One Piece: Divine Bird Phoenix.

West Sea, windless zone.

A huge fiery red figure streaked across the sky, leaving behind a trail of flames like colored silk. At the top of its slender neck, a noble phoenix head scanned the sea.

"That's right, this should be it!"

Following the prompts from the black box, Ann spent half a day flying from Lafdru to the windless zone of the Western Sea near the Red Earth Continent.

The body gradually shrank, and An plunged into the water and swam toward the depths of the sea.

Under the sun-drenched sea surface, with the help of the misty light, An gently swung his legs downwards like a fish-man.

As the dive distance becomes deeper and deeper, the thin light shining from the sea disappears and is replaced by a deep darkness that makes people feel oppressive and frightened.

1 meters!

2 meters!

5 meters!

8 meters!

Passing through the trenches, bright light suddenly shined, completely lighting up the seabed.

It was an extremely huge and strange sea king, with a lantern fish head and an eel-like body, winding in the darkness with no end in sight.

The lantern above the head exudes white light, flickering in and out with the breath.

And in the deep valley below the lantern fish and the sea king, there is a huge and magnificent building complex. Even if it has been eroded by the sea water for many years, you can still see the grand scene of the past.

Pushing aside the water in front of her, An passed by the lantern fish and sea king and swam towards the depths of the ruins, where she heard waves responding to her.

"Monkey D. Ann, you are finally here..."

Deep in the ruins, in front of a building that vaguely resembles a church, a decaying ancient tree that is about to wither makes a sound.

"Who are you? How do you know my name?" An asked directly, full of doubts in her heart.

"Don't be nervous, I am Sylvia Elsie, and I am also the first user of the natural type, Water Fruit."

"As for your name, it told me, and I helped you once." A faint voice came from the decaying ancient tree.

An was stunned for a while, but he quickly came to his senses and asked suspiciously: "System?"

This time it was Elsie's turn to be a little confused, and she replied: "If it refers to the guy sleeping inside you, then that's right."

"I don't know its origin, but I made a deal with it when you first fell into a coma. At that time, it gave you part of the Water Fruit's abilities."

"I have never seen such a powerful existence. Even if it was seriously injured and dying, I could not resist with just a look."

Nodding, as a loyal fan of time-travel novels, An naturally knew how powerful the system was. It was an existence that could even traverse the world of immortality. It was incomparable to a world of high martial arts such as One Piece.

"Were you the one who helped me in that battle with Akainu?" An continued to ask.

I saw the ancient tree flashing and emitting a faint light, and a weak voice sounded in my ears: "Yes, you have inherited part of the power of the water fruit. You are my child, and it is natural to help you."

"I see……"

After solving the question that had been lingering in her mind, An no longer dwelled on the problem and asked instead: "According to Ralph Drew's records, you should have died in that war. How come you are still alive today and still look like this?"

The deep sea that was always bright and dark was silent, and the withered and decayed ancient trees emitted strange fluctuations. It took Elsie a long time to answer this question.

"To be precise, I'm dead, but not completely dead. It's all because of this devil fruit branch."

"and many more!!"

An blinked, looked at the tall tree more than 20 meters in front of him, and repeated: "You said this tree is a branch of the Devil Fruit mother tree??"

"That's right, this is part of the Devil Fruit mother tree."

hiss!

An Gang wanted to take a breath of cold air, but gave up the idea when he thought it was under the sea, and murmured: "How big must the devil fruit mother tree be?"

"About more than 2000 meters!" Elsie recalled the past and said to An, "When it was born in the laboratory, it was only one meter high. But when Lius and I saw Im incarnating as a mother tree, it was already full It’s more than 2000 meters.”

"Moreover, the Devil Fruit mother tree is almost immortal. Even if the robot's laser cannon hits it, it will only leave a big wound on its body. It can be restored to its original state in a moment."

"At the same time, it is absolutely immune to Devil Fruit abilities except Nika Fruit, Water Fruit, and Dark Fruit."

"It is also because of this that the Royal Army, which lost its energy converter, was quickly defeated."

"What is an energy converter?" An asked.

Elsie didn't hide anything, she told everything exactly.

"As early as the first Devil Fruit appeared, scientists from the giant kingdom began to try to decipher its power. After more than twenty years of hard work, scholars finally discovered that the so-called Devil Fruit Factor is nothing more than an energy conversion system. "

"By ingesting the energy free in the air, it is converted into the corresponding Devil Fruit energy and released."

"It is also based on this research that the giant kingdom developed a device that can convert energy within a certain range into the power of the sea, so that it can gain an advantage in the early stages of the war."

"But you don't have to. Your Devil Fruit, or your ability, does not belong to this sea. You only need to give the flame to other companions to achieve the same effect."

It is not difficult to control flames and give them to others, but unlike giving fire, the flames given in this way are limited and need to be replenished after they are exhausted.

She once tried that if she injected the maximum amount into Yixiao, it would only last for 10 days at most.

After listening to the other party's explanation, An asked with some confusion: "Then why did you come to me?"

"Remember what I just said? I said that the Devil Fruit mother tree is almost immortal. Even if you destroy it through external force, it will not be long before it will be reborn in a corner of the world."

"During the war 800 years ago, Lius and I smashed Im into pieces more than once, but it was able to quickly regenerate with some of its remains."

"At the end of the battle, I held this branch of the Devil Fruit mother tree and fell into the sea. With the help of the power of the mother tree, the sea began to tire of Devil Fruit users. And in these long 800 years, I also found a solution to Im Methods."

"You must have noticed that the branches of my devil fruit mother tree that shouldn't have withered have rotted away."

"This is also the main reason why I asked you to come here. Things like Devil Fruit should not exist. It was the curiosity of us moon people that opened Pandora's box. Now, I want to ask you to close it again for us. .”

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