One month later, East Blue, Cocoyasi Village.
The Jinghai Army's ships docked at the shore.
Nami, Hancock, Hiyori, Robin, and the others disembarked one after another.
They wanted to see the place where Luo Chen first began.
Slandered by the Marines, wanted, setting out to sea... everything started right here.
Nami stood on the land, spreading her arms and taking a deep breath.
She opened her eyes and smiled. "The air feels so familiar."
Luo Chen looked around; the scenery was as familiar as ever.
Even the coast where they were currently docked was the exact spot where he and Nami had departed for the sea back then.
"How times have changed..." Luo Chen thought with emotion.
Back then, it was difficult for him to even defeat a Marine Headquarters Colonel.
Now, he had completely dismantled the Marines.
The World Government, as well as Imu and the Dark God who ruled from the shadows, had also thoroughly perished.
As for the Five Elders and the God's Knights who were previously imprisoned in the Kamui space...
When the Phantom House shattered more than six months ago, their bodies and souls had been utterly destroyed.
Luo Chen didn't even have the chance to use Impure World Reincarnation on them.
Not long after landing, a group of people approached from the center of the island.
Leading them was a middle-aged fat man with a kind, slick-looking smile.
Behind him were Nojiko and over a dozen surviving female villagers from Cocoyasi Village.
"Main body, I've been waiting for you for a long time," the middle-aged fat man said with a beaming smile.
Luo Chen chuckled. "When I left you in Loguetown to sell intelligence, you didn't sell any info, but you did manage to recover Genzo's body. I suppose it was a blessing in disguise."
When he had given Genzo a sea burial, he truly hadn't considered whether he would ever have the chance to obtain the Impure World Reincarnation technique.
Moreover, simply having Impure World Reincarnation wasn't enough.
Genzo had been kind to him, and Luo Chen hoped to truly resurrect him.
Otherwise, if he used that neither-human-nor-ghost method of Impure World Reincarnation, it would be better not to resurrect him at all.
Now that he had successfully mastered both Impure World Reincarnation and the Rinne Rebirth Technique...
It would have been absurd if Genzo's body was gone.
The one who salvaged Genzo was a clone, which was essentially him.
Luo Chen stopped dwelling on the matter.
The middle-aged clone smiled. "Genzo's body has been placed together with those of the other villagers."
"If you follow Nojiko and the others back, you'll see him."
He crossed his index and middle fingers in front of his chest, forming a hand seal.
"My mission is over."
As his voice fell, the middle-aged clone turned into a wooden log amidst a cloud of white smoke.
At the very last moment before dispersing, he playfully formed another seal.
Luo Chen nodded slowly, feeling a bit nostalgic.
This clone was likely the one that had lasted the longest.
It could be said that it had done him a huge favor by successfully recovering Genzo's body.
Nami and Nojiko were embracing.
The two sisters hadn't seen each other for over two years.
After reuniting, the group didn't forget the most critical matter.
The party walked quickly toward the interior of the village.
Before long, a dense green forest formed by over five hundred trees appeared ahead.
Three years had passed, and the once-bare forest floor was now covered with fresh flowers and green grass.
At the base of every large tree, a coffin had been placed.
Luo Chen swept the area with his Observation Haki, and after confirming everything was in order, he performed the Rinne Rebirth Technique on a massive scale.
Wisps of milky-white light burst from his hands, eventually flying into the coffins.
Not a single coffin was missed.
After a moment, the milky-white light dancing in the air disappeared.
The area near the forest fell silent.
Nojiko, Nami, and over a dozen villagers stared tensely at the coffins.
Luo Chen waved his arm, and the coffin lids flipped open automatically.
As sunlight shone inside, someone soon sat up.
A young man with dried bloodstains on his body looked blankly at the sun in the sky.
He blinked, glanced over the coffins surrounding him, and then saw Nojiko and the others in the distance.
Suddenly, he sprang up with a start, his terrified scream scaring away the small animals in the woods.
"My god! A ghost!!!"
Terrified, the young man scrambled out of the coffin and lay flat on the ground, poking his head up to peer around in panic.
Nami, Nojiko, and the others were stunned for a moment before following with wry smiles.
Who exactly was the ghost?
If it weren't for Luo Chen, they would definitely have thought the other party was the ghost.
But it was understandable.
Opening one's eyes only to suddenly see over five hundred coffins arranged nearby...
Anyone would be terrified.
The young man's shout woke many villagers in the coffins who hadn't yet fully regained consciousness.
One person after another sat up from their coffins, looking toward the young man in confusion.
Seeing this, the young man's face turned deathly pale.
What was the difference between this and a haunting?
Luo Chen smiled, his gaze falling on the frontmost coffin.
The man wearing the brown sheriff's uniform also sat up, looking around in a daze.
After making eye contact with Luo Chen, Genzo's body trembled, and his mouth hung open.
He shook his head with a bitter smile. "Are you dead too, Luo Chen?"
"Mr. Genzo, we are all alive, and you've been resurrected too!" Nojiko shouted loudly, laughing through her tears.
She looked at the bewildered villagers and shouted again and again, informing everyone of the news of their resurrection.
The villagers shifted their gazes away from the young man.
Nojiko's shouts caused their consciousness to gradually clear and their cognitive abilities to slowly recover.
More and more people stood up from their coffins, looking around with immense joy and pinching their own flesh hard.
Genzo stared blankly at everything, looking toward Luo Chen and the others in disbelief.
"Are we... truly resurrected?"
Luo Chen nodded with a smile. "A lot has happened. Trust Nojiko; all of this is real."
He pointed a finger, using the power of Yin-Yang Release to create clean clothes for everyone.
Such miraculous methods made it hard for Genzo and the others to believe, even now.
But since they were all people who had died once, they weren't particularly afraid.
They followed Luo Chen and the others out of the woods boldly, returning to the newly built Cocoyasi Village.
Bundles of newspapers and segments of video recordings had long since been prepared.
Genzo and the resurrected villagers read the newspapers and watched the footage, their expressions dazed.
They felt as if they were watching a movie.
Since when did Luo Chen become this powerful?
Summoning meteorites, destroying Marine Headquarters, toppling the World Government, and establishing the Jinghai Army to reign over the world...
All of this had actually happened within two or three years of their deaths.
It was simply incredible, far too hard to believe!
Seeing that they still found it a bit difficult to process, Luo Chen smiled. "The seas are very safe now."
"You can all go out to sea yourselves and take a look at the various islands."
Nojiko nodded, expressing deep agreement.
"The pirates, the bandits, and those tyrannical nobles have all disappeared."
"The world guarded by the Jinghai Army is very stable."
"In a few days, I will take everyone on a tour of the different islands."
"Everyone can take their time to get used to the current world."
Nojiko explained patiently.
The three years they were dead was equivalent to Genzo and the others being out of touch with the world for three years.
Earth-shattering changes had already taken place across the ocean.
Acceptance would take time.
"We'll rest for two days before setting off again," Luo Chen said to Hancock and the other girls.
He wanted to give Nami time to reunite with her friends and family.
At the same time, he also needed to check the new changes in the System.
A few days ago, after collecting the wealth of the New World, the System had entered an update state.
It had yet to complete the update.
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