Chapter 203: A New World

Early the next morning, when Uchiha Feiyu opened his eyes in the ship's cabin, a trace of surprise appeared on his face.

"The wounds are healing so fast... To be out of the danger zone so quickly, they've already started to scab over!"

"The people of this world have quite impressive constitutions!"

Touching the bandages that were no longer seeping blood, Uchiha Feiyu wore a somewhat strange expression and began to search through the remaining memories in this brain once more.

Originally, when Uchiha Feiyu performed the soul possession, this physical body had already been on the verge of death; the memories were fragmented and had already begun to dissipate to a certain extent. Furthermore, at the time, Uchiha Feiyu's mind was entirely focused on how to increase the survival rate of this body, so naturally, he hadn't spent any energy sorting through the memories.

Now, after delving into the memories again, Uchiha Feiyu soon discovered the truth about the world he had come to:

"Do you want my treasure? If you want it, you can have it all. Go find it! I left all my treasure in that place."

Hmm, this was the most exciting story this young man had encountered when he was eight years old—the young man was born in Loguetown, the very place where that Pirate King was executed, and he had witnessed Roger's execution with his own eyes.

Then, the young man, who was only eight years old at the time, had been so stirred by that declaration that his blood boiled with excitement; he went home and prepared to launch a fishing boat to go out to sea and become a Pirate.

——In the end, after receiving a "mixed doubles" beating from his parents with sticks, he gave up this goal, and more than a decade later, he inherited his parents' merchant association, becoming a young master of a firm that owned several merchant ships.

"Isn't this the Pirate King? Who would have thought this guy actually had some family assets! It's a pity his luck was bad; he got robbed by Pirates!"

Since he knew what world he was in, Uchiha Feiyu no longer cared about his strange recovery ability.

People in the One Piece World all have a buff for enhanced recovery; even Usopp, who has the worst constitution in the main character group, can recover after a sleep even if his skull is shattered. Compared to that, his own recovery speed could be considered slow enough.

And now, the young man he occupied was 24 years old, and 16 years had passed since the Pirate King was executed and the Great Pirate Era began.

"It's exactly the day the protagonist Luffy sets sail! Forget it, this has nothing to do with me... It's just a bit depressing. Doesn't this ghost place, the East Blue, have few Pirates? And they were brutal Pirates who killed everyone on the ship!"

Shaking his head, Uchiha Feiyu stopped thinking about these problems. After crawling out of bed, he took some bread from the cabinet nearby and started eating.

Fast wound recovery also meant high energy consumption; humans in the One Piece World consumed far more food than normal people.

After eating his fill, Uchiha Feiyu could feel that the wounds on his body had recovered even further.

Especially after knowing what world he had arrived in, he was able to control his body even better, transporting nutrients to divide cells and accelerate wound healing. According to his feeling, even with this kind of fatal, heavy injury, he estimated that by tomorrow, he would be seven or eight-tenths recovered.

He walked out of the room and looked at the pile of messy corpses on the ship's deck. After a day of exposure to the sun, they had already fermented and emitted some unpleasant odors. In the end, he sighed and resigned himself to cleaning them up.

After all, it was visible to the naked eye that he would likely have to stay on this ship for a long time. Yesterday, because of his heavy injuries, he had no ability to clean up, but if he didn't clean up now, was he planning to leave these corpses to cultivate biochemical weapons?

He didn't do any special processing; Uchiha Feiyu just threw all these corpses into the sea. There were about a dozen people on the entire merchant ship, and with the poor condition of his current body, it took him an hour or two to completely clear away all the corpses.

After clearing the corpses, he didn't bother with the bloodstains on the deck or the damage to the ship—anyway, he didn't know how to sail, and the ship's mast was already broken, so it definitely couldn't be repaired.

Not to mention that Uchiha Feiyu had never learned any navigation skills. Even though this was the calm East Blue, he couldn't even tell north, south, east, or west. Even if he could steer the ship, he wouldn't know where to sail.

So now, Uchiha Feiyu simply returned to the cabin to recuperate. As for the ship—wherever it drifted, it drifted; as long as he could encounter land, that was all that mattered. The emphasis was on letting things take their course.

By the next day, Uchiha Feiyu removed the bandages and found that, except for a huge scar, his wounds had completely healed. A smile finally appeared on his face.

"Very good—now I can start cultivating! The food on the ship is still enough for two months. Two months is enough for me to get started with the Blood Scripture."

Traditional Immortal Cultivation methods, even Demonic Arts, might not necessarily be more powerful than the experts of the One Piece World at the primary stage, but they far surpassed them in terms of survivability.

Even a beginner in Immortal Cultivation, by drinking the wind and eating the dew and absorbing the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, could drastically reduce food consumption, which was standard. With just a little progress, one could achieve Inedia, and almost everyone would become detached from worldly needs.

The Demonic Path techniques Uchiha Feiyu cultivated did not advocate Inedia; instead, they preferred using blood-based food to accelerate cultivation—but this did not mean one could not practice Inedia; it just depended on personal choice.

And as long as he got started, at least Uchiha Feiyu wouldn't have to worry about starving to death on the sea due to food issues.

Sitting cross-legged, calming his mind and stabilizing his Qi, although using "human resources" to cultivate Demonic Path techniques like the Blood Scripture was the "orthodox path," it wasn't impossible to use normal methods to cultivate. It was just that if he purely refined his own Qi and Blood, the cultivation speed would become incredibly slow.

Of course, Uchiha Feiyu already had a certain amount of cultivation experience, and he was only pursuing the entry level, so in this situation, he wouldn't ask for too much.

Because he was only a clone, he definitely couldn't cultivate the Heavenly Demon Secret. This kind of cultivation method concerning the Soul—if even a clone could cultivate it, then it would be hard to tell who was the clone.

Therefore, he could only cultivate the Blood Scripture and the Origin Demon Art. By comparison, the human body in the One Piece World had stronger physical qualities and more abundant Qi and Blood, making it much easier to cultivate the Blood Scripture, which was naturally the best choice.

With the experience Uchiha Feiyu already possessed, it still took him a full dozen hours of condensing his own Qi and Blood to extract a trace of refined Qi and Blood.

Then, the moment this Qi and Blood energy appeared, it shattered with a boom.

It was as if snowflakes had appeared in boiling water; the speed at which that trace of energy melted made Uchiha Feiyu suspect he was seeing hallucinations!

"What... is going on?"

Caught off guard, Uchiha Feiyu wore an expression of doubting life, his eyes wide open.

Early the next morning, Uchiha Feiyu, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, walked out of the cabin door and let out a long sigh:

"Damn it... what the hell is 'world rules do not allow it'? Doesn't this mean I can't cultivate the techniques from the Book of Demonic Inheritance in this world?"

After trying to cultivate many times, Uchiha Feiyu found that the Dharma Power he cultivated would always dissipate for no reason. With no other options, his main body simply went to the space of the Book of Demonic Inheritance to start asking what was going on.

And the answer he received was that many of the inheritances Uchiha Feiyu obtained in the Book of Demonic Inheritance were unique and above the rules of other worlds. Unless one reached the realm of a Golden Immortal, one could not resist the pressure of the rules in other worlds, or one had to reach the level of a Great Luo, only then could one cultivate in other worlds.

Before that, all cultivation methods had to be adapted to the rules of other worlds through demonic modification.

As for why Uchiha Feiyu himself could cultivate? That was because the Book of Demonic Inheritance was at least a treasure of Great Luo status, which could automatically adapt to or even change the rules of the myriad worlds, allowing Uchiha Feiyu to cultivate.

In fact, theoretically, it was impossible for Uchiha Feiyu to cultivate Dharma Power in other worlds. It was only because the clone also possessed a trace of the aura of the Book of Demonic Inheritance that he could barely cultivate it, only to have it crushed by the world's rules.

It seemed meaningless, but in reality, there was a small benefit—although the Dharma Power cultivated could not be stored in the body, it could be directly transferred back to the main body. In other words, the energy gained from killing and arson in this world would eventually be fed back to the main body to increase his strength.

But the key problem was... if his clone wasn't strong enough, he wouldn't have the ability to commit murder and arson!

The young man's body he occupied had very mediocre potential; the only advantage was that he was born into a wealthy merchant family and had undergone some training—converted to a Marine soldier, he was roughly the type who could barely take on ten.

After all, he was a merchant at sea; everyone in the One Piece World knows that if you don't have some skills, who would dare to run around on the sea!

But these skills were just so-so. If he went to be a Pirate, his bounty probably wouldn't exceed 1 million Belly; otherwise, he wouldn't have been killed by Pirates in a peaceful sea like the East Blue.

Even if he worked hard from now on, given the potential of this young man's body, at his peak, he would only be the caliber of a Marine Headquarters Colonel—the kind who seems okay, and whether in the Marines or a top Pirate crew, he could be an officer, but on a truly decisive battlefield, he could only be a spectator.

Even if Uchiha Feiyu had some methods on hand that didn't involve energy but specifically controlled the body and spirit, which could slightly raise his upper limit, his Power Level would at most go from spectator to supporting character.

In short, with this bit of potential, if Uchiha Feiyu just wanted to live a good life, that would be no problem, but if he wanted to harvest the world like in the Ninja World, he should wash up and go to sleep early.

Of course, he couldn't harvest anything big for the time being, but he could at least harvest a small wave—compared to the Ninja World, which leaned toward Lawful Evil but was actually True Neutral, the One Piece World belonged to the clear Chaotic Evil camp. Running to some small countries to slaughter soldiers, the strength of a Headquarters Colonel was really enough. If it were a small country that hadn't joined the World Government, he wouldn't even be wanted.

And... didn't it say? It wasn't completely impossible to cultivate, it just had to be "demonic-modified" for the corresponding world. Although it sounded very difficult and troublesome, just like the Secret Technique of the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art, performing a degraded demonic modification was always much easier.

But now was not the time to consider these things—the biggest problem was, if he couldn't cultivate to the entry level, wouldn't he starve to death when the food ran out!

For the first time in his life, Uchiha Feiyu began to pray to heaven, hoping he wouldn't die so tragically.

The first day, the second day, the days passed by one by one, while Uchiha Feiyu exercised while waiting for the ship to drift to the shore or for other ships to appear.

A month passed very quickly, and Uchiha Feiyu discovered to his misery that the food on the ship was almost entirely eaten by him.

The provisions originally intended for two months were cut in half due to the appetite Uchiha Feiyu developed after training.

Of course, this food was not wasted; in one month, relying on his ability to control his own body, plus some rudimentary body-control methods from the Demonic Path inheritance, Uchiha Feiyu's physical fitness had improved at least three or four times over, so he was no longer at the cannon fodder level in this East Blue.

The reason Uchiha Feiyu disregarded the consumption of food and trained so diligently was actually because he had long since calculated it in his heart—the early stages of the Pirate King manga didn't seem that cruel, but if converted into a real world, it would likely be different.

Given the level of public security in this world and the situation of Pirates running wild, Uchiha Feiyu really did not want to gamble on the possibility of meeting a good person at sea.

And once he possessed strength, no matter if the people he met were good or bad, they would naturally turn into good people when facing him.

"But looking at it now... it seems I've lost the bet. People in the One Piece World have relatively tenacious vitality; I wonder how long I can hold out?"

Standing on the deck, Uchiha Feiyu sighed while preparing to turn back, but just at this moment, his keen eyes saw small black dots appearing faintly in the distance.

"That is... a ship?!!! And it looks like a small sailboat?"

"Guys who can travel alone on a small boat on the high seas are not simple at all. Let me take a closer look at who it is!"

As Uchiha Feiyu calmed his breath and focused his mind, manipulating his body to inject more Qi and Blood into his eyes, his vision was quickly further enhanced.

Thus, he clearly saw the small sailboat sailing on the sea in the distance; on the sailboat, a girl with orange hair was humming a song while rowing the oars.

And behind the boat, two huge treasure chests clearly indicated the source of the orange-haired girl's happy mood.

"It seems fate is still very favorable to me; this is truly... just as I was getting sleepy, a pillow arrived!"

Looking at the sailboat and the girl in the distance, Uchiha Feiyu withdrew his Qi and Blood, rubbed his dry eyes, and a joyful smile appeared on his face.

(End of this chapter)