Chapter 226

Luffy tilted his head and stared at him, his face full of confusion.

"Rather than destroy this island, I'd much rather have another fight with that man." Enel narrowed his eyes and said, "Over these years my strength has improved by far more than a little. The next time I see him, the victory will surely be mine!"

"You can't be too sure about that." Nami crossed her arms and said, "Luo En is really strong!"

"Nami."

Usopp couldn't help but glance at her and said, "You're not some 'someone' to that traveler Luo En — what's there to be so smug about here?"

Bang!

Nami, embarrassed into fury, punched him flying with one fist.

"Shut up! None of your business!"

Chopper stared at her, trembling.

"Nami… so scary."

Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji exchanged glances; Zoro and Sanji nodded at him.

Then Luffy looked at Enel and grinned at him:

"If you're not planning to destroy this island and kill the people on it, I can take you to find him."

……

Thus, Enel left Sky Island together with the Straw Hat crew.

And for the time being stayed aboard the Straw Hats' ship.

Yet he never once stepped in to act, behaving on the ship like some grand old lord.

According to his own words.

The opponents the Straw Hats ran into were all far too weak, not worth him lifting a finger.

……

Soon, the group arrived at Water 7.

There they met the shipwright Franky.

As for Lucci and the others, who had disguised themselves as shipwrights here to investigate the Pluton blueprints, once the news of the ancient weapon Pluton spread, they immediately left Water 7 and were ordered to head to the Kingdom of Alabasta to investigate.

Unlike the original storyline, the Straw Hats did not run into any conflict at Water 7.

After exchanging the gold brought back from Sky Island for Berries, they bought several Adam Wood logs, and Franky — invited by Luffy and having decided to join the Straw Hats — personally designed and built them a ship.

Not long after departing Water 7 aboard the new ship and with the new member added, they arrived at the Florian Triangle.

When they encountered the skeleton Brook aboard the ghost ship and came into conflict with one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Gecko Moria.

Meanwhile.

Ace found Blackbeard on a certain island.

The prelude to the Summit War was gradually being drawn open!

This great battle was unavoidable.

……………………

【Sealed Tenseigan: Opening conditions fulfilled. Open?】

"Open."

【Beep!】

On an ordinary, tranquil, uninhabited island near Shedao.

A terrifyingly astonishing force suddenly erupted!

A pillar of energy shot skyward, scattering clouds for a thousand li!

Luo En floated within that pillar of energy, an uncanny green energy radiating from his entire body.

His half-long, fluttering black hair in an instant grew down to his waist, each strand tough and strong, whipping about wildly.

Luo En slowly opened his eyes; his eyes displayed a pale-blue halo, the depths of his pupils pitch-black and profound, reflecting the world's destruction and birth.

198 — A terrifying Tenseigan, a powerful Luo En!

At this moment.

Luo En, having opened a pair of pale-blue Tenseigan, stood in the air, his expression unhurried.

His entire body was cloaked in a layer of green energy,

his long black hair whipping about wildly.

Radiating an utterly terrifying presence.

As if a god had descended upon the world.

"This is… the Tenseigan."

Luo En murmured to himself as a flood of knowledge and information surfaced in his mind.

【Perfect-grade Tenseigan: the ultimate form of the Byakugan evolved to its limit — a flawless, perfect Tenseigan, the supreme eye technique, possessing the power of destruction and world-creation.】

【Abilities:

1. Wield the Yin–Yang Release ninjutsu that creates all things, and produce Truth-Seeking Balls.

2. Control attractive and repulsive force.

3. Possess space-manipulation ability.

4. Absorb others' life force and control others' consciousness and thoughts.

5. Grant puppets life force.】

【Truth-Seeking Ball: a black orb containing within it all the properties of the Five Elements and Yin–Yang; its might is tremendous, capable of shattering all things.】

【Green chakra: an otherworldly ability born of the perfect union of spiritual power and physical energy; the driving force of the Tenseigan.】

Luo En's mind stirred.

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A glint of divine light flashed within his eyes, which radiated a faint blue halo,

and a fist-sized black Truth-Seeking Ball materialized before him, hovering motionless in the air.

Luo En glanced at a mountain on Wurendao far below; in an instant, the Truth-Seeking Ball became a streak of black light and slammed into that several-hundred-meter-tall mountain.

Boom!

Accompanied by an earth-shattering roar.

That mountain was obliterated in the explosion, leaving a deep crater where it had stood.

"It really does consume a portion of spiritual energy and qi and blood. So this is the green chakra produced by combining spiritual energy with qi and blood."

At this moment, Luo En finally understood why unsealing the Rinne Sharingan required such conditions.

Three years of continuous qi, blood, and spiritual energy nourishment—wasn't that simply providing this pair of eyes with a massive amount of chakra?

Luo En tested the other abilities of these eyes once more.

Controlling attractive and repulsive force.

All could be performed: Bansho Ten'in, Shinra Tensei, and Chibaku Tensei.

Moreover, the consumption was lower than Luo En had imagined.

After testing each ability of the Rinne Sharingan one by one.

This Wurendao completely vanished from the sea.

Luo En, clad in black with long hair fluttering in the wind, stood on the surface of the sea, eyes closed, feeling the vast power churning within his body, the corners of his mouth curving up slightly.

"So this is the power above the Four Emperors…"

Luo En murmured to himself.

Powerful!

A power he had never possessed before!

Luo En could clearly feel the power he now wielded.

"These three years of bitter cultivation were indeed not wasted."

Luo En opened his eyes.

A pair of pale blue eyes, radiant and luminous, gazed toward the distant sea.

The world was clearer than ever before.

Even scenery a thousand li away was incomparably clear before these eyes of his.

Freed from the shackles of these eyes.

At this moment, his qi and blood surged like a dragon, rampaging unchecked through his body, and his spirit was equally boundless and vigorous.

A state of complete, utter peak condition!