After the one-month cooldown period ended, Qiu Xia headed for the One Piece World. To be precise, he woke up within the organization he had established there. After leaving nine Zombie Transformation Pills to turn those children into zombies and giving them some pills to help them overcome their weakened state, Qiu Xia began his next move.
During that month, significant disturbances had broken out across both the Four Seas and the New World. A number of slaves had obtained powerful strength and were causing immense destruction.
Most of the targets Qiu Xia had chosen were slaves with good hearts and no sin upon them. However, once they obtained this power, while some remained kind, others were completely consumed by darkness. Such individuals appeared in both the New World and the Four Seas.
The corrupted ones began frantically creating progeny, while others went on blood-drinking rampages to increase their own power. The former produced offspring with some degree of intelligence, while the latter created a horde of mindless, ordinary zombies that feared the sunlight.
Once the month passed, Qiu Xia simply dusted off his hands and returned to the Naruto World, leaving the Marines and the World Government to clean up the mess he had left behind.
The various kingdoms under the World Government did not pay the Heavenly Gold for nothing. By paying it, they were entitled to the protection of the World Government. If problems arose within a nation and the World Government did nothing, who would bother paying? They might as well keep the money to train their own armies and develop their own power.
Because of this, when these nations fell into chaos, the Marines and the World Government had to step in to restore order. But was this chaos truly so easy to suppress?
When a third-and-a-half generation zombie was developed to its limit, its power directly surpassed that of the Four Emperors. Even if they hadn't reached that limit, simply overcoming the initial weak phase put them at the level of an entry-level Admiral.
While the World Government had many Admirals, they couldn't simply deploy them all at once. Their initial negligence allowed these zombies the room they needed to grow.
In the beginning, very few zombies knew how to use Armament Haki or Observation Haki, relying instead on their powerful bodies and innate supernatural abilities. But after witnessing Haki in action and consuming the blood of those who could use it, they began to develop it themselves. Furthermore, after consuming the blood of Devil Fruit users, they even developed other unique abilities.
Although Qiu Xia had left behind methods to deal with zombies in the One Piece Worldspecifically the Daoist arts taught to the orphans he adoptedthose people would not leave their island easily.
Qiu Xia's minimum requirement for them to leave the island was to reach the level of an Admiral. Since the outside world had no way to counter the immortal bodies of the zombies, the plot of the One Piece World underwent a massive collapse.
Because of this, when Qiu Xia woke up again and saw the data showing the One Piece World undergoing a transformation, he was stunned. "What's going on? I only dropped a few zombies into the One Piece World, and it's already transforming? I wonder what it will look like once the transformation is complete. Will it be like the zombie world, where all traces I left behind vanished?"
Qiu Xia didn't have many acquaintances in the One Piece World aside from Kuina. Combined with his previous actions of moving Skypiea, the Mink Tribe, the Giant Kingdom, the Dwarves, and the Fish-Man Tribe to this world, the plot was only a Monkey D. Luffy away from total collapse. Now that he had thrown a horde of zombies into the mix, the era of zombies had truly shattered the original story.
For the commoners of the One Piece World, this might bring suffering, but it might also bring new life. After all, zombies could be good or evil, but they both shared one commonality: they hated the World Government and the Marines.
In the mixed world of My Date with a Vampire and Soul Ferryman, Qiu Xia had set up a grand array and taken Fong Tin-yau and Fong Fuk-sang with him. By taking the Dragon Pearl, he had acquired a significant amount of world origin. Creating a vast number of zombies in the One Piece World had granted him another large sum. This origin allowed him to upgrade his cultivation technique once again.
However, Qiu Xia didn't choose to upgrade immediately. He planned to spend some time enjoying the Naruto World first. He had returned just in time for the Chunin Exams in Konoha. Qiu Xia wanted to see how the exams would change under his influencewhether Orochimaru would still ambush the Fourth Kazekage and then run off to cause a ruckus in Konoha.
While Qiu Xia waited for the Chunin Exams, different changes were occurring in both the zombie world and the One Piece World.
First, regarding the zombie world: Recall that Qiu Xia had previously given Ma Dan-na a bottle of pills. Relying on these, Ma Dan-na had been traveling across the land, exorcising demons and continuing her pursuit of Cheung San. Because of this, she was frequently injuredsometimes by monsters and sometimes accidentally by Cheung San. Regardless of the cause, the pills allowed her to recover in a short time.
The turning point occurred when Ma Dan-na was injured again while tracking Cheung San and took the very last pill.
"Only one pill left. It seems I'll have to return to Red Creek Village and ask Qiu Xia for more once I've taken this. I have to say, that guy might be a bit of a coward, but his pill-refining skills are truly impressive. These pills have saved me so much trouble.
Moreover, through all this demon-slaying, my cultivation has reached the half-step Immortal realm. In the Ma family genealogy, probably only our ancestor Ma Ling-yi ever reached such a height."
"If I work just a little harder, maybe I can break through to become a true Immortal. Then, dealing with Cheung San won't be a problem."
At this moment, Ma Dan-na had no idea that Cheung San was merely playing with her. Regardless of her current cultivation, even if she became an Immortal, Cheung San could make her sleep with a mere momentary lapse in his attention.
Carrying her hopes for the future, Ma Dan-na consumed the final pill. Initially, she felt the powerful life force of the pill, as well as the repair of her internal and external wounds. But this time was different.
Usually, the medicinal effect would vanish once the injuries were healed. This time, after all her wounds were gone, Ma Dan-na felt a wave of intense discomfort, as if her entire body was on fire.
Through internal vision, Ma Dan-na saw many tiny particles of red-gold light appearing within her. As these particles manifested, another force within her body began to clash with them. The sensation was agonizing; Ma Dan-na felt as though she was about to explode.
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