Pirate: I'm cracked, but my mutation talent is incredibly strong.

"Then you'll have to protect me, Rocks!"

"If I make a request in the future, I hope you can help me out. I will exchange more information for it."

Fang Huo swallowed his food and immediately accepted Rocks' invitation, becoming the 001st member of the Rocks Pirates.

They even started negotiating terms with Rocks.

"Hahaha, not bad! A good exchange of benefits!"

Lockes laughed heartily, his ambition growing ever stronger. He happily led Fang Huo and a group of soldiers away from the dimly lit ship's cell.

"The free wind, the warm sunshine..."

You only know how precious something is after you've lost it...

Fang Huo stood at the bow of the ship, embracing all the beauty around him, his eyes growing increasingly sharp.

He vowed that he would never be a prisoner again!

Sea stone handcuffs and leg irons, explosive collars—it's truly despair-inducing!

Furthermore, he wanted to avenge the benefactors, the elderly couple from Guyue Village!

Just then.

As his physical strength and mental energy recovered, clusters of small white soul fire insects emerged around Fang Huo, swirling around his shoulders, much like the awakening of a Devil Fruit ability.

"Hey, kid! Is this all you've got?"

Rocks was very interested in Fang Huo's ability to foresee the future.

His powerful Observation Haki was constantly scanning the small white fireballs that had suddenly appeared on Fang Huo's body.

"I guess so!"

The deep blue crescent moon mark on Fang Huo's forehead suddenly transformed into a crystal-clear, crescent-shaped blue crystal insect.

One blue and eight white, nine small insects swirling around Fang Huo.

Fang Huo gently held the blue crystal insect in his hand.

This little blue crystal worm seems to weigh almost nothing.

The plump, transparent little worms look very cute.

It was only the size of a jade pendant, and through its crystal-clear body, Fang Huo could see the lines on his palm.

"What is this?"

Lox looked at him with curiosity.

"My power, my Gu worms!"

Fang Huo spoke calmly, his eyes gleaming.

This is the soul mutation he underwent after time travel.

Soul Worm!

A fleshy, chaotic mass of souls, with a nose and eyes...

As Fang Huo manipulated the blue Gu worm to exert its power, a small crescent blade was formed.

The dark blue moon blade was over a meter long, resembling a crescent moon in the night sky.

"go!!"

The crescent-shaped, dark blue slash flew out at incredible speed, carving a trench in the sea.

"That's way too weak!"

Lox didn't mince words and immediately criticized that the slash was indeed inferior to that of an ordinary swordsman.

"This is just the beginning!"

Fang Huo glanced at the monster, Lox, and tenderly stroked his little blue bug and eight little white bugs.

I slowly drifted into memories.

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His name is Fang Huo, and he comes from Guyue Village in the Southern Xinjiang Province of the Blue Star Dragon Kingdom.

The villagers make a living and even become wealthy by raising venomous snakes, toads, scorpions, spiders, and centipedes.

At the same time, Fang Huo is also a newly enrolled college student who has just turned eighteen.

But to his utter surprise, just one or two months into the semester, he struck it lucky and was born into this world.

The place he traveled to was also called Guyue Village.

Fortunately, this is not Guyue Village from the world of Gu Zhenren, but Guyue Village from the world of One Piece.

Otherwise, he might have been refined by that old demon Fang Yuan!

It's quite a coincidence that there really is an uncle named Fang Yuan in Fang Huo's village, who shares the same name as the Great Love Immortal Venerable.

He died in an accident more than ten years ago while he was in college; he was hit by a Dongfeng truck.

Now, thanks to Fang Huo's incredible luck, he has traveled to the Ancient Moon Village in the One Piece world.

Fang Huo felt a chill run down his spine upon closer inspection.

Could it be that his Uncle Fang Yuan was really blown away by the East Wind to Gu Yue Village in the world of Gu Zhenren?

If it's true, I hope we can meet someday in the three thousand worlds.

Of course, Fang Huo didn't really want to see that cold-blooded and ruthless old devil Fang Yuan.

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To this day, Fang Huo has lived in this world for two and a half years.

It took him a year or two to gradually integrate into this world and learn its language.

Fortunately, perhaps his mother on Earth didn't completely give up on him, or perhaps it was just a coincidence after he traveled through time.

After Fang Huo was transported through time by the Great Luck, his soul was literally shattered by the impact.

Nine fragments of the soul split off.

These soul fragments merged with the power of this world, slowly transforming into the soul fire, or rather, soul worms, surrounding Fang Huo.

This is both a split of Fang Huo's soul and a soul worm independent of Fang Huo.

Fang Huo treated these plump soul worms like treasures.

Fang Huo knew very well that this soul worm was definitely his cheat code and power-up, and it was related to his future!

But for the past two years, he had not found a way to cultivate and use the Soul Worm.

He tried the methods he used in his previous life to raise snakes and venomous insects, and even employed the ethereal method of raising Gu poison...

But it still didn't work.

Over the past two and a half years, Fang Huo has been learning the universal language and script, cultivating his physique, and searching for a way to use the Soul Worm.

Until recently, while searching for mountain produce and wild vegetables in the mountains behind Guyue Village, he unexpectedly found a Devil Fruit by the grace of fate.

Only then did he understand the true purpose of his soul fire!

Perhaps it should be called a soul worm now.

One of the soul worms spontaneously rushed forward and devoured the Devil Fruit, transforming itself into a soul worm.

The plump, white soul worm transformed into a dark blue crescent-shaped Gu worm.

Fang Huo experienced the power and pleasure brought by the demonic version of the Gu worm!

Fang Huo began to understand the true meaning of the saying, "Humans are the most intelligent of all things, and Gu is the essence of heaven and earth."

It turns out that his soul fire can gain special abilities by fusing with Devil Fruit powers.

That means Fang Huo could become a multi-Devil Fruit user with the abilities of nine different Devil Fruits in the future!

If his main body could eat one more, he would be a ten-Devil Fruit user!

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Fang Huo learned about the Devil Fruit's abilities through a shared spiritual connection and resonance.

Paramecia type: Moonlight Fruit ability.

This is the Devil Fruit ability that Fang Huo's first Soul Worm fused with.

Soulfire, who now possesses the power of the Moonlight Devil Fruit, is now referred to by Fang Huo as Moonlight Gu or Moonlight Soul!

It possesses the ability to unleash moon blade strikes, and under the moonlight, it also gains other enhanced abilities.

Ancient Moon Village, the Moonlight Fruit ability, the Moonlight Gu—it's all such a coincidence!

After obtaining his first ability, Fang Huo seemed to see boundless hope, and his ambition began to grow vigorously.

However, adhering to the true principles of survival of the fittest, he did not intend to set sail and make a name for himself so soon.

He plans to hone his moonlight abilities before setting sail to find other Devil Fruits!

He believed that if he lived long enough, he could become the strongest being in this world.

The longer he has, the more abilities he accumulates, and the stronger he becomes!

Fang Huo once thought that Guyue Village was his lucky place, where he was fortunate enough to obtain the Moonlight Fruit, figure out his cheat code, and start his journey to become stronger.

But to everyone's surprise, just as Fang Huo was preparing to continue to play it safe and develop his strength, things took a turn for the worse.

Like Gu Yue Village in the world of Gu Zhenren, Gu Yue Village suddenly faced its own doomsday.

Fang Huo had not yet mastered the Moonlight Fruit's abilities, nor had he set sail to find a second Devil Fruit.

The small country where Guyue Village is located was invaded by a powerful vassal state called Cang Kingdom.

Amidst rampant plunder and massacres, Fang Huo, who had only recently gained the power of moonlight, was forced to resist in order to protect himself and the villagers who had been his benefactors.

In the end, a powerful general from the Cang Kingdom suddenly made a move and instantly suppressed the budding Fang Huo.

This filled Fang Huo with a sense of powerlessness and resentment. His journey to becoming the strongest had only just begun, yet it was about to be cut short...

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