GA: Chapter 64 – Stop Calling Yourself Bai Xuan—Just Change Your Name to Bai Aotian
Ordinary Group Owner: "How rare—both the human and the dog agree it's terrible."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Or has Tony somehow acquired Shiba Inu Thor's sense of taste?"
Lighthouse Tycoon: "The rancid stench is overwhelming. Eating it feels like swallowing an untreated corpse with zero preparation."
Lighthouse Tycoon: "The effects are incredible though. I can feel my physical constitution improving significantly, and there's a warm current continuously flowing through my body, still working."
Lighthouse Tycoon: "This is better than spiritual qi beads."
Northern God's Glory: "Shiba Inu puzzled.jpg"
Northern God's Glory: "I only felt a tiny warm current. Is it really that dramatic?"
Lighthouse Tycoon: "What are you barking about?!"
Lighthouse Tycoon: "Are you posturing at me right now?"
Lighthouse Tycoon: "Do you even know what it means to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with gods while in a human body?!"
Lighthouse Tycoon: "My anti-Shiba Inu Thor mech is nearly complete. Once the chat group unlocks cross-world travel, just you wait—I'll beat you senseless and wire you up as a battery!"
Child of Nature: "As expected—neither humans nor dogs can accept the taste."
Child of Nature: "I'll just disable that ability then. The effects are average anyway, and the food version tastes considerably better."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Disable that ability? The way you said that makes it sound like you have a whole bunch of abilities."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Aren't you limited to something like elemental stuff? Controlling trees, communicating with plants and animals, that sort of thing?"
Child of Nature: "Are you sure you're describing me? That sounds more like a Druid…"
Child of Nature: "My ability—I can more or less control anything that belongs to nature."
Child of Nature: "For example: oxygen, elements, chemical compounds, technology, that sort of thing."
Child of Nature: "As for [Pill Crafting]—since it's an ability awakened by a human, I can use it."
Ordinary Group Owner: "???"
Lighthouse Tycoon: "???"
Lighthouse Tycoon: "You can control chemical elements?"
Worst Elf: "And you can control technology?"
Turn Daigu into Soup: "What about nuclear bombs? Can you just make one by hand?"
Child of Nature: "Yes."
Ordinary Group Owner: "That's not even the most important part! The important part is what came after!"
Ordinary Group Owner: "What do you mean 'since it's an ability awakened by a human, I can use it'?!"
Ordinary Group Owner: "Because humans are part of nature, and you can control nature—does that mean they fall within your range too? Can you use any ability that any human awakens?!"
Are you sure this person is human? Can this even BE a person?
So it wasn't just nature—any ability awakened by any human, you could use them all?!
Child of Nature: "Yes."
Bai Xuan didn't hide it. Honestly, he'd thought he'd already mentioned his ability in the chat group at some point.
Ordinary Group Owner: "If your world is a novel like we've been guessing, then you're the author's biological father!"
Ordinary Group Owner: "Who has cheats this broken?!"
Ordinary Group Owner: "It was supposed to be a golden age—spiritual qi revival, global awakening—and instead it's just you standing above everyone else while they all exist as your backdrop."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Change your name. Stop being Bai Xuan. Just call yourself Bai Aotian and be done with it.**
Even that guy from Re:Zero who everyone calls the author's golden child doesn't have cheats this absurd!
He just had dozens of divine blessings and the ability to get whatever blessings he wanted whenever he wanted—okay, fine, that's actually pretty comparable.
All right. You're all the author's beloved children. I'm just the author's unwanted daughter.
And on top of having abilities this powerful, he went and joined the chat group!
Ordinary Group Owner: "In novel terms, you're a certain website's top pick, and I'm the one that website dumped."
Child of Nature: "…"
Child of Nature: "Shrugging.jpg"
Child of Nature: "There's nothing I can do about that."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Ugh!"
Ordinary Group Owner: "I thought a Mythical Zoan Angel-form Devil Fruit might let me catch up to you—we're both transmigrators, after all. I see now I was far too naive."
Child of Nature: "Speaking of which—you ate the Mythical Zoan Angel fruit. How was the taste?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "Huh? That fast a topic change? At least let me complain a little more."
Ordinary Group Owner: "The taste—imagine the surface of a bitter melon coated in honey, then boiled in luosifen broth, with stinky tofu and durian thrown in. Absolutely revolting."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Damn it—I'd finally managed to forget, and now you've made me remember again."
Ordinary Group Owner: "gag"
As she typed, Su Yunqing felt the memory of that flavor resurface in full force, and her stomach turned.
One bite was all it took to sear it permanently into memory. And because of some rumor she'd heard that eating only a single bite might affect the fruit's awakening, she hadn't dared leave a single bit—she'd forced the entire thing down.
After finishing it, she'd been genuinely impressed with herself.
Worst Elf: "Just hearing that description is nauseating."
Dongfang Bubai: "The taste is truly beyond words."
Dongfang Bai recalled eating the Glint-Glint Fruit. With everything she'd eaten in her life, nothing could be used to describe it.
She wasn't a picky eater by any means—she could finish even the most plain and ordinary food without complaint. But that Devil Fruit—she'd taken one bite and hesitated for a long time before daring to take a second.
Devil Fruits were effective after even a single bite, but she'd watched Luffy eat his entire fruit in One Piece, so she hadn't stopped at one.
Fortunately, the Glint-Glint Fruit's power was worth every bit of its taste.
In this world, even her master Dugu Qiubai—she could take him in a fight now. To say nothing of anyone else.
While the group was still debating Devil Fruit flavors, Whitebeard suddenly spoke.
Be My Son: "The Dark-Dark Fruit. Thatch has found it."
Uchiha Dance King: "So the plot is beginning."
Uchiha Dance King: "Hidden for years, all for a single possibility. Cold, ruthless, willing to do anything to achieve his ends. He has the makings of a warlord, that much is true."
What Blackbeard had done was, from Whitebeard's perspective, pure betrayal. But from certain other angles, there was indeed something of the ambitious schemer about him.
He had killed a crewmate to take the Dark-Dark Fruit. Defeated Ace and handed him over to the Navy, triggering the Summit War. And at the end of it all, seized Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit power.
He had ultimately taken Whitebeard's place as one of the Four Emperors.
Without Luffy's existence, he genuinely might have had a path to becoming King of the Pirates.
That said—Uchiha Madara did not approve of Blackbeard's methods. If it were him, what would the Dark-Dark Fruit matter? Could he not reach the pinnacle of the pirate world on his own strength alone?