Chapter 73: Chapter 73
With a roar, Sanji's body suddenly stopped spinning at high speed.
With the huge kinetic energy from spinning to the limit, he raised his right leg and swung it hard. A crescent-shaped slash over 10 meters long, burning with blazing flames, instantly arrived in front of Zephyr.
This brat!
Zephyr had no time to be surprised and could only raise his hand to block it again.
The scorching flame slash also failed to break through his defense after hitting him.
However, the terrible kinetic energy of the slash pushed Zephyr all the way back, and his legs directly plowed two deep grooves on the ground.
"It's not over yet, Santoryu : 108-Pound Phoenix!"
Zoro jumped out again at this time, adding another damage.
Three blue slashes gathered together, forming a phoenix-like sword energy superimposed on Sanji's attack.
Instantly, the power of the flame slash became stronger, the scorching flames scorched the earth, and even Zephyr began to sweat slightly.
The combined attack of the two couldn't help but surprise Zephyr secretly.
But he was an admiral after all, no matter how exquisite and powerful the two attacks were, he still couldn't be stumped.
"Hah!"
Zephyr shouted, blocking the attack with his left arm, and raised his right fist high.
A thick Armament Haki was wrapped around it, and as the fist fell, it slashed at the flames and released.
"Armament Haki: Hardening!"
The powerful fists hit the flaming slash with unstoppable force.
The slash was instantly dispersed, and the sparks flew everywhere like exploding fireworks, and finally fell to the ground and dissipated into nothingness.
Sanji and the others stared at this scene in a daze, not knowing what to think.
This was already their full-strength attack, but it was still easily dispersed by Zephyr.
Are they too weak, or is this old man too strong?
Looking at the two dumbfounded teenagers, Zephyr slowly put away his posture, with a look of satisfaction on his face.
"Let's stop here. I have a general understanding of your strength."
After saying this, he paused and looked at the two of them with a serious look.
"Have you already started your armament haki training?"
Zoro reluctantly retracted the three swords and nodded:
"Yes, but I have not practiced for a long time and I have not yet fully mastered it."
"Well, as a swordsman, your swordsmanship is considered exquisite in the headquarters."
Zephyr expressed his affirmation to Zoro. After saying that, he looked at Sanji.
"You too, you are able to integrate the six styles so skillfully into your kicking skills, your talent is truly rare."
Zephyr said, taking out a booklet and writing down the characteristics of both of them with a pen.
"Okay, let me see your training again, the Haki training method that Luffy taught you."
Hearing this, Zoro and Sanji couldn't help but look at each other.
Then Sanji shook his head and gritted his teeth and said:
"The method he taught us was to blindfold ourselves and let everyone beat us up.
During the beating, we had to either learn to use Armament Haki to resist or learn Observation Haki to avoid it."
After hearing this, Zephyr's face darkened and he started to curse.
"Bastard!"
Taking a deep breath, Zephyr suppressed the urge to grab Luffy and beat him up, and explained:
"I don't deny that some people can learn armament haki through this kind of training.
But the essence of armament haki power is the invisible feelings such as momentum, killing intent, and fighting spirit. It is the embodiment of willpower.
Learning armament haki is learning how to control willpower.
For this, the marine has long explored a complete and effective training method."
Zephyr talked eloquently with his hands behind his back, and his words opened another door for the two of them.
"Do you know about life return? This is also a move that is circulated among the marine elite and world government agents.
The principle is to infuse the will into various parts of the body, so as to achieve the effect of controlling the body, hair, internal organs, etc.
There are a lot of similarities between the two. Once you have mastered life return, learning armament haki will be much easier."
"Life return? Didn't Luffy have that? Isn't that a passive skill?"
Zoro asked in confusion.
Zephyr nodded slowly with a dark face, "That's right for him. That kid has a special physique and is born with life return.
So he learned Haki very quickly at the beginning.
In fact, he mastered Haki by himself in the battle as you just said."
Hearing this, Zoro and Sanji's faces immediately turned green.
After all this time, it turned out that this bastard was a pervert, so he taught them as if they were perverts like him.
It would be strange if they could learn it!
But fortunately, there is Zephyr to explain it to them and teach them step by step.
The two of them quickly put aside their unhappiness and stayed in the elite training camp to start training seriously.
Of course, Zephyr would not keep them.
After a day of training, he told the two of them the direction of the subsequent training, gave each of them a training plan written on the spur of the moment, and sent them away.
Despite this, the two still benefited a lot, and sincerely called him Teacher Zephyr when they left.
On the fourth day after returning to the headquarters, After getting dressed up, Luffy stood in the largest square in Marineford.
Senior Marine officers who stayed at the headquarters, such as Tsuru, Zephyr, and Aokiji, attended the event.
In addition, Vice Admiral Momonga, Strawberry, Doberman, Rear Admiral Yukimura, Catacombo and many other Marine high ranking officer came to watch the ceremony.
On the high platform in the center of the square, Luffy, Hina, Ain, Cook and other main members of the guerrilla's squad stood in a row in order of marine rank.
Opposite them was Fleet Admiral Sengoku, who was dressed in formal attire and had a serious and earnest face.
Taking the golden medal from the hands of the marines beside him, Sengoku came to Luffy and put it on him personally.
After that, he straightened Luffy's suit, patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him:
"Captain Luffy, I hope you will continue to work hard in the future. I look forward to awarding you a medal next time."
"Yes! I will live up to the Fleet Admiral's expectations!"
Luffy stood up straight and saluted in response.
After that, he turned around and stepped forward, saluted and thanked all his colleagues who came to watch the ceremony.
Immediately, there was applause from the audience. Sengoku also smiled and clapped softly. After the applause stopped, he took another medal and began to award the medal to Hina.
"Captain Hina, I have seen your performance, keep up the good work."
"Yes, thank you Fleet Admiral Sengoku!"
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