One Piece: Surrounded at Marineford? Just kidding!

Chapter 135: Arrival! A Sonata of Magma and Freeze

This kid was actually trying to poach the admiral's man.

The thought instantly popped into Whitebeard's mind.

Then the muscles in the white-bearded man's face twitched violently a few times.

Those eyes that looked down upon the era were fixed on Chen Ye, trying to find a trace of a joke on Chen Ye's face.

Even a tiny bit will do.

No.

Chen Ye's expression was calm.

The scheming smile on his lips didn't fade; instead, it widened even further.

Determined.

look forward to.

Inside the coated ship, all you could hear was the gurgling of the seawater flowing outside.

one second.

two seconds.

"puff..."

A strange sound came out of the white-bearded man's throat.

Then, a burst of wild laughter came from his mouth!

The laughter was louder and more insane than ever before.

"Guralalalalalalalala!"

Laughter is like a shockwave, crashing back and forth in the small cabin, making the whole bubble buzz.

He covered his face with one hand and pounded the chair with the other as if his life depended on it.

They laughed so hard they were doubled over.

Tears almost welled up in my eyes.

"Good lad!"

"Good lad!"

"Gurarararar! You really dare to dream!"

The white-bearded man suddenly looked up and grabbed Chen Ye's shoulder.

His eyes held a mixture of shock, admiration, and extreme excitement, as if he had discovered a new continent that no one had ever been to before.

"I've been sailing the seas for decades, fighting countless battles with the navy!"

"I've killed a vice admiral, beaten up an admiral, but I never fucking imagined I could recruit a naval admiral to my ship!"

"You've got guts!"

"You little punk, you've got guts!"

He released his grip and instead slapped Chen Ye hard on the back.

boom.

A muffled thud.

His admiration and fervor were completely undisguised.

"Others go to sea to find treasure, you go to sea to rob the navy's 'national treasure'!"

"Gurararara! Interesting!"

"That's so interesting!"

At this moment, he also agreed with Chen Ye's crazy plan.

This isn't a matter of whether someone is brave or not.

This is a game that's designed to create a huge mess.

It is the domineering way of turning the enemy's most fatal asset into one's own power.

This style of play is exactly to Edward Newgate's liking.

Amidst the white-bearded man's carefree laughter, the coated ship continued forward.

Chen Ye also put on a smile.

He poured himself another bowl of wine and clinked it heavily against the white-bearded man's.

"Dad, this wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision."

He took a sip, his voice flat.

"Aokiji Kuzan, the sense of justice in his heart has long been conflicted. The seed of doubt was planted back in Ohara. Over the years, the disgusting things the World Government and the Celestial Dragons have done have been watering this seed, and now, this seed has long since grown into a tree that can tear apart his beliefs."

The white-bearded man's laughter subsided a bit.

He picked up the wine jar and listened.

"Regardless of the outcome of this contest for the position of marshal, it was the final straw that led him to leave the navy."

Chen Ye's eyes were deep, as if he could already see the scene after the duel.

"If he wins, he'll be forced into a position against his own conscience, becoming the number one lackey of the very order he despises. That's worse than death for him."

Oh no, like I said, he can't win!

"And we lost..."

Chen Ye paused for a moment, a smile playing on his lips.

"If he loses, he'll have nothing left. His status, his glory, and his crumbling sense of justice will all be burned to ashes by Sakazuki's lava."

"By then, he would be a lost soul, devoid of faith and direction, abandoned by justice."

"us..."

Chen Ye looked at the white beard.

"All you need to do is offer him a ladder when he's at his most desperate and confused."

The white-bearded man didn't speak.

He looked at Chen Ye in front of him, as if he were seeing the figure of an old friend.

This young man, whom he treated like his own son, not only possessed the power to crush the world.

Furthermore, they possess a mind capable of seeing through people's hearts and strategizing for the world.

This inevitably reminded him of that man!

He has become a true king, capable of ushering in a new era.

"Gurarararar... Fine! Then let me see with my own eyes how you turned that ice bird into one of ours!"

Whitebeard raised the wine jar again and drank it all in one gulp.

The coated ship sails in the deep sea.

I don't know how much time passed.

The surrounding environment began to undergo strange changes.

"Um?"

The white-bearded man raised an eyebrow and put down the wine jar.

He sensed an unusual aura.

The surrounding scenery began to look strange.

Those colorful deep-sea fish and giant sea monsters gradually disappeared.

The surroundings became very quiet.

The temperature inside the ship also began to become strange.

The air on one side was getting hotter and hotter.

On the other hand, there was a chill that could seep into your bones.

Whitebeard walked to the edge of the bubble and looked out.

On the left, strings of tiny bubbles are rising from the seawater.

The seawater was being burned by an invisible fire, and it began to become turbid and boil.

On the right side, in the seawater, there were floating ice floes of various sizes.

Some of them were even bigger than their ships.

They collided with each other, making a dull thud.

"Oh?"

The white-bearded man's eyebrows twitched, and he showed interest on his face.

"Looks like we're almost there."

Chen Ye also walked over, his gaze piercing through the darkness of the deep sea, looking into the distance.

The ship kept rising.

The moment the coated ship finally broke through the sea surface.

Before them lay a terrifying scene, one that seemed straight out of mythology, one that would stay with anyone for a lifetime.

The island was split in two.

The boundary was clear, as if it had been cut with a knife.

On the left half, there were fiery clouds burning red, the thick clouds were solidified magma, emitting an ominous red light, dyeing half the sky the color of the apocalypse.

On the right side, there were somber blizzard clouds. Huge clouds rolled, and countless hailstones and blizzards poured down from them, tearing a white curtain that stretched between heaven and earth.

The sea beneath their feet is direct proof of this spectacular sight.

The seawater on the left is rolling.

A large pot was bubbling and steaming, its contents boiling.

To the right, the sea is covered by a thick layer of ice. Icebergs rise wildly from the ice, their sharp edges and gaping mouths reaching out into the distance.

Ice and fire.

Two completely opposite things, in the most extreme and barbaric way, seem to be fighting for territory on this island.

The awakened power of the Logia-type Devil Fruits has permanently altered the ecology and climate of this place.

This place has been transformed into a hell of ice and fire.

Punk Hazard.

Arrived.

"Gurarararar... What two incredible monsters."

Whitebeard looked at the catastrophic scene before him and couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

Even he, upon seeing this scene, had to admit that these two young naval brats had indeed mastered their Devil Fruit abilities to the fullest.

Chen Ye didn't speak.

He just watched quietly.

His Observation Haki had long since covered the entire island.

In the center of the island, he could clearly feel the two energies colliding wildly and tearing the heavens and earth apart.

One is magma capable of melting everything, filled with destruction and savagery.

The other is absolute zero, which can freeze time, bringing coldness and deathly stillness.

Each time the two forces collide, the entire island shudders violently, whipping up giant waves of lava and storms of glaciers.

This duel seems to have been going on for several days.

It looks like we've reached the most critical moment.

The coated boat quietly moored at a relatively intact shoreline on the island.

This place is like a buffer zone between ice and fire, neither swallowed by lava nor covered by ice and snow.

Chenye and Baihuzi walked onto the deck one after the other.

I stepped onto this land, a mixture of scorched earth and frost.

Just then, Chen Ye's eyebrows suddenly twitched.

He stopped, his gaze not falling on the center of the island where the fighting was fiercest, but instead turning to the top of a towering iceberg on the other side of the island.

A playful smile appeared on his lips.

"interesting."

"It seems we're not the only audience."

The white-bearded man followed his gaze.

His powerful Observation Haki instantly locked onto that direction.

The next second, a knowing smile appeared on his face.

That smile carried a hint of teasing, as if he hadn't seen his old rival in a long time.

He sensed that presence.

There was an aura he knew all too well, an aura he had fought with his entire life.

"Gurarararara..."

Whitebeard's signature laugh rang out again.

This time, it was all schadenfreude.

"It's that old bastard Garp!"

"He really is worried about his apprentice! He secretly came here all by himself!"