"Hahaha! Grandpa! With your current health, you could totally give Dragon a little brother or sister!"
Vic and Garp cleared up their misunderstanding, and their relationship returned to normal. Vic even joked with Garp, saying that Garp's body and face had regained their youth, and he truly had that ability, if he wanted to.
"You brat! You dare to joke with an old man like me? Do you want to test the Fist of Love?"
Garp was somewhat embarrassed and angry by what Vic said. His young body also gave him the instinctive urges of a young man, but his mental age was already that of an old man, so this kind of topic still made him feel uncomfortable.
So after saying that, he put the Pure Gold ring on his finger, and then put the dog-head hat on his head to cover his hair and most of his face.
"Haha! Enough said, I need to go back and focus on my cultivation. I really want to witness the splendor of the God Realm as soon as possible!"
After sighing a few times, Vic left some Soul Fruit and earnestly instructed Garp to keep it a secret before leaving Foosha Village.
Garp's talent is undeniable. If it weren't for Roger's warning, he might have already sensed the God Realm. Don't let Garp's usual carefree and nonchalant demeanor fool you; he is a truly wise and shrewd person.
Even without the help of the Soul Fruit, it's only a matter of time before such a person breaks through to the God Realm. However, Vic still wants Garp to break through ahead of time, so that even if some unexpected events occur before the great battle and Celestial Dragons Law God expert is provoked, he can have Garp, a God Realm expert, to back him up.
After all, Vic only traveled to Wano Country after the story ended, so Vic didn't know what happened afterward. Moreover, he already knew that Garp had mastered the Fist Intent and was not far from breaking through.
He himself had only Awakening the Speed-Speed Fruit Speed-Speed Fruit, and his deepest understanding of it was still some distance from the ultimate level. His other abilities, such as the Thunder and Rumble-Rumble Fruit Artistic Conception of Ice and Artistic Conception of Wind, were even further behind. Therefore, Vic still placed his insurance on Garp.
After leaving Foosha Village, Vic made his way to the Marine Headquarters. He was there to find Gion. With the Pure Gold grants near-immortality, how could he forget his woman? Gion's child wasn't old enough for boarding school yet, so she could still work at the Marine Headquarters teaching new recruits and doing clerical work.
Vic crafted a beautifully patterned women's ring out of Pure Gold and personally placed it on Gion's ring finger. Although Gion didn't understand why Vic did this, she was still very happy and clung to Vic, refusing to let him leave. Vic then spent two more days "plowing the field" on Gion's bed before finally departing.
After returning to Titan Island, Vic forged a Pure Gold disc with a diameter of twenty meters in an open space not far from his base. Although it was large, it was only one centimeter thick. He didn't use much Pure Gold, since he had plenty of gold in his Dimensional Ring. If he ran out of Pure Gold, he could just use ordinary gold to forge it.
Although the amount of Primal Spirit gathered from a single ring-sized piece of Pure Gold is enough to slow down the body's growth and aging, the more Pure Gold there is, the more Primal Spirit will be gathered. The excess Primal Spirit can then be used to cultivate Armament Haki, which will greatly increase their speed of cultivating Haki.
Not only is there a Pure Gold floor in the public area, but each crew member's room also has a round, pure Pure Gold disc large enough for meditation. Individuals can practice in their own rooms, while those practicing in Vic's illusion can do so on that large Pure Gold disc.
With the support of abundant Primal Spirit, their cultivation in the illusion will be faster, and their bodies will no longer be affected by the flow of time within the illusion. Vic's only drawback in the illusion will also be eliminated.
A month later, Olga decided to Vic Vick's pirate crew. She had adapted to the outside world and knew it was a cruel world where strength reigned supreme, so she was unwilling to remain an ordinary person. Vic was the strongest person she had ever met, so the choice was obvious!
Vic had Olga remove the Pure Gold from her body and enter his illusion to cultivate. This illusion was a special training session, with Olga alone. Olga trained her body and cultivated within Vic's illusion, personally instructed by an avatar created by Vic.
Olga trained and cultivated in Vic's illusion for nearly ten years. Vic did not use his power to suppress the growth of her real body. Without Pure Gold, Olga's body rapidly grew into a curvaceous blonde beauty.
In reality, only a few months had passed. By this time, Olga had mastered the Six Powers and the Two-Colored Haki, and she couldn't wait to wear the Pure Gold again. Eternal youth is every woman's lifelong pursuit, and Olga was no exception.
Even illusions can't be used for cultivation indefinitely. The time that's left in between is Vic's cultivation time. If he didn't want Olga to grow up quickly, he wouldn't use illusions so frequently.
As Olga grew up, Vic's training returned to its previous pace, and he had more time to train alone.
In the latter half of that year, after several years of exploiting Wano Country, Kaido finally became the Emperor of the Sea, recognized by the World Government, and was on par with Whitebeard and Big Mom!
The emergence of three Emperor of the Sea in the New World, and the news that the Five Elders of the World Government intend to increase the number of Shichibukai, came to the attention of Doflamingo, who has ties to the Holy Land.
Doflamingo was very annoyed that he wasn't selected as Shichibukai last time, and he also had a lot of complaints about Vic, the examiner, for not coming to the North Blue to find him. He had been planning to seize Dressrosa, the ancestral home of the Donquixote Family.
However, even if he manages to seize it without the World Government's permission, he won't be able to hold onto it. The Navy will use the pretext of suppressing pirates to drive them away, so there's no point in taking action now.
The Donquixote Family and Doflamingo are only famous in the North Blue, but not so much on the Grand Line, and therefore do not serve to deter other pirates.
Therefore, the Five Elders did not include him in the list of candidates for Shichibukai, which can be considered as protecting Doflamingo in a roundabout way. If he had been on the list, he might have been the first Celestial Dragons that Vic killed!
Doflamingo, a purely evil man who runs slave auctions, kidnappings, drug trafficking, deathmatch arenas, and arms dealing, has caused countless people and families to be torn apart and destroyed because of Doflamingo.
The corpses alone could probably cover the ground of an entire island, and Vic certainly wouldn't let them go. Although the two-dimensional Doflamingo has a villainous charm, this is the real world, and Doflamingo has countless lives on his hands. If he were to encounter Vic, he would definitely not survive.
When Doflamingo heard the news that the Shichibukai might increase, he took it very seriously and caused a lot of commotion, even considering stealing the Heavenly Tribute.
In the end, he did just that. Because of his former status Celestial Dragons, the World Government couldn't do anything to him. He wanted to use the Heavenly Tribute to threaten the World Government into compromising and giving him the title of Shichibukai.
The Five Elders already knew that Vic had defeated Big Mom. With such a powerful Shichibukai on their side, it didn't really matter whether the Shichibukai increased; the power on the seas remained balanced.
Therefore, a stalemate has been reached between Doflamingo and the World Government. There has been no news from the World Government. In order to increase his bargaining power, Doflamingo hijacked several more warships transporting Heavenly Tribute.
This time, the Five Elders finally agreed to let Doflamingo become Shichibukai. They had been indifferent to the situation, but with so much Heavenly Tribute stolen, many Celestial Dragons had run out of supplies and kept coming to them for help. The Five Elders, tired of hearing from them, had no choice but to agree to Doflamingo's conditions.