Vic was no longer interested in listening to the conversation between the strangely dressed old man and Robin Usopp; he had become excited because he had heard a crucial word—the seven-colored mist!
This was precisely the opportunity Vic was looking for. He didn't remember many things about the island clearly, only the Rainbow Mist and the three mischievous grandfathers and grandsons on the island.
This Rainbow Mist is actually a Space Passage connecting to a small space outside of this world. This space is called the Eternal Land, where there is neither day nor night, no one gets sick or ages, and time seems to stand still. There are also countless shipwrecks and treasures inside!
The Rainbow Mist has been lingering around Ruluka Island, appearing and disappearing without any discernible pattern. The islanders are afraid of the Rainbow Mist and dare not go out to sea. This is also why Henzo, despite his many years of research, is still not entirely confident in rescuing his childhood friend. He has no information whatsoever about the Rainbow Mist.
Now that he is old Henzo has finally figured out the true nature of the Rainbow Mist and has a plan for rescue. Now he just has to wait for the Rainbow Mist to reappear, so he has been lurking on the coast, waiting for the Rainbow Mist to reappear!
Vic wanted to use the Rainbow Mist to enter that space of eternal time and comprehend the Laws. The Pirate King storyline has already begun, and the final battle is not far away, but he is still quite far from the God Realm!
This was absolutely unacceptable to Vic. The thought of facing enemies who were all at the God Realm made his scalp tingle. It was simply unrealistic for the old man to rely on himself!
Those who can break through to the God Realm are not ordinary people. There is no one who can fight and win against several others. Therefore, Vic thought for a long time before he thought of the Eternal Space connected by the Rainbow Mist, where he would have enough time to cultivate!
In truth, Vic wasn't entirely sure whether time truly stopped flowing in the Eternal Land, or whether it flowed at a very, very slow pace.
If time truly stopped, then one would have an infinite amount of time to cultivate inside. However, if the flow of time is merely slow, then fifty years outside would only amount to less than a day inside. In that case, cultivating inside would be counterproductive and not worthwhile.
Vic, however, leaned more towards the latter, because he vaguely remembered that the people trapped in the Eternal Land had all had the experience of eating.
If time really stopped flowing, the people inside would either no longer need to eat, or the little food left inside would have been eaten long ago. After all, fifty years have passed in the outside world, such a long time, no matter how much food there is, it won't be enough for them to eat!
Therefore, all things considered, the only explanation is that the flow rates inside and outside the space are different. Although fifty years have passed outside, perhaps only a few days, or even a day or two, have passed inside!
However, Vic still chose to enter the Eternal Land for cultivation because there is an ultimate insurance within the Eternal Land, which is the balance point within the space. As long as the balance of this small space is disrupted, any creature that enters will be thrown out by the Eternal Space, and the time of being thrown out will be the same as the time they entered!
In other words, you can return to the time you entered, even if fifty years have passed in the outside world.
The children who entered the Eternal Land fifty years ago were transported back to fifty years ago and even joined the Navy. However, Luffy remained unchanged when they were thrown out; they did not return to the past because they had only been there for a short time.
Therefore, as long as this point is grasped, Vic can also cultivate the Laws to a high level in the Eternal Land, and then disrupt the balance of the Eternal Land to return to the time of entry.
No matter how much time has passed in the outside world, he will always return to the moment he entered. In other words, when the balance in the Eternal Land is broken, two Vic will appear at that instant: one will return to the outside world when he first entered, and the other will continue his cultivation step by step in the Rainbow Mist.
For Vic in the Eternal Land, his cultivation had just begun, while for Vic outside the Eternal Kingdom, he had already completed his cultivation and emerged from the Eternal Land, although not much time had passed outside.
Just like the Marine Rapanui who was chasing Luffy, he had become a junior officer in the Navy and was quite old. But at the same time, in the Rainbow Mist, there was a young Rapanui playing a pirate game. So no matter whether time flows in the Eternal Land, it will not affect Vic's final training.
Of course, this method can only be used by Vic and his partner, because they all possess Pure Gold, a treasure that slows down aging; they will come out looking exactly the same as when they go in.
The others who went inside to cultivate will come out looking incredibly old. Unlike those children who might have only spent a few days in the Eternal Land before being rescued by Luffy and his crew by chance.
Because of the different flow of time, there is a legend of immortality in the Eternal Land, where a few days there are equivalent to decades outside.
Actually, there's a misconception here. The biography about the Rainbow Mist was written by Rapanui, the child who entered the Rainbow Mist, and it was written after he came out of the Eternal Land.
He was the one who suggested the possibility of immortality in the Eternal Land, because he saw Henzo, who had entered it, and Henzo was already very old!
He was still just a child, so in his mind, the Seven-Colored Space was Eternal Land where one could live forever. He didn't know the concept of the flow of time and thought that time should be the same inside and outside the Rainbow Mist.
The people inside remained unchanged, but fifty years had passed in the outside world. This led Rapanui to make a cognitive error, which he then wrote in his book, leaving behind the legend of the Eternal Land and immortality!
So if you really want to cultivate in the Eternal Land, then time will naturally be calculated according to the time within it. A day is a day, and a year is a year, so there is no such thing as the flow of time.
How much time has passed outside has little to do with how long you've lived inside. If you've cultivated inside for fifty years, then fifty years have truly passed, and it's all reflected in your body. Even if a thousand years have passed outside, it won't affect those fifty years for you!
This method of cultivation is no different from cultivating outside. The time you spend is actually the same. People will still grow old, and lifespan will still decrease. You can reach this level of cultivation in fifty years outside.
When you emerge from the Eternal Land, although to outsiders you may appear to have lived for over a thousand years, because over a thousand years have indeed passed outside, only you know that you have only lived for fifty years inside, because only fifty years have passed inside!
Vic's main reason for wanting to go inside to cultivate was to create a time difference. He possessed Pure Gold and had plenty of time to cultivate, but he needed to become a god before the great war. That's why he needed to use the Eternal Land to cut off his cultivation time in the real world.
In other words, the goal is to exploit the fact that when the balance of the Rainbow Mist is broken, the creatures inside will be transported back to the moment they entered, thus making up for the time lost in the outside world, while preserving the cultivation insights gained over the years. To put it bluntly, Vic is trying to exploit a bug!