Gene Modification

Another month passed in the blink of an eye. Ye Feng stood calmly on the sea not far from Windmill Village.

Ever since Ye Feng had eaten the Blood-Blood Fruit that day, all the blood in his body had been completely transformed. It could be said that Ye Feng was now like Tang Sanzang—every animal wanted to take a bite out of him. Fortunately, Ye Feng was a swordsman. Otherwise, he would have died several times at the hands of Sea Kings over the past month.

A few days earlier, while Ye Feng was practicing swordsmanship by the shore, he accidentally cut a small wound on his hand, and a drop of blood fell into the seawater.

What happened next shocked Ye Feng. Every Sea King in the sea had the same murderous look in its eyes as the animals on the back mountain had before. They all wanted to devour Ye Feng. It took him three or four hours just to barely cut all those enormous Sea Kings down with his sword.

The sea for dozens of meters around had practically been dyed into a sea of blood, with Sea Kings of every size floating atop it.

Most importantly, even a Sea King that should only have appeared in the first half of the Grand Line had been drawn here.

Ye Feng did not fight it. He directly activated the Lingering Wave Steps, combined with his mastered Wind God Leg, and fled in less than a second.

It was not that Ye Feng did not want to fight it; he simply could not quite beat it. Through his Observation Haki, he sensed that the Sea King was at least a hundred meters long, so he ran without hesitation. If he stayed and won, that would have been fine—but if he lost, that would have been embarrassing.

A few minutes later, a Sea King at least a hundred meters long—one that should only have appeared in the Grand Line—indeed arrived. Having caught the scent of something that could increase its strength, it hurriedly swam over. Yet when it arrived, it found only small Sea Kings that had been cleaved in half by sharp sword energy.

Ye Feng sat cross-legged on the sea, roaring inwardly, "Why is heaven treating me like this? I finally got my hands on a Logia Devil Fruit, but after eating it, I turned into Tang Sanzang. Even those disgusting rats want to take a bite out of me. This is so trash!"

Ye Feng raised his head and shouted at the sky, "What use are you to me?"

That night, Ye Feng did not return to sleep with Luffy, Ace, and Sabo. Instead, he went to a beach.

Sitting on the beach, Ye Feng slowly developed his abilities. As he sensed the blood inside his body, he discovered that he could control all of it. He could even control the blood of people weaker than himself.

However, Ye Feng was now severely lacking blood, because every day he replaced all the blood in his body, removing every impurity from it and making his body tougher than before. Combined with the Demon God Body he cultivated, ordinary blades and guns could no longer pierce his body.

Ye Feng was now even more handsome than before. More remarkably, his ink-black hair had, ever since he ate the Blood-Blood Fruit, turned into short hair as white as snow. Even his black gemstone-like eyes had become the color of blood amber.

It could be said that Ye Feng was now a living, breathing otherworldly version of a "vampire Superman." A few days ago, when Makino saw how Ye Feng had changed overnight, she was so startled that she thought he had become like this from malnutrition. Even more infuriating were Luffy, Ace, and Sabo.

Whenever they saw Ye Feng, they called him "White Hair." It angered Ye Feng so much that whenever he saw the three of them now, he gave each of them one punch every day, like logging in for daily rewards in a game.

Ye Feng stood atop the sea and thought silently, I'm already twelve years old. It's time to head to the New World and begin carrying out my plan!

That night, Ye Feng went alone to Makino's bar and solemnly told her, "I'm leaving! I'm going to the New World. Thank you for taking care of me all these years."

Ye Feng stepped forward and gently hugged Makino.

Ever since Ye Feng began using the Blood-Blood Fruit to transform his body every day, he had discovered that he had grown much taller. His original height of 1.4 meters had shot up to 1.6 meters, far surpassing others his age.

Upon hearing that Ye Feng was leaving, the cup in Makino's hand trembled slightly. It felt as though she was about to lose something in her heart. Reluctantly, she asked the Ye Feng holding her, "You... when will you come back?"

Hearing Makino's words, Ye Feng held the beauty in his arms even tighter. "I don't know when I'll be able to return. I'm sorry!"

Makino hugged Ye Feng back and said gently to him, "Don't say that. I'll wait for you."