Chapter 142: Only the world barrier is broken, only power is not

"Let's go."

The Tianshu Academy members seemed unable to watch anymore and said to the surrounding survivors.

"Hmm..."

The survivors responded confusedly and followed them to turn and leave.

Behind them, the wails of the mutated giant ape and the joyful laughter of Gu Che and the other two like demon kings intertwined, forming a classic scene.

Three heroes fighting a monkey? ×; Monkey getting beaten? √

I don't know how much time passed, maybe the spiritual power was almost exhausted, or maybe there wasn't much spiritual energy liquid left, or maybe the three of them had played enough.

Finally, Gu Che, Lin Ruoxi, and Shen Mo prepared to end this battle.

The spiritual power in Gu Che's mace surged, thunder, violent wind, and flames wrapped around it, ready to go; behind Shen Mo, the ice dragon phantom circled and rose, the dragon pupils locking onto the giant ape, and endless cold instantly enveloped the battlefield; Lin Ruoxi's long sword thunder light soared, and spiritual power poured out like a torrent!

"Boom—!!!"

The attacks of the three hit the mutated giant ape at the same time!

The mutated giant ape closed its eyes in despair, waiting for death to arrive, but at this moment, a figure appeared in front of it silently.

"Boom!"

Ye Xuan raised his hand and blocked the three attacks lightly, the spiritual power aftermath annihilating in his palm, not even able to stir up a trace of wind and waves.

"Let's stop here."

"The corpse of a Goro Goro no Mi user, if it is destroyed so easily, it would be too much of a pity."

He said lightly.

The mutated giant ape hadn't even reacted from the fact that it might be alive, when its chest suddenly felt cold.

"Squish!"

Ye Xuan's arm had already pierced through its chest, his slender fingers precisely hooking the heart that was still beating, and he pulled it out violently!

"Thump..."

The scarlet heart was wrapped in spiritual power, floating in Ye Xuan's palm, with tiny blue electric sparks wrapped around its surface.

The mutated giant ape opened its mouth, seemingly wanting to say something, but having lost its heart, it couldn't even let out a final wail, and could only stare with wide scarlet eyes and fall heavily to the ground.

No one pitied it.

Ye Xuan casually put the heart into the space ring and turned to say to Gu Che and the others:

"I'll take the heart back. If the Goro Goro no Mi can be successfully extracted, I will hand it over to Su Mengyao."

After all, this mutated giant ape was killed by the three of them together, so Ye Xuan naturally wouldn't covet the fruit.

It's just Goro Goro no Mi, not enough to make him do such a thing.

What he really cares about is whether the appearance of the Mammoth Fruit in Xiao Yan's alchemy process last time was accidental or inevitable; and whether the alchemy of the Battle Qi world can really transform the heart of a Devil Fruit ability user into the corresponding Devil Fruit.

If this time it can also succeed...

In the future, he shouldn't lack Devil Fruits.

Although it sounds like it's of little use to him, and he doesn't intend to eat Devil Fruits, whether it's for trading or establishing forces and cultivating subordinates, it's a good choice.

However, the former depends on whether the Tianshu Academy can harvest treasures from the cosmos that have value and can arouse his interest; the latter, he has no interest in establishing forces, at least not for now. 【142

The purpose of establishing a faction must be that the faction itself can be of help to him. But with his current strength and his importance to Da Xia, what is there that must be achieved by establishing a faction?

Power is the sort of thing that, when your fist is hard enough, will naturally appear in your hands.

Gu Che, Lin Ruoxi, and Shen Mo naturally had no objections to this.

Or rather, if not for Ye Xuan's intervention, this mutated giant ape would definitely have been blown to pieces by a full-strength strike from the three of them.

Let alone a complete heart, it would be lucky if there were a few intact limb remnants left.

If the people from the Research Institute found out, they would definitely scold them one by one.

Moreover, they don't trust others, but how could they not trust Ye Xuan?

The Rumble-Rumble Fruit is indeed precious to others, but Ye Xuan? Between the Flame Dragon Armor and the Zanpakuto Ryujin Jakka, which one is not more precious than the Rumble-Rumble Fruit?

Besides, isn't there such a large corpse here?

If the people from the Research Institute can research the Rumble-Rumble Fruit from the corpse, then it doesn't matter if the heart is missing; conversely, if they can't research anything from the corpse, then the heart is useless anyway.

It's not like their Tianshuju doesn't have whole Devil Fruits. Although they are all Zoan-types, and the kind of trash in the Zoan-type that no one wants to eat, they are enough for research.

Haven't they not researched anything to this day?

Things from anime worlds aren't that easy to research. What was broken was the world barrier, not the world rules.

However, regarding Ye Xuan, for some reason, although they rationally felt that even if it were Ye Xuan, it was impossible to get the Rumble-Rumble Fruit out through the mutated giant ape's heart, emotionally, they felt that Ye Xuan really seemed capable of doing it.

Perhaps it was because the shock Ye Xuan gave them before was too great.

After going back, they must have their respective factions closely monitor Su Mengyao's side; if Ye Xuan really does get the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, they must strive for it with the greatest possible effort.

This is a top-tier fruit no weaker than the Azure Dragon Fruit. Its user will easily step into Stage Four in the future; even Stage Five is not impossible.

Lin Ruoxi is definitely planning to eat it herself, and Shen Mo has the same intention, but he also knows that he certainly cannot compete with Lin Ruoxi, as their attributes don't match.

If it were the Chilly-Chilly Fruit, he would have an advantage.

As for Gu Che, he would just have the faction behind him strive for it. If they get it, it wouldn't be for him to eat; he would see if there is anyone with talent to cultivate another one.

There are so many people in Da Xia; if it were only these few people, that would be too unreasonable.

He is not worried about having too many competitors. In fact, there will definitely be no shortage of holders of Myriad Realms treasures and powerful ability users in the future of Da Xia.

The strong rise, the weak fall; that is also the inevitable rule of the future.

Anything can be fake, but power is not.

If he is afraid of even a little competition, then he is not qualified to sit in his current "position."

Deep in Qingfeng Mountain, Ye Xuan and his group stood in the center of an open valley.

This is, without surprise, the habitat of the mutated ape tribe.

It wasn't just Shen Mo who noticed that the proportion of Stage Three mutated apes was off; Gu Che and Lin Ruoxi had also noticed it. As for Ye Xuan, he didn't even need to notice; after his perception covered Qingfeng Mountain, he discovered the peculiarity of this location.

At least four Stage Three mutated apes, one of which is even a Rumble-Rumble Fruit user—this cannot be explained by simple talent alone.

And now, the answer is right before their eyes.

Their gazes looked ahead, where a towering giant tree stood.

The trunk was as thick as a mountain, the canopy pierced the clouds, and it was at least a hundred meters high. Pink flowers bloomed among the lush branches and leaves, like clouds and mist, trembling in the wind and scattering specks of fluorescence.

(End of chapter)