Pirates, Start with the vampire fruit and rescue the empress

Three months later.

The first half of the Great Channel, Lulujia Island.

On a cliff near the sea, Sephiroth closed his eyes and sat cross-legged. He placed the butcher knife on his knees.

He used all his strength to exert his Haki of Knowledge, and used the spatial perception provided by the butcher’s knife as an aid to sense spatial changes within a radius of more than ten kilometers.

In the past three months, in order to find the Rainbow Mist as soon as possible and return to the original time and space, Sephiroth basically stayed on this cliff and meditated, except for four hours of sleep every day and replenishing his vitality. The meditative posture is like that of an ascetic, using the spatial perception of a butcher’s knife to find traces of the rainbow mist.

Sitting in meditation for a long time every day made the butcher’s knife seem to be completely integrated with him…

Many years ago, he had already reached the state of integrating man and sword, treating the sword as an extension of his arm, and the swordsmanship he displayed through it had reached an even more meticulous level.

However……

Sephiroth felt as if he had touched a realm that was deeper and more ethereal than the fusion of man and sword.

He thought about it over and over, and suddenly thought of something he had accidentally heard in his previous life.

Swordsmanship can be divided into three realms:

The first type has a sword in the hand but no sword in the heart. The main thing to practice is one move after another.

The second type is to have a sword in your hand and a sword in your heart. The so-called integration of man and sword means that what you develop is sword energy.

The third type, there is no sword in the hand and no sword in the heart, it is a kind of peace that is as great as emptiness, and this third type is called the highest state of swordsmanship.

The current Sephiroth has not understood the true meaning of “no sword in hand, no sword in heart”.

However, he has achieved the level of “without a sword in his hand, but with a sword in his heart”.

Before this, if he wanted to sense the changes in the surrounding space, he had to hold the handle of the butcher knife with his hand, but now he can do it without touching the butcher knife. He can interact with the will of the knife at close range. Blend, using its spatial awareness directly!

Suddenly!

In Sephiroth’s perception, a spatial distortion suddenly appeared eight kilometers away.

Uh-huh!

With a flash of red light, the butcher’s knife unsheathed and opened a space folding door. Sephiroth spread out his black wings on his back. He fluttered his wings and flew through the space door in an instant, appearing in front of the rainbow mist eight kilometers away. , and dived in without hesitation.

The familiar foggy space is still filled with a strong sense of distortion and chaos.

Sephiroth, who was soaring in the air, flapped his black wings, found a sunken ship and landed in this strange space.

The alien space in the Rainbow Mist is not very large, and Sephiroth can cover it with the Haki of Knowledge and Information with a radius of fifteen kilometers, completely shrouding it in it.

Although his perception was somewhat blurred by the thick fog in the air, he could still sense every stranded ship.

Having learned from the past experience of sitting and waiting for three months, Sephiroth didn’t know how long he would stay in this different space, nor did he know how many times he would need to try before he could find the rules of this space.

Since Butu Dao must regularly replenish his vitality, he can always use the power of the Gate Fruit to maintain the existence of his portable space. In that space are a bunch of Devil Fruits, research materials and other important items, which he simply cannot give up. Plus Safi Rose itself also needs vitality to maintain physical condition.

In this way, it is destined that he will not be able to stay in this different space for a long time. He needs to go out regularly to replenish his vitality in order to maintain consumption!

This does not mean that Sephiroth cannot replenish his vitality in this alien space.

After all, there are still fish in the depths of the seabed in this different space. He can catch fish to replenish his vitality by fishing.

However, the efficiency of this method is too low…

Of course, if he could catch the Neptune species, he could absorb the life force for hundreds of years at a time.

but……

There are so many Neptunes in this shabby place!

Besides, what kind of fishing technique does it take to catch sea kings…?

If he couldn’t catch the Neptune type, he couldn’t jump into the sea, right…?

Although Sephiroth prides himself on being powerful and has reached the top level of combat power in the world.

but…….

He still can’t overcome the weakness that sea water can incapacitate Devil Fruit users!

If Sephiroth dares to plunge directly into the sea, the water will drown him alive…

Ever since, he began to search for usable materials, food, and treasures in this different space, but

Everything he thought could be used was collected one after another and stacked in one place.

…….

Twenty days later.

On the deck of a stranded warship, Sephiroth sat on a small pony, with a whetstone in front of him and an unedged blue-black long knife in his hand. Polishing the blade.

On the blade of this long knife, patterns like red blood vessels spread, giving the blade an eerie beauty.

Even before it was sharpened, this knife still exuded a ferocious aura, like a ferocious beast breaking free from the bottomless abyss!

This knife was a weapon he started to forge only after he forged the “Killing Intent” knife of the Great Knife grade. It took him more than two years, and he still used the blood refining method…

Because Kozaburo once said that he could not forge a demon sword that could absorb the life force of others and convert it into a weapon, Sephiroth had been troubled for a long time.

However, he suddenly remembered the properties of the Seven Star Sword. It seemed to be able to take away the life force of others and use it for his own use, thus healing his own injuries and providing the user with powerful power!

In his early years, Sephiroth also specifically studied the material composition of the Seven Star Sword. He discovered that a certain mineral in its composition was not a mineral material possessed by the Pirate King’s planet.

Based on various analyses, he speculated that the substance should be a special component extracted from alien meteorites, and that the ancient Askar country used this material to cast the Seven Stars with this special power. sword!

Therefore, Sephiroth used the broken blade of the Seven Star Sword as a material for forging, hoping to make a weapon that could absorb the user’s life force…

He never expected that his attempt would actually succeed!

This long knife that has not yet been sharpened has the property of absorbing the life force of others.

As soon as he finishes the finishing work such as sharpening, it will be a brand new “butcher’s knife”!

Suddenly!

Sephiroth paused in his hands, turned his head and glanced in a certain direction in the distance.

Immediately afterwards, he packed up his things in a hurry, pulled out the butcher knife on his waist, opened a space door, and got in directly.

…………………

Haiyuan calendar year 1469.

On the turbulent blue sea, a three-masted sailboat with an ox-skull bow hangs a black flag of an ox-skull on its mast. It is heading straight towards Lulujia Island.

“Bringing Binx’s wine to you;

Like the sea breeze, ride the wind and waves as you please!

On the other side of the sea, the sunset is also noisy;

The songs of birds draw circles in the air;

Goodbye Harbor, the Home of Silk;

Come sing a song!

Voyage Song;

The golden waves and silver waves also turned into splashes;

We left only because of the ocean;

Bring Binx’s wine to you;

We pirates split the waves;

Resting on the waves, home is on the boat;

Skeleton sails and skull and crossbones flags fly in the wind;

Under the boundless sky, the wind blows violently;

The waves are dancing and the drums are beating;

If you are frightened, you will be doomed;

It’s not that there’s no such thing as tomorrow’s rising sun…”

On the deck of the pirate ship, there stood a group of pirates holding musical instruments in their hands. They were playing selflessly, completely immersed in the music.

A space door quietly opened, and Sephiroth stepped out and stood on the observation deck of the main mast of the sailboat. He held on to the armrest of the observation deck and turned his head to glance at the black skull and crossbones flag fluttering in the wind next to him.

Um! ?How is this going……?

These guys have such a high level of musical performance…

The guys on this ship are more like a music group than a pirate group…?

In order to make Uta happy, in addition to being a copywriter, Sephiroth also deliberately learned a lot of music-related knowledge, and he could play many musical instruments.

Therefore, just by playing a piece of music, he was able to tell that most of these people were professional musicians, and a few of them even had master-level musical attainments…

Originally, Sephiroth had just come out of the rainbow mist, and he sensed a ship on the sea through his Haki.

Because he had been alone in the rainbow misty alien space for too long, and his life force reserves had also been depleted a lot.

Therefore, he thought that if he met the pirate group, he would drain all the life force of those guys and hack them all to death…

However, after Sephiroth saw the scene on the deck below, he couldn’t help but have some doubts in his heart.

Therefore, he patiently put the butcher knife in his pocket

Sheath, sat down on the observation deck, rested his head on his hands, and closed his eyes.

He planned to wait until the group below finished playing the song before asking…