I will use the ninja world to aid my cultivation of immortality.

Their eyes met.

Looking down at Kalifa, whose eyes were filled with fear, Naraku's face was gentle, but his gaze was as cold as frost. He said softly, "Everyone has the opportunity to choose, so do you want to live or die?"

A tingling sensation continued to emanate from between my eyebrows.

The scent of death enveloped the area like the darkness of night.

It could be a minute, or it could be just a second, Kalifa's lips trembled as she gave her choice.

"I want to live."

In what sounded like a murmur, as she uttered the final word "alive," Kalifa deflated like a punctured balloon, her limbs going weak and tears streaming down her face.

The choice between life and death.

These are two opposing paths, yet they are also intertwined.

Life is death, and death is life.

Kalifa chose to live, but in some ways she died.

Of course, this can also be seen as a different kind of rebirth.

Naraku, observing Kalifa's reaction, knew that she had realized what her choice meant.

He withdrew his fingers, dispelling the lightning at his fingertips.

"You chose this path yourself, and I hope you can continue to walk it firmly in the future, because you have no other choice for your future."

With a casual remark, Naraku turned and walked away.

Naraku has no need to concern himself with Kalifa's inner journey.

As he said, the other party has no other choice in the future.

Opportunities are precious precisely because they are rare.

And he only gave us one chance.

Naraku walked up to Rob Lucci, who was kneeling on the ground, grabbed him by the hair, and lifted him up.

"Why are you in such a hurry? I'm not going to forget you. Fine, since you've taken the initiative, I'll start with you."

Seeing that Rob Lucci had already fainted from his severe injuries, Naraku clicked his tongue and began to read the other's memories.

It's still for the purpose of obtaining the Six Styles inheritance.

The same physical skill can be understood differently by different people.

Compared to Bruno, Rob Lucci's understanding of the Six Powers was undoubtedly much deeper, and he even derived many new variations.

After acquiring the 2.0 version of the Six Powers, Naraku then unleashed the True Fire Cauldron.

"what!!!"

With a flick of his wrist, Rob Lucci fell into the True Fire Cauldron.

Amidst the scorching flames, Rob Lucci awoke from his unconsciousness.

It tried to struggle, but it was unable to break through the true fire furnace and could only scream in agony as it was burned by the flames.

"Lucci!"

Seemingly spurred on by Rob Lucci's screams, Kalifa, who had been silently weeping, snapped out of her daze and hurriedly turned to look at the True Fire Cauldron.

I instinctively wanted to go forward.

But when her gaze fell upon Naraku's figure on the other side, Kalifa's body stiffened once again.

Charge over there and rescue Lucci.

No, I'll die if I go back, and I don't want to die.

You're CP9, how can you be afraid of death? And have you forgotten your friendship with Lucci and the others?

No, I really don't want to die, I want to live.

Two conflicting thoughts raced through her mind, causing Kalifa's expression to shift constantly.

His stiff body had just lifted up when he slumped back down in a daze.

Kalifa's lips opened and closed several times, but ultimately no sound came out.

She just watched helplessly as the real fire cauldron ignited.

They listened as Rob Lucci's screams grew fainter and fainter until they disappeared completely.

Click!

My heart felt like it was shattering.

As Rob Lucci's voice completely disappeared, Kalifa's heart also plunged into complete darkness, from which she could never escape.

I glanced at Kalifa's side.

Upon noticing that the other person was sitting there blankly, Naraku quickly looked away.

If the other party had dared to come forward and disturb him just now, he would not have hesitated to kill them.

Chapter 323 Refining the Devil Fruit

Naraku admitted that he was a womanizer, but this was merely a pastime for him in his spare time.

When it comes to serious matters, he is more serious than any gentleman.

Refined using a true fire furnace.

By throwing Rob Lucci into the True Fire Furnace for refining, Naraku was certainly not doing it to torture him, nor was he trying to become the Hannibal Lecter of the pirate world.

He only wanted the Devil Fruit inside Rob Lucci.

After two and a half years of development, he has now emerged from the mountains to collect resources for cultivating immortality.

In particular, it can help the main body with cultivation resources.

In the world of One Piece, the most readily available resource for cultivating immortality is undoubtedly Devil Fruits.

This strange fruit contains all sorts of bizarre and wonderful abilities.

Especially the best among them, who seem to possess the power of rules.

With such a rare and precious treasure, it would be difficult not to attract Naraku's attention.

However, Devil Fruits are hard to find.

Even with his abilities, finding it wouldn't be an easy task.

Therefore, he could only try to see if he could directly extract the Devil Fruit from the Devil Fruit user.

When a Devil Fruit user dies, the Devil Fruit power leaves the deceased and then gives birth to a new Devil Fruit elsewhere.

Now, with Rob Lucci being refined, Naraku's divine sense keenly detected a hidden energy invisible to the naked eye within the True Fire Cauldron.

"seal up!"

With his hands moving swiftly, he formed hand seals, and streams of true energy were released, quickly transforming into an airtight seal that enveloped the entire True Fire Cauldron.

The seal caused ripples.

It is a hidden energy attempting to break through and leave.

However, Naraku's seal was very reliable, firmly sealing the hidden energy within the True Fire Cauldron.

True gold is refined by fire.

When sealing the True Fire Cauldron, Naraku continuously channeled his true energy to further refine the hidden energy within the True Fire Cauldron.

"If nothing unexpected happens, this energy should be the true form of the Devil Fruit."

Divine senses closely observed the hidden energy.

The reason Naraku did not collect it but continued to refine it was because he sensed a strange aura within this hidden energy.

This discovery, combined with the situation with Devil Fruits, led Naraku to suspect that this strange aura was a side effect of the Devil Fruits.

Well, the taste is secondary; the key issue is the side effects caused by the sea stone.

Naturally, he wanted to eliminate any potential risks.

"It seems like I can't handle this!"

Time passed little by little.

Naraku's lips twitched as he continuously activated the True Fire Furnace to refine the materials.

The eerie aura within the demonic energy was extremely difficult to remove, even after refining it for a long time.

A little silence.

Naraku removed the True Fire Cauldron and sealed the demonic energy into a gem-like form.

"We can only leave it to the main body to handle."

Naraku reluctantly put away the Demon Gem, then looked at Bruno on the other side.

Next, he also refined Bruno, extracting the demonic energy of the Door-Door Fruit from his body.