Today's first update: Chapter 2159! 1/4!
According to the conventions of previous Supreme Auctions, the Asura Race would put up an SS-tier Devil Fruit during the final stage of the auction.
This year was clearly different from the past. The successful cultivation of Evil Fruits had officially brought the product of this plan from behind the scenes into the spotlight.
They had produced ten S-tier Evil Fruits and ten SS-tier Evil Fruits in one go, proving that the Asura Race already possessed the ability to mass-produce them.
The twenty fruits brought out for auction this time definitely were not all the ones they had already cultivated.
This move was more like advertising for Evil Fruits!
The frantic bidding at the venue had already proven Evil Fruits' market potential. One could foresee just how competitive they would be once the Asura Race openly put a price on them and sold them to the public.
For the Asura Race, successfully cultivating Evil Fruits meant more than making money. They could also use them to weave a terrifying web of connections.
The allure of artificially creating individuals with high-grade talents or bloodlines was immense. If production were sufficient, then even nurturing a weak race into a top-tier race might not be impossible, right?
But after a difficult internal struggle, Xu Erpang shook his head. "What kind of garbage is this? If this thing can benefit all races, then that's a joke. A hundred bloodlines to cultivate one fruit—where are there so many powerful bloodlines in the world? This thing is probably going to dig up the roots of all races!"
Xu Kun narrowed his eyes, understanding what Xu Erpang meant.
Evil Fruits could indeed alter an individual's bloodline or talent, but the prerequisite was... the bloodlines and fertilizer needed to cultivate an