kvmb Chapter 668: The Sword of the Codex
Chapter 668: The Sword of the Codex
At the top of the sky.
The wind howled.
Im steadied himself as he stumbled backward.
He looked down, his left hand trembling uncontrollably.
Eight hundred years.
A tingling sensation I've never experienced before.
The white flames of the sun god Nika burned through his defenses and shook his body.
But he did not fly into a rage.
He simply stared coldly at the void ahead.
He did not conjure any new protective shields.
Raise your right hand.
His five fingers suddenly clenched together.
The suspended, broken barrier shattered instantly.
The ancient seal text transformed into countless dark red streams of light.
Im opened his mouth.
He inhaled all the shattered runes into his mouth and nose.
A vortex cracked open in his palm, devouring the remaining power.
The dark red demonic aura surrounding him changed.
The calm defensive stance instantly transformed into a surging black tide.
The demonic energy stretched out countless menacing shadows behind him.
A colossal abyss beast awakens.
Im completely abandoned his defense.
He needs to take the initiative and attack.
Below, Luffy's massive body crashed down.
A giant foot stomped on the broken ice field.
boom!
The thick ice sheet let out a mournful cry and sank again in large areas.
Countless icicles were crushed and broken, flying into the air.
Luffy didn't notice the movement beneath his feet.
He raised his right arm and forcefully shook his huge, smoking fist.
The white flames on his fist were still blazing, burning away the remaining demonic energy.
His brows furrowed.
My arm is numb.
The numbness started in my knuckles and spread all the way to my shoulder.
A sharp pain shot through my bones.
The recoil force is extremely large.
That giant spinning bullet just now shattered the opponent's turtle shell, but it didn't fundamentally damage them.
Im's background is unfathomable.
One defeat is not enough to bring down this monster that has ruled the world for eight hundred years.
The battlefield is 10,000 meters above the ground.
The wind was as sharp as a knife.
Chen Ye rode on the back of the dark gold divine eagle, looking down coldly.
His Observation Haki tightened, and his vast sensory network covered the entire ice field.
He noticed something was wrong.
The flow of energy between heaven and earth has changed.
Im is drawing away the remaining demonic energy from the entire battlefield.
The remains of a black water monster scattered on the ice.
Black crystal fragments embedded in the ice.
The remnants of the seal, scattered by the wind.
All the dark red air currents detached from their attachments, transforming into countless red threads that swirled wildly upwards into the sky.
These forces did not reassemble the shield.
They were compressed and converged towards Im's right palm.
Chen Ye's prediction came true.
Im's total amount of demonic energy is astonishing.
As long as there is any remaining energy on the battlefield, he can replenish it continuously.
This is not just a war of attrition.
It's more like a resource plundering war.
In the sky, Im stretched out his right hand.
The five fingers are bent into a loose grip.
Palm.
The gathering darkness began to twist violently.
The enormous energy was compressed to an extreme degree.
The invisible airflow turned into a solid.
The darkness stretched out in both directions, swallowing up even the surrounding light.
The ice shards nearby had just been lifted into the air when they instantly liquefied into black water.
The edges of the space could not withstand the pressure, and fine black marks appeared.
On the icy plain, several black water monsters that were relatively close together suddenly stopped.
They didn't even let out a single howl.
The dark red eyes went out instantly.
Its massive body collapsed and shrank rapidly, like a dried-up tree trunk.
In the end, only an empty shell remained, turning into black ash in the wind.
They were directly sacrificed by the power of their master.
The darkness in Im's palm finally stopped twisting.
A two-meter-long, jet-black sword solidified into shape.
The sword is broad and its entire body is as black as ink.
The surface is covered with ancient and obscure curse runes.
The runes were like living blood vessels, writhing inside the sword.
The edge of the sword was not smooth, and viscous black liquid kept seeping out and dripping.
A drop of black water pierced through the clouds and crashed onto the ice.
There was no explosion.
Only the hissing sound of corrosion could be heard.
The hard, millennia-old ice was instantly melted, creating a deep hole emitting black smoke.
Around the hole, black toxins spread like a spider web.
The pure white ice layer was transformed in the blink of an eye into a stench-filled wasteland.
This sword wounds more than just flesh and blood.
It can contaminate everything it comes into contact with.
This is the absolute law of destruction.
At the edge of the battlefield, Tie Lei's expression suddenly changed.
The thunder pattern on his chest was dull and lifeless.
He dragged his heavy, wounded body, struggling to move backward.
"Retreat! Continue retreating!"
He yelled at the top of his lungs, his voice trembling uncontrollably.
The surrounding allied warriors were stunned by the roar, and then scrambled away to escape to a greater distance.
Tie Lei was breathing heavily, staring intently at the black sword in the sky.
The oppressive feeling emanating from that sword was not due to the physical distance of the strike.
It is an erasure from a higher dimension.
Once hit, Armament Haki, life force, and even the structure of demonic energy will be corroded by the black water.
That's a poison that can melt the soul.
Not far away, Loki was kneeling in the ice pit.
Hearing Tie Lei's roar, his eyes widened, and he gritted his teeth, wanting to rush forward.
He couldn't watch Luffy face that monster alone.
He gripped the broken handle of the battle axe tightly with both hands.
Muscle bulge.
But as soon as he exerted force, a muffled sound of bones dislocating came from his chest cavity.
The broken ribs pierced the internal organs.
The excruciating pain caused his vision to go black.
Its massive body swayed violently, and in the end, it could only use its battle axe to hold itself firmly on the ground.
Kneel on one knee.
He was exhaling large, bloody breaths.
He was so badly injured that he didn't even have the strength to stand up.
The eastern side of the battlefield.
Whitebeard, leaning on Murakumogiri, stood atop a mountain piled high with monster corpses.
He looked up and gazed at the strange phenomenon in the sky.
The old man's white beard danced wildly in the wind.
His eyes were serious as he roared in Luffy's direction.
"Don't let that thing touch you, kid! Whatever you do, don't touch it!"
The sound was like thunder, rolling through the wind and snow.
Luffy did not turn around.
He just kept his eyes fixed on Im in front of him.
Its gigantic body is like an insurmountable mountain.
He slowly raised his arms, spreading his two huge fists one in front of the other.
boom!
The white flames on his fists suddenly shot up more than ten meters high.
The intense heat instantly evaporated the surrounding ice and snow.
He can't retreat.
If we take a step back, our comrades behind us will die.
He had no way out.
The only way is to forcefully seize the rhythm of the attack before the opponent can draw their sword.
In the sky, Im slowly tightened his grip on the hilt of the Codex Sword.
The world fell silent at that moment.
The snowstorm stopped.
The lingering dark red demonic energy in the air instantly quieted down.
Those demonic creations that were still lingering on the edge of danger all lay prostrate on the ground in terror, not daring to raise their heads.
They are submitting to this weapon that symbolizes absolute power.
Im's face remained completely expressionless.
He merely twisted his wrist slightly, gently tilting the tip of the sword to the side.
An invisible wave instantly ripped through the sky.
In the far distance, a massive, broken ice peak suddenly split open without warning.
There was no explosion.
There was no sound of breaking.
The upper part of the ice peak, weighing tens of thousands of tons, slowly slid down along a dark, smooth cut.
Finally, it crashed into the sea with a loud thud.
It stirred up a massive wave.
The cut was as smooth as a mirror, covered with a thin layer of black mist that continued to corrode the remaining ice.
This was merely the aftershock of the sword's deflection.
A slight cracking sound suddenly came from the ice beneath Luffy's feet.
A thin black line appeared out of thin air from the distant void.
An invisible blade is cutting through the earth.
The thin line spread toward Luffy at an extremely fast speed.
The ice along the way was neatly cut open, and black water churned in the gaps.
The thin line went straight ahead and instantly sliced in front of Luffy's toes.
Luffy still did not retreat.
His eyes widened, and he suddenly raised his right foot.
The enormous, hill-like foot, carrying violent power and blazing white flames, stomped fiercely on the spreading black mark.
boom!
The ice surface shook violently.
Luffy poured the white flames of Nika the Sun God into the ice beneath his feet without reservation.
The pure white light and the pitch-black poisonous water collided violently underground.
The high temperature burned the corrosive black water into plumes of foul-smelling white smoke.
The spread of the black marks was abruptly stopped.
Luffy looked up and grinned at the sky.
There was no fear in her smile.
Only a frenzied fighting spirit.
He used this most direct and brutal method to prove that even the so-called sword of the code could not stop him.
Im stared blankly down below.
He slowly raised his right arm.
The sword of the law was raised above his head.
The jet-black blade traced a cold arc against the gray sky.
The sword tip, thousands of meters away, coldly pointed downwards.
It locked onto Luffy's brow.
In that instant, Luffy felt a sharp pain between his eyebrows.
The instinctive reaction of being locked on by extreme killing intent.
On the Sword of the Codex, countless ancient runes began to light up one after another.
A dark red death ray.
With each rune that lights up, the distortion of the surrounding space intensifies.
All the bystanders on the battlefield.
Chenye high in the sky.
A white beard in the distance.
Rocks.
Loki and Tigre collapsed to the ground.
A chill rose from the depths of everyone's soul.
The next strike will no longer be a test.
It is no longer a demonstration.
That would be the true killing move that severs the laws, pierces through life, and strikes Luffy's vitals.
The first glint of sword light tearing open a new era.
It is about to fall.