The classic gacha animation appeared.
Qi Yan started to get nervous.
The panel screen still flickered with starlight, constantly converging in the starry sky.
Qi Yan's eyes were fixed on the screen: blue, green, white, blue, green, green, white, blue... He almost didn't need to look at the first few. He had pretty much figured out the system's pattern for purple and gold draws; if a ten-pull had a purple or a gold, it would always appear at the very end.
And based on his gacha experience, the best result for a ten-pull was one gold and one purple. The probability of hitting the jackpot was still very low; getting two out of ten was definitely a sign of being a chosen one.
"Purple! Purple! Purple!"
Qi Yan prayed that the second to last card would be purple. If it was purple, then the last one had a high probability of being gold. Even if it wasn't gold, pulling two purples in a ten-pull wasn't a loss. As for two golds, he hadn't even considered it.
If the second to last card wasn't purple, but blue, then the last card could be blue, purple, or gold.
Blue!
Seeing this color, Qi Yan's heart sank. Now he could only gamble on the very last card.
"Gold! Gold! Gold!"
Whoosh—!
A golden light lit up from the horizon, falling like a meteor.
"It's gold—!!!"
When Qi Yan saw the golden light, he jumped up in excitement.
Half a year! It had been a full half-year!
He hadn't seen a golden legend in half a year!
Do you know what he had been through this past half-year?
Working diligently every day, yet not seeing gold in forty pulls, he almost thought he had hit an achievement block, like the 'pity timer master' achievement or something.
He had started to doubt if his luck had run out.
Now it was proven: he was still a chosen one.
It was just that he must have chosen the wrong time.
"System, speak!"
"Speak? What do I say? Getting gold in 50 pulls, Host, do you think that's something to be proud of?"
"..."
Ugh, he got a little too arrogant by accident and told the system to speak again.
At this moment, the card drawing animation ended, and the cards began to flip.
He didn't need to look at the first nine cards, they were all experience packs, and he wouldn't recognize them anyway. The focus was on the last card.
Soon, the last golden character card flipped over.
When Qi Yan saw the character's image on the card, his eyes widened instantly.
"It's actually him!!"
This was an extremely tall and burly old man, wearing a black bandana, bare-chested, with strong muscles and huge scars all over his body.
He wore light yellow pants, black boots, a black cloth sash around his waist, and a white coat with a red lining, wielding a huge naginata very similar to the Green Dragon Crescent Blade.
The most striking feature was his iconic upward-curving, crescent-shaped white mustache.
That's right!
It was none other than the man known as the 'Strongest Man in the World' from the One Piece world—Whitebeard, Edward Newgate.
"White... Whitebeard!!"
Seeing this person's image, Qi Yan recognized him at first glance. If one were to pick the most impressive character in the One Piece world, Whitebeard would definitely be high on the list.
The power Whitebeard displayed during the Marineford War still left a deep impression on Qi Yan.
It could be said that the Marineford War was the peak moment of the One Piece anime.
To counter Whitebeard, Marine Headquarters went all out, deploying Fleet Admiral Sengoku, Marine Hero Garp, the three Marine Admirals—Akainu, Kizaru, Aokiji—the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Pacifistas, and 100,000 Marines.
Even with this setup, Akainu still treacherously deceived Squard into backstabbing Whitebeard at the start, severely injuring him.
Fighting against the three Marine Admirals while severely wounded, though he ultimately died in battle, the demeanor of the Strongest Man in the World was fully revealed.
The only regret was that this was not Whitebeard's peak state.
Of course, from later story developments, it could be seen that even a peak Whitebeard would undoubtedly be defeated by the Marineford War's lineup.
The World Government was unfathomable. Not to mention the legendary T0 Imu, even the Five Elders' individual strengths were only slightly weaker than an Admiral's, and there was also the God's Knights, each with immortality. The Whitebeard Pirates had no chance of winning.
Yet, even so, an old man who needed tubes to stay alive, in order to save his son, fearlessly charged into Marine Headquarters, Marineford.
Truly worthy of being Pops!!
"I hit the jackpot! I really hit the jackpot this time!!"
Qi Yan clenched his fists excitedly, shouting and screaming.
He now had four golden character cards.
Ulquiorra's overall strength was very good. He could fight, tank, regenerate at super speed, and had super moves like Lanza del Relámpago. But even with all that, it could only be described as 'very good'.
In the later stages of the Bleach anime, there were plenty of characters stronger than Ulquiorra.
Tsugikuni Yoriichi was a character with a huge gap between his upper and lower limits. Simply in terms of energy level, Tsugikuni Yoriichi could be said to be the weakest.
Sun Breathing was the strongest breathing technique in the Demon Slayer world, but it only enhanced physical abilities and added a burning effect to attacks.
The enhancement was still very limited; being able to push a giant boulder was its peak, whereas many minor characters in the One Piece world could even lift a similarly sized giant boulder.
Tsugikuni Yoriichi's true strength lay in the 'Transparent World' and his unparalleled swordsmanship.
With the enhancement of magic, Tsugikuni Yoriichi's strength could be said to have received an epic boost. His single-target burst attacks could even break dragon scales and severely wound giant dragons, with lethality even more terrifying than the World's Greatest Swordsman, Mihawk, in the One Piece world.
But in terms of his own attributes, Tsugikuni Yoriichi was still the lowest, especially his defense, which was pitifully low. If he was accidentally hit by a regular magic attack, he could be severely injured.
He was a character who completely abandoned his own defense for extreme offense.
Fushiguro Toji, in contrast to Tsugikuni Yoriichi, had his basic attributes maxed out. That was a level that Sun Breathing, no matter how profound, could not reach.
His lower limit was terrifyingly strong; he was a frightening combat machine. He once almost killed Gojo Satoru with a single strike, believing Gojo Satoru was dead and not finishing him off. After all, it's hard to imagine surviving with one's head pierced. He was ultimately killed by Gojo Satoru, who had mastered the Reverse Cursed Technique, and was taken offline before the main story began.
Whitebeard was different. He inherently possessed monstrous strength, top-tier three types of Haki, and the strongest Paramecia Devil Fruit—the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
Strength, speed, defense, attack, Devil Fruit ability—all MAX!!
A true super hexagonal warrior.
In the world of One Piece, filled with powerful individuals, he could still be called the 'Strongest Man in the World'.
He was even evaluated by Fleet Admiral Sengoku as a man capable of destroying the world.
Without a doubt, this was the strongest golden character card in Qi Yan's hands right now.
"Full Body Reception: Edward Newgate!!"