The Journey of Freedom After the Awakening of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit

It was just as my husband said.

Jingni pondered for a while but couldn't figure it out. However, she did agree somewhat with Moria's analysis.

So he nodded in agreement to Moria's suggestion to go to Xinzheng, South Korea.

Moria gestured with his right hand and said with a smile, "Then please point me in the right direction, Madam. I have no idea where Korea is."

Upon hearing this, Jingni rolled her eyes at Moria, then casually pointed in a direction and said, "Over there, there's an official road leading to Korea in the past few days. If you follow that road, you'll reach Korea quickly."

"Alright!" Moria smiled and immediately maneuvered the Shadow Sofa to fly in the direction Jingni pointed.

After flying for a while, Moria suddenly said, "Although the Net covers all seven kingdoms, Xinzheng in Korea is, after all, the capital of a kingdom. The forces there are complex. Even if the Net discovers us there, the pressure we face may be less."

This was a brief explanation of the benefits of going to Xinzheng, South Korea.

"I will listen to my husband."

Jingni nodded. She wasn't a person with strong opinions; as long as she was good to her daughter, that was enough.

Whether it's South Korea or any other country, Jingni doesn't care.

"By the way, the Net suffered heavy losses today. Will they send top-tier assassins to hunt us down next time?" Moria asked curiously.

"will not."

After saying this, Jingni placed her hands in front of Xiaoyan'er to shield her from the wind, and then explained:

"The targets of the top-tier assassins of the Luo Wang are either people who pose a significant threat to the Qin state or people who possess important items that the Luo Wang must obtain. The former generally focus on killing their targets, while the latter focus on obtaining the important items."

"We don't pose much of a threat to the Qin state from the Luo Wang right now, so it's not worth the effort of a top-tier assassin. But we shouldn't let our guard down because of that."

Jingni reminded him, "The Luo Wang has no shortage of assassins. Betraying the Luo Wang means facing a relentless pursuit. Even if your husband has special abilities, the Luo Wang's assassination methods, besides today's strong attack, also include poisoning and other methods."

"Poisoning" Moria instantly recalled his first defeat in the One Piece world, which was being poisoned. He murmured, "This is indeed worth noting. In this era, poison is the most difficult assassination method to guard against."

Jing Ni continued, "So we'd better not stay in one place for too long, otherwise the Net will easily find an opportunity to poison us."

"Unless we can find a place where the net can't penetrate."

Finally, Jingni added, pondering in her mind where the Net hadn't penetrated.

In the end, they discovered that these were all places controlled by powerful forces, and their identities clearly prevented them from going there, which made them feel somewhat disheartened.

Thinking of this, Jingni lowered her head and gently rubbed Xiaoyan'er's head.

Little Yan was panting heavily, her little eyes darting around, seemingly very curious as to why there were no trees around.

Moria reached out and touched Xiaoyan'er's tender face, and said with a smile, "We don't necessarily have to go to places where the Net can't infiltrate. It's enough to stop the Net from hunting us down."

Jingni shook her head upon hearing this and said in a deep voice, "Impossible. Betraying Luo Wang means nothing but relentless pursuit. There is no other way."

Ha ha!

Moria smiled but didn't explain, his gaze lingering on the distance.

I wonder if Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng, has arrived in Xinzheng, South Korea. I hope he hasn't. I need to go and check on him soon.

Once he convinces Ying Zheng, and waits a few more years, it's not impossible for him to even take control of the Luo Wang organization. By then, the Luo Wang organization will all be his, and naturally no one will hunt down Jing Ni and him.

As for whether he could join the Net, Moria was still somewhat confident.

After all, his shadow ability is incredibly convenient for espionage, whether it's transmitting messages or monitoring information in a certain location.

He only needs to connect to the shadow space of a house wall and then send a shadow servant inside to monitor everything he sees and hears around him, and basically no one will notice.

His army of shadow servants was also a powerful weapon in large-scale wars, and Moria did not believe that Ying Zheng would not be tempted.

Perhaps the only concern is that his abilities are too great, and it's uncertain whether Ying Zheng would dare to use him and allow him to develop further.

This is a problem; it's hard to predict!

"Never mind, we'll see about that later!"

Moria slumped down, no longer agonizing over it. Things would work themselves out. If all else failed, he'd try enslaving Ying Zheng; if that didn't work, so be it. He could develop on his own and eventually unify the seven kingdoms.

Chapter 210 The Shadow Space Corresponding to the Physical Body (Two Chapters Combined)

The next morning.

The sun was shining brightly, and the sky was cloudless.

Beside the river, next to the carriage, under the willow tree, Jingni sat on a small round stool, holding Xiaoyan'er in one arm as she drank her breakfast milk, while gazing at the grove of trees beside her.

Moria has been inside for some time now.

call out!

shhhhh!

In the forest, Moria manipulated countless needles as thin as threads to kill geckos, snakes, fleas, and other animals.

Then, it devours these small animals and transforms their shadows into life energy.

"All done, let's go back."

After a while, sensing the life energy gathering like fireflies in the shadow space, Moria smiled and turned back to the riverbank.

Upon returning, Moria took out a round stool from the Shadow Dimension and sat down facing the river.

The stool was made by him from a few large tree trunks that he had casually cut down.

He wasn't used to the idea that sitting meant kneeling in this era; he preferred having something to hold onto.

After feeding Xiao Yan'er, Jing Ni got up and walked around, glancing at Moria from time to time before looking away and continuing to take Xiao Yan'er for a walk.

Here, Moria began to devour life energy.

Now that he can't find a powerful creature to devour, he can only turn his attention to animals in nature that have certain special abilities.

The hope is to integrate the jumping, regenerative, and muscular abilities of these animals into one's own body by absorbing their life energy.

In this way, his physical body should become much stronger without having to devour the shadows of powerful creatures.

It merely absorbs life energy; it doesn't directly fuse with genes and therefore cannot have a direct effect.

"I can only try more, try to perceive more deeply, and see what the essence of devouring life energy to evolve the physical body is, and see if I can develop it," Moria thought to himself.

In the shadow space, some animals have very little life energy, like fleas, which have almost only a tiny speck of life energy.

Moria began by consuming the life energy of the fleas.

Soon, a grain of life energy representing a flea disappeared and was swallowed up in the shadow space.

Moria carefully examined his physical body, but after a short while, he felt nothing.

"Perhaps it's a little too little," Moria thought to himself.

Fortunately, Moria had just killed dozens of fleas, which gathered a certain amount, and he devoured them all at once.

A while later.

"No, that won't work!"

Moria murmured, carefully sensing his body, and discovered that the flea's life energy only served to replenish energy and restore physical strength, without any sense of physical evolution.

"Let's try devouring the others!"

Moria didn't give up and continued to devour the life energy of small animals such as snakes and geckos.

The result was the same as in One Piece.

When his physical strength is greater than that of the beings whose life energy he devoured from the shadows.

The life energy of those creatures only served to heal his injuries and restore his strength.

It has no effect whatsoever on the evolution and strengthening of the physical body.

The process of absorbing life energy to evolve and become stronger depends more on the intensity of the life energy than on the genes or special abilities of the organism represented by the life energy.

Thinking about it carefully, in the world of One Piece, Moria absorbed the life energy of Sea Kings, and his physical body evolved and became stronger.

However, it did not allow him to evolve the ability to breathe underwater like sea kings.

Although consuming the life energy of plants did not grant him the ability to perform photosynthesis like plants do.

Taking all these factors into account, absorbing life energy to strengthen the physical body only strengthens the physical body; it does not cause mutation.

Therefore, only life energy with sufficient overall strength can allow Moria's physical body to evolve and become stronger.

Fleas can jump high simply because their muscle structure and body structure are specially adapted for jumping.

However, in essence, the flea's life energy intensity is certainly not as high as Moria's, and may even be weaker.

Therefore, absorbing the life energy of the fleas did not make Moria's physical body stronger.

Small animals like snakes and geckos also have lower life energy levels than Moria.

Perhaps only by devouring the shadows of large animals like elephants, tigers, pythons, or even giant horses and cattle could the intensity of his life energy surpass that of Moria, allowing his physical body to evolve and become stronger.

However, its strength is likely limited; it won't be like the One Piece world where absorbing Sea Kings directly boosts one's physical strength by several levels.

But that won't work!

Moria can no longer cultivate internal energy techniques; the only way for him to become stronger is to strengthen his physical body and then devour and master more shadows.

The situation is not looking good!

Moria frowned; he didn't like being the weakling.

He prefers the strong to sweep away everything.

Ugh, so annoying!

Moria shook his head and thought for a while, but still couldn't come up with a way to make his body stronger.

But just as he was about to get up and leave, he suddenly remembered an ability that could make his own body stronger in this world without powerful creatures.

That is to find the shadow of the corresponding physical body!

Once found, he can enhance his physical body by manipulating shadows, much like shadow shaping.

He even incorporated the jumping ability of flea muscles into his own body, changing his muscles to adapt to jumping, thus enabling him to jump even higher.

"All I need to do is find the shadow of the corresponding physical body!" Moria thought to himself.

He felt there was a good chance of finding it this time. He was now certain that outside the barrier of the shadow space was the black and white universe, and there was no shadow corresponding to the physical body.

Therefore, the shadow corresponding to the physical body must be within the shadow space, and it cannot be anywhere else; it's just that he hasn't perceived it or thought of it yet.