Zephyr's Severed Arm

Great Fat Sheep of the Ninja World: Welcome, newcomer!

Loli Connoisseur: Welcome, newcomer!

Best Uncle in the Three Realms: Welcome, newcomer!

Divine Chef Little Fu Gui: Hehehe~ Are you immortals? Greetings, esteemed immortals. I'm Little Fu Gui, and I'm fourteen this year.

Black Arm Zephyr: Some Ability User's trick? Hmph~ This sort of thing won't work on me!

Loli Connoisseur: @Chat Group, weren't you supposed to impart some basic common knowledge now?

Chat Group: Yeah, but one's an old man and one's a child. Their comprehension is a little lacking.

Loli Connoisseur: If I saw that right, Little Fu Gui said he was fourteen?

Great Fat Sheep of the Ninja World: He may be a brat too, but he's much older than you.

Loli Connoisseur: @Divine Chef Little Fu Gui, have you already left the imperial palace and stopped being an imperial chef?

Divine Chef Little Fu Gui: O(∩_∩)O Hahaha. That's right. I've already returned to my hometown, and I'm getting ready to tidy up my family's restaurant and reopen it.

Chen Huang felt a little stifled inside. Fourteen-year-old Little Fu Gui wasn't a child anymore.

He had depended on his grandfather since childhood. Later, his grandfather had been framed by Little Li, thrown into prison, and sentenced to execution after autumn. To save his grandfather, Little Fu Gui had honed his cooking skills and become an imperial chef, only to be swept into a political struggle. His grandfather had died, Little Butterfly had left, and Guangxu had also been framed by Mr. K, living a life no different from imprisonment.

This was the Little Fu Gui who had already left the palace after listening to Little Butterfly and Guangxu.

Loli Connoisseur: By the way, why haven't we seen True Man Zhang? Come to think of it, he hasn't said anything these past few days.

Chat Group: He's in seclusion.

Loli Connoisseur: In seclusion? Could it be because of the materials I gave him last time?

Great Fat Sheep of the Ninja World: What are you talking about? If you know, hurry up and tell us! What has that old man been doing these past few days?

Loli Connoisseur: When he turned a hundred last time, one of the things I gave him was information on something called National Martial Arts. I don't understand how National Martial Arts are cultivated, so I don't know whether the information I gave him was correct or useful. But judging by True Man Zhang's current state, it seems to have worked.

Best Uncle in the Three Realms: Once one's realm reaches a certain level, a single period of seclusion can last a very long time. Zhang Sanfeng's seclusion will probably take quite a while now, so we likely won't see him for some time.

Best Uncle in the Three Realms: More importantly, I'm rather curious about the worlds of the two new members. What kind of worlds are they from? @Loli Connoisseur, do you know?

Chen Huang knew what Yang Jian was thinking. He simply wanted to know what kind of worlds the group members came from, what cultivation systems they possessed, and whether they could benefit him. Tsunade's ninjutsu seemed to have given him substantial inspiration before. Neither the group owner's world nor Yang Jian's world seemed to have spells. Things like Daoist arts and techniques that required hand seals did not exist in their worlds.

Yang Jian had merely worked out the beginnings of a spell technique.

Chen Huang sorted through his thoughts a little before responding.

Loli Connoisseur: Little Fu Gui's world seems to have some internal energy arts, but otherwise it's quite ordinary. As for Zephyr's world, let's call it the Pirate World for now. They mainly cultivate Taijutsu, swordsmanship—slash attacks—and Haki. Their world also has a specialty called Devil Fruits. Eating one grants all sorts of abilities. Judging by displays of destructive power, their world's combat strength is roughly on par with the continent I'm from. Of course, it can't compare with gods.

Best Uncle in the Three Realms: I understand.

Loli Connoisseur: Some things are hard for me to explain clearly. In short, their world definitely has things worth learning from. Swordsmanship, Haki, Devil Fruits, and Taijutsu are all quite formidable.

Let me put it this way. Take the Flame-Flame Fruit, for example. After eating it, the user gains the ability to transform into an element, meaning their whole body can become flames. They can control fire to fight, at the cost of their own stamina. A user can destroy several ships with a single punch. A Tremor-Tremor Fruit user can cause a massive tsunami with one punch.

An expert specializing in Taijutsu can blow up an entire mountain with one punch. A swordsman's slash can travel hundreds or thousands of meters, even stirring up the clouds in the sky.

Haki is divided into three types: Armament Haki, Observation Haki, and Conqueror's Haki.

I'm not too clear on Armament Haki. At the basic level, it attaches to the body and weapons.

Observation Haki can even predict a few seconds into the future, though that may only apply in battle. It can also hear the voices of all things, including inanimate objects, and hear other people's thoughts. Those are all effects of Observation Haki. A Press-Press Fruit user can sense meteorites beyond the heavens and pull them down to attack.

Conqueror's Haki, meanwhile, is the bearing of a king, an ability based on presence. It symbolizes the qualifications of a king.

Well, that's all.

Best Uncle in the Three Realms: Is that so? Many thanks.

Black Arm Zephyr: You sure know a lot. It feels like you understand it even better than I do.

Loli Connoisseur: Do you know what this place is now?

Black Arm Zephyr: I do. Sorry about earlier. Some time ago, I took my students out to sea and ran into an extremely powerful pirate. Nearly all of my students were killed by him. He also cut off my arm. So I overreacted somewhat. I thought this was some Ability User's doing.

Loli Connoisseur: ? Whitebeard Jr., Edward Weevil?

Black Arm Zephyr: I don't know his name. He's huge, and his strength truly is as great as Whitebeard's was in his youth, but his mind is unexpectedly like that of a child.

Loli Connoisseur: Then are you sixty-five now?

Black Arm Zephyr: I just turned sixty-six.

Loli Connoisseur: All right, I understand. In about eight or nine years, that Whitebeard Jr., Edward Weevil, will become one of the Shichibukai.

Black Arm Zephyr: What did you say??

Great Fat Sheep of the Ninja World: What is this Shichibukai thing?

Loli Connoisseur: They are seven legal pirates recognized by the World Government, granted the status and right to plunder legally. They are seven relatively powerful figures in Zephyr's world.

Great Fat Sheep of the Ninja World: Pirates recognized by the World Government as having legal status? What kind of nonsense is that?

Black Arm Zephyr: Embarrassing as it is, that's indeed the case. However, there aren't seven Shichibukai at present.

Loli Connoisseur: There will be later. The Shichibukai members are Hawk Eyes Mihawk, Tyrant Bear, Heavenly Yaksha Doflamingo, Sea Knight Jinbe, Empress Hancock, Gecko Moria, and Sand Crocodile Crocodile. If you're interested, you can keep an eye out for them. Well, just assume I know your world's future. But don't take it too seriously. Things like this are hard to say for certain.

Black Arm Zephyr: I'd like to ask, is there any way to heal my severed arm?

Great Fat Sheep of the Ninja World: I'm a Medical Ninja. Leave your hand to me.

Loli Connoisseur: Right, she's the one to ask.

Best Uncle in the Three Realms: If possible, I would like to exchange for some cultivation methods from your world, including that Haki, swordsmanship, and Taijutsu. Devil Fruits would be acceptable as well.

Black Arm Zephyr: I don't know much about swordsmanship. What I'm best at is Taijutsu and Haki. Devil Fruits are also rather rare, and I can't provide one right now.

What followed was a round of mutual back-scratching deals, and Chen Huang silently exited the Chat Group. He also wanted to directly trade for things he wanted like that, but unfortunately, he had nothing worthwhile to offer. If he had been thick-skinned enough, he could have gone over and asked for them outright. But Chen Huang understood one thing clearly: he could not take things from others for free. At the least, it meant owing them a favor; at worst, it meant forming karmic ties.

Previously, Chen Huang had told Yang Jian some of the plot from the Precious Lotus Lantern. Yang Jian had wanted to give him some immortal fruits and medicinal pills, more or less intending to settle the karmic debt. But Chen Huang had refused. Using what was merely plot to him, but events that would happen in their future, to exchange for benefits was not what he wished to do. He disdained it.