"Yes, let's get out of the Underworld as soon as possible!" Luffy shouted.
"Yeah, yeah, let's get out of here! There are ghosts everywhere!" Chopper and Usopp's excited faces immediately turned pale.
Nami, Robin, and the others also wanted to leave the Land of the Dead as soon as possible, since they were living people, not souls.
"Wait a minute, I need to go see Whitebeard," Ace suddenly said.
“Alright, let’s go then. I’ll take you down,” Lin Qing said.
"Hurry up and leave, hurry up and leave. When I am reborn in another twenty years, that will be the day you all die." Nankers cursed wildly in his heart.
He also discovered that although his body had shrunk, the time required to compress his physical body had been reduced by ten years, although his body might be weaker afterward.
Having a physical body is good enough. He only needs to spend time making the soul crystal before he wakes up. Because of his previous experience, he only needs twenty years to make the second one.
"Oh, right, this still needs to be dealt with." Lin Qing and his group were already standing on the white clouds.
Lin Qing immediately enlarged his head and swallowed the hundred-meter-long black cloud, Nanerkes, in one gulp.
"Ding! The soul of Nanerkos, the user of the Ghost-Ghost Fruit, has gained 100,000 evolution points."
Chapter 146 Leaving the Land of the Dead
The others watched Lin Qing swallow Nanerkos without saying anything, after all, they were all pirates.
When Nankers died, Ace closed his eyes and, as if his soul had left his body, broke free from the clouds and flew towards a higher altitude.
"What's going on, Ace, Ace!" Luffy saw Ace fly up and immediately stretched out his arm to grab Ace.
However, Ace did not slow down at all, and continued to fly into the sky with Luffy on his back.
"Luffy!" Zoro grabbed Luffy's ankle as he was lifted into the air, but Zoro also flew up after him.
Then Sanji, Usopp, and Nami grabbed one by one, forming a long dragon that flew up.
Upon seeing this, Lin Qing immediately grabbed Robin's ankle at the back, and the entire line came to a stop.
A tremendous force pulled towards Lin Qing. Although Lin Qing could pull them down, he was afraid of injuring them.
"This power is too great, there's no way around it. I'll put you into my space first, and then I'll take you out," Lin Qing shouted.
"Alright, Lin Qing is in your hands now," Robin said, bowing his head to Lin Qing.
"Hurry up, Lin Qing, I can't hold on much longer!" Nami shouted, after all, Nami was the weakest member of the Straw Hat crew.
Lin Qing immediately waved his hand, releasing the "Hidden Universe Technique" to take the Straw Hat crew inside.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~!"
More and more figures flew into the sky, and Roger and Whitebeard also flew into the sky among the crowd.
"It seems to be because of Nankers' death."
At the moment of Nanrkos's death, anyone whose memories had been altered by Nanrkos's Ghost-Ghost Fruit ability, regardless of whether it was within the five-year period, was affected.
It flew straight into the sky, waiting for the annual black hole to appear.
Lin Qing wanted to take a look, so he simply followed the flying group and flew upwards.
Lin Qing flew past the altitude of the airspace he had been in before, and continued to fly upwards. After flying several thousand meters, Lin Qing saw countless people floating there.
And people kept flying up from below and then stopping high in the air.
After observing for a while without anything particularly noteworthy happening, Lin Qing prepared to collect Roger and Whitebeard's souls and take them out.
Suddenly, an inexplicable aura emanated from the surroundings, and then a black hole several thousand meters in size was slowly forming in the void.
"Is this the black hole that Nankers was talking about?" Lin Qing felt as if his soul was being sucked in.
He immediately enveloped his body with his divine sense, and the feeling was reduced several times over. Only then did Lin Qing feel that the sensation of his soul leaving his body was not so intense.
Lin Qing felt that if things continued like this, her soul might actually be drawn into this black hole.
He then came to Roger's side and waved his hand, trying to take Roger in. However, Lin Qing released the Sleeve Universe Technique, and Roger did not move an inch.
"How is this possible? Why did it fail?" Lin Qing immediately released his divine sense to pay close attention.
Lin Qing cast the spell again, but it was still ineffective. Lin Qing also noticed that there was an inexplicable force blocking it.
"Could it be because of the black hole?"
"Oh no, the attraction is so strong, I can't hold on much longer." Lin Qing's soul trembled violently, almost leaving his body.
The black hole was fully revealed, its gravitational pull several times stronger, and Lin Qing saw countless souls begin to drift towards it.
The soul that flew over was eventually swallowed by the black hole. Seeing this, Lin Qing knew that if he didn't leave, he might have to be reincarnated here.
Immediately, Lin Qing summoned the Gate of Hell, and Whitebeard and Roger ignored them and walked straight into the Gate of Hell.
Having just escaped death, Lin Qing appeared on the deck of the Thousand Sunny, which was docked by the island.
Even after escaping the clutches of death, Lin Qing was still shaken. If he hadn't run fast, he might have really become a native of the One Piece world.
Lin Qing released Luffy and his crew, and things returned to normal after Ace appeared.
However, apart from Brook, all the Straw Hat crew members are now in ghost form, floating in the air.
Because of the rules of the One Piece world, when a soul appears in sunlight, it feels completely comfortable, just like an ordinary person sunbathing.
Lin Qing released Luffy and his crew's bodies as well: "Now, quickly return to your bodies!"
"Wow! We're finally back!" Chopper and Usopp were overjoyed and were the first to return to their bodies.
"Oh my god, I want to be a ghost a little longer!" Despite saying that, Robin returned to her body quite quickly.
Nami and the others then returned to their bodies, leaving only Ace's soul on the ship.
After Luffy returned to his body and adjusted for a moment, he immediately jumped up and ran to Ace's side.
"Ace, what happened to you just now? I thought I was going to lose you again." Tears welled up in Luffy's eyes.
"I don't know what happened, I think I fell asleep," Ace replied.
"It was a black hole. I went to see it, and I almost didn't make it back." Lin Qing is still shaken.
"It's good that you're back. Now that we can revive Ace, let's set off and retrieve Ace's body," Robin said from the side.
“But we don’t know where Shanks is. How are we supposed to find him?” Nami said, tossing her hair.
"Nami is so sexy." Sanji suddenly appeared behind Nami in a lewd manner, transforming into Pigsy Sanji.
"Miss Nami, can I see your underwear?" Brook also came over to join in the fun.
Then, the two of them were hit by an angry Nami, resulting in several large bumps on their bodies.
"Oh yeah, I don't know where Shanks is either, what should I do?" Luffy scratched his head and said blankly.
The others were also helpless. They now had Ace's soul and the resurrection crystal, but they couldn't find the body. It was a real headache.
“If we can’t find them, we can get Shanks to come to us, as long as we create a big news story,” Lin Qing suggested.
“Oh my, that’s a great idea,” Robin exclaimed.
“That’s one way, but what kind of big news do we need to create?” Sanji said, exhaling a puff of smoke.
"Yo ho ho ho, let me put on a show of the century!" Brooke said with a bow.
"Super super super armor!" Franky completely ignored them showing off their armor, even though he was heartbroken in the underworld.
"Ah—big news, big news!" Chopper and Usopp shouted.
"Alright, let Shanks come to us himself." Luffy also thought it was a good idea.
Chapter 147 The Seven Warlords of the Sea and Punk Hazard (Revised)
"Now that we've decided on the method, let's begin. As for this big news, by the way, are there any powerful pirate crews nearby?" Lin Qing asked after thinking for a moment.
"Uh! I don't know," Luffy said blankly.
“I know that the closest person to us is Donquixote Doflamingo, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.” Robin suddenly became serious.
"Doflamingo is also the king of Dressrosa and a very powerful pirate."
"Ah, the Seven Warlords of the Sea? Well, let's change our target!" Usopp's face turned pale.
Just as Lin Qing was about to speak, a newspaper gull flew onto the deck, carrying a newspaper in its beak.
Nami immediately tossed the newspaper money to the newspaper-delivering seagull and then took the newspaper.
"What? The Flame-Flame Fruit?" Nami exclaimed in surprise as she looked at the newspaper.
"What? The Flame-Flame Fruit?" Ace flew over immediately upon hearing that it was his own fruit.
"Damn it, how did my Devil Fruit end up in Doflamingo's hands, and even become the prize for that Colosseum championship?" Ace was a little angry.
"Alright, that's Doflamingo! Let's defeat him and steal the Flame-Flame Fruit for Ace!" Luffy raised his arm excitedly.
"Hey, Luffy, don't you know how powerful Doflamingo is?" Nami instantly transformed into a female Tyrannosaurus Rex, grabbing Luffy by the neck.
"Don't worry, I'm here, everything will be fine," Lin Qing interjected.
"Yeah, yeah, with Lin Qing around, what's there to be afraid of, it's just Doflamingo." Usopp suddenly became bolder.
The Flame-Flame Fruit is likely the fruit whose power was transferred to another fruit after Ace's death, becoming a new Flame-Flame Fruit.
"What a coincidence! It seems Ace will regain the power of the Flame-Flame Fruit after his resurrection," Lin Qing remarked.
Afterwards, the group began their journey towards the island nation of Dressrosa.
After a long voyage, they arrived near a burning island.
A violent storm with heavy rain, dark clouds, thunder, and lightning – terrible weather.
"The weather in the new world is really awful," Lin Qing remarked.
"Look, the volcano has erupted! Let's go land on that island!" Luffy exclaimed excitedly.
"Hey, Luffy, we're going to Dressrosa!" Estun said, speechless.
"Wait a minute, Luffy. Sure enough, none of the Log Pose are pointing to that island," Nami said with a serious expression.