The Warrior of Love

Xia Qi recalled: "It's really nostalgic... At that time, even Rayleigh was just a relatively unknown newcomer."

Jiang Liu was secretly shocked, and once again realized that he couldn't judge the woman in front of him by her appearance. You have to know that this is at least the same generation as Roger and Rayleigh!

Moreover, before the era of rampant bounties, Xia Qi was already a fugitive with a bounty of 30 million, which was much more valuable than the 30 million level today.

"Oh right..." Jiang Liu's mind moved, "Miss Xia Qi, are you a person with special abilities?"

"No..." Xia Qi said calmly, "I am not a person with special abilities, nor do I know swordsmanship. I am only proficient in some physical skills. When I was on the ship before, I was not a frontline combatant."

"Oh……"

"Jiang Liu, I'm curious about something."

Xia Qi held a cigarette in one hand, propped herself up and sat on the windowsill, looking down at the river. The morning breeze blew through her thin pajamas, faintly outlining her charming outline.

"Why are you trying so hard?"

"Uh……"

"You're not a pirate, are you? Judging from your appearance, you must have received higher education. You don't have the weed-like smell of the lower class.

You could have lived a stable life but chose the storm... People like you must have a reason to be so desperate to become stronger."

Jiang Liu was silent for a moment, then said, "Do I have to tell you?"

"Well, it doesn't matter if you don't tell me. There are too many people who have passed through this sea."

Puffs of smoke came out of her red lips, and Xia Qi continued, "But your training like this is too inefficient. Increasing the weight blindly is just torturing yourself. I can't stand it any more."

Jiang Liu spread his hands to show his helplessness. He knew that training like this was hard work, but he really had no other way to go.

"I'm not very good at swordsmanship, otherwise I wouldn't mind helping you."

Xia Qi stretched and said, "Ha... There isn't much work to do at the bar anyway, so I have plenty of time."

Jiang Liu admired the enchanting curves carefully, and suddenly asked: "Miss Xia Qi, do you know "domineering"? "

"Domineering?"

Xia Qi was stunned for a moment: "Of course, it's not such a rare thing."

Jiang Liu looked at her with a hint of expectation: "Then will you..."

"I know a little bit. Why, do you want to learn?"

Xia Qi showed a charming smile: "The tuition fee is very high."

Chapter 70: Rayleigh's Surprise

Haki is a special power unique to the world of "One Piece". It is said to be the outward manifestation of human potential. In theory, everyone, regardless of gender, age or status, has the possibility of awakening it, but in fact, there are very few people who can control Haki.

There are three types of Haki, also known as the "three colors of Haki".

Observation Haki can predict the enemy's next move and sense every subtle fluctuation in space. It is said that if it is cultivated to a high level, it can even foresee the future and even "listen to the sounds of all things."

Armament Haki can be wrapped around the body or weapon to strengthen it physically. If one is skilled enough, even the flesh can become as hard as steel. To a certain extent, it can even catch the user of the natural fruit ability.

Domineering aura is the most special kind. It seems that it cannot be obtained through practice. It is a rare existence that can only appear in one in a million people. Once released, it can form an aura of coercion, crushing the weak.

However, since the awakened ones are too rare, the general public in the world does not know what capabilities this kind of domineering power has at a deep level.

Jiang Liu also dreamed of awakening something similar to the protagonist's halo, but unfortunately, "One Piece" is not Naruto, where there are convenient things like chakra test paper to measure one's attributes...

As for domineering things, no one knows which aspect of themselves are suitable before awakening, and Jiang Liu, as a time traveler, can only practice hard and wait for awakening.

Xia Qi might be an "old senior", but she is not a good teacher, or she has never had experience in teaching others before, so when she trained Jiang Liu, she just followed the training methods of her "companions" in her memory, and after appropriately reducing the amount of training, she copied them and gave them to Jiang Liu.

Xia Qi herself only has Observation Haki, but her companions are undoubtedly powerful people who have traveled all over the world. Even the training methods they used when they were young have exceeded the limits of what ordinary people can bear.

If Jiang Liu's body was not very strong, and if he did not have the combination of "breathing technique + divinity" to continuously increase his physical limits in order to adapt to high-intensity training, he would probably not be able to last even half a month and would be crippled.

Reilly came back once halfway through, and it seemed that he had lost all his money again. However, this time he did not find a suitable buyer, so he could not "sell himself" to make money again. He came back to Xia Qi to drink.

He knew that Xia Qi didn't say anything after training Jiang Liu. She just laughed for a while and left, and it seemed that she didn't take the matter to heart.

That’s right. After all, in Rayleigh’s opinion, Jiang Liu is currently just a “small fry” and does not need too much attention.

In fact, in the original work, if Luffy did not have a special identity and a close relationship with Shanks, it would be impossible for Rayleigh to help him simply because they were of the same mind.

Of course, it is a good thing that young people are willing to work hard. As an older man, Reilly is quite optimistic about motivated young people like Jiang Liu.

In this way, Jiang Liu and Lulu worked together in Xia Qi's bar and received private training from Xia Qi, while Reilly spent a lot of time wandering outside. Sometimes he would come back to stay for a while, but more often he would disappear completely. When he was really short of money and couldn't find a "buyer", he would pick up his job as a coating craftsman to make some money.

That’s right, Rayleigh is also a craftsman!

Such days were relatively peaceful. Even though there were two more people in the bar, Rayleigh didn't feel that his life had changed at all.

——However, after half a year, Rayleigh gradually realized that something was wrong.

"Have you mastered it yet?"

Holding a half-drunk bottle of rum, Rayleigh looked at the figure beating someone in the backyard downstairs with some astonishment and deep thought.

The ones who came to cause trouble were a group of newly arrived pirates. They heard that there were coating craftsmen here and came to "visit", but they couldn't afford so much money... or they were used to buying things without paying, so the battle began naturally.

The pirates who were able to reach the Sabaody Archipelago were not completely fakes. The twenty or thirty of them were basically veterans with a lot of combat experience. Their physical fitness was much stronger than that of ordinary people, and they were armed with hot weapons such as muskets.

If it was Jiang Liu who had just arrived in the world of pirates, dealing with four or five people at a time would probably be the limit for him. But now, he was able to move among the crowd with ease using only a katana, knocking down the enemies one by one as if it were a game.

Even though they were very close, the pirates' swords could not touch his body and always missed him by a hair's breadth. Even if five or six muskets fired at him at the same time, he would easily dodge them and move to a safe position as if he had foreseen the future.

And every time he made a move, one or two pirates would fall down. The pirates could neither see his actual movements nor block the blows that were beyond the limit of their vision.

The captain of the pirates was even a person with special abilities, but he was quickly defeated after only a few rounds of fighting with Jiang Liu.

A group of powerful pirates were lying downstairs of Xia Qi's bar in less than ten minutes.

"One of them is still alive...do you still have strength left?" Rayleigh took a deep look at Jiang Liu who was cleaning up the battlefield, "That's a huge improvement."

"Not to mention you, even I am surprised." Xia Qi said with a smile, "Although his talent is good, it is not to the level of a peerless genius. The fact that he can develop his observation Haki to this level so quickly must be due to his compatibility and hard work."

"Compatibility?"

"His intuition is exceptionally sharp, his spatial perception is also excellent, and he seems to have received relevant training... In short, he is very suitable for observation Haki."

Xia Qi took out a lighter, lit a cigarette, and took a puff with enjoyment.

"At first, we were just teasing him, so we gave him a "joking" tuition price. He naturally didn't have that much money, so in addition to working extra hard to blackmail the "customers", he also took the initiative to go out and hunt gangsters and pirates.

Half a year ago, he only attacked pirates below the 10 million level, and basically would not choose those with larger numbers, but a month later he had begun to challenge pirates of 15 million.

And he consciously challenges those with more people. Even though he failed several times and got seriously injured, he still insisted on developing his domineering power in the melee... Now, he can probably hunt big fish worth about 60 million."

After flicking off the accumulated ash, Xia Qi slowly exhaled a puff of smoke.

"I have nothing left to teach him. This child has a brighter future. Although I don't know what is driving him to keep moving forward, he will not stop until he reaches that goal. Hey, Rayleigh, what do you think of this scene?"

Chapter 71: What is "domineering"?

"And so, after defeating the evil prince and his seven giant soldiers, Snow White and the Black-hearted Queen lived a happy and joyful life. Well, Lulu, it's time to go to bed."

"No, I want to listen more!"

"No, children won't grow taller if they don't get enough sleep."

Jiang Liu touched the little girl's forehead and said, "Be good and listen to me. Next time I will tell you the love story of Grey Romeo Wolf and Happy Juliet Yangyang."

"Um……"

After coaxing Lulu to sleep, Jiang Liu tiptoed downstairs, went to the backyard, took off his shirt, and started his evening training.

He gets up early and goes to bed late, and does a lot of physical training before he closes his eyes or before he opens his eyes. During the day, he also has a bar job and a part-time job hunting pirates. A normal person would have collapsed long ago, but Jiang Liu not only persisted, he even became stronger and stronger, which almost went against common sense.

——【Admiration of the Brave】

The more you are tempered, the faster you grow!

At first Jiang Liu disliked this skill because it was not a direct attack skill, but now he feels from the bottom of his heart that it is "really good"!

If divinity gave Jiang Liu the capital to risk his life without worrying about sudden death, then "The Brave's Aspiration" was to transform the experience accumulated in the process of risking his life into a tangible increase in strength.

In just half a year, he grew from a "small fry" to a strong man who could hunt pirates with bounties below 60 million. He even gradually made a name for himself in this lawless area.

If this kind of growth rate were to happen in a hot-blooded comic, it would definitely be a treatment only enjoyed by the protagonists!

Therefore, Jiang Liu would engage in self-torturing exercises without worrying about overdoing it.

As for Haki, he gradually began to figure out the way to do it, but he might not be the son of destiny. He has never felt the so-called "Haki" after practicing for so long. He did scare a pirate to faint with his murderous aura...

Of the remaining two colors of Haki, he had only just begun to learn Armament Haki and was far from being proficient in it, and was unable to make the Haki tightly wrap around his body.

Jiang Liu estimated that if he wanted to achieve the "visible to the naked eye" armed color domineering in the animation, it would take at least two to three years of hard training if nothing unexpected happened. The only way to shorten this time was to fight.

(Regarding the question of whether the armed color can be dyed, please see my explanation in PS...)

Fighting is the best training - this will never be wrong for a warrior.

Of course, if you choose the path of a fighting maniac, you must be prepared to walk on the edge of a knife.

As for Observation Haki, it is the biggest surprise Jiang Liu encountered in the world of "One Piece". The progress he made in this item even made him think that he could give up Armament Haki and focus on Observation Haki.

Although Jiang Liu finally chose to practice two colors of domineering at the same time, there is no doubt that his talent in observation Haki is not comparable to that of armament Haki!

Based on Jiang Liu's research over the past six months, the statement "Haki is the external manifestation of human potential" is correct in itself, but the sources of the three colors of Haki are not the same, otherwise there would not be three distinct types.

Putting aside the domineering Haki that he has not been able to awaken so far, he has already had some guesses about the nature of the armament Haki and observation Haki.

The source of Armament Haki is life energy, which is a special "force field" or "matter" generated when the body is moving. Although it is invisible, it does exist.

The most fundamental way to practice Armament Haki is to endlessly train your body. The stronger the basic strength of the body, the stronger the Armament Haki that can be endured. When it reaches a certain level, it can even be materialized and observed by the naked eye.

Of course, depending on the level of skill, even armed color domineering of the same quality may show different power in actual combat.

The essence of Observation Haki is "perception".

It does not refer to a single sense such as vision, touch or hearing, but to the integration of all five senses, intuition, sense of space, spiritual perception - only by integrating all aspects can one be fully aware of any subtle changes on the battlefield.

When you can capture all the movements, even the enemy's breathing and blood, you can naturally judge his next move. This is the so-called "pre-reading".

When the scope of pre-reading is not limited to people, but extends to a wider area, that is, all objects in the entire space, in extremely rare cases it can even "foresee the future."

This is by no means metaphysics, but rather a certain degree of dominance over the battlefield.

——The compatibility between Jiang Liu and Jianwense is extremely good.

The ninja community itself requires extremely sharp five senses. Jiang Liu has received a lot of related training from Feng, which has now become the basis for practicing Observation Haki.

Secondly, Jiang Liu's mental power is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and the core of Observation Haki is mental perception. Not only can he use mental power to capture objects in space, but he can also capture the mental fluctuations emitted by the enemy, which is the so-called "thoughts", which are reflected in the mind in the form of sound or image, and then processed.

The masters among them even give people the feeling that they can "read minds".

Jiang Liu originally had a deep accumulation of mental power, but he had always been troubled by the lack of a suitable method to use it, so he could only release mental shocks in the most primitive way... which was like sitting on a mountain of gold without knowing it.

But now with the Observation Haki, Jiang Liu's huge mental power seemed to have found a reservoir with a flood discharge outlet, and it poured out happily and comfortably. He mastered the Observation Haki in one breath, and then reached the level of "mastering the art" within half a year.

Although he has not yet reached the highest level of foreseeing the future, he has developed a higher level of perception in a unique way. Within a certain range, he can control all changes in space without blind spots, including the flow of air and the enemy's heartbeat.

With this level of Observation Haki, combined with the ninja's assassination techniques and Wuxinryu swordsmanship, even though Jiang Liu's physical ability is still inferior to those swordsmen who have been training madly since childhood, he is no longer afraid of pirates with a bounty of less than 100 million.

Even if you can't kill the other person, you have the ability to protect yourself.

Especially when the Observation Haki and Ninja Stealth Technique are combined, Jiang Liu can reach a very subtle state of "disappearance", which is almost comparable to the "breath concealment" of the Heroic Spirit level, completely erasing his own presence.

Although it is not very glorious, he has used this state to assassinate his targets and has never failed. More than one pirate with a bounty of nearly 100 million has died in his hands, including three people with special abilities.

His direct combat capability is only at the level of 30 to 40 million, but with his Observation Haki he can slaughter targets below 70 million. If he uses assassination tactics, targets below 100 million will hardly be able to escape.

However, Jiang Liu has not yet encountered any "named" opponents in the original novel, especially those supernovas who are considered the "best combat units", so he is unable to judge his position in the combat power system of this world.

To be honest, he is a little eager to try it now.

By the way, even though he killed a lot of pirates and gangsters, he had no psychological barriers at all.

After all, they are "pirates", a group of scum and murderers. How many of them are as harmless as the Straw Hat Pirates and also uphold justice?

Luffy is not a pirate at all, he is an adventurer!

But except for very few exceptions, most pirates deserved to die. At least Jiang Liu has never met a pirate with a clean hand.

Chapter 72: Black and White Questions and Answers

"Oh, what a coincidence."