Chapter 101: The Fusion of the Heavenly Dao

Chu Yi's path was the Asura Path.

And the ultimate secret of the Asura Path was...

Tenfold!

Almighty Push!

"Hum—!"

At this moment, sensing clearly with Observation Haki that Whitebeard was still not fighting at full strength, Chu Yi—determined to drag Whitebeard down from the throne of the world's strongest—displayed before Whitebeard the fruits of his previous three days of arduous training, instantly shifting from his ordinary Asura form into his current Six-Armed Asura form!

Six-Armed Asura Mode! A mode that amplified any Devil Fruit ability by at least sixfold!

Combined with Chu Yi's trait of unleashing "Almighty Push" through his Asura arms, the "Almighty Push" he now released through those arms was no longer a mere sixfold "Almighty Push," but a full tenfold-power "Almighty Push"!

So, the moment Chu Yi's tenfold "Almighty Push" was unleashed...

"Boom!"

The very sky changed color; the entire sea seemed to shake!

Huge waves surged. Aboard the Moby Dick, Marco, Jozu, Vista, and the others all changed expression slightly—on the sturdy Moby Dick, they had to grab hold of something to steady themselves on the pitching deck.

And the only look in their eyes at that moment was shock.

Because no one had imagined that Chu Yi's Devil Fruit ability could be so formidable that even "heaven" would fear it, even "heaven" would tremble before it.

A similar look of shock also surfaced in Whitebeard's eyes.

It had to be said that in claiming the title of the world's strongest, Whitebeard had his credentials.

Not only did he possess the strongest Paramecia-class Devil Fruit, but his own strength had already reached that very realm!

For this reason, the Whitebeard who had been fighting Chu Yi earlier was merely playing.

As for his true strength...

Whitebeard hadn't even used one-fifth of it.

But now...

Witnessing the ferocious might of the tenfold "Almighty Push," Whitebeard knew he could not continue playing.

If he kept playing, he would lose his life before Chu Yi!

So for the first time, as he bent his right arm to call upon his Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability, Whitebeard wrapped Armament Haki around the power of his Devil Fruit.

He would use his fist to tell Chu Yi!

With similar Devil Fruit abilities, his—Whitebeard's—Tremor-Tremor Fruit was superior!

But just as Chu Yi's tenfold "Almighty Push," accompanied by the world-shaking phenomena, was on the verge of sweeping over the island where Whitebeard stood...

"Crack!"

Suddenly! The world-shaking phenomena vanished! Chu Yi's tenfold "Almighty Push" likewise disappeared into thin air, causing Whitebeard, along with Marco, Vista, Jozu, and the others watching from the Moby Dick, to freeze in bewilderment.

However, when the tenfold "Almighty Push" vanished without a trace, Chu Yi did not freeze.

Or rather...

The abrupt disappearance of the tenfold "Almighty Push" was precisely an opportunity Chu Yi seized!

An opportunity born from three days of accumulated training with Shadow Clones—the leap from "quantitative change" to "qualitative change"!

In that instant—the moment the tenfold "Almighty Push" vanished—the island before Chu Yi's eyes disappeared, the Whitebeard locked onto by his Observation Haki disappeared, and he was once again plunged into darkness, a boundless, limitless space.

Gradually, a crimson light emerged.

The next second! The Six-Armed Asura avatar slowly condensed before Chu Yi!

"Has the moment of breakthrough come?"

"I've been waiting for this day for a long time!"

There are no pies dropped from heaven in this world, because those unprepared are sure to fail to catch them—instead, they'll be crushed to death by the falling pie.

And Chu Yi was clearly not an unprepared man.

During the three days of arduous training with Shadow Clones, he had vaguely sensed that he was about to take an important step.

So, when he found himself back in the space of the Asura avatar, when he saw the image of the Six-Armed Asura once again appearing before him...

Following the same pattern as before, he first transformed into Six-Armed Asura Mode within the Asura avatar.

Then, just as Chu Yi unleashed that same tenfold "Almighty Push" at his own Asura avatar...

"Boom!"

Overwhelming killing intent spread through the surroundings!

When the power of the tenfold "Almighty Push" collided head-on with the Six-Armed Asura avatar, and was then slowly absorbed into it...

The vertical pupil opened!

Within the Six-Armed Asura avatar's single vertical pupil—a violet pupil—a ripple slowly condensed into solidity, just like the second transformation of the vertical pupil at the center of Chu Yi's brow!

"The Heavenly Path is complete!"

"My Asura Path has perfectly merged with the Heavenly Path!"

Seeing that ripple take shape in the Six-Armed Asura avatar's vertical pupil, Chu Yi knew he had succeeded.

At this moment, he had smoothly integrated his third awakening—an ability resembling the Deva Path of the Rinnegan from Naruto—into the Asura avatar.

Following the successful integration of the Visualization Fruit and the material for the seventh awakening into his core Devil Fruit ability, now, relying on his own accumulation and effort, Chu Yi had finally completed the fusion of his third awakening ability.

The third awakening ability was what Chu Yi called the ability of the Heavenly Path.

And once the Heavenly Path's ability was fully fused...

Chu Yi was the Asura who wielded the Heavenly Path!

Then, in the next instant.

Chu Yi, having completed the fusion of the Heavenly Path, returned once more to the real world, and the power of the tenfold "Almighty Push" that had vanished into thin air manifested once again!

Again came the world-shaking phenomena!

Again came the wind and the tsunami!

The only difference was that when Chu Yi's tenfold "Almighty Push" came sweeping in once more, just as it seemed about to collide with Whitebeard's fist—the fist wreathed in Armament Haki and Tremor-Tremor Fruit power...

"Whoosh!"

The power of the tenfold "Almighty Push" suddenly transformed!

It actually...

It actually caused space itself to collapse, spawning a miniature black hole that collided with Whitebeard's fist!

"Boom!"

The two mighty forces crashed together, and time seemed to stop completely in that moment.

The look of astonishment on both Chu Yi's and Whitebeard's faces stiffened.

At this moment, Chu Yi was astonished that the power of his third awakening merged into his core ability—or rather, the fully manifested power of the Heavenly Path—could shatter the void and even conjure a devastating miniature black hole.

As for Whitebeard?

He was astonished that no matter how much Armament Haki he output, no matter how he used his Devil Fruit ability, he could not break through that miniature black hole with its infinite devouring power!

Moreover, the aura emanating from within that miniature black hole made even Whitebeard, bearer of the title of the world's strongest, tremble!

The aura emanating from within that miniature black hole contained no time... no space... no mass!

There...

Was simply like another world!

And the source of that world's power...

Was nothingness itself!