Chapter 126 Research on Dark Fruit

  Outside Yuba, at an oasis.

  Smoker and Sana had been staying there for several days.

  In the center of the oasis, a huge iron block hung from a rge tree.

  The tree was bent over, forming a natural sandbag.

  Sana, shirtless, punched the iron block repeatedly, his hands already covered in wounds.

  Under the scorching sun, sweat flowed like a stream, dripping onto the ground and evaporating within seconds.

  But Sana didn't care, just stared intently at the iron block and continued to throw punches.

  His diligence was no less than Smoker's in his younger days.

  Not far away, Smoker sat on the ground, holding a Seastone pendant.

  The 30% purity Seastone pendant was long outdated and had been given to Hina.

  This one was specially given to him by Zephyr, with a purity of 50%.

  Smoker held the pendant.

  Although most of his power was suppressed, there was no visible change.

  In the past few years, with the help of the Seastone neckce and the restorative power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, Smoker's strength had skyrocketed.

  He thought he could continue training like this, and even wondered why the three admirals and the four emperors didn't train like this.

  It wasn't until a year ago, when he had adapted to the Seastone neckce and increased its purity again, that he finally understood why.

  For some reason, the effect of this method had become negligible, no different from normal training.

  Smoker was initially shocked, thinking something was wrong with him, and hurriedly asked the strong ones.

  He found that Sengoku, Akainu, Aokiji... were all the same.

  He even learned from intelligence and data that the powerful pirates were also the same.

  After reaching a certain level of strength, Seastone could no longer assist in training...

  As for the reason...

  They couldn't expin why either.

  Smoker could only accept this harsh reality.

  He was busy with the construction of G12, or with the sve trade,

  He never had time to think about how to train, and now he finally had a long period of free time to think about it...

  Smoker put the pendant back into the box and stored it in the darkness.

  Then, with a wave of his hand, a ball of darkness left his palm and floated in front of him.

  The bck ball was only the size of a fist, but it emitted a powerful gravitational pull, continuously sucking in the surrounding air, rocks, and sand.

  Smoker moved his fingers left and right, and the bck ball moved according to his will, like a ball of lightning.

  Soon, the bck ball absorbed sand and gravel equivalent to tens of thousands of times its volume, leaving a deep pit in the ground, but it itself seemed unchanged.

  Smoker raised his hand, his palm turning bck, and slowly approached the bck ball.

  After a while, the bck ball began to shrink slowly and disappeared quickly.

  Smoker breathed a sigh of relief, took out a notebook and pen from the darkness, and began to write.

  He always felt that summarizing and thinking about fruit development was more important than simple training.

  So he kept a notebook to record his experiences and rules, which was now mostly used up.

  [An ability user can separate darkness from their body, but cannot create darkness out of thin air.]

  [When darkness is connected to the ability user, the ability user can freely control gravity and shape. But once the darkness leaves the body, the ability user can only manipute movement and shape, and can no longer affect gravity.]

  [Darkness has extremely strong stability, no matter how much gravity, no matter how much material is absorbed, it will not be consumed.]

  [Darkness has a lifespan. If the ability user does not intervene, the darkness that leaves the body will suddenly disappear within half an hour.]

  [And within this time, to eliminate darkness, either the ability user actively cancels the ability, or uses a lot of Haki to offset it...]

  [Darkness ability is still effective on the ability user itself!!]

  Smoker thought for a while and added another sentence.

  [Regarding Devil Fruits, all rules are phased, just the upper limit of the current development level!!]

  [The development of the fruit is the process of breaking the rules and turning the impossible into the possible.]

  Then he sighed heavily and closed the notebook.

  Griffin next to him couldn't hold back any longer. Seeing that Smoker was no longer thinking, he ran over with a huge iron basin in his mouth, rubbing his head, as big as a human, against his chest.

  Smoker touched its chin.

  "You've finished eating again? You can't eat like this, you'll get a stomach ache..."

  Griffin didn't react, just kept rubbing.

  "Okay, okay, I got it..."

  Smoker released darkness, and a huge piece of ice appeared and fell into the iron basin.

  Griffin cheered and immediately y on the ice, licking it.

  Smoker knew that Abasta was a desert kingdom,

  So when he left Drum Kingdom, he took half an iceberg on a whim,

  He didn't expect that he wouldn't use it, and Griffin enjoyed it all...

  Smoker ignored it and went to find Sana.