I guarded Impel Down for a hundred years in the pirate world.

Barbani's expression darkened. Seeing that the airship's descent was unstoppable, he shouted, "Open the hatch! Omf, Sebek, let's go!"

"Yes!"

Because there is almost no pressure difference between the high altitude and the land, opening the hatch will not have any other impact. After the hatch was opened, the three mink leaped out and then hovered steadily in the air. They found the problem and then somersaulted to the tail of the rapidly descending airship, where they saw the golden lion attached to it.

"A human? A hideous wretch! Release our airship!" A flash of blue electricity crackled around Omofu as she leaped forward, trampling with her pig hooves.

They can even fly?! Are these space pirates?! Shiki was shocked and quickly drew his twin swords, activating Armament Haki, and unleashed a full-force attack!

Bang!

"ah--"

After a muffled thud, the pig girl screamed and flew backward, blood gushing from her pig hooves!

Huh? The golden lion was taken aback.

It's definitely not weak.

But it seems... not very strong?

"Lamp wick?" Ombudsman was grabbed by Babani, his aura spreading out as he stared intently at the golden lion and asked, "Who are you?"

This pressure? This gorilla is very strong!

The golden lion came to its senses.

Are they able to communicate in the same language?

What does "wick" mean? Is it related to the research that Boss Lox was doing on lighting lamps?

A thought flashed through his mind, and the Golden Lion recalled Figo's instructions, responding with a cold and cruel smile.

The chimpanzee clenched his fist, and Omef, swinging his pig's hooves, glared angrily at the golden lion, while the crocodile man Sebek looked down to sense the situation below.

“There are still six people down there,” he whispered a reminder. “Lord Barbani.”

"I know, this feels like space pirates, not any of the situations we anticipated. It's a waste of time." Barbani sneered. The three of them stood facing Golden Lion on the airship, waiting for it to land smoothly.

Then Rocks, Chrissy, and the other six pirates calmly joined up with Golden Lion. Rocks, who took the lead, drew Barbani's attention away from the group.

"Are you their captain?" Barbani asked. "A pirate crew? You guys are the ones who activated the transmitter? What are you trying to do?"

"The more you say, the more mistakes you make; the less you say, the fewer mistakes you make. We know too little. If it's someone you can communicate with, try to use silence to force them to talk more, and use rhetorical questions to answer their questions. Can you do that, Chrissy?" — Figo

Krissi stepped forward, her smile icy. "Finally, the people have arrived. Heh, guess what we're planning to do?"

The chimpanzee snorted, "As expected, you're a bunch of pirates. But it's rare to see guys as bold as you, actively luring us Mink warriors here. You want our flying boat?"

Krissi: "What do you think?"

"Has the original branch of the angel race that lived here been wiped out? Did you find the transmitter in their underground city? Do you know anything else? Which planet are you from, and what is your bounty?"

Krissi: "Guess?"

"..."

"Pfft-"

The pig girl, Omef, suddenly chuckled and said, "What a cute and handsome man, it's just a pity he's a bit old. Lord Barbani, they shouldn't be famous pirates. If I've seen his bounty poster, I'll remember it."

Of course, there's also that ugly guy!

Ugly Shiki: "..."

"Not famous?" Barbani turned her gaze back to Rocks: "This guy gives me a dangerous feeling, how could he not be famous? You... you shouldn't be from the Eastern Universe Sea, right? You ate Devil Fruits, could you have been hunted down by the demon race?"

Danger? Omf's smile vanished, and she looked at Barbani in surprise for confirmation. The crocodile man beside her, who had been silent, revealed a fierce expression on his crocodile face: "I thought I was mistaken, Lady Barbani, what should we do? Should we kill them?"

Barbani didn't answer, but glanced at the airship and thought to himself that it was a troublesome situation. How did they find out about our airship and force it to land?

"Afraid of your airship being destroyed, feeling tied down?" Lockes finally spoke, his fighting spirit surging. "You guessed right, we want your airship, so we don't want to destroy it. How about we fight somewhere further away?"

The chimpanzee was taken aback, then bared its large white teeth.

"You're courting death, you arrogant pirate."

Chapter 137 Six Techniques of the Starry Sky

Qinghai, Flying Boat Research Base.

High-ranking naval officers, including Kong, Garp, and Sengoku, along with numerous researchers, sat around in the conference room, intently watching the footage captured by the video Den Den Mushi, not wanting to miss a single second.

“Rocks did a good job protecting our airship,” Figo’s explanation came through the Den Den Mushi. “This should be a reconnaissance team. Apart from the three elite members—the gorilla, the pig, and the crocodile—who are quite capable, the rest of the airship crew are just grunts piloting it, their strength negligible. So, after those three were lured away, I could easily…”

The screen suddenly blurred for a moment.

Then, with a few thuds as people fell to the ground, the scene shifted to the mechanically beautiful control room inside the airship, where a few fur tribesmen could be vaguely seen lying on the ground.

Then the screen flickered, focusing on another screen, and Figo said, "Solved. Big news! This looks like a star map. Look at these tiny star markers, the difference in color..."

"Hmm, blue represents habitable planets, black represents uninhabitable planets, and red represents dangerous or enemy planets... Although we speak the same language, our writing systems are different; these are ancient scripts, and I don't recognize them all. Oh, our planet is here, quite remote."

Kong and the others crowded closer to take a look.

On the enormous screen, amidst a galaxy of stars, countless dots of various sizes and colors could be seen. Among them, there were probably thousands of inhabited planets. The spot Figo was pointing to was a small blue dot in the upper right corner.

The world they had always lived in, the entire Qinghai region, was just a tiny dot in a sea of ​​stars.

This is probably not the entire star map of the universe. They all noticed the term "Eastern Cosmic Sea" that Baba Ni just mentioned.

“This is truly…” Warring States period murmured.

Garp laughed: "That's really interesting. If Roger saw this..."

Ze asked, "Professor Figo, what are your plans now? To just disguise yourself as a space pirate and plunder the Mink Tribe? Isn't that unjust?"

“Yes, it is indeed unjust.” Figo continued walking around, filming the spaceship of the Mink Tribe to show them, and laughed, “It’s okay to lose once in a while, it’s related to the fate of Qinghai.”

The current trend is good. The other side mistakenly believes we are space pirates, and may have sent out a signal during the previous standoff. If the Celestial Dragons' transmitter cannot be reactivated, or if they stop activating it in the short term, the day when Qinghai is exposed to space will be delayed for a long time, giving us more time to explore.

Moreover, those three Minkmen from the universe are not weak. Although they wouldn't be difficult for me to deal with, they were just an advance team, and just Minkmen. Judging from their strength, there are probably quite a few stronger beings in the universe than me. Besides, I'm still bothered by a misunderstanding they had before—

They suspected that Rocks and his companions had been hunted here by demons, so Devil Fruits might bring them big trouble.

Zefa paused for a moment, then said, "I understand."

Kong then asked, "Are those three Mink warriors from the universe a match for Lox and his group?"

“I’m not sure. It seems that the gorilla is inferior to Rocks, but there are still some techniques I don’t understand, like that flight.” Figo said, “That’s a technique, not a fruit, nor some other technological product or racial talent.”

"Flying...is it a skill?!"

Does skill mean... that it can be learned?

"Okay, that's enough filming the airship. The battle is about to begin. I'll go check it out!"

……

Hundreds of kilometers away from the flying boat.

The battle just broke out.

Blinding electric currents crackled around its body, and the powerful chimpanzee moved like lightning under the night sky, its massive fists slamming down on Rocks's body!

Rocks's slash met the punch head-on.

Crimson lightning tore through the air, and the chimpanzee snorted, "Oh? So you do possess Haki too? Not bad strength, but..."

With a deafening boom, the earth shook, and Rocks' body was thrown backward by the immense force, flying away at top speed.

Their battle began, with Omef and Sebek, two mink, each finding their own opponents, facing Shiki and Krissi respectively.

"Ugly ghost, I don't have time to worry about your captain. It's no use worrying. All of Lord Barbani's opponents will be crushed by his power! I'm going to take revenge for that sword you just used to cut me!" Omeph stared at Shiki, her eyes turning blood red.

Unlike the Mink Tribe of Qinghai who need to stare at the full moon to transform into Sulong, Omeph can transform by facing Shiki. Her short, chubby pink body becomes longer and thinner, and her fur turns pure white, making her much prettier. Her pig hooves start trampling on Shiki again!

At the same time, Seebek also transformed into Sulong and attacked Krissi.

Three battlefields, three sides clashing fiercely.

The other four members of the Rocks Pirates were unable to participate and instead received spectator seats.

"Space pirates are really strong! That chimpanzee was able to easily defeat Boss Rocks." They exclaimed, but remained calm.

Having witnessed Figo's power, they were completely unmoved.

Rocks had the same mindset.

However, after parrying a few punches from the chimpanzee, he warmed up a bit. The guy in front of him was no match for Figo, but he seemed to be a decent opponent.

Space pirates, they didn't disappoint him!

"Hey, how many guys like you, stronger than you, are there in the Mink Tribe? A lot?" Rocks asked with a crooked smile as he parried another punch from the chimpanzee.

"Hmph, so you really aren't a pirate from the Eastern Universe Sea? You really don't recognize Lord Barbani? No wonder you're so bold! Remember this in your next life: I am the strongest warrior under the command of several dukes and the king of the Mink Tribe!" Barbani's eyes turned blood red, his body shifted, and the electric current intensified!

boom--

The immense force shattered the earth. Rocks tasted a sweetness in his mouth as his body was thrown backward and bounced a few times on the ground. Then, the giant chimpanzee, whose body had stretched to over 8 meters, came crashing down like Mount Tai!

This is the strongest warrior?

Is this just self-praise?

Locus spat out a mouthful of blood, feeling somewhat dissatisfied, but then he thought that this was just one race in the universe, and that the king and a few dukes he mentioned might be able to defeat Figo.

There really is an opportunity in the starry sky!

Hehe, let it fall apart!

Boom—

The ground within a radius of several thousand meters was neatly shattered, and bricks and stones flew into the air. In the chimpanzee's swirling gaze, they were suddenly piled up in the middle, and then quickly shattered by him!

Immediately following, cherry blossoms fluttered down, leaving several small wounds on the chimpanzee's body. The chimpanzee then amplified the electric arc, blasting the cherry blossoms away. "So she really is a Devil Fruit user?"

The chimpanzee was floating in mid-air, not paying attention at first, but in the next two minutes, he was horrified to find that Rocks' control range was getting larger and larger. After displaying the same power as when he fought Figo, he, who was not as strong as Figo, was quickly suppressed by one small mountain after another and was exhausted!

"How could this be? It's actually a guy who's about to light the lamp with his demon bloodline? No wonder Lord Barbani felt it was dangerous. Damn it, why would such a powerful person come to this corner to lure us with a transmitter?" Omeph, who was fighting the Golden Lion, was also having a hard time. Several times she was distracted by the other side and was mercilessly injured by the Ugly Ghost.

The crocodile skin on the other side was also almost charred.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Figo was secretly taking photos throughout the three intense battlefields.

"Yes, my prediction was correct. That chimpanzee is about the same strength as Lingling. It only uses brute force and has fewer variations in its moves. It's even a bit weaker than Rocks. Garp, Sengoku, and Zephyr, any two of you can easily defeat it."

Figo still had time to explain to the Den Den Mushi, his perspective focused on the Rocks Chimpanzee battlefield, when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?"