With the power of the Devil Fruit, Sengoku transformed into Buddha Form. His body was extremely hard and dense, and he truly left a trail with every step he took on Marineford.
The battle between these two Giant immediately drew everyone's attention, making the fight between the two Seven Warlords of the Sea seem rather pathetic.
However, this might be the result the two originally wanted. After all, their goal was to escape from here, not to demonstrate their strength by defeating their opponents. If possible, their idea was to eliminate their opponents as silently and quickly as possible, and escape while most people's attention was on the two Giant.
As for their subordinates who came with them, they didn't care about that at this point. After all, as long as they could escape, with their status and position, they could have as many subordinates as they wanted. But if they stayed here, it would be a complete waste of their efforts.
This battle wasn't just of interest to those present; Bai Sui was also paying close attention. After all, these people were among the most powerful in the entire pirate world, and observing their combat and the application of their Devil Fruit would help Bai Sui further analyze Devil Fruit.
Still silently hidden in the void, Bai Sui carefully observed the battle below with his divine sense and analyzed the Rhythm emitted by the people when they used Devil Fruit.
Combining this with the two Devil Fruit the Research Institute had given him, Bai Sui began to attempt to decompose them.
The two Devil Fruits in Bai Sui's hands are a Logia and a Logia Zoan. The Logia type fruit is a fruit that appeared before, called the Powder-Powder Fruit. The user can turn their body into powder. It was obtained by the Revolutionary Army when they intercepted a Celestial Dragons's ship, but they have never found a suitable person to use it.
As for the Zoan- Zoan Fruit, there was no clear record of it. Even the Sangyi Research Institute couldn't determine which type it was at the time. However, Bai Sui immediately identified it as a Zoan Fruit after obtaining it. Furthermore, Bai Sui deduced that this Zoan -Mythical Zoan, but rather a very ordinary Zoan Devil Fruit.
When the Research Institute heard Bai Sui's assessment, they wanted to give him a better fruit, but Bai Sui refused. His purpose was to conduct research, not to eat it, so he didn't care about the specific ability. In other words, from a research perspective, these two fruits were just right for him.
By combining the battles throughout the Paramount War with the strange Rhythm Bai Sui sensed, and finally, by integrating the data he had obtained from the moon, he was able to piece together a general understanding of the situation.
Firstly, the Rhythm of Devil Fruit is actually divided into two types: innate and acquired. Innate ones include things like natural fruits, while acquired ones include things like animal fruits. Of course, there are exceptions to these.
First, let's talk about the innate power, which is actually the authority that the God of Otsutsuki obtained after becoming a god. That kind of control over all things in nature is a kind of power similar to omniscience and omnipotence. Of course, it is only similar, and he did not really achieve omniscience and omnipotence.
The original Ōtsutsuki Meishiki used a piece of the God of Otsutsuki's corpse to copy its authority. It wasn't that a single piece of corpse contained so much authority, but rather that he used this piece of corpse as a catalyst to Jieyin the entire universe to cooperate.
However, the previous experiment failed. The reason for the failure was likely that the universe cooperated too much, thinking that the entire planet was the God of Otsutsuki, and directly filled it with all the authority. But the planet was not really a god and could not bear such authority at all, so it was directly destroyed. Even the Ōtsutsuki Clan's Karma could not resist it.
Having learned from his previous experience, Kinshiki Otsutsuki was much more cautious this time. He did not act rashly and directly bestow these innate powers upon the test subjects as he had done before.
Instead, he thought of imitating the situation where the bloodline of the Ōtsutsuki Clan would become polluted after mating with other races, and deliberately polluted this part of their innate authority. So he used the sapling of the God Tree as the seedbed for this pollution, and poured all the biological genes or Lineage Factor he had obtained on this planet into the God Tree.
Thus, within the God Tree, the remains of the God of Otsutsuki and these Lineage Factor began to combine. Sure enough, his idea was correct; the remains were clearly successfully corrupted, and even the original authority began to change, although the process was not yet complete.
So Otsutsuki Mikotoshiki tried to create many new races by himself. Without relying on the Lineage Factor of these new races, he finally further corrupted the corpse parts. Later, perhaps because he discovered the shortcomings, Ōtsutsuki Meishiki simply integrated himself into the Ōtsutsuki Meishiki God Tree, becoming a being that coexists with the God Tree like Otsutsuki Kaguya.
Perhaps it was because of the Lineage Factor of Ōtsutsuki Meishiki, or perhaps it was because the God Tree had a clear will, that the authority that could only rely on the corpse of the God of Otsutsuki could finally be separated out.
Perhaps out of fear that concentrating all these extracted powers within the God Tree would cause something bad to happen again, or perhaps simply for experimental purposes, Ōtsutsuki Meishiki attached these powers to the fruits that the God Tree bore.
This is why Devil Fruit are only effective for the first person to eat them, and even just one bite is effective. It's not the fruit itself that has the real effect; the fruit is merely a vessel. What's truly useful is the power it grants.
As for the so-called Logia Devil Fruit, they are those that are closer to innate powers and less affected by acquired corruption. Zoan Fruits, on the other hand, are those that are more severely corrupted and more Transfiguration. Because they are more corrupted, they often resemble the Lineage Factor that corrupted them, such as humans, cats, dogs, cows, insects, and other life forms that originally existed in the One Piece world.
Originally, according to Ōtsutsuki Meishiki's plan, only these two fruits should have appeared. However, to his surprise, there were memories left in the genes or Lineage Factor. And these memories not only recorded things that existed in the world, but also contained some fictional content. As a result, this corrupted authority underwent many unexpected changes.
Whether it's the emergence of Mythical Zoan or Paramecia- type Devil Fruits, a large part of these actually originate from the memory portion of Lineage Factor.
Among the intelligence obtained on the moon was a document on how to store the power of imprisonment. From this, Bai Sui learned that Ōtsutsuki Meishiki had discovered a substance whose sole purpose was to isolate itself from the world.
After comparing the substance, the Research Institute confirmed that it was Seastone. This solved the question of why Seastone could neutralize Devil Fruit abilities: it directly cut off the source of the Devil Fruit User, effectively sealing off their authority.
Conversely, why does seawater contain such a large amount of Seastone? Does it indicate the presence of a large amount of authority in the sea that needs to be isolated?
Considering that all Devil Fruit inexplicably appeared on the sea, can we infer that a vast amount of authority still exists in the ocean? Or, to go even further, could the God Tree be located in the ocean right now?
The speculation that Bai Sui Devil Fruit contain some kind of authority has always been there, though it couldn't be confirmed. After all, considering the fact that in the original work, after Devil Fruit User dies, fruits within a certain distance of them have a chance to transform into Devil Fruit, it seems like a transfer of authority is possible. Furthermore, the ability for inanimate objects to "eat" Devil Fruit and gain their powers can only be achieved through something like authority—which doesn't actually require ingestion to function.
Although Bai Sui has now figured out the possible existence of the God Tree, he can't find it immediately. After all, the ocean is too big, and searching for it would take a long time. As for why he doesn't just evaporate all the sea springs or move them away...
It's not that the Ninja World wouldn't do such a thing, but Bai Sui is also afraid that without the suppression of the Seastone, what if it were to annihilate everything within its range, just like on the previous experimental planet? Bai Sui doesn't want to perish together with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki; he still wants to try to leave this universe like the God of Otsutsuki and go to other worlds or higher dimensions.
As Bai Sui pondered how to harvest this God Tree that had been successfully modified by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki Bai Sui, the battle below suddenly caught his attention.
It turned out that the Nawaki Senju had finally finished its battle and decided to unleash its full power to end it. As the Wood Arhat Hand Seals with him, a giant Senju Guanyin emerged from the ground.
The colossal Senju Guanyin, standing nearly 400 meters tall, single-handedly altered the entire terrain of Marineford. Furthermore, the Nawaki Senju, with its True Several Thousand Hands technique, became the most dazzling presence in this battle. Not only the people present, but even the casual viewers watching the live stream were quite startled by this sudden change.
The Celestial Dragons, led by the Five Elders, were the most terrified. After all, in their eyes, this was the powerful being they were about to face. The Five Elders, who had been angrily making phone calls to their Celestial Dragons, were now silent and quietly canceled some of their original plans, instead starting to prepare several escape plans. After all, judging from the performance on the Den Den Mushi, this was definitely not someone they could fight.
However, once the various plans concerning the Celestial Dragons were actually implemented, the Five Elders began to have a headache. How could the Celestial Dragons, who had been arrogant and conceited for hundreds of years, understand the Five Elders ' ideas? They criticized the Five Elders ' powerless actions and were unwilling to leave Mary Geoise. Some Celestial Dragons even joined forces to remove the Five Elders from office.
Even when the Five Elders laid out the hundreds-of-meters-tall True Several Thousand Hands naked in front of the Celestial Dragons, they showed no fear. Instead, they fought over who should be enslaved, and the scene became chaotic.
Although some of the Celestial Dragons were still rational enough to see the danger, they were unwilling to obey the Five Elders ' orders and actually began to flee as refugees. Even when they decided to leave Mary Geoise, they demanded that they be provided with the most luxurious cruise ships and a large number of servants to attend to them during the journey.
It can be said that his past arrogance and indulgence have backfired at this moment. No matter how anxious the Five Elders were, they were still powerless and could only do their best to gather their strength and summon back all the Cipher Pol were originally scattered around the world.
However, it remains unknown how many of them are spies and how many were forced into becoming their lackeys. Or perhaps the Five Elders know, but they lack the time and energy for further screening and can only ensure limited combat strength. Or perhaps the Five Elders themselves have already given up.
As for how the political situation in the One Piece world will change in the future, Bai Sui doesn't care at all. Whether Luffy will become the future prince of Planet Planet is not something he cares about.
After submitting his understanding of Devil Fruit and his interpretation of the lunar experiment report to the Research Institute, Bai Sui was left with only one task: to find the God Tree hidden in the sea without alerting them.
In the end, Bai Sui decided to use the old method again, to completely record the surface of the One Piece world into his Inner Landscape. At the same time, Bai Sui also intensified his research on the Seastone to see if he could make any more discoveries, and ideally, he could master this ability to isolate himself from the world.
In this way, even if the other party suddenly goes berserk, Bai Sui can try to seal it away by isolating himself from the world, at least preventing himself from perishing with the other party.
At the same time, Bai Sui once again began researching the Treasure Tool Karasuki, because according to previous research reports, the appearance of this Seastone was very abrupt, much like the sudden discovery of Ōtsutsuki Meishiki.
Therefore, Bai Sui had a suspicion that this substance was very likely found in the remains of the God of Otsutsuki, since according to research data, the Ōtsutsuki Meishiki had not studied anything else besides these.
Therefore, the Treasure Tool Karasuki, which was also made from the corpse of the God of Otsutsuki and possessed incredible abilities, became the best research subject for Bai Sui.