Starting with the Uchiha clan, they began cultivating demonic arts.

Chapter 203, A New World

The next morning, when Uchiha Hiyu opened his eyes in the cabin, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"The injury is healing so fast... You're out of danger so quickly, and it's already starting to scab over!"

"The people in this world have some amazing physical constitutions!"

Touching the bandage that had stopped bleeding, Uchiha Touyu's expression was somewhat strange as he began searching for the remaining memories in his brain once more.

When Uchiha Touyu possessed the body, the body in front of him was already on the verge of death, and the memories were fragmented and had begun to dissipate. In addition, Uchiha Touyu was preoccupied with how to improve the survival rate of this body, so he naturally did not spend any energy sorting out the memories.

Now, after delving deeper into his memories, Uchiha Tou quickly discovered the truth about the world he came from:

"Want my treasure? You can have it all. Go find it! I've left all my treasure there."

Yes, this is the most exciting story this young man encountered when he was eight years old—he was born in Loguetown, the place where the Pirate King was executed, and he witnessed Roger's execution firsthand.

Then, the young man, who was only eight years old at the time, was so excited by that declaration that he went home and prepared to set sail in a fishing boat to become a pirate.

Ultimately, after being beaten by his parents, he gave up on this goal. More than ten years later, he inherited his parents' business and became a young master of the business, owning several merchant ships.

"Isn't that the Pirate King? Who knew this guy actually had some wealth! Too bad he was unlucky enough to get robbed by pirates!"

Now that he knew the world he was in, Uchiha Touyu no longer cared about his strange regenerative abilities.

In the world of One Piece, everyone seems to have a healing buff. Even Usopp, who has the worst physique among the main characters, can recover from a broken skull with just a nap. Compared to that, my recovery speed is quite slow.

The young man he now possesses is 24 years old, and 16 years have passed since the Pirate King was executed and the Great Age of Piracy began.

"It just so happens to be the day the protagonist Luffy sets sail! Oh well, it doesn't really concern me... It's just a bit frustrating, isn't the East Blue supposed to be a place with not many pirates? And this is a ruthless pirate who slaughtered his entire crew!"

Shaking his head, Uchiha Hiyu stopped thinking about these questions, got out of bed, and took out some bread from the cabinet next to him to eat.

The rapid recovery from injuries also means a high energy consumption; humans in the pirate world consume far more food than normal people.

After eating and drinking his fill, Uchiha Touyu could feel that his injuries had further recovered.

Especially after he learned what world he had arrived in, he was able to further control his body, transporting nutrients to divide cells and accelerate the recovery of his injuries. According to his feeling, even such a fatal injury would probably be almost fully recovered by tomorrow.

Stepping out of the room, he saw a large pile of messy corpses on the ship's deck. After a day of exposure to the sun, they had fermented and developed an unpleasant odor. He finally sighed and resigned himself to cleaning them up.

After all, it was clear to the naked eye that he would probably have to stay on this ship for a long time. Yesterday, he was too badly injured to clean up, and if he didn't clean up now, was he going to leave these corpses to cultivate biological weapons?

Without doing anything special, Uchiha Touya simply threw all the corpses into the sea. There were about a dozen people on the merchant ship, and even with his current terrible physical condition, it took him one or two hours to completely clean up all the corpses.

After cleaning up the body, he didn't bother with the bloodstains on the deck or the damage to the ship—he didn't know how to sail anyway, and the mast was broken and couldn't be repaired.

Not to mention that Uchiha Touyu had never learned any navigation skills. Even though this was the calm East Sea, he couldn't tell which way was which. Even if he could sail a boat, he wouldn't know which way to go.

So now Uchiha Touyu went straight back to the cabin to recover from his injuries. As for the ship—it just drifts wherever it ends up, as long as it encounters land; it's all about going with the flow.

The next day, Uchiha Hiyu unwrapped his bandages and found that apart from a huge scar, his injuries had completely healed, and a smile finally appeared on his face.

"Very good—now I can begin my cultivation! The food on the ship is enough for two months. Two months is more than enough time for me to master the basics of the Blood Nerve Cultivation."

Traditional cultivation methods in fantasy novels, even demonic arts, may not be much more powerful than those of the strongest characters in the One Piece world at the initial stage, but they are far superior in terms of survivability.

Even novice cultivators rely on the wind and dew, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and greatly reducing their food consumption. With a little progress, they can achieve the state of abstaining from grains, and almost all of them do not eat human food.

The demonic cultivation techniques practiced by Uchiha Hiyu do not advocate fasting; instead, they prefer to use blood food to accelerate cultivation—but this does not mean that fasting is forbidden; it is simply a matter of personal choice.

Once he enters the sect, at least Uchiha Tou won't have to worry about starving to death at sea because of food problems.

Sitting cross-legged, calming the mind and regulating the breath, although the Blood Scripture and other demonic cultivation techniques use "human resources" to cultivate, which is the "proper path," it is not that normal methods cannot be used to cultivate. It's just that if one simply refines one's own blood and qi, the cultivation speed will become extremely slow.

Of course, Uchiha Hiyu already had some training experience, and he was only pursuing the basics, so he didn't ask for much more.

Because it's just a clone, it definitely can't cultivate the Heavenly Demon Secret. If even a clone can cultivate this kind of cultivation method that concerns the soul, then it would be hard to say who the clone really is.

Therefore, the only two things that can be cultivated are the Blood Nerve and the Yuan Demon Technique. In comparison, the humans in the One Piece world have stronger physical attributes and more abundant blood energy, making it much easier to cultivate the Blood Nerve, which is naturally the best choice.

Even with Uchiha Tou's existing experience, it took him more than ten hours to condense his own blood energy before he could extract a trace of pure blood energy.

Then, the moment this energy of blood and qi appeared, it shattered with a deafening roar.

As if snowflakes had appeared in boiling water, that wisp of energy melted so quickly that Uchiha Touyu almost doubted he was seeing a hallucination!

"What... what's going on?"

Caught off guard, Uchiha Hiyu stared wide-eyed with a look of utter disbelief.

The next morning, Uchiha Touyu, sporting dark circles under his eyes, stepped out of the cabin and let out a long sigh:

"Damn it... what the hell does 'the world rules forbid' mean? Does this mean I can't cultivate the techniques from the demonic cultivation manual in this world?"

After attempting to cultivate the techniques many times, Uchiha Touyu discovered that the laws he cultivated would eventually dissipate for no reason. With no other options, he simply went to the space of the Book of Demonic Path Inheritance to inquire about the situation.

The answer was that many of the inheritances that Uchiha Touyu obtained from the Book of Demonic Inheritance belonged to the rules of other worlds. Only by cultivating to the Golden Immortal level could one resist certain rule pressures in other worlds, or simply cultivate to the Taiyi level, in order to cultivate in other worlds as well.

Before that, all cultivation methods had to be modified to conform to the rules of other worlds.

As for why Uchiha Touyu was able to cultivate, it was because the Book of Demonic Path Inheritance was at least a treasure of the Great Luo level, capable of automatically adapting to and even changing the rules of all the heavens and myriad worlds, which allowed Uchiha Touyu to cultivate.

In fact, theoretically speaking, Uchiha Touyu would never have been able to cultivate magical power in other worlds. He was only able to cultivate it because his clone also possessed a trace of the aura of the Book of Demonic Path Inheritance, which was then crushed by the rules of the world.

It may seem meaningless, but it does have some benefits—although the magical power cultivated cannot be stored in the body, it can be directly transferred back to the main body. In other words, the energy gained from killing and arson in this world will eventually be fed back to the main body to increase its strength.

The key problem is... if my clone isn't strong enough, I won't have the ability to kill or set fires!

The young man's body that he was occupying had very mediocre potential. His only advantage was that he was born into a wealthy merchant family and had undergone some training. If he were to be converted into a naval soldier, he would probably be the type who could barely take on ten men.

After all, they're maritime merchants. Anyone who knows the world of One Piece knows the ocean; who would dare to roam the high seas without some skill?

But that's about all the skill they have. If they were to become pirates, their bounty would probably not exceed 100 million Berries. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been wiped out by pirates in the peaceful East Blue.

Even if he works hard from now on, given this young man's physical potential, at the peak of his training, he would only be a colonel—the kind of person who seems decent enough to be an officer in the Navy or a top-tier pirate crew, but in the truly decisive battles, he would only be a spectator.

Even if Uchiha Touyu possesses some methods that don't involve energy but specifically manipulate the physical body and mind, which could slightly increase his upper limit, his combat power would at most make him a supporting character to the audience.

In short, with this level of potential, it's fine for Uchiha Touyu if he just wants to live a good life, but if he wants to conquer the world like the Hokage, he should just give up and go to sleep.

Of course, while they can't reap the big rewards for now, they can at least harvest some smaller ones. Compared to the ninja world, which leans towards lawful evil but is actually still in a state of order and neutrality, One Piece belongs to the chaotic evil camp. Going to some small countries to massacre soldiers, the strength of the headquarters colonel is really enough. If it is a small country that has not joined the World Government, he will not even be wanted.

Moreover...didn't I say? It's not that it's completely impossible to cultivate, it's just that it requires a modification to the corresponding world. Although it sounds very difficult and troublesome, just like the secret technique of the Devouring Heaven Demon Art, a modification of a degraded nature is much easier.

But now is not the time to think about these things—the biggest problem is that I can't even get to the basics of cultivation. I'm worried I'll starve to death when the food runs out!

For the first time in his life, Uchiha Touyu began to pray to the heavens, hoping that he would not die such a tragic death.

The first day, the second day, and the days passed by one by one. Uchiha Hiyu trained while waiting for the ship to drift to the shore or for other ships to appear.

A month passed quickly, and Uchiha Touyu tragically discovered that he had almost eaten all the food on the ship.

The originally planned two-month supply of provisions was cut in half due to Uchiha Hiu's increased appetite after his training.

Of course, these provisions were not wasted. In one month, thanks to his control over his body and some rudimentary methods of body control from the demonic tradition, Uchiha Tomoyu's physical abilities improved by at least three or four times. In the East Blue, he was no longer considered cannon fodder.

Despite the high food consumption, Uchiha Touyu had a plan in mind: the early stages of the One Piece manga didn't seem too cruel, but the real world would probably be a different story.

Given the level of security in this world and the rampant presence of pirates, Uchiha Tou really didn't want to gamble on the possibility of encountering good people at sea.

Once you have the strength, no matter whether the people you encounter are good or bad, they will naturally become good people in your own eyes.

"But now it seems... I've lost the gamble. People in the pirate world have incredibly strong vitality. I wonder how long I can last?"

Standing on the deck, Uchiha Tou sighed and prepared to turn around, but just then, his good eyesight caught sight of a small black dot in the distance.

"That's... a boat?! It looks like a small sailboat?"

"Anyone who can sail a small boat alone on the high seas is no ordinary person. Let me take a closer look and see who it is!"

As Uchiha Hiyu focused his mind and controlled his body, channeling more energy and blood into his eyes, his vision quickly improved further.

Then he clearly saw a small sailboat sailing on the sea in the distance, and on the sailboat, a girl with orange hair was rowing the oars and humming a song.

Behind the ship, two enormous treasure chests clearly indicate the source of the orange-haired girl's joyful mood.

"It seems fate is still very kind to me; this is truly... a perfect opportunity!"

Looking at the sailboat and the girl in the distance, Uchiha Touyu calmed his nerves, rubbed his dry eyes, and a joyful smile appeared on his face.

(End of this chapter)