Shen Fei had not expected Devil Fruits to be like the divine thrones of the Douluo World, formed from World Origin, the power of laws, and incense offerings.
But these incense offerings were rather unusual.
If the incense offerings of Douluo were like the reverence and awe living beings felt toward a specific existence, then such offerings usually had a designated target.
One could sense who that target was within the incense offering.
Like the Sea God's Trident from before.
Yet the incense offerings within Devil Fruits had no target at all. Shen Fei could only sense one feeling within them.
Desire!
It was both chaotic and pure. Chaotic because it came from far too many people, yet pure because the feeling expressed by every one of those thoughts was the same: the desire to grow stronger.
"So Devil Fruits are the physical manifestation of the Pirate World's humans' desire to become stronger?"
A wisp of incense offering emerged in Shen Fei's palm. This type of incense offering was truly strange, with no specific object of worship.
It was more like a concept. Take this Dark-Dark Fruit, for example.
It was formed from the thoughts within those incense offerings that wished to wield "the power of darkness," combined with the world's Law of Darkness and Law of Devouring, along with a trace of World Origin.
That was how a Devil Fruit was ultimately formed.
So the Human Dao truly was remarkable. In certain special worlds, it could even give rise to things as unique as Devil Fruits.
"Dong~ The second lecture will take place in one hundred years!"
At that moment, a vast voice rang out through heaven and earth. Across the Primordial Continent, streams of light flew toward Chaos. Shen Fei looked toward a certain place in the North