Seastone was the crystallization of the sea. So why couldn't the land have a crystal of its own?
And if it did, who said it had to be as indestructible as Seastone?
No one had ever tested what would happen if Seastone and Dyna Stone were put together, either.
Ron had guessed right—and luckily so.
Water and fire had been at odds since ancient times. When the crystals of land and sea were forced together, neither could coexist with the other. They destroyed each other.
Boom!!
The destruction caused by Shi Ji's explosion couldn't compare to a Dyna Stone blast. But afterward, a storm of energy only Ron could see swept across the world.
It was Divine Power!
Unlike Imu, who had separated most of his power from his body to form Devil Fruits, Shi Ji had kept his Divine Power hidden within him. Even the Saintess could only borrow it, not take it away.
Now that his body had exploded, that power had lost its restraints and surged in every direction.
Whoosh!
Ron reached out and caught a mass of Divine Power in one hand.
Feeling it in his palm, he said in disbelief, "I can't absorb it?!"
It was Divine Power all the same, yet it might as well have been a rock. He felt not the slightest "appetite" for it.
Could it be...
Ron frowned and watched the surging tide of energy spread through his field of vision, little by little, until it vanished beyond the curve of the planet. Then his lips curved upward.
"So that's it. The power of the sea?"
Shi Ji had been born of Seastone, the crystallization of the sea.
And the sea undoubtedly belonged to this world.
That meant this Divine Power was not ownerless. It was part of the world's