"It's Moonlight!" At the same time, Usopp also saw Moonlight and immediately waved and shouted.
"Gum-Gum..." Luffy stretched out his arm and grabbed him.
"Alright," Moonlight nodded, and immediately grabbed Luffy's hand, and was pulled onto the boat. The ocean currents soaring into the sky were truly terrifying, and the turbulent power made him feel a tremendous pressure. And moving vertically... it took too much energy. Even he was feeling a little powerless. The key was not knowing how high the current would rise. If it took a long time, he was afraid it would be worse. Fortunately, Luffy had reached out in time.
"Who were those people just now? Were they after us? They didn't look easy," Sanji said, lighting a cigarette. Though it had only been a glimpse, Blackbeard and his crew had left a deep impression on everyone.
"That group of people is not simple," Robin said, taking up the conversation. "When we were on Jaya Island, they attacked me and Moonlight. Although they were defeated by Moonlight, it didn't seem to be their real strength."
"We've met that group before," Nami also remembered. "He was the only one who didn't laugh at us."
Luffy and Zoro were silent. Leaving aside everything else, just what the man had said made them feel that he was not easy. To be targeted by such an enemy now... it was undoubtedly a very bad thing.
"Ah, not good! The ship is going to fall!" At that moment, Chopper suddenly screamed, his face full of horror. Everyone's attention was drawn to him. The ocean current rising to the sky was extremely fierce, rushing straight into the sky, but after the Going Merry had risen to a certain height, it was already drifting outwards under the influence of gravity. If they left this ocean current and fell from a high altitude, even if it was the sea below, they would surely be smashed to pieces.
Upon seeing this, everyone was shocked and quickly tried to think of a way.
"Hehe, don't worry," Nami said with an easy smile. "I won't let us be driven outside." She looked at the surrounding ocean currents and, after a little observation, she began to give orders. Everyone did not dare to hesitate and followed her words. Nami was truly good. Under her command, the Merry drew on the ocean current and sailed steadily, and everyone went all the way up to the sky.
"As expected of Nami," seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and then gave her a thumbs-up. Even Moonlight sincerely admired her. Nami was indeed a master. Sanji had already posted himself flatteringly beside her.
"Hehe, this is just a trivial matter," Nami said with a confident smile. She might be no match for them in swordsmanship, cooking, combat power, history, or bragging, but when it came to sailing, she was unmatched. Even in this sea, few people could beat her in sailing skills.
Then, the group rose into the sky, following the ocean current. Gradually, as the altitude continued to rise, great changes took place in the surrounding environment. The clouds gradually became more and more dense. At this time, the Merry came to the top of the ocean current, was thrown high, and landed on a sea of clouds.
"This... is this the Sky Island?" everyone couldn't help but look around. One by one, they were like curious babies, flicking east and west, almost jumping in and swimming. The cloud was very soft, and like a stream of water, with a hand reaching in, it felt like the sea.
"Is this the sea drifting in the sky? Wow..." Usopp couldn't restrain his curiosity and jumped down shirtless. Everyone was surprised and looked over. But after he jumped, he sank directly. At first, everyone didn't care, thinking that he was just playing. They looked around curiously. After all, this kind of spectacle was rare in the world.
However, after a while, Usopp still didn't come up, and there was no sound at all. Robin was the first to notice that something was wrong and hurriedly shouted to the sea of clouds below, "Usopp!" Hearing this, everyone realized that it was not good and hurriedly shouted.
"He won't fall, will he?" Nami couldn't help but speculate.
"Usopp!" Hearing this, Luffy stretched out his arms quickly and grabbed the place where Usopp had jumped in. However, the sea of clouds was so vast that he couldn't see far away.
"Flower-Flower Fruit," at that moment, Robin quickly displayed her fruit ability, attached her eyes to Luffy's elongated arm, and stretched it out. Usopp was soon discovered. Sure enough, he was falling towards the bottom of the sky.
"Luffy!" Seeing Luffy's stretched arm, Usopp burst into tears, as if he had been rescued. He immediately grasped it tightly.
"I almost died," Usopp was undecided, only feeling that he had just walked around death. Although he didn't know how high the sky was here, if he fell like this, he would undoubtedly die. "This sea of clouds is completely different from the sea," everyone came to a conclusion. With Usopp's lessons learned, everyone became cautious.
However, at this moment, the sea of clouds suddenly rolled, and a behemoth suddenly rolled out, grabbing the Merry. It seemed to have come up with Usopp.
Sanji and Zoro shot immediately, and with one sword and one kick, they instantly solved the monster. Usopp had woken them up, and now it was time to be on guard.
"Phew..." seeing this, everyone was relieved. However, this was not over yet. The huge movement caused by the falling of the monster seemed to have attracted people's attention. A man with a foot on a waver, a mask, half of his upper body naked, and a cannon on his shoulder was gliding in the sea of clouds. Seeing everyone, he charged directly.
"An enemy!"
"Again!"
"I'll take him," upon seeing this, Luffy reacted immediately and was about to take action. However, for some reason, just as he was about to make a move, his physical strength suddenly became weak. His body couldn't help but falter.
BOOM!
At this time, the masked man had flown at a rapid speed and kicked Luffy into the cabin. Not only that, after kicking Luffy, the masked man did not stop and attacked Sanji, Zoro, and Moonlight one after another. His thinking was very clear: first deal with the men, and clean up the women last. As for Usopp, lying dying on the boat, he had automatically ignored him.
"What?"
"You underestimate us!" Sanji and Zoro were about to make a move, but suddenly, just like Luffy, the moment they made their move, their bodies suddenly softened, as if they couldn't take a breath.
BOOM!
The two of them were kicked off immediately, and then the masked man came towards Moonlight.
"Moonlight!"
"Who is he?"
"Zoro, Sanji, Luffy!"
"Be careful!" seeing this scene, everyone exclaimed. The masked man came extremely fast, and when everyone reacted, they were surprised to find that Luffy and the others had been knocked down instantly. How was this possible? Luffy, no matter how weak they were, they shouldn't be so vulnerable.
"Is that so?" Moonlight sneered and cut out with his sword. The crescent-like sword energy slashed out, piercing the void and slashing on the masked man. The masked man bent his body subconsciously and resisted with the cannon on his shoulder. However, the cannon hardly had any resistance, and the whole person, connected to the cannon, was directly cut and flew out. The masked man snorted and seemed to be injured. He didn't know what material it was made of, but it had actually blocked Moonlight's slash. The sword energy was surging, and the sky was surging, and the surrounding sea of clouds suddenly rolled up like a sea current, and a long crack was cut out with the masked man as the center. The masked man stopped at a position of three hundred meters long, and a long sword mark was left on the gun body. He glanced at Moonlight in amazement and, without a word, he immediately turned around and left.
"Damn, who is that?" seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji also stood up one after another, touching the place where they had been kicked, which hurt. Sanji distressedly picked up the cigarette that had been kicked off the ground and lighted it again, and asked with a depressed face.
"I don't know," Moonlight shrugged, guessing. "It's probably the people on the Sky Island. When they saw us, they treated us as enemies."
"Why did I suddenly feel that I lost all my power?" Luffy couldn't help but wonder.
"Me too," Zoro also said. "The moment I drew my sword, my power seemed to be weakened by more than half." Sanji also nodded. They had all felt that way just now.
"It's the air," Moonlight explained. "It's just a high altitude that's already very high from the ground. As the altitude rises, the air will naturally become thinner. If you still move as if you were on the ground, it won't work. Normal breathing may be fine, but if you exercise vigorously, you will have a hard time breathing and lose all your strength." He had noticed it when the Merry was constantly rising into the air with the current. And shouldn't this be common sense?
"So that's it," the three of them suddenly came to a sudden. Nami and the others also nodded. They had all ignored this. The spectacle in the sky was really shocking.
WHOOSH!
At this moment, another figure flew in the distance. "Again?" everyone was shocked and quickly concentrated on guard. A horse with pink and black spots, a brown head, and two wings flew out.
"A pegasus!" everyone couldn't help but be surprised. At this moment, an old man wearing a silver armor, a long white beard, holding a long cone, and a black cloak jumped off the horse and came to the Merry. When he saw everyone, he couldn't help but say, "People from the Blue Sea?"
"People from the Blue Sea?" everyone was puzzled.
"The people from the Blue Sea are those of you who came up from below, and the Blue Sea is the sea where you are. The place where you are now is called the White Sea. I am the Sky Knight, Gan Fall. Did you see a masked man just now?"
"Blue Sea? White Sea?" everyone couldn't help but be surprised. This was the first time they had heard these words. But they heard Gan Fall say that they quickly understood that in the eyes of the people on the Sky Island, the sea they were in was called the Blue Sea. And the place where they were now was actually 7,000 meters above the ground, called the White Sea, and the 10,000 meters above it was called the White-White Sea. The Sky Island was in the White-White Sea.
"I've seen him, but he ran away," Luffy said.
"What? You ran him away? You beat him away?" Hearing this, Gan Fall couldn't help but glance at them in surprise. "Unbelievably, ordinary people from the Blue Sea, when they come up, because the air is thin and their bodies can't adapt, so their combat power would be greatly reduced." Such strong people from the Blue Sea were rare.
"Old man, do you know the way to the White-White Sea?" Nami asked quickly. Right now, there was a vast sea of clouds. Although the Log Pose had been pointing in one direction, and the South Bird was also pointing in that direction, but when encountering this kind of local people living on the Sky Island, and there seemed to be no malice, it was natural to ask.
"Just walk in this direction and you're there," Gan Fall pointed a direction to everyone, and that direction was the direction the Log Pose and the South Bird pointed, and Nami was relieved immediately. After knowing the direction the masked man had left, Gan Fall nodded towards everyone, continued to chase, and then left. However, before leaving, he left a whistle for everyone, saying that if there was something, and if he blew the whistle, he would come to help, but it would cost 5 million Extol to blow it once.
Upon seeing this, everyone put it away curiously and then sailed towards the Sky Island. An hour later, the cloud in front of it changed again, and it was closer than the sea of clouds before, and people seemed to be able to step on it. But with Usopp's lessons learned, no one would go up casually, just fumbled and fumbled, curious.
"Look!" At this moment, Chopper suddenly pointed to the front and shouted. Hearing this, everyone looked up and was suddenly shocked by the scene in front of them. A big cloud river in the distance ahead descended from the sky, forming a cloud waterfall, rolling and flowing. And under the cloud waterfall, a magnificent and magnificent portal appeared to greet everyone.
"The Gate of Heaven! This is the Gate of Heaven that the old grandfather just mentioned," Nami murmured, her eyes filled with shock.
"Are we in heaven?" Chopper murmured, already shocked by the scene.
"Heaven actually exists," Usopp said, unable to look away. Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji didn't speak, but their faces were shocked and hard to hide. Obviously, they felt the same way.
Moonlight and Robin looked at each other, but they remembered the Gate of Heaven recorded in Montblanc Noland's nautical notes. While on Jaya Island, the two were walking while Robin talked about Montblanc Noland and the history of Jaya Island. In that notebook, he had mentioned the Gate of Heaven. At that time, they were still curious about the discussion, but they didn't expect it to be the magnificent portal before them. It was indeed the Gate of Heaven. Standing on the top of 10,000 meters high in the sky, with cloud waterfalls hanging down, surrounded by white clouds... this was not heaven, where was heaven?