A cook, vice-captain of the Rocks Pirates?

He didn't speak, but simply reached out and gently placed his hand on the giant tortoise's head, which was as rough as a mountain range, transmitting the image of the floating island on the scroll directly into the giant tortoise's consciousness through the meaning of food.

thump—

A deep, muffled roar, seemingly from ancient times, came from beneath their feet.

The ancestral giant tortoise slowly opened its golden eyes, which shone as brightly as the sun. It seemed to understand Renn's intentions, and its massive head turned slightly.

Immediately afterwards, the entire living island began to move slowly but steadily toward a new course.

The scene resembled a Noah's Ark carrying the entire world, embarking on its new and magnificent voyage towards the Promised Land, filled with dreams and the unknown, after receiving divine revelation.

The journey of the original giant tortoise is a completely different experience from that of the New Moby Dick.

It has no splashing sound of ships cutting through the waves, nor the roar of a steam engine.

It glided quietly and steadily across the sea, its massive body ignoring any wind, waves, or undercurrents, like a moving continent, making even the sea level appear lower wherever it passed.

The feeling was novel yet full of security, and everyone quickly adapted to this new mode of sailing.

Chapter 213 The Moving Sea Kingdom

"Hahaha! This is much more comfortable than traveling by boat!"

Gatz lay sprawled on a lawn covered in soft moss, his enormous belly rising and falling with each breath.

"It feels like lying on the grass in my backyard, sunbathing!"

"Yes."

Dorum, unusually, put down his notebook and leaned against a huge, broccoli-like tree, enjoying the sea breeze with a contented expression on his face.

"Most importantly, we no longer have to worry about this guy stepping through the deck."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gatz, who was not far away, suddenly rolled over, his huge body pressing a shallow crater into the lawn, causing the entire island to sway slightly.

Dorum's face instantly turned green: "Never mind what I said."

The crew quickly discovered the joy of living on the giant beast.

They no longer needed to stay bored on the deck; the entire island became their playground.

Some swam in the honey river and ended up covered in sticky residue, attracting a swarm of buzzing bee fairies.

Some challenged themselves to climb hills made of giant biscuits, and halfway up, they couldn't resist starting to gnaw on their own hiking trails.

Ryan, like a meticulous biologist, took his toolbox and began to systematically study the ecosystem of this living island.

He discovered that an independent and perfect cycle had formed on the body of this ancestral giant tortoise.

Those flowing rivers of honey are energy-rich bodily fluids secreted by giant turtles.

Those giant plants are special species that live in symbiosis with the giant tortoises. They provide the giant tortoises with extra energy through photosynthesis, while the giant tortoises provide them with land and nutrients to live in.

Even the creatures in the surrounding seas have intricate connections with this giant turtle.

That day, Gatz was fishing on the edge of the island, using super meatballs specially made by Rein from the scraps of the mountain worms.

Soon, he caught a strange creature that was as big as a warship, looked like a giant lobster, but had two huge brushes on its claws.

"Oh my gosh! Head Chef, look! I've caught a giant lobster!"

Gatz roared excitedly, hoisting the still-living lobster onto his shoulder and running toward the kitchen.

"Put it down."

Raine's calm voice came from the kitchen.

"Why? This guy looks so meaty!"

"Those are cleaner shrimp."

Ryan came out and pointed to the brush on the lobster claw.

"It is a symbiotic organism of the ancient giant tortoise, responsible for cleaning the harmful parasitic barnacles and algae attached to the tortoise shell, essentially acting as the ship's automatic cleaner."

Raine paused, then added, "If you eat it, you can brush the barnacles off the turtle's shell from now on."

Upon hearing this, Gatz's face fell instantly, and he angrily threw the giant lobster back into the sea.

"What about this? Surely we can eat this?"

Joz ran over from the other side, carrying a jellyfish-like creature with a transparent, jelly-like body that was still shimmering.

"That's a pilot jellyfish."

There was a hint of helplessness in Raine's tone.

"They are responsible for guiding the giant turtles along the safest and most energetic routes in the complex ocean currents, much like our living record pointers."

Everyone then realized that such a complex and efficient logistics system was hidden around this island.

This is no longer a single creature; it is a mobile sea kingdom.

Ryan collected some samples from those symbiotic organisms and discovered that although the flesh of these organisms was difficult to cook due to its special functionality, their body fluids or secretions contained unique energy and were top-quality materials for making special seasonings.

He used the body fluids of cleaning shrimp to create a powerful cleaning agent that made Dorum's toolbox shine like new again.

They also used the mucus of the pilot jellyfish to concoct a stimulating drink that could enhance concentration, which Silver, who was on lookout duty, praised highly.

Just as everyone was getting used to this novel life at sea, an unexpected encounter shattered the tranquility.

On this day, the ancestral giant tortoise was slowly passing through a dangerous sea area filled with the nests of enormous sea kings.

Those normally ferocious and violent sea kings, upon sensing the terrifying, god-like aura emanating from the giant turtle, all retreated to the depths of their nests, daring not to utter a single misbehavior.

However, a pirate ship flying a menacing skull and crossbow flag recklessly burst out from the side, seemingly trying to rob passing ships while the Sea Kings were in disarray. As a result, it ran right into the Whitebeard Pirates' mobile territory.

"Hahaha! Look! What's that over there? A moving island?"

The pirates on that ship were clearly confused and stared in disbelief.

The one-eyed captain at the head of the group excitedly drew his scimitar: "Whatever it is! Men, charge! Take that island! There must be a fortune hidden on it!"

"Oh!"

A group of reckless pirates, shouting and clamoring, charged towards them in their pirate ship, which looked like a small sampan in front of the Primordial Giant Turtle.

On the deck, the members of the Whitebeard Pirates looked at this group of fools who had delivered themselves to their doorstep with strange expressions.

"These guys... do they have bad eyesight?"

Marco said lazily.

Newgate grinned, a cruel smile playing on his lips: "They were just unlucky."

He didn't even bother to lift a finger, and simply said to Gatz beside him, "Gats, go and reason with them."

"okay!"

Gatz excitedly leaped up and broke off a biscuit from the highest biscuit hill on the edge of the island, a biscuit bigger than the pirate ship. Then, with all his might, he threw it at the ship like a shot put.

"Try this! It's our... dessert!"

The giant biscuit traced a sweet, deadly arc through the air, crashing with unparalleled force into the center of the pirate ship.

boom!

With a deafening crash, the sound of shattering pastries filled the air, and the pirate ship, along with the screams of everyone on board, was instantly smashed into a pile of debris floating on the sea, a mixture of sawdust and the smell of cream.

The whole world is quiet now.

Having dealt with those foolish pirates, the ancestral giant tortoise's voyage returned to peace.

People have become accustomed to this kind of overwhelming victory, and even find it somewhat boring.

Gatz was still regretting that he hadn't been able to dismantle those guys' bones himself. He felt that hitting people with cookies wasn't fun at all, lacking the weight and impact of metal colliding.

And so, in the midst of their somewhat mundane daily routine, they sailed for nearly a month.

Chapter 214 Floating Islands

That morning, as the first rays of sunlight pierced through the thin mist over the sea, Silver's cold voice, which had been on the lookout, finally rang out again.

"arrive."

The crowd perked up and rushed toward the edge of the island.

The sight before them made everyone hold their breath.

It was a sea of ​​miracles that defied description.

The sky was no longer simply blue, but presented a magnificent color, like a huge, shimmering gemstone.

Countless tiny, rainbow-like streams of energy weave through the clouds, as if the sky itself were a giant, living organism.

Beneath that dreamlike sky, countless islands of varying sizes float.

They are not made of rock, but a translucent crystal that lies between solidity and energy. A rainbow-colored mist constantly emanates from the edges of the islands, like glass left behind by the gods.

There are no bridges between the islands, but there are countless magnificent arches across the sky made of frozen rainbows.

Below was not an ocean, but a boundless sea of ​​clouds, exuding a faint sweet fragrance, as white and thick as cotton candy.

"This...this is the place where Rainbow Mist Orchids grow, the Floating Islands?"

Oden's eyes nearly popped out of his head. He felt that the beauty of Wano Country paled in comparison to this mythical scene, making it seem like a rural hillside.

"Gurarararar! This is even more exaggerated than that Gourmet's Gensokyo!"

Newgate also stood up. His unfathomable Observation Haki allowed him to clearly sense that every inch of the air here was filled with pure, invigorating energy.

This is no longer a simple treasure hunt; it's like stumbling into a god's backyard.

However, new problems also arose.

"These islands... are all floating in the sky."

Dorum's face showed the distressed expression unique to shipwrights, filled with technical difficulties.

"Our ship is big, but it can't fly. How are we going to get on?"

This is indeed a difficult problem. Although the ancestral giant tortoise can ignore most natural disasters at sea, it seems helpless in the face of such absolute geographical isolation.

"How about I fly up and take a look?"

Marco suggested that he transform into a phoenix, so that he could soar freely in the air.

"No."

Renn shook his head.

"The energy field here is very special. Flying rashly may get us caught in those disordered energy flows. Moreover, what we need is not just one person to go up, but our home to go up as well."

Just when everyone was at a loss, Newgate suddenly burst into laughter.

"Gurala lala! Who says we can't get up there?"

He walked to the very edge of the island, looking up at the floating archipelago high above, his eyes blazing with an air of dominance.

"It's just a little high, can't we just pull it down?"

Newgate took a deep breath and slammed his feet onto the turtle shell, unleashing the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to its fullest extent.

This time, he was no longer simply causing destruction, but rather using an extremely precise control to apply a massive amount of vibration to the sea surface directly below them!

"Secret Technique: Heavenly Ladder!"

Rumble!

The real ocean beneath the sea of ​​clouds was torn open with a huge gash by Newgate's terrifying power!

Immediately afterwards, a massive waterspout, over a kilometer in diameter and connecting the sky and the sea, shot up from the seabed like a giant ladder leading to the heavens in mythology, roaring as it swept towards the floating islands!

That was no longer a water column; it was a living, raging dragon made of seawater!

"Hahaha! Ladies, hold on tight!"

Newgate laughed loudly, commanding the ancestral giant tortoise to actively embrace the miraculous path to the sky that he had created with his own hands!

The ancestral giant tortoise let out a long, ancient cry, seemingly excited by this thrilling way of climbing.

Its massive body, supported by the enormous tornado of water, began to slowly, yet irresistibly, rise upwards!

The crew members gripped everything they could get their hands on, their faces filled with a frenzied excitement and thrill.