This time the noise was even louder than the last time, and the entire East Island was shaking, almost making the people above think that the East Island was about to sink.
"It hurts so much!" Lin Qing grimaced, as Nanerkes's punches had only caused a little blood to seep from under his scales.
As Lin Qing flew out of the soil, his body had already recovered.
"That's tough enough, but that's all it takes." Nankos immediately used his Devil Fruit power to invade Lin Qing's soul.
Upon realizing this, Lin Qing immediately used his divine sense to block it, but Nanerkes's tenfold burst of power was simply too terrifying.
Lin Qing couldn't even last twenty seconds. At most, after fifteen seconds, Lin Qing's memories would be controlled by the Ghost-Ghost Fruit.
"I've got it." Lin Qing suddenly remembered that his Samadhi Fire had burned away Nanerkes's Devil Fruit ability.
Lin Qing immediately opened his mouth and spat out the Samadhi True Fire, which first enveloped himself, and instantly, the invading power of Nanerkes disappeared.
Lin Qing pressed his advantage, unleashing his Samadhi Fire towards Nanerkos, which instantly enveloped Nanerkos's legs.
However, this time the burning was slower. Upon closer inspection, Lin Qing discovered that a black aura was actually hindering the burning of the Samadhi Fire.
"It's that flame again, it's really troublesome." Nankers directly removed the burning part and then restored the lost part.
Lin Qing was now quite helpless, as he really had no way to deal with this enormous Nanerkos.
Because it was just too damn big, burning it wouldn't work, and flooding it with water would probably mean that even if Lin Qing used up all his spiritual power, he wouldn't be able to submerge someone else's toes.
"There's no other way, we can only use the old method." Lin Qing only had one option left.
Lin Qing, enveloped in flames, charged straight at Nanerkes, and soon crashed into Nanerkes's body.
It's possible that within Nankers's body, the Samadhi Fire was actually suppressed by the dense black clouds.
It was also because Lin Qing shrunk his size, shrinking it just as the flames engulfed his body; otherwise, a size of two thousand meters would have consumed too much energy.
"Whoosh whoosh, I didn't expect you to just barge into my body. Even if you unleash those flames, it's useless now," Nankers laughed loudly.
"Hehe, I never intended to burn you to death with flames." Lin Qing directly enlarged his head and began to devour the black cloud.
"Ding! You have gained 10 evolution points by consuming a soul source."
"Ding! You have gained 10 evolution points by consuming a soul source."
"Ding! You have gained 10 evolution points by consuming a soul source."
Lin Qing perked up immediately upon hearing the system's notification. Although the evolution points were relatively few, such a massive body would surely yield several hundred thousand after consuming all of them!
Immediately, Lin Qing began to eat even more diligently. With such a large body, it would take Lin Qing several hours to finish eating it.
"Ah, what's going on? You, you're actually eating my body?"
"Damn it, why, ah!" Nankers reached into his own body, trying to pull Lin Qing out.
However, Lin Qing simply ate the hand, declaring, "Take as many as you want."
Amidst Nankers's wails, Lin Qing ate for two hours, but only managed to eat half of the body.
Nankers wasn't completely waiting to die, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't do anything to Lin Qing, and he couldn't even escape.
After all, the entire airspace belongs to Nankers' body; where can he escape to?
"Spare me, spare me! I know I was wrong. Please don't eat me anymore. I'll do anything you ask if you'll let me go."
Nankers didn't want to die, so he could only beg Lin Qing for mercy.
Lin Qing ignored Nanerkes's pleas for mercy and continued to devour him until Nanerkes was reduced to a black cloud several hundred meters in size. Lin Qing then stopped.
Feeling that he couldn't turn the tide, Lin Qing prepared to have Nanerkos restore Luffy and the others.
"Do you want to live or die?" Lin Qing said from inside the dark clouds.
Nankers, who was waiting to die, suddenly heard Lin Qing's voice and became extremely excited.
“I want to live. I’ll do whatever you ask me to do, and I’ll restore all your companions.”
Lin Qing immediately flew out of Nanerkes's body and then transformed back into a masked "person".
When Nankers saw Lin Qing come out, he immediately began to transform into his own form, only his previous huge body was reduced to a size of only a few hundred meters.
"Make me smaller, you're too big." Lin Qing stared at Nanerkes, ready to help him grow that big if he didn't agree.
"Okay, okay, I'll shrink right away."
Nankers immediately transformed into a black cloud landmass several hundred meters in size, and then a three-meter-tall Nankers emerged from the black cloud.
"That's more like it. Restore their memories immediately." Lin Qing waved his hand and released everyone.
Even Ace woke up. Although they were all under control, they were all glaring at Lin Qing.
Nankos immediately used his Devil Fruit powers to restore the memories of the Straw Hat crew and Ace.
"Uh, I have no strength left."
"Me too."
"We're all in the water, of course we're exhausted."
Seeing that they had all recovered, Lin Qing immediately removed the water spheres and the spells that controlled them.
"Luffy? What are you doing here? Are you dead too?" Ace woke up and suddenly saw Luffy falling on the dark clouds, and tears streamed down his face.
Ace died saving Luffy, and now that he's seen Luffy and his crew in the afterlife, how could Ace not be heartbroken?
Chapter 145 The Method to Revive Ace (Please subscribe, vote, and add to your favorites)
"Ace, I can finally hug you again." Luffy hugged Ace with tears streaming down his face.
"Why are you here? Are you all dead too?" Ace showed no excitement at the reunion, but rather extreme shock.
"Ace, we came here specifically to save you. I'm going to revive you," Luffy said excitedly.
"What? Revive me? Then what about you guys?" Ace was a little confused by Luffy's words, and his tears stopped.
“We’re not dead. Our bodies are with Lin Qing. Lin Qing brought us to Huangquan Township.” Luffy looked at Lin Qing.
“Yes, I’ve also taken care of Nankers, and your memories have all been restored,” Lin Qing explained.
"Damn it, this domain lord is really despicable, actually making me attack my own companions." Zoro was furious.
"Ace's memories have been recovered; now all that's missing is a way to revive him."
"Nankers, do you know how to resurrect?" Lin Qing turned and asked.
"Well, normally people can't be brought back to life, no matter what method you use. However, after decades of research..."
“As long as the physical body is intact, along with a complete soul, I can then use the soul crystal I condensed to perfectly resurrect him,” Nankers said.
"Oh? What soul crystal?" Lin Qing asked, somewhat surprised.
“This is it.” Nankers suddenly spat out a black crystal that emitted a ghostly light from his mouth.
"This crystal took me fifty years to condense." Nankers reluctantly took out the crystal in order to survive.
Although the outcome of fifty years is gone, as long as he survives, he can wait another fifty years.
Nanrkos was a small-time pirate eighty years ago. His pirate crew was defeated by the Navy, and Nanrkos escaped by jumping into the sea.
Then, carrying a piece of wood, they drifted to a snow-covered, uninhabited island.
There was nothing there—no trees, no animals—and Nankers was barely surviving in this environment of hunger and cold.
On the third day, Nanrkos spotted a fruit floating down from the sea and ate it without hesitation.
Nothing happened to him after he ate the fruit. Finally, on the tenth day, Nankers died and then went to the Land of the Dead.
Back then, Huangquan Township was ruled by four ruthless pirate captains, and the people there suffered terribly.
Nankos was unaware that he had eaten a Devil Fruit, so he was completely unaware of his abilities.
After three years of oppression, he finally accidentally used his Devil Fruit ability.
Then, Nankos used his Devil Fruit power to unify the entire Yomi Village in just one year.
He then began to slowly develop his Devil Fruit ability, and gradually, Nankos discovered that his Devil Fruit ability was extremely powerful.
Unwilling to remain in this small underworld, he dreamed of returning to the mortal realm and ruling the world.
In the end, they spent ten years trying to find a way to leave the Land of the Dead, because no matter what state their souls were in, they could not escape the gates of hell on the four islands.
So Nankers wanted a living human body so he could pass through the gates of hell.
Over the course of those ten years, he discovered that many souls, once they had stayed for five years, would simply be lifted into the sky and disappear.
However, Nankers has been there for more than ten years without flying up, and anyone whose memories he has altered will not be able to fly into the sky.
Finally, Nankos used the spaceship created by the soul that had been there for five years to reach the sky, the same place in the airspace that had been there before.
Nankers discovered that the souls had all entered a large, black hole.
This huge hole appears once a year. When the hole doesn't appear, the souls float here as if they are asleep.
Furthermore, Nankers discovered that after a soul is swallowed by a large hole, a small amount of black cloud would spill out.
Finally, Nankos used the power of his Devil Fruit to merge with the black cloud, hoping to slowly compress it until it reached his original size.
At that time, a special body will appear, a living body, but Nankers cannot merge into the state of the black cloud for a long time.
Finally, after fifty years, he created a soul crystal, intending to integrate his soul into it and then enter Black Cloud's body to serve as its brain.
Over countless years, the sky over the entire Huangquan Township was once covered by dark clouds. Nankers has spent decades compressing it down countless times, and he estimates that he will be able to complete his plan in a few more decades.
Then, Lin Qing and his group arrived, and he suffered a crushing defeat, a very crushing one.
Upon learning about the black hole, Lin Qing realized that it must be equivalent to the Six Paths of Reincarnation in the world of immortals and heroes.
The souls swallowed by the black hole have all been reincarnated. Of course, that's all Lin Qing could say, otherwise he was afraid that Nami and the others would be even more heartbroken.
"Great! Ace can be revived!" Luffy immediately hugged Ace and burst into tears.
"Oh my god, Luffy must be so happy now."
"Ace, Ace, Ace!" Chopper and Usopp cried out, their eyes brimming with tears.
The Straw Hat crew were all happy for Luffy and for Ace's resurrection, and Lin Qing was no exception.
"Since everything is settled, let's go, leave the Underworld, and resurrect Ace." Lin Qing was extremely happy that his mission was now in place.