.
Ding!!
The tips of the rapier and the sword collided in mid-air. Accompanied by a crisp sound, even more terrifying Haki lightning exploded.
Rumble...
Below, because of this collision, a huge abyss split open across the town of Hachinosu, extending left and right.
Surging seawater rushed in from the entrances on both sides of the abyss, making a thunderous sound.
In the sky, the collision between York and Imu was just the beginning.
The tips colliding in mid-air finally crashed together.
But with both sides possessing ultimate Haki protection, the weapons couldn't be destroyed at all.
The next instant, Imu retracted her sword and slashed upward, while York simultaneously slashed downward.
Blades clashed. Venus, attempting a sneak attack from the side, was forcibly stopped.
The erupting Haki and shockwaves created immense resistance even as he approached.
"Impossible... a mere mortal! How can he be this strong?!"
On the other side, Warcury was the same. The giant four-tusked boar found it even harder to approach and couldn't help crying out in alarm.
However, York, clashing blades with Imu, merely curled his lips slightly.
The pride of a transmigrator was something natives couldn't understand.
Moreover, he was born in that country called the Celestial Empire (China)!!
If he didn't know he was too selfish to be like the great men of the founding era, he wouldn't be satisfied with his current achievements!
"Wake to hold the power over the world! Drunk lying on the knees of beauties!!"
"If I can't be the strongest in this world! Then what's the point of me coming here!!"
York loudly proclaimed his ambition, and the long sword in his hand suddenly let out a resonant hum.
York was stunned.
"A spirit born in a famous sword?! You're kidding, right!!"
His sword was only born a few days ago, and it's already birthing a spirit?!
Normally, only the protagonist group should have such treatment, right!!
But even knowing it was a bit ridiculous, since the sword actively responded to him, he naturally shouldn't disappoint it.
"Let me show you my true full power unleashed!!"
The surging flames instantly disappeared from York completely. Only the air around him looked distorted to the point of blurring.
"The true sun! Is 15 million degrees!!"
A massive heatwave exploded. Venus and Warcury instantly spontaneously combusted under this heatwave.
The other three Elders, lost in York's power of happiness, turned directly into ashes without any resistance.
Gunko, possessed by Imu, was naturally no exception.
Not only were all her clothes burned away instantly, but her body was also completely enveloped in flames. Only a skeleton could be seen moving within the fire.
The lower jaw of the skull opened and closed, emitting Imu's voice.
"Your ability! How can it be this strong!!"
Far away, Kaido, in Dragon-Human form, fled rapidly into the distance.
"Crazy! Is York using that move again?!"
His majestic body covered in azure dragon scales was also spontaneously combusting without fire.
Fortunately, there was a Skull Mountain behind him blocking the heat, and the distance was far enough. Plus, the volume of York as the heat source wasn't large, so he could barely withstand it.
But if he stayed any longer, he would undoubtedly be burned to death too.
"Too ridiculous, York's ability..."
Cursing loudly, Kaido gradually disappeared into the distant horizon.
York watched Kaido disappear, then looked down at the rapidly evaporating seawater and his rapidly depleting reserve of vitality.
"One strike, instant kill!!"
York raised his long sword high with his right hand. No flashy tricks, just a simple vertical slash.
"Ashes of Heaven and Earth!!"
Infinite heat was condensed on his blade, released instantly with this slash.
Gunko possessed by Imu had no power to resist and was annihilated on the spot.
Then the giant Skull Mountain behind her.
It had held on bitterly until now, merely turning into magma gradually without collapsing completely. But under this slash from York, it crumbled directly.
There weren't even many fragments falling to the ground.
Imu, in the distant Room of Flowers, felt a massive shock to her body and mind, a hint of fear welling up in her eyes.
"Impossible! How can he be this strong! Joy Boy wasn't this strong!!"
But fortunately, she could still sense the connection between her and Gunko.
This meant that although York instantly killed Gunko, he still hadn't broken her ability.
As long as she used the power of immortality to exhaust York's stamina, no matter how high his explosive limit was, he would eventually become her most loyal thug.
Hachinosu.
After instantly killing Gunko possessed by Imu, York immediately deactivated True Sun Mode.
Using the true power of the sun consumed too much stamina.
Thanks to the vitality absorbed from many pirates earlier, he withstood the consumption.
But even so, he had no reserves left now, only his original stamina.
If he exhausted this stamina in the subsequent battle, he would really become meat on the chopping block.
Fortunately, he had a corresponding plan before using this power.
To break Imu's ability, the best way was still to rely on the Purification Light among his many abilities.
As long as the upper limit of the Purification Light was raised, Black Transformation Domination would no longer be an invincible move.
So immediately after exiting True Sun Mode, York arrived at Saturn's previous location.
Specks of body fragments like dust were reassembling above the magma. Saturn's consciousness was still lost in the happy dream granted by York.
Extending both hands, York plunged them directly into the aggregating body dust.
"Purify!!"
With a low shout, York's hands released pure, soft white light.
Under the illumination of this white light, the dust restoring Saturn's body was disappearing bit by bit.
The speed wasn't fast, but it was definitely disappearing.
Joy flashed in York's eyes, and he maintained this posture.
Time passed second by second. When Gunko's body had reassembled nearly halfway in the air, the last bit of purifiable dust of Saturn completely disappeared in the light.
Only the final dust, completely unpurifiable, driven by the inertia of the ability, reverted into a skeleton, fell into the magma, and was gradually swallowed by it.
Imu, having restored her upper body, watched this scene, the confidence she had just gained vanishing instantly.
The connection between the Elder Saturn and her completely disappeared!!
Not referring to the currently possessed Gunko, but the main body far away in the Room of Flowers could no longer sense Saturn's existence!
York had actually broken her ability!!
"Why! Why is it like this?!"
An experience never felt in over 700 years, a long-lost sense of fear emerged from the bottom of Imu's heart.
Her ability was no longer invincible!
Before the legendary Joy Boy was reborn, a man more terrifying than him had appeared in this world!!
Imu instinctively wanted to flee, but having not felt fear for over 700 years, she was a beat slow in this instant due to her chaotic state of mind.
This slow beat was caught by York.
He appeared like a teleport in front of the half-restored Imu, reaching out to grab one of her hands firmly.
"Don't think about running away! Our battle isn't over yet!!"
Gunko possessed by Imu began to struggle instinctively.
But on one hand, she was panicked, and on the other, while grabbing her, York continuously injected Purification Light into her body, causing stutters like screen flickering in the connection between her and Gunko.
However, Imu had been the King of the World for over 700 years. Even if panicked momentarily, it couldn't trap her for too long.
Knowing that struggling was hopeless, she chose the second plan.
First, remotely controlling to cancel the summons of the Five Elders, letting their main bodies return directly to Mary Geoise to recover slowly.
Then she said to York in a deep voice: "Let's call a truce here, York!"
York raised an eyebrow. "Are you scared?!"
Imu chuckled.
"You merely defeated a clone possessed by me. Do you have the guts to come to the Holy Land and fight my main body?"
York fell slightly silent.
Currently, he indeed didn't have enough confidence to deal with Imu's main body.
So his tone gradually softened.
"Let's hear it. The conditions for the truce."