Green Mountain City, embassy. Inside a secret room, a young man dressed in luxurious purple high-collared embroidered robes sat cross-legged atop a cultivation platform.
The young man's eyes were tightly shut, while dense Purple Qi continuously swirled around him. As he repeatedly formed strange hand seals, the Purple Qi gradually churned like ocean waves before becoming still as a dead pool.
Suddenly, the young man abruptly opened his eyes, his hands forming claws as he aimed at the two stone lions before him. "Gravity—Strangle!" His clawed hands clenched into fists. The two stone lions rose into the air with a bang, shattering into a cloud of powder.
"Hmm? The power is more than sufficient, but the control is lacking." Seeing the result, the young man silently evaluated it. The Gravity Fruit truly was not easy to develop. He had intended to crush the stone lions into stone balls, yet they had unexpectedly turned into powder. His control was insufficient; in battle, this would easily waste Dou Qi.
"Phew, not enough!" Having recognized his shortcomings, the young man once again closed his eyes and immersed himself in arduous cultivation. After a period of fighting in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, Ye Qiu had gained some new insights into developing the Gravity Fruit's abilities. Not long after the auction ended, he had chosen to enter seclusion.
Fortunately, the system had also happened to issue the mission, "Comprehend and further develop Devil Fruit abilities." Otherwise, he truly would not have known whether to cultivate in seclusion or carry out system missions.
While Ye Qiu was in seclusion, quite a few things happened in the outside world.
First, Xiao Yan, the protagonist of Battle Through the Heavens, had successfully passed the Xiao Family's Coming of Age Ceremony. Moreover, because he had repeatedly purchased Bosi