"This place... Well... The air is fresh and the environment is good, but why does the air smell of the sea? ”

The eccentric swordsman patted the dirt off his body and got up from the ground.

He was dressed in a tattered shirt that he had never seen before, his chest was exposed, and his short brown hair was messy and unruly, as if he hadn't been taken care of in three years, and if it weren't for the scars on his bronzed skin, he would have thought he was a sharp brother who begged for food.

Although it was only the first time they met, the young man's expression made people feel a kind of optimism from the bones.

He was holding a long knife in his arms, the only feature of this long knife was that it was not featureless, and it looked almost indistinguishable from the fifty thousand Bailey knives in the store.

"Huh? Gig? Why are you here? ”

Speaking in a northeastern dialect, the strange swordsman looked at Karl, who had become a ghost.

"No... You're not Gig, you're... Are you the Dark Monarch who has surpassed Gig? It doesn't seem right, how can the aura on the Dark Monarch be as weak as you? ”

Because of the suppression of the laws of the plane, although Carl has long become the "Dark Monarch", the ability he can exert is far less than that of the ghosts and gods of the Arad world.

didn't care about the evaluation of the strange swordsman, Carl recognized the identity of this strange swordsman at a glance: the head of the Four Sword Saints of the Arad Continent, the Taidao master "Xilan"!

This "head" does not refer to his status, but his strength.

Of course, Xilan is not much stronger than the other three Sword Masters, which is roughly equivalent to the difference between the Red Dog and the Green Pheasant in the future Marshal War.

The reason why Xilan came to the world of One Piece was not because he was the head of the Four Sword Saints, but because in the Arad continent, he wandered through the gates of time and space all the year round, shuttling through various dimensional worlds.

As a result, this time the space was shattered by Carl's punch and "fell" into the world of One Piece.

Although Carl was also surprised by Xilan's appearance, he was more suddenly enlightened.

It's no wonder that he has the power of a ghost of unknown origin, it turns out that the world of One Piece and the world of Arad can be connected to each other.

Although there were other worldly warriors all around, Xilan approached Karl's side as if he hadn't seen them, and asked familiarly.

"What are you doing? It's like a world I've never seen before, well... This Devil May Cry friend, can you explain it all at once? ”

Traveling to a strange world, Xilan, an Arad person, saw "Devil May Cry" Carl, and naturally had a sense of intimacy of "fellow countryman seeing fellow countryman".

Carl reverted to his human form and stood with Xilan, a full head taller than Xilan.

Although he recognized Xilan's identity at a glance, Carl still suddenly dreamed: "Xilan? ”

"Huh? Big brother, do you know me? ”

"Don't you know me too? Hahahaha..."

"That's right."

Although he didn't know Carl's name, Xilan knew that Karl was a "Devil May Cry", and he was a dark monarch who surpassed the priest Jige, although the strength of this dark monarch was a bit strange, and he was about the same as himself.

A swordsman of the same level as the Dark Monarch is an existence called the "Sword God".

On top of Xilan, the head of the Four Sword Saints, there are two legendary Sword Saints, they are "Sodros" and "Liang Yue".

But even though they are these two legendary sword masters, they can only occasionally touch the realm of the "Sword God" when they are dueling, and if they want to become the "Sword God", they don't know how many years they will have to cultivate.

So seeing Carl, who is obviously a realm higher than himself, but his strength feels similar to his own, Xilan's mind is full of question marks.

"What the hell are you? Are you also a pirate? ”

Seeing that the "Ghost God Pirates" had another "Great Sword Hero" level accomplice, the angry Akainu shouted not far away.

Xilan looked at Akainu and smiled faintly: "Pirates? No, no, no, the pirates are all on the other side of the sea in the sky, and I'm just a free-spirited adventurer. ”

Akainu's face became even more ugly, and his body began to surge with bubbling magma: "An adventurer is a pirate, and a pirate is an adventurer!" All those who trample on the majesty of justice in the name of freedom, kill! ”

"Oops... It's scary. ”

Xi Lan smiled, there was no fear in his tone, he stretched out a finger and shook it towards the red dog: "Don't be so irritable, you have to be taught to be a human being if you button a big hat to others indiscriminately!" ”

"Big Spitfire!"

Akainu was in no mood to discuss the great principles of life with Xilan, and his arm turned into magma, like a gushing volcano, and he slashed his head and face towards Carl and Xilan.

"Why are you like those people in the Time Patrol and start beating people if you don't agree with each other?"

With a soft sound of "brush", the magma stone that was split in half fell to the ground, and Xi Lan had already drawn his sword out of its sheath at some point, and the movement was so fast that even the five old stars of the sword master did not see clearly, and the wind blade on the blade extinguished the energy in the magma.

Xilan is a pure swordsman, although his overall strength is similar to that of Carl, but if he only talks about swordsmanship, he is enough to crush Carl.

It was for this reason that the Five Old Stars did not order to do anything to Xilan.

Because the two of them saw in this young man a temperament similar to that of the "red-haired" Shanks.

Easy-going, indifferent, fearless, approachable, but with a sharp aura that cannot be ignored, his whole person seems to have turned into a sharp sword, exuding a sharp edge everywhere.

Moreover, the wisdom precipitated in the eyes of the young man is by no means something that a young man in his twenties can have, this must be a person who has experienced strong winds and waves.

The two five old stars guessed correctly, Xi Lan's real age is actually in his forties, and the reason why he still looks like he is in his twenties is because he was affected by the power of time and space when he traveled through the gate of time and space, and his appearance was forever fixed in his twenties.

"It's useless to talk too much, dog bites Red Lotus!"

Before, they couldn't take down the "ghost god" Carl when they joined forces with the pheasant, which already made Akainu's stomach hold a breath of anger.

At this time, a pirate appeared inexplicably, and everyone present was so frightened that they stopped fighting, which made Akainu unacceptable at all.

The crack that suddenly appeared just now should be some kind of spatial fruit ability, right? Nothing out of the ordinary.

Xilan is a swordsman with a particularly good temper, and he is extremely popular in the Arad continent, but... This is also limited to the continent of Arad.

After countless years of wandering in the Gate of Time and Space, Xilan from another world will not waste a lot of time reasoning with others like he did when he was in the Arad continent.

The Gate of Time and Space connects countless planes and will randomly teleport Xilan to an inexplicable other world.

To put it simply, just like the time-travelers of the infinite flow world, they will be taken by the main god to the infinite world to perform infinite tasks.

Xilan didn't have a mission, all he did was to investigate the truth about a certain disaster for himself.

But Xi Lan deeply understands a truth, in the infinite world, there is no meaning in any big truth, feelings, and morals, and the only thing that applies is the law of the dark jungle - the first strike is the strongest, if you can fight, you can fight, and if you can't fight, you can run.

Through the Gate of Time and Space, in the infinite world, Xilan has defeated countless enemies and has been defeated by countless enemies.

The youngest of the "Four Sword Saints", Bath, was even shamelessly snatched of his weapon by an opponent who defeated him, and was named "Bath's Hurricane Short Sword" by the man, showing it off everywhere.

Thanks to Nishiran's weapon, which looks indistinguishable from an ordinary katana, just like the unpretentious "Wadoichi Script", he has not been robbed of a weapon by others.

At this time, in the face of the sudden attack of the otherworldly magician, Xilan spit out the dog's tail grass in his mouth, and his eyes became sharp.

What else is there to say, just fight!

Xilan closed her eyes and put her knife back into its sheath.

Then his eyes opened suddenly, and an arc of light erupted from between the sheaths with the action of drawing the sword, and the sword wind paved the surface with pain, and the circular sword qi spread rapidly with him as the center of the circle, and the dust was blown away without a trace.

Draw your sword and slash!

Defeat the enemy in a flash!

The vicious dog condensed by the red dog using the magma was cut off by Nishilan in an instant.

Xi Lan swung his sword left and right, and two brilliant arc-shaped sword qi slashed out in the air, directly taking the red dog.

The pitch-black armed color domineering covered Akainu's fist, and Akainu blasted out with his fist, easily shattering Xilan's two sword qi.

Xilan was surprised: "Huh? How is it that like those nervous berserkers, he actually turned his red moves into black!! ”

"Meteor Volcano!"

The black fist turned into red-hot magma again, and Akainu's arms were like two rocket launchers, and red magma missiles continued to erupt from his fist, almost like the battlefield death of World War II - Katyusha rocket artillery!

For the first time, Xi Lan's face became solemn, and the speed of his swing was so fast that he felt as if he was shrouded in a cloud of white light, and each sword shot out a brilliant sword qi that split the magma meteor in half.

Suddenly, a dragon-shaped red light advanced at a rapid pace, dragging a series of colorful afterimages of Xilan in the light, and Dao Gang also brought a golden tornado.

"Raptors cut the air!"

Nishilan burst into a shout, and the blade cut off Akainu's right arm.

But Akainu didn't flinch in the slightest, his right hand turned into a claw, and the claw-like hot magma grabbed at Nishiran's head.

"Hades Dog!"

I don't know why, Xi Lan's intuition told him that this move of the other party's burning man seemed to have more than ten times the lethality of the previous attack.

Legendary Greyhound Warning!

Not daring to be careless, Xi Lan took out a bamboo stick from his waist, and Xi Lan, who held the weapon in both hands, seemed to change in an instant, and in the long whistle, the knife and the bamboo stick pulled out two beautiful cross-shaped knife flowers at the same time.

"Xilan Tai Sword Technique, Cross Double Kill!"

The sword aura flew sideways, and the Stygian Dog released by Akainu's left hand was instantly slashed into a cloud of debris.

Akainu was dismantled on the spot by Xi Lan, and Xi Lan, who didn't feel the weakening of the opponent's vitality at all, brandished the weapon in his hand again.

"Xilan Tai Sword Technique: Innocent Sword Dance!"

More than two hundred butterfly-like sword lights erupted in a concentrated manner, and deep marks were scraped on the ground, and the giant elephant of Zou screamed in pain, and the whole person of Akainu was twisted into powder, and magma splashed.

"Huh? Isn't it an island under your feet, a giant beast in the sky? ”

Xi Lan put his sword into the sheath, and he had just turned around when the swordsman's keen instincts made him sense the danger coming from behind.

The crimson magma bloomed like a red lotus from hell, but before the red dog could make a move, Xilan's little sword was already unsheathed again.

"Xilanliu Taidao Mystery Zero Style Shattered Dream Remnant Light Slash."

Xi Lan's voice was as calm as water, no tyranny, no madness, gentle and elegant, as if telling a story.

This is a kind of meditation that has entered meditation.

It's a kind of stillness out of the dust.

When swordsmanship reaches this point, it is already the so-called grandmaster realm, this is the way, the way of the sword!

What does a broken dream look like?

The remnants of light drifted away.

Akainu gave up resisting and attacking at this moment, because he knew that it was pointless.

Akainu experienced a cruel and beautiful feeling.

It's like a dream, and I feel as if I've risen to the top of the clouds, floating among the stars and looking down on the earth, and it's a feeling of freedom and freedom.

Countless memories instantly merged into Akainu's mind like fragments, he saw himself who was seriously injured by a group of pirates when he was a child, saw himself fighting with the naval soldiers, saw the madness of Kuzan arguing with him, saw a giant who laughed "hee-hee-hee", saw Zefa teacher who had one of his arms cut off, and saw a little girl with a bounty of 79 million Bailey but her eyes were extremely tough......

Broken dreams.

Afterglow.

Chop.

Xi Lan's figure changed ten, ten to hundred, thousands in an instant, in all directions, endlessly, reflecting a brilliant kaleidoscope in the eyes of Akainu.

Akainu suddenly felt as if he was in the universe, and every Xilan beside him was a star.

Every star is a sword light.

Like the Milky Way, there is no pervasiveness and no hiding.

For the first time, Akainu closed his eyes and waited for death.

You can't break it, you can't block it, you can't hide it, you can't escape it...

But Akainu didn't die after all.

The sword light was extinguished, and everything was like a dream.

"Oh mom, what kind of monster is this, why can't you kill it like this?"

Xilan ran away.

Ran up behind Carl, like a kid hiding behind the boss after some kind of skin.

"What did you just do to me, I'm going to kill you!"

The momentum of the red dog that came back to his senses skyrocketed.

After so many years, his boss and colleagues have not been able to change his attitude towards justice, it is just a contest, how can Akainu be easily changed by Xilan?

Brush!

A dark purple sword flashed, leaving only a red line of blood on Akainu's forehead and chest.

Karl said lightly: "This way you can kill him." ”

"Huh?"

Xi Lan was in a mood for a while.

"What kind of ability do you have?"

"Want to learn, you? I'll teach you! ”