After realizing that a head-on clash would not work.
Wang Chuan narrowed his eyes and began using his Super Intelligence, digging up memories from his previous life that he had not recalled in a long time.
But in the end, Wang Chuan could only sigh again.
In his previous life, he had been an orphan, a corporate slave. Because One Piece was free to watch, he had developed a deep impression of this mainstream shonen manga.
After growing up and gaining some means, Wang Chuan had even watched all of One Piece's movies for free. It could be said that he knew the series like the back of his hand.
But the problem was that Redfield was an exceptionally special existence even among One Piece's many spin-off works.
He was clearly a character with immense presence and style, yet in the end, he did not even make it into a movie and only became a character in a game.
And anyone who had worked knew it.
Who had the spare time to play a game just for one character? Especially when that game's character models were terrible!
Thus, most of Wang Chuan's information about Redfield came from fanfiction and the occasional short explainer video.
But that was also why Wang Chuan sighed.
Among all that information, aside from introductions emphasizing Redfield's overwhelming strength and formidable presence, there was not a single detailed piece of information about him.
Even Shiki, a powerhouse from the same era who appeared in fanfiction, showed up more than ten times as often as Redfield. He seemed like little more than background decoration for the term One Piece, his presence frighteningly thin.
As he recalled those details, Wang Chuan finally understood why the Strongest Haki Inheritance had chosen this man to teach Observation Haki.
Unlike Armament Haki, which had a straightforward path to becoming stronger.
Observation Haki had possessed two branches of development from the very beginning.
One was combat perception: sensing an enemy's aura and judging the enemy's movements. In the end, it could advance into seeing the future.
The other was expanding one's range of perception. The ability itself did not fundamentally change, but its sensing range became extraordinarily exaggerated—a quantitative change that produced a qualitative one.
Fujitora was a representative of this ability. He could use Observation Haki to lock onto meteors in outer space hundreds of kilometers away, then use his power to drag them down as weapons.
Therefore, in Wang Chuan's opinion, Observation Haki was less like haki and more like a perception-type superpower.
And the most powerful among them was Roger's Voice of All Things.
It was an ability that could be called bug-level. Not only could it understand the voices of Sea Kings, it could even hear the will contained within inanimate objects.
It could be said that if Roger had trained this ability to its limit, he probably could have sensed the voices of the Poneglyphs and found Laugh Tale even without Oden.
Among the other innate abilities was Aisa, the original and incompletely defined user of Mantra.
While possessing an enormous sensing range, she could also read the surface thoughts of many people. She was practically an enhanced version of the early Redfield.
Besides those, there were two other special forms of Observation Haki that had appeared in One Piece.
One could use one's emotions to influence others and even rewrite their personalities.
The other could read minds through Observation Haki and even browse through other people's memories without needing the Memory-Memory Fruit.
The former had belonged to Otohime, the late queen of the fish-men.
She had used her ability to beguile her people with her naive ideals and had nearly talked the entire Fish-Man Island into moving to the surface.
Later, she had even used this special ability to brainwash a Celestial Dragon into becoming righteous. By a twist of fate, that eventually saved her daughter Shirahoshi.
And the ability to read memories naturally belonged to Redfield.
At first, like Aisa, he could only read minds. But through training, he had reached the point of reading memories. Yet because there were too many filthy and vile people in this world.
Unless necessary, Redfield would not activate this ability, because it made him feel sick.
That was why Redfield had attacked Wang Chuan without a word upon seeing him, rather than reading Wang Chuan's memories and learning about his true circumstances.
At the same time, Wang Chuan analyzed.
It was precisely because of this ability that Redfield could better sense his condition and meticulously teach him how to train Observation Haki.
Combined with Redfield's strength, he could also raise Wang Chuan's Observation Haki to the level of seeing the future through battle.
But when he thought about Redfield's mind-reading ability, Redfield would probably see through even what kind of underwear he wore in the future.
It somehow felt a little awkward. He kind of did not want to train this Observation Haki anymore.
Thinking of this, Wang Chuan sighed again.
He was not the master of this cheat ability and could only passively accept it. Either he grew stronger in his sleep, or he did not sleep and died. He had no choice.
After thinking all night, dawn gradually arrived.
Watching the rising sun, Wang Chuan's gaze turned vacant. Then he let out an angry growl and ruffled his already messy hair even further.
"Damn it, if I can't think of a solution, then I'll just face him head-on!
It wasn't like this was my first time dying. Once I've died enough times, Redfield will definitely figure out what's going on!"
With that resolve, after Zhao Wuji woke up, Wang Chuan began digging into the rock wall right where he stood, intending to lock himself away.
After all, Wang Chuan did not want Zhao Wuji to see his embarrassing routine of dying and reviving over and over.
After saying that he was going into seclusion, Wang Chuan blocked the cave with a huge boulder and entered sleep with the resolve to find life in death.
As his consciousness blurred, Wang Chuan returned to that familiar shore.
"Hm? I hit you that hard, and you're still alive?
Right, this space hasn't disappeared, so of course you aren't dead."
Redfield's familiar elegant voice rang out again. By the time Wang Chuan reacted, he had already awakened once more.
Wang Chuan touched his neck. This time, he had died from decapitation.
Gradually, Wang Chuan's eyes filled with bloodshot veins, and a ferocious smile spread across his lips.
"Getting cut to death doesn't seem much more painful than getting smashed to death.
Then let's keep going, Redfield!"
With that thought, Wang Chuan lay down and went back to sleep. The familiar scene appeared once more. This time, Redfield did not waste any words and decisively killed Wang Chuan again.
And so the cycle repeated.
But to Wang Chuan's surprise, when he entered the inheritance space for the fifth time, Redfield did not attack.
Redfield merely looked at Wang Chuan with a thoughtful gaze.
There were few fools among those who could train Observation Haki to great heights, because without maintaining a calm heart, even the most powerful Observation Haki could not be activated.
And at that moment, Redfield realized something.
"An immortal body?
No. All abnormalities in this world are nothing more than Devil Fruit abilities.
The fact that he has revived continuously like this means my ordinary slashes clearly have not interfered with his ability.
So, should I use Advanced Conqueror's Haki?
No. Perhaps everything about my previous attacks was an illusion. My top priority is to break the ability he has inflicted upon me."
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