Traveling through the heavens from swallowing

Chapter 169: What a fortune!

"Brother, we're rich, very rich!" Lu Jiu pulled Liu Mang to a secluded place and whispered in his ear.

Liu Mang was speechless. You dragged me here just to say this? I know you have eight precious devil fruits as a legacy, but you still want to sell them for money. You can't make a fortune!
"Hehe, Lujiu, money is just external things to me. There is no point in getting rich." Liu Mang didn't want Lujiu to pick up sesame seeds and throw away watermelons. Your brother is rich, so he won't sell it for money.

Lu Jiu tilted her head, took out two compasses and threw them to Liu Mang, then jumped up and sat on his shoulders.

She moved her butt, feeling very uncomfortable. When Liu Mang walked, he was only about two meters tall. Only a few months later, his height jumped to 3 meters. His overall height increased proportionally. Lu Jiu was only a little more than one-third of Liu Mang's height. Now she had to find a comfortable posture again.

Ignoring Lu Jiu who was finding a comfortable position on his shoulder like a kitten, Liu Mang turned his gaze to the golden compass.

The compass has changed from yesterday's golden yellow to dark gold, the flowing luster has disappeared, and the pointer has stopped moving.

Finally, they found a comfortable position. Lu Jiu held Liu Mang's head and shook her feet to explain to Liu Mang: "It's not money, it's something else. You will know when you open the treasure house."

"Well, the treasure house is in Moronia. Let's go back now. What if we are caught by the bad guys? Should we throw you out to attract attention?" Liu Mang was annoyed. The little girl did things without considering the consequences.

"No, no! The treasure house is indeed in the bad guy's house, but the door can be opened wherever the compass is!" Lu Jiu slapped Liu Mang twice to express his dissatisfaction, and then whispered: "I quietly opened it and took a look yesterday. There are a lot of things inside, very cool!"

Liu Mang was stunned. Is it actually a space treasure house? So advanced?
He casually dripped some blood on the compass, and the blood color re-outlined the texture of the compass, and the golden compass shone again.

Lu Jiu's eyes lit up and she showed a satisfied look.

Humph! You bad woman, Cha Mo, look, this is the blood relationship recognized by the Golden Compass. If you still say that I am not your biological child, I will bite you to death!

The compass has been activated, and Liu Mang is not surprised by this. After all, something like Portgas' bloodline is meaningless. It is just an activation code. What is useful is the "communication" that Lu Jiu is born with.

"Xiao Jin, open the treasure house!"

A tender child's voice was heard, and the golden compass seemed to have received an order from the king. It trembled and flew into the air. The two compasses overlapped and deformed, and a ten-meter-high square column extended from top to bottom. Then the compass rotated several times forwards and backwards, like a combination lock on a safe.

Clicking sounds were heard continuously. After a few seconds, there was a ding and the compass stopped rotating. The two compasses moved in opposite directions with an offset arrangement. The column was split into two halves and as the two compasses moved, a door in the middle was slowly opened.

The ground inside is also golden, but you can't see too far as the vague black fog blocks your vision. You still need to go in to see the whole picture.

As I stepped inside, my vision suddenly opened up and I saw a huge treasure house before my eyes. It was probably several hundred meters long, wide and high, and contained all kinds of items.

There is a high platform in the center of the front, with several pillars supporting a tray on it, which is obviously the place where the ten precious devil fruits are placed.

One shaved man went straight to the platform and had a panoramic view of everything.

There are ten pillars in total, one in the center and nine arranged in a circle around the outside. There are eight devil fruits displayed on the tray. Unfortunately, the center pillar was broken by the outer pillars, and the devil fruits on it have disappeared.

When you arrive at the center, you will see a stone tablet under the broken stone pillar with information engraved on it, including the name and basic abilities of the devil fruit.

The information under the middle pillar surprised Liu Mang, because it clearly said Dark Fruit!

Is this a bug-level devil fruit? It turned out to have drifted into the sea during this period.

Moreover, it was also mentioned above that the reason why it was placed in the center was because the Dark-Dark Fruit was the core of this golden treasure house. The mechanism for the Devil Fruit to be reborn into the treasure house was achieved through the Dark-Dark Fruit. Once damaged, the treasure house will gradually lose the ability to absorb the Devil Fruit factor. Once it completely dissipates, the fruit will never be able to be reborn in the treasure house again!
It's a pity that the Dark-Dark Fruit was taken away by an attacker 20 years ago, and its base was destroyed, so the failure of the treasure house was inevitable.

Recalling the door that allowed one to see some of the situation inside from the outside, it was obvious that the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit had almost completely dissipated. Perhaps in two years it could only be used as a storage space.

Walking to the periphery again, under the same broken stone pillar, it was written that the Animal-type Human-Human Fruit's Mythical Beast Species·Demon Form. It goes without saying that the Human-Human Fruit's function of developing intelligence is essential, and the demon form can fly, master the demon fire that burns the soul, and absorb power from fear to strengthen itself.

Apparently, the Dark-Dark Fruit and this mythical beast species were both taken away by an attacker 20 years ago. No one knows who it was or how powerful he was.

Turning to the side, Liu Mang saw the familiar Nature-Type Metal Fruit. Not long after Damian's death, the fruit had been reborn here. It seemed that at least for now, the treasure house's ability had not yet expired.

After looking around, I found that the ten devil fruits are the nature-type Dark-Dark Fruit, the mythical beast-type devil form, the mythical beast-type blood wolf mode, the nature-type Metal Fruit, the nature-type Frozen Fruit, the nature-type Magma Fruit, the nature-type Sparkle Fruit, the nature-type Thunder Fruit, the parahuman-type Backward Fruit, and the parahuman-type Momo Fruit.

Except for those that we haven't heard of, even the fruits of the three great admirals of the navy in later generations, Aokiji, Akainu, and Kizaru, are there.

This confirmed that Moronia would be destroyed by the navy in the future. After all, except for the two fruits snatched by the attackers and the one of Dahuang, four of the remaining seven fruits were in the hands of the navy.

The treasure house that has lost the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit will emerge from the void. It is no longer only open by the Portgas family. You can still obtain the treasures by violently destroying the door.

It is worthy of being known as a treasure of the devil fruit. Basically, all of them are the best fruits in each system. Even if they are not the best regression fruits, they are also very powerful and special time-related fruits, which are simply earth-shattering.

There are six natural types, two mythical beast types, and two well-known special superhuman types. Among the owners of the ten fruits, there are at least five top powerhouses in the original work. The gold content is simply beyond the standard!
In addition to the devil fruit, there are some other things nearby. The first thing that catches your eye is a sword rack with hundreds of various weapons hung on it. According to the introduction, they are all precious swords above the good sword level (the "precious swords" in the world of pirates are not only knives, other weapons can also be called good swords, large swords, etc.)!

Then there were a lot of books, classics, and technical materials. Liu Mang flipped through them and found that they were all outdated and worthless.

There are still several hundred tons of gold left, probably collected by the previous metal fruit ability users. Although Liu Mang no longer needs money, no one would complain about having too much money.

There are also many kinds of super metals and alloys whose performance far exceeds the strongest metals in the world today.

The most important thing is that Liu Mang found a strange thing in the treasure house. It looked like a jet engine, but there was no reaction space inside, and no place to fill the working fluid.

Could it be that this could be an electric propulsion engine or even a warp engine?
Liu Mang smiled and dispelled his unreliable guesses. The ancient technology of the pirate world was indeed brilliant, but since it could be overturned by ordinary people, it must not be a space civilization. There was no need to think about the warp engine. Maybe it was really an electric propulsion engine.

No matter what kind of engine it is, it is meaningless to Liu Mang. Even if it is a warp engine, there are many of them in the world of Devouring Star and it is no longer new.

These are the things, and I haven't made a lot of money. Lujiu is just making a fuss out of nothing and made me feel surprised for nothing.

Liu Mang glanced at Lu Jiu with a sidelong glance, receiving her puzzled look. Mind reading is not omnipotent. Liu Mang's state of unity between man and nature has long been able to restrain his thoughts, not to mention that he has long been on guard against similar abilities. Lu Jiu is still far from being able to read his mind.

The stuff is pretty good, but it's a pity that he can't use it. Before he figures out the secret of how Blackbeard can eat multiple fruits, he won't be able to take the devil fruit. Now that he has reached the top, he naturally wants to get more stuff to take back.

Fortunately, although the devil fruit was originally a tool, it would merge with the blood and consciousness after taking it, which happened to be the part he could take away.

In the original novel, Blackbeard was likely able to take three devil fruits. Liu Mang felt that with his increasingly improved life return cultivation, he would not have to be a human being. Wouldn't it be easy for him to copy Blackbeard's "alien" physique?

The original Liu Mang naturally couldn't go without sleep since birth, but the current Liu Mang could do it a long time ago. If it weren't for the higher recovery efficiency, just maintaining a low-intensity battle, not sleeping would be enough to recover more than consumed.

In the past, many netizens speculated that the reason Blackbeard could take multiple devil fruits was because he had three hearts, but after Liu Mang’s personal research, he found that this was not the case.

After all, the ability of the fruit is not contained in the heart, and there are many species in the world that have more than one heart, but Liu Mang only knows of Blackbeard who can safely take two devil fruits (Liu Mang had never heard of Rocks in his previous life, so naturally he didn't know that he was also a user of multiple fruit abilities).

The claim that this is the effect of the Dark-Dark Fruit is also unreliable. Like the heart, the Dark-Dark Fruit is a fruit that has been recorded by the World Government. Obviously, there are far more than just Blackbeard users, but he is also the only user of the dual fruit ability.
Apparently Blackbeard has other secrets up his sleeve.

The hiding ability of the treasury is about to become invalid. In order to prevent someone from breaking into the treasury in Moronia and stealing things, Liu Mang and Lu Jiu decided to empty it and put everything on the Arthur. They will then move to the new Yalu after the construction is completed.

Thanks to the huge amount of super metal found in the treasure house, the construction concept of the new Yalu was overturned again. Liu Mang swept the sketch he had just drawn into the trash and decided to design it according to the standards of a spaceship!

It's a pity to use such good metal to build aircraft carriers. Only spaceships are worthy of it. The engine problem is easy to solve. We can just ask the headquarters' copying fruit ability users to copy a few hundred units, and then violently reverse engineer them. With such good conditions, Liu Mang dares to say that he can get it done within a few days.

And then we will know what engine it is. Liu Mang's technical ability is not low at all. There is no problem in hand-making it. Anyway, it will not be mass-produced. Liu Mang's innovation ability is just a little poor, but what kind of innovation ability does piracy require?

This spaceship is not the same concept as the ironclad ship of World War I. Calling it a ship is just a symbolic meaning. It is not a ship at all.

Fortunately, he had intentionally studied relevant knowledge in the Devouring Star World. It was not difficult to build a spaceship that could not fly, and it was also very simple to make it run on the sea.

Of course, there is no intelligent system or anything like that. It is purely manual, which requires the operator to have great strength. Since there are no auxiliary devices, it takes at least hundreds of thousands of tons of force to turn the steering wheel.

But this is not a problem. Although Liu Mang has nothing else, he has many subordinates with tens of thousands of tons of strength. The previous Farpike Pirates had more than 200 members, all of whom were assigned to Lu Jiu, which is enough to operate this huge "spaceship".

The Shinayaru is approximately 1.2 kilometers long, 0.5 kilometers wide and 0.3 kilometers high. The entire ship is powered by eight large fusion reactors and 8 vector electric thrust engines, and can barely fly.

The "defense" weapon uses high-energy electromagnetic guns. The entire ship is equipped with more than 1000 high-energy electromagnetic gun railguns with a theoretical range of 500 kilometers. The muzzle velocity of the shells is times the speed of sound. Because of the extremely fast speed, the high temperature caused by friction with the air will cause the solid metal shells to plasma-emit light during movement, which looks like a laser being fired.

Plasma shells can maintain good integrity within 500 kilometers, but will dissipate and evaporate in large quantities beyond that distance, until they are completely dissipated and lose all their power at 1000 kilometers.

Within 500 kilometers, as long as you are hit by a shell, the high-energy plasma shell will explode instantly, producing an unparalleled explosion and high temperature. It is no problem for one shell to create a large hole in the ground with a diameter of to meters.

Its power is naturally far inferior to the main gun of the "Pluto" battleship that can destroy an island with one shot, but there are 8 electromagnetic guns, and most of the energy of the large reactors is used to supply the electromagnetic guns.

With just this one battleship, Liu Mang dares to say that he is invincible in the world except for Pluto.

Although the navy has equipped more and more Tianmang series warships, none of them are as powerful as this one. It has no shield technology and close defense system, and its defense depends entirely on armor. But even so, under the effect of super metal, its defense is not much worse than Damian's palace, and even the top masters cannot break it easily.

As soon as the battleship was built, it attracted the attention of everyone in the world. Kong even came to the G7 branch in person to watch the launching ceremony.

This is a warship privately owned by Liu Mang, and it is a unique existence. Kong naturally would not ask for it to be handed over. He just came as a teacher to see his disciple's amazing achievements and to support him.

It is called a battleship, but in fact it is no problem to call it a base. Moreover, it is a mobile base, a fortress on the sea. Sitting in the control room, it is amazing.

Even if it's purely manual, it's still too much of a rip-off. Just 10,000 electromagnetic cannons would require thousands of people to operate, and the entire battleship would probably require more than 100,000 people to be fully operational. Liu Mang doesn't have that many people, so naturally he has to find some to borrow.

Kong was very happy to hear that his disciple was willing to incorporate the battleships into the navy system as a fighting force.

Although the navy only has the right to use but not the ownership, and must be under the leadership of Liu Mang, it actually doesn't matter anymore.

Liu Mang has long been an inseparable part of the navy. In the past eight years, he has trained tens of thousands of core combat forces, thousands of lieutenant generals, and four top warriors for the navy, which has increased the overall strength of the navy by more than four times. In the navy, he has become the undisputed absolute ruler.

Next year, Foran will truly retire and the Navy will usher in an institutional reform.

As the navy's strength grew, the Rocks Pirates also became restless, and the Five Elders had no choice but to agree to the expansion application jointly signed by Kong and Liu Mang.

The Navy will change its system after Furen retires, and establish a leadership body with a marshal (chief admiral), a general staff, and four admirals, corresponding to the six top masters, Kong, Liu Mang, and Garp.

And above the lieutenant general there is a clear rank of admiral candidate, namely, quasi-admiral. There are currently 8 people at this rank, including Gutaf (Bull-Bull Fruit), Ryan (Great Swordsman), Chamo (Smiley Fruit), Hillin (Great Swordsman), Pieck (Sniper Fruit), Dario (Nightmare Fruit), Luju (Physical Skills), and Rik (Constraint Fruit).

The oldest among them is Gutaf, who is 70 years old; the youngest is Lujiu, who is only 15 years old.

At the age of fifteen, Lu Jiu is already a world-renowned super master, whose strength is comparable to that of veteran emperor-level masters like Gutafu. If she were not too lazy, she would have the hope of becoming a top master at this age and breaking Liu Mang's record at the age of 20.

The brother and sister are both geniuses. Liu Mang's talent seems not as high as Lu Jiu's, but that is all an illusion, because they both started practicing at the same time, and it actually took Liu Mang only more than two years to reach the peak.

The navy's strength has skyrocketed, and the pirates are not far behind.

Oldland has fully stepped into the peak, followed by Edward Newgate and Ski, Roger and Rayleigh followed closely behind, and the Rocks Pirates have cultivated more than a dozen masters of the vice-emperor level through breeding under the elimination mechanism, and their combined strength is more terrifying than the navy.

The accumulation of strength has almost reached saturation, and the situation in the sea is fluctuating again. Rocks has been dormant for more than six years. Perhaps, he will really start his process of dominating the world!
My father is in the hospital, so today I can only write this much from last night. Sorry, everyone.

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