Chapter 48
Just like an old ox pulling a cart, Zoro saw Luffy suddenly stop, he couldn't help but glared at him and said:
"Hey Luffy, what's wrong with you? Are you trying to be lazy, you bastard?"
"Am I that kind of person?" Luffy protested
"You're not? Then why are you laughing?"
"I found something interesting"
"What's up?"
"You are young but have many problems, so just drive the cart with peace of mind!"
"......"
Soon Luffy and his friends arrived at the intersection of the ruins on the top of the mountain.
After a while of searching, Luffy reached into a round hole on the right side of the huge stone gate that was 20 to 30 meters high.
Zoro was also ready on the other side. Soon the two found a ring of iron rope in the hole, and
Luffy and Zoro pulled the ring out at the same time.
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As the iron chain was pulled out, there was a sound of mechanism, and the huge stone door in front of them, which was 20 to 30 meters high, slowly began to sink down with a rumble.
Soon, Luffy and his friends saw that there was nothing but an ordinary brick and stone gate in front of them.���There were two huge stone doors on the top of the hall, which were slowly opening to both sides.
The sun shone down through the round top entrance. The whole hall was a square hall with a length and width of about 100 to 200 meters.
On the walls of the hall, there were various patterns.
They were the intersections between humans and millennium dragons.
The rock walls of the hall were also covered with various tree roots, which looked very old!
Hiss————
The next moment, with the roar of the Dragon Lord who was pulled in, the huge stone door they had entered through slowly closed again.
"Hey! Why is the door closed?
Usopp panicked.
Luffy smiled and said:
"Don't worry, this is the mechanism here, you can open it when you want to go out later."
Hearing this, Usopp and the others breathed a sigh of relief. After the dragon neighed, the bricks and stones on the ground in front of them began to move slowly.
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Soon , a black hole with a length and width of nearly 100 meters appeared.
In front of Luffy and the others, a series of stairs extended to the bottom of the black hole.
At this time, after sniffing, the dragon seemed to smell something, which made the whole dragon more energetic.
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Lord Long suddenly stretched out his wings and walked slowly down towards the black hole below.
Luffy and the others followed him down slowly.
After walking for a few minutes, the bricks and stones above their heads merged together again with a"click".
It was as if nothing had happened.
Luffy originally thought that his vision would become darker after the light above his head was blocked, but he didn't expect that the sunlight could still penetrate those"bricks and stones" and shine in, making the area below the black hole as bright as day.
"hiss!!!"
"What material are these bricks and stones made of?"
"Now it seems that this is not an ordinary stone, right?"
"Ordinary stones can't have this kind of light-transmitting and light-focusing effect."
Luffy and the others started to discuss.
And Abis, who was sitting on Long Ye in front, suddenly exclaimed:
"Wow~~~
What a beautiful dragon pond!
Is this the place that Lord Long said could restore one’s strength?
It’s so beautiful!"
After hearing what Abis said, Luffy and the others stopped observing the strange"translucent bricks and stones" above their heads and quickly headed downwards.
When they reached the bottom of the stairs, Luffy and the others saw a blue light illuminating them.
On the rock walls surrounding the cave at the bottom, there were all kinds of white crystals, which absorbed the light refracted from above, and then blue light appeared under the illumination of the blue lake in the center of the cave.
Then, these blue lights made the entire cave look like a blue ocean.
Whoosh, whoosh————
"hiss————"
When seeing the lake, Long Ye looked much more excited. He spread his wings and flew low towards the blue lake in the middle, hissing at the same time.
"What!?"
Hearing the roar of Lord Long, Luffy was stunned for a moment, and then he was ecstatic:
"Lord Long, are you telling the truth?
Can we also take a dip in this dragon pool?
Are there any benefits?"
"hiss————"
In response, Dragon Lord roared again.
Nami and the others were stunned for a moment. They didn't expect Luffy to suddenly say such a thing.
"Very good!"
Luffy waved his fist fiercely and smiled at Nami and the others:
"Lord Long just told me that after humans soak in this dragon pool, their life span can be extended by one or two hundred years or even longer!
And their physical constitution will also change greatly!
These are all things in Lord Long's memory."
""Nani!!!"
Zoro and the others also exclaimed, and then there was a burst of ecstasy.
They never thought that they would have such benefits after just taking the risk to broaden their horizons!
When Luffy and the others walked to the edge of the lake, the whole body of the Dragon Lord except for his head had been submerged in the center of the dragon pond.
Seeing this, Luffy glanced at the others, thought for a while, and then said:
"So, Zoro, hold me.
I'll go down first and see if there's really no danger to us.
Then you guys can come down."
After hearing Luffy's words, the joyful expressions on the faces of the others froze, and then they understood what Luffy meant.
Luffy wanted to help them test the waters first.
Really test the waters!
Zoro nodded in approval of Luffy's words:
""Okay, if there's anything wrong, call me."
Luffy nodded.
As the captain, he naturally had to lead by example.
Although Long Ye said so, he couldn't just jump down with his companions without trying anything, right?
It's not that he doubted Long Ye had any bad intentions towards them.
The main thing is���This thousand-year-old dragon is an Alzheimer's dragon.
What if it remembers something wrong? Then they will be in trouble.
Nami and the others also reacted, and then they restrained their happy expressions and looked at Luffy nervously.
Luffy directly threw one of his hands to Zoro, and then jumped directly into the lake.
"Huh?"
Luffy was stunned when he just jumped into the lake. He could actually move?
"This doesn't look like seawater?
Although I'm not feeling well, I can still move."
"You can actually move? How is this possible?"
Zoro and the others were also very shocked. In the past, Luffy would collapse even if he took a fresh water bath. Although he could still move, it was still very strenuous. Luffy's feet are very flexible now.
Luffy felt it a little bit, and his feet were already slapping the water excitedly, and he felt a kind of extreme kidney deficiency.
But this feeling was soon dispersed by a surge of energy into the body!
The neutralization of these two energies caused Luffy to be able to swim in the water.
If it was sea water, it would definitely not work, but if it was here, Luffy felt that his body seemed to have endless strength.
He could even feel his Tao power growing upwards little by little!
It's incredible!
Good man, this wouldn't be the legendary opportunity in fantasy novels, right?
The Dragon Pool is!
But I have to say that it feels really good to soak in it, especially the feeling that the strength is constantly increasing and he can clearly perceive it.
How to say it? Hey, it's very comfortable!
After soaking for a while, Luffy's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he shouted to them:
"It really works!
I feel that the power of my body is growing little by little!
This may be a great opportunity for us to improve our strength!"
Plop! Plop! Plop!
Hearing Luffy's words, Zoro shook off Luffy's hand, dropped his three swords, and jumped directly into the lake. Sanji, Kin, and Usopp followed closely behind.
Nami grabbed Luffy's arm and quietly leaned against the lake shore with him.
She was mainly worried that if Luffy couldn't move again in a while, she could take care of him.
Luffy naturally knew what Nami was thinking, and just smiled slightly, put his arm around her waist, and the two of them leaned on the rocks on the shore and watched Zoro and his group playing in the water with Abis and the others.
But at this moment, Usopp, who had dived into the water, suddenly popped up, holding a green fruit-shaped fruit with various strange patterns, and then looked at Luffy and shouted excitedly:
"road...Luffy, look! I found this at the bottom of the lake!"
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