Chapter 68: Accidentally Entering the Calm Belt! (Third Update)

Alabasta,

inside a secret room beneath the country's largest casino, Rain Dinners,

Crocodile, wearing a black coat,

with a cigar in his mouth,

looked down at the wanted poster in his hand,

and after a long silence,

muttered:

"What need is there for Pluton..."

"Could it be... that what you said was right after all..."

And behind him,

Robin's gaze was also fixed directly on the familiar face on the wanted poster!

Even though after the battle between Li Xiao and Crocodile,

she had completely updated her understanding of his strength!

However,

even so,

it was still difficult for her to equate the person who had used her as a cook for the entire journey

with the person on the wanted poster, who had a bounty of 3.5 billion Berries

and was capable of fighting two Navy Admirals alone and escaping unscathed!

…………

On the other side,

Loguetown,

on the deck of the Going Merry docked at the shore,

Zoro took the newspaper and wanted poster thrown down by the News Coo,

and then handed 100 Berries to the bird.

After the News Coo took the Berries, it spread its wings and left,

and Zoro looked down at the wanted poster in his hand.

When he saw one of the wanted posters and the bounty amount below it,

he was immediately stunned!

Zoro confirmed it several times,

and then immediately flipped through the newspaper that was placed with it!

After skimming through the entire newspaper,

Zoro couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice:

"It really is him! A bounty of 3.5 billion Berries!"

After standing there stunned for a moment,

Zoro hurried toward the cabin,

shouting as he walked:

"Nami, Luffy, come look quickly! It's that guy's wanted poster!"

Hearing Zoro's shout,

Luffy was the first to dash out,

took the wanted poster of Li Xiao from Zoro's hand,

and after one look, immediately laughed:

"Ah, it's that guy who knows my grandpa!"

Then,

when he saw the bounty amount below the wanted poster,

his eyes popped out in shock,

and he shouted in disbelief:

"Hey!!! 3.5 billion Berries! This guy's bounty is almost catching up to Shanks'!"

Hearing Luffy's exclamation,

except for Sanji who was still busy in the kitchen,

Nami and Usopp both walked out of their rooms!

Usopp was the first to dash to Luffy's side,

and after seeing the bounty amount on the wanted poster,

he immediately made the same expression as Luffy!

"Nani! 3... 3.5 billion Berries!!!"

"By the way, Usopp, what's my current bounty again?"

"Oh~ Luffy, your current bounty is 30 million Berries!"

"Wow~~ then wouldn't I not even be a fraction of his!"

"Ah, you're not wrong about that!"

At this moment,

Nami also walked up,

and said:

"Hey, what are you guys arguing abou..."

Before Nami could finish her sentence,

she saw the wanted poster in Luffy's hand!

From her angle,

she could vaguely see Li Xiao's photo on it,

and immediately snatched it away,

looking closely at Li Xiao's photo!

Meanwhile,

Zoro also handed the newspaper to Nami,

and said:

"Here, take this newspaper too!"

"He killed two Celestial Dragons on the Sabaody Archipelago, fought two Navy Admirals alone, and has now escaped unscathed and disappeared!"

Nami looked down at the wanted poster in her hand,

speechless for a long time!

After a long while,

she finally looked up,

but her eyes were already gleaming with gold,

completely transformed into the shape of Berries!

"3.5 billion Berries... so much, so much money..."

Seeing this,

Zoro quickly said:

"Hey, you aren't thinking of turning him in for the bounty, are you!"

Nami didn't pay attention to Zoro,

but just muttered to herself:

"Then he must be in the Grand Line right now. We'll stock up in Loguetown, and then we'll set off for the Grand Line!"

After saying that,

Nami stuffed Li Xiao's wanted poster and the newspaper

into her familiar treasure-hiding spot,

and then left the cabin!

After Nami left the cabin,

she went up the stairs to the top of the cabin,

where, in an open space,

two orange trees were placed!

Nami squatted beside the orange trees,

gently stroking the leaves,

and whispered:

"You guys need to bear fruit quickly; soon, I'll be seeing him!"

…………

Just as the name Li Xiao and the Celestial Dragon death incident he caused

began to resound throughout the pirate world,

the protagonist of the story was currently drifting aimlessly in the sky!

It had been a full three days since he left the Sabaody Archipelago!

For these three days,

Li Xiao had been riding the clouds in one direction!

It wasn't that he hadn't encountered islands along the way,

but unfortunately, most of them were uninhabited desert islands!

Even if there were occasionally islands with people,

they were just small villages,

clearly unable to handle the cooking of the specialty ingredients from the Sky Island that Li Xiao brought!

And what made him even more desperate was that,

on the second day,

he seemed to have accidentally stumbled into the Calm Belt!

He already couldn't find a suitable place to eat,

and now this—

it was completely over,

he was totally screwed!

Because the Calm Belt is home to a large number of Sea Kings,

it is essentially uninhabited,

and no one would live there at all!

However,

Li Xiao didn't have a Log Pose,

so he didn't dare to wander around,

fearing that wandering would waste even more time!

He simply decided to stick to one direction and keep going forward!

Anyway, even if it was the Calm Belt,

there would eventually be a day when he passed through it!

It was fortunate that Li Xiao had quite a bit of food in his Sumeru Ring that could serve as a simple meal,

and with the improvement of his cultivation base,

Li Xiao's current need for food had decreased significantly;

spiritual power was enough to sustain his life for a long time!

Otherwise,

Li Xiao would likely have become the first cultivator to starve to death!

Li Xiao sat cross-legged on a white cloud,

looking around in boredom...

Suddenly,

a black dot appeared in front of him,

it seemed to be an island!

However,

there was no excitement on Li Xiao's face!

Along the way,

he had already encountered too many islands,

and he realized even more clearly

that islands located within the Calm Belt were absolutely uninhabited!

However,

after pondering for a moment,

Li Xiao finally decided to stop on this island for a while!

After all,

he hadn't tasted any meat for a long time on this journey,

so he would go to the island to get some meat to roast and eat,

just to satisfy his craving for now!

Thinking of this,

Li Xiao accelerated toward the island!

After getting closer,

Li Xiao discovered

that this island was much larger than he had imagined!

And looking down from the sky,

there were actually buildings on the island!

Could it be

that people lived here?

But this is the Calm Belt,

how could anyone live in the Calm Belt?

Hey, wait!

Speaking of which,

Li Xiao suddenly remembered something!

There actually seemed to be a place in the Calm Belt where people lived!

And it was a kingdom!

Could it be

that he had accidentally arrived at that place?

And it is even a kingdom!

Could it be,

that he had arrived at that place unintentionally?