Wild Island Grand Training

Julian returned to his captain's cabin, took out the Devil Fruit, and began comparing it with the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia. Julian discovered that this was also an Animal-type Devil Fruit, the Cat-Cat Fruit, Common Zoan, Model: Leopard.

Julian said, "Teacher Kaido, between the two of us, who is the captain of the Beasts Pirates? Why have I encountered so many Animal-type Devil Fruits? Only one Logia and one Paramecia." Julian complained, "Do I need to start a Fierce Beast Pirates next? Julian then grumbled, "Who should I give this fruit to?" After thinking, he decided to give it to the worker, Pablo. Herbert was indeed not very interested in Devil Fruits; he really didn't want them.

Julian deduced, "If Devil Fruits are ranked by level: Common, Advanced, Super, Calamity-level, God-level, and Super God-level. Currently, only two Devil Fruits can be considered Super God-level. The first is the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Azure Dragon. However, Kaido didn't even awaken the Azure Dragon form in the original story. The second is the Hito Hito Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika, the Sun God Nika, who can fight with absolute freedom, turning thoughts into actual attack skills, with imaginative fighting styles. Most importantly, he can also transform into the Sun God Nika, but it requires awakening, and it's a destined fruit."

"Paramecia-type Devil Fruits are mostly Advanced-level Devil Fruits, indeed stronger than ordinary Common Zoan-type Devil Fruits, unless they are not developed or the user lacks Stamina and cannot develop powerful abilities. Take Buggy the Clown, for example. He has the Super-level Diced-Diced Fruit, but all he does is split himself apart and often loses parts of his body. If he could develop an attack that splits opponents apart, what would be the consequence? The enemy would instantly die."

"The two weakest Devil Fruits are, first, Corazon's Paramecia-type Silence-Silence Fruit. However, during the Dressrosa arc, Law used the Silence Space ability to counter Big Mom's final Soul Chant ability, preventing her from absorbing more lifespan. The second is the Hito Hito Fruit, Common Zoan, Model: Commoner, which has no abilities. Chopper ate this one. If an ordinary person ate this Devil Fruit, they would have no abilities and couldn't swim. Julian just shook his head."

"Devil Fruit abilities still require one thing for development: Mental Power. Julian, having lived two lives, already possessed immense Mental Power. Coupled with his dual souls, his Mental Power became even more colossal. Moreover, he inherited a portion of the original host's soul. Julian didn't want to continue consuming the original host's residual soul; he needed to leave a part of it. Later, he could rely on this sliver of residual soul to eat another Devil Fruit. Julian knew the locations of two Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruits and planned to bring these two Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruits under his wing."

"These two Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruits are the Artificial Devil Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Dragon, and the Bat-Bat Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Vampire. Each ability has its strengths and weaknesses, but the Dragon Fruit is an Artificial Devil Fruit, so its vitality is definitely inferior to the Vampire Fruit. If it were the Mythical Zoan Azure Dragon-type Devil Fruit, it would indeed be stronger than the Vampire Fruit. However, the Vampire Fruit is an 'ambush' fruit; it can absorb others' life force, so it can certainly live a long time. If its lifespan is insufficient, it can just absorb it from others."

"Awakening all Devil Fruits is extremely difficult. After awakening, Animal-type users gain a human-beast form and an animal form. Their bodies will be wrapped in Flame Clouds, which are very impressive. Monkey D. Luffy's Nika Form has white Flame Clouds on his back, while the rest are black. CP9's Lucci's Cat-Cat Fruit, Common Zoan, Leopard Form, has also awakened the abilities of the Cat-Cat Fruit, Leopard Form."

"An ordinary Animal-type Devil Fruit, upon awakening, will be surrounded by Flame Clouds and its strength will greatly increase. If the willpower is not firm during the awakening of an Animal-type Devil Fruit, the user will devolve into a beast. The Jailer Beasts on the fourth level of Impel Down are all Animal-type Devil Fruit users who, after failing to awaken, turned into human-beasts."

Julian said, "According to the planned route, it will take several months to reach the Grand Line, and then from Reverse Mountain to Jaya Island, it will take several more months. On Jaya Island, there is a relatively large town called Mogu Town. Julian thought that since there was a lot of time, he might as well let everyone's overall strength improve a bit. Then they could rob Devil Fruits while sailing. Julian declared, "There are two Devil Fruits that must be obtained: one is the God-level Op-Op Fruit, and the second is the Calamity-level Gold-Gold Fruit. These two fruits have great potential. After awakening, the Op-Op Fruit can perform an immortality surgery, and the Gold-Gold Fruit can control gold. With gold, they can quickly build their own forces. Both of these fruits are related to Doflamingo."

"The first Paramecia-type Gold-Gold Fruit earned Tesoro the title of Gold Emperor. Tesoro snatched it from Doflamingo's auction house. The second, the Op-Op Fruit, is even more comical. Doflamingo sent his spy brother, Corazon, to steal the Op-Op Fruit. In the end, the Op-Op Fruit was fed to Law by Corazon. Corazon was a Marine spy within the Donquixote Family, and he routinely sent information about the Donquixote Family to Sengoku."

"Diez Barrels was a Marine Headquarters Officer who later degenerated into a pirate. He had his Op-Op Fruit stolen by Corazon in Ghost Town in the North Blue. Julian had been coveting these two fruits for a long time and planned to make a move when the time came. There were also the Flame-Flame Fruit and Smooth-Smooth Fruit in the East Blue, and the gangsters in Loguetown, Barto's Wall-Wall Fruit. In the West Blue, there was the Hana Hana Fruit, which Robin ate a long time ago. Julian couldn't recall any other fruits at the moment."

"Julian planned to just sail and rob along the way, snatching whatever fruits he encountered. In the South Blue, there was another great talent, Gale Dino, the user of the Candle-Candle Fruit, who would later become Mr. 3 of Crocodile's studio. At this time, he was only an eleven-year-old child. Julian planned to take him in if he met him. In the South Blue, there was also Jem the Shit-Nose's Bomb-Bomb Fruit. Julian thought he might encounter it in the future; they were still brats now."

Julian thought with a sly, wicked smile, "I can't let any of these fruits slip away in the future." At noon, everyone returned. Julian looked at the returning Division Captains and said, "You've all worked hard. Please rest first." All the Division Captains replied, "Understood, Captain." Julian thought to himself, "The exploration is almost complete. Julian had already transplanted all other valuable items onto the ship. Julian suspected that the animal Gigantification on Bugi Island might be caused by the island's special magnetic field. At two in the morning, a thick fog would descend, and by six in the morning, it would all dissipate. This fog contained a large amount of water vapor, which silently caused the trees and plants to grow gigantic."

Julian didn't know about any other possibilities, but it didn't matter. Julian had everyone exercise in the afternoon and planned to let them train for a while before heading to the next island. Julian also gave the giant egg to the ship doctor, Rose, and asked him to try and hatch it. Rose said, "It might be an egg left by some giant bird. Let's wait for it to hatch and witness a miracle." Julian said, "I'm counting on you."

By evening, Julian gathered everyone and said, "This island is indeed very suitable for everyone to train. You must quickly improve your strength during this period." With that, he used his Devil Fruit ability to wrap everyone, including the over eight hundred crew members and all the Division Captains, in an Earth Weight-Bearing Suit. Julian planned to proceed step by step, starting with the lighter yellow soft mud. Once everyone got used to it, he would use red mud that was three times heavier, then ore soil mixed with black mud, none of which were as heavy as the red clay.

Julian also planned to continue developing this heavy clay ability. In the future, when encountering opponents, he would use this red gravity mud to annoy them and accelerate the consumption of their stamina. If the opponent had incredible stamina, the Earth-Earth Fruit could continuously entangle them, exhausting their stamina, and then crush them with overwhelming skill damage.

With that, Julian let everyone begin training. This was a training method for these workers to overtake others on the curves. Julian wrapped himself in red gravity mud and started running with everyone. The Fourth Division was the swordsmanship team. Julian also wrapped their swords in mud, having Herbert and the Fourth Division crew train their swordsmanship. Herbert said, "This mud possesses incredibly powerful abilities."

If anyone saw this scene on the island, they would only see figures like yellow armor running, with only their necks and below exposed. Julian was afraid the Earth Weight-Bearing Suit wouldn't be breathable, so the mud had tiny ventilation holes and was soft, wet mud that wouldn't harm the crew's bodies. Julian controlled his Devil Fruit ability to train himself with the added weight. The others, seeing Julian lead by example, didn't dare to complain about being tired. How could they be more tired than the captain? Moreover, the captain was leading the training, so the others had nothing to say.

While training his strength, Julian could also continue to develop his Devil Fruit ability. Julian smiled and said, "A training method that kills two birds with one stone." Julian also arranged for the logistics department. Pablo led the logistics team to hunt the wild oxen, wild boars, wild sheep, and wild horses on the island, planning to take them all onto the ship. Julian also had him preserve them as jerky and put them in the storage room, as there were simply too many to eat at once and they couldn't be stored for too long. Making them into jerky and smoked meat would preserve them for a long time.

Julian also let the crew members eat plenty of meat every day, whatever meat they wanted. There was no choice; there were too many prey and too much meat to eat. Moreover, the crew members of the six divisions trained every day and ate a lot, including Julian. Especially the First Division Captain, George, who could eat fifty kilograms of food a day, and Pekki ate over forty kilograms.

Furthermore, Pekki's physique had grown taller. Pekki, who was previously 2.4 meters tall, was now 2.6 meters. Julian, who was previously 2.2 meters tall, was now 2.5 meters, one head shorter than George. Julian was still under seventeen years old and had room for growth. George was already 2.8 meters tall, one of the tallest on the ship. However, Pekki was only eighteen years old and might reach 2.7 meters in the future. Julian also wanted to grow taller; if he was too short when meeting other strong individuals in the future, it might be a bit awkward. He wasn't like Luffy, whose Devil Fruit ability allowed him to grow taller with a single breath. Julian said, "Growing taller is definitely a good thing. I don't want to be short."