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

His choice to play it safe was also a way of helping Qinghai to play it safe, protecting Qinghai, and allowing Qinghai to use the Starry Sky News' intelligence channels to steadily gain a foothold in the Starry Sky.

If he had gone out and lived a wild life, it would have taken at least 10 years longer for Qinghai to develop to its current level, and the losses would have been 10 times greater.

Now it's almost time to take the next step.

Figo glanced at the prison files.

Beelzebub, wait for me to come find you!

Chapter 207 Tourist Attack Incident

"Old Jin, congratulations on lighting the lamp."

At the age of 125, Kimi's hair had returned to its original black color, and his face had transformed into that of a middle-aged man in his fifties or sixties, giving him a new lease on life.

He was originally very talented, the kind of vice admiral who is at the very top of the Navy, ignoring Garp. After all, if it weren't for Figo, he would likely have been the first commander of Impel Down, and he would have had the opportunity to remain in office until Magellan took over.

After mastering the technique of False Fire, he easily rose to Raul's level. If he hadn't been too old and missed the right time, Marco, Jhin, and other juniors might not have been able to surpass him.

But things were different when Ana used her abilities to help him regress thirty years. When he regained his strength and mastered the pulse-seeking technique, it took him 14 years to finally ignite the flame in his body and continue for another hundred years!

As for Ana, who lost several years of her lifespan for this, she is now nominally the chief strategist of the Qinghai Universe Navy Department. With the help of the strongmen of Qinghai, the demon race that dared to do evil in the Eastern Universe Sea has been almost wiped out, and she has also received other compensation promises from Figo.

Jinche accepted Figo's congratulations, raised his glass to clink with Figo's, and drank it down in one gulp.

The two were sitting on a sea platform in the Imperial City, drinking under the starry sky.

This can be considered a farewell party.

Tomorrow, Figo will officially step down from all his positions in Impel Down, and Kingcutt will take over!

"It's missing a sentence," Jinqie said as he poured the wine. "It just feels like something's missing."

Figo paused, then laughed and said, "Is it 'After this trip, I won't be coming back'?"

Jinqie snorted and laughed.

The two clinked glasses again, and Figo said with some emotion, "A hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye. This time I'm really not teasing you anymore, Old Jin."

I entered Impel Down in 1414, and now it's 1515, a full century has passed since I traveled here!

"For me, it's only 70 years."

Ana's ability to forget things extends a person's lifespan by making them completely forget those 30 years. So now, Kinkichi can be said to be 95 years old. The only way to know about those 30 years of memories is from the records that Ana wrote down before she used her ability.

Kingsley felt he had been tricked. Those 30 years were the time Figo spent posing as the king of various races, and the happy time he spent as the de facto administrator of Impel Down.

I forgot about it.

The remaining 70 years... let's not talk about them.

"Come to think of it, it seems like it was around 100 years ago today that we fought, and we haven't fought since," Figo added.

Jin Qie chuckled. "Who could fight you after that? Your strength improved faster than the speed of the flying boat. No one could catch up with you."

He snorted and said, "Back then you were young and impetuous. You could have easily taken over as deputy warden, but you insisted on using five years of guard duty and challenges to compete with me for the warden position, showing no respect to me, a senior lieutenant colonel."

Figo laughed: "You were so arrogant back then, looking down on me, a captain, and using a block of iron to withstand my attacks."

"Hmph, you're still pretending..." The two old marines and prison guards from the previous eras exposed each other's embarrassing stories. After a long while, Kinki sighed, "You're really getting old. You have more and more burdens on your shoulders, and you don't dare to be as arrogant as before."

"Is there?" Figo asked.

Jinqie gestured to Impel Down: "In the past, you dared to directly refuse the Celestial Dragons of Qinghai from taking prisoners as slaves. But in the past ten years, you have allowed the Celestial Dragons to take away all the demons they have captured."

"You mean this?" Figo shook his head and said, "If you're not strong enough, you have to keep a low profile. I didn't refuse the Celestial Dragons' offer of slaves on my first day in Impel Down, did I? Besides, the Celestial Dragons also made an equal exchange with us."

He pointed to the sky: "That star ring that took 10 years to build is worth me giving up."

Furthermore, those demons who were transferred also helped me locate the Demon Suppression Prison on Tianlong Star!

Figo added in his mind, raising his glass to toast King again: "I am still the same as before, without the slightest change. Time is just a test, and the belief planted in my heart has not diminished in the slightest."

He's got quite a set of clever phrases. Jinqie was taken aback, sensing the power in Figo's words, and clinked glasses with Figo.

Their laughter carried on.

Waves rippled in the windless zone.

Conqueror's Haki: 1655345

Level 6, Starry Night Lamp

This is the fourth lamp that Figo lit!

……

Meanwhile, the Firethorn constellation.

A tragedy is unfolding.

On the blood- and fire-reddened earth, a young couple trembled and clung to each other. The man gritted his teeth and said, "Why, why did you do this?! If you wanted money, we gave you everything! Why did you have to kill us?!"

Opposite the two were several bizarre-looking space pirates, led by a young man with a red rooster-like hairstyle who grinned menacingly and said, "If you really want to know why, just blame it on the fact that you're tourists from Qinghai!"

Why?

"No reason why, I've been annoyed with you guys for a long time. What space navy, what friendly planet, you meddlesome bastards! Since when have we pirates from the Eastern Space Sea had to defer to your Blue Sea's wishes?!"

The young man with the rooster-like haircut laughed loudly: "I'm about to enter the Central Star Region! Space Navy? Come and get me in the Central Star Region! Hahaha..."

Just because of this? We in Qinghai have never interfered in matters concerning non-alliance planets, and our relationship with allied planets is mostly one of employment!

The young man stopped arguing, realizing he had encountered a madman. He hugged his wife tightly and whispered an apology: "I'm sorry, if I hadn't said I was coming to the Firethorn Stars, this wouldn't have happened..."

"No." The woman's voice trembled, but she mustered her courage and said, "I'm not afraid. The Navy and the King of the World will avenge us!"

"Revenge? Hmph!"

With a swift stroke, the knife fell, and blood splattered!

"Let's go, the night is still long."

……

Brubrubru, brubrubru.

At the Naval Headquarters, although it was late at night, the diligent Fleet Admiral Sengoku had not yet finished his shift. With his body already lit up, he was relaxed and at ease.

After listening to a couple of sentences through the Den Den Mushi, Sengoku's expression turned serious: "A vicious attack targeting tourists from Qinghai? What a despicable bastard!"

After hanging up the Den Den Mushi, he simultaneously dialed two Den Den Mushi, one ordinary and the other a space-crossing Den Den Mushi bred by Vegapunk.

"Immediately contact the Firesol Stars and ask them to help suspend passenger airships for one to two days. Qinghai will bear all the losses caused!"

"Kizaru, a vicious attack has occurred on the Firethorn Stars targeting tourists from the Blue Sea. The perpetrators are likely the Belo Pirates, and their captain is Vegeta Belo, with a bounty of 1.242 billion Star Coins. Light a lamp; I'd appreciate it if you could go."

In the space naval branch on a planet not too far from the Firesol Cluster, Kizaru hung up the Den Den Mushi and smacked his lips.

It's so late, and they're not even paying overtime.

However, he immediately made arrangements, sending the marines off in airships, while he himself went ahead, a golden beam of light shooting into the starry sky!

Chapter 208 The Old Couple

Figo received the news the next day.

He nodded in approval upon hearing Zhan Guo's decision. This was not the first or second time such a thing had happened in Qinghai over the past 14 years.

There will always be people who dislike Qinghai for various reasons. Some are ruthless villains, some have a "hatred of the rich" mentality, and some don't want to see a dominant planet rise in the Eastern Universe.

While Figo personally guarded Qinghai, the navy had to fight on its own outside. The three admirals were almost always stationed on the alien planet to guard it.

"In a place like the Firesol Cluster, blocking the starport for two days would likely delay many people's affairs, so the compensation afterwards must be sincere."

“I understand,” Sengoku said. “Lord Figo, are you preparing to…”

Figo nodded: "You'll have even more pressure on your shoulders from now on. Thank you for your hard work."

Sengoku touched his hair, deciding to call that old bastard Garp back, and replied, "Don't worry... when do you plan to leave?"

"Let's wait for Kizaru's news. I'll go to the school to take a look and stay for two more days."

Sengoku glanced at the sky: "Judging by the time, Kizaru should be arriving soon."

……

As its name suggests, the Firesol Cluster is not a single planet, but a cluster of stars.

It consists of five planets, one large and four small, combined in a unique shape. The distance between them is closer than that between Qinghai Lake and the Moon. All of them are habitable and developed planets with life, and they are very close to the central star region.

Separating the Eastern Cosmic Sea from the Central Star Region lies a dangerous and chaotic star region. It is characterized by unique magnetic field interference, making it difficult for spacecraft to maintain a straight flight and easily causing them to lose their way. Furthermore, there are numerous meteorites that hover and fly erratically, increasing the risk of air disasters.

To pass through this star field, one can normally only take the four established passages. These four passages were all managed by the Celestial Dragons a thousand years ago, and all travelers had to be reviewed and screened by the Celestial Dragons. After the Demon Clan's liberation plan, the Celestial Dragons' power was weakened and transferred, leaving two passages vacant.

Pirates in the Eastern Universe Sea who want to enter the Central Star Region now have to take these two routes. The simplest one is to abandon the airship and take a passenger airship from the Eastern Sol Stars.

There aren't many of these interstellar spaceships; they usually only run once every one or two months. One of these spaceships was supposed to take off this morning, but the group of guests waiting here received news that the spaceship was delayed.

Amidst the commotion and complaints, the person in charge of the Flying Boat Port repeatedly apologized and explained the reasons.

Among the crowd, several groups of people gradually turned pale, their eyes meeting in the air.

"damn it!"

"Who attacked the people of Qinghai?!"

"This is troublesome..."

They are all up-and-coming pirates from the Eastern Universe Sea who are preparing to enter the Central Star Region. They are young, ambitious, and somewhat famous figures in the vast Eastern Universe Sea, eager to take their place.

Captains are generally kings who can swagger around in front of most planets, but when facing Qinghai, they have to tuck their tails between their legs.

The culprits, the Belo Pirates, were also there.

"Tch, those bastards, they actually managed to blockade a starport?" Dahl Bello, with his mohawk, sneered.

"What do we do, Captain?"

Dahl Bellow looked thoughtful.

He wasn't stupid; otherwise, he wouldn't have waited until the eve of entering the Central Star Region to target the Qinghai tourists. He just hadn't expected Qinghai's prestige to have reached such a level that they could close the inter-star region port of the Firesol Cluster so easily.

The closure can't last too long, but before that, powerful figures from Qinghai will definitely come.

"Let's go, let's get out of here first!"

Feeling guilty, they hurriedly left, while other groups of pirates who knew each other or had heard about each other gathered together and questioned one another.