One Piece: The Celestial Dragons' Self-Cultivation

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One Piece: The Celestial Dragons' Self-Cultivation

Author: Urban Demon

Synopsis: (Celestial Dragons) (Multiple Heroines) (Partially Behind the Scenes) (Lighthearted) (Slice of Life) (Commentary)

Being chosen by the Knights of God grants immortality!

Blake (with a sneer): "Who are you trying to fool? Satan's all turned to ashes!"

Improving your skills can lead to a higher status!

Blake (idly playing with his fingers): "I think my current status is pretty high, I don't need to improve it any further."

Life-or-death battles enhance your domineering aura!

Blake (looking up in surprise): "What if you really die?"

The people at the bottom of society in this world are suffering and struggling. Please strive to change the world!

Blake (looking puzzled): "What does their suffering have to do with me? What if I change the world?"

Im is too strong; he cannot be defeated!

Blake (reassured): "But there's still Luffy, isn't there? I'll fight him after he's done!"

What makes them so confident in participating in the battle between gods and demons?

Blake (with a crooked mouth): "I! Have! a! cheat!"

This is a treacherous Taoist, get out!

Blake (struggling): "I refuse to accept this! Why can't the Celestial Dragons live a life of ignominy?"

Chapter 1 Hilbert Black

Haiyuan calendar year 1498.

A major event occurred that year.

The Pirate King Gol D. Roger surrendered to the Marines.

Under orders from the World Government, Roger was escorted by the Navy to Loguetown for public execution to deter other restless pirates on the high seas.

Of course, none of this had anything to do with Hilbert Black.

Because he is a noble, great, and inviolable descendant of God.

Abbreviation: Celestial Dragon.

Having lived in this world for sixteen years, Black felt he was almost assimilated by the Celestial Dragons' unbridled lifestyle.

He slowly awoke from his sleep, and before he could give any orders, a fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged maid stepped forward, knelt down, and bowed.

“Lord Black Saint, please allow me to cleanse your face.”

Blake gave a soft "hmm," half-asleep and unwilling to speak.

The maid bowed again before picking up a disposable silk cloth embroidered with gold thread and using it to clean Blake's face.

The movements were extremely gentle, as if afraid of upsetting Blake in his morning grumpiness.

Although Black wasn't the particularly cruel type of Celestial Dragon, he still possessed all the typical Celestial Dragon traits, except for cruelty.

The maids living in the holy land had witnessed many colleagues being executed for trivial matters, and naturally developed a habit of being extremely cautious.

After washing his face, Blake felt much more refreshed. With the help of a maid, he got out of bed, and immediately three more maids appeared to help him get dressed.

Even though more than a decade has passed, Blake still feels like he's been raised to be a useless person.

"So what if we're ruined? There are so many people on the high seas who want to be ruined but don't even have the chance."

After some self-reassurance, Blake accepted the maids' services with a clear conscience.

After getting dressed, Blake stretched and gave instructions to the maid beside him:

"The weather is nice. I'm planning to go down to the lower realm. Go and call a few CPs to come with me."

"Yes, Lord Black!"

The maid bowed and left in a hurry.

Although CP is the Celestial Dragons' protective force, in reality, if a Celestial Dragon is in Mary Geoise, there will be no CP protecting them.

After all, Mary Geoise is safe enough, and the number of CPs is not enough to assign a bodyguard to every Celestial Dragon.

Normally, only Celestial Dragons who want to descend to the mortal realm, especially when traveling by ship, will have CP (Celestial Dragons) accompanying and protecting them.

Sometimes, even if they're just going to the Sabaody Archipelago, the Celestial Dragons might not invite their partners.

These idiots think no one on the high seas would dare to lay a hand on them.

Black was also heading to the Sabaody Archipelago today, but he had no intention of taking only a ship full of maids and slaves with him.

Just kidding. Even Kuro's idiotic plan to devour everyone's property was praised by Oda as the second smartest person on the sea, second only to Ben Beckman.

The Warring States period generals who came up with the "encirclement and annihilation" strategy and almost failed were already considered "wise generals".

In this world where everyone receives prenatal education, there are many people even more foolish than the Celestial Dragons.

Who knows when a reckless fool like Luffy might pop up. Getting beaten up is a small matter, but if he exposes his strength and gets chosen by the Knights of God, that would be a big problem.

After all, the Celestial Dragons' "hunting competition" has not been held for many years since the "God Valley Incident".

Nowadays, the Knights of God can only be selected directly from among the Celestial Dragons who seem to have combat talent.

He, Blake, is destined to be the final boss. Once he joins the Knights of God, won't he have to be at the forefront?

Breakfast was a sumptuous hundred-course meal, and Blake ate a little of everything. He let the maid wipe the soup from his mouth, changed into a spacesuit, put on a bubble hood that looked like a fish tank, and walked outside.

Two masked CPs were already waiting outside. Beside them, a small giant who was nearly eight meters tall was lying on the ground with a golden chair on his back.

This was Blake's personal vehicle.

"lets go."

Sitting on the golden throne, Blake gave an order, and the slave beneath him began to carefully crawl forward, taking the lead towards Red Harbor.

As a transmigrator who had lived in modern society, Black initially found it difficult to adapt to the Celestial Dragons' lifestyle.

Even now, they haven't been able to slaughter slaves without any psychological burden.

But he knew even better that the best way to keep a low profile was to blend in.

Whether it's Huo Minggu and Musegard from the original work, or some of the time-traveling predecessors, they all like to be unconventional.

Those two Don Quixote family lunatics love to betray their class.

The time traveler is even more outrageous.

Some train like madmen, some turn against other Celestial Dragons for slaves, some risk their lives to join the Knights of God, some don't wear spacesuits or fish tanks, and some are so brutal that even the Celestial Dragons can't stand them...

These people are usually noticed by the Five Elders or even Im before they reach adulthood, and then they go through a series of hardships.

Can't we just keep a low profile?

Blake couldn't stand being mocked so casually; he seriously doubted whether they were even adults before they time-traveled.

Since his transmigration, Blake has always been a practical person. If he has a real grudge, he will find a way to kill it. "Slapping someone in the face" is meaningless.

Mary Geoise was vast; even at the pace of the slave beneath him, it took more than an hour to travel from Black’s residence to Red Harbor.

Blake yawned:

"No wonder those idiots like to have fun; I'm so bored I'm about to fall asleep."

No one dared to respond, and Blake didn't expect them to.

Upon arriving at the World Government's private dock, guards dressed in full armor, their faces covered, were already kneeling in two rows. Black rode a slave through the middle and entered the bubble cable car.

It slowly descended from 10,000 meters above the ground onto the sea, where a giant cruise ship was already waiting.

It wasn't Thanos's spaceship, of course, but one that Black specially built for his first voyage.

He'll be going out to sea quite often in the future, so how can he show off his noble status as a Celestial Dragon without his own private cruise ship?

A few hours later, the Temple docked at the port of the Sabaody Archipelago.

Area 16, Slave Auction House.

"Two hundred million peles."

The sound wasn't loud, but it silenced the entire auction hall.

The auctioneer immediately flashed a fawning smile:

"Congratulations, Celestial Dragon, on acquiring this mermaid slave."

Blake ignored him and turned to leave.

Today's auction house had neither Devil Fruits nor powerful pirate slaves, which made him somewhat disheartened.

The auction world cannot afford to lose Doflamingo, just as the West cannot afford to lose Jerusalem.

However, buying a mermaid as an ornamental fish is definitely worth the trip.

Ignoring the maids behind him who were dealing with the auction house, Blake left the slave auction house under the protection of two CPs, intending to wander around.

Almost everything in Zone 16 is related to slaves. In front of the dazzling shop windows on the street, there are slaves who are either beautiful or strong.

To be honest, when Blake first walked on this road, he felt that his worldview was severely impacted. Compared to his current calm and even somewhat enthusiastic state, he was a completely different person.

Suddenly, a smiling blonde woman in front of a floor-to-ceiling window caught Blake's attention.

"Huh? Why does this person look so familiar?"

Chapter 2 System! Activate!

The woman wore a light blue off-shoulder dress and had long, flowing blonde hair. She seemed completely unaware of her current situation, with a faint smile still on her face.

“Bring her out for a look.”

Blake gestured, and the shop owner, who had been kneeling at the shop entrance, hurriedly ran inside, brought out the blonde woman, and the two of them knelt before Blake.

"What's your name?"

The woman kept her head down, not daring to look Blake in the eye.

"Celestial Dragon, my name is Stella."

"Stella..."

Blake repeated it softly, already remembering who the woman in front of him was.

Although Stella only appeared in the theatrical version, and only in a flashback, Black had a deep impression of her, which explains why she still looked familiar to him after the two-dimensional world became three-dimensional.

In their youth, Gild Tesoro and Stella became acquainted through music. Tesoro worked tirelessly to earn money to rescue her from slave traders, but just as he was about to save enough, he encountered a Celestial Dragon who also wanted to buy Stella.

After Stella was bought by the Celestial Dragons, she was treated as their private property and subjected to inhuman torture. She died a violent death in just three years.

Before she died, Stella told Tesoro, "I am happy because of his existence."

This experience led Gild Tezzolo down a dark path, eventually becoming the Golden Emperor who controlled 20% of the world's wealth.

Of course, this wasn't the main reason why Blake was so impressed.

The reason it looks familiar is because Stella left behind a world-famous painting when she was taken away.

Stella was wearing a soft blue dress that rippled like water, giving her a cool and melancholic look that contrasted sharply with her pale face.

Her long golden hair was gently lifted by the sea breeze, with a few strands of warm light shining through the ends, as if it had been gilded with an amber color by the afterglow of the setting sun.

A collar was around her neck, the other end of which was held in the Celestial Dragon's hand. The collar was tightening around her throat, but the corners of her mouth were still turned up.

It was a smile that was almost devout, with eyes slightly closed, as if reciting some prayer, or like the touch of the wind brushing past one's ear.

There was no resentment on her face, only a gentle smile that was almost holy, as if pain, humiliation, chains... none of that mattered.

When Blake first saw this picture, the sense of fragmentation had a profound psychological impact on him, and he still remembers it vividly even after so many years.

Stella, standing before him, kept her head down, her expression hidden.

Blake slowly began to speak: