After all, the traits he picked up would not bring the side effects of Devil Fruits.
Logia users would definitely drop some good things for him. Even if it was an ability he did not want, he would not lose out if he broke it down.
"I've decided. I'll leave the Calm Belt first!"
Lin Ye flipped up into a sitting position, anticipation flashing through his eyes. He grabbed Enma, which lay beside him without a sheath, and swung it toward the island's forest.
Boom!
A black Flying Slash shot out, sweeping across the small island in an instant.
Boom!
After a brief moment of silence, the severed trees and rocks all split apart and flew into the air.
Lin Ye was not sleepy at all. His level-nine Strong Physique allowed his stamina and energy to recover extremely quickly.
Enma, one of the Twenty-One Great Grade Blades, had become a shipbuilding tool.
Lin Ye swung Enma in his hand, trimming the felled trees.
He did not know how to build a ship, but he only needed to make one according to his own ideas.
Even Hawkeye could travel the seas alone in a small boat, wandering back and forth between the New World and the Four Blues. There was no reason Lin Ye could not do the same.
He stayed busy for seven days.
Lin Ye pushed a huge, extremely ugly wooden raft into the sea.
The logs laid side by side had not even been stripped of their bark, merely wedged together roughly.
Barefoot, Lin Ye leaped onto the raft and grabbed two enormous oars.
The oars had been carved from two massive logs, each more than ten meters long.
The raft beneath his feet was also more than ten meters long and wide.
These logs were mainly spares.
If there was a risk of the raft falling apart, he could take some apart, reshape them, and continue sailing.
Lin Ye gripped the two huge oars and began rowing.
His sensitivity to force allowed him to quickly master the technique of rowing.
Armament Haki wrapped around the two huge oars.
The ten-meter-long oars were entirely covered in flowing Armament Haki. Then, Armament Haki spread beneath Lin Ye's feet.
He rowed while training.
This would certainly improve both his Armament Haki techniques and reserves.
Lin Ye swung his arms, rotating the two massive oars. With a boom, the raft beneath his feet shot forward.
Behind the raft, huge waves dozens of meters high splashed into the air.
Lin Ye's arms moved like windmills, pouring all that tremendous power into the raft.
At this speed, it was not slower in the slightest than ships sailing with the wind in the New World.
The only thing that annoyed Lin Ye was that once he left the island's vicinity, the number of Sea Kings in the ocean increased.
The small ones were over ten meters long, while the large ones were even hundreds of meters long.
His Observation Haki even sensed enormous Sea Kings over a thousand meters long in the deep sea.
What did these things eat to grow so big?
Lin Ye was rather speechless as Conqueror's Haki suddenly erupted.
The Sea Kings lurking in the sea, drawn by the raft's commotion, scattered at once after Lin Ye unleashed his Conqueror's Haki.
As time passed, they would gather beneath him again.
Lin Ye could only drive them away once more.
Upon the waters of the Calm Belt, Lin Ye rowed his raft, speeding straight ahead in one direction.
However, compared to this speed, the Calm Belt was still rather vast.
Grand Line.
Kaido had appeared again.
He appeared on the Grand Line and attacked quite a few pirates and Marines, seemingly venting his anger.
The Marines had no way of tracking Kaido down.
Meanwhile, Madman Lin Ye, who had previously fought Kaido, had completely vanished.
He should not have died.
The News Coos that went afterward brought back photographs from the chests of the dead News Coos.
In the photographs, Lin Ye had left alone with a blade slung over his shoulder.
Yet despite having just gained such great fame, there had not been a single report about him afterward.
No one had seen Lin Ye either.
Not only were the pirates and Marines puzzled, but even Kaido was deeply confused.
After attacking pirates and Marines to vent his anger, Kaido returned to Onigashima in Wano Country.
Onigashima was quite far from Wano Country, and Onigashima was not yet what it would become in the future.
In any case, when Kaido returned and saw that Onigashima remained as it had been, he knew Lin Ye had not come to kill the people left behind here.
"Mr. Kaido!"
Kaido reverted from his Beastification form and descended from the sky. Several children ran toward him.
Every one of them looked thin and malnourished.
"Only you few are left?"
Kaido stared at the handful of children before him, his eyes widening.
"Mr. Kaido, you took everyone else out with you!"
A little girl wearing Wano Country clothing, yet nearly three meters tall, hurriedly said.
"Maria, Mr. Kaido didn't take everyone away. Some people ran off when they saw that Mr. Kaido wasn't coming back!"
A little girl in a puffy dress said with her hands on her hips.
"Bastards!"
Kaido flew into a rage upon hearing that. He remembered there being people on Onigashima.
However, most of the people he had taken out before had indeed died. Even King had died.
"Madman Lin Ye!"
Kaido gritted his teeth, his eyes full of savagery.
"Mr. Kaido, did you meet an opponent? Then did you win?"
One of the children suddenly asked.
"Bastard, of course I won... cough, cough. It was a draw. That guy isn't weak."
Kaido had just wanted to stubbornly deny it when he remembered the news had already spread everywhere.
If people found out he was lying, would Beasts Kaido have any face left?
"You brats had better train hard from now on. In the future, you'll be the officers of the Beast Pirates."
Kaido directly changed the subject, successfully diverting the children's attention at once.
"Yeah!"
The children immediately began cheering, raising their hands with exceedingly excited expressions.
Kaido turned to look in Wano Country's direction.
He did not want to give up this place. Wano Country was located in an excellent position, and it was also the only source of Seastone. He would never give up on his ambitions.
As for Lin Ye...
Thinking of Lin Ye's figure from their battle, Kaido's expression darkened.
That brat was truly a monster, a monster among monsters.
He possessed such strength at that age.
Kaido even felt that among everyone he knew, even Charlotte Linlin, who had possessed the greatest talent and trained hard from childhood, might not have been able to attain such strength.
Kaido had a feeling that he would definitely face Lin Ye again in the future.
By then, Lin Ye might be even stronger, and even transforming into a Dragon might not let him escape.
It seemed he needed to work hard as well.
Kaido returned to their base with the group of children. When he saw that the base was in complete disarray, as if it had been looted, Kaido grew even angrier.
He could not deal with Lin Ye right now, but could he not deal with these people?
"Bring me wine!"
Kaido suddenly roared.
"Uh, Mr. Kaido, all the wine was stolen."
Maria answered upon hearing that.
Kaido's body stiffened for a moment. He turned to look at the children.
"You stay here. I'll go find food for you."
As Kaido turned and left again, his face grew darker and darker. By the time he walked out of the base, it was as black as the bottom of a pot.
Those bastards truly did not know how to spell death. They actually dared betray him!
With a roar, Kaido transformed into a Dragon and shot into the sky.
"Mr. Kaido seems very angry."
Maria said fearfully.
"It must be because he didn't get any wine." Ulti answered with a serious expression.
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