Upper Yard Trial

"So where are we now?" Nami asks.

Conis answered." We are now in Upper Yard."

"Upper Yard is an island in Skypiea that is solid land, unlike other parts of sky islands which are made up of clouds. It was part of Jaya in the past, until it was pushed up by the Knock Up Stream in the past."

"Upper Yard was once the part of Jaya that was sent up in the sky four hundred years ago by the Knock Up Stream. Its former habitants, the ancient Shandia, were driven out by Skypieans, for whom it presented a big value due to the rarity of soil in the sky."

"Upper Yard had become home to the rulers of Skypieans, who bore the title of God of Skypiea. Enel, after his invasion of Skypiea, made it his residence and instituted total control over the island. Apart from him, only the four Priests, which run their respective Ordeals there"

"Divine Soldiers, Enel's servants and some of Gan Fall's former men, inhabited the island. For everybody else, it was forbidden to step onto Upper Yard, as it was considered "holy land"."

All of them are horrified hearing Knock Upstream has the power to push a huge landmass up here, they only expect that phenomenon to be just a part of the adventure, the most important is they actually enter God's back garden.

"Here most of it is covered by forest. The trees and animals on Upper Yard have grown to huge sizes, due to the decrease in the atmosphere."

"Not many try to venture here because of the tribe trying to protect the forest so we need to be careful here."

Nami looked at the map that they got and said," There's a forest on the map but….. There's no special marking here at all, it's like a normal forest."

"The map is drawn like that because no one ever enters and draws a complete map of Upper Yard so they just draw a forest there."

"The guy who had that map was here over 200 years ago as i heard, its a old map and never update as this time,"

"By the way, Conis, what's the bigass tree?" Luffy point the huge tree that looks like a pillar of heaven from its size and length,

"That's called Giant Jack is a giant beanstalk in the center of Upper Yard. Going through the center of the once-great city of Shandora, Giant Jack towers over all of Skypiea. God's Shrine rests upon an island cloud that the Giant Jack goes through"

"It's huge~ let's go, Xin, let's climb it!" Luffy excitedly asks.

"Later, we will climb it with everyone." Xin grins and nods.

"No!" Nami, Usopp and Chopper were horrified hearing what they said, climbing that huge sprout sure fun, but falling from the height will surely cause death for any of them.

"We are in the entrance now,"

Based on the markings around and the statue of strange money, they can easily know that they are about to enter the jungle.

While traveling on the ship, they can see some shipwrecks and broken weapons, it seems it's not really easy to enter here.

"H-Hey Xin, I feel we are a benign watch." Usopp said.

Xin looked at him and smiled," Your pretty strong, you actually know we are being observed?"

"Nooo!! I want to go home!"

"It's too late Usopp, if you want to go back, you can jump off the board and swim."

Usopp who really want to jump stop by Chopper and said," Don't jump, i can feel something big inside of the Whtie Sea."

"Chopper is right, if you jump, your death will be faster than following us." Zoro said.

Usopp unconsciously looks above and is horrified on what he sees," Hurry Xin move the ship fast!!"

"Everyone uses a paddle, paddle faster!! Move the ship forward fast!!"

"Why? What's wrong?"

All of them see a huge scythe larger than their ship coming closer in full swimming, making all of them turn pale.

But before they can even react, Xin smiled while Zoro already paper in the way, holding one of his katana, he slash back.

"Ittoryu: 36 Pound Ho"

Crack!

"Don't let your guard down guys, there's more coming."

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

"Black Leg Style: Anti-Manner Kick Course"

"Gomu Gomu: Bazuka"

"Wind Release: Wind Blade!"

"Earth Release: Rock Smash!"

Nami looks dazed seeing a huge mass of rock smash the incoming trap, she looks at Vivi who just practiced Ninjusu for a couple of days already knows how to use Ninjutsu.

Xin nodded, he knew Vivi can do it, but her chakra is still limited, just using one Ninjutu made her look pretty drained.

"Finally it's over!!"

"That was closed"

"Wait?! What's that?"

"Wow!! This time there's a giant on our way!! Let's beat it!"

"Idiot! That's a statue"

"No, it's a Door!! There are four openings."

"Does that mean there's four different places?"

"Trial of Swamp, Trial of Iron, Trial of String, Trial of Balls."

"Xin, what should we pick?"

Xin looks at them and asks," Why don't you guys try to choose this time?"

"Can we!?" Luffy excitedly asks.

"Sure."

"Let's go to Trial of Balls! Its sound fun"

"No!" All of them said.