Chapter 176: Red Quality, King's Left Arm

Bai Cangshu looked at these three items; that black Claymore was different from the famous blades commonly seen in this world, not resembling a traditional Japanese-style blade. It was double-edged with a wide blade, more like the two-handed Claymores common in Western fantasy settings.

But the blade was pitch-black, which quite matched the concept of a 【Black Blade】 in this world.

And the Devil Fruit in the small box on the right had a pattern that Bai Cangshu had also never seen before; it was a fruit unknown to him until now.

Bai Cangshu stepped forward, and just as he was about to reach out and touch it, a powerful aura was suddenly released from the severed arm in the middle.

Pitch-black lightning instantly pierced through Bai Cangshu's chest.

Crack!

Bai Cangshu's mind went Empty; his whole body stiffened instantly, and every cell in his body was intimidated by a powerful spirit, causing his muscles to spasm, leaving him unable to move for a moment.

Is it a trap?

No, this is Haki!

A certain Conqueror's Haki condensed to the extreme!

【You have come into contact with Special Structure: Treasure Left Behind by the King】

Special Structure?

Bai Cangshu remembered that when he came into contact with Golden Town, the space had also prompted him that he had come into contact with a Special Structure, and explicitly stated that he could eventually gain the power to take Golden Town away in its entirety by obtaining complete control over it.

But here, it only displayed that he had come into contact with a treasure.

Relying on his body, which could be called an Immortal Body to a certain extent at this moment, he stepped forward again. This time, that intense Conqueror's Haki did not appear again.

He reached out and touched the severed arm directly. At this moment, based on the structure of the hand on the severed arm, he judged that this arm was a left hand.

A left hand... Could it be the one that the Four Emperors Shanks lost to save Luffy?!

But that arm clearly should have been bitten off by the sea beast known as the Lord of the Coast in the East Blue; how could it appear in the Grand Line?

The moment he grabbed the severed arm, pitch-black lightning erupted again, and a powerful Haki swept out with a boom. The air pressure inside the cave changed drastically in an instant. Bai Cangshu's whole body was stiff, but his keen hearing still caught the terrifying sound of seawater rushing in.

The reason this cave could maintain a special state without seawater while being on the seabed is likely because of the Haki on this arm?!

Can Conqueror's Haki do such a thing?

【You have touched Special Creation: King's Left Arm】

【Conducting Constitution check...】

Bai Cangshu's cells shuddered as if electrocuted, but soon, his physical quality, which far exceeded that of ordinary humans, and his powerful resilience, which was nearly immortal, allowed his cells to metabolize rapidly; dead cells sloughed off, and new cells iterated.

【Constitution check... Passed】

【Conducting Willpower check...】

Bai Cangshu was once again struck by the vigorous spirit. That surging wave, which completely released an individual's will, spirit, and "heart," indiscriminately drowning everyone who touched it, caused Bai Cangshu to briefly experience a blank mind.

This feeling was different from the situation when entering a plot world. When the space deploys or retrieves a Reincarnator, an excessive amount of information enters the brain simultaneously, so much so that the brain cannot process the massive amount of information received at once, causing it to crash; only after that information dissipates does the brain begin to work again, appearing blank.

But at this moment, it was as if his brain was directly stunned by that spirit.

Whoosh~

The sound of water began to appear, and the immense pressure of the deep sea began to squeeze into this cave once again.

Thump, thump, thud, thud...

Bai Cangshu's heart began to beat violently by instinct under this pressure. His stiff face began to recover bit by bit, and a ferocious look gradually appeared on his face.

"Get... out!"

Boom!

A powerful spirit emerged from Bai Cangshu's body at the same time, but he paid no attention to such details at this moment; he only felt that the sensation of being drowned by another person's spirit made him extremely irritable.

【Willpower check... Passed】

【You have obtained Special Creation: King's Left Arm】

【King's Left Arm】

【Type: Special Creation (Material, Biological Colonization Armor)】

【Quality: Red (World's Rare Treasure)】

【Description: The King's remnant in the world, the left hand of an unfulfilled promise.】

【Biological Colonization Armor usage requirements: Human Species, Constitution and Willpower must pass the check】

【Effect: Unidentified】

Bai Cangshu looked at the arm he was holding in his hand. This was the first time he had seen an item with a quality exceeding purple. Whether as a material, equipment, or even the relatively lowest-value Consumable, he had never seen anything above purple quality in the Shanty Town of the space.

But this time, it was an item that possessed both the functions of a material and a Biological Colonization Armor.

This arm was worth far more than he could imagine.

Could such a thing really appear from a rare-quality Treasure Map?

Boom!

A large amount of seawater began to rush in, and the cave began to collapse. Bai Cangshu instantly put away the arm, and with a tap of his toes, the Devil Fruit along with the box flew up. He grabbed them with one hand and stuffed them into his Backpack.

【You have obtained item: Devil Fruit】

Subsequently, listening to the sound of the seawater about to flood in, he tensed his muscles, closed his mouth and nose, and as the seawater rushed in, he grabbed the pitch-black Claymore with one hand.

He had intended to pull up the Claymore and leave immediately. Relying on his Superhuman Constitution, he figured that even if his heart and lungs were severely injured by the pressure of the deep sea, he would not die.

But at this instant, a strange suction force emerged from the blade.

This sword, like the demon blade Enma, actively began to absorb the Haki within the holder's body, but Bai Cangshu had no such thing. In an instant, a large amount of life energy and cell vitality in his arm began to be lost.

Bai Cangshu subconsciously prepared to discard the sword, but at this moment, his right hand felt as if it were glued to the hilt, unable to let go.

Boom!

A large amount of seawater poured directly into the cave, completely drowning Bai Cangshu. Following that was the terrifying deep-sea pressure; Bai Cangshu's chest cavity, spine, and skull immediately began to creak.

The terrifying deep-sea pressure acting directly on the human body caused extremely horrific results.

Bai Cangshu instantly felt his skin begin to crack; his body was likely bearing a pressure of over 1 ton per square centimeter at this moment.

It felt as if every moment, his body was being crushed by a hydraulic press from every angle without a single blind spot.

The first thing that could not withstand it was his relatively fragile skin.

This omnidirectional pressure was not like a fist thrown straight during a fight; there was no room to deflect or redirect the force, as every part of his body was under pressure, causing the fragile areas to shatter directly.

A large amount of blood began to spill out, and Bai Cangshu felt as if he were about to be squeezed to the point of bursting by that pressure.

Pfft!

Scarlet blood appeared in the seawater.

【You have passed the check and obtained the item: Unidentified Ominous Claymore】

He instantly put away that black sword, his internal cells regenerated rapidly, and his body tensed up accordingly.

【Iron Block】 was then activated.

Bai Cangshu's whole body tensed, his skin becoming as tough as forged steel once again; he autonomously closed his ears and nose, and in the deep sea, he reached a rare state of balance, with his body no longer continuing to collapse.

Bai Cangshu's body began to drift along the bottom of the water as the seawater completely filled the cave.

He could not move because he was maintaining the 【Iron Block】 state, but once he released the Iron Block, the surface of his body would begin to shatter.

Although Bai Cangshu knew that even if he did not defend and was crushed flat or had his internal organs burst, he would not die from it.

But in that situation, it would likely cause him to "die" many times; he would repeat the process from losing his vitality to reviving, and this state would cause him to lose his autonomy in the deep sea, ultimately wasting a great deal of time.

If his luck was bad, being swallowed by some sea beast might cause him to miss the upcoming entry of the second batch of Reincarnators and the battle between Enel and the various parties.

Therefore, he maintained the Iron Block, letting himself drift out of the cave; in this state of being constantly hammered, Bai Cangshu could feel that his 【Iron Block】 ability was improving rapidly.

His defensive capability regarding his physical body, as well as the resilience of his own cells, were both increasing rapidly.

This was a method of cultivation that could be called extreme.

Normally, a Reincarnator like Bai Cangshu who had not crossed the First Tier could never withstand the terrifying environment of the deep sea, which exceeded 1,000 atmospheres of pressure, but Bai Cangshu had achieved it with the help of his Bloodline and abilities.

He drifted slowly out of the cave carved with a skull, and he noticed that above the skull carving, there was also a huge, shattered stone, which made the skull mark not very obvious, as if a part of it had been erased.

It was vaguely possible to see that there should have been other patterns above the skull.

The mark of the Straw Hat Pirates?

Could it be that this treasure also had a connection to the Straw Hat Pirates?

Come to think of it, if Enel successfully fell to the Qinghai and established his own 【God's Kingdom】, then the trail of his destined nemesis, 【Luffy】, would be very blurred.

In the information displayed by the space, there was no record of any members of the Straw Hat Pirates dying.

Because Bai Cangshu could not move, his mind was actually quite active at this moment; finally, when he had completely drifted out of the cave, Bai Cangshu was surrounded by pitch-black darkness, and he was completely unable to distinguish the direction.

But because he was already on the seabed, no matter which direction he went, as long as it was not toward the seabed, he was basically ascending.

He maintained his tensed posture, and intense Qi began to condense.

Hum!

Dodon Ray!

Boom!

The water on the seabed vibrated violently, as if a laser had been fired, or as if a deep-sea torpedo had exploded.

The terrifying shockwave fed back onto Bai Cangshu himself, almost shattering the 【Iron Block】 he had tensed to the limit.

The intense reaction force caused Bai Cangshu to begin rising rapidly.

At the same time, moving quickly on the seabed also caused severe damage to Bai Cangshu's heart and lungs, but Bai Cangshu did not care about such things as injuries at this moment.

He only needed to ensure that he could return to the sea surface; even if his internal organs were completely shattered, it did not matter.

Hum!

Another Dodon Ray explosion.

In the waters on the edge of Mock Town, Brina sat on the deck smoking; this warship had successfully escaped from the edge of that upward-rushing ocean current, and although a dozen more people had unfortunately gone missing, she had at least survived another disaster with this batch of her direct subordinates.

At this time, many in the Navy had the intention of retiring and going home; first, there was the world-destroying thunderstorm, and then that huge whirlpool and upward-rushing ocean current that could swallow everything.

On this ocean, having a few lives was not enough to play with those Monsters.

The navigator remembered the madman who jumped into the whirlpool, and his hand holding the cigarette was still trembling; he tried to light it several times, but could not get a flame.

Click!

A flame appeared, and he looked up to see Colonel Brina, who was also in a disheveled state, actually in front of him, lighting his cigarette.

If it were at any other time, he might have been distracted and let his imagination run wild, but at this moment, he inexplicably understood this superior who had not said a word on the ship.

In this ocean, there was no room for ordinary people like them to speak.

Only violence dominated everything.

"Colonel Brina, do you think that guy is dead?"

Brina smoked, many of her thoughts having faded; this group of losers she used to look down upon actually seemed much more intimate in her eyes now.

At least, this group of guys were her own kind.

"Who knows, perhaps he really is an Immortal Body, heh..."

The next moment, a messenger walked quickly out of the cabin.

"Colonel, the Marine Headquarters has ordered us to stand by in place, wait for the Vice Admiral from Headquarters, and cooperate with the Vice Admiral's actions!"

Brina's movements paused.

Has a Vice Admiral from Headquarters been dispatched as well...

If it were normal times, she would probably be overjoyed, but now, she frowned and asked in return.

"How many have come?"

"Is Vice Admiral Garp among them?"

(End of this chapter)