One Piece: Starting with Coercing and Enticing Nami

Seeing this, a hint of regret appeared in Tote's eyes. He squatted down, made a grasping motion with his left hand, and gathered a fist-sized amount of juice.

With the combination of Fishman Karate and an affinity for water, Thoth is naturally able to gather water in air with suitable humidity.

Sensing the tree sap, Thoth took a sip and, using his "Taste of a Hundred Herbs" technique, sensed a rich life force entering his body and being absorbed.

A hint of surprise appeared in Toth's eyes:

"It doesn't possess that strange power; it's just the pure essence of plant life?"

Carefully perceive the changes within your body; this is a gentle life essence with medicinal properties, which will only nourish and strengthen the body.

Thoth's eyes flickered slightly, and he turned to Nami and the others who hadn't gone too far from the shore, calling out again:

"Nami! All of you, come here."

Nami had been keeping an eye on Thoth, and upon hearing this, she transformed into her white tiger form, unleashing a whirlwind that carried Nojiko and the others swiftly towards them.

Soon, they landed on the main trunk.

Thoth said to Nami, "Quickly dig holes. Dig a big pit for each of you on this trunk, and collect as much sap as you can drink."

Nami's eyes widened instantly, but she didn't hesitate and immediately got to work. Her tiger claws, comparable to high-strength alloys, wrapped around the sharp Platinum Wind, quickly digging a hole.

The tree trunk, as hard as steel, was gouged out with large holes while sparks flew. Nami was very economical, manipulating the wind to collect the sap seeping from the cut surfaces.

Thoth was also in action, his exceptionally sharp Tyrblade slicing and cutting at the slit, and soon seven large pits appeared, where the essence of the giant tree's vegetation gradually accumulated.

Seeing them lying on the surface of the pit drinking heartily, Toth also began to drink heartily.

His body was cleansed by the pure essence of plants, and Thoth could feel his body cells greedily absorbing this pure life essence.

A moment later, seeing them all sitting on the cut surface with round little bellies, unable to drink any more, Thoth muttered an exasperated curse:

"Is that all? Go for some high-intensity training! Quickly burn off your energy. Don't worry about hurting yourself; this essence of herbs is brimming with rich vitality."

Especially Nami and Johnny, you two Zoan-types, get moving!

Seeing their blank expressions, Tote was furious and speechless.

"Oh? Oh oh!" Karina blinked, quickly got up, and began practicing the Six Styles. Nami's lips twitched as she entered her half-beast form, and the platinum wind howled towards the sky.

Johnny was a very honest man. He walked to the side and scratched himself with his sharp claws until his skin was torn and bleeding.

He then beckoned Joseph to give him a good beating with his blazing iron fists.

Before long, he was covered in wounds and quickly ran to the edge of the pit to drink the water in large gulps.

Similarly, Nojiko and Nami engaged in a brutal, hand-to-hand combat, with Nojiko constantly using his Super Slippery Glide to heal their internal injuries and deplete their energy.

Through the process of destruction and regeneration, they found a way to quickly become stronger.

After a while, Thoth's body was saturated with the nutrients. He glanced at Nami and the others and a smile appeared in his eyes. "I'll fight you guys."

Immediately afterwards, he flashed forward and began to beat them mercilessly through the cut in the giant tree.

Screams and cries of pain filled the air.

The beating ended.

As Thoth watched them gulp down the essence of plant life, he glanced around and saw that the upper part of the broken giant tree also contained a large amount of plant essence.

Given the rate at which everyone consumes it, a significant amount of essence will definitely be wasted.

Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he looked at Karina: "Can't the cards created by the Card-Card Fruit's power be stored?"

Karina's eyes lit up. She knew now was not the time to hesitate, so she quickly nodded and looked at Nami:

"Nami, take me back, I want to eat that fruit."

Nami's eyes lit up, and she immediately understood. In the blink of an eye, she transformed back into her white tiger form, leaped in front of her, grabbed her head in her mouth, and sped off towards the direction of the Breaking Wave.

A scream from Karina suddenly rang out from mid-air.

However, soon enough, even though the Mercedes kept going, Nami managed to throw her onto her back.

Thoth glanced at them, then gripped Tyrfist. With a thought, he channeled his inner power into the sword and tempered it. Tyrfist then fully unleashed its power, absorbing Thoth's inner power.

Thoth's body rapidly withered, and then he sank into the pit that was filled with the essence of plants and tree sap, consuming the sap.

The "self-recovery" function operates at full power, transforming into life energy to replenish the body. The Armament Haki within the body is constantly generated and continuously flows into Tyr's Edge for tempering.

Under the unrestrained and domineering influence of Thoth, the lifeblood of the sword gradually became more and more active.

Thoth's high-intensity Armament Haki forged Tyr's Edge sword inch by inch, seeping into every corner of the blade. Thoth's consciousness and Haki resonated with the sword's spirit.

Tyrfong greedily absorbed Thoth's domineering aura, its own weight gradually increasing, and the sword's strength and sharpness also continuously growing.

Seeing the plant essence in the tree pit of Thoth disappearing rapidly, Nojiko suddenly had an idea and quickly called Johnny Joseph to transport the sap from the surrounding area to Thoth.

Thoth noticed Nokiko's thoughtful gesture and immediately put aside all distractions to focus on his training.

As time passed, Nami returned with Karina, who had become a user of the Card-Card Fruit.

Nami dug a three-cubic-meter pit to store the tree sap, and Karina created cards. As the cards came into contact with each other, the sap was absorbed and stored by the cards.

An hour and a half later.

Under such cultivation, Tyrfong's life meridians gradually changed, resonating and harmonizing with the frequency of Thoth's own life meridians. At a certain moment, Tyrfong began to tremble slightly, and a spiritual hum suddenly appeared.

The two are completely in sync.

The life force resonated and merged, the Armament Haki flowed into Tyrfong, and then smoothly and naturally returned into Thoth's body.

At this moment, Thoth no longer needed to consciously resonate with Tyrfong's meridians. In a way similar to cultivating immortality, the sword had been completely refined by Thoth.

As his consciousness flowed into Tyr's Edge, the sword's spirit no longer resisted, but spontaneously and actively aligned itself with it.

The tuning of this sword is now officially complete.

Next, it is necessary to use domineering energy to temper it into a special weapon like a black blade.

Opening his eyes, Thoth rose from the tree pit, and fragrant sap flowed down his body.

At this moment, looking a few meters away, Karina casually created a delicate card the size of a palm and it floated down onto the sap in the tree pit in front of her with her will. Immediately afterwards, a burst of white light shone from the card, and the essence of the plants in the tree pit was absorbed in the blink of an eye, as if it were being drawn in by a whirlpool.

Seeing Thoth finish his training, Karina waved the card in her hand with a grin:

"Would you like to take a closer look?"

Thoth came to her side and looked at the exquisite card in her hand, which had a purple background and a border made of the three primary colors.

On the front of the card is a pattern of shimmering, turquoise liquid.

Karina grinned and said, "Isn't it pretty?"

As she spoke, she extended her left hand, ripples spreading across her palm, and then another card with the same design materialized. Karina grinned and said:

"The cards I create can be stored in the card space within my body and can be taken out from any part of my body. However, as it stands, the cards I create are all one-time use cards."

Like this.

With a thought, a card in her hand emitted a white light. As the card disintegrated, a pool of tree sap appeared in mid-air and then crashed into the tree pit.

Karina regenerated a blank card and once again absorbed the sap from the tree pit into the card for storage.

"How is it? Pretty convenient, right?"

Karina's eyes were filled with anticipation, and Thoth smiled and patted her head:

“Very good, I’ve made up my mind. From now on, you will be our ship’s professional warehouse keeper for valuables.”

Karina rolled her eyes at Thoth, but then turned around and laughed, "That sounds pretty cool. From now on, I'll store all your high-value treasures."

Thoth rolled his eyes at her, while Karina grinned. Then, she looked down at the giant tree at her feet, a glint of shrewdness in her eyes:

"Thoth, the material of this giant tree is super good. What do you think? Why don't you cut down a part of it and use it as shipbuilding material when we need to change ships in the future?"

Upon hearing this, Thoth was surprised, then thought of the exceptionally tough texture of this ancient tree, which far surpassed the material of his own Breaking Wave.

His heart was immediately moved, and he winked at Karina: "You really are the type to pluck feathers from a passing goose and leave skin behind when a beast leaves."

"Hehehe!" Karina grinned slyly. "Don't you think it's bad?"

“No way,” Thoth laughed. “I think you’re absolutely right.”

But then, Tote looked at Karina with curiosity in his eyes: "Could you absorb and store a piece of wood with a diameter of 100 meters through a card?"

Karina pondered, "I haven't tried it, but it should work. When a card absorbs an item, it consumes energy based on the size, quality, and amount of energy in the item. My energy should be enough to sustain it."

Tote nodded, then looked at the cross-section of the giant tree at his feet and began to consider from which angle to cut it down.

All things breathe and resonate with the veins of the giant tree.

'Huh? ! '

At this moment, Thoth's consciousness stirred slightly. The giant tree still possessed a life force, remaining resilient and tenacious, but Thoth was not surprised by this at the moment.

Instead, in the sense of all things breathing, the life veins of the giant tree are slowly converging towards a root at its feet.

The giant tree's...life core?

094. Conqueror's Haki! The Spirit of the Wood!

"An ancient giant tree that is inherently spiritual, and can also produce fruit that allows organisms to mutate and evolve through life energy."

"Shouldn't we have known it wouldn't just die so easily, like a cicada shedding its skin?"

"Its instincts told it that it couldn't defeat me, so now it abandons the main trunk and most of the life essence of the plants to preserve its core, and also secretly absorbs some of its own life energy into the core."

A rich yet subtle life force slowly emerges from the point where the heartwood of the main trunk meets the rootstock.

At this moment, even through emotional resonance, Thoth was unable to perceive its "emotions" as if it had entered a state of "feigned death".

He's a guy like Lao Liu.

It really has become sentient!

Unfortunately, he still managed to discover it himself, as Thoth sensed the sentient, ignorant spiritual fluctuations within the core of the giant tree.

It is slowly absorbing the life essence of the sap from the surrounding branches.

"If even the fruit can give me such a huge boost, what about the life core?"

Greed is the original sin! But so is weakness! Survival of the fittest!

Thoth observed calmly.