Multiverse Skill System

Enel's willpower was quite good; he persevered for a full five days, but in the end he still gave in, especially when he saw Yi Shuihan eating an apple in front of him. He finally realized his mistake.

"That's more like it! From now on, follow me and you'll have apples to your heart's content every day." Looking at Enel's happy face, Yi Shuihan suddenly felt that he had wasted a lot of time.

Three days later...

Yi Shuihan and his group returned to the place where the shell had spewed out. According to the islanders, the shell was very likely to reappear in the next few days.

As for why Kongbei appeared here, Yi Shuihan asked Enel, but the other party also didn't know. This made Yi Shuihan realize that if he wanted to understand the mystery, he would have to take action himself.

"coming!"

Finally, the empty shell appeared. This time, the cloud land was the closest to Yi Shuihan. Having made full preparations, Yi Shuihan entered the state early and felt the special mental fluctuations.

It seemed that because of the sprayed shell, the mental fluctuations were easily perceived.

"Is it just 20 meters down there?"

Without hesitation, Yi Shuihan punched the ground.

The ground did not change at all because of Yi Shuihan's fist. Instead, a tremor came from deep within. After a moment, the cloud ground, which should have continued to produce shells, suddenly stopped producing shells, as if the power had been cut off.

"What happened? Why did it suddenly disappear? It used to take a while."

The islanders were puzzled, and only a few who had seen Yi Shuihan's actions vaguely speculated that it might be related to him.

"Enel, it's up to you. Keep digging here until I say stop."

Enel, who was holding a shovel, reluctantly began to work upon hearing this.

Enel worked quickly, digging 20 meters in a short time.

"Huh?" Feeling the touch from the shovel, Enel knew he had hit his target.

Seeing Enel's expression, Yi Shuihan understood what was going on and smiled.

"Bring the items out."

When Enel brought up a special cloud that was exactly the same as a white cloud, Yi Shuihan was very surprised.

Even now, one would think it's just an ordinary cloud, but Yi Shuihan knows it's anything but ordinary. It's alive, albeit very faintly, but Yi Shuihan can sense its spiritual fluctuations.

So what exactly is this thing? A monster that has become a spirit from white clouds?

He took the cloud from Enel, only to find that the mental fluctuations emanating from it had increased considerably.

Two eye-like things suddenly appeared above the clouds, with white pupils, but they gave the feeling of flowing water, cute and adorable.

Her eyes blinked repeatedly, as if she didn't understand what was happening.

"shhhhhh"

The sound seemed to come from somewhere, somewhat like ventriloquism.

"call out!"

When their eyes met Yi Shuihan's, the little guy seemed to be greatly frightened and tried to break free from Yi Shuihan's hand.

"Such great power! With this power, an ordinary person probably couldn't catch it."

But now that it's in Yi Shuihan's hands, of course it can't break free.

After trying more than 10 times, the little guy seemed to realize that it was no match for Yi Shuihan at all, and finally calmed down, looking at Yi Shuihan pitifully, trying to charm him with its cuteness and get him to release it.

"With a body made of clouds, I'll call you Cloud Beast from now on."

Yi Shuihan naturally wouldn't give up so easily. He casually chose a name and began his research.

If the previous Cloud Shell appeared because of it, then what exactly is the underlying principle?

"Just give it a try."

When Yi Shuihan placed the cloud beast on the cloud ground, it seemed to melt into the ground as soon as it touched it, as if it could travel freely through the clouds. Yi Shuihan had to be quick-witted and grab it to prevent it from escaping.

This time, Yi Shuihan learned his lesson and instead of letting the cloud beasts touch the ground, he created some clouds so that they could touch each other in the air.

The cloud beast merged directly into the cloud in Yi Shuihan's hand, and then the clouds in the sky churned and finally slowly exhaled a shell.

"This is?"

After spitting out seven empty shells in a row, it finally stopped, and the cloud beast reappeared in front of Yi Shuihan, conveying a sense of hunger.

"interesting."

Yi Shuihan replaced the cloud, allowing the cloud beast to run freely once again.

Chapter 182, Wild Descendants of the Pirate King

Although the research on the cloud beasts was not thorough, Yi Shuihan still gained a fairly good understanding of them.

Cloud Beasts can use clouds to create empty shells, or perhaps it's not creation, but just a byproduct.

The cloud beast needs a certain substance from the clouds, and absorbing this substance creates a void.

Yi Shuihan initially thought that the Cloud Beast was a cloud that had eaten a Devil Fruit, since weapons had been developed that could use the power of Devil Fruits. However, he eventually dismissed this idea because the Cloud Beast was not afraid of Seastone. In fact, when Yi Shuihan took out Seastone, the Cloud Beast showed an extremely eager expression.

Yi Shuihan tried to give the Seastone to the Cloud Beast, but found that the Cloud Beast swallowed it whole. Or rather, when it came into contact with the Seastone, waves rippled across its body, and then it sucked the Seastone in.

However, after absorbing the Seastone, the Cloud Beast did not undergo any other changes, as if it had already eaten its fill. When given clouds again, it did not react.

This led Yi Shuihan to a further speculation: the substance absorbed by the cloud beast, Seastone, does exist, and it is also present in the clouds. Simply absorbing that substance will not cause any problems; only when the substance is absorbed within the clouds will it produce empty shells.

Having studied this far, the Cloud Beast was basically useless to Yi Shuihan. Although its ability to produce empty shells was indeed quite good, it was actually dispensable to Yi Shuihan.

Keeping a Cloud Beast as a pet might be nice, but considering another situation, what would happen if the Sky Island stopped producing Sky Shells after the Cloud Beast was taken away? That would be a catastrophic blow.

"Maybe there's more than one Cloud Beast?" Robin's words made Yi Shuihan realize something. In the end, he decided to stay on the Sky Island. If he could confirm that there were other Cloud Beasts, he would take this one with him. Otherwise, he would leave it behind.

It's no secret that girls like cute creatures, and Yi Shuihan has figured that out. Ever since they got the Cloud Beast, Robin and the others seem to have found a joy in it, holding it and playing with it every day, and even deciding who gets to own it at different times.

A month later, the golden ship was finally completed, and a second cloud beast was discovered, so the cloud beast became Robin and her friends' pet without any qualms.

"Yoshi, let's go, destination: Qinghai."

Yi Shuihan issued the orders, and Enel miserably acted as the generator. The ship slowly rose into the air, finally passing through the sea of ​​clouds and leaving the Sky Island.

During this month, the former god of Skypiea also became a god again. The Shandians reached an agreement with him and moved back to Jaya Island on Skypiea, which can be considered a very happy ending.

Of course, all of this was not orchestrated by Yi Shuihan alone, but rather by their own initiative. However, Yi Shuihan was slightly surprised when he found out.

Yi Shuihan has left, leaving behind a completely different Sky Island. I wonder what will happen when Luffy arrives.

"The ocean is still the most pleasing to the eye."

Back at sea, gazing at the boundless blue expanse, Yi Shuihan sighed with emotion.

"This is Qinghai?"

Enel was also shocked by the vastness of the sea when he saw it for the first time, and the thought that coming here would be nice arose in his heart.

"Okay, let's go see old man Rayleigh." Having decided on their next target, the ship set sail towards the Sabaody Archipelago.

An unnamed island,

Their fateful encounter led to Ace finally catching up with Blackbeard.

“Teach, I’ve finally found you. You can’t escape this time. I’m taking you back to Dad.”

"Hehehe, Ace, you're the one who should be running away! The power of the Dark-Dark Fruit is beyond your imagination. You can't beat me."

"You think I, Emperor Yan, would lose to you? You traitor."

Without exchanging more than a few words, the battle broke out. Ace's strength exceeded that of the original story, so he was not easily defeated by Blackbeard.

The Dark-Dark Fruit countered the Flame-Flame Fruit, but Ace's physical skills allowed him to continue competing with Blackbeard.

Blackbeard wasn't alone at this moment; there were several crew members he was looking for nearby. They were all skilled fighters, and although they couldn't compare to Ace, they were still top-tier pirates. They weren't quite at the level of an admiral, but they were definitely at the level of a vice admiral. However, they didn't join the battle between Blackbeard and Ace, otherwise, Ace would have only suffered a defeat.

Blackbeard, who will become one of the Four Emperors and even has the potential to become the Pirate King, naturally has his own terrifying aspects. The scars on Shanks' face were caused by him. Even without the Dark-Dark Fruit, he is still a first-rate powerhouse.

Because his goal had always been the Dark-Dark Fruit, he had studied a lot about how to use it after obtaining it. As a result, in the short time since he obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit, he had developed the fruit to a certain extent, even more than Ace had developed the Flame-Flame Fruit.

The two fought fiercely, shattering a small town; the aftershocks of their battle could be felt from a great distance.

"Give up, you can't beat me."

"No way, I must bring you back."

"Then don't blame me, use the hidden pressure points!"

With a loud shout, black smoke billowed from Blackbeard's body, spreading out in the blink of an eye and enveloping the surroundings, as if it were a dark world.

Everything touched by the darkness sank as if falling into water. Some rocks could even be seen rapidly shattering and falling after being enveloped by the darkness, eventually disappearing without a trace.

Ace radiated astonishing heat, with massive flames completely enveloping him, attempting to illuminate the darkness. However, the flames were swallowed up by the darkness upon contact, failing to achieve their intended purpose.

"How could this be?" Ace stared in astonishment at the flames being consumed, his eyes filled with grave concern as he sensed an alarming crisis.

"It's no use, you can only wait to be swallowed by the darkness! Hahahaha!" Blackbeard's arrogant laughter came from the darkness.

Ace, of course, would not sit idly by and wait to die. He unleashed the power of the Flame-Flame Fruit, pushing the fruit's ability to its limit. The originally red flames turned golden, and the temperature was so high that it even caused the void to distort.

"Look what I've found! A wild descendant of the Pirate King!"

Just as Ace was about to unleash his ultimate move, the Great Flame Ring of the Flame Emperor, he suddenly found his vision darken, and then heard a very familiar voice. After a moment of stunned silence, he smiled.

Chapter 183, Is it strange that the Navy catches pirates?

Above the sky, a magnificent golden ship stood prominently, and it was Yi Shuihan and his entourage who had arrived.

"A flying ship?"

A gasp of surprise came from the darkness; Blackbeard had clearly seen it too, but his movements didn't stop there; instead, he quickened his pace.

The darkness suddenly accelerated its advance, and it looked as if it was about to completely engulf Ace.

Yi Shuihan on the ship frowned and gave Enel a look. Enel instantly appeared beside Ace and rescued him.

Yi Shuihan had never intended to get involved in Ace and Blackbeard's affairs before, but today it really wasn't his intention to come here; it was just a coincidence that he ran into them.

Since they had already run into each other, Yi Shuihan couldn't just ignore it. If Blackbeard had given him some face and hadn't been so arrogant, he might have just watched. But Blackbeard was making such a big show of himself in front of him, which made Yi Shuihan think.

Most importantly, if he hadn't appeared, Ace would have unleashed a powerful attack to confront Blackbeard. But because of his appearance, Ace stopped. If we just watched Ace get defeated because of his appearance, it wouldn't be in line with Yi Shuihan's style.

Fine, I'll help Ace out today. At least I can't let him get kidnapped in front of me.

Upon seeing Blackbeard again, Yi Shuihan finally realized Blackbeard's strength. He had initially thought that Ace, under his tutelage, should be able to fight Blackbeard, but now it seemed that Blackbeard would win if nothing unexpected happened. Blackbeard's strength was still far superior to Ace's.

At this point, Ace was at the level of an admiral, while Blackbeard was a strong admiral, a veteran admiral. It was likely that only someone above the admiral level could defeat him.

Even if Enel were to fight Blackbeard, he probably wouldn't win. At best, he could rely on his speed to avoid being defeated and escape.

"Thank you, I am Ace. May I ask your name?" Ace said gratefully to Enel, wondering to himself where this powerful figure came from. Such strength should not be that of an unknown person, so why do I not know his name?

"Enel." Enel coolly said his name, his gaze towards Ace somewhat strange, because he had just witnessed Ace's elemental transformation into fire. It was the first time he had seen a Logia-type Devil Fruit user other than himself, and he was quite surprised.

As expected, Qinghai has many powerful individuals. He saw two strong individuals of similar strength to him so quickly.

Below, the dark passage had ended, and darkness had returned to Blackbeard's body, leaving behind a patch of pitted earth, some of which were still steaming as if they had been corroded.

"They actually escaped? That was..." Blackbeard pondered for a moment, the name of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit appearing in his mind. He was extremely familiar with Devil Fruits, after all, he had chosen the Dark-Dark Fruit after flipping through the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, so he was very familiar with the abilities of other fruits, especially Logia-type fruits.

Speaking of which, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit was once among Blackbeard's candidate fruits, only slightly inferior to the Dark-Dark Fruit.

“Captain, this looks bad,” said a man wearing a strange hat, an eyepatch over his right eye, a long face, a black cloak, and carrying a long spear.

"This is indeed bad." Only then did Blackbeard notice Yi Shuihan and Hancock in the air. Even though they hadn't seen each other for many years, Blackbeard recognized Yi Shuihan at a glance, after all, the battle between Yi Shuihan and Whitebeard had left a very deep impression on him.

As a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Hancock was naturally a key target of Blackbeard's attention. In addition, Hancock herself was so beautiful that it was impossible not to recognize her.

Upon seeing Yi Shuihan, Blackbeard's expression turned serious. Although he had obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit and his strength had increased significantly, he believed that even if he encountered Whitebeard now and couldn't defeat him, he could retreat with ease. However, he was truly unsure if it was Yi Shuihan.

This is not like Whitebeard, who has long passed his prime, whose strength has declined, and who is riddled with illness. Instead, he defeated Whitebeard in his prime many years ago. Moreover, Yi Shuihan's strength had not yet reached its peak at that time. Now, Yi Shuihan is at his peak and may be even stronger than before.

Even though Yi Shuihan's strength hadn't improved, Blackbeard felt he was no match for him at all.

"How did Ace know him?" Blackbeard was at his wit's end. He had given up on capturing Ace. The best outcome would be to escape unscathed today.

"I never expected to meet General Yanlong, what an honor!" Blackbeard said to Yi Shuihan in a flattering manner.

Was Yanlong General referring to him? Enel looked at Yi Shuihan with curiosity in his eyes.

"So it's you, Blackbeard. I heard you've broken away from Whitebeard and started your own business?" Yi Shuihan said calmly.

"Zehahaha!" Blackbeard laughed loudly. "Whitebeard is old. This era is no longer the same as before. The seas should be ruled by others from now on."

"Oh, others, you mean you?" Yi Shuihan had to admit that Blackbeard's words actually made some sense. Whitebeard's strength had already fallen to its lowest point, and it would be good if he could still maintain half of his peak strength.

"No, no, no, when it comes to the strongest newcomer, isn't it you?" Blackbeard repeatedly denied it, while also flattering Yi Shuihan, but no one knew what he was really thinking.