dmims Chapter 175 Blasphemy against the Heavenly Emperor shall be repaid with tenfold slaughter.
Chapter 175 Blasphemy against the Heavenly Emperor shall be repaid with tenfold slaughter.
Chapter 175 Blasphemy against the Heavenly Emperor shall be repaid with tenfold slaughter.
The conflict between the Shandian warriors and the sky island priests and residents escalated, and centuries of pent-up resentment finally erupted after the loss of a common external threat.
Words are like sharp blades, cutting into each other's wounds.
"You barbaric natives! All you do is destroy and occupy!" A sky island priest shouted, brandishing his weapon in agitation.
"This land was bestowed upon us by Lord Enel! It is the will of God! Even though Lord Enel is no longer here, it is not your place, you inferior races who don't even have wings, to point fingers at it!"
"Bullshit!" A Sandian veteran roared in fury.
"Apayado has always been the ancestral land of us Shandiya! It was you invaders who came on strange clouds and stole it!"
Your so-called god is nothing but a powerful thief!
"Shut up! Don't you dare insult Lord Enel!"
"You were the ones who insulted our ancestors first!"
The argument escalated, with profanities and insults flying everywhere.
At that moment, perhaps out of loyalty to Enel, or perhaps to completely deny the new god that the Shandians might rely on,
A young priest turned his attention to Indra, who was doing it again, and roared as he pointed at the still gloomy sky flashing with lightning.
"Listen! What otherworldly god?! You're just playing tricks! On Skypiea, the only god is Lord Enel!"
"All others who dare to call themselves gods are clowns! They're all bastards who deserve to be struck by lightning! That guy who kidnapped the true god, he's a—"
"Feed." The silent Bhu Jun, his brows furrowed, suddenly spoke up to interrupt.
He held the iron, his brow furrowed, and reminded him in a low voice.
"It's okay to dislike something in your heart, but I suggest you don't say it out loud. Some things are beyond your judgment."
Yan Mi nodded slightly, a warning glint in her cool eyes: "Words can sometimes bring destruction more easily than swords. Be careful what you say."
However, the priest, blinded by his emotions, wouldn't listen to any of this and instead felt challenged.
"So this is what you call heroic spirits? A bunch of cowards! You don't even have the guts to hurl insults?"
He cursed even more fiercely, his words becoming increasingly vicious and offensive, even going so far as to blaspheme the laws of heaven and earth, blaming all his misfortunes on some unknown otherworldly deity.
"Indra, is it? What kind of bullshit god-king is he! I think he's just a coward who's too ashamed to show his face!"
"A thief who stole the power of lightning—it's all because of him! Go ahead and strike me if you dare! Come on! Sky Island doesn't welcome any outsiders."
His words abruptly ended.
It wasn't that anyone was stopping it, but rather that the sound of the entire world seemed to have been instantly emptied.
Silence. A deathly silence enveloped the battlefield.
The Shandians were stunned, as were the Skypiea people. Even the Straw Hat crew felt a chill run down their spines.
Zoro's hand landed on the hilt of his sword, Sanji dropped the cigarette from his mouth, and Nami, Chopper, and Usopp huddled together in fright.
They had all witnessed Indra's unreasonable power and arrogance.
The playful smile on Tescatlipoca's face vanished, replaced by a cruel expression that was almost one of appreciation.
"Oh? What a brave fellow, daring to face destruction so directly, worthy of praise." He seemed to see a scene of some ancient ritual.
Joan of Arc's expression changed drastically, and she shouted, "Stop him! Words will suffice—"
Before she could finish speaking, the sky changed.
The clouds, which had been churning with exotic lightning, froze instantly, then rippled outwards like a lake with a pebble thrown in.
At the center of those ripples, endless lightning converged, no longer the power of nature, but filled with some supreme will.
Two eyes, composed entirely of lightning, slowly opened within the swirling clouds. They had no pupils, no emotions, only boundless majesty and the laws of destruction.
Its existence caused all living beings on the entire Sky Island, from the strongest heroic spirits to the weakest Sky Island children, to feel as if an invisible giant hand was tightening around their hearts, and their souls trembled and knelt down in fear!
That's an absolute crushing defeat on a life level!
"Ordinary things," a voice rang out.
It doesn't travel through the air; it explodes directly in the deepest part of the soul!
Grand, cold, and utterly calm, yet it contains a fury powerful enough to shatter the world.
"The sin of blasphemy must be washed away with blood."
"Your anger has defiled the sacred land and disturbed the God-King; you shall be punished by Heaven."
"May the annihilation of a thousand spirits atone for your sins of falsehood."
There were no warnings, no negotiations, and no opportunity for Joan of Arc to mediate. The trial had begun!
"Foolish blasphemy—shall be punished."
A grand, cold, and androgynous voice, seemingly woven from countless thunderbolts, resounded directly in the heart of every living being!
The next moment, without any warning, a golden divine lightning bolt, far thicker, more dazzling, and more terrifying than any of Enel's attacks, struck down with perfect precision from that giant eye, like a spear of divine punishment!
boom!!!!!!!
There were no screams, no struggles. The arrogant priest, along with everything within a radius of dozens of meters around him—clouds, vegetation, building ruins, and even his nearby Sky Island companions and Shandian warriors who couldn't dodge in time—vanished instantly, leaving behind only a huge crater with molten lightning flashing at its edges!
silence!
Deathly silence!
Everyone was stunned by this sudden and brutal destruction.
However, this is just the beginning.
The giant, thunderous eye turned indifferently for a moment.
"Anger—defilement—needs purification. A hundredfold—repayment."
Indra's voice rang out again, unwavering, as if what had just been wiped away was not life, but merely a speck of dust.
The next moment, countless bolts of divine lightning rained down from the sky!
They didn't strike randomly, but with a desperate precision, falling randomly across Angel Island and Apayado!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
"Not the same!"
"Mom! Run!"
"Divine punishment! This is divine punishment!"
Screams, cries, the sound of buildings collapsing, and the sound of flesh burning instantly intertwined into a hellish symphony!
A bolt of lightning struck, and a running sky island girl instantly turned into charred remains, collapsing and shattering in her forward-rushing posture.
A bolt of lightning struck a cloud-covered house, from which came a short scream from a family inside. Then, the entire house burst into golden flames, turning all life within into ashes.
A Shandian warrior tried to block with his shield, but the shield and he were both pierced and carbonized.
Even an infant nestled in its mother's arms was not spared, its cries swallowed up by the thunder.
Regardless of race, age, or strength.
At this moment, all life is equally vulnerable before the wrath of the god-king Indra, or rather, before the divine punishment he deliberately portrays.
"Damn it!!!" Luffy's eyes instantly turned red, and his face, hidden under his straw hat, was twisted with extreme anger. His rubber arms stretched out suddenly, trying to grab the giant eyes in the sky, but were forced back by a bolt of lightning that struck in front of him.
"Rubber rubber—!" He tried to attack, but Roger held him down firmly.
"Luffy! Calm down!" Roger's face was also filled with anger and solemnity, but he was even more aware of how terrifying his opponent was.
"There's no point in rushing in now!"
"Indra, stop! Unfurl your banner! Protect all living beings! My Lord is here!" (Luminosite)
Eternelle!
Joan of Arc cried out in grief and anger, slamming the holy banner into the ground. A huge protective shield unfolded around her, barely covering a radius of about 100 meters, shielding the people in that area from the lightning strike.
However, the range of her Noble Phantasm is limited, and compared to the entire Sky Island, it is just a drop in the ocean.
She could only watch helplessly as lives vanished in the lightning outside the protective barrier, her vision blurred by tears of anguish.
"Why, why did it have to be like this—"
Tescatlipoca stood still, letting the thunder explode around him, but it couldn't hurt him in the slightest.
The playful smile on his face vanished, replaced by a blank expression.
"Ah, Heaven and Earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs—what a cleansing act, indeed. Indra, you are quite suited to play the role of the villain."
Crocodile's face darkened. He shielded himself and Robin with the sand and muttered, "Madman."
Surprisingly, the Bhairava and Yami, whose stances were uncertain, did not stop Indra, but instead stood in front of Joan of Arc.
"Ruler, stop." Bhu Jun's voice was unusually heavy, tinged with helplessness.
"His ability to manifest through the heavens and earth demonstrates that this is the embodiment of the rules, the judgment of the gods against blasphemy and chaos."
"This is an integral part of the universe's operation; forcibly interfering will only bring about greater disaster."
He seemed to have confirmed some higher command from Indra's act of manifesting divine intervention through heaven and earth. As if the restraining force Yami also whispered, "Anger brings destruction, and defilement needs to be purified with fire. This is the natural order of reincarnation. We cannot defy it either—the will of the world and this divine punishment have reached a brief agreement at this moment."
Her words, like a verse, implied that Indra's actions, to some extent, aligned with the One Piece world's restraining force's desire to purify abnormalities and chaos, even if the methods were cruelly appalling.
Joan of Arc stared at them in disbelief: "This is what you call justice? The slaughter of innocent children and civilians?! This is not justice at all!"
"Justice?" A hint of pity flashed in Yan Mi's eyes.
"In the face of higher rules and reincarnation, the life, death, good, and evil of an individual are sometimes insignificant."
The horrific massacre continues.
A thousand bolts of lightning might be just a number in the eyes of the God-King, but when they fall on the Sky Island, they mean the complete annihilation of a thousand vibrant lives and the tragedy of a thousand families being torn apart.
Charred corpses, burning homes, and desperate cries—the once sacred sky island has now become a real hell on earth.
The Straw Hat crew moved with difficulty under the cover of Roger and Jeanne d'Arc, and all they saw along the way were hellish scenes.
Chopper cried and desperately tried to heal those who were only slightly affected, but found that many of them soon stopped breathing due to the remaining power of the lightning.
Usopp and Nami were pale and trembling.
Zoro and Sanji gritted their teeth, but felt an unprecedented sense of powerlessness.
Luffy pressed his straw hat down so hard that his fingernails almost dug into his palm.
He didn't roar anymore; his suppressed silence was more unsettling than any roar.
He looked up again and again at those cold, giant eyes in the sky, etching the image of Indra deep into his mind.
When the thousandth bolt of lightning struck, splitting an ancient, enormous vine—considered a symbol of the Sky Island—in two, the eye of lightning in the sky slowly closed and finally dissipated.
The thunderclouds remained thick, but the fatal judgment had finally ceased.
What remained was a desolate, ravaged island, filled with the stench of blood, burnt flesh, and despair that permeated the air.
Silence descended once more, but it was heavier than ever before.
Indra's great voice rang out for the last time, echoing deep within the souls of every survivor.
"Remember—the price of blasphemy. Order—originates from reverence."
After he finished speaking, his presence completely vanished from the sky island, as if he had never existed.
But the wounds left behind can never be erased.
Straw Hat Luffy slowly raised his head. The shadow of his straw hat covered the upper half of his face, revealing only his clenched teeth and the hard lines of his jaw.
He spoke in a low, clear voice.
"I'm definitely going to beat that Thunder Uncle to a pulp."
Roger stood beside him, his hand on his straw hat, saying nothing, but his gaze was equally resolute.
This indiscriminate massacre thoroughly enraged the former Pirate King.
The survivors of the Sky Island, whether Shandians or Sky Islanders, collapsed to the ground.
As they gazed upon their homes reduced to scorched earth and the remains of their loved ones, their previous quarrels and sworn feuds seemed both laughable and pathetic in the face of this indiscriminate divine punishment they had all endured together.
Tescatlipoca calmly watched all this, his face showing the necessary resolve.
The real trial has only just begun.