And when he heard these two methods of Emperor Xia, Locke actually understood what the other party wanted to choose, which was of course the second one.

After all, if this method is used, it is the greatest increase in one's own strength, and in this case, of course, it is the one that uses the greatest improvement, as for the disadvantage of the slow speed, when Emperor Xia said this method, Locke knew that the other party must have some other methods to improve the speed of this process.

Of course, in addition, before that, Emperor Xia told him to be prepared, in fact, there is a certain hint, that is, there may be some pain in this process, so Emperor Xia will mention this sentence before.

There may be other effects in this process, otherwise they wouldn't have let Carmen and them set up a hidden formation on the outskirts of the island.

Of course, these are all analyzed by Locke, and the real situation is actually similar to Locke's analysis, because when Locke had not yet started his choice, Emperor Xia directly suggested to Locke.

His suggestion was to let Locke choose the second method, and he did have a way to quickly help Locke refine the Devil Fruit in his body, after all, although Locke did not take the initiative to develop his ability to reach the level of the law, but the fact is that no matter how he achieved it, he is indeed a Devil Fruit ability at the level of the law now.

In such cases, of course, the second method is more beneficial, although the process is painful, especially if it is necessary to speed it up.

After all, from the analysis of the Devil Fruit, the Devil Fruit ability comes from the manifestation of the law in the fruit, and this manifestation ability, when the person eats the first bite of the Devil Fruit, enters the human body, and then entangles with the soul, if the fruit user dies, then this law will leave the soul to find a new fruit to live in, and then wait for others to eat the fruit and live in the soul.

In this way, the Devil Fruit will also help the capable when they live again and again, and at the same time, when the capable person dies, absorb a part of the soul energy of the capable person, and substitute for their own fruit to manifest the condensation, and even finally reach a certain level, and can also become the consciousness of this world.

Of course, these are some speculations after Emperor Xia studied the Devil Fruit, except for the last one, other things have actually been confirmed by Emperor Xia.

And refining the Devil Fruit is actually refining a part of the consciousness that has appeared on the other side, and then letting the law completely integrate into one's soul, at that time, this law is a part of the human soul, and those previous weaknesses, such as sea water or something, will not be weaknesses.

In this way, you can naturally fuse the ability of the second fruit, and since your own soul is the embodiment of the laws of this world, it will be much easier to develop the second fruit.

After Locke agreed to choose the second method, Emperor Xia began to explain to Locke about the knowledge of the Devil Fruit, as well as some of his research on the Devil Fruit.

As for the first method mentioned before, Emperor Xia didn't mention it, after all, although that method is really useful, but Emperor Xia is very disdainful, the reason why he said that kind of distribution is just to let Locke feel his erudition, even if Locke chooses that method in the end, he will fool Locke into choosing the second option.

Of course, in the case that the two methods are better and which is worse when they hear it, Emperor Xia also believes that Locke will not be stupid enough to choose the first one, which is the confidence that comes from smart people.

After Locke gave a general explanation of the knowledge of the Devil Fruit, he began to set up the room.

It didn't take long for a small formation to appear in the room, and this formation was the method that Xia Huang mentioned to Locke before that could help Locke refine the Devil Fruit in his body.

After the formation is activated, Locke only needs to sit in the formation, and the formation can help Locke find his soul, and then discover where the law in the soul is manifested.

After that, Emperor Xia will increase his control over the formation, make the formation work thoroughly, and help Locke fuse the laws in his body, this process will be very painful, just like Ling Chi in ancient times, scraping the flesh and blood on his body with a knife.

And the same is true of this process of fusion, but the pain that acts on the soul at this time cannot be avoided at all.

In fact, if this process goes according to the normal process, although there will be some pain, but it will not come out like this, the normal process is like a silent spring rain, although it is a little cool, but everything is also slowly revived under his arrival.

After explaining the method of sensing souls to Locke, Emperor Xia let Locke sit in the center of the formation, and then after seeing Locke nodding to indicate that he was ready, he directly activated the formation.

A burst of dark blue light emerged from the formation, and then directly enveloped Locke, who was sitting cross-legged in it, and at the same time, Locke began to close his eyes, following the blue light that entered his body, looking for the location of his soul.

"I hope you don't let me down!"

Looking at Locke, who was slowly entering the meditation, Emperor Xia muttered in a low voice, and then saw him wave his hand in the air, and a flash of materials appeared in front of him.

It's just that Emperor Xia didn't seem to know the value of these things, after these materials appeared, he directly crushed all these materials, and then mixed them together, and then used the mixed material powder to start carving outside the formation where Locke was just now.

I don't know what he's portraying, at this time, Locke has completely immersed in the world inside himself, and he doesn't know anything about the perception of the outside world, so he doesn't know what Emperor Xia is doing at all.

Little by little, with the guidance of the blue light, he came directly to the depths of his mind, found the location of his soul, and at the same time saw the black lines wrapped around the soul, and knew that it was the embodiment of the phantom fruit.

didn't give Locke too much time to think, Locke's consciousness automatically entered the soul, and then the soul's eyes slowly opened, like Locke outside, sitting cross-legged directly in the void, Locke also immediately began to refine the fruit according to the method of refining the fruit that Emperor Xia told him before.

There was no need for Locke to inform the outside, just when Locke began to refine, a burst of light that was different from the formation just now rushed into the soul, constantly providing energy to Locke's soul, and at the same time helping Locke to start refining the fruit.