Chapter 6: The Divine Bestowed Realm

As Ao Xin hesitated, he suddenly recalled Teacher Kai’s golden words:
“Dominance is fundamental!”
Roger, Shanks, and Garp had no Devil Fruit powers, yet they became unrivaled champions of the world.
In fact, Teacher Kai barely developed his Devil Fruit abilities while pursuing the enhancement of dominance; he hadn’t even awakened his powers when fighting King Luffy!
“Choose option two! Dominance genius!”
Without further hesitation, quality over quantity in power.
The strength of the Azure Dragon Fruit depends on the strength of one’s own physique.
To fully develop a single fruit to its limit is no small feat.
In the next moment, inspiration struck—he directly awakened the three-color dominance. A thin, black aura of dominance cloaked his fist: this was Armament Haki!
He opened the Divine Blessing Shop, which contained all the items available for exchange during the first Divine Blessing event.
At the top of the screen was a simple explanation of points:
“Points can only be earned by killing zombies. The stronger the zombie, the more points awarded. Kills with firearms do not count!”
The shop was divided into four main categories: [Martial Arts], [Combat Skills], [Equipment], and [Potions].
In Martial Arts, naturally, were the three types of dominance: [Armament Haki], [Observation Haki], and [Conqueror’s Haki].
Indeed, here, Conqueror’s Haki was not an innate kingly talent but a skill to be cultivated!
The essence of Conqueror’s Haki was a certain aura, born from the soul’s power, not closely tied to royal lineage.
However, those with kingly ambition possessed stronger willpower, making it easier to sense this power.
The three types of dominance cost very little—each only ten points, practically a bargain!
But for Ao Xin, accumulating ten points was already a challenge; for ordinary people, killing ten zombies was extremely difficult!
There were many more combat skills.
First were the Navy’s Six Styles, each costing a thousand points.
Then there were various battle techniques from powerful figures.
For example, Kaido’s combat techniques came in comprehensive packs or separate skills like [Thunder Bagua], [Roaring Thunder Bagua], [Great Virtue Thunder Bagua], [Descending Three Worlds: Invoking Naraku], [Diamond Dagger], [Juntuli: Dragon Prosperity Army], and so on.
Each skill required 100,000 points to exchange; the full package cost a million points to obtain all of Kaido’s abilities.
There was also the Drunken Fist series.
Of course, techniques like Garp’s boxing, Hawk-Eye’s swordsmanship, Zoro’s sword style, Sanji’s kicking techniques, and Jesus Burgess’s shooting skills were all available as well.
Equipment included various swords, bows, guns, and armor.
For example, the most common navy cutlass or pirate sword cost only a hundred points.
A fast blade required a thousand points.
A fine fast blade cost ten thousand points.
A great fast blade demanded a hundred thousand points.
The supreme great fast blade-level equipment required a million points!

Among potions were various healing medicines, poisons, and even delicacies that served as "nutritional potions" to restore stamina and heal injuries!
The most special potions were the bloodline factor potions, divided into [Venom Powder], [Spark Red], [Shock Blue], and [Winch Green]. Each granted the user an exoskeleton and a superpower.
These were one of the few ways, aside from Devil Fruits, to acquire special abilities.
Another method was artificial Devil Fruits, namely [SMILE] and [Green Blood].
The former was created by Caesar—imperfect animal-type Devil Fruits with severe side effects, including the inability to express emotions beyond laughter.
The advantage was affordability, costing only a thousand points per fruit.
The latter, created by Vegapunk, could only replicate superhuman-type powers. Since ordinary humans lacked Lunaria blood, fusing with Green Blood carried the risk of death.
Moreover, the copied abilities only had half the effectiveness or power of the original.
Aside from these four categories, there were [Unique Exchange Items].
Once someone redeemed such an item, it was permanently removed from the shop, and others could no longer exchange for it.
There were two unique items: [Invisible Black Bloodline Factor] and [Demon Purification Potion].
Invisible Black was Sanji’s bloodline factor.
Unlike the other four, where red, blue, and green caused emotional loss, and venom powder retained emotions but halved exoskeleton strength, Invisible Black was the perfect bloodline factor.
It granted super-strong defense and self-healing on par with awakened Mythical Zoan types.
It also bestowed extreme speed, so fast it was invisible to the naked eye—essentially a form of invisibility.
This ability was no less powerful than any Devil Fruit!
And it had none of the side effects of Devil Fruits!
Naturally, its price was absurdly high at one hundred million points!
The Demon Purification Potion was similar to the Perfect Fruit, able to remove the side effects of a current Devil Fruit, allowing the user to consume a second Devil Fruit.
But it was also unique, costing one hundred million points!
Ao Xin exchanged ten points for five pieces of Moist Meat, a food that quickly replenished stamina.
It would allow him to endure longer in battle.
Each piece cost only two points—a bargain for such a useful item.
He closed the Divine Blessing Shop and opened his personal panel to check his details:
Name: Ao Xin
Talent (Hidden Attribute): Dominance Genius
Devil Fruit: Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Azure Dragon Form
Realm: Body Tempering - 0
Combat Skills: None
Equipment: None
Points: 90
Everything was at zero because everything was just beginning.
The baseball bat in his hand was hardly a weapon, and with so few points, he had no intention of exchanging for ordinary weapons.
In terms of realm, throughout the first Divine Blessing period, he was at the Body Tempering stage.
There were nine levels: [Bronze Skin], [Iron Bones], [Giant Strength], [Divine Feet], [Five Treasures], [Six Organs], [Jade Marrow], [Rebirth], [Corpse Fight]!
The cultivation method was through Armament Haki!
This was the path to body tempering.
Although he had mastered the three types of dominance in his previous life, this life, without the Dominance Genius reward, he still needed to exchange items to learn them.
What he exchanged was less a method and more a cultivation license.
The personal panel provided not only personal attributes but also communication tools.
When civilization was destroyed during the apocalypse, everyone relied on the communication function of the personal panel to stay connected.
Moreover, it was thoughtfully divided into many channels.
At this moment, many had already begun chatting:
“Oh my god, this Divine Blessing space is amazing! All the items are from the Pirate World!”
“With these, zombies don’t seem so scary anymore.”
“To the idiot above, do you even have points? Killing one zombie only gives one point. Who knows when you’ll ever get those good things!”
“Don’t even talk about exchanging; I’m just glad to stay alive!”
Soon, the majestic and grand voice rang out once more:
“The spatial stasis will end soon. Afterward, you can enter the Divine Blessing space at will by thought.”
“Ten!”
He felt darkness sweep before his eyes, and when he awoke again, his consciousness had returned to his body.
Around him were endless zombies, and panicked classmates and teachers.
His right claw gripped the baseball bat; his left claw held five pieces of Moist Meat!
The Divine Blessing space did not provide storage capabilities.
“Three!”
“Two!”
“One!”
“Zero!”
When the countdown ended and time-space normalized, Ao Xin shoved a piece of Moist Meat into his mouth, wolfing it down as he charged toward the school gate.