Chapter 333: Popularizing the King’s Fist

On a desolate island of the Infinite Pirate Crew, two figures swiftly clashed, each breathing a few times and already exchanging several blows.

Ashura Doji, in his human-beast form, gritted his teeth and resisted under Li Yuan's fierce attacks, but Li Yuan's assault was far from easy to block. Ashura Doji's wounds from the swords increased nearly every minute.

At this moment, Li Yuan wasn't using any Armament Haki, Conqueror's Haki, or the power of a Devil Fruit. He was simply fighting with his swordsmanship against Ashura Doji.

Meanwhile, the blood under Li Yuan's skin surged, causing his skin to turn a blood-red hue, as if blood were seeping out.

As the battle with Ashura Doji progressed, Li Yuan felt the special energy within him continue to gather.

After several days of modification, he had fully resolved the issue with the King's Fist, which required constant swinging and charging. Now, even during combat, he could accumulate this special energy, and as long as he wasn't critically injured, the accumulation wouldn't be interrupted.

"Ashura Doji, that's enough, step aside!"

After an hour, Li Yuan had completed his energy buildup.

Upon hearing Li Yuan's words, Ashura Doji immediately stepped back, his gaze burning with intensity as he watched Li Yuan.

The moment Li Yuan raised his Seven-Star Sword, an invisible force turned into a vortex, forcefully gathering and compressing the air within several miles around him, surrounding his sword.

At the same time, the special energy in Li Yuan's body flowed up his arm, ready to explode at any moment!

"Empire Fist!!"

With a slash of his sword, Li Yuan combined the special energy within him with the air gathered through Empire Fist, merging into an even more powerful force that shot toward the sea!

In an instant, the sea was easily torn apart, and the shockwave was as overwhelming as the "Kamehameha" wave from Dragon Ball's main character, Goku.

The seabed, thousands of meters deep, was gouged with a massive pit hundreds of meters deep, while the surface of the sea erupted in massive waves hundreds of meters high.

"Captain, this Empire Fist didn't even use Armament Haki or Conqueror's Haki, nor did it involve sword intent, yet it has such terrifying power. It's far more powerful than before. It's truly incredible!"

Ashura Doji looked at this astonishing scene, more composed than before.

After all, this wasn't the first time he had seen it. Li Yuan had previously come to practice swordsmanship with him or to use him as a sparring partner.

Ashura Doji had watched as Li Yuan's Empire Fist grew stronger each time.

"Ha, not bad, I've completely combined the King's Fist with Empire Fist. The power is much stronger than before. It can be used as another trump card!"

"Although it can only be used once every hour, that's enough!"

Li Yuan looked at the results of his improvements with great satisfaction.

Thanks to his modifications, he could say that besides the one-hour charging time, the King's Fist had become nearly perfect and could now be integrated with his sword techniques.

"Ashura Doji, would you like to learn this move?"

Looking at Ashura Doji beside him, Li Yuan suddenly thought, if he could get his subordinates to learn this move, then the Infinite Pirate Crew would become even stronger!

"Captain, of course, I want to learn!" Ashura Doji's eyes sparkled. How could he not want to learn such a powerful technique?

"You should have already learned Life Return and Elbaf Spear by now, right?"

Li Yuan asked.

"Captain, I've learned both!"

Ashura Doji replied. Although he was a great swordsman, he wasn't just a swordsman. After eating the Ancient Zoan-type "King Crocodile" Devil Fruit, he had also been developing his body, so Life Return was a necessary skill to learn.

"Good, come, I'll teach you how to use the King's Fist!"

Immediately, Li Yuan began teaching Ashura Doji the techniques of the King's Fist. This was the foundation!

However, shortly after, Li Yuan felt that teaching each person individually was too troublesome, so he called all the eligible subordinates who could learn the King's Fist together to teach them at once.

The prerequisite for learning Li Yuan's improved King's Fist was mastering the Life Return technique. Anyone who hadn't mastered it couldn't learn the King's Fist.

Hearing that Li Yuan was going to teach them a very powerful technique, the subordinates all eagerly gathered around. After all, it was a technique that Li Yuan himself had said was very powerful—how could they not be interested?

"The core of the King's Fist is to first lock your pores and other parts of your body using Life Return, and then use special techniques to..."

Once everyone had gathered, Li Yuan started teaching them how to use the King's Fist.

For those skilled in physical combat, learning the King's Fist was enough. For those skilled in swordsmanship, they also needed to learn how to guide the special energy to the sword in order to unleash its maximum power.

Furthermore, to advance further, they needed to learn how to combine the Elbaf Spear with the King's Fist.

After several days of instruction, Li Yuan left them to practice on their own. He had taught them the techniques, and now it was up to them to rely on their own effort and talent. These things, Li Yuan couldn't teach.

He wasn't like Kaido, a master who could teach special techniques quickly, nor was he like Rayleigh, who spent two years personally teaching others until they were ready to leave. Li Yuan was different. Once he finished teaching, that was it. Whether they learned or not depended entirely on their abilities.

After John was captured, his territory in the New World was being contested by Silver Axe, Wang Zhi, Brandon, and Whitebeard, while the new pirate crews had already been cleared out.

On a desolate island, Whitebeard and Brandon engaged in a fierce battle.

"Whitebeard, die!!"

At this moment, Brandon was surrounded by yellow cloud vines, the power of his Devil Fruit awakening!

He dared to challenge Whitebeard one-on-one because he had awakened his Paramecia-type Muscle Fruit and turned the surrounding earth into part of his muscle.

Previously, his Muscle Fruit was limited by his body, unable to further strengthen his muscles when reaching the physical limit. But now, with the Devil Fruit awakening, this limitation had disappeared. He could transform the surrounding environment into part of his muscles, allowing him to continuously strengthen them and gain even greater power.

As for the backlash, it all went into the environment that had become part of his muscles. He himself didn't suffer any backlash!

With the awakening of his Devil Fruit, Brandon was brimming with confidence, and he no longer saw Whitebeard as a threat!

"Goo la la la la, Brandon, this old guy, actually forced me to use all my power!!"

"Don't think you're the only one who can awaken your Devil Fruit. I can do it too!"

Whitebeard laughed heartily as he revealed his own awakened powers from the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.

White mist swirled around Whitebeard, and with just a step forward, the slight tremor of his foot caused the surrounding earth to shatter.

In the awakened state of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, Whitebeard's tremor power had been greatly enhanced.

Previously, he needed full strength to create a massive tsunami. Now, he only needed one-tenth of his strength to achieve what would have required ten times the effort.

"My Muscle Fruit is the strongest Paramecia Devil Fruit!"

Brandon didn't expect Whitebeard's Devil Fruit to have awakened as well, but he wasn't afraid. After all, even if both were awakened, there were levels to it, and he had full confidence in his own strength!

Brandon pushed his muscles to the limit, and when it came to pure physical strength, he was probably the strongest in the world!

With a sudden force from his feet, the ground sank, and then, like recovering muscles, it sprang back, causing Brandon's speed to explode to the extreme.

"King's Fist!"

Armament Haki, Conqueror's Haki, and physical strength combined in his fist.

"Goo la la la la, just a defeated underling groaning!"

"Resonance!"

Whitebeard tightened his own muscles to the limit, holding his weapon, the "Gura Gura", gathering all his power into the blade, leaping up, and then diving down to slash at Brandon!

When the peak powers of both awakenings collided, the entire island shook. The surrounding land within thousands of meters shattered, and a massive pit appeared in the center of the island.

After a brief stalemate between the sword and fist, Whitebeard forcibly broke through Brandon's Haki and slashed his fist with one mighty blow. The intense shockwave spread through Brandon's body.

"Thud!!"

Brandon was sent flying hundreds of meters by Whitebeard's sword strike, blood spraying from his mouth in a perfect arc.

"How is this possible?!"

Brandon didn't expect that after awakening his Devil Fruit power, the gap between him and Whitebeard had grown even larger!

Now, Whitebeard was in his peak state, and after following Li Yuan's advice and practicing Life Return, his physical strength had greatly increased. Combined with the awakened Tremor-Tremor Fruit power, almost no one could withstand a direct confrontation with Whitebeard!

Not even Brandon, after awakening his Devil Fruit, could win!

"Goo la la la la, Brandon, die!!"

"Space Tremor!"

Whitebeard laughed and gathered the terrifying resonance power back into his blade, slashing through the air toward Brandon's direction!

"Run!!!"

Brandon wasn't stupid. Knowing he couldn't defeat Whitebeard, his once arrogant and overconfident demeanor had completely disappeared. He now used his awakened power to escape as fast as possible.

With the explosive power of his limit, Brandon blocked Whitebeard's attack and quickly escaped.

"Such a pity, I couldn't catch that guy!"

Whitebeard watched Brandon's fleeing figure without pursuing him. His speed was far slower than Brandon's, and speed was Whitebeard's weakness. The Tremor-Tremor Fruit's shockwave weakened as the distance increased, so he couldn't stop Brandon.

"Great, Dad won!!"

Seeing Brandon escape, Marco and the others excitedly rushed over.

"Goo la la la la, isn't it obvious tha

t Dad would win? Kids, get ready for a feast to celebrate our victory and the new territory we've claimed from Brandon!"

Whitebeard said joyfully.

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