Ancient People Look at Devil Fruits

[No dynasty lasts forever. No matter how fine those emperors and nobles make their tombs, it's no use. Once their dynasties fall, their tombs become treasure troves with no owners.]

[Cixi would rather put her treasures in her own underground palace than leave them to future generations. A truly great general of the resistance against the Qing!]

[Cixi was truly clean as a whistle!]

[The clothes Cixi was buried in were valuable too, so Sun Dianying's men stripped them off her corpse. Cixi's corpse was thrown onto the ground. Loyalists of the fallen Manchu Qing went to the Eastern Tombs to prepare her body for burial again. They say it had already grown white hair by then.]

Reading comment after comment, Cixi felt dizzy.

[It grew white hair? Didn't Cixi turn into a zombie?]

[As expected of the old witch Cixi, her resentment was so strong that she skipped the Purple Zombie stage and became a White Zombie straightaway.]

The concept of zombies could be traced back to the Western Zhou and the Spring and Autumn period, when the Classic of Poetry spoke of drought demons.

The term "zombie" only became widespread during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Among the people of the Ming and Qing who saw the comment section discussing zombies, the timid felt a chill run down their backs.

[Know why the experts didn't fish Kangxi out of the water? Because those tomb robbers had no martial virtue. They took all the treasures that had been in the underground palace, leaving nothing worth conducting a rescue excavation for, so Old Master Kang was left floating in the water all this time.]

[Brilliant!]

People in the historical worlds learned a technical term from a later age: rescue excavation.

A tomb robber from one plane said, "When we rob tombs, it's tomb robbing, but when experts from later generations go into a tomb, it's a rescue excavation? Have I got that right?"

[The five strongest Logia Devil Fruits #One Piece]

"Are Devil Fruits fruits?"

"They have 'devil' in the name. You can tell just by hearing it that they're no good!"

"One Piece? I know what pirates are! Pirates have a king too?"

"Logia? Is that nature as in following the way of nature?"

["The most fascinating concept in One Piece is undoubtedly the marvelous Devil Fruits."]

["Eating a Devil Fruit grants you its ability."]

["Of the three categories of Devil Fruit—Paramecia, Zoan, and Logia—the Logia fruits rank highest. Although their prestige has been on a steady decline since Mythical Zoans appeared, that doesn't detract from their formidable power. Almost any one of their abilities, taken on its own, can crush an ordinary Zoan or Paramecia."]

["Each Logia fruit corresponds to an element, and the form of that element also determines the characteristics of its ability. One of the signature Logia skills is Elementalization. Most users automatically become immune to ordinary physical attacks. Even without making a special effort to dodge, they won't suffer any damage, making it a superb tool for rookies to show off."]

"Immortal arts?"

"Divine powers!"

"Is it Sect Leader Zuo's Triple Reverse Rebirth?"

"No!"

"How are these Devil Fruits? They're clearly divine fruits!"

"Hm? Why is there Wa speech in this anime?"

The clip in the video showed Smoker, the Smoke-Smoke Fruit user, using Elementalization. Some of the ancient viewers heard him speaking the language of Wa.

Seeing Smoker turn elemental after being attacked, many people immediately thought of Zuo Ruotong turning into qi.

"So that's what a Logia Devil Fruit is! It's nature as in heaven and earth!"

"This seems to be something people in later generations made up, called anime!"

"If this were real, wouldn't anyone who ate a Devil Fruit be invincible under heaven?"

"With this Logia Elementalization, you can't kill them with swords, spears, clubs, or staves!"

"This anime seems to have been made up by Wa in a later age! Why are we being shown anime made by Wa? Just what changes will take place in later generations? And how is this anime made?"

The officials and emperors of the Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties were the first to recognize the occasional line of Wa speech in the video.

"Your Majesty, I suspect our descendants may have conquered Wa!"

"Mm! That may be so!"

The dynasties before the Han and Tang believed that their descendants must have conquered Wa.

The Ming and Qing, however, remained doubtful.

This was especially true of officials in the late Qing, whose courage had nearly been beaten out of them by the foreigners.

In the past, when foreigners came to the land of China, they had to kneel before whichever emperor they met.

Under the rule of our Great Qing, the situation had reversed.

["For experts, when faced with attacks using their nemesis, Haki, they can instantly reshape their bodies to dodge perfectly, making it a superb tool for experts to show off their combat skills."]

["Logia abilities are fun for experts and rookies alike. Their minimum potential is determined by the properties of their elements, while their maximum potential is determined by how far their users develop them, or rather, by their imagination. A poorly developed Logia could be laughed at for two and a half years."]

["As for awakening, which is currently popular in Devil Fruit circles, both Paramecia and Zoan already have quite a few examples, but there are currently no confirmed awakened Logia users."]

Seeing Devil Fruits of different shapes and colors, their skins all covered in spiral patterns, someone could not help exclaiming, "Devil Fruits really are extraordinary. They're different from ordinary fruits!"

"Can eating a Devil Fruit grant you immortality?"

"Oh! There must be a devil's contract hidden inside these fruits. It's the power of a devil!" The person who said this was a missionary from the West.

["After all, over the twenty-five years One Piece has been serialized, there have only been thirteen Logia users. They're even rarer than those with Conqueror's Haki."]

"Serialized for twenty-five years? How many stretches of twenty-five years does a person have in a lifetime?"

"I know what Haki means. I also know who the Conqueror was—Xiang Yu. What is Conqueror's Haki?"

["That battle on Punk Hazard permanently changed the island's climate, turning a spring island into an island of ice and fire. The effect has lasted to this day, with no sign of changing. It seems Logia abilities can permanently alter the climate of a place."]

"That sounds much like what the Taoist School calls transforming heaven and earth!"

"Fortunately, this is made up! Swords don't work on them. If they were real people, who could stop them? Wear them down until they were utterly exhausted? Or poison them?"

"Methods like these feel like the unorthodox arts in certain biographies."

"No matter how powerful they are, can they be more powerful than Sect Leader Zuo? Sect Leader Zuo is an immortal on earth, only one step away from ascension!"

The people, absorbed in the video, were shocked to see an island brimming with the signs of spring turned into a world of ice and fire by a confrontation between two small giants! They were even more shocked to hear the heavenly screen say that the island's climate had been permanently changed!

The small giants in the eyes of the ancient viewers were naturally Akainu and Aokiji, who averaged three meters in height.

The two men were the standard height for admirals and did not count as small giants in the One Piece anime. But in the eyes of the ancients, they were already very, very tall.

"The Wa dwarfs are short, but these fictional characters are quite tall! I suppose the Wa dwarfs also wish they could grow taller."

"A few years ago, I was doing business on the coast and found that Wa women had come over seeking to conceive children, hoping to give birth to tall boys and change the bloodline of their people in Wa."

"What? There's such a good thing?"