"Your realm..."
Shimotsuki Ryuma's eyes flashed with brilliance as he reached out to grasp the hilt of Shusui.
Suddenly, he turned the blade and thrust it directly at Luo Chen.
Shusui trembled violently; the sharpness of the blade intensified, and a tangible wave of sword qi erupted around the hilt.
Shimotsuki Ryuma's arm was shattered by the sword qi, turning into confetti that filled the air; everything below the wrist vanished.
The Black Blade Shusui stopped in front of Luo Chen's neck, motionless.
He looked slightly dazed.
Not because he cared about his hand being shattered.
Ryuma already knew about Impure World Reincarnation.
He was now immortal.
The shattered hand would reform immediately.
Just as the thought passed, the confetti that had formed from the shattered hand swirled back below his wrist, reconstructing a new hand.
Shimotsuki Ryuma looked at Shusui, which had broken free from his control, was silent for a moment, and then said:
"Your realm has already surpassed mine."
"Legend has it that swordsmanship surpassing the pinnacle of the world stands above all swordsmen, known as the Emperor of Swords."
"All things in the world can be commanded as swords."
"The enemy's sword is no exception."
"Therefore, unless they are of the same realm, no swordsman can wield a blade in front of a Sword Emperor."
He raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "What year is it now? Are there many swordsmen in the outside world who have reached the Sword Emperor Realm?"
"From my observation, you are very young."
Shimotsuki Ryuma gazed at Luo Chen.
It should be known that he was an octogenarian before he died.
After a lifetime of bitter pursuit, he failed to break through to the Sword Emperor Realm.
How old was Luo Chen?
Shimotsuki Ryuma felt he was only about twenty years old; his life aura was very young.
At such an age, he had surpassed this former World's Greatest Swordsman.
Ryuma did not deny that Luo Chen's talent in the Way of the Sword must be extremely powerful.
But if the swordsmanship environment in the outside world wasn't developed enough, and the heritage of the Way of the Sword wasn't complete enough, it would be impossible for Luo Chen to reach the Sword Emperor Realm at such a young age.
Therefore, Shimotsuki Ryuma believed that many years had passed since his death.
And that powerful swordsmen had emerged one after another, breaking the limits of swordsmanship time and again.
Perhaps the Sword Emperor Realm wasn't even considered the absolute peak in the current era.
Luo Chen smiled. "Sea Circle Calendar 1520."
"As for the Sword Emperor Realm, this is the first time I've heard this title."
"In the outside world, no one should have reached it."
His words stunned Shimotsuki Ryuma.
Sea Circle Calendar 1520?
It hadn't even been a thousand years since his death.
The title of Sword Emperor Realm had also become extinct in the outside world?
Not a single Sword Emperor powerhouse?
Ryuma's eyes widened slightly. "You are the first person to reach the Sword Emperor Realm?!"
Luo Chen rubbed his chin in thought and nodded slowly. "I should be. The World's Greatest Swordsman of this era is still playing with Black Blades."
The Black Blade was the realm before his breakthrough.
It was also the realm Shimotsuki Ryuma was at before he died.
Rayleigh and Red-Haired Shanks should also belong to the Black Blade Realm.
However, they might be accustomed to fighting with Conqueror's Haki and tempering their blades with it.
So their blades failed to turn permanently black from Armament Haki.
In terms of the realm of swordsmanship, they were still in the Black Blade Realm.
There was a certain distance from Hawkeye Mihawk, but not much.
Shimotsuki Ryuma was completely dumbfounded upon hearing this.
This young man who resurrected him, around twenty years old, turned out to be the pioneer of the Sword Emperor Realm.
He relied on his own perception and talent to break through the world's pinnacle and step into the Sword Emperor Realm.
The pinnacle of swordsmanship in the outside world hadn't changed or become stronger.
The strong one was the young man before him.
Luo Chen smiled. "Familiarize yourself with your body and the world situation first. I'm going to summon a few more people."
With a thought, he imported the current world structure and situation into Shimotsuki Ryuma's mind.
Luo Chen didn't care if the other party believed it or not.
Anyway, once he went outside and found some newspapers and news to read, Shimotsuki Ryuma would know.
He was going to resurrect Crocodile now.
Luo Chen used intangibility to pass through the Seastone bars and arrived at the opposite cell.
The middle-aged swordsman knelt on the ground, trembling all over, kowtowing repeatedly, his tone full of terror and awe.
"Lord Luo Chen, spare me."
"I want to submit to you."
"You... you are simply a true god on earth!"
He believed that was the real Shimotsuki Ryuma.
Luo Chen, the Fifth Emperor of the Sea who rose the fastest, had actually resurrected the World's Greatest Swordsman from hundreds of years ago.
It simply shocked him too much.
Luo Chen shook his head. "Your strength is too weak. A level of a few hundred million... one scoop in the sea brings up a whole bunch."
If this person were powerful, he might have considered sparing his life.
Unfortunately, he only had a bounty of three or four hundred million.
His only value was to become a living sacrifice for Impure World Reincarnation.
Luo Chen took Crocodile's corpse out of the Kamui dimension.
Following the same method, he cut off a piece of flesh.
Then he pressed a finger against the desperate middle-aged swordsman's forehead.
Gray-white paper flew up and enveloped the man.
Moments later, the paper drifted down and dissipated in mid-air.
Crocodile knelt on the ground with a confused expression.
He slowly looked up. The moment he saw Luo Chen, his unfocused pupils suddenly converged, as if he had fully recalled the past.
Crocodile stood up abruptly, sweeping out with the golden hook on his left hand.
With a thought from Luo Chen, the golden hook stopped in mid-air.
No matter how much force Crocodile exerted, he couldn't move it a fraction.
"Damn it, what did you do to me?"
Crocodile gritted his teeth and asked, his eyes filled with shock and suspicion as he glanced around out of the corner of his eye.
His last memory stopped at being killed by Luo Chen.
Tree branches had pierced his heart, and his consciousness had quickly dissipated.
Now, why was he seeing Luo Chen again?
His consciousness had also regained clarity.
What happened?
Crocodile couldn't understand.
Soon, a stream of information flowed into his brain.
Crocodile instantly understood the course of events.
He looked astonished, and his killing intent dissipated due to the shock to his mind.
"Impure World Reincarnation?"
Crocodile examined his own hands.
The exposed skin was covered in cracks like broken porcelain.
There was definitely a difference from his body when he was alive.
Luo Chen chuckled lightly. "Accept reality properly. Starting today, you work for me."
"Try to see if you can learn Haki in this state."
"If you're too weak, I won't keep you."
In his youth, Crocodile definitely knew Armament and Observation Haki.
He might even have possessed Conqueror's Haki.
When Crocodile was in his late teens or early twenties, he had fought on par with Douglas Bullet.
He had challenged Whitebeard, Edward Newgate.
His peak strength was certainly not weak.
It was just that later, he became bent on seizing the Ancient Weapon Pluton and abandoned his own strength.
This led to the regression of his Haki, reducing him to a weakling with only a Devil Fruit ability.
Give Crocodile some time, and as long as he trained hard, relearning Haki wouldn't be difficult.
The problem was, that was
in his living state.
Luo Chen didn't know if Crocodile could relearn Haki in an Impure World Reincarnation body.
All three types of Haki were powers belonging to the level of soul and will.
Impure World Reincarnation involved recalling the soul of the deceased from the Pure Land.
Logically speaking, Crocodile should be able to do it.
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