One Piece:Becoming the King of the World from the Rocks Era

"Gone? What a pity. I was just thinking about when to deal with that thorn, but it seems the master of the Sharp Blade Academy is a clever one, knowing to escape ahead of time."

Li Yuan sighed. After returning yesterday, he had felt a bit fatigued and fell asleep quickly, not thinking about taking care of the Sharp Blade Academy.

"Probably, the master of the Sharp Blade Academy heard about your impressive display yesterday, Big Brother, and was scared you would trouble them, so they ran away," Kano excitedly said. Previously, their academy had been competing with the Sharp Blade Academy, and now they had fled in fear—it was truly satisfying.

"Let's go. From today on, we need to train even harder because soon, I will be going to sea!"

As Li Yuan spoke, his eyes radiated a fiery light. Although his strength was rapidly developing while training on the island, he was still not satisfied. He knew he couldn't learn Busoshoku Haki here, which was a prerequisite for advancing his Sword God Body Refinement Technique and a foundation for his rapid strength growth. As he progressed, pure physical training would yield diminishing returns.

The stronger his physique, the stronger his Busoshoku would become. At the same time, Busoshoku could enhance his physical body, making it stronger. They complemented each other.

"Big Brother, don't worry. I will train even harder," Kano said earnestly.

"Come on, hit me!" Li Yuan said to the ten disciples surrounding him with iron rods.

"Sorry, Big Brother," the ten disciples said habitually before swinging their iron rods toward Li Yuan's hands, ankles, chest, abdomen, throat, and head.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!!!"

With each strike, the ten disciples exerted all their strength, and although Li Yuan endured the blows, he didn't feel much pain anymore. From the early days of being whipped, to later being hit with wooden sticks, and now being struck with iron rods, he found that the pain had diminished significantly.

His body had grown stronger through repeated cycles of injury and healing.

"Stop! Kano, next time, switch the iron rods for mace, and when those are ineffective, switch to swords!"

After half an hour, Li Yuan called a halt to the training.

"Yes, Big Brother. We've just confiscated many weapons from the pirates, including quite a few maces," Kano replied, swallowing hard as he looked at Li Yuan's body, which was injured yet healing rapidly. He knew his brother was abnormal, but each time he witnessed such inhuman training, he couldn't help but be amazed.

After a day of enduring strikes—no, of training his body to withstand blows—Li Yuan went to the beach of the island. He was ready to practice his martial arts; such a powerful body should not go untrained.

"Among the Marine Six Styles, Soru is the precursor to Busoshoku Haki, so no need to practice that. Diable Jambe is similar to my slashing technique, so I can casually practice it."

"Tekkai is perfect for practice. If I can train my body to behave like Tekkai in a normal state, that would be ideal."

"What matters most to me are Soru and Geppo. Soru will greatly increase my speed."

"After all, in the future, my sword will be the strongest offense, and my body will be the strongest defense, but my speed is insufficient. If I can remedy this flaw, I will be a perfect existence."

"Geppo also needs training, as aerial combat is one of my weaknesses."

As Li Yuan contemplated the key points of training in the Marine Six Styles, he thought about his combat strength development.

"Soru is a technique that allows a person to rapidly build up the force of ten consecutive steps taken on the ground and explode that force to achieve rapid movement."

"The most important thing in practicing Soru is mastering the technique during those ten consecutive steps. Once the technique is grasped, Soru can be completed."

After memorizing the key points of practice, Li Yuan began training.

"Soru!!"

However, during his first attempt, he hadn't even finished ten steps when his body shot forward.

"Too slow!"

After summarizing the failure, he began again.

"Soru!!"

"Still too slow."

"Soru!!"

"I'm putting too much force into each step, losing my balance!"

"Soru!!"

"The timing between each step isn't right!"

"…"

Li Yuan continually summarized his experiences through one failure after another, and in less than half an hour, he had learned how to use Soru.

"Soru is a martial technique, and my body is strong enough. With my talent, I can learn it quickly."

"Next is Geppo, which is an upgraded version of Soru. The only difference is that it uses air as the ground to step on."

No surprises here; half an hour later, Li Yuan was soaring through the air using Geppo. For someone with a sufficiently strong body like him, these two martial techniques were simple to master.

"Now that I've learned Soru and Geppo, it's just a matter of practice to become proficient."

After coming down from the air, Li Yuan took a breath. Geppo consumed a lot of stamina, and he couldn't maintain it for long yet.

For the entire morning, Li Yuan practiced Soru and Geppo.

"Next, it's time to practice swordsmanship. I'm getting closer to becoming a Sword Hero."

Holding his sword with both hands, Li Yuan waded into the sea until the water reached his throat.

"Splash!!"

Although the sea was calm, ten-meter waves were still an irresistible force for someone in the water.

"Feel the breath of the sea, find the place where its breath is weakest!"

Li Yuan immersed himself in sensing the breath of the sea. As he saw the waves approaching, he focused his gaze, activated Soru, and swiftly slashed with his sword.

"Clang!!!"

The white sword light instantly cut through the incoming waves, but the force behind the sword was insufficient to withstand the relentless waves that followed.

Even Li Yuan, who had charged forward, was struck hard by the waves, crashing him onto the shore.

"Cough, cough, cough! The power of the sea is truly terrifying, but it seems that this method of facing the sea and bravely drawing my sword for training is quite beneficial."

Seeing that this method was effective, Li Yuan couldn't help but smile slightly and continued to walk into the sea.

This method of practicing swordsmanship by using the waves to enhance his slashing technique was indeed very useful for him.

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