GA: Chapter 138: The Tremor-Tremor Fruit and Dark-Dark Fruit Combined — Tenshi Zixin Descends
"The entire angel civilization is your dowry."
"Zixin and Hikari are just the handmaidens sent along with the bride."
Hexi let out a breath of relief, then delivered the jab without any mercy whatsoever.
Thwack.
"Ow."
Sacred Kesha rapped her on the head and gave her a thoroughly unamused look.
"What are you on about."
"I'm just telling the truth."
Hexi rubbed her head, grumbling internally at this insufferable tomboy.
Earth. Haicheng.
The battle between the mutated giant octopus and Qin Tian's group was drawing toward its final moments.
Faced with four opponents whose combined strength vastly exceeded its own, no amount of struggling could change the outcome for the mutated giant octopus.
It had been completely suppressed. A substantial portion of its enormous body had already been encased in Chen Bing's ice.
"Click click click!"
The mutated killer whale bit off a frozen section of the octopus's body. A faint deep void was visible within its mouth as it swallowed, the massive chunk absorbed and converted into gentle energy that steadily reinforced the killer whale's body.
"ROARRR!"
The mutated giant octopus let out a massive howl and kept thrashing — but with Qin Tian, Huo Yu, and Chen Bing pressing in from every angle, its struggle grew weaker with each passing moment. Its terrifying regenerative ability continued repairing the damage, but even that was slowing now. Not fast enough to keep pace with how quickly the killer whale was devouring it.
As time passed, more than half of the octopus's enormous body had been consumed. The killer whale's presence, meanwhile, had been climbing steadily — already far surpassing what it had been at the start. Eventually it reached a point where it no longer needed Qin Tian and the others at all, suppressing the mutated giant octopus entirely on its own.
What made Qin Tian and the others furrow their brows was this: the mutated killer whale had begun to look like something had snapped inside it. It kept tearing at the octopus's body, kept devouring — ignoring the octopus's attacks landing on it, ignoring the wounds accumulating across its own body, ignoring the fact that Qin Tian, Huo Yu, and Chen Bing had hesitated and stopped pressing their own assault.
"I hope it isn't what I'm thinking."
Qin Tian watched the killer whale's descent into frenzy and spoke with quiet concern.
"Setting aside the Tremor-Tremor Fruit — if I had to guess, the killer whale's original awakened ability was probably Devour. The Tremor-Tremor Fruit was most likely something it absorbed using that ability. That would also explain why seawater doesn't affect it."
"This octopus might have a Devour ability too — the longer we fight it, the more certain I am it ate the Dark-Dark Fruit. And if I'm not wrong, there's some kind of deep hatred between the two of them."
"That alone would be fine."
Huo Yu paused, staring at the killer whale with a furrowed brow.
"But what I'm thinking is — after it finishes eating this octopus, will it inherit its abilities? Like Blackbeard later on, who ended up with both the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and the Dark-Dark Fruit."
"If its attitude toward humans is friendly, that's manageable. But if it carries any hostility toward us — that would be a serious threat. A genuinely dangerous one."
Huo Yu was torn. Let the killer whale continue devouring until the end — potentially creating something like a Blackbeard with both darkness and tremor at its disposal — or interrupt it right now and finish off both the killer whale and the octopus together.
But if they chose to attack it, the question of its attitude toward humans would have a definitive answer.
If they didn't kill it outright, they would absolutely face its retaliation.
"That's a future problem. Right now, it's our ally."
"If it shows hostility toward humans later, we'll make it pay for that then. But right now — no."
Qin Tian shook his head and ultimately chose not to act against the killer whale.
Whatever the future held, for now it had shown no hostility toward them whatsoever.
Whether that was genuine, or calculated performance — at least right now, moving against it wasn't the right call.
"I can confirm — it genuinely holds friendly and affectionate feelings toward all of you."
A gentle voice rang out, carrying just a trace of youthful quality beneath the softness. Qin Tian, Huo Yu, and Chen Bing's pupils contracted simultaneously. Their bodies went taut in an instant, prepared for combat.
That voice hadn't come from any of them.
There was someone else in this space?
No — not necessarily a person. Could be a mutated creature just as easily.
But if it really was a mutated creature, then whatever it was had to be operating on a level so far above them it barely warranted comparison.
"There's no need to be on guard. I mean none of you any harm."
Under the cautious stares of the three of them, a pitch-black spatial wormhole opened in the sky above — and from it stepped an angel.
Wait. An angel?
Qin Tian and Huo Yu stared with visible disbelief.
Even if Western mythology had never been a particular interest of theirs, the name of the angels was not something you could simply not know.
The spiritual revival had brought things like Qin Tian's divine dragon ability and Chen Bing's Glacial Phoenix to Huaxia. So the possibility that the West might produce angel-type abilities — or even mutated creatures evolving toward something angelic — wasn't entirely out of the question.
But none of them had imagined that an actual angel would appear in this world so soon after the spiritual revival had even begun.
Youthful, but breathtakingly beautiful features. A presence of sacred, noble dignity. A figure without a single flaw.
That atmosphere of holy, untainted purity — without any doubt, this was an angel.
Before a presence this sacred and refined, even people of lesser strength found themselves incapable of generating any impure thought.
Like a mortal who has glimpsed a Bodhisattva — the only response that arose was reverence.
And it wasn't only Qin Tian and the others. The moment Tenshi Zixin appeared, the mutated giant octopus and mutated killer whale locked in combat below both went still, staring up at the sacred, noble angel in the sky with blank eyes.
Perhaps because Tenshi Zixin wasn't a mystical angel in the bloodline sense and carried no inherent power of suppression — but after only a brief moment of stunned stillness, the mutated killer whale snapped back to itself and bit down hard on the mutated giant octopus, which was still frozen in place.
"ROARRR!"
Pain brought the octopus back. It roared and threw itself back into the fight.
It would have loved to flee — but Chen Bing, still alert to Tenshi Zixin, maintained her ice constructs and cut off any path of escape. Regardless of whether this angel who'd appeared was friend or foe, the mutated giant octopus was dying today.
"So this is the man's world?"
"Spiritual revival, ability awakening... oh? There are even Devil Fruits here."
"Armor, Imperial Arms... items from tokusatsu and anime? The man's modifications to this world are really something."
Tenshi Zixin instinctively read the world's information, surprised to find that Bai Xuan had distributed items from other worlds — including things from animated shows and live-action productions — throughout this one.
With her abilities she could naturally see that the highest concentration of those items had appeared in Huaxia.
Establishing Huaxia's final victory as the foundation, then reshaping the world around that to drive civilizational development forward? She recalled what Hikari-jiejie had told her, and nodded in a vaguely comprehending way. The strategic thinking behind it wasn't something she fully grasped.
Chapter 139: Fate Is Never a Fixed Road — It Holds Infinite Possibilities!
Among the angels, she was among the youngest. Most of her life until now had been spent in research, and she had never needed to understand things like this. They only needed to follow Queen Kesha's commands.
"We are still in the early stages of the spiritual revival. Neither cultivation techniques nor methods for utilizing spiritual energy have been developed."
"In that respect, humans hold no advantage over the mutated creatures."
"These things are simply variables introduced into this world — unknowns. Whether mutated creature or human, I look forward to seeing both sides reach heights through their own strength that even I haven't anticipated."
A calm voice resonated through empty space, and Bai Xuan's figure materialized before everyone present.
If Tenshi Zixin's appearance had only made the mutated killer whale and mutated giant octopus pause for a moment due to her sacred and pure presence, then Bai Xuan's arrival made them feel something from the depths of their very being — fear and reverence.
It wasn't only the perception of Bai Xuan's power. It was also their own Devil Fruit abilities.
The Devil Fruits were Bai Xuan's creation. Whether they had obtained those abilities through devourment or by consuming the fruits directly, they were both connected to him.
If he wished it, he could leverage that connection in an instant — redirecting their consciousness and thought, reshaping them into whatever "form" he desired.
Not that he had any interest in doing so. With the hold that [Authority of Nature] gave him over the Earth, he could accomplish that effortlessly without any connection at all.
Without question, the two creatures froze — as if time itself had stopped — locked in the positions they'd been in, not daring to move.
When Tenshi Zixin saw Bai Xuan, she drifted quietly to a position before him, placed her right hand over her heart, and bowed lightly.
"Greetings, chosen one. I am Sacred Kesha's right-wing guardian — Angel Zixin."
"Your information should have already reached you. Huaxia civilization — Bai Xuan, welcome to your arrival."
Bai Xuan replied.
"Additionally — on behalf of the Celestial Base King, I bring her regards."
As those words left her, Zixin seemed to remember something. A faint blush crept across her face. She stole a careful glance at Bai Xuan, then couldn't help dropping her gaze.
On behalf of the Celestial Base King Hexi?
It was only a single sentence from Zixin, but it was enough to infer something.
Bai Xuan already understood why Tenshi Zixin had come. Hikari hadn't tried to hide it — she'd stated the purpose openly and without reservation.
Field experience. Growth. Exchange. All of those were reasons. But more than anything, it was about seeing whether the two of them had any possibility of walking forward together.
The specific cause was undeniably the Sacred Knowledge Treasury.
98% compatibility. By all measures, Bai Xuan was the most suitable person for Tenshi Zixin — which, conversely, meant Tenshi Zixin was also the most suitable person for Bai Xuan.
Other worlds might produce someone even better matched. But that possibility was vanishingly small, approaching zero without quite reaching it.
With numbers like those, Sacred Kesha's decision to act wasn't difficult to understand.
What puzzled Bai Xuan was why the compatibility between him and Tenshi Zixin was this high in the first place. He had no doubts about the angel civilization's technology, nor about the Sacred Knowledge Treasury's accuracy in this domain.
The Treasury's calculations accounted for far more than genetic compatibility — it factored in personality, mentality, emotional resonance.
Current human technology had no way to accomplish that. The angel civilization did.
In the original story, what Tenshi Zixin wanted was a brave and kind person. Hikari had even explained her reasoning for choosing Zhao Xin — he didn't have Ge Xiaolun's indestructible body, yet he charged to the front without a second thought. That said something about his character.
There was also this: the Treasury's analytical accuracy was unquestioned — but angels could still choose whoever they loved. It was simply that when they actually met the person the Treasury had identified, the choice rarely needed to be made at all.
Because what the Treasury identified was almost always the angel's ideal.
But brave and kind?
Did he actually possess those qualities right now?
Bai Xuan genuinely doubted himself on that.
Though — everything he knew about this came from the animated work itself. Perhaps the angels had indeed originated from that story, their personalities and circumstances nothing more than settings and plot. But after Tenshi Hikari had joined the chat group, much had already changed.
That world was no longer something existing only in imagination. It was absolutely real.
Every story was branching toward a different path.
Fate had never been a fixed road. It stretched outward without limit, holding within it infinite possibility.
It was both vast in scale and immeasurably grand — an epic built collectively by countless living beings, each one a participant in its construction.
To exist within it was to find that even the smallest variable could unfold into limitless directions.
The Celestial Base King Hexi's distrust of the Sacred Knowledge Treasury was information Hikari and Bai Xuan had shared between them — yet Tenshi Zixin had said she was bringing greetings on behalf of the Celestial Base King.
Under normal circumstances, if it were Sacred Kesha's command, she would be representing Kesha.
So — the Celestial Base King Hexi had approved.
Had Sacred Kesha persuaded her? Or was there something else layered beneath this?
Bai Xuan shook his head. Honestly, he didn't enjoy overthinking things — but beings at the level of Sacred Kesha and Hexi, gods of a civilization of their caliber, tended to weigh every word and every decision with considerable deliberation.
The chat group held many powerful people. More would arrive in the future.
Their raw strength might surpass the angel civilization's by a wide margin — some of them capable of destroying planets or even galaxies without effort. Individual power far exceeding anything the angel civilization possessed, including Sacred Kesha herself.
But in terms of thought and wisdom, they weren't necessarily superior.
From what Bai Xuan remembered, many protagonists in the works he'd encountered ended up with extraordinary power by the end — reversing time, rewriting the past, nothing beyond their reach. And yet their behavior and decisions remained those of someone seventeen or eighteen years old.
The moment emotion rose in them, consequences ceased to matter. Context and causality ceased to matter.
Across countless years, their minds had barely grown at all.
Perhaps the protagonist's halo shielded them — they could act recklessly and follow every impulse without consequence.
But could people like that truly be called strong?
If that halo were stripped away — placed in a world that ran on reality rather than narrative — would they still have achieved what they had?
"Let's step back."
Bai Xuan glanced at the center of the battlefield where the mutated killer whale and mutated giant octopus were still locked together, and the corner of his mouth curved upward slightly.
Two mutated creatures, both possessing devourment ability.
One had devoured the Dark-Dark Fruit. The other the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
At the current rate — barring any surprise — the world was about to gain its own version of Blackbeard Teach.
A body built on the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, claiming the Dark-Dark Fruit's power through the ability of devourment.
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