Chapter 49: Looking forward and looking back

Shanks' words made Lynch suddenly enlightened and his thoughts became clear.

Life returned.

Domineering.

In front of him, two roads extending parallel to each other were formed.

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Just like the immortals in the legend who eat wind and drink dew, after arduous training or just because of an epiphany, they have gained meticulous control over their body and hair. They can even infuse their consciousness into it, making their hair as flexible as waving arms, allowing any part of their body to stretch and contract, and even based on their subjective will, they can absorb and digest a large amount of energy in a short period of time to make up for their own consumption... This is the return of life.

But learning how to return life does not necessarily mean strong combat power.

Instead, he is a master with powerful fighting power. After learning the life return, he can perfectly control his body and burst out with even stronger fighting power.

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Everyone, no matter if they are weak and sickly since childhood or born freaks who fall down as soon as they land, has hidden energy in their bodies. And this energy is called Haki. Some people are even born with this power awakened, and naturally know how to use it, such as the Sky Island girl Aisha, whose natural observation Haki is so strong that it is comparable to the heart network of Enelu under the power of the Thunder Fruit, which can cover the entire Sky Island and "hear" the location of everyone...

But learning to use domineering power does not necessarily mean strong combat power.

Instead, they are masters with powerful fighting abilities. After learning to use domineering power, they can exert even stronger fighting abilities.

For example, domineering color domineering!

This kind of domineering aura that cannot be trained and is purely based on appearance, known as the "king's qualification", obviously has nothing to do with the strength of the awakened person...

When Ace was still very weak, in order to protect his brother Luffy who was in danger, he activated his Conqueror's Haki on the spot and stunned the bandits who were kidnapping Luffy.

But when he grew up and became the captain of the second squad of the powerful Whitebeard Pirates, he forgot that he had this skill. So when he was robbing the execution ground during the war at the top, he had to rely on Luffy's temporary burst of domineering Haki to "save the life of the person under the sword"...

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Lin Qi suddenly realized that, perhaps because of the perspective of the comic plot, he had preconceived the idea that domineering was the only way to become a strong person.

It seems that those who are not domineering are not qualified to be called strong.

And Haki, especially the strength of Armament Haki, is an absolute indicator for evaluating one's strength.

But actually...is it really so?

If Rob Lucci, a CP9 agent who doesn't know Haki but is proficient in the Six Styles, is thrown into the Nine Snake Island where Haki users are everywhere... If the Empress of the Seven Warlords of the Sea is not counted, Rob Lucci might be able to kill his way through the Nine Snake Island! The bows and arrows of the Nine Snake female warriors are indeed strong enough, but they may not be able to catch up with Lucci's speed after using the Six Styles to "shave".

The armament Haki of the Nine Snake female warrior may not be able to really break the defense of the "iron block".

Since the power of domineering can vary in strength depending on the person.

Then the proficiency in life return and the power of the six styles of mastery should be the same, and the upper limit can be continuously improved.

Relying on the powerful six styles, even if he doesn't have domineering power, he may be able to compete with the empress.

Rob Lucci, who lost to Luffy on Judicial Island, did not lose to Haki, which Luffy had not yet mastered, but lost to the opponent's miraculous health lock, which wore him down to death... So there is reason to believe that after losing to Luffy, instead of learning Haki, it is better to say that Lucci will continue to strengthen his own hard power and continue to hone the six styles...

Therefore, Lynch suddenly felt that it might not be impossible for a monster called "Iron Block" with supernatural powers to fight against the Armed Iron Fist.

Without using Armament Haki, he almost possesses an "indestructible body"... In the world of One Piece, there seems to be such a person.

Charlotte Linlin, the "Big Mom" ​​among the Four Emperors.

Her skin was called a "steel balloon" and was so strong that even Caesar's confident missiles could not damage her skin.

Lin Qi seriously suspected that the auntie who was extremely talented in "eating" was a genius of "life return" in a certain sense, and she could even unconsciously maintain a super-strong high-level "iron block" at any time and anywhere! ...

"So in the end, what really matters is one's own hard power."

Lin Qi said thoughtfully, "With strong enough strength, my so-called talent in life return can be realized with stronger power."

Shanks smiled and said, "For example, with your talent, I think it will be much easier for you to learn the Six Styles than for normal people!"

"On the contrary, if your body is not strong enough, even if you know how to do it, you won't be able to exert enough explosive power to perform the kind of moves that allow you to walk in the air, and you won't be able to withstand attacks from swords and guns..." Lynch said, "Similarly, if your body is already weak, even if you cover your body with the black... Armament Haki you used, it probably won't have much power."

Shanks said: "That's about it!"

Lin Qi suddenly thought of something and laughed, "If I wasn't as weak as I am now, but had a stronger foundation, would you have agreed to teach me domineering before?"

Shanks exhaled alcohol and made a face, "Yes, you are too weak. I don't know how long it will take to teach you Haki... After all, while teaching you Haki, it is inevitable that you have to train your own strength. These are complementary to each other! And I only asked my partners for half a year's leave, it is definitely too late."

Outside the porthole, the sea gradually darkened.

Red Hair didn’t really treat Lin Qi as a child, and he had spent some time drinking on the flower boat before, so he was in a good mood to talk...

Lin Qi suddenly had an idea and asked curiously: "'Life Return' can make the body as hard as iron, and Armament Haki can also cover the body and strengthen defense... Then if I learn both and use them at the same time, with both internal and external strengths, wouldn't I be invincible?"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

The cabin was dark with no lights on. Only a few starlights came in through the not-so-large round porthole. Shanks was lying on the bed with his legs crossed, playing with his straw hat and smiling, "It's a good idea! But - in reality, it's hard to use life return and domineering at the same time."

Lynch wondered, "Why is that?"

"Who knows." Shanks joked, "Maybe the energy of Haki doesn't go well with the power of returning life?"

This seems to explain why so few people use Six Styles and Haki at the same time...Lynch thought thoughtfully.

Shanks casually said: "For reference, it is actually difficult to use devil fruit abilities in combination with Haki..."

"Ah..." Lynch drew out his voice and waved to "BIB" who was doing push-ups on the floor in the dim light.

The latter quickly understood, reached out and touched the side of his head, took off the small "earphones", and threw it to the original body.

Lynch put the "earphones" into his ears, tapped them twice, unfolded the virtual screen in front of his face, and quickly called up the memories reproduced by "BIB" - he quickly turned to Chapter 784 of One Piece, a scene of the decisive battle between Luffy and Mingo. When Mingo kicked Luffy's body, he was very surprised that Luffy not only maintained the flexibility and elasticity of rubber, but also had the super defensive power of Armament Haki...

In contrast, Mingo never covered the lines created by his String-String Fruit with Armament Haki to increase its power...

Similarly, when Smoker's element is transformed into smoke, he wants to use the armament color, and he will keep his fist solid...

The left arm armor covered with blue flame patterns detached from the body of the "BIB" under Lynch's remote control, flew in front of him, and took out the Pipe-Pipe Fruit chip from his chest.

"If the principle of the devil fruit ability is also to use some special energy..." Lynch observed the triangular chip glowing white and the vortex-like tubular patterns on it, and said to himself, "Then can we assume that the reason why it is difficult to superimpose the fruit ability and the armed color domineering is essentially because different energy forms are difficult to be compatible with each other..."

"Huh?" Shanks turned his head in surprise.

"Or to put it more simply," Lynch muttered, "whether it's life return, Haki, or Devil Fruit ability... they're actually the same thing. In essence, they're different manifestations of energy in the human body... That's why it's difficult to use two of these abilities at the same time! After all, it's difficult for people to really do two or three things at once..." A sincere person like Luffy can do two things at once unconsciously. "We can't look ahead and look behind at the same time. So we can't keep the 'iron block' and cover the armed color Haki at the same time..."

"Your conjecture..." Shanks covered his face with the straw hat, "It's really bold, but... it's really interesting!"

Looking forward and back... Lynch tapped the "earphones" twice, and his left arm covered with blue flame patterns flew back, and with a click, it connected back to the left elbow of the black armor.

Lynch and his stand "BIB" looked at each other with white eyes, thinking that they were probably thinking the same thing:

It's just multitasking, and it doesn't seem to be difficult at all.

When writing Water City, Oda had already foreshadowed that Garp's fist could hurt Luffy. Obviously, at least in the Water Arc, Oda already had a domineering setting...

(End of this chapter)