Countless crimson bloodlines surged into the sky, merging with the churning dark-gold blood mist.
The mist violently compressed and solidified, giving rise to a hundred-meter-tall humanoid Blood Serpent King!
Clad in flowing blood armor, its head bore the twisted visage of the Snake King, its eyes burning with destructive dark-gold flames. Its aura had grown several times stronger than before.
"Ye Yu!!!"
The Blood Serpent King's roar unleashed a crimson tsunami, boiling the entire sea.
"With the blood of my kin as sacrifice, I condemn you to eternal damnation!"
The Blood Serpent King's massive palm descended—not as a physical strike, but as a tidal wave of blood!
Every drop contained soul-corrosive venom and the resentment of countless serpents.
"Fall back!" Ye Yu roared, his white hair whipping wildly in the bloody wind. He crossed his twin blades in defense.
The Snake King clasped its hands together, forcibly extracting all serpent blood from the battlefield and forming a sky-obscuring Blood Sea Vortex that swallowed Ye Yu whole.
Within the vortex, billions of snake shadows tore at his soul while dark-gold flames scorched his flesh—a dual torment capable of annihilating any warrior.
"Captain!" Xiao Ke's eyes nearly burst from their sockets as he fired bullets at the Blood Serpent King, only for them to be devoured by the blood armor.
Xia Ling's ice evaporated before it could even approach.
Even Ye Yu felt immense pressure. In this moment of extreme peril, a shackle within him shattered—his Mink Tribe bloodline fused with his other lineages, intertwining with Conqueror's Haki. His white hair crackled like lightning!
The battle raged on, perilous and grueling, lasting a full six hours.
In the end, Ye Yu emerged victorious.
"Moon Lion Armed Domination!"
Black Blade Night and Enma hummed, their edges no longer wreathed in air currents but in solidified dark-red thunder.
Ye Yu's pupils turned blood-red as he spun and unleashed:
"Dual Blade God-Fear Thunder Hell!!"
The blade light was no longer a mere slash but an explosive storm of lightning. Dark-red Thunder Dragons tore through the blood sea, reducing billions of vengeful serpent shadows to wailing oblivion.
Where the blades passed, the Blood Serpent King's armor shattered like paper, finally piercing deep into the core of its chest.
CRACK—BOOM!!!
The Blood Core shattered. The Blood Serpent King let out a shriek of defiance before its colossal body exploded from within, scattering into a rain of blood.
Ye Yu knelt on a floating ice fragment, panting as he leaned on his twin blades.
His Sulong Form faded, revealing a face pale as paper—yet his eyes remained sharp as blades, coldly fixed on Yang Luo's Pirate Crew.
Yang Luo stood at the bow of his ship, his face ashen, all traces of his earlier triumph and schemes gone.
The dying wails of the Snake King and the horrifying sight of Ye Yu's final strike had shattered his last shred of hope.
Fear, like icy seawater, flooded his heart in an instant.
"Run! Full speed! Scatter and run!" Yang Luo's voice distorted with terror, screeching through the sea winds. "Get away from these waters! Now!!"
Lin Muxue frowned. "Shouldn't we strike now? Ye Yu is exhausted, and the Dominant Feather Pirate Crew is weakened too."
"Fool! The damage the Snake King dealt to them wasn't as severe as we thought. Even if we joined forces now, we'd lose. Run!"
Panic erupted across the King's Alliance fleet. All notions of alliance and vengeance dissolved before the demonic figure of Ye Yu and the reality of the Snake King's demise.
Over a dozen pirate ships scattered like startled fish, engines roaring at full throttle, abandoning formation as they fled in all directions.
Yang Luo howled, "Stick together!"
Yet being ignored, he naturally knew Ye Yu's main target was him. Fleeing together would be dangerous.
Song Ling's ship turned northwest, Wang Quanshi's ship charged southeast, and Lin Muxue's ship headed in yet another direction.
"Heh..." Ye Yu let out a cold, mocking laugh—soft, yet it echoed clearly in the ears of every Dominant Feather Pirate Crew member, carrying an unshakable resolve and overwhelming killing intent.
Slowly raising Black Blade Night, he pointed its tip toward the chaotic, fleeing ships, his voice like ice shattering on the ground, decisive and unyielding:
"Yang Luo—I'll kill him myself."
"As for the Yang Luo Pirate Crew... leave them to you."
"ROAR!!!" The response was a deafening battle cry. Exhaustion was instantly burned away by the flames of vengeance.
All of this—the desperate battle today—was because of Yang Luo's schemes.
Ye Yu moved. With a single leap, he shot forward like an arrow from a bow, landing precisely on a floating serpent's corpse before kicking off again, his target locked onto the frantically escaping Yang Luo Pirate Crew.
His figure flickered across the sea, darting between shattered ice and floating snake carcasses, rapidly closing the distance.
"Stop him! Stop him now!!" Yang Luo's voice cracked with terror as he watched the approaching figure—a reaper coming to claim his life. He screamed like a madman, "All cannons! Ability Users! Fire! Don't let him get close!!"
The pirate ship's broadside cannons roared, spewing a storm of cannonfire toward Ye Yu's path.
Several Zoan Ability Users transformed and leaped into the sea, attempting to intercept him.
Facing this desperate barrage, Ye Yu's expression remained utterly calm. Stepping onto a massive chunk of ice flung up by an explosion, his body twisted midair like a fish slipping through gaps in the cannonfire.
With a casual swing of Black Blade "Night," a Slash tore through the air, piercing the vital points of the Zoan users. Blood bloomed across the waves.
Ye Yu's momentum barely slowed. Using a floating piece of wreckage as a stepping stone, he shot forward like lightning, now less than a hundred meters from the ship's stern.
"NO!!"
Yang Luo's scream of despair lodged in his throat as Ye Yu's icy visage rapidly filled his vision. He didn't want to die—he was meant to be a future overlord.
But there was no escape now. Facing Ye Yu's pursuit, he had no choice but to fight.
The Dominant Feather Pirate Crew had also closed in, leaving him to face Ye Yu alone.
"Ye Yu... you really won't let me go?"
"I told you—you die today."
"Hmph, not necessarily. You've fought for so long, exhausted so much. Even if you took down the Snake King, he wasn't far beneath you. My Contract is with Rocks. In your current state, you might not even beat me. It'd be best to let me leave."
Ye Yu wasted no more words. He lunged forward, unleashing One-Cut God Evasion.
Yang Luo's fists darkened with Conqueror's Haki Coating as he met the attack head-on.
A deafening explosion—Yang Luo was sent flying. Even against a heavily drained Ye Yu, the gap was still this vast. His Sulong Form was already gone.
"I can't die!"
Yang Luo struggled to rise, but Ye Yu sheathed his blade. If this was a Body Techniques fighter, then fists it would be.
Their fists collided—Yang Luo was sent flying again.
Ye Yu unleashed a relentless storm of attacks. Their figures blurred, fists flashing in a flurry of strikes as Yang Luo was forced back step by step.
Meanwhile, the Dominant Feather Pirate Crew had surrounded the Yang Luo Pirate Crew—the battle had begun.
Many had died in the previous great battle, and many more had been sacrificed. Facing the Dominant Feather Pirate Crew, Yang Luo was utterly crushed by Ye Yu, and Yang Luo's Pirate Crew was similarly overwhelmed by the Dominant Feather Pirate Crew.
The battle lasted ten minutes. Yang Luo coughed up large mouthfuls of blood, his injuries severe, his face pale with terror.
"P-please, don't kill me! I'm willing to submit to you! I'm a powerful fighter—my strength surpasses even your vice-captain!"
"I told you, you must die."
A single slash—Yang Luo was beheaded, dead.
(End of Chapter)