The Secret Realm Opens

Inside the bedroom, Luo Ya lay on the bed with his upper body bare, while Annajia, equally naked, lay sprawled across his chest.

Luo Ya had no intention of taking Annajia's virginity or anything of the sort; she was already a very mature woman. She hadn't known Luo Ya before, and the cliché of her saving herself for him simply wouldn't happen.

The two were there by mutual consent, and it could be considered a good time.

"The Supreme Grade Sword is definitely real. My master saw a dragon on that island back then."

Luo Ya's eyes flashed with brilliance upon hearing this! Slaying a dragon was the romance of every swordsman; look at how many years after his death people still remembered Ryuma, the dragon-slaying swordsman of Wano Country.

Moreover, slaying a dragon was the perfect way to show off. In his past life, Luo Ya's various gaming IDs were all named "Slaying Dragons with a Wave of the Hand"!

"What kind of dragon? Describe it to me."

"My master said it was a red dragon. It didn't have wings, but it could fly in the sky like a snake. It had four claws and two horns on its head, and it could breathe fire. It was inside a volcano, and that Supreme Grade Sword was in the dragon's lair."

After speaking, Annajia took out a nautical chart and pointed out the location of the island to Luo Ya. It happened to be an island on their current route.

Luo Ya memorized the location and looked into Annajia's eyes. "The consequences will be severe if you dare to lie to me."

"It's true! I can take you there right now!" Annajia said anxiously, clearly dissatisfied with Luo Ya's lack of trust.

"Heh, I believe you. But whether I help you destroy the Osama Kingdom depends on your performance."

Luo Ya smiled and stroked Annajia's smooth back.

Annajia rolled her eyes at Luo Ya and lowered her body.

Time passed in a flash.

Over these six months, Madalina's training results were quite outstanding; her figure could be described as curvaceous, and she was no less impressive than Annajia.

It had to be said that while the men in the One Piece World all looked bizarre, the women were truly never ugly.

As for her swordsmanship, it could only be called barely passable. After all, without the necessary physical foundation, there was no point in talking about willpower.

Luo Ya firmly believed in one philosophy: the world is a vast sea of suffering; humans are in the sea, the physical body is the boat, and the soul is the passenger. The boat carries me, sailing toward the other shore.

The two were mutually dependent, just like how someone who awakened Observation Haki wouldn't take long to awaken Armament Haki.

On the other hand, Annajia had been so sensible over the past six months that Luo Ya couldn't find a word to say.

In short, when Luo Ya stood, she knelt; when Luo Ya lay down, she sat; when Luo Ya knelt, she bent over.

So, when the time came, Luo Ya was the first to find King Brunen to express his intention to head to the secret realm.

That afternoon, Luo Ya, Annajia, King Brunen, and Madalina gathered together and set off toward a forest on the island.

After running for about ten minutes, the group arrived beneath a towering tree in the forest.

The area around the tree and the ground were covered in weeds and vines.

King Brunen didn't dawdle. After fumbling around the ground for a moment, he pulled out a small stone and pressed it into a depression.

The ground beneath their feet slowly receded for dozens of meters, revealing a downward tunnel with massive steps that looked like layers of stone slabs.

Seeing the ruins open, the group followed King Brunen down the stairs.

The staircase was long, and after walking for about seven or eight minutes, they finally reached the bottom.

Once everyone arrived, the murals on the surrounding walls lit up, depicting strange little figures seemingly fighting against something.

"The mural likely means that their country resisted an invasion by foreign enemies with the help of the gods," King Brunen explained.

Luo Ya glanced at the scribbles on the walls and lost interest.

The group then slowly walked to a stone door, on which two crossed swords of flame were carved.

Reaching the entrance, King Brunen inserted the small stone into a groove on the door, and the stone door slowly opened.

In the center sat a pitch-black longsword with flame-like patterns on the blade. The hilt was orange-red.

The moment Luo Ya saw the sword, Ryujin Jakka automatically manifested at his waist, trembling slightly to express its desire.

"Heh, this sword has quite a reputation, doesn't it?"

"One of the twelve Supreme Grade Swords, Red Flame. Its history of owners is untraceable," King Brunen nodded.

Luo Ya patted Ryujin Jakka. "Alright, this sword won't do." Luo Ya said, retracting it into his soul space. After all, he had taken Madalina as his disciple; he didn't have the thick skin to steal his own student's sword.

"This is as far as our country's generations of explorers have ever reached," King Brunen said, leading the group past Red Flame.

The patterns on this new stone door were far more complex than the previous one.

In the center was a massive tree, with people kneeling all around it as if performing some mysterious ritual, and the tree was laden with fruit.

Moreover, there was no groove on this stone door.

"We've tried many ways to open this door, but we haven't found the method. The Great Swordsman's legacy, including some physical training techniques, was all discovered in this stone chamber."

Luo Ya heard this and lit a cigarette. "It's fine, I have a master key. Stand back and watch me perform." He signaled for everyone to move aside.

Luo Ya's master key was Ryujin Jakka. As Luo Ya grew stronger, although the temperature of Ryujin Jakka couldn't compare to old man Yamamoto's, it was still far higher than any Magma-Magma Fruit or Mera Mera no Mi. Luo Ya was confident he could cut through a stone door.

Of course, if it were Seastone or Poneglyph material, it would be tough, as those were the hardest substances in the world. Without reaching the fourth realm of a swordsman, it was basically impossible to cut through them.

Ryujin Jakka appeared in his right hand, and a massive amount of flame expanded and coiled around it, then surged, compressing and swirling into the blade.

The blade grew increasingly dim, and the rising temperature forced everyone to retreat to the passageway just to find some relief.

"So this is what he looks like when he's serious?" Annajia wiped the sweat from her forehead, her eyes filled with longing as she watched Luo Ya.

As the flames compressed entirely into the blade, Luo Ya swung down at the stone gate.

BOOM!

The stone gate, which the Brunen royal family had been unable to open for generations, was sliced clean in two and collapsed onto the ground.

Luo Ya held Ryujin Jakka, signaled for the others to follow, and took the lead as he stepped through the stone gate.