Sailing at Sea: The Breath of the Day at the Start

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She turned to Ron and smiled, "Sometimes I think, what if I stopped searching for that blank period of history and just kept traveling happily until I lived my whole life... wouldn't that be nice?"

Ron looked at her, about to say something.

Suddenly his eyes narrowed, and he looked up at the sky.

A huge shadow drifted across the night sky above the sea, completely obscuring the moonlight and starlight that fell on the small boat.

“That’s…?”

Robin stared at the sky, his mind reeling.

After it drifts away.

The moonlight shines.

Robin was deeply shaken when he saw the outline of the huge shadow.

"That's...an island?!"

An island floating in the sky!

"Floating island".

A glint of light flashed in Ron's eyes.

Shiki the Golden Lion, the user of the Float-Float Fruit!

He looked at the shocked Robin beside him and said, "I'll go up there and take a look. You guys stay here and wait for me."

He was about to use Moonwalk to catch up with the floating island when he suddenly remembered something, turned to Robin and smiled:

"By the way, I don't think there's something wrong with what you just said."

"A life with regrets is not a complete life."

"If you have the chance, you should try it. What's there to be afraid of? That's what it means to take an adventure for your dreams."

Under Robin's stunned gaze, Ron stomped his foot, and the entire ship shuddered and sank.

His figure shot towards the floating island that was drifting away, as fast as a bullet.

119, News That Shook the Sea (Part 1) (Two-in-One)

Above the floating island of Strongworld.

Shiki the Golden Lion, a user of the Float-Float Fruit, wearing a golden kimono, with a ship's wheel stuck in his head, and his legs prostheticd by the famous swords Sakura and Kyouka, is examining the results of using plants containing the "IQ" component to make rare beasts ferocious.

The man next to him in the white coat was his deputy, Dr. Indigo.

"How long until these rare animals can be put into use?"

Shiki the Golden Lion asked him.

"About two or three years."

"Two or three years... Good! When that time comes, I'll use this power to give the World Government and the Navy a big gift, hehehehehe!"

Shiki the Golden Lion laughed loudly.

"The East Sea, that weak sea area, will surely be destroyed in the hands of my Golden Lion! Hehehe!"

Sudden.

His arrogant laughter abruptly stopped, and he suddenly turned his head to look in one direction.

"Ok?"

Indigo asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"

It seems a guest has arrived.

The golden lion narrowed its eyes, and an aura of power immediately emanated from it.

"guest?"

Indigo tilted his head.

This is in the sky, where would any guests come from?

"Don't worry about it, I'll go take a look."

As the golden lion spoke, it floated out of the laboratory and came outside.

Under the night sky, he spotted the black-clad youth standing on the ground of the floating island several kilometers away.

Their eyes met from a distance.

The black-haired boy smiled slightly at the golden lion, then drew the black sword from his waist and swung it at him in mid-air.

A hundred-meter-long, jet-black slash, carrying the power to split a mountain, cleaved vertically toward the golden lion.

"interesting!"

The Golden Lion, who hadn't fought in a long time, flashed with excitement and unleashed the famous sword Sakura Ten Slash, which was strapped to his right leg.

The two slashes collided violently, and the ground was instantly cut into a spider web by the rampant sword energy.

After a few seconds of stalemate, Ron's black slash was cut in half, and the golden lion's slash continued its momentum, sweeping across the black-haired boy and flattening the ground in its path.

A great swordsman, huh...?

As Ron watched the incoming slash, this thought flashed through his mind.

To reach the pinnacle of swordsmanship, one must comprehend the breath of all things to be considered a great swordsman. This is what Ron learned from Momousagi.

He's still a little short.

Ron's eyes flashed with excitement as he faced the Golden Lion's flying slash, which was powerful enough to cut through dozens of miles of sea.

Without any intention of dodging, Ron met the slash head-on and swung his black sword, Autumn Water.

"Waltz".

Whoosh!

A ring of dark sword energy, imbued with crimson sword intent, instantly spread outwards from Ron's body, colliding with the incoming slash.

After a fierce tearing and collision, the two disappeared without a trace, leaving only a crater tens of meters deep in the ground a few hundred meters in front of Ron, with huge cracks all around.

"Oh?"

Drifting down a kilometer away from Ron, a golden lion atop a hill, arms crossed and draped in a golden kimono, looked at the black-haired boy on the distant plain and laughed:

"To think that it could block my attack is truly remarkable."

"You dare draw your sword against me? Do you know who I am?"

"The legendary flying pirate, Shiki the Golden Lion."

Ron, holding the Black Blade Autumn Water in one hand, looked at him in the distance and laughed, "So what?"

"Jie hahahaha!"

The Golden Lion laughed loudly: "What an arrogant brat!"

"Really? I don't think I've been arrogant in the slightest."

"Having disappeared over twenty years ago, do you truly possess the power you had at your peak?"

The golden lion narrowed his eyes: "You can give it a try."

"Right on my mind."

Ron laughed, and his figure suddenly disappeared from the spot. The ground within a radius of more than ten meters sank down the instant he disappeared, and then crumbled outwards inch by inch.

Ron appeared in front of the Golden Lion and swung his sword at his neck. The Golden Lion, who was holding his arms, raised his left foot and swung it out. The famous sword Muku and the black sword Shusui clashed fiercely.

Zizizi!

As the two swords clashed and collided with each other, sharp sword energies that tore through the air shot out in all directions.

The two's Conqueror's Haki clashed, creating countless golden and blood-red lightning bolts around them.

Shockwaves, like ripples on water, spread outwards, exuding a powerful and oppressive aura. Wherever they passed, the island's inhabitants and rare animals fell one after another.

The floating island also began to shake continuously.

After sensing Ron's Conqueror's Haki, the Golden Lion, who was biting a cigar, became slightly serious and stared at the black-haired boy in front of him.

"I never expected you to have the potential to be a king. Boy, state your name."

It doesn't matter whether you know my name or not.

Ron, wielding a black sword, clashed with the renowned sword, Mukuro, on his leg. Visible shockwaves erupted from around them. Ron, his black hair flowing, smiled as he looked at the Golden Lion Shiki at close range.

"Because...you will die here."

I want the power of the Float-Float Fruit.

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April, 1517 (Haiyuan Calendar).

Naval Headquarters, Marinevandor.

Vice Admiral Momousagi, who had just returned from the West Blue, heard that Tina, who had gone to the South Blue to capture pirates a few days earlier, had returned, so she went to find her.