Looking at the vast sea before him, Lucifer began to recall his five years of experiences.
At one year old, he was still playing with mud and wetting himself.
By two, Lucifer already showed wisdom beyond ordinary children, learning things remarkably fast.
At three, he began formal, self-designed training.
At four, he discovered the Devil Fruit and the famous sword—Star Sea.
Now, at five years old, Lucifer, or Chris D. Lucifer, was ready to activate another... no, another "cheat."
Today, he planned to activate the "Imagination Seed" left by his master at the moment of departure.
The ability Lucifer had long planned to manifest was the Zanpakuto from "Bleach" by Genryusai Yamamoto—Ryuujin Jakka.
Since he began cultivating, Lucifer had always admired Captain Yamamoto's sword.
Originally, he wanted to cultivate and develop a power similar to the "Ryuujin Jakka—Remnant Flame Longsword."
Now, he could directly "copy" the original, which was very tempting.
Lucifer didn't choose the "Bleach" power simply out of preference.
The One Piece world is essentially a Japanese-style manga world; "Bleach" is too.
Though the systems differ, the abilities derived are generally compatible and wouldn't seem out of place.
It's like Lucifer casually practicing Taiji; though the people here might not recognize it, it still fits.
Whether this world's system could support his Taiji training was uncertain, but the "Imagination Seed" left by the Lord of the Universe was not restricted by such limitations.
Any power "imagined" would not seem abrupt within any world's system.
Moreover, this power would never disappear.
If Lucifer traveled to another world next, this "imagined" power would remain, though he would need to retrain it.
After pondering a moment, Lucifer crushed the "Imagination Seed" visible only to him.
As the shining star-lit seed transformed into light particles, it merged into his body.
Lucifer felt the changes after absorbing the imagination seed while thinking about his advantages.
Currently, Lucifer had three major strengths: the "Myriad Phenomena Celestial Star Technique," the Zanpakuto manifested from the imagination seed, and a powerful soul.
How to explain—his past life, or rather the time before translocation, his physical self had been consumed as fuel for world crossing.
The remaining portion was a spiritual supplement, strengthening his soul significantly.
He could clearly feel his soul's might.
His spiritual sense, unused in the past life, was now much more adept after crossing.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to find the family basement storing the Devil Fruit and the famous sword in such a large Chris family.
Overall, Lucifer's advantages were not many.
Aside from the strong soul, the rest required grinding and cultivating bit by bit.
Frankly, it was no different from many other transmigration stories he had read.
After all, his "golden finger" was one-time use only.
How far he could cultivate depended mainly on his own efforts.
Regarding basics, after four years of tireless effort, Lucifer barely caught up to the monsters of this world.
Those monsters at this age, even without cultivation, had long reached or surpassed Lucifer's current level.
This was after day and night continuous use of the "Myriad Phenomena Celestial Star Technique," along with minor body training.
This showed how weak the Chris family constitution truly was.
Lucifer had deep doubts about this.
All those with the "D" in the pirate world were fearsome, yet the Chris family was the opposite—weak constitution and no strong fighters for many years.
If it weren't for himself being a cheat, probably no strong person would appear in a hundred years.
This was abnormal.
But nothing was found in family records.
Yet various signs indicated that the Chris family was not simple.
Just the hidden Devil Fruit and the great longsword "Star Sea" from the 21 Great Katanas said a lot.
Now, the dwindling Chris family had very few members left.
Besides Lucifer and his stepfather, only his father's cousin's family remained.
Called uncle by Lucifer, Chris D. Muro was Chris D. Mage's cousin.
Muro had a son, Chris D. Magnus.
Their family never lived in the Chris clan territory.
They returned only a few days each year to worship ancestors, seldom interacting otherwise.
In the vast Chris family, besides Lucifer and his dad, only servants remained.
There was definitely a problem here—definitely a problem—definitely a problem!
Important matters need thinking thrice!
But where the problem lay, Lucifer couldn't tell.
His father never said either.
But it didn't matter; life was long.
Lucifer aimed to become the strongest in this world.
Time was on his side.
If not waiting to be the strongest, at least after joining the world's strong ranks, surely his father would tell him.
The current urgent matter was to get stronger and stronger.
Lucifer had already devised a plan.
Within three years, before turning eight, he must work hard enough to earn his father's approval.
Then he would obtain the family's hidden Devil Fruit and famous sword.
These were necessities.
Lucifer's ambition to top the strongest could not be achieved by casual home training.
Only fighting strong opponents could unleash his potential and absorb valuable combat experience to ascend to a higher level.
No one can climb to the top by training alone at home—that's nonsense.
Three years: that was Lucifer's self-imposed deadline.
Three years to acquire all the hidden family treasures.
These three years were also his foundation-building years.
At eight years old, he would spend two years developing the fruit's ability.
Then he would attend the grand event held at Logue Town to usher in a new era!
The God Valley incident—Lucifer would miss that.
But the grand inauguration in Logue Town—he would not miss it.
In his past life, he had only briefly heard of it in the manga.
This time, Lucifer was prepared to experience it personally!
---To be continued---
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