Wang Shi soothed the princess, who was a bit foolish, a bit naive, and a bit arrogant.
He did not continue the conversation about Garp with her.
He was considering how to make his Goa Kingdom bigger and stronger.
With the prosperity of the Goa Kingdom, paying the Heavenly Tribute was no pressure at all.
But that did not mean Wang Shi was without pressure.
After all, having transmigrated into this world, overthrowing Imu and the Five Elders was the basic main quest for every transmigrator.
However, now that Wang Shi had embarked on the shortcut of the Goa Kingdom.
He needed to carefully consider how to proceed.
Overthrowing the Celestial Dragons was a dialectical process.
Push from the front, push from the side, push from above, push from below, push step by step...
He would pay them the Heavenly Tribute for a few years first, then find an opportunity to take it all back in one go later.
Thinking of his Devil Fruit ability.
He even wanted to become a Celestial Dragon step by step, then find a chance to banish Imu to the distant future, effectively usurping the nest.
Take down the Celestial Dragons, become a Celestial Dragon, surpass the Celestial Dragons...
By the time Imu made a "king's return" countless years later, Wang Shi didn't know how strong he would have become.
In any case, Wang Shi had already usurped the throne to become king, and in the future, he would usurp the world to become the King of the World.
Of course, the premise was that he could develop his ability to the level of banishing Imu.
If Wang Shi could even banish Imu, then the Five Elders, the Four Emperors, the Sun God Nika...
None of them would be able to run!
Whoever stood in his way would be banished.
Then this world would be his to manipulate.
That's right!
What Wang Shi obtained while fighting for survival in Terminal Town was precisely the Paramecia-type Toki Toki no Mi.
It was the very same Devil Fruit ability once held by that foolish woman, Kozuki Toki.
Wang Shi had not expected that the Devil Fruits of the three users who died in Wano Country would all be reborn in the East Blue.
The Clone-Clone Fruit ability of Kurozumi Higurashi was eaten by Bon Clay, who hailed from the East Blue.
Wang Shi had heard of this freak who had made a bit of a name for himself in the East Blue.
Now, this guy had already headed to the Grand Line.
Wang Shi even suspected that Bon Clay might have met Ivankov in the East Blue back then, which was why his dream of being a cross-dresser was so persistent and firm.
The Barrier-Barrier Fruit ability of Kurozumi Semimaru was eaten by Bartolomeo of Loguetown in the East Blue.
And the Toki Toki no Mi ability of Kozuki Toki had actually appeared in Terminal Town of the Goa Kingdom in the East Blue, where it was obtained by the transmigrated Wang Shi.
At first.
Wang Shi had thought this flawed Toki Toki no Mi ability was very useless, only able to travel forward along the timeline like Kozuki Toki, unable to backtrack to the past.
If that were the case, it would be utterly worthless!
It couldn't even compare to Foxy's Slow-Slow Fruit ability.
But facts proved otherwise.
It was Wang Shi who had been rash.
It wasn't that the Toki Toki no Mi ability was weak, but that the foolish woman Kozuki Toki, who traveled eight hundred years just to give away a first blood, was weak.
How could she have developed such a powerful Toki Toki no Mi ability into something so pathetic?
It had caused Wang Shi to have a preconceived disdain for it.
Kozuki Toki was truly a foolish woman from Wano Country eight hundred years ago who had never seen the world.
The Toki Toki no Mi ability, even if it couldn't backtrack to the past, was still extremely powerful.
Wang Shi preferred to call the mass time-travel of the Toki Toki no Mi ability "Time Banishment."
Wang Shi's current development and control over the Toki Toki no Mi ability were ten thousand times more precise than Kozuki Toki's.
Kozuki Toki traveled eight hundred years and still had an error of several decades.
Such development ability was indeed trash.
Not only was she blind to fall for Kozuki Oden, but she also lacked the intelligence, turning the Toki Toki no Mi ability into absolute garbage.
It served Kozuki Toki right to become Kozuki Toki and then be buried with Kozuki Oden.
Wang Shi had now developed a move similar to Kamui using the Toki Toki no Mi ability.
He could leave a Space-Time Phantom in place and banish his true body forever into the next space-time.
No one could strike the physical form of Wang Shi.
Most importantly, he could emerge whenever he pleased.
The weakness was that it consumed a fair amount of stamina, and he could not perform spatial movement.
Compared to Obito's Kamui Dimension next door, it was a bit lackluster.
Yet, it remained a god-tier skill for avoiding damage.
The greatest fear with this move was being camped by a powerful enemy.
However, Wang Shi had a solution: when facing a formidable foe, he would simply disperse his Space-Time Phantom and travel directly to a point in the future.
He refused to believe an enemy could camp him for a lifetime!
If they truly camped him for a lifetime, then he would simply outlast them.
In any case, while traveling through time, Wang Shi's lifespan would not change.
This was the greatest drawback of the Toki Toki no Mi's ability; when used on oneself, it could not perform spatial movement.
But as Wang Shi developed his Time Domain, things changed.
Banishing an opponent so they could not move while he could—was that not essentially relative teleportation?
This was the principle behind how Wang Shi banished those soldiers, having them "respawn" one by one according to time only to be cut down by him.
Those soldiers were banished to a future time segment; the moment they reappeared, from their perspective, the charging Wang Shi had effectively teleported to their side.
This was a manipulation of time that achieved the effect of spatial teleportation.
Trafalgar Law's ROOM Space could swap enemies through space, completing a spatial shift instantly.
Wang Shi's Time Domain, however, banished enemies to different points in time, completing Wang Shi's "teleportation" from the enemy's perspective.
In reality, Wang Shi was merely fighting normally.
The current Toki Toki no Mi ability had significant limitations.
This forced Wang Shi to constantly grow stronger and rely heavily on Three-Color Haki, which was the only way he could continue to survive in a world teeming with powerhouses.
This Toki Toki no Mi ability was, in all likelihood, a flawed version of time manipulation that could only involve the future and could not touch the past.
Of course, it was also possible that Kozuki Toki was simply weak, and for now, Wang Shi could not develop moves related to the past.
After all, traveling to the past would trigger a butterfly effect, requiring one to bear immense karma.
A Devil Fruit version of the Toki Toki no Mi simply could not support or withstand such world-level power.
Traveling to the future, however, caused a smaller impact.
Nevertheless, the incomplete version of the Toki Toki no Mi ability remained incredibly powerful.
It possessed a truly shameless ability.
That was long-term banishment.
If Wang Shi banished someone to several years or decades later, by the time the enemy emerged, they would be facing a fully developed, strongest-form Wang Shi.
The power of the Toki Toki no Mi was truly high-level.
Even at Wang Shi's current initial stage, it required advanced Haki to break free; otherwise, it was a forced banishment.
Much like the Paramecia Barrier-Barrier Fruit, its starting ceiling was extremely high; even advanced Haki might not be able to shatter those barriers.
Only when Haki reached a truly peak level could one possibly break the barrier.
By the same token, most powerhouses currently could not resist Wang Shi's time banishment.
This was more advanced than the Op-Op Fruit ability of Law.
Enemies that Law could not move might very well be banished by Wang Shi.
After all, the Op-Op Fruit had many functions, making it broad but not specialized.
The Toki Toki no Mi ability, however, was extremely pure and high-level.
Time is King, Space is Sovereign—that is no joke.
Just as that lecher Blackbeard Teach said, regarding him and the Pirate Empress: either he one-shots her, or she one-shots him.
It all comes down to striking first to gain the advantage, or striking later and suffering the consequences.
High-level Devil Fruit abilities are just that absurd.
It is entirely possible that if Fist Garp were caught off guard and failed to use Haki for defense, he could be banished by Wang Shi to several years or decades into the future.
Even someone as strong as Four Emperors Big Mom was still affected by the awakened Magnet-Magnet Fruit, having her body forcibly imbued with magnetism.
Beast Kaido's body would also be turned into rubber by the power of Sun God Nika.
If Wang Shi's Toki Toki no Mi ability were developed to the point where he could forcibly banish an Emperor-level powerhouse to a future time segment...
That would be fun!
Anyone who provokes Wang Shi gets banished!
Even if the Navy or the Celestial Dragons provoke Wang Shi, they would not be spared!
It matters not if you are a Holy Knight or one of the Five Elders!
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