The Secret Realm Opens

In the bedroom, Luo Ya lay on the bed with his upper body bare, while Annajia, just as naked, rested her head on his chest.

Luo Ya had never expected to take Annajia's first time or anything like that. Annajia was already a mature woman. They hadn't even known each other before, so there was no melodramatic reason for her to have saved herself for him.

They were both willing, and they'd had a good time.

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

Luo Ya's eyes lit up at those words! Slaying a dragon was a swordsman's dream. Even after all these years, people still remembered Ryuma, the Wano Country swordsman who had slain a dragon.

Besides, slaying a dragon was perfect for showing off. In his previous life, Luo Ya had used "Dragon Slayer" as his game ID in all kinds of games!

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

"My master said it was a red dragon. It had no wings, but could fly through the sky like a snake. It had four claws, and two horns on its head. It could breathe fire.

"The Great Grade Sword is in a volcano, inside the dragon's lair."

After she finished speaking, Annajia took out a sea chart and pointed out the island's location to Luo Ya. It happened to be on their current route.

Luo Ya memorized the island's location, then looked Annajia in the eye. "If you're lying to me, the consequences will be serious."

"It's true! I can take you there right now!" Annajia said urgently, clearly unhappy that Luo Ya didn't trust her.

"Heh, I believe you. But if you want me to help you destroy the Osama Kingdom, you'll have to prove yourself."

Luo Ya smiled and stroked Annajia's smooth back.

Annajia rolled her eyes at him, then bent down.

Time flew by.

Madalina had made excellent progress in her training over the past six months. Her figure was now very shapely, and she was every bit as alluring as Annajia.

It was said that in the One Piece World, men came in all sorts of bizarre shapes, but the women were never ugly.

As for her swordsmanship, it was only passable. After all, without sufficient physical strength, there was no point talking about willpower.

Luo Ya strongly agreed with a saying: the world was a sea of suffering, and people were adrift in it. The body was the boat, and the soul was the person aboard it. The boat carried the person onward toward the other shore.

The two had to complement each other. It was just like how someone who awakened Observation Haki wouldn't take long to awaken Armament Haki, too.

Annajia, on the other hand, had been so understanding over the past six months that Luo Ya was at a loss for words.

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 immediately went to King Brunen and told him he wanted to explore the secret realm.

That afternoon, Luo Ya, Annajia, King Brunen, and Madalina gathered together and headed for a forest on the island.

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

Weeds and vines grew all around the tree and across the ground.

King Brunen didn't waste any time. After feeling around the nearby soil for a while, he pulled out a small stone and pressed it into a hollow.

The ground dozens of meters beneath their feet slowly slid back, revealing a passage leading underground. Massive steps descended like layers of stone slabs.

With the ruins now open, the group followed King Brunen down the steps.

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

Once everyone had reached the bottom, the murals on the surrounding walls lit up. They depicted strange little figures apparently fighting some kind of creature.

"The murals seem to show their country resisting an invasion from outside, with the help of a god," King Brunen explained.

Luo Ya glanced at the murals, which looked like indecipherable scribbles, and lost interest.

The group continued onward until they reached a stone door, on which two flaming swords were crossed.

At the entrance, King Brunen inserted the small stone into a slot in the door. The stone door slowly opened.

A pitch-black long sword lay in the very center. Flame-shaped patterns ran along its blade, and its hilt was orange-red.

The instant Luo Ya saw the sword, Ryujin Jakka appeared at his waist of its own accord, trembling faintly to express its desire.

"Heh, this sword must have quite a story, right?"

"The Twelve Supreme Grade Blades. This one is Red Flame. No record of its wielder remains in history." King Brunen nodded.

Luo Ya patted Ryujin Jakka. "All right, this sword won't do." As he spoke, he returned it to his Soul Space. After all, he had taken Madalina on as his disciple. Luo Ya wasn't shameless enough to steal his student's sword.

"This is as far as our country has ever explored," King Brunen said, leading everyone past Red Flame.

The designs on this new stone door were much more complicated than those on the previous one.

At the very center was a huge tree, surrounded by people kneeling as if taking part in some mysterious ritual. The tree was laden with fruit.

There was no slot in this stone door, either.

"We've tried many ways to open this door, but haven't found one that works. The Great Swordsman's legacy, including some methods of training the body, was discovered in this chamber."

Hearing this, Luo Ya lit a cigarette. "No problem. I've got a universal key. Stand back and watch." He gestured for everyone to move aside.

Luo Ya's universal key was Ryujin Jakka. As Luo Ya grew stronger, Ryujin Jakka's heat still couldn't match that of Old Man Yamamoto, but it far surpassed the Magma-Magma Fruit and the Mera Mera no Mi. Luo Ya was confident he could cut through a stone door.

Of course, Seastone and Poneglyphs would be another matter. They were the hardest substances in the world, and a swordsman had to reach the fourth level of swordsmanship to cut through them.

Ryujin Jakka appeared in Luo Ya's right hand. A great mass of flames surged around it, then compressed and spun violently into the blade.

The blade grew darker and darker. Its rising heat forced the others to retreat to the passage before they could get any relief.

"So this is what he looks like when he's serious?" Annajia wiped the sweat from her forehead, looking at Luo Ya with admiration.

Once all the flames had been compressed into the blade, Luo Ya brought it down on the stone door in a single slash.

Boom!

The stone door that the King Brunen family had failed to open for generations split cleanly in two and crashed to the ground.

Holding Ryujin Jakka, Luo Ya signaled for everyone to follow and strode through the doorway first.