Time flew by, and several months passed in the blink of an eye.
The major races from both spacetime realms flocked into Pangu Continent to open up new territory and establish new settlements.
The kingdoms centered around the islands formerly controlled by the major New World powers began expanding into the surrounding unclaimed lands.
Totto Land expanded the fastest of all, directly claiming one section of the eight vertical and eight horizontal great rivers. Surrounded by rivers on all sides and using them as its borders, it rose to become an empire.
Its territory was dozens, even hundreds of times larger than Alabasta, one of the Grand Line's great nations.
Supporting a billion people would have been effortless.
The former Rocks Pirates officers all began developing their lands with their original kingdoms as their foundations.
As for Pangu Continent in the other spacetime realm, the entire continent was directly administered by the World Government. It was divided into major territories, whose rulers were appointed by the World Government.
As Kamui's second Soul Fire and Katakuri's first Soul Fire stabilized,
both of them decided to venture across Pangu Continent and search for another Devil Fruit ability that suited them.
If they failed to find one, they could return and ask Houka for it.
Seeing the two set off on their own adventure,
Ryuma and Shamrock refused to be left behind. Ignoring their mothers' attempts to dissuade them, they resolutely stepped onto this brand-new wilderness continent.
As their older brothers all left the floating Divine Realm above Heaven World, Shanks and Lu Ya formed a team and headed to Pangu Continent to adventure as well.
They too wanted to find their own paths.
Houka had now placed the floating island cluster in the sky above the War Tree and named it the