Chapter 1632 Dark Star

The Dark-Dark Fruit does indeed possess the ability to nullify the vast majority of Devil Fruit powers, which was Teach's greatest advantage in ultimately seizing this fruit due to his betrayal and forbearance.

But Edward Newgate, who had traversed the seas for decades and emerged from the era of Rocks, had long since integrated his combat wisdom and experience into his instincts.

In his seemingly rough and rugged mind, he had already forged an irrefutable, universal formula applicable to any enemy.

Haki, especially top-tier Conqueror's Haki, is enough to surpass all fancy Devil Fruit abilities.

With a roar, the terrifying black and red aura surrounding him instantly condensed and compressed.

He poured all his energy into the massive Supreme Grade Sword, Murakumogiri, in his hand. The blade hummed, and dark red lightning, like wildly dancing thunder serpents, coiled around the edge, unleashing a destructive wave that sent chills down one's spine.

He gripped the sword with both hands, the tips pointing at the ferocious-looking Blackbeard Teach, whose eyes burned with world-destroying rage. "Teach, only Haki can truly transcend everything!"

The smugness and arrogance on Teach's face instantly froze under the pure and extreme Conqueror's Haki and killing intent.

Cold sweat poured down his thick forehead, cheeks, and neck like a waterfall; even among Conqueror's Haki, there are differences.

That is a comprehensive reflection of one's spirit, magnanimity, experience, will, and even the degree to which one has fully realized one's own kingly qualities.

It is the most naked and direct collision between numerical values!

In this respect, Edward Newgate, who survived that era of fierce competition, undoubtedly holds an absolute advantage. He is a living legend, a monster among monsters of Conqueror's Haki.

Teach forcibly suppressed the turmoil in his heart and roared, his voice filled with bravado but utter cowardice, "Old man, you can't threaten me! Are you really going to watch Ace, your beloved adopted son, die on the Navy's execution platform?!"

Whitebeard slowly raised the Murakumogiri sword in his hand, the black and red Haki condensing on the blade becoming increasingly solid. "Take this strike from me, and then we'll talk."

Finally, it transformed into a deafening roar, "Breaking through the air!!"

Whitebeard gripped his sword with both hands and slashed upwards at Blackbeard in mid-air, showing no mercy.

A dark red crescent-shaped sword aura that stretched across the sky instantly detached from the blade and roared out!

This strike was not only wrapped in thick, black and red lightning, as thick as a bucket, but the airspace it swept through was also torn apart like a fragile canvas, leaving behind dark spatial cracks.

At the same time, the shockwave from the slash itself distorted the surrounding air and even the light, making it an extremely powerful strike that combined top-tier Haki, the energy of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and unparalleled martial arts.

This earth-shattering slash was larger than the enormous purple-scaled dragon beneath Blackbeard's feet.

A destructive arc of light, at least several hundred meters long, slashed towards Blackbeard like a divine blade of judgment. Edward Newgate's prowess was undiminished.

As the destructive slash drew ever closer, filling his entire field of vision, a moment of disorientation appeared on Blackbeard Teach's face.

He seemed to see a scene flash before his eyes: when he was a child, on the Moby Dick, looking up at the towering figure of the white-bearded man.

The next moment, all the daze and memories were swallowed up by the surging ambition. Instead of dodging or avoiding, he stood still and said, "Old man, you really have never disappointed me."

"So did I go to the wrong place?"

He muttered to himself, his eyes momentarily unfocused, "Maybe..."

The purple-scaled dragon beneath his feet sensed the destructive power contained in the slash before him, as well as the terrifying aura that suddenly rose from Blackbeard's body.

Almost instantly, it made an instinctive choice, flapping its wings and flying rapidly backward, leaving its captain all alone in the same spot.

A collision of this magnitude, even a mere glancing blow, would be enough to severely damage or even destroy it.

Teach did not blame his crew for deserting. Thick darkness surged from beneath his feet, lifting his bulky body and suspending him in the air.

If he can't even handle this hurdle, what right does he have to be the captain of the Blackbeard Pirates?

And by what right do they have to subdue the group of vicious men on the ship, each with their own ulterior motives?

"Come on, old man, you're not the only one getting stronger," Teach's smile gradually faded. He raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and aimed at the destructive slash that was about to hit him.

The unfathomable dark power within his body began to compress wildly into his right palm at an unprecedented speed.

Endless darkness, constantly collapsing and solidifying inward.

The density of darkness was rapidly increasing, and the color changed from deep black to an absolute black that seemed to absorb all light. When compressed to a certain critical point, the quantitative change triggered a qualitative change.

"Dark Star"! !

A tiny, jet-black ball, no bigger than an eyeball, appeared in his palm. Just as Whitebeard's devastating slash was about to strike Blackbeard, Teach pushed the tiny black ball forward.

The moment the ball left my hand, there was no earth-shattering sound, but rather an extreme stillness.

But everyone could clearly feel that, centered on that small ball, an extremely terrifying suction force, beyond all reason, suddenly erupted.

Before Whitebeard's fierce slash even truly touched the black sphere, the black and red Conqueror's Haki lightning wrapped around it, the shockwave contained within, and even the sharp sword energy of the slash itself began to go out of control, drawn by the invisible force field emanating from the sphere.

Under the astonished gaze of billions of people around the world, the destructive strike, powerful enough to cleave islands and cleave oceans, actually flew into the pitch-black sphere like a moth drawn to a flame.

It was being devoured by the black sphere at a speed visible to the naked eye.

All the domineering aura, the vibration, the sword energy, and all its destructive power gradually merged into the bottomless darkness, disappearing without a trace.

This horrifying scene shocked everyone present—the navy, pirates, and even viewers around the world watching via Den Den Mushi.

After Edward Newgate's powerful, furious sword energy was completely devoured, the dark star seemed to have completed its mission.

It stopped emitting suction and instead began to collapse and shrink rapidly from the inside, eventually turning into a tiny black dot that was almost invisible.

Where the black dot disappeared, a ripple of pitch-black light suddenly burst forth, spreading silently outwards.

This black light was not harmful; it was merely a lingering effect after the energy had been completely released and returned to nothingness, and it vanished in an instant.

But everyone saw this scene and remembered it; the sea was deathly silent.

Blackbeard Teach remained firmly in the air, darkness surging beneath his feet, the madness on his face completely gone.

Instead, there was an unprecedented depth, even carrying an indescribable solemnity.

He raised his head, his gaze passing through the gradually subsiding aftershocks of energy, and looked once again at the two giants in the distance, still standing tall but with equally solemn expressions.

"Now we can have a proper talk, Dad..."

At this moment, the lewd, crazy, and arrogant expression on Blackbeard Teach's face had mostly faded.

His current arrogant demeanor bears at least a seven-tenths resemblance to Rocks D. Giebeck, the man who once shook the world and caused headaches for both the Navy and Roger.