[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group":3,"chapter-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-198":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Infinite Faith System: Join the Divine Chat Group",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1373328,1815,"Chapter 198 — The Devil Fruit Tree Appears; Two New Members Join the Chat Group","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-198",198,"\u003Cp>The vast sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An unbelievable scene unfolded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of thousands of misshapen beings—dog-headed, human-faced hounds—were slamming into the World Government’s last hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other armies?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t even move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imu saw this and issued another order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bring Pluton to bear. Aim at the Aokiji’s base island!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind a thousand warships, Pluton came fully online.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the coverings slid away, the world saw it at last:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An exaggerated cannon revealed itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barrel was a faint blue, its outsized form searing itself into every eye that dared to look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just the barrel alone—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a full ten meters thick!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Worthy of the ancient weapon that can erase an island in one shot. The World Government hid it deep...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky dimmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The World Government had committed Pluton.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Chief Priest of the Eternal Faith, Monkey D. Dragon, had no intention of standing back to watch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He became a blue dragon, falling from the clouds—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and a mysterious sky island drifted into view behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dragon that only soared over the blue sea?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His power had already reached into the White Sea. The entire sky archipelago now lay within the Eternal God’s dominion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A \"great battle\"?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hah... it was merely a game, their way of sweeping the World Government’s vermin from the board.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fire!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A purplish-red energy beam punched toward the dragon-shadow in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dragon’s grin showed white in the glare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightning wrapped his entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Vermin of the World Government, did you think ancient weapons would save you? Witness the power of God!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"God’s Verdict!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two forces collided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world lost its color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When sight returned, Imu saw the former Revolutionary Army leader floating, unscathed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and saw Pluton, under Dragon’s strike, coming apart in a ball of flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it was only an ancient weapon, not a divine artifact. It could output destruction—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but its defenses could not withstand the dragon’s blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you see, you eight-hundred-year-old bedbug? This is the power granted by God!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below, the divine hounds surged forward again, roaring, reaping the lives of the death-soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, CP0 and the Five Elders were locked in brutal combat with the Eternal Faith’s envoys.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imu stood atop Uranus and smiled faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you know,\" he said, \"how confident the men of that Ancient Kingdom once were? Only when they saw my power did they learn fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is the Devil’s power strong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or is the God’s power strong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, his body began to swell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A huge tree demon rose in the world’s vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Devil Fruits derive from the Devil Fruit Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strongest ability?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not the Water Fruit, nor the Time Fruit—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but the body of the Devil Fruit Tree itself, the purest seed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It feared no seawater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It held the potential of all fruits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it assumed its true body, it would bring on the end of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, the One Piece world had not been like this—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the magnetic fields had not been so chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because of Imu’s evil that it became what it is!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fate shatters when destiny is broken!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time. Space. Causality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imu waved his hand lightly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Dragon was swatted from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no defense at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Observation Haki saw no future—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>time itself had been blocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Dragon suffered no injury; his state never fell from its peak. The attack left no pain, couldn’t even crack his outer dragon scales.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But below, the divine hounds fell by the thousands; even Kizaru (Borsalino) was cleaved in two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For hundreds of li, the sea turned a color like blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where are your goddesses?\" Imu laughed. \"Send them out. Do you think I’m afraid...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Devil Fruit Tree-body shuddered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the Holy Land Mary Geoise, no living thing remained. All the Celestial Dragons had been thrown into an energy furnace and burned by him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the world could not be harmed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then what use were they to Imu?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the goddesses are doing,\" Dragon’s voice rolled back, \"is no concern of yours, Imu. Did you think we sat idle while you prepared?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A million troops fell from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every one of them stepped on Moonwalk, hanging in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were not each as mighty as the dragon, no—but the momentum they carried dwarfed even Garp’s greatest days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For half a year, the Revolutionary Army’s soldiers had trained on the Sky Islands, unceasing, day and night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every day but training was training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go... warriors of God!\" Dragon commanded. \"At this sacred hour, the world is about to be liberated! Eliminate this culprit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At his order, a million fell upon Imu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky filled with figures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And every soldier could strike at range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightning. Wind. Flame...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All kinds of divine arts rained down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Uranus, the Future Country’s survivors worked the controls and stole it away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imu’s vast body—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>every eye chose it as their target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Time Break. Sky Rend!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space, time, and tearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of thousands died under Imu’s hand; the force he wielded was terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no one retreated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death was only another cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So long as the world was freed, all of it was worth it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imu’s consciousness began to fray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Devil Fruit Tree’s power could not be controlled by a human indefinitely. Under the repeated assaults, the Tree’s own consciousness awoke!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trunk swelled further, and countless demonic abilities crept across its surface—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>hardening, multiplication, barriers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hate this world. I hate everyone... I hate destiny even more...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imu murmured to himself, just before the Devil Fruit Tree’s will took fully over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chief Priest,\" a voice crackled in Dragon’s ear, \"the dead exceed one million. What do we do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hold,\" Dragon said. \"They will be here—soon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before his last word fell, a glazed flame bloomed on the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fire Divine Spell: Sun-Flame Annihilation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dongfang Huaizhu’s voice carried from a distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her sword-qi arrived before her words, piercing the Devil Fruit Tree’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barrier—shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time membrane—shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All defenses—shattered one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Huaizhu’s all-out strike, every reserve gathered into a single blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s yours now,\" she said, breath misting, a faint smile on her lips. \"My power’s spent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a vast serpent shadow uncoiled in the clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t worry, sister,\" came the reply. \"You know my strength.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The serpent was more than a hundred meters long, marble-white, holy and gleaming. It fell like a meteor, smashing into the Devil Fruit Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact hurled up seas like walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that seawater—the entire surge—was gathered by Shirahoshi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tide Art: Time-Smashing Whirlpool!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sea-blue shockwave crashed down upon the Devil Fruit Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time freeze—invalid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space distortion—invalid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All defensive measures—invalid before the three goddesses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Law stands above all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a world with only a shattered godhead, members of God’s Domain—weavers of complete laws—could not be bound. Shirahoshi’s attack would not be checked by any move beneath the level of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The groaning trunk splintered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its stored energy bled away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trunk, swollen on stolen life, fell apart, section by section.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The World Government was finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dongfang Huaizhu turned to Dragon and bowed slightly, contrite. \"We’re truly sorry. We’d planned to correct the world’s magnetism—but we discovered this creature had been tampering with everything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had intended for Dragon to pin the enemy while they slipped into Mary Geoise to search for a world-vein control. But upon arrival, they realized something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imu—no, the Devil Fruit Tree—the embodiment of malice within the world’s own consciousness—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>for reasons unknown, had manifested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the ruins of Mary Geoise, that history lay bare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By manipulating the Devil Fruit Tree, one could steer the world’s weather.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the causality of One Piece’s world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps... the Devil Fruit Tree found its chance to tempt Imu, seeking to break free from its prison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, with the Devil Fruit Tree slain, the strange weather vanished. The twisted rules faded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All across the seas, Devil Fruits—fragments of law—returned, one by one, to the world’s essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luffy, mid-drill on a new move, suddenly discovered his arms would no longer stretch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the Eternal Faith, Chopper—the doctor—had become an ordinary reindeer, though he still retained his wisdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But those who practiced Eternal Meditation did not lose their Devil Fruit power—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>because they had swallowed the power of law itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dragon watched as the goddesses turned into motes of light and rose. He returned to human form, knelt upon the air, and bowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See the goddesses off...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world could finally quiet—but his work was just beginning. There were humans on the moon, people from other nations—all waiting to be rescued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone,\" he called, voice hoarse but steady, \"begin. Bury the dead. They are the world’s heroes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long howl answered him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In God’s Domain, Liu Che sat in the palace and listened to the tale of the One Piece world from beginning to end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He smiled, and nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hatred can truly drive a soul mad. If you cannot harness your emotion, you become a slave to the Way of Love. It seems my power can rise again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gathered the vengeance in his hands, pressed it into the law—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and his strength grew by one-thousandth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten Thousand Worlds Chat Group\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Peace: \"It’d be nice if I could change my name in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit of the Demon Sword: \"Why do you say that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninja Scientist: \"I think Brother Dragon must have unified the world and fulfilled his long-cherished wish.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Peace: \"Yes. Orochimaru is right. With the goddesses’ help, the tumor in our world has been excised. A thousand-year tragedy born of hatred—ridiculous, really...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pursuing Sentient Beings: \"Hatred is what stirs the deepest potential. Without it, I wouldn’t have joined the Faith.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the world had not lied to him, how would Fahai have entered the Eternal God Cult in a fury? Hatred is a good thing—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and a bad thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fox Who Only Loves Money: \"Mm. If we can master our own emotions, hatred becomes nourishment. My sister Solanum and I have grown because of it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Group member General Yuwen has joined the chat group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bearded Swordsman has joined the chat group.\u003C\u002Fp>",1687,"2026-06-05T21:52:16.834Z",1,"novelbin.me","23879ec3ef7f1a3f2ad8cdd1d0b61fa2a0a14eccd6e64c6f71b87c87f3590279","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-199","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-197",391,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Finfinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-cover.jpg"]