Demon

"What's going on?"

Gu Sheng suddenly sensed something was wrong. Dark clouds crowded the sky, as though something was brewing within them.

That alone was nothing unusual. The World Consciousness had noticed him because the power he was using came from the wrong source and far exceeded what belonged in this world.

But why was black smoke still rising from the pit he had blasted open? Had Uranus survived?

Gu Sheng hesitated. Just then, a pillar of lightning crashed down from the sky—not onto him, but into the smoking pit, three hundred meters wide and so deep its bottom was invisible.

"What a strange aura!"

Gu Sheng's heart gave an involuntary jolt. The flames of his Phoenix Wings surged and changed abruptly, as though something had provoked them.

Far from Mary Geoise, among the powerful fighters watching the battle, every Devil Fruit User felt their power stir. It was as if everything they had might be stripped away.

Whoosh!

A streak of light shot toward the onlookers. It moved so fast they had no time to react before it passed through their bodies.

To their surprise, it did them no physical harm. Instead, a strange force flowed through them, helping them shake off the turmoil in their Devil Fruit powers.

"Get out of here. That thing isn't friendly to Devil Fruit Users!" Gu Sheng's voice reached them, and they felt the restraints on their movements all but vanish. After raising his crop for so many years, he's ready to harvest it all at once. Of course something given away for free comes with a catch. A shortcut to power comes with chains.

Is that thing the source of Devil Fruits?

What Gu Sheng faced resembled Apocalymon when it first appeared in Digimon Adventure: a chaotic mass that had yet to