"Then you'll have to look out for me, Rocks!"
"If I make requests in the future, I hope you can help out. I'll exchange more intelligence for it."
Fang Huo swallowed his food and directly accepted Rocks' invitation, becoming member 001 of the Rocks Pirates.
He even started negotiating terms with Rocks.
"worororo, fine! Exchanging benefits is good too!"
Rocks laughed wildly, his ambition swelling even more. In high spirits, he led Fang Huo and a group of soldiers out of the dim cabin prison.
"The free wind, the warm sunlight... You only know how precious they are after you've lost them..."
Fang Huo stood at the bow of the ship, embracing all this beauty to his heart's content, his gaze becoming increasingly sharp.
He swore that he would never fall into being a prisoner again!
Sea Stone handcuffs and shackles, explosive collars—they truly make one feel despair!
Also, he wanted to avenge the old man and old lady who were his benefactors in Guyue Village!
Just then.
As his physical strength and spirit recovered, clusters of white Soul Fire worms emerged around Fang Huo, swirling around his shoulders as if a Devil Fruit ability had awakened.
"Hey, kid! Is this your ability?"
Rocks was very interested in Fang Huo's ability to predict the future.
His powerful Observation Haki was constantly scanning the small white fire worms that suddenly appeared on Fang Huo's body.
"You could say that!"
The faint blue crescent moon mark on Fang Huo's forehead suddenly transformed into a crystal-clear, curved blue crystal worm like a moon.
One blue and eight white—nine small worms swirled around Fang Huo.
Fang Huo gently held the blue crystal worm in his hand.
This blue crystal worm felt almost weightless.
The chubby, transparent little worm looked quite cute.
It was only the size of a jade pendant. Through its crystalline body, Fang Huo could even see the palm lines on his hand.
"What is this?"
Rocks looked on with a curious gaze.
"My ability, my Gu worms!"
Fang Huo spoke calmly, his eyes flashing with sharp light.
This was the soul mutation he underwent after transmigrating.
soul worms!
A kind of chubby mass of chaotic soul with a nose and eyes... As Fang Huo controlled the blue Gu worm to exert force, a small Moon Blade formed.
The faint blue Moon Blade was over a meter long, like a crescent moon in the night sky.
"Go!!"
This faint blue crescent slash flew out at high speed, cutting a trench into the sea's surface.
"This is way too weak!"
Rocks didn't hold back and directly complained; this slash indeed couldn't even compare to an ordinary master swordsman.
"This is just the beginning!"
Fang Huo glanced at this monster Rocks, affectionately stroking his one blue worm and eight white worms.
He slowly sank into his memories.
---His name was Fang Huo, and he came from Guyue Village in Nanjiang Province on the Blue Planet, Dragon Country.
The village made a living, and even grew wealthy, by raising economic poisons like venomous snakes, toads, scorpions, spiders, and centipedes.
At the same time, Fang Huo was a new college student who had just turned eighteen.
But he never expected that just a month or two after school started, he would strike it big and come to this world.
The place he transmigrated to was actually also called Guyue Village.
Fortunately, this wasn't the Guyue Village from the world of Reverend Insanity, but the Guyue Village of the One Piece world.
Otherwise, he was afraid he would have been refined by that old demon Fang Yuan!
Coincidentally, in Fang Huo's village, there really was a young uncle named Fang Yuan, who had the same name as that Great Love Immortal Venerable.
Over a decade ago, he also had an accident while in college and was taken out by a Dongfeng truck.
Now, with Fang Huo striking it big and transmigrating to the Guyue Village of the One Piece world...
Fang Huo felt a bit of existential dread upon closer thought.
His young uncle Fang Yuan couldn't have actually been hit by that Dongfeng truck and sent to the Guyue Village of the Reverend Insanity world, right?
If it were true, he hoped they might meet one day in the three thousand worlds.
Of course, Fang Huo didn't really want to meet that cold and heartless old demon Fang Yuan.
---Until today, Fang Huo had lived in this world for two and a half years.
It took him a year or two to slowly integrate into this world and learn its language.
Fortunately, perhaps Mother Blue Planet hadn't completely abandoned him, or perhaps it was a coincidence of transmigration.
After Fang Huo was hit by the truck and transmigrated, his soul had been literally split open by the impact.
It split into nine soul fragments.
These soul fragments merged with the power of this world, slowly turning into the Soul Fire around Fang Huo, or rather, soul worms.
These were both split parts of Fang Huo's soul and independent soul worms outside of him.
Fang Huo treated these chubby soul worms like treasures.
Fang Huo knew deeply that these soul worms must be his cheat code and golden finger, crucial to his future!
But for the first two years or so, he had never found a way to cultivate or use the soul worms.
He tried his previous life's methods of raising snakes and poisonous insects, and even used illusory Gu-raising methods... but it was still useless.
During these two and a half years, Fang Huo studied the world's common tongue and writing while training his physique and searching for a way to use the soul worms.
Until not long ago, while he was looking for mountain goods and wild vegetables in the back mountains of Guyue Village, under the favor of the Goddess of Fate, he unexpectedly found a Devil Fruit by chance.
It was then that he understood the true use of his Soul Fire!
Now, perhaps they should be called Soul Gu Worms.
As one of the soul worms spontaneously rushed up to devour the Devil Fruit, it transformed into a Soul Gu Worm.
The chubby white soul worm turned into a faint blue crescent moon Gu worm form.
Fang Huo tasted the power and pleasure brought by the Devil Ability version of a Gu worm!
Fang Huo somewhat understood the true meaning of the saying 'Man is the spirit of all things, Gu are the essence of heaven and earth.'
It turned out his Soul Fire could obtain special abilities by merging with Devil Fruit powers.
That meant that in the future, Fang Huo could become a multi-fruit ability user with nine types of Devil Fruit powers!
If his main body could eat one as well, he would be a ten-fruit ability user!
---Through the fundamental connection and resonance of the soul, Fang Huo knew the ability of that Devil Fruit.
Paramecia Type · Moonlight-Moonlight Fruit ability.
This was the Devil Fruit ability merged by Fang Huo's first soul worm.
The Soul Fire possessing the Moonlight Devil Fruit ability was now called the moonlight gu or Moonlight Soul by Fang Huo!
It possessed the ability to swing out Moon Blade slashes, and it had other enhancement abilities under a moonlit night.
Guyue Village, Moonlight-Moonlight Fruit ability, moonlight gu—all of this was truly a coincidence!
After Fang Huo obtained his first ability, it was as if he saw infinite hope, and his ambition grew vigorously.
However, out of the true essence of the 'Low-Key Path,' he didn't plan to head out to sea and stand out so soon.
He wanted to cultivate the Moonlight Ability before heading out to sea to find other Devil Fruits!
He believed that as long as he lived long enough, he could become a peerless powerhouse in this world.
The longer the time and the more abilities he had, the stronger he would be!
Fang Huo once thought this Guyue Village was his blessed land, letting him luckily obtain the Moonlight-Moonlight Fruit, figure out his cheat, and start his journey to becoming stronger.
But he never expected that just as Fang Huo was preparing to continue laying low and developing...
Guyue Village, just like the Guyue Village in the world of Reverend Insanity, suddenly met its doom.
Fang Huo hadn't even finished cultivating the Moonlight-Moonlight Fruit ability, nor had he gone out to sea to find a second Devil Fruit.
The small nation where Guyue Village was located was invaded by a powerful Member Nation called Cang Country.
Under the unscrupulous plundering and massacres, Fang Huo, who had only recently obtained the Moonlight Ability, had to resist for self-preservation and to protect his benefactors in the village.
In the end, a powerful Cang Country General suddenly struck, instantly and forcefully suppressing Fang Huo, who was just beginning to show his talent.
This left Fang Huo filled with a sense of powerlessness and resentment. His journey to becoming the strongest had clearly just begun, yet it was about to be cut short... ---