Clue to a New Extraordinary Path

"So... a mass retreat? You're really abandoning even your homes?"

Wu Pifu lifted a flag officer from a massive pile of building debris. Judging by his uniform, he was a rear admiral, and a rare one at that—one who had not eaten a Devil Fruit and relied purely on martial arts. His Haki was strong, his physical skills were formidable, and he possessed an ability that turned wood and metal into weapons and armor upon contact. Wu Pifu was certain this was not a Devil Fruit ability.

Whenever the rear admiral used this extraordinary ability to create weapons and armor, things resembling magical inscriptions or miniature magic arrays appeared around his wrists.

This was the fourth extraordinary path Wu Pifu had encountered since arriving in the Mountain and Sea Realm, apart from Haki, Devil Fruits, and ranked ships.

This had actually been a question that had long troubled Wu Pifu.

Before arriving in the Mountain and Sea Realm, based on what he had learned from that goblin and from various details, the Mountain and Sea Realm was supposedly one of the five great transcendent worlds. It was incredibly awesome, unafraid even of the Source, unafraid even of the Contamination Source, independent of all else. It had bluffed Wu Pifu and his companions senseless at the time.

But now that he was actually here, aside from the Heavenly Dao that he had never been able to figure out, he found that the Mountain and Sea Realm did not seem all that impressive.

The extraordinary paths were still the same old three. He had encountered three Ascendant Bodies, and there were surely more, but they seemed... unimpressive. Especially the three Ascendant Bodies that had fought him—they were even slightly inferior to Golden Body Arhats.

Was this all a transcendent great world amounted