One Piece: Divine Bird Phoenix

West Sea, Calm Belt.

A huge fiery red figure crossed the sky, leaving a trail of flames like colorful silk behind it. On the top of its slender neck, the noble phoenix head scanned the sea.

"Yes, it should be here!"

Following the instructions of the black box, An spent a full half day flying from Raftel to the Calm Belt of the West Sea near the Red Earth Continent.

His body gradually shrank, and An dived into the water and swam towards the depths of the sea.

Under the sea surface that was shining with sunlight, with the help of the hazy light, An gently swung his legs like a fish man and continued to go down.

As the dive distance became deeper and deeper, the thin light from the sea surface disappeared, replaced by a deep and dark that made people feel depressed and fearful.

10,000 meters!

20,000 meters!

50,000 meters!

80,000 meters!

Passing through trenches, bright light suddenly shone, completely lighting up the seabed.

It was a huge and strange sea king, with a lantern fish head and an eel-like body, winding in the darkness with no end in sight.

The lantern on the top of the head emitted a white light, flickering with breathing.

And in the deep valley below the lantern fish sea king, there was a huge and magnificent building complex. Even though it had been eroded by the sea for years, it could still be seen in its former glory.

Pushing aside the sea water in front of her, An passed in front of the lantern fish sea king and swam towards the depths of the ruins, where a wave of response to her came.

"Monkey D. An, you are finally here..."

In the depths of the ruins, in front of a building that vaguely looked like a church, a decayed old tree that was about to wither made a sound.

"Who are you? How do you know my name?" An asked directly with doubts in his heart.

"Don't be nervous, I am Sylvia Elsie, and the first ability user of the Nature System Water Water Fruit."

"As for your name, it told me, and I helped you once." A faint voice came from the decayed old tree.

An was stunned for a while, but soon reacted and asked doubtfully: "System?"

This time it was Elsie's turn to be confused, and she replied: "If it refers to the guy sleeping in your body, then it's right."

"I don't know its origin, but I made a deal with it when you first fell into a coma. It was at that time that it gave you part of the power of the Water Water Fruit."

"I have never seen such a powerful existence. Even if it was seriously injured and dying at the time, I couldn't resist it with just a look."

Nodding, as a loyal fan of time-travel novels, An naturally knew the power of the system. It was an existence that could walk sideways even in the world of immortal cultivation. The high-level martial arts world like One Piece couldn't compare at all.

"Did you help me in the battle between me and Akainu?" An continued to ask.

The ancient tree flashed and emitted a faint light, and a weak voice sounded in my ears: "Yes, you have inherited part of the power of the Water Water Fruit. You are my child, and it is natural for me to help you."

"I see..."

After solving the question that had been lingering in his mind, An no longer bothered about this question and asked: "According to Raftel's records, you should have died in that war. How come you are still alive and still like this?"

The deep sea, which was sometimes bright and sometimes dark, was silent, and the withered and rotten ancient tree emitted strange fluctuations. Elsie took a long time to answer this question.

"To be precise, I am dead, but not completely dead. All this is because of this branch of the devil fruit."

"Wait!!"

An blinked his eyes, looked at the tree more than 20 meters in front of him, and repeated: "You said this tree is a branch of the devil fruit mother tree?"

"That's right, this is part of the devil fruit mother tree."

Hiss!

An was about to take a breath, but when he thought about this being under the sea, he gave up the idea and murmured, "How big is the Devil Fruit Mother Tree?"

"About 2,000 meters!" Elsie recalled the past and said to An, "When it was born in the laboratory, it was only one meter high, but when Lius and I saw Im incarnate as the mother tree, it was more than 2,000 meters high."

"Moreover, the Devil Fruit Mother Tree is almost immortal. Even if the robot's laser cannon hits it, it will only leave a bowl-sized wound, and it will recover in a moment."

"At the same time, it is absolutely immune to the Devil Fruit abilities other than the Nika Fruit, the Water Water Fruit, and the Dark Dark Fruit."

"It is also because of this that the Kingdom Army that lost the energy converter was quickly defeated."

"What is an energy converter?" An asked.

Elsie did not hide anything and told it everything.

"As early as the first devil fruit appeared, scientists in the Giant Kingdom began to try to crack its power. After more than 20 years of hard work, scholars finally discovered that the so-called devil fruit factor is nothing more than an energy conversion system."

"By absorbing the energy free in the air, it is converted into the corresponding devil fruit energy and released."

"It is also based on this research that the Giant Kingdom has developed a device that can convert energy within a certain range into the power of the sea, so that it can gain an advantage in the early stages of the war."

"But you don't need to, your devil fruit, or your ability does not belong to this sea, you only need to give the fire to other companions to achieve the same effect."

It is not difficult to manipulate flames and bestow them on others, but unlike bestowing fire, the flames given in this way are limited and need to be replenished after they are exhausted.

She once tried it, and if she injected the maximum amount into Yixiao, it could only last for 10 days at most.

After listening to the other party's explanation, An asked in confusion: "Then why did you ask me to come?"

"Remember what I said just now? I said that the devil fruit mother tree is almost immortal. Even if you destroy it through external force, it will be reborn in a corner of the world in a short time."

"In the war 800 years ago, Lius and I smashed Im more than once, but soon it was able to quickly regenerate with some of the debris."

"At the end of the battle, I fell into the sea holding this branch of the devil fruit mother tree. With the power of the mother tree, the sea began to get tired of the devil fruit ability user, and in these long 800 years, I also found a way to deal with Im."

"I guess you have discovered that my devil fruit mother tree branch, which should not have withered, has rotted."

"This is also the main reason why I asked you to come here. Things like devil fruits should not exist. It was our curiosity as moon people that opened Pandora's box. Now, I want you to close it again for us."

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