Then, Liu Xiu put the already cracked black sword back into its sheath, and quickly picked up the last intact sword, Wado Ichimonji!
Click!
Liu Xiu pulled out a section of the Wado Ichimonji and silently chanted, "Divine Technique: Gravity Light!"
The purple halo representing gravity flew rapidly into the sky and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Then, a passing meteorite in space suddenly changed direction and flew towards the deep crater created by the Hell Traveler!
The meteorite ignited from the high temperature generated by friction as it passed through the atmosphere, and crashed down with a roar, billowing thick smoke!
"Bury me! This time, you are doomed!" Liu Xiu said, then accelerated upwards. If he didn't leave the pit quickly, he would be buried as well.
Just then, a figure suddenly used the cave wall to bounce back and leaped at an extremely fast speed toward the boulder where Liu Xiu was—it was Xiang Yu!
"You coward, don't run away! Stay and fight another three hundred rounds!"
The Overlord's Halberd came crashing down, there was no way to avoid it!
Liu Xiu, “…”
Chapter 282 The Decisive Battle of Kunyang (19)
It takes time for a meteorite to fall from space to the ground, at least half a minute. Therefore, to hit the target, the user needs to constantly adjust the landing point or find a way to restrict the opponent's movement.
Xiang Yu is currently in a deep pit, so his position is relatively fixed. If Liu Xiu escapes, he could very well be hit by a meteorite. Regardless of the force of the meteorite, the high temperature alone would be enough to give Xiang Yu a hard time.
So after Hao Jiu saw through the opponent's moves, Xiang Yu either had to flee the place quickly or leave Liu Xiu behind so that they could all face the meteor's greeting together.
Clearly, Xiang Yu chose the latter, because the terrain of the pit was relatively advantageous to him.
Moreover, he can't fly now, so it's unlikely he can escape faster than Liu Xiu. Not to mention the pit is too deep, Xiang Yu can't jump that high. Even if he could jump that high, he would be easily attacked and blocked by the enemy during the jump.
However, before Liu Xiu flew too high, it was still possible to use the pit wall to bounce back and attack him. The key was to prevent Liu Xiu from leaving the pit.
When Xiang Yu flew toward the boulder Liu Xiu was riding on, Liu Xiu's first reaction was that the other wanted to land on it and fly away with him, which was quite clever.
However, Xiang Yu's subsequent attack was intended to leave him trapped in the pit!
But who the hell is a coward?
"You are the coward!" Liu Xiu roared, raising his sword to meet the attack, but the opponent's target seemed to be the stone at his feet!
Xiang Yu's face flushed slightly. Hao Jiu's plan was indeed a bit unethical, but on the battlefield where life and death were at stake, who could care about such things?
Reasoning with the enemy is useless; provoking them is what works!
Clang!
Splash...
The boulder beneath Liu Xiu's feet shattered with a crash!
Fujitora's flying method is very special. He is used to using objects such as rocks as flying machines, giving people the impression that he cannot fly, but in fact, Fujitora should be able to do it.
However, Fujitora himself hates the feeling of weightlessness and other abnormal gravity. He prefers to be on the ground and would rather walk than fly. He is almost obsessive about it.
Fujitora's habit of posing with his sword going in and out when unleashing attacks is just that—a habit. With such powerful moves, of course the pose has to be cool!
At this moment, the stone flying machine shattered, but Liu Xiu did not fly too high, so he did not need to worry about falling and getting injured. He only needed to focus on dealing with Xiang Yu's sharp edge.
Clang clang clang...
In just a moment, Xiang Yu and Liu Xiu exchanged several blows, and then he floated up into the air.
Liu Xiu tried the same trick again, attempting to use the weightlessness method to deal with Xiang Yu. However, Hao Jiu was prepared and immediately took out a small blue pill from his spatial storage, crushed it into powder, and secretly placed it into Xiang Yu's two boots.
Xiang Yu immediately steadied himself and delivered another blow to Liu Xiu. At this moment, Xiang Yu possessed normal strength, but his weight was only that of a small blue pill, and his speed was exceptionally fast.
Liu Xiu quickly realized something was wrong and decisively canceled the opponent's weightlessness state, switching to gravity suppression. However, the opponent seemed to have adapted to ordinary gravity suppression, and his body was incredibly strong.
The key issue is that the place is cramped, and even if he uses Hell Travel, he can easily be interrupted by the opponent. Moreover, he is also a little reluctant to part with his sword.
Without the Gravity Blade as a medium, Fujitora's Gravity Fruit powers cannot be fully utilized, and it would damage the blade and himself. Even a top-quality sword like Wado Ichimonji would shatter after only a few uses.
Time passed second by second, and the two engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand combat in the deep underground pit, both of them bloodthirsty and desperate.
Originally, Liu Xiu was very confident that he could fly out of the pit before the meteorite fell into it, and then wait at the exit to see the meteorite crash into the pit and burn or crush the other party to death.
But now, he can no longer escape from the pit in time.
The meteorite crashed down at a speed of tens of kilometers per second!
Many people on the ground witnessed this shocking scene, and they probably all had the same question in their minds: Is the end of the world coming?
The crater created by the Hell Journey was about ten meters in diameter, and the meteorite was about three meters in diameter. However, if you take into account the burning flames, high temperature, and the terrifying wind pressure it brought, even hiding at the edge of the crater would be dangerous.
"Get out of the way! Otherwise, we'll both die!" Liu Xiu suddenly swung his sword upwards, "Divine Skill: Gravity Reflection!"
A spring-like gravity circle instantly appeared above Liu Xiu's head, and then he flew up to meet the meteorite.
Hao Jiu smiled slightly, "See? He really did use that trick. He chickened out after all!"
"Perhaps." Xiang Yu did not interfere with Liu Xiu's attack. Instead, he instantly retreated and opened a hidden, simple stone door, entering the pre-dug hiding cave. This was a skill he had honed while digging caves in the split plane.
Then, the meteorite burning with raging flames exploded with a roar when it fell halfway into the deep pit, breaking into countless pieces that swept down and crashed towards Xiang Yu's hiding place!
Boom! Boom! Boom! ...
As the smoke cleared, rubble and pieces of iron flew out of the cave.
Liu Xiu frowned. There was no one inside.
With a loud crash, a large hole suddenly appeared in the pit wall above Liu Xiu's head.
Xiang Yu leaped down from the middle, swung his Overlord Halberd, and slashed down, yelling, "Die!"
As Liu Xiu raised his sword to meet the attack, the floating rubble and iron pieces around him instantly hurled at Xiang Yu, arriving before Liu Xiu could react.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...
At this time, the meteorite fragments were still scorching hot, but under the powerful defense of the aura protecting him, they could not cause much damage to Xiang Yu. At most, they would only burn his clothes.
Clang!
As the blades clashed, Liu Xiu was forced to kneel on one knee, giving Xiang Yu a moment of loss of balance before he was able to bounce off. However, the powerful blade also slashed a bloody gash on Liu Xiu's forehead.
Then, the swords and halberds clashed again!
Clang clang clang...
Xiang Yu and Liu Xiu engaged in a fierce battle, but Xiang Yu had the upper hand overall because the Overlord's Halberd was very long, and Liu Xiu, who was using a katana, was at a disadvantage in close combat.
Moreover, Xiang Yu's domineering aura is different from Zoro's long-range sword aura. Although the attack range is very short, it can maintain a certain shape for a long time, which is equivalent to making the weapon gigantic.
"We can't keep fighting like this. We need to find a way back to the ground. The space here is small, and the opponent's sword energy is quite strange. We can't dodge it, and we can't fight back. We're too passive." The system's voice rang in Liu Xiu's mind. It was still pleasant to hear, but it carried a hint of worry.
"I want to go up too, but with him holding me back, it's hard to do!" Liu Xiu regretted it. He should have just thrown down a meteorite, no, ten meteorites!
"Lure him to the edge of the battlefield, and then seize the opportunity..." The system gave Liu Xiu a suggestion.
Liu Xiu did as instructed, fighting and retreating, unknowingly circling the edge of the pit once.
Xiang Yu and Hao Jiu were too busy dealing with changes in gravity to notice that Liu Xiu had tampered with the system.
Rumble...
Almost the entire ground was lifted up, and this time the ground was not so easy to break.
"Oh no! The entire ground is flying up! We'd better finish the battle before it reaches the ground! Then I'll eat another Dragon Ball!" Hao Jiu roughly counted the healing pills and realized that he only had thirty left. But he was reluctant to eat Dragon Balls!
"Good!" As soon as Xiang Yu finished speaking, he felt himself become several times stronger.
With a single cleaver strike, the earth cracked and rocks shattered!
Chapter 283 The Decisive Battle of Kunyang (Part 20)
Xiang Yu's strength instantly increased several times over, and he smashed Liu Xiu's luxurious warship to pieces with a single halberd strike.
However, Liu Xiu was determined to return to the ground this time. The shattered ground reassembled itself, carrying him upwards at an even faster speed.
Xiang Yu also guessed that it wouldn't be so easy to get Liu Xiu to give up returning to the surface, so killing Liu Xiu before that was the best option.
As a result, Liu Xiu's situation became even more tragic. He could only rely on his powerful Observation Haki and the random changes in gravity to prolong his life. He suffered fatal wounds several times, and his healing potions were consumed like water.
Even though Liu Xiu's system had purchased a large number of healing potions in advance to seal off the dimension, storage space was limited, and it would eventually run out.
"He must have used a power-up item that temporarily boosted his strength. Hold on, once the effect wears off, victory will be ours again!" The system encouraged Liu Xiu. She hadn't expected her opponent to be so strong. Were those intelligence-gathering guys raised on shit?
"Damn this pit, it's so deep!" Liu Xiu had done everything he could to save his life, but there was nothing he could do. Without the divine artifact Gravity Blade, he couldn't unleash his full power with just these ordinary swords.
"Damn gravity!" Hao Jiu cursed inwardly. This ability was simply too abnormal. Even Xiang Yu, whose strength had increased dramatically after eating the Dragon Ball, was unable to kill this fiend.
Of course, if Fujitora hadn't possessed equally powerful Observation Haki, Liu Xiu's side would have died eight hundred times over.
Fujitora's Observation Haki is probably not far from being able to foresee the future briefly, and it's fortunate that it's only that, otherwise it might not be Liu Xiu who is in such a sorry state now.
Xiang Yu was also getting impatient. He was clearly much stronger than his opponent, but he was still unable to kill him.
However, even if the other party escapes back to the surface, what is there to fear?
Just do it!
"Kill!" Xiang Yu wielded the Overlord's Halberd with varying force, leaving countless horrific wounds on Liu Xiu's body.
Finally, they saw the sun again after a long time.
Liu Xiu leaped away from the pit, simultaneously unleashing a flurry of attacks with the broken stones to hinder Xiang Yu's pursuit.
However, Xiang Yu possessed extraordinary strength at this time, and he didn't take this attack seriously at all. Moreover, his speed was incredibly fast, and he was not shaken off.
Puff puff puff...
The domineering and outward-spreading sharpness continued to deplete Liu Xiu's healing potion. Liu Xiu fought and retreated, fleeing around on the ground. Surprisingly, he did not fly into the sky to escape.
“No, there’s definitely something wrong here! He can clearly fly…” Hao Jiu’s eyes widened.
"It's a knife. I just noticed a knife on the ground is missing." Xiang Yu also noticed the problem.
But what's the point of picking up the swords? Throwing all those ring-pommel swords at once wouldn't have much of an attack power, would it?
It's simply impossible to break through Xiang Yu's current domineering protective aura!