The blood of the dragon is not something that everyone can accept, and if there is no great perseverance beyond ordinary people, they simply cannot afford such a legendary treasure.

But now Whitebeard, but not even the heart is beating, if it weren't for the existence of such a "special case" of his resurrection, Ace would not dare to transfuse blood for him with a gambling mentality, and now he only hopes that the power of dragon blood can make everything as smooth as he thinks.

But the precious dragon blood did not disappoint him, Ace only used a knife to gently cut a wound on Natsu's arm, and a little of the hot blood-red dragon blood that flowed down his arm was already burning in the air.

Seeing this scene, Ace couldn't help frowning, he suddenly regretted a little, if the dragon's blood couldn't save Whitebeard, was he desecrating his body by doing so?

"Forget it, no matter!"

Dragon blood could not be imported into the human body through normal channels, Ace simply crossed his heart, handed Natsu's arm to Whitebeard's mouth, and dropped the hot dragon blood into Whitebeard's mouth, he didn't know how much dragon blood would work, but he had been paying attention to Natsu's expression, and once his face changed, he immediately stopped the blood transfusion.

Sure enough!

The moment the dragon's blood slowly seeped into Whitebeard's body, the skin of his upper body was scalded with countless tiny blood bubbles, and the previous wounds were all cracked, and countless flames burst out from it, looking terrifying, even if the heart had stopped beating, the nervous system had not stopped functioning, and under the torture of such intense pain, Whitebeard's tattered body trembled violently, like a reed leaf in the wind.

"Smack!" The blood bubbles on Whitebeard's face had already exploded, splashing out a few drops of blood, and after a few seconds, the burning bubbles all over his body burst one after another, and the dragon's blood was extremely violently transformed under those exploded skin, and after a while, there was no longer an inch of intact skin on Whitebeard's body, and his entire body was shrouded in a red gold flame, fortunately, Ace and Natsu were both the darlings of flames, and naturally had no scruples about it.

But in a moment, Whitebeard suddenly opened his eyes, his expression was painful and hideous, but it was as majestic as an iron tower, his bones clicked, his muscles bulged into irregular strange bumps, and his facial muscles became hideous and terrifying, and after repeating it several times under this change, he finally gradually returned to his original state, and all the previous wounds grew new flesh, and there were no scars.

Whitebeard himself, on the other hand, let out a long breath of steam with sparks, and he opened his arms in the waves of fire, raised his head to meet the new sun, and let out a heart-shaking laugh.

"Kuralala······ Lao Tzu wants to drink ten more boats of good wine! ”

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"The thousand-year-old king and eighty-thousand-year-old turtle are really old and immortal!" Even how happy he was in his heart for Whitebeard's resurrection, Ace was still unforgiving, but he didn't forget to reach out and help the weak Whitebeard.

"Ah, good people don't live long, and disasters stay for a thousand years, Lao Tzu still understands this truth, just like a bastard like you······" Whitebeard suddenly looked like he was twenty years younger, his face was full of spirit, and his eyes seemed so bright and wise, that he immediately counterattacked.

"How about just leaving it at that?"

"That's exactly what I mean."

The two of them looked at each other and laughed, they were both people who had just come back from the ghost gate, and the previous battles had all tried their best to fight for their lives, and it was pointless to fight again, so it was better to stop the war.

In many cases, the meaning of battle is not limited to the word "victory or defeat".

"Woo woo······"

Natsu's low murmur caught Whitebeard's attention at the moment, and he stared at the other party in a daze, muttering for a moment, and immediately frowned, "Those children of mine are fighting with you?" ”

"Do you understand?" Ace's expression is very subtle, but he is a child who lacks normal communication skills, and Whitebeard can also get information from the other party's words? And what he says is ······

"Many times, understanding doesn't have to rely on words, since you are also the owner of the overlord color domineering, you will understand this sooner or later." Whitebeard nodded heavily, and without further explanation, turned his head to the side.

"That woman was your crew member before, she just left here, are you going to chase her?"

Ace turned his head suddenly, only to realize that Lilith was indeed gone, thinking that he had quietly left while he was using dragon blood to treat Whitebeard, but when he thought of this, he felt a melancholy in his heart inexplicably.

Every time it's like this, he leaves without a sound, what the hell do you think of me······

"Go after her." Whitebeard patted Ace's shoulder, his eyes were intertwined with countless brilliance, and his expression was solemn and serious, "Pirates will not leave their companions behind, as long as you believe that they are your indispensable companions." ”

Ace was stunned and bowed deeply to Whitebeard, "I know what to do." ”

"Well, don't worry, I'll solve it over there, and this little ghost ······" Whitebeard placed Natsu on his shoulder, and Natsu seemed to enjoy his blood closeness.

"Do what you really want to do."

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At this time, Lilith was riding a small boat that she had snatched from nowhere, and she was quietly moving slowly along the flow of the sea, and she sat on it, but she hung her head, and did not say a word, her deep eyes flashing in the empty pupils.

"Loved······"

She muttered a few incomprehensible sneers.

"No matter where you are, no matter who you are, no matter what your previous position is, you're a guy who is loved by others, and that's why I hate you, what a happy guy."

The previous battle between Ace and Whitebeard turned this sea area of Ed Wa upside down, and countless sea kings suffered innocently because of it, but there were also some particularly strong ones that could survive such a terrible battlefield, such as the silver-white giant Jiao that broke through the sea in front of him, and swallowed Lilith with a huge mouth open.

"Aquaman?"

Lilith raised her eyebrows and was about to make a move, but at this time, the sky suddenly turned red, blazing flames rose from afar, the snow-bright sword burst out with sparks, and the flame-jet pillars of the four flames blended slowly stretched out, and the chrysanthemum text in her hand swung out quickly, and a half-moon flame rushed back, rolling up a blazing wave, and cut this huge sea king in half.

"Is that you?" Bringing the other party's figure into his eyes, a faint surprise flashed, "What are you doing catching up?" ”

"Take you back." Unquestionable firmness is Ace's only answer.

"Go back? Where are you going back, your pirates? Don't laugh, it's not where I want to be, I'm tired of the boring and childish game of pirates, and all I have to do now is turn the sea upside down and get what I want, right here at Ralphdrew. ”

I don't know what came to mind, Lilith stretched lazily and laughed softly, "By the way, since we're going to break up, I'll tell you everything I did before, anyway, the plan has been fully launched, although it's ridiculously simple, but it's enough to achieve the goal I want - now that the chaos in the sea has begun, let you and Whitebeard's group of guys eat dog first, even if you have any agreement with Whitebeard, but the human heart is such a thing, but it's easy to control, As long as you know how to use people's emotions in their hearts, protection may turn into harm. ”

"Whitebeard's soldiers are many generals, although our side is also able to be a hundred, but we are always too far away, and we will inevitably fall into the disadvantage after a long time, hehe, although I didn't expect that there would be three Seven Martial Seas to become the help of our side, but if we know that there is a third force on the periphery that can intervene, will we really be able to fight? Therefore, there must be an external force that can completely change the situation of the battle, and the Whitebeard side is not stupid, they know how to make trade-offs. ”

"By the way, your woman guessed it, the reason why Kaido came at this time is because of me, isn't there a month halfway, I went to Kaido alone and asked him to send troops, it's strange, right, why would Kaido listen to the orders of a little-known woman, of course it's interests······ Invite your companion to fight Whitebeard on the grounds that he is 'cornered', and it doesn't matter if we have nothing to gain after that, as long as everyone survives······ You think it's still impossible, right, of course, Kaido is not a philanthropist, how could he be so kind, so, I gave him a condition that he couldn't refuse. ”

"The ancient weapons 'Hades' and 'Sea Emperor', these two weapons are in our hands······ After the deed was completed, he handed over the Golden Noah, the 'Hades', to him, how could Kaido resist such a huge temptation? He won't! Of course, even if we give him the weapon, he won't let us go, hehe, it's normal, isn't it, pirates are supposed to be like this! So, I did a second preparation······"

The more Lilith spoke, the more excited she became, her eyes shining, with an indescribable sense of pride and revenge, she raised her eyebrows and continued to say softly, "It's not enough to be close to Kaido's containment, and it is impossible for us and Whitebeard to abandon the gap in a short period of time and join forces to fight the enemy, so we need a fourth force that can contain Kaido, that is, the navy, once the four forces are encircled, Kaido in the middle will be the most embarrassed, as a figure with a head and face in the new world, he will naturally not cooperate with the navy, If you want to change the tide of the war, you can only join forces with the two of us, but most of the people who go to fight the navy and die are characters from his side, which greatly weakens his strength! ”

"It sounds ridiculous, but when the war expands and the situation becomes unstoppable, it is impossible for any of the three parties to hesitate! The Whitebeard Pirates will lead all their subordinates to break through together, and the sparsely numbered Black Flame Pirates will become dispensable, at this time, as long as Anilu and I take advantage of the chaos to join you and Whitebeard's battle, we can kill him in the shortest possible time! Then, the powerful Whitebeard Pirates will become leaderless because of the death of their leader, and Kaido is forced to be on the cusp of the waves, and he can't stop if he wants to······ Whitebeard died, Kaido's strength was greatly damaged, this is your best chance, in one fell swoop to destroy and recover the two major forces, and then become the strongest pirate in the new world, the throne of One Piece, is simply within reach, as for the victory, the agreement with Kaido does not have to be taken to heart, and the Golden Noah does not have to be handed over, all the victories will point to us! ”

Saying so many secrets hidden in her heart in one breath, Rao is Lilith also took a few breaths, and after calming her mind, the autumn waves flowed, staring at Ace.

"You understand now, this is ostensibly a duel with Whitebeard, but in fact, the real purpose is to clean up the two of the four emperors at once, and then ······ You become kings! ”

These words have been held in her heart for more than a while, and now they are all revealed, there is no need to hide anything more hypocritically, and she can finally pour out in front of Ace, which is extremely happy, but somehow, bitter tears slowly flow out, and the snow-white skin trembles gently, as if she is suppressing great pain.

"But why don't you just do what I say······"

Listening to the violent joy and anger and bitter hatred in her words, Ace's heart was cold, sad and joyful, thinking that she had done so much for herself silently, but she had never asked for anything from herself, but suddenly she thought that countless lives had died because of her, and even herself and Whitebeard almost went to hell, and she wanted to be angry with her but couldn't, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

If it is really according to what Lilith said, all this is because of it, the exercise is a fair and righteous conspiracy, and what is hidden is the extremely vicious murderous machine, the layout is far-reaching, and the means are vicious, which can be described as thrilling, but the source of all this is himself.

"Well, are you going to tell me anything about companions or anything like that?" She stared at Ace with a smile on her face, but her body trembled even more.

"Come back with me." Ace's head was buried low, so that people couldn't see his expression at the moment, "I won't say it a third time." ”

"What?" Lilith looked at him in a daze, her heart beat wildly, and she suddenly lowered her head and let out a hysterical laugh, "What I just said is not clear enough, I have been using you from the beginning, simple use, companions and everything are fake, and those who like you or something are also fake, all fake!" Fake! You don't understand, do you? ”

Ace didn't answer, just grabbed one of her wrists, didn't let go, and paddled the water with the other hand stiffly, creating a thruster out of flames.

"What do you do? Let go of me, I won't go back with you!" ”

Ace didn't speak, and continued to move on.

"Let go, you secondary two! Paranoia! Ghost animal madness! Mouth Devil ······"

Still didn't speak, didn't even look back.

"You let me go, I don't want to be like that anymore, to become me who is not me, to become me who has no motivation to survive, to become me who can live without hatred······"

"Leave me alone, just treat me as if I begged you······"

Ace finally turned around, he quietly looked at the other party with a sad expression, and only after a while did he tremble and speak.

"I don't care about you, who cares about you!"

As soon as these words came out, Lilith's eyes instantly froze, and there seemed to be something deep in her heart that could no longer be suppressed, and they were all released at this moment.

The disguise of more than ten years was finally completely torn apart, and countless grievances hugged her open heart together, all of which turned into miserable cries, she was like a wounded bird clinging to Ace's arms, and the tears gushed out like a spring, moistening Ace's bloody clothes, and he didn't dodge, just gently stroked Lilith's pink back, and let the woman in his arms vent the pain in her heart to the fullest.

Lilith's cry gradually weakened, and finally turned into a gentle sob, Ace gently patted the back of her heart, without saying a word, both of them understood that somewhere in their hearts, at some point, had already begun to make silent changes.

"Are you in love with me, in that case, it can be regarded as cheating before marriage, aren't you afraid that your family will be jealous?"

"Love? I don't know, but I guess not. Aisla shrugged her head and smiled a little self-deprecatingly, "Actually, sometimes I really don't understand love, even lovers and friends can't even tell the difference, but I don't know why, I just can't leave you alone like this." ”

"yes, so······ You're going to protect me. ”

"Yes, I will."

As if she had gotten the answer she wanted, Lilith smiled with satisfaction, it was pure like never before.

"And how long will you protect me?"

"Possibly······ For a lifetime. ”

A soft voice sounded in his ears, and Ace found that he unconsciously held each other in his arms, a faint body fragrance came from his nose to his brain, and the warm embrace made him almost forget everything, and the only remaining reason clearly told him not to indulge, but for some reason he inexplicably had a thought that he didn't want to leave.

"It's not the same feeling as Yuna······ It's all hugs, isn't it, why ······?"

The sky and the sea are watching the men and women on the ship, as if they want to witness the moment, and the confused hearts of the confused people wander in the unpredictable river of time, unable to stay, unable to be themselves.

Fortunately, however, the lonely man is no longer alone······