"Oh, a man as big as a ball has appeared."
Shiraishi looked at Satori with an amused expression, remembering that this guy had a half-baked understanding of Mantra.
Luffy yelled at Satori, "Are you the Ordeal of Balls, or are you the ball yourself?"
"Hehe~ Hehe~ Hehe~" Instead of answering Luffy's question, Satori started dancing happily.
"Don't dance for me!" Sanji roared.
"Haha, this is the most confident dancer I've ever seen."
Shiraishi commented on this person's dance, saying it was so ugly that he had no shame to even perform it.
Sanji wanted to retort, "It's not about the dance, is it?" He yelled at Satori, "Tell us first, who are you?"
Satori continued dancing, ignoring them.
Usopp looked at Satori and said, "What? Is this guy an idiot?"
"Is that the priest?" Sanji looked somewhat bewildered, sensing that this person was different from the fierce enemy he remembered.
The doubts were quickly put aside, and Sanji shouted at Satori again, "Hey, Yui! Nami and the others alright?"
Satori chuckled and replied, "You mean the sacrifices? I don't know anything about that. Ignoring them means certain death anyway. Even if we're lucky enough to escape, it's the same; we're all doomed..."
Upon hearing this, Sanji, his face contorted with rage, exclaimed, "What did you say?!"
As she jumped, Satori said, "You should worry about yourselves first. Let me make this clear: if you can't beat me, you can forget about advancing any further, hehehe~"
Satori laughed as he jumped down from the Ball Cloud, then leaped toward the Crow.
Usopp frantically pointed at Satori and shouted, "He, he's here! Luffy, take him down!"
Luffy swung his arm and said, "Alright, watch me knock him down! Gum-Gum!"
"Oh? You can actually stretch?" Satori exclaimed in surprise.
" Pistol!"
Luffy stretched out his arm and struck at Satori, but Satori easily dodged it.
Then, Satori moved closer to Luffy's body, raised her hand, and just as she touched his skin, a powerful shockwave erupted from her palm, sending Luffy flying.
" Luffy!" Sanji shouted worriedly.
Luffy crashed to the ground, blood streaming from his nose.
"Huh?! Luffy!! Hey, are you alright? This kind of blow is nothing to you, right?" Usopp shouted in disbelief as he looked at Luffy.
For rubber, any blunt force impact should be ineffective.
"A blow? I'm afraid it's a bit different!" Satori replied with a smile.
"What's the difference?"
Sanji shouted and attacked Satori.
"Hehehe!! Right upper leg kick!"
" Collier!! What?"
Sanji had just lifted his foot when he heard Satori state the location she wanted to attack.
He attacked with momentum, but his opponent dodged, raised his arm, and pointed his palm at Sanji.
" The Mantra is an ability possessed only by cultivators."
Sanji stared at Satori in disbelief, thinking, "This guy can actually predict my every move?!"
Shiraishi grabbed his collar and pulled him back to avoid Satori's attack, then slowly said, "Do you need me to help, Luffy?"
"No need, I'll handle this guy. You guys go ahead."
Luffy got up, his face full of fighting spirit. He didn't know anything about the Mantra, but he knew one thing: this guy was a subordinate of God.
Having mastered this strange technique, he needs to adapt to it; otherwise, when facing a god, he'll likely have to ask Shiraishi for help again.
He didn't like that.
Luffy's adventures are more akin to those of Gol Roger, the Pirate King, rather than the family-style adventures of Whitebeard.
"Ha, entrust it to you? You're quite the talker. My name is Satori, and I am one of the priests who serve the almighty god Enel."
I am in charge of managing this land called the Lost Forest. Welcome to the forbidden sacred Island of God, this very forest! Survival rate: 10%. Accept the Ordeal of Balls!
With a cold expression, Satori said, "Your ship will be the first to get lost!"
Altar of Sacrifice.
Chopper was climbing toward the mainmast, his eyes fixed on the whistle above, recalling the scene from before.
That was about how the whistles were distributed among the group.
Raise your hand if you have any objections.
Nami asked, holding the whistle.
Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper raised their hands.
"Hey, Luffy, why are you raising your hand?"
Usopp pushed Luffy and said, "Do you just think whistling is fun?"
"What are you thinking? I'm just a weak woman, of course I should keep this whistle safe."
Nami shouted from the side.
"I'll call the old man over now."
Luffy simply wanted to blow the whistle.
"Please, please let me have it! I'm just a weak animal!"
Chopper raised his hand and shouted anxiously.
"Weak my foot! I'm the weakest!" Usopp shouted.
"Nonsense, I'm the weakest." Nami retorted defiantly.
"Give it to me, I want to call the old man over to play right now."
Luffy tried to snatch the whistle.
Robin, standing to the side, remarked speechlessly, "What a strange internal conflict."
Faced with Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper's refusal to back down, Nami had no choice but to hang the whistle on the mainmast, saying, "How about this, the whistle will be hung on the mainmast in the middle of the ship. Whoever gets into trouble can blow it. Is that fair?"
Usopp and Chopper nodded. "Okay, got it."
Then Nami turned to Luffy, Shiraishi, Retsu Unohana, Zoro, Sanji, and Robin and said, "You have no right to boast. If anyone dares to boast, I'll kick them to the ends of the earth."
That sentence was mainly meant to emphasize Luffy.
Chopper felt he was in danger because Retsu Unohana had drunk tea and gone for a nap, leaving him alone outside to keep watch. He had to take the whistle down.
He hung the whistle around his neck and muttered, "Luckily, I still have a whistle. If there's any danger, I can call for the air knights to come and save me."
In an instant, Shura descended from the sky, riding a three-foot-tall bird, Fuza. "There's only one lamb waiting to be slaughtered here."
"Beep beep beep!!!"
Chopper didn't even see what the enemy looked like; he just instinctively blew his whistle when he heard the sound.
Retsu Unohana opened her eyes and decided to protect the ship and Chopper; as for the enemy, they would serve as a trial for Luffy.
Meanwhile, on Island of God, Robin is investigating a well.
"Is there anything special about that well?" Zoro asked, puzzled.
"Hmm... I don't understand why a well would be buried under a tree. It's like nature and human civilization haven't gotten along."
Robin asked, his face full of confusion.
Zoro turned his head away, saying indifferently, "That's not important. What's more important is to figure out how to conquer the Cloud River first. Otherwise, we won't be able to move an inch in this forest, let alone meet the gods."
Robin, still lost in his own thoughts, muttered to himself, "Civilization couldn't predict the growth of this tree... This is the first time I've encountered something like this."
Zoro ignored her and shouted at Nami in the tree, " Nami, what do you see up there?"
Nami, holding binoculars, stared in shock into the distance, muttering to herself, "The island where the gods dwell... the Island of God!"
Zoro said anxiously, "Hey! Tell me what you saw! Did you see a god?!"
Robin stood up and looked at Nami, asking, "Did you see something?"
Nami took down her binoculars, hesitatingly asking, "Could this island be...?"
She paused, still somewhat incredulous.
"Hey, Nami, talk to me! What did you see?"
Zoro shouted anxiously.
Nami climbed down from the tree and said, "Don't ask so many questions, just follow along obediently. Anyway, let's get to the coast first."
Hey, come here and give me a hand.
Zoro looked at Nami and remarked, "Those who join in are usually the leaders, right?"
Robin used her ability to pull Nami from her tree to the tree she was on. "You mean we'll find out when we get to the shore?"
"That's right, but I want to confirm it more closely because I'm still quite doubtful whether I'm seeing things correctly."
Nami ran all the way to the shore.
"Hoo... hoo, look at this, doesn't it look familiar?" Nami walked to a building on the coast and touched its wall.
Zoro frowned. "Isn't this the house of that diamond-shaped old man?" he thought. "Why are the things that were on the ground here? They're exactly the same!"
Robin calmly analyzed, "No, that's not right. This is another part we saw on the ground before, which means that this island was originally on land."
I found it unbelievable from the start; how come this island isn't made up of Island Cloud?
Nami looked up and said, "I found it strange from the beginning. The house clearly had two floors, but there was no staircase leading to the second floor."
There's no reason to build houses on those cliffs; it turns out... the coastline is a crack in the island, this is another peninsula that's been split apart."
"This island is Jaya Island?"
Zoro was shocked and curious at the same time, "Something must have happened before that caused the island to split in two, with one half coming into the air."
Nami exclaimed excitedly, "So, the City of Gold that Noland saw on land before didn't sink into the sea; rather, Jaya Island has been floating in the air for the past four hundred years!"
Nami suddenly raised her hands and cheered loudly, "Wow... God, thank you! I never imagined that the Sky Island I reached after all those hardships would be the legendary City of Gold! This must be a gift from God to my kind-hearted self!"
Zoro, looking utterly speechless, said, "Aren't you terrified of the island's god?"
"God? Ah, nothing special!"
Nami spread her hands and said, "Could he be more valuable than gold?"
Robin retorted, "Then why were you thanking God just now...?"
Zoro said speechlessly, "This woman's words are always contradictory."
In a village hidden in a sea of clouds, a little girl named Aisa stood cautiously, deliberately hiding her bag behind her back, afraid that the soil she had secretly stolen from the Upper Yard would be discovered.
Why did I have to run into the village's great warrior Wyper the Berserker, as soon as I returned?!
I'm going to get yelled at.
Aisa lowered her head, bracing herself for the storm.
Wyper's face and shoulders are covered in ferocious tattoos, and his expression is always full of fighting spirit. He is the strongest warrior in the entire Shandia Hidden Cloud Village.
" Aisa, can your Mantra hear the sound?"
Wyper didn't scold her for going out. Instead, he asked with a serious expression about the invasion of Island of God, saying that the guerrilla intelligence officer had already sent back the relevant information.
As for the specific circumstances, since they were unable to land on the island, no one could know the answer.
The only person in the entire Hidden Cloud Village who can know about the situation on the island without even getting close is the little girl in front of us, Aisa.
Mischievous as they were, they always managed to steal a little bit of soil and bring it back.
Because Aisa is a genius born with the ability to Mantra, she can not only hear the sounds of creatures from a great distance, but also distinguish the strength and emotions of those creatures.
Aisa paused slightly, then spread her Mantra across the Upper Yard again, saying, "Hmm, the two voices disappeared. One was God Gan Fall, and the other was Priestess Satori?"
"Those people from the Blue Sea did a great job." A black-haired female warrior's face was full of surprise. Among this group of jungle warriors whose faces were written with wildness and killing intent, she was simply too unique to fit in.
" Aisa, how loud are their voices?"
"Very strong," Aisa turned to a man in sunglasses wearing a mohawk and said, "Stronger than Kha'Zix."
"You brat, what do you mean by this?" You're actually using him as a unit of combat strength...
"Compared to me?" Wyper's voice was deep. "Among those Blue Ocean people, is there anyone who can compare to me?"
Faced with the arrogant question posed by the great warrior, Aisa, surrounded by others, hesitated, finding it difficult to answer.
She had often protested against Wyper's patriarchal behavior, yet she still respected him greatly, even to the point of admiration.
"Oh?" Wyper, seeing her expression, already understood that there was a voice among the Blue Sea people stronger than his own.
He didn't say anything, but the surrounding jungle warriors angrily shouted, " Aisa, what do you mean?"
"You don't even know Wyper's strength."
"Shut up!"
Wyper rebuked their actions, his face showing the unwavering resolve of a leader, and said, "Regardless, this is our best chance to reclaim the Island of God and rekindle the Light of Shandora."
" Wyper," the black-haired Raki stood up, hesitated slightly, and said, "Should we try to unite with those Blue Sea people? At least we won't be hostile towards them."
You see, they'll leave the Sky Island soon; they won't stay long.
She had a strong desire to light Shandora's lamp, but at the same time, she didn't want Wyper to be harmed.
Aisa looked up and could hear her sister's thoughts. She quickly restrained Mantra, realizing that it was not a good idea to casually pry into other people's minds.
Wyper's voice was resolute, "Anyone who sets foot on that land is our enemy! The Light of Shandora will never be taken away by anyone else!"
Wyper didn't believe those Blue Sea people could resist the temptation of the giant bell made of gold.
History told him that most of the men who came from that sea were greedy pirates.
Expecting pirates not to take gold is as absurd as expecting the mafia not to do illegal things.
"Enough talk! Now is the perfect time to strike! Shandia warriors, do not back down! Take Enel's head and crush the priest!"
Wyper raised his arms and shouted.
"Oh!" the soldiers echoed.