A bounty flew out of a seagull's hand and landed in front of Ling's lap who at this moment was meditating and training his mind. He saw that it was his bounty that rose to fifty million. The picture was now of Ling punching Captain John with a crazy smile on his face.
On the rock's ship...
"HAHA! You got whooped by a newbie?!" laughed Shiki holding a bounty of Ling.
Captain John was sulking and drinking rum, as he heard the laughter of the other commanders.
"GULALALALA! This kid is quite strong to be able to break your bones!" laughed Whitebeard downing some sake.
"You are an embarrassment to the Rocks," said LinLin stuffing her face with food.
Silver axe and WangZhi were quiet but they held back their laughter since Captain John was one of their good friends.
Suddenly, everyone became quiet as Rocks walked onto the deck of the huge ship, his aura wild and fiery. "Why is it so lively today?" asked Rocks looking around.
Shiki flew towards Rocks and smirked, "Captain, look, at this!"
Looking at the picture and bounty, he was quite shocked, to think a kid could punch Captain John who has a bounty above one billion, and injure him, he looked at Captain John and sneered. "You underestimated him and didn't even fortify your body with haki, useless!"
Captain John gulped and nodded in silence.
"You have dishonored my name, so, you will be my sparring partner for two months so this won't happen again."
Everyone paled in fright, the last person who was his sparring partner was Shiki and he almost died during it. Gulping, Shiki smiled, "Yes Captain, he deserves to be beaten for being so dumb."
Captain John glared at Shiki and kept quiet, nodding.
On an island in South Blue...
Rouge at this moment looked at the bounty and frowned, "I hope you are alive, brother."
On a small island near South Blue...
Ling was training and visualizing Captain John's slashes as he dodged and tried to face them head-on. "I need more, I need way more."
Jumping into the sea, deep in the sea, he began to practice as Sea Kings began to attack him. Letting them attack him, he saw that his defense had gone up after the fight with Captain John.
The sea kings barely made a dent in his body now as he began to fight them while training.
Punching the last sea king to death, he dragged the twenty sea kings and ate them all using life return to absorb the nutrients quickly. Feeling his body explode in energy, he walked up to a mountain and began punching it, leaving dents the size of basketballs in it.
The mountain overlooked the entire island, reaching a height of four hundred meters.
*Bang*
His fists collided with the mountain as he remembered the helplessness of fighting Captain John, and the moment he was knocked unconscious from the gas. Restricting his oxygen, he began to go harder.
A year goes by...
Collapsing onto the ground, Ling ripped off his shirt that was torn from the training and he looked at the mountain that was sky high which was now only one hundred meters. Looking at his fist, he smirked.
"Meteor Cannon!" yelled Ling as he punched the mountain it shattered into a million pieces. The shockwave of the punch blew back the trees as if a hurricane was occurring. Feeling his stamina depleted, he was satisfied.
A new bird flew over the island and was shocked that the mountain was gone until he saw a young boy sitting on the ground laughing. Shaking its head, he threw a newspaper down as Ling threw ten beli into the bird's pouch.
Gulping, the bird was at least seven hundred meters away from the boy, but he still accurately threw the money, realizing this, the bird flew away quickly.
Taking the newspaper, he read it: Rocks Pirates invade Marijoa for unknown reasons.
Sighing, Ling rowed away from the island that sustained him for a year, before he left, he placed a small flag on the island that had a demonic face on it with red curly horns.
He forgot to write to Rouge, so that was the first thing he did until a sea king appeared in front of his ship again. Splashing water onto the letter he was about to write, he glared at the sea king, making it scared.
This wasn't conqueror's haki, but just straight-killing intent. Tying a rope on the sea king, he tied it to his boat and gave it orders to go to the nearest island. "I wonder how Rouge is doing."
Looking into the sky, he sighed and fell asleep as the sea king pulled his boat to the nearest island. Suddenly a whirlpool appeared and began to suck the sea king and Ling in it...
On a ship with a flag that had the name Gol D Roger, many of the crew members were cleaning until they saw a whirlpool appear out of nowhere. "Captain! There is a whirlpool!"
Rogers, the man who would later become the most wanted man in the world groggily opened his eyes and came out of his room. Seeing what the commotion was about, he suddenly felt a dangerous aura and he rushed towards the side of the ship.
Seeing Rayleigh and Gaban on his side, he looked down at the whirlpool that spat out a dead sea king with a boat, and on the boat, they saw that a person was sleeping soundly...