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

Chapter 244 Vampire Fruit

There's not much to say about crossing the Red Line. Uchiha Tou didn't see any Celestial Dragons wearing bubble helmets either. Perhaps the World Government itself knew about the troublemaking abilities of these idiots and deliberately designed the passage to bypass the Celestial Dragons.

After delivering the people to the naval base in the New World, Smoker and Tashigi left immediately. Tashigi was reluctant to leave. During the time Uchiha Tou was on the ship, in addition to training himself, he also taught others some Haki and swordsmanship. Among them, Tashigi was the most diligent in learning.

Although Uchiha Touyu had only been practicing Haki for a short time, his understanding of it, gained from combining various inheritances in the Book of Demonic Path, far surpassed that of anyone else in the One Piece world. Every casual word of advice he uttered was a golden rule, enlightening people.

In Uchiha Touyu's opinion, this girl's dual-color Haki had reached the edge of awakening. With a little more training, she would be able to fully awaken it. Her swordsmanship had also greatly improved, and she was very close to becoming a master swordsman who could cut through iron.

Even Smoker, who cares most about his reputation, swallowed his pride and came over to listen in when Uchiha Touyu was explaining Haki and swordsmanship. At this moment, he had already awakened two types of Haki.

So their relationship was fairly good. After sending the people to the naval base, Smoker even asked the officers at the naval base to take care of them.

The naval base officer delivered a nautical chart, a small warship, and a record pointer that Uchiha Tou needed. After that, Uchiha Tou and his group set off on the small warship.

The location of Sleepy Town is a very remote island, without even a direct log point. Fortunately, the Navy's map is quite accurate, and Robin helped translate some historical documents. After a month, they finally found the place.

"So it's right here?"

"It should be here, probably because of the passage of time! Now houses have been built on the ruins."

Robin looked at the house in front of him and said with confidence.

Uchiha Touyu looked at the house in front of him. This was the mayor's house. He seemed to vaguely remember that there was a scene in the original anime where the vampire fruit was found in the secret underground room of this mayor's house.

However, this underground chamber had actually been built a long time ago, and even the mayor himself was unaware of it. Uchiha Touyu had no intention of informing him either, and simply pushed open the locked door, went inside, and quickly searched through the chests and cabinets to find the underground chamber.

As for the town mayor returning to find his house ransacked, he can only ask for his own understanding.

Soon, Uchiha Touyu found the vampire fruit in the underground chamber and ate it without delay. In an instant, he transformed into countless blood bats and flew out.

"Just as I predicted! After consuming the Vampire Fruit, I can now utilize many of the powers of my Blood Nerve!"

"I wonder if the Blood Nerve's magic power can be preserved? If I could retain that magic power, I could just go and sweep through the pirate world right now."

The crimson bats coalesced into the form of Uchiha Touyu. Sensing his own strength, Uchiha Touyu felt a restless urge to act.

However, he quickly suppressed his thoughts. He wouldn't be so reckless before he was sure that the Blood Nerve could be used in this world.

……

After leaving Sleepy Ancient Town, Uchiha Touyu began to cultivate the Future Life Sutra on a naval warship. Like the famous fantasy-type Devil Fruit, the Vampire Fruit has a great advantage: it comes with a certain degree of faith.

All the legends about vampires in the world naturally share some faith with Devil Fruit users. Compared to true believers, the faith provided by these ordinary people is naturally just a drop in the ocean.

However, vampire legends exist in almost every part of the world, and with such a large number of vampires, the resulting faith is far greater than imagined, at least hundreds of times greater than that of the Eagle Guardian, which is only found in Alabasta!

Not to mention that Uchiha Hiyu's Future Life Sutra was the complete version, and his use of the power of faith far surpassed that of Bel.

Inside the room, Uchiha Tou felt the power of the Devil Fruit within him constantly increasing. The Devil Fruit in his imagination had already completely transformed his body, but the previous transformation was only superficial. Now, however, he felt as if he was constantly transforming into the legendary vampire.

In a certain instant, he seemed to break through a certain limit, his whole body overflowing with blood-red light, and a crimson pillar of light shot straight into the sky, even staining the crescent moon on the horizon with a layer of blood.

After the light disappeared, a layer of blood-red flame cloud appeared on his body, swirling around him and emitting a bright red light.

Standing up, Uchiha Touyu briefly sensed the power of the Devil Fruit and realized that eating it was absolutely the right thing to do.

Mind reading, hypnosis, flight, vaporization, bloodsucking, aging, blood manipulation, a dark veil, super strength, super speed, super endurance, super senses, bat transformation, toxin immunity, disease immunity, invisibility, shapeshifting, and the ability to develop servants—he now possesses all the legendary vampire abilities.

Furthermore, the boost from the Vampire Fruit is reduced to half its original level under sunlight, while it doubles in strength at night and triples under a full moon.

It sounds like a balance between addition and subtraction, with at most an additional full moon enhancement. In reality, the weakening under sunlight is due to the Vampire Fruit's bonus, while the multiplication of strength at night is the full power of Uchiha Tou!

In other words, during the day, the boost from the Vampire Fruit was slightly less, but his own strength was unaffected. Overall, he was still much stronger than before he ate the fruit. At night, not only did the boost from the fruit double, but his original strength also doubled!

Uchiha Touyu believed that this was definitely not a normal Devil Fruit awakening ability; otherwise, the Vampire Fruit would probably have to be renamed the "Hanging Fruit"! The World Government should stop looking for the Nika Fruit and just contain the Vampire Fruit first!

Suddenly, a loud knocking sound came from the door. Uchiha Touyu's eyes flickered, and he casually opened the door, where he saw Nami and Robin standing.

"What's wrong? Why do you seem so anxious?"

Uchiha Tou asked a question, somewhat puzzled. Nami opened her mouth to speak:

"That's the question I should be asking you! What exactly happened just now? The sight of that blood-soaked sky—anyone who didn't know better would have thought some great demon king had broken free of his seal!"

"And that's not all..."

Robin, disguised, said with a smile:

"It seems that because of the bloodshed, our ship is now being watched!"

"Tsk, don't worry!"

Uchiha Touya slowly stood up from the room:

"At this point in time, even if it were a Yonko pirate crew coming, there's absolutely nothing to fear!"

It was nighttime outside, and Uchiha Touyu was at double his strength. Even if a Yonko group came out in full force, he was confident he could escape unscathed.

Well, he only escaped unscathed. If it weren't for the entire Yonko crew, but rather a one-on-one fight with one of the Yonko, he could have gone up and fought, but he would probably have been beaten to a pulp by daybreak.

Of course, Uchiha Tou didn't think he would encounter a situation where all four emperors came out in full force. Apart from the Red-Haired Pirates, the other four emperors all had their own bases and would not leave easily when they had nothing to do.

The Red-Haired Pirates might come over out of curiosity, but they would never be thinking of robbing us.

"Men, charge! There's only a small warship ahead!"

"Boss, this is too strange. Warships that appear in our New World are usually in large groups. These small warships don't seem like normal at all..."

"What's there to be afraid of? They're probably just the navy trying to cover their tracks. Maybe that red light is the treasure they've found!"

"But if they really are the Navy searching for treasure, they shouldn't be weak!"

"The bold get rich, the timid starve! This is the New World, pirate territory, not the Navy's. I'm a pirate with a bounty of 3 million Berries!"

"I really don't believe it. How could there be several vice admirals on such a small warship?"

Barring any special circumstances, a pirate with a bounty of 3 million Berries is not inferior to an ordinary Marine Vice Admiral. In fact, the Marine Vice Admirals are the category in which the strength of the Marines fluctuates the most.

Weaker vice admirals may not be able to defeat pirates with bounties of hundreds of millions, and the strongest vice admirals (excluding Garp) are in no way inferior to the first mates of the Four Emperors or the upper-level Shichibukai.

However, vice admirals of that rank are either veterans or admiral candidates; their status and position are such that they would never be assigned to such small warships.

"That's right, Captain, let's go!"

The pirate ship sailed through the waves, encircling the navy warship. Uchiha Touyu, who had walked onto the deck, glanced at the pirate ship in the distance, sneered, and a pair of bat wings sprouted from his back as he charged straight at it!

"Captain, watch out, someone's coming from the other side!"

"Wings? Is he a Devil Fruit user? But these wings seem a bit off... They don't look like those of a typical Zoan-type Devil Fruit user..."

Uchiha Hibari has a pair of fleshy wings growing from his back. In nature, apart from bats, which are flying mammals, all other birds have feathers!

Therefore, if it has a pair of fleshy wings on its back, besides the possibility of being a Bat-Bat Fruit user... the most likely possibility is that it is a Mythical Creature!

Dragons, demons, vampires, gargoyles... In the fantasy world, many creatures have wings made entirely of flesh, so if you see a creature with such wings on the sea, it's very likely that it's a fantasy Devil Fruit user!

If it's truly a fantasy species... then its strength must be at least that of an elite-level lieutenant general!

The Navy and pirates are different. The biggest difference is that the Navy's training and positioning are very clear. Smoker, a Logia-type Devil Fruit user, was thrown into Loguetown. Of course, there are reasons related to his personality, but it is also because of his lack of strength and failure to awaken dual-type Haki.

Therefore, the Marines who can come to the New World, apart from the ordinary soldiers at the bottom, are basically all Devil Fruit users who possess both types of Haki and have developed most of their potential. As for the Illusion-type Devil Fruit users, as long as they develop a little of their potential, they are elite figures among vice admirals.

The thought only flashed through the mind of the pirate captain. At that moment, Uchiha Tou had already arrived above the pirate ship. Suddenly, he exploded completely, turning into a swarm of blood bats that rushed down.

The crimson bats flew with incredible speed, landing directly on the deck of the pirate ship and swarming towards the pirates. In an instant, several pirates screamed as the crimson bats drained their blood, turning them into dried corpses.

Several quick-reacting pirates immediately grabbed their guns and swords and attacked the blood-red bats, but both bullets and melee weapons passed right through the blood-formed bats without causing any damage.

"It really is a fantasy species! Is it a demon or a vampire?!"

The pirate captain showed a cautious expression, but not much fear:

"So what if he's a Mythical Devil Fruit user? I'm John the Great, with a bounty of 3 million!"

As he spoke, the pirate captain raised a giant sword the size of a door panel, its surface wreathed in jet-black Armament Haki, and slashed fiercely at the blood-red bats that were lunging at him.

The giant sword, imbued with Armament Haki, slashed down the bats that were attacking. Just as the pirate captain was about to smile, he noticed that the number of bats seemed to be increasing.

"wrong……"

The pirate captain took a close look at his battle situation and noticed that one pirate had been pierced through the heart by a bat, but had no other wounds on his body. Instead, his entire body instantly turned into a dried-up corpse.

As he turned into a dried-up corpse, the bats that flew out of his body also rapidly multiplied, directly turning into more than a dozen.

"It's splitting apart using the blood of my subordinates... What a terrifying Devil Fruit ability!"

Under this splitting pattern, soon all the pirates on the ship, except for the captain who was completely covered in Armament Haki, turned into dried corpses, and at this moment the entire pirate ship was completely filled with blood-red bats.

Countless bats coalesced into a blood-red storm, and moments later, Uchiha Touya, with blood-red flames behind him, reappeared on the deck.

After revealing his true form, Uchiha Hiyu did not attack immediately. Instead, a thoughtful expression appeared on his face. A large amount of blood energy condensed, and the Blood Nerve Magic Power was reborn. This time, the magic power did not disappear from his body, but it was also constantly changing in nature.

"It feels like we're regressing. This world really doesn't allow the existence of magic, but the Vampire Fruit can transform it into blood energy or other inferior forms of magic."

(End of this chapter)