While the outside world was in an uproar, Yami, the subject of worldwide discussion, was immersed in his training.
Since news coos did not pass through the Calm Belt, Carina and the other girls were unaware that their Master had become famous again, his bounty soaring from 546 million Beli to 3,046,000,000 Beli.
They only knew that Yami had gone out for a trip, awakened his Conqueror's Haki upon his return, and then, instead of asking Hancock for guidance on it, went to the nearby Rusukaina to train.
Although Yami didn't say anything, Carina and the other girls could roughly guess that their Master must have been provoked outside, and then began to train diligently, preparing to settle the score after his strength had greatly increased.
The person who could provoke their Master must be standing at the pinnacle of the seas, an existence they were not qualified to come into contact with, and knowing too much about them was not a good thing.
And so, the overthinking Carina and the other girls were suddenly filled with motivation to train.
They were too weak. They didn't even have the right to know who their Master's enemies were, let alone help him.
Rusukaina, also known as the Island of Forty-Eight Seasons.
Here, the season changes every week, and it is inhabited by a large number of giant beasts, all of which are at the supernova level.
Those who have not mastered Haki, unless they possess a special Devil Fruit ability, are no match for these large beasts.
It is no exaggeration to say that these large beasts are the Sea Kings of the land.
Now, these large beasts, which would from time to time let out a great roar to challenge their own kind, had suddenly become incredibly quiet. They even actively sought out places to hide, cowering in some corner of the island.
Upon hearing the sound of human footsteps, a look of very human-like panic would immediately appear on their faces, and they would choose to flee without hesitation.
It couldn't be helped, because a very terrifying human had come to this island, and almost all the large beasts on the island had been beaten up.
This human seemed to be practicing a move, and as soon as he made a little progress, he would use them for experiments.
Now, most of the beasts on the island were bruised and swollen.
In a clearing on the island, Yami was practicing the very ordinary Six Powers of the Marines.
Over and over again, with patience and focus.
The purpose of practicing the Six Powers was to improve his control over his body, trying to infuse his consciousness into his body and freely control any part of it.
That's right, Yami was practicing Life Return.
Ever since obtaining the Six Powers and the training method for Life Return, Yami had been learning it, but he had yet to master it.
Although Life Return was powerful, it was not actually that difficult to learn.
For some people, the difficulty of mastering Haki was higher than the difficulty of mastering Life Return.
For example, in the original story, Lucci and Kumadori had not mastered Haki, but they had mastered Life Return.
Kumadori, with a Doriki of only 810, was even very skilled in the technique of Life Return.
However, for Yami, the difficulty of practicing Life Return was higher than the difficulty of practicing Haki.
His physical fitness was very strong. He had learned the Six Powers of the Marines in one day and had also learned Armament Haki in just one day.
But whether it was Observation Haki or Life Return, Yami had spent several months without awakening or mastering them.
All of this was because Yami was a transmigrator who had possessed a body.
His monstrous physique was given to him by the system; it was not something he was born with, not something that had grown with him.
Therefore, Yami had spent more than half a year just to master the power of this new body, but he was still unable to control his power to a perfect state.
The same was true for Observation Haki. Yami could turn his will into a weapon, but he couldn't sharpen his five senses to perceive the auras and emotional changes of the living beings around him.
This deeper level of body utilization was a great hurdle that Yami had to overcome.
Only by mastering Life Return could Yami completely master this body.
Yami was not in a hurry, but he needed Life Return very much now.
Because not only Observation Haki, but even the advanced applications of Armament Haki required perfect control over one's body.
Although he hadn't mastered Life Return, if Yami trained hard, he could eventually master advanced Haki, but the time required would surely be very long.
The King Punch that Doflamingo had gotten for Yami, besides a strong body, also required powerful body control to practice...
The King Punch, also known as a natural weapon of destruction, was a super heavy punch that released all of one's body's power. If it failed to take down the enemy, one would surely die.
It was rumored that this punch was so powerful that even someone as strong as a Four Emperor would be killed on the spot if hit.
No one knew if this rumor was true or false.
But in Yami's eyes, this rumor could be both true and false.
If this move was used by a weak person, it would certainly pose no threat to a Pirate Emperor.
But if it was used by Yami, who would dare to ignore it?
But such a powerful move, of course, also had very serious flaws.
To unleash the full power of the King Punch, one had to warm up for a long time, mobilize all of one's power, concentrate it in one's fist, and then release it as a huge shockwave.
After throwing this punch, the user would be more or less spent.
If the King Punch was dodged or blocked, then the user was basically done for.
In the eyes of a true powerhouse, this punch was powerful, but it was also very impractical.
Yami also looked down on the King Punch, but what he looked down on was the full-power King Punch.
Yami could destroy an island with a punch that exhausted all his power, but he wouldn't use the full-power King Punch because there were too many ways to destroy an island.
The reason Yami wanted the King Punch was that he was interested in its other use, the lightweight King Punch.
The lightweight King Punch converted a portion of the body's energy into a corresponding shockwave.
Although its power was not comparable to the full-power King Punch, its advantage was its extremely short charge time.
If one's body control was extremely strong, one could even fire it instantly.
This was the reason Yami wanted to obtain the King Punch.
As long as he could throw a lightweight King Punch and then use the More-More Fruit to amplify the shockwave's power, then every punch of his would be someone else's full-power King Punch.
And shockwaves were precisely one of the abilities that could penetrate a steel-like body.
Even Kaido and Charlotte Linlin would need to use Haki to defend against it.
So, this move was one of the means Yami would use to counter advanced Haki.
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