Chapter 129: Magellan's Terrifying Strength [Bonus Chapter]

(Note: The first chapter of the bonus release for the grand patron See Through the Red Dust has arrived! The second chapter will be later.)

Everything within the field of vision was destined to be reduced to ashes. This cluster of black karmic flames hailing from hell was precisely the second ocular jutsu of Shu Mingyuan's right eye!

Amaterasu!

The karmic flames burned at a ferocious speed, the black flames spreading rapidly up Magellan's arm. A piercing, bone-deep pain surged from his limb. Magellan instantly unleashed his abilities, transforming his entire arm into venom that surged forward to engulf the black flames. Yet, in merely a fraction of a second, the venom encasing the black karmic fire was burned straight through.

"What kind of flame is this? It actually cannot be extinguished!"

Shock was plastered across Magellan's face. He flung his arm outward, sending the venom burning with pitch-black flames crashing onto the ground, where it was reduced to nothingness in mere moments.

This fire was exceedingly bizarre; he had never even heard of pitch-black flames. Yet, it seemed capable of burning everything while refusing to be put out. If he hadn't reacted so swiftly just now, he had a lingering premonition that this karmic fire would have burned him down to absolute nothingness before stopping.

A strange glint flashed in Shu Mingyuan's eyes. Famed as the strongest physical attack ninjutsu, he hadn't expected his right eye's ocular jutsu to be Amaterasu. Once Amaterasu was unleashed, it would not vanish until the target was completely incinerated; otherwise, it would burn on for all eternity.

Although Magellan could transform his entire body into venom and functioned much like a Logia user despite possessing a Paramecia ability, Amaterasu seemed of little use if it could not burn his actual physical body rather than just the venom on his surface, as he could simply cast off the burning venom at a whim.

"Venom Pufferfish!"

Magellan took a deep breath and spat out dozens of venom spheres in succession, bombarding Shu Mingyuan. This was venom he had accumulated over countless years; if even a single sphere landed, the fearsome Ghost Hunter would instantly lose all ability to resist.

"Amaterasu!"

Countless crimson veins in his right eye converged upon the pitch-black sun. He felt a sudden tightness and a sharp pain in his right eye, and a wall of pitch-black fire abruptly manifested right before him. Every single venom sphere hurtling toward him at high speed was burned utterly clean in the blink of an eye.

Magellan took note of the emergence of the black flames. The young man had made no obvious hand seals; the fire seemed to spawn instantaneously wherever his gaze fell. The ability to kill with a mere glance—and such a formidable one at that—left him no room to doubt the truth of that rumor.

Shu Mingyuan blinked. The discomfort had come and gone quickly, but he knew in his heart that this was mostly the sequela of overusing the Mangekyo Sharingan. Using the immensely powerful ocular jutsu Amaterasu twice in succession had caused mild discomfort, even though he had just awakened his eyes.

The sole consequence of overusing the Mangekyo Sharingan was blindness. Shu Mingyuan was fully aware of this, but he felt not the slightest bit of worry. As long as he had the system at his disposal, awakening the even more advanced Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, or perhaps even the Rinnegan, was entirely within the realm of possibility.

"Flames born from ocular power... what a bizarre ability. The temperature is extremely high, and it is virtually unquenchable. Truly a troublesome brat. Still, it should be fine as long as I avoid physical contact. Even if I touch it, shaking off the affected venom instantly leaves me basically unharmed."

Magellan drew a deep breath, his gaze turning grave.

"Venom Demon!"

From his back, adorned with small black demonic wings, sprouted three colossal dragon-shaped entities of lethal poison stretching hundreds of feet long. The giant dragons coiled and circled, their entire bodies brimming with venom capable of melting the ice sheet into bottomless, pitch-black pits with every single dripping drop.

The three venomous dragons let out a heaven-shaking roar and lunged to devour Shu Mingyuan. Their speed was blinding; almost simultaneously from three different directions, they sealed off all of Shu Mingyuan's escape routes.

As the three venom dragons snapped downward with their jaws wide, it was as if three long rivers of poison were cascading backward from the heavens. Such momentum could only be described as terrifying.

"Leaf Style Swordsmanship: Dance of the Crescent Moon!"

Wielding the Chidori, Shu Mingyuan slashed downward with a single blade. Three sword beams split the venom dragons in two, yet after a brief writhing of the venom, the three dragon heads reformed instantly. These venom dragons were entirely manifested from Magellan's venom and possessed no life of their own; unless his attacks could directly injure his true body, the number of venom dragons was limitless.

At this moment, Magellan had completely transformed into a venomous entity. He paid no heed to what Shu Mingyuan's attacks might be, knowing all of them would be blocked by the venom dragons. He only needed to close the distance and give his opponent a bath in venom to accomplish his mission completely.

The ferocious dragon heads lunged to bite once more. Their gaping maws condensed venom, spitting out three more venom spheres that shot directly toward Shu Mingyuan.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

Forming hand seals with both hands, a slender line of fire sprayed from his mouth, expanding dramatically against the wind into a massive fireball fifty meters in diameter. It swallowed the three venom spheres, followed by a thunderous roar.

Stimulated by the flames, the venom spheres swelled and exploded violently, blasting apart the three venom dragon heads. Shiryu of the Rain's expression remained entirely unchanged; the very next moment, the venom dragons restored themselves to pristine condition. The combined scale of the three hundred-foot-long venom dragons approached a thousand feet. Compared to the meager fifty-meter fireball, the Great Fireball Technique could only be considered a tiny spark. The colossal dragon bodies trampled right through, and the flames were instantly extinguished.

"Do you really think flames of this magnitude can stop me?"

"You must remember, I am the Warden who guards Impel Down!"

A sense of utter helplessness welled up within Shu Mingyuan. This fellow Magellan lacked any tactical finesse whatsoever, relying purely on the overwhelming brute force of his venom dragons while ignoring all incoming attacks. This style of crushing the ten-thousand-fold with sheer power used to be his own specialty, yet facing Magellan made him acutely aware of how puny he truly was.

Venom dragons lunged and snapped down one after another, while Shu Mingyuan dodged frantically across the ice sheet. No matter where he went, a dragon head would viciously strike down the very next second.

"At this rate, there's simply no way out."

Shu Mingyuan thought to himself. Numerous patches of the ice sheet were already stained with the venom splattered by the venom dragons. He certainly didn't believe his current physical constitution could withstand Magellan's poison; no one possessing the strength of an Admiral was weak.

He abruptly halted his footsteps, the Chidori tracing three sword beams through the air as three massive venom dragon heads fell cleanly in response. Simultaneously, the soles of his feet slammed violently against the empty air. His figure seemed to transform into a sharp blade wreathed in countless lightning bolts, thrusting viciously toward Magellan.

"Super Expansion Technique: Super Palm Thrust!"

Sheathing his blade, he swept his arm backward through the air, instantly expanding his palm to a massive size of sixty meters.

Armament Haki, coated!

Chidori Stream, coated!

Chakra Cloak, coated!

With a three-layered defense and a furious roar, he thrust his palm forward with devastating force. The air was squeezed until it emitted a piercing, explosive screech. Magellan's expression remained unchanged as he allowed this heavily fortified palm strike to land squarely against his body!

Rooted like an ancient monk in meditation, his feet anchored deeply into the ground, he did not retreat a single step in the face of this blow, relying purely on his physical resilience to take it head-on.

Boom!!

Within a radius of a hundred meters, the ice sheet beneath their feet shattered with a deafening crash. Cracks spiderwebbed outward, cleaving the ice into colossal, jagged fragments.

Yet at this very moment, a cold sneer crept across Magellan's face. The three massive venom dragons, long since regenerated, swarmed forward in unison, descending like an inescapable blanket as the blue-purple venom covered every single inch of his target's body without leaving a single gap...