And on top of that, there were tons of Devil Fruits. For that reason, Bai Xuan even asked Whitebeard for the Devil Fruit encyclopedia and uploaded it to the One Piece forum.
Every single Devil Fruit from the encyclopedia was here.
“By the way, what are you planning to do by materializing all these things?”
Huo Yu stood beside Bai Xuan, asking curiously.
After all, Bai Xuan’s strength was already unmatched on Earth. According to him, these things couldn’t make him any stronger either, since they were originally created by him, and their ceiling rose along with his own power.
If they couldn’t make him stronger, then what was the point of manifesting them?
Surely it wasn’t just for collecting?
“No real use for now.”
Bai Xuan said casually, picking up a banana-shaped Devil Fruit.
“When the time is right, I’ll send a portion of these to different parts of the world.”
While these items couldn’t enhance his own power, they would be incredibly useful for any other superhuman on Earth. And as their strength grew, it would in turn promote Bai Xuan’s own growth.
And it wasn’t just Devil Fruits — the same went for the Five-Forms Light Armor, the various Kamen Rider transformation devices, the Ultra transformation devices, and even those Magic Cards and Ninja Scrolls.
As for who would obtain them, who would be chosen by the power of light…
That would be left to fate.
“???”
Huo Yu stared wide-eyed at Bai Xuan, then looked back at the items in front of her.
Sending these things to different parts of the world… meaning he was just giving them away?
Never mind Devil Fruits — well, actually, no! That’s not something to just brush aside either!
Putting everything else aside, just the elementalization ability of Logia-type Devil Fruits alone made them immune to ordinary guns!
And if it was all down to luck, what if the one who got them wasn’t a good person?
Most importantly — what about the Ultra transformation devices? If someone with grand ambitions got their hands on one, they wouldn’t have the means to punish them for the time being.
“There’s no need to worry about the armor or the Ultra powers. Not just anyone can obtain them.”
“As for the Devil Fruits, even if I set rules preventing those with evil hearts from getting them… what about those who only develop ambitions after eating a Devil Fruit and gaining power? And what about the mutant creatures?”
“What truly matters has never been the power itself, but the person’s heart and mind.”
Bai Xuan’s gaze was calm. In truth, how many Devil Fruits were there in total? Compared to Earth’s massive human population and the sheer number of mutated creatures, it was practically insignificant.
Besides, was the power of a Devil Fruit really stronger than superhuman abilities?
Of course not.
The potential of superhuman powers far surpassed that of Devil Fruits.
Since the nations of the world had managed to govern just fine when everyone awakened superpowers, what difference would a few more Devil Fruits make?
Not to mention the powers of the armor, the Ultra, and the Kamen Riders, which specifically choose people with righteous hearts.
And besides, the Devil Fruits he materialized still had the flaw of being weak to seawater.
If they couldn’t be kept in check even with that, then that would be just too unreasonable.
“Pick one. Consider it thanks for running around helping me.”
Bai Xuan gestured toward the items in front of him and said casually to Huo Yu.
It was precisely because of her assistance that he had been able to manifest so many things in such a short time.
Hearing his words, Huo Yu’s eyes lit up, and she eagerly pointed at the Blazing Dragon summoner on the left — the Fire-Light Armor summoner.
“Sure, if it acknowledges you.”
Bai Xuan shrugged, speaking with indifference.
“ROAR!”
The moment Huo Yu’s hand touched it, the Blazing Dragon summoner let out a massive booming sound, and a powerful repulsive force knocked her arm away.
“Does this mean… I wasn’t chosen?”
Huo Yu hesitated, pointing at herself.
“No doubt about it — you simply didn’t earn its recognition.”
Bai Xuan nodded.
“Why?”
“Who knows? Maybe your brand of justice doesn’t align with its own.”
The concept of justice was far too broad. Perhaps to the Blazing Dragon, the justice Huo Yu carried in her heart simply wasn’t a match.
Or maybe, on Earth, it already had a chosen owner in mind.
“Well, that’s a shame.”
Huo Yu shook her head with some regret. She felt she and the Blazing Dragon suited each other pretty well. She then walked to another spot and picked up a Logia-type Devil Fruit with flame runes on its surface — none other than the Mera Mera no Mi (Flame-Flame Fruit), the one Ace and Sabo ate in the One Piece world.
“Choosing that, huh? It suits you.”
Huo Yu had a fire-attribute summoning superpower, so the Flame-Flame Fruit had good synergy with her.
Though lore-wise, the Magu Magu no Mi (Magma-Magma Fruit) was considered the superior of the Flame-Flame Fruit, that superiority wasn’t about temperature domination.
It was an undeniable fact that fire could reach higher temperatures than magma, but that didn’t mean fire could burn magma.
The nature of magma was melted rock formed under extreme heat and pressure deep within the earth — it didn’t burn and couldn’t be ignited. More than that, magma could actually swallow flames. The higher the temperature of the fire, the hotter the magma would become, absorbing the flames and becoming even more devastating.
The Flame-Flame Fruit was the purest form of the fire element.
Bai Xuan gently tapped the air with his index finger, and a stream of golden power poured into the Flame-Flame Fruit.
“I’ve imbued it with a trait that makes it immune to the seawater of this world — consider it a little help from me.”
“Devil Fruits that are weak to water have a flaw that’s way too obvious.”
“Thanks!”
Huo Yu happily pocketed the Flame-Flame Fruit, tucking it into her spatial ring.
Then a thought suddenly struck her, and she asked with some hesitation:
“What about the taste…”
“It’ll probably be worse than you can imagine.”
Bai Xuan nodded with certainty.
“…”
After Huo Yu left, Bai Xuan stretched lazily, playfully nudged Pikachu, who was fast asleep in Doraemon’s arms, and then went to prepare food for them.
The food for him and Doraemon was handled by a dedicated chef team, but Pikachu and the others mostly ate energy cubes.
In the past, they bought them from Meowth. But ever since the tree fruits he planted matured, Bai Xuan had taken over the job.
Thanks to the nourishment of spiritual energy, the tree fruits grown in his world produced energy cubes that were better in both flavor and energy content — and they were more beneficial for Pikachu’s growth as well.
Suddenly, Bai Xuan stopped walking and looked out the window with a thoughtful gaze.
“The second spiritual tide… is here, huh.”
“BOOM!”
“BOOM!”
“BOOM!”
From the void, a terrifying, booming resonance continuously rang out.
Countless streams of rainbow-colored gas, as dense as liquid, flowed out from the void and spiraled down into Earth.
The second spiritual tide.
An unimaginably vast, liquid-dense tide of spiritual energy poured from the void into the planet.
Then, centered around Earth, the spiritual energy began to spread outward toward the surrounding celestial bodies — the Sun, the Moon, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter… Every planet it passed trembled in response.
