After resting for a while, Moo Moo stopped crying and became more affectionate towards Xia Qiu.
Xia Qiu moved his body, swimming slowly forward while observing his surroundings.
The magnetic field had changed.
Xia Qiu could detect the changes in the surrounding magnetic field through the tiny magnets within his skull. It was chaotic, disordered, and unlike anything in the East Blue.
In the East Blue, the magnetic field lines were complete and orderly. When he traveled to an island, he could sense the direction of the magnetic field and determine his position and direction by the angle between his own biomagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field.
But here, the direction of the magnetic field and its strength were utterly chaotic.
Xia Qiu knew about the Grand Line. Many regions within the Grand Line contained special ores that generated different magnetic forces, causing problems with the magnetic field along this route.
Therefore, traditional compasses were useless. A Log Pose was needed, which could store magnetic force and obtain the location of the next island by being influenced by the magnetic forces between islands.
The Grand Line had seven routes in total, based on different magnetic forces, all leading to the Sabaody Archipelago.
Thus, to traverse the Grand Line, one needed to conquer the magnetic forces.
Xia Qiu wasn't concerned about this. He had already devised a method: he would use his own biomagnetism and the magnetic force emitted by islands to lock onto his location, and then capture the magnetic force of the next island to find the second one.
More importantly, Xia Qiu didn't need to capture magnetic forces to travel to islands. He only needed to use the magnetic forces to correct his position, ensuring he stayed in the middle of the magnetic field strength and maintained his direction. Even with some deviations, he could still reach the Sabaody Archipelago.
Xia Qiu wasn't like pirates who needed to land for supplies and pinpoint their routes, thus requiring fixed routes.
For Xia Qiu, any place with seawater was his habitat.
Even more importantly, Xia Qiu could travel in reverse.
The weather, geomagnetism, sea currents, and air currents in the Grand Line were all chaotic.
Most sailing warships relied on sea currents and air currents to move forward, making it difficult to travel against the current.
Only vessels with additional propulsion could achieve this.
As for him, his physical strength was immense, and traversing strong currents was not difficult.
This ensured that Xia Qiu didn't have to worry about being swept away by currents to other locations.
Overall, the dangers of the Grand Line for Xia Qiu were primarily the creatures in the sea.
At his current speed and strength, nothing larger than him was faster, and nothing smaller than him was stronger.
Therefore, the chances of Xia Qiu surviving the first half of the Grand Line were quite high.
However, Xia Qiu had no immediate plans to go elsewhere.
His purpose in coming to the Grand Line was to become stronger, which naturally meant hunting pirates. The closer he was to the Grand Line's entrance, the more pirates he would encounter.
All four seas heading to the Grand Line had to pass through this waterway at Reverse Mountain, and the pirates coming here were certainly not ordinary ones.
Furthermore, the ordinary pirates in the East Blue were weak in strength and influence; the other three oceans were stronger.
Therefore, the quality of pirates he would hunt in the Grand Line would undoubtedly be higher.
However, he was still within Laboon's range. He would move a little further away and find a place to inhabit near an island with a strong magnetic field. The waters around the island should be shallow to avoid being attacked by large Sea Kings or Sea Fish that might wander by.
Then, he would use the island as a base to seize opportunities for hunting.
One or two would be fine, but if there were more, it would be quite troublesome.
Xia Qiu thought, sensing the surrounding magnetic forces. He could vaguely feel three of them: two were relatively strong, and one was very faint.
The faint one might be due to distance or containing fewer special minerals.
The strong magnetic forces might be closer. He could only capture what was in the surrounding waters, so Xia Qiu swam left and right, finding a magnetic force with a smaller reduction in strength and swimming towards it.
A small reduction in magnetic force indicated that it could encompass a large surrounding area, enough for many Log Poses to detect and then head to their destination.
If it couldn't be covered, it meant that in this sea area, pirate ships arriving here would have their Log Poses point to that location.
The Grand Line was basically covered by seven routes.
If nothing went wrong, that was the entrance to one of the seven routes.
As long as Xia Qiu secured one route, he could hunt a considerable number of pirates.
He would go there first.
Xia Qiu thought and swam along the magnetic force.
"We have to go."
Moo Moo tilted its head and quickly followed.
Xia Qiu increased his speed and opened his mouth, releasing sound waves and receiving them.
It was too messy.
There was too much noise underwater: the sound of currents, the sound of waves, the calls of giant creatures, all disrupting him.
Moreover, the unfathomable currents were constantly weakening the sound waves.
In such an environment, his detection range was bound to be reduced.
However, the Sea Fish in the Grand Line were large. Even if the sound waves were weakened, he could still detect them.
It seemed he needed to re-analyze and compare. For now, he had to be careful.
Xia Qiu swam forward for a distance and caught a sea fish in the distance.
Based on his own experience, it was about ten meters long.
Xia Qiu immediately brought Moo Moo closer, and after advancing four to five hundred meters, Xia Qiu discovered the other party, which was at least thirty meters long.
It had a long, laterally compressed, oval, and tall body.
Its eyes were positioned high, its gills were diagonally below its eyes, and the body behind its eyes was thicker.
It was a Filefish.
This was the first time Xia Qiu had seen such a large Filefish.
However, the difference was too great.
The sonar feedback signal Xia Qiu received indicated it was around ten meters, but it turned out to be thirty meters long.
Such a discrepancy was quite significant.
And not only that, the vibrations it brought were very weak, greatly diminished by the ocean currents.
This gap made Xia Qiu very uncomfortable.
"Moo Moo."
Just as Xia Qiu was lost in thought, Moo Moo had already charged towards the other party.
Xia Qiu was now forty-two meters long, and Moo Moo, with its body flattened, was around fifty meters. To the sea fish, it appeared as a colossal creature.
Therefore, it turned and fled, flapping its fins.
"Moo Moo."
Moo Moo chased with all its might, closing the distance, and soon rushed to its side, opening its massive mouth to bite.
Crunch.
Moo Moo's teeth bit directly into the other's body and continued to bite downwards.
Boom boom.
The sea fish struggled violently, and Moo Moo used the momentum to swing backward, tearing off a large chunk of flesh.
The sea fish broke free from Moo Moo's teeth and tried to swim forward, but Moo Moo caught up again and swiped with its fin.
Moo Moo only had pectoral fins, dorsal fins, and a tail fin. Its pectoral fins were huge and had finger-like extensions at the ends.
Thump.
Moo Moo's pectoral fin directly slammed into the other's head, knocking it over.
Then it rushed forward again and bit down. After a few more bites, the sea fish began to flip over, completely dead.
"Moo Moo."
Moo Moo bit the tail of the sea fish and dragged it towards Xia Qiu.
Arriving beside Xia Qiu, Moo Moo stopped, nudged Xia Qiu, and patted the sea fish.
Did it bring it back for me to eat first?
Moo Moo had hunted sea fish before and had left some for Xia Qiu, but it usually ate its fill first.
This time, it actually let him eat first.
Xia Qiu did not refuse. He opened his mouth and began to feast on the sea fish.
After such a long time, he was quite hungry.
Moo Moo, from the other side, also started eating the sea fish.
After eating for a while, Xia Qiu was almost full, and a heat flow slowly appeared, much stronger than when he was in the East Blue.
It seemed the Evolution Energy here was much stronger than in the East Blue. For the same species, creatures in the Grand Line were generally larger than those in the East Blue. For instance, the Filefish he encountered in the East Blue were only seven or eight meters, or ten to twenty meters, but now he randomly encountered one that was thirty meters long.
Evolution Energy was the reason why creatures could break through size limitations and become larger. Here, the size was greater than in the East Blue, so more Evolution Energy was needed to continuously break through their own limits.
For example, Abu was an Island Whale from the West Blue. Such a massive size would require a tremendous amount of Evolution Energy. However, because whales were inherently large, the proportion of breakthrough wasn't that high, and their own weight was also substantial. Therefore, the Evolution Energy contained within the same weight of their bodies might not be much higher than the Filefish they just encountered.
It seemed his growth rate from now on would be much faster than when he was in the East Blue.
But just then, Xia Qiu felt a series of vibrations.
Hmm?
Moo Moo was still eating, completely oblivious.
What a glutton.
Xia Qiu had already raised his head and released sound waves from his mouth.
So many.
There were at least five sea fish approaching them from nearby.
Based on his past experience, the sonar feedback from these fish indicated some were ten meters, some twenty meters, and some thirty meters.
But based on his recent experience, these sea fish were at least thirty meters long, and the one that was thirty meters could even reach a hundred meters.
Big and numerous.
They came over together, apparently attracted by the blood released by the sea fish.
Targeting food?
You dare try to steal my food?
Xia Qiu snorted coldly, flicked his body, and charged towards the sea fish.
Thanks to the generous reward from friend "Flower Falls Without Sound," I will add two more chapters. However, I'm writing a bit slowly right now and plan to save some chapters for the launch day. So, the bonus chapters will be released after the launch. Additionally, thanks to friend "Dao Breaks Clear Void" for their generous reward, bringing the total to four chapters. These reward-based bonus chapters will not count towards the launch day updates or the guaranteed minimum updates. I will have at least five updates on launch day, which should be easy to achieve. For the minimum updates, I plan to have at least three updates per month for the first month after launch, which I've done with my previous two books and should be able to manage. However, the bonus chapters might not stack on top of this, so they might be pushed to the second month.
Of course, the immediate goal is to have a fixed update schedule, with the first update at least by the morning.
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