Must-Eat List's No. 1: Celestial Dragons

"The Will of the Overlord acknowledged you. You gave Monkey D. Dragon a profound lesson and explained things to him as his father, making him blush with shame and realize how unworthy he was as a son."

"You obtained dual nature and form transformations of wind-nature chakra: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken."

Brando was already out at sea again, riding a small boat and steering it toward Reverse Mountain.

"Oh, a wind-nature character dropped a wind-nature skill?"

"Celestial Dragons are gods, so they drop Kekkei Genkai. Garp dropped the Body Flicker Technique, which leans toward taijutsu, while Monkey D. Dragon seemed to have a Logia Devil Fruit ability related to wind, so he dropped a wind-nature skill."

"Then if I find Moria and give him some Haki, could he drop Edo Tensei?"

As the reward data he obtained increased, Brando began to notice certain patterns.

Celestial Dragons had the highest drop rate. They were ranked first on the pirate world's Must-Eat List.

Next should be Devil Fruit users with corresponding abilities. Powerhouses like Garp, who had no special abilities, were far less valuable to farm.

Brando felt that some Paramecia users might be even more valuable.

Moreover, only combining words with physical Haki produced the highest rewards. With just one of them alone, it was impossible to obtain the best rewards.

Shanks could obviously yield more, but if his words had not broken through Shanks's defenses that time, the most he probably would have dropped was a Sharingan.

"Wow, it's even a perfected Rasenshuriken, not the kind Naruto first developed that could injure its user. This Rasenshuriken can be thrown."

Brando sensed the newly acquired ninjutsu in his mind and opened his eyes in surprise.

Now that he had the Uzumaki Bloodline, his recovery abilities were extremely strong. He was not particularly afraid of the Rasenshuriken's backlash, but being able to throw it meant he now possessed a long-range, wide-area attack.

Combined with his Geppo, he could now cosplay Menma and use a Parting Gift.

Brando wondered when he should visit the holy land of Mary Geoise and give it a try.

Loguetown had been exceptionally lively that day. Quite a few buildings had been damaged, and many members of intelligence organizations had been caught in the crossfire and injured for no reason.

Naturally, Garp and Monkey D. Dragon could not possibly fight to the death.

After fighting enough to give his father an explanation, Monkey D. Dragon simply ran off. Garp also pretended he could not catch him. As always, he had no interest in anyone who was not pirate material.

The World Government was extremely dissatisfied that Garp had consecutively let Brando and Monkey D. Dragon, both wanted men, escape. Sengoku even punished him, forbidding him from carrying out official duties for three months, confiscating a year's salary, and making him responsible for training recruits for the next six months. He was forbidden from doing anything else.

Upon hearing this, Garp merely picked his nose, completely unconcerned.

Salary? What was that?

Two days later, Brando arrived near Reverse Mountain's Red Line. He had barely needed to exert himself, simply drifting there on the ocean current.

"That's a wall?"

Even with his Sharingan, Brando could not see its end at a glance.

According to the intelligence he had gathered, the Red Line's highest point reached an elevation of 10,000 meters, equivalent to the height of the White Sea where Sky Island was located.

Brando stomped down hard. The small boat beneath his feet shattered, and he leaped directly onto the Red Line's wall, using chakra to adhere his feet to its surface.

"Good thing the Uzumaki Bloodline gives me enough chakra. At my previous jonin-level reserves, I don't even know if I could have supported a ten-kilometer climb."

Brando began sprinting up the Red Line's wall.

The entire way was nothing but a plain red earthen wall, without any other living creatures. Brando felt that this thing did not seem naturally formed. It had definitely been created by some superpowered being.

About fifteen minutes later, Brando reached the top of the Red Line. Clouds covered the area, and Brando took out his Eternal Pose and ran in the direction indicated by its needle.

Along the way, Brando continuously used Lightning Release: Cell Activation to stimulate his body.

This skill had to be used constantly for his body to adapt to it more perfectly.

However, running across the Red Line was rather strenuous because the distance was quite far. This time, he ran for roughly three hours, sweat pouring from his entire body.

"Once I get down there, I need to prioritize finding a Sea King to use as a summoning beast. Moving across the ocean is too troublesome otherwise."

After running for three hours, Brando stopped to rest for a moment and let his body recover.

He had been running at top speed the entire time. There were no enemies here anyway, so he treated it as high-intensity training.

Soon, the direction indicated by the Eternal Pose became nearly vertical. Brando did not hesitate and jumped directly off the Red Line, scraping against its wall every few hundred meters to slow his descent.

It took less than five minutes to descend from the Red Line.

Once Brando reached the sea, he jumped directly into the water. Aside from catching fish, he looked around for any Sea Kings that caught his eye.

However, Brando soon realized that searching like this was too exhausting. He still needed to fish for them instead—first, he had to chum the waters.

After catching several fish roughly three meters long, Brando slit their skin and drained their blood. He cut off a portion for himself with a kunai, slowly roasting it with Fire Release while waiting for the scent of blood to spread.

The bloody scent spread quickly. Carnivorous fish kept appearing, but as soon as they approached, they were paralyzed by the electric current emitted from Brando's Lightning Release. His Shadow Clone then continued cutting open the bellies of those fish floating upside down to drain more blood.

In less than an hour, the sea beneath Brando's feet had been almost completely dyed red.

Sea Kings gradually began appearing as well, but they were not very large, only several dozen meters long. Some were even smaller than the Lord of the Coast. Brando killed them one after another and continued using them as chum.

"Finally, a big one."

Brando's Sharingan could clearly see a massive shadow appearing beneath the surface.

A huge, blood-filled maw opened and surged up from beneath the sea, swallowing several Sea Kings Brando had just killed in a single bite.

The portion of its body rising from the water exceeded a hundred meters. Its black-and-white markings resembled those of a zebra, while its form looked like an eel. It appeared exceptionally vicious.

This enormous Sea King had not noticed Brando, a tiny ant.

After sensing that it had eaten, it prepared to dive back into the sea.

The place with the most Sea Kings was the Calm Belt, followed by beneath the Red Line. Its hunting grounds were around here.

"Hey, don't leave yet. Let's have a chat!"

Brando clapped his hands, his voice carrying across the water.

It was clearly audible over the quiet sea. The massive Sea King heard him and slightly lowered its head. Only upon close inspection did it spot Brando's tiny black dot of a figure.

Then it felt its vision instantly obscured by a pair of spinning blood-red eyes.

Brando used his Sharingan to have a one-on-one discussion with the Sea King in a mental space. This was not genjutsu, but an application of spiritual power, so it could be used even if the other party had no chakra.

He had destroyed the Celestial Dragons' consciousness the same way.