His arms, shoulders, and legs were covered in a domineering red and black aura, and his whole body was shrouded in steam, just like an ancient benevolent king.
"Gear Fourth - Bounce Man!" Luffy bounced around in place.
"Haha, are you kidding me? You think you can defeat me just because you've grown that big?" Ace mocked.
"Ace, you'll see once you try." Luffy instantly appeared in front of Ace, his right fist springing back into his body, aimed at Ace.
"Not bad, the speed is much faster, but it's still too slow!"
Although Luffy was much faster, Ace was even faster. He immediately covered his fist with Haki and punched Luffy, as the island lord's authority was not to be violated.
"King Ape Gun!" The fist that had been retracted suddenly shot out and struck Ace's fist.
Bang bang bang bang!
Ace was punched straight into the palace, causing it to collapse. He continued flying until he crashed into a solid rock wall.
"Wow~~~~ Ahhh! That's amazing!" Chopper and Usopp stared at Luffy, who was still bouncing around, with stars in their eyes.
"Is this the result of Luffy's two years of training? He's amazing." Zoro and Sanji stared in astonishment at the enormous Luffy before them.
"Luffy, that's awesome, haha!" Nami jumped up with joy.
"Oh ho ho ho, Luffy seems to have grown a lot in these two years."
"Luffy, Super Super Super!" Franky recovered from his grief.
"Oh my, it seems Luffy has gotten a lot stronger again."
"Alright, Ace has lost consciousness. You can deactivate Gear Fourth now." Lin Qing casually summoned Ace, who flew out of the rubble and appeared in front of him.
"Sizzle~~~~" Luffy's body deflated back to its original size as if it had been punctured.
Then, weakly, he collapsed to the ground, saying, "I can't take it anymore, I have no strength left, I'm going to starve to death."
Nami immediately ran over and helped Luffy up, and Chopper also ran over to check on Luffy's condition.
"Your body is badly injured, but you'll be fine after a few days of rest. Let me bandage you up." Chopper took out a first-aid kit and placed it on the ground.
"No need for that." Lin Qing came to Luffy's side, her hand glowing with green light as she stroked Luffy's body.
Luffy's injuries healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, even though Luffy was currently in a spirit state.
However, because of their location in the Underworld, they are now essentially like physical bodies, still needing to eat, drink, and relieve themselves.
"Let's find some food for Luffy, otherwise he might starve to death," Lin Qing said to Nami and the others.
"I'll go look for it, I smell food." Sanji walked towards the collapsed palace.
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Not long after, Sanji returned with a large bucket of mochi: "I only found mochi, I couldn't find any other food."
"I want to eat, I want to eat rice cakes!" Luffy's mouth watered instantly.
Luffy, who was so hungry he couldn't move, jumped up, ran to the bucket, kicked open the lid, and jumped right in.
The sounds of "plop! plop!" kept ringing out. If they didn't all know it was Luffy eating, they would have thought it was a dozen pigs eating swill.
In just a few minutes, Luffy ate all the rice cakes in the wooden barrel that was over ten meters tall, making him noticeably fatter before struggling to climb out.
"I'm so full! Aren't you guys hungry? It was delicious," Luffy said, patting his stomach as he lay on the ground.
"Our captain is such an idiot," Nami said, rubbing her forehead in exasperation.
"Ah, you've finished eating, are you going to make us eat the barrel?" Usopp shouted angrily.
"Huh? I ate them all? Haha, sorry." Luffy scratched his head and grinned sheepishly.
The group stared at Luffy speechlessly. Fortunately, none of them were hungry, and as for Lin Qing, he certainly wouldn't go hungry.
"I've locked Ace up. Now let's head straight to the airspace and find that so-called domain lord to give him a good wake-up call," Lin Qing said to them.
The Straw Hat crew all agreed to the burial, and finally Lin Qing looked towards the airspace floating between the four islands.
The sky was shrouded in clouds and mist, but Lin Qing's gaze pierced through the thick fog and saw the airspace ten thousand meters above him.
A cloud of mist appeared beneath their feet, eventually gathering into a large expanse that lifted the Straw Hats and their companions as they soared into the sky at an altitude of ten thousand meters.
Meanwhile, in the world of One Piece, the Marine Headquarters, which moved to the New World after the Marineford War, is located there.
Fleet Admiral Akainu, seated at the head of the table, declared: "The meeting is adjourned. Now proceed with the plan immediately."
"yes!"
Then everyone in the conference room hurriedly left.
"Damn it, I didn't expect the Straw Hat crew to appear in the New World, and even have a powerful and mysterious figure join them." Akainu gritted his teeth.
A few hours later, wanted posters for Lin Qing began appearing all over the world, and the portrait on the posters showed Lin Qing wearing a mask.
The bounty is a staggering 500 million Berries.
This bounty is higher than Luffy's; Luffy currently only has a bounty of 400 million.
The newspaper-delivering gulls have started delivering newspapers too. This time, the news is that Lin Qing instantly killed Lieutenant General Mole and Xiu Zuo and rescued Panz. Of course, the wanted poster is also on it.
This immediately drew the world's attention to the Straw Hat Pirates, who were offered a bounty of 500 million, something that had never been done before.
Lin Qing was immediately hailed as the number one supernova, and Panz also learned that Lin Qing had joined the Straw Hat crew.
In a sea area of the New World.
Red-haired Shanks, holding a wine glass in one hand and a newspaper in the other, muttered, "Interesting, very interesting."
The other supernovas looked at Lin Qing, who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, with disdain, and even called him the number one supernova.
Pirates are inherently unruly, and they all resent Lin Qing. They are all planning to find the Straw Hat crew, kill Lin Qing, and destroy the Straw Hat Pirates.
However, they could not find the Straw Hat crew, because they were all in the Land of the Dead.
"Hahaha! Chopper, don't run away, I want to eat the clouds!" Luffy, having finished digesting, chased after Chopper.
"No way! I worked so hard to make this. Go make one yourself!" Chopper ran around protecting his white cloud.
When Luffy couldn't catch Chopper, he turned around and saw Usopp making his grilled fish.
Before Usopp could even finish pinching the tail of the grilled fish, Luffy, who had run over, snatched it away and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Ah, Luffy, my grilled fish! You owe me money!" Usopp roared in anger.
"Burp! It doesn't taste like much," Luffy said, letting out a burp.
"You owe me my grilled fish! You owe me my grilled fish!" Usopp grabbed Luffy by the neck and shook him violently.
Suddenly, something crashed down from below the clouds, and Lin Qing was immediately lifted off the clouds and floated in the air.
However, Lin Qing carelessly forgot that Luffy and his crew were still on the clouds, and the clouds were directly scattered.
Robin and Nami were lucky enough to land on a small white cloud and barely avoided falling, but the others were not so fortunate and all screamed as they began to freefall.
"Holy crap, this is 6,000 meters in the air! How can a person fly up here?"
Lin Qing never expected an attack to come from below, so he didn't pay much attention to what was below. Now, his white clouds were scattered by someone else.
Lin Qing also saw clearly who the newcomer was: Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King from twenty-two years ago.
At this moment, Roger, for some unknown reason, was also floating in the air.
Seeing the falling crowd, Lin Qing immediately waved his hand, and a meter-wide white cloud appeared beneath their feet to support them.
Then the white clouds pulled them together slowly, forming a ten-meter-wide white cloud.
“Gol D. Roger?” Lin Qing asked, looking at Roger.
"It's me. I didn't expect you to be able to ride the clouds into the sky. However, you have trespassed into the sky. You shall die!"
"And where did you take that piece of trash Ace?" Roger asked expressionlessly.
"I never imagined that Roger, the Pirate King who shook the world twenty-two years ago, would become someone else's lackey," Lin Qing said disdainfully.
Although he admired Roger, Lin Qing couldn't help but ask, "Why did Roger turn himself in?"
If you want the whole world to search for that blank historical record, why not just tell the truth instead of concealing it and turning yourself in to be killed?
"Hmph! What Pirate King? I am Gol D. Roger. What does the Pirate King have to do with me?"
"You are really audacious. You actually destroyed the island lord of East Island and even wanted to disturb the domain lord in the airspace. You must be tired of living."
Hearing Roger's words, Lin Qing realized that he had also lost his memory, and Lin Qing now really wanted to meet that domain lord.
The fact that it can make souls lose their memories and still make them so loyal suggests that it might be a powerful Devil Fruit user.
“Ace is your son, don’t you know that? And you still call him a piece of trash,” Lin Qing said directly.
"Hmph, how could that good-for-nothing be my son? Don't be so arrogant just because you killed the East Island Lord."
"I've been here for twenty-two years. Ten times—burst!" An imposing aura emanated from Roger, almost blowing away the white clouds carrying the Straw Hat crew.
"I'm not that trash Ace, I can unleash up to fifteen times the power."
"Ten times the force is more than enough to deal with you!"
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"Prepare to die!"
Roger moved to the top of Lin Qing's head at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, and then kicked Lin Qing in the head.
Lin Qing glanced at him and stuck out a finger to stop Roger's imposing leg.
"Did you not eat? You can't even compare to one of my fingers?" Lin Qing said, looking at Roger.
"How is this possible?" Roger looked at Lin Qing in disbelief.
"I don't believe it, fifteen times the burst!" Roger stopped holding back and unleashed his maximum burst.
"In all these years, you are the first enemy who has made me use my full strength." Roger's entire body was covered by his domineering aura.
Then Roger glared at Lin Qing, and a powerful pressure swept towards Lin Qing.