One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

"Brother Luo Xia!"

Luo Xia reached out and grabbed her arm, lifting the petite Vivi up like an adult lifting a child.

"Hmm, you were scared, weren't you? It's okay, I'll take you out now."

“Rorschach! You arrived just in time. If you had been a few seconds later, we probably would have been digested by that horrible stomach acid.” Cobra looked down at the violently churning green liquid with lingering fear, his face pale.

The island that had been blown away crashed down, instantly creating towering green waves that crashed towards the crowd, terrifying the guards to the point of turning pale.

Bell and Gakka, on the contrary, became calm at this moment.

Both of them looked at Luo Xia, knowing that with this young man in front of them, all dangers would no longer be dangers.

Asie, who was holding his daughter Olga, was almost scared to death. He was trembling all over, his eyes tightly closed, as if he was waiting for the cruel death to come.

Rorschach grabbed again with his right hand, tightening the air chains and gathering all the bound people together. He then created a thick, compressed air shield to cover them.

Not only that, but a deep blue aura surged from his body, enveloping and covering the air shield that was covering everyone once again.

"Weiwei! Are you ready? We're going out."

Luo Xia looked down at Weiwei, who was clinging to him tightly.

He originally intended to throw the girl into that air shield as well.

But for some reason, the little girl clung tightly to his arm, just like a sloth using his arm as a tree trunk, refusing to let go no matter what.

Luo Xia felt two soft, yielding hands on his arm, and his heart warmed. He quickly composed himself, pulled Weiwei, who was clinging to his arm, into his embrace, and stepped forward.

"boom!"

A powerful burst of energy erupted from inside the lanternfish's body, and lightning surged from Rorschach's skin, intertwining and compressing above his head to form a spear with a sharp tip. As he soared into the sky, the spear hurtled towards the constantly writhing and vibrating flesh above his head.

Those dark red fleshy walls, resembling continental plates, are the inner walls of the lanternfish's stomach.

There was also a large amount of corrosive green slime dripping down from it.

With one arm around Weiwei and the other gripping the deep blue air shield, Luo Xia, propelled by the surging power of wind and thunder, slammed it into the writhing flesh wall above her head.

"Pfft!"

The thick, tough flesh walls were torn apart without a doubt, cleaved open by the surging wind and thunder, and continued to advance deeper and pierce through.

Despite all this destruction, the lanternfish didn't seem to notice a thing.

Its size is too enormous. Unless Rorschach creates a lightning strike, an electric shock to such a small area would be nothing more than a tickle to it.

There wasn't even a tickling sensation.

"Chi chi chi!"

As Rorschach relentlessly advanced, flesh and blood, as thick as a mountain range, were pierced through section by section.

A few dozen seconds later, accompanied by a powerful surge of air pressure, Luo Xia led the group to break through the lanternfish's stomach and body, plunging into the dark, deep sea.

It's unknown how deep he was in the ocean at that moment.

Luo Xia felt as if he had been thrown under a hydraulic press, being squeezed wildly by seawater from all sides.

The air shields protecting Cobra and the others were compressed significantly in an instant, causing everyone inside to huddle together.

Both Luo Xia and Weiwei's bodies were covered by thick, compressed air barriers and imposing armor, isolating them from the surrounding seawater, which prevented Luo Xia from losing his strength.

With his Observation Haki locking onto the direction of the sea surface, Rorschach was about to rise upwards.

At that moment, a small sun radiating brilliant golden light in the deep sea caught his attention.

That was none other than the light bulb on the head of the enormous lanternfish standing right at our feet.

Looking at the small golden sun floating in front of him, Luo Xia's heart stirred.

He thought of pure gold.

The fat man, Asie, researched and produced pure gold. A small amount of it was made into rings and worn by himself and his daughter Olga. The rest of the pure gold was absorbed and filtered by the lanternfish and stored, along with other gold, in the light bulb on the lanternfish's body.

It would be a waste not to take something so good, whether you want to use it or not, since it's right in front of you.

With pure gold, the physical condition of several old guys in the navy can be preserved for a long time.

This will be of great help to what Rorschach will do in the future.

With that thought in mind, Rorschach no longer hesitated, grabbed the air shield protecting Cobra and the others with his right hand, and pushed it towards his head.

The compressed air shield, with a density far lower than that of seawater, immediately rose rapidly towards the sea surface, like a soap bubble.

Meanwhile, Luo Xia himself, holding Vivi, shimmered and moved through the sea like a swordfish, shooting towards the golden sphere that shone like a small sun.

"puff!"

With a crisp sound, as if piercing through a soap bubble, he and Weiwei crashed into the intense, dazzling golden light that was almost blinding.

"Brother Luo Xia, where are we? It's so bright, I can't open my eyes."

Vivi hugged Luo Xia tightly. Even with her eyes closed, a strong light pierced through her eyelids, making her feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Don't look, you'll go blind."

Luo Xia pressed her little head into his arms, without opening his own eyes, and simply swept his Observation Haki across the surroundings.

He was completely stunned after just one glance.

The place he was in was practically a golden world.

All around, above and below, front and back, left and right, was gold.

A vast amount of gold outlines the rocks, ground, flowers, trees, seaweed, coral, shells, and swimming fish.

Lines of luminous biological veins covered the surface of these golden creations, fitting together to release a dazzling light like the sun.

At the very center of this golden world is a transparent sphere the size of a football, supported by a twisting tentacle, radiating light hundreds or even thousands of times brighter than the surrounding golden creations.

"Found it! Pure gold, it's inside!"

Luo Xia's heart skipped a beat, and he shot out, his right hand grabbing the soccer ball the size of a football with lightning speed, and pulling hard.

"Click-clack-click-clack!"

A terrifying force erupted from his right hand, yet the tentacles connecting to the glowing sphere were not severed.

Instead, the vast golden ground below was pulled out and arched up in a large area.

With that pull, the entire golden world, radiating boundless light, began to shake violently.

The roar of surging seawater came from outside, accompanied by an angry roar that violently shook the seawater and the golden world surrounding Rorschach.

Clearly, his movements here had alerted the lanternfish.

"What is this tentacle? Is it that tough?"

Luo Xia tugged again, only to find that he still couldn't break the seemingly soft tentacle.

Seeing that the berserk lanternfish was about to drag him into the bottomless abyss tens of thousands of meters deep, Luo Xia gritted his teeth and unleashed a burst of lightning power from his right hand.

As the power of lightning erupted, the sphere he held shattered with a crack.

Unable to grab the entire sphere in time, Rorschach swiftly snatched a fist-sized gold nugget from the shattered sphere, slammed into it, and once again passed through the soap bubble-like membrane, leaving a dazzling trail of lightning in the dark seawater as he hurtled toward the surface.

Below, the seawater was violently churning and surging, stirring up all sorts of chaotic currents, as if the entire ocean was being stirred up by this crazed lanternfish.

Luo Xia looked at the pure gold ingot in his hand, which was radiating a dazzling golden light, and felt a headache coming on.

So, how do you hide this thing?

If this thing were to constantly radiate such dazzling golden light, wouldn't everyone know that it was carrying pure gold?

It should be noted that ordinary gold, no matter how much there is, could never emit such a strong light.

While thinking, Rorschach rushed toward the air shield where Cobra and the others were.

As he approached the air shield, a sudden thought flashed through Rorschach's mind: the rings Olga and Asie were wearing.

The ring was also made of pure gold, but it didn't emit a strong golden light like the pure gold in his hand. It looked just like ordinary gold, except that it was slightly brighter in color.

Why is that?

Luo Xia held up the pure gold in his hand, and suddenly thought of something. A surge of electricity erupted from his right hand, which was holding the pure gold.

"Thunder Metallurgy!"

"Zizzizi!"

As the current surged, the pure gold in his hand melted instantly, turning into flowing golden liquid.

With a burst of magnetic force, Luo Xia separated the flowing golden liquid into tiny golden beads the size of mung beans, which floated in the dark seawater.

As the large block of pure gold was cut apart, the intense golden light instantly dimmed considerably.

Rorschach was overjoyed at the sight.

Sure enough.

The more pure gold is gathered together, the brighter the light it emits.

If the rings were stored separately according to size, like the one in Olga's hand, they would not emit such a strong light.

With a wave of his hand, Rorschach scattered pure gold beads in all directions.

Instantly, the last remaining golden light dissipated as the golden beads dispersed.

Luo Xia once again guided the golden beads back and attached them to various parts of his body, spacing each bead apart to ensure that it would not emit the same golden light as before.

After doing all this, Luo Xia, holding Vivi, lunged forward, lifting the air shield covering Cobra and the others with one hand, and with a bang, broke through the sea surface, soaring into the sky amidst the swirling wind.

Locked in by Observation Haki, it flew toward the Thriller Bark where Hibari was.

Chapter 454 Guess which one is Vivi?

Seven days later.

A typical 30-meter-class two-masted sailboat, propelled by the sea breeze, slowly sailed past the waters beside the Sabaody Archipelago, heading towards the foot of the towering red earth continent ahead.

On the bow deck, Cobra and Rorschach sat on deck chairs on either side of each other, leisurely drinking juice they had smuggled from Water Seven.

The ship they were on was also obtained by Rorschach from the Carrera Company in the Iceberg when they passed through Water Seven.

Asie and his daughter chose to stay in Water Seven, and Rorschach didn't insist, only instructing Iceberg to take care of them.