After a long time,
Just as the Conqueror's Haki was about to dissipate, Xia Luo suddenly opened his eyes wide.
An invisible aura erupted again, centered around Xia Luo. This time, the Conqueror's Haki was even more intense than before.
The waves were stirred up, creating rippling patterns.
The coconut leaves on the beach swayed unsteadily.
Looking at the stunned sea fish knocked unconscious by his Conqueror's Haki, Xia Luo burst into laughter.
"I'm really a genius!"
With a thought in his mind, Xia Luo instantly retracted his Conqueror's Haki.
The surroundings returned to calm.
Only the unconscious sea fish washed onto the beach by the waves knew what had just happened.
"Hahaha! Finally, I've mastered the skill of freely controlling the Conqueror's Haki. I'm one step closer to becoming a powerful person!"
Xia Luo wildly swung the long sword in his hand.
The qi sword slashes appeared continuously on the beach.
It seemed that the qi sword slashes had become a bit longer.
Noticing this, Xia Luo couldn't help feeling overjoyed.
He continued to swing the sword recklessly until he was completely exhausted.
...
Time slowly passed as Xia Luo was training.
It was now the year 1480 in the Sea Calendar!
Over the past year, Xia Luo had been training by the sea every day and no longer went into the mountains.
Moreover, due to the rampage of the Rocks pirate group on the sea, there were now a large number of pirates in the sea.
Now, basically, a pirate group would appear at the port every month to come ashore and rob.
These people were all killed by Xia Luo, and their deaths were turned into bounty.
The bounty was always collected separately by Xia Luo's underlings, so no one noticed Xia Luo.
Because Xia Luo had been cleaning up the pirates,
This area of the island was very safe.
In addition, since it had become a transfer station for sea transportation to the New World, it had also become prosperous.
The number of people on the island had gradually increased, from more than a thousand five years ago to more than seven thousand now, which was several times the original number.
These people had all fled from the second half of the New World, and some were rescued by Xia Luo.
In short, Xia Luo had a great reputation on this island.
After Chamberlain, an underling of the sea - transportation king, witnessed Xia Luo's way of killing pirates, he immediately changed his attitude towards Xia Luo. He would discuss everything with Xia Luo, which really annoyed Xia Luo.
Finally, Xia Luo pushed Ivan forward and told him to discuss things with Chamberlain.
As the number of pirates was increasing,
It was impossible for Xia Luo to deal with every pirate himself.
In the second half of last year, Xia Luo selected over fifty underlings with some talent. He then used his Observation Haki to sense that they were all his die - hard followers.
Xia Luo decided to set aside one day each week to train them.
These people were either Xia Luo's brothers or slaves rescued by him.
They all trained with Xia Luo and were now quite skilled.
Even five or six ordinary pirates couldn't get close to them.
Some of them had even learned one or two moves of the Navy Six Styles.
These people would be Xia Luo's assistants when he set sail at the age of eighteen.
Xia Luo also arranged for some others to learn some navigation knowledge.
Among them, Xia Luo asked Chamberlain to help solve these problems.
He's a subordinate of the Sea Trade King.
He must know quite a few navigators, doctors, and shipwrights. Among them, navigators are the most crucial. Xia Luo told Ivan to assign several trusted subordinates to learn from the navigators, and he also recruited several doctors for his more than a dozen maids to learn medical skills from.
In one year, Xia Luo rescued many trafficked slaves, most of whom were female slaves. Since many of them were homeless, Xia Luo arranged for them to serve him.
Needless to say, there were shipwrights and cooks as well.
There were already shipwrights and cooks on this small island. When the time was right, with just one order from him, over a dozen shipwrights and cooks could be assembled immediately.
Navigators, cooks, and shipwrights are essential talents for going to sea.
Xia Luo had them all.
All that was left was the ship.
Initially, Xia Luo only planned to build a ship over fifty meters long.
Due to insufficient funds at first, but as the number of pirates increased, Xia Luo's berries also rose rapidly.
Now, he didn't even bother with those protection fees.
After Chamberlain learned that Xia Luo was building a ship, he also showed his support.
He knew that Xia Luo was not an ordinary person.
The number of pirates he killed this year alone had exceeded a thousand.
He reported this matter to the King of Sea Trade.
The King of Sea Trade immediately said that he was very interested in Xia Luo.
After collecting Xia Luo's information and seeing that Xia Luo was only a teenager.
He secretly sighed that a genius had appeared.
Then he told Chamberlain to befriend Xia Luo without revealing his identity.
Just like this, Chamberlain supported everything Xia Luo wanted.
When Xia Luo needed navigators, he recruited them for Xia Luo. When Xia Luo needed materials, he directly obtained the best materials for him.
Although it wasn't the top - grade Adam Wood, it was the second - best material next to Adam Wood.
Seeing that he had the funds, materials, and shipwrights, Xia Luo waved his hand grandly.
He decided to build a huge ship that was a hundred meters long, twenty meters wide, and thirty meters high.
Now this ship is being built at the port and is estimated to be completed in about a year.
There was nothing he could do. There were too few shipwrights. The whole small island only had over 7,000 people, and there were only over 70 shipwrights.
Among them, only over twenty were building the ship for Xia Luo.
However, there were still three years before Xia Luo went to sea, so he wasn't in a hurry.
He had mastered Armament Haki.
Now, he either trained his subordinates or practiced Armament Haki every day.
His days were quite fulfilling and meaningful.
As for how he practiced Armament Haki, it all started with a group of pirates a few months ago.
A big-time pirate with a bounty of 100 million berries suddenly showed up at Kame Island's port.
Xia Luo instantly sensed the deep malice from the other side.
Xia Luo didn't waste any breath. As soon as they met, he unleashed a Flying Slash.
The thirty - meter - long Flying Slash instantly covered over a hundred meters and hit the pirate ship sailing towards his port.
He thought he'd completely wipe out this pirate group, but unexpectedly, a man suddenly jumped out and rushed in front of the pirate ship, blocking his attack head - on with his fists.
Although he was also injured, he still managed to block it, which piqued Xia Luo's interest.
He allowed the group of pirates on the opposite side to dock their ship at the port.
However, before that, Xia Luo had asked the people at the port to evacuate, leaving only himself to confront this group of pirates.
These pirates truly lived up to the name of pirates.
When the ship was still dozens of meters from the port, the cannons on the ship fired in succession, bombarding the port.
But Xia Luo didn't take these cannonballs seriously. With a casual wave of his sword, all the cannonballs exploded in mid - air without a single one remaining.
With Xia Luo's Kenbunshoku Haki, all the cannonballs fell into the sea.
Just as Xia Luo was awaiting the opponent's attack, he suddenly felt a chill, which confused him.
It was autumn, and winter was still two months off. Why did he feel cold?