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

Suddenly, her expression changed, and she lightly formed a hand seal with her slender fingers. A moment later, she immediately said to her companions, "Something's wrong, something's happened, I'll go over first!"

Without waiting for a response from her companions, the black-haired woman's already fast figure became even faster.

In an instant, he left his companions behind and sped forward.

"Yes, Lord Dongjun!"

As the black-haired woman walked away, a soft, charming female voice rang out. It was the person who had been traveling with the black-haired woman, and judging from the voice, she was also a beautiful woman.

The beautiful woman swiftly extended her equally blood-red hands from her blood-red sleeves, forming a hand seal behind her back. Instantly, a misty, blood-like gas condensed in her hands before exploding.

In an instant, the beautiful woman seemed to receive an acceleration boost, her body moving even faster as she sped forward.

However, this beautiful woman with blood-red hands, despite her best efforts, was still not as fast as the black-haired woman from before.

Even after accelerating, she could only watch as the black-haired woman quickly disappeared from her sight.

This is the passageway in the village.

Moria withdrew his shadow servants, and the giant snake he had killed in front of him had disappeared.

Only the blood flowing on the ground, not yet washed away by the heavy rain, proves that a snake demon once died here.

The serpent's shadow has been swallowed by Moria.

A new mass of life energy, significantly stronger than any other life energy, appeared in the shadow space.

This was precisely the life energy of the giant snake he had killed.

Moria gazed ahead, not immediately absorbing the life energy of the giant serpent.

Because now is not the time; there is still a large snake to deal with.

Moreover, this absorption was mainly to sense the changes in the shadow space and find out the changes that could allow the physical body to evolve and become stronger.

Improving one's physical strength is secondary.

"Roar!!!!"

The large snake that had come down from the mountain had now reached the end of the village, at the end of the passageway.

Just like the giant snake that was killed before.

As Moria approached the village, the powerful aura emanating from him, burning like a furnace, deeply attracted the approaching giant snake.

Furthermore, the aura of the serpent's death emanating from Moria drove the arriving serpent completely mad.

After a roar, it twisted its body in an "S" shape and charged toward Moria at great speed along the passageway.

Chapter 212 Soul-Devouring Curse (Two Chapters Combined)

Boom!

Boom!

The rain blurred the view, but the enormous body of the serpent was still clearly visible.

Because it was so enormous, its mere twisting and turning caused the houses on either side of the passageway, which could easily be passed by two two-horse carriages, to be crushed and broken apart.

As the giant snake passed by, mud, water, and broken pieces of wood splashed to both sides.

"So fast!"

"It moves much faster than that giant snake from before!"

Moria was startled; with such a massive body and such speed, his strength must be astonishing.

Moria dared not be careless. He first used his mind to manipulate a portion of his shadow to condense around himself, forming a set of shadow armor to protect himself in case of an accident. Then he flew to mid-air, which was level with the top of the house.

Then he manipulated all the remaining shadows to condense into a sharp shadow spear that hovered in mid-air in front of him.

The Shadow Spear is one meter in diameter and fifteen meters long. Its head is undecorated, making it more like an enlarged version of a shadow needle than a true shadow spear.

"Such a large shadow spear, combined with the speed at which the giant snake charges, as well as the weight and speed of the shadow spear itself, should be enough to pierce through the giant snake's skull!"

Moria thought to himself, then his expression suddenly changed, and he immediately manipulated the shadow spear to fly forward at high speed.

"Peng!"

A loud explosion occurred.

However, during its high-speed movement, the snake's body momentarily bent like a spring, and then it suddenly sprang out, its speed even faster than before.

Almost instantly, the giant snake approached Moria, seemingly trying to catch him off guard.

Unfortunately, Moria's Observation Haki sensed it in advance, so he fired the Shadow Spear first.

However, the time was too short and the distance too close. As soon as Moria's shadow spear was fired, the giant snake, in the form of a human headbutt, slammed its head hard into the tip of the shadow spear.

In an instant.

"Clang!"

It's like a needle tip hitting an alloy steel plate, producing a piercing metallic clang, and then the sound stops abruptly.

The shadow spear could not withstand the enormous power of the serpent. In the instant of the collision, it disintegrated into nothingness before it could unleash its full power.

The giant serpent then continued its headbutt attack forward, slamming into Moria's body.

Moriah felt as if he had been hit by a high-speed train.

Just as the immense power was about to be poured onto him.

Moria deliberately used this force to control the shadow armor and fly backward, thus dissipating most of the power.

That's the advantage of Observation Haki; it allows you to anticipate any unexpected situation, giving you some reaction time.

In mid-air, the shadows scattered by the giant serpent caught up with Moria like flying quicksand and merged into his shadow armor.

This is considered a passive skill; the scattered shadows will automatically return to his side.

"It's so big!"

During his flight backwards, Moria gazed at the giant serpent through the rain and sighed.

In that brief moment, he had already clearly seen what the giant snake looked like.

The overall color and shape are the same as the previous one, except that it is a size larger. The snake's body is at least 1.4 meters in diameter and more than 40 to nearly 50 meters long.

With such a large size, it's no wonder it could shatter the shadow instantly; its power was simply too astonishing, and the shadow's strength couldn't withstand it at all.

call out!

Moria, having lost his momentum, flew into the air above the carriage.

Jingni stood in front of the carriage curtain, sword in one hand. Seeing Moria being knocked away, she looked up at him with concern.

"Do we really have to kill that giant snake?" Jing Ni asked.

She knew Moria's abilities; if he wanted to leave, the giant snake couldn't stop him.

But if Moriah wanted to kill the giant serpent, judging from the situation just now, he clearly had no way to deal with the giant serpent that appeared later.

If they were to force Moria to be killed, he would be injured or even die, which Jingni did not want to see.

"Let me do it, husband, please take good care of Xiaoyan!"

Before Moria could answer, Jingni had already made her decision and was about to get out of the car and rush towards the giant snake.

"No! No, no!!"

Moria waved his hands repeatedly in mid-air to stop Jing Ni's actions, telling her to just protect Xiao Yan'er and that he would deal with the giant snake himself.

Jingni was naturally very strong, but this giant snake possessed terrifying strength and speed, as well as intelligence that rivaled that of humans.

With Jingni's small frame and lack of Observation Haki, if she were to be hit by a single blow, she would basically not survive.

Moria didn't want Jingni to take any risks.

"Don't worry, take Xiaoyan and get away from here first!"

Moria looked down at Jingni and quickly said something, then immediately conjured a large shadow spear and shot it at the giant snake that had just charged forward.

"Husband, be careful!"

Ultimately, she was worried about Xiao Yan'er. Watching Moria speed away, Jing Ni didn't follow. After thinking to herself, she told the carriage to turn around and leave the battlefield between Moria and the giant snake. She would come back later depending on the situation.

The giant snake was like a heartless killer. It didn't say much. After seeing that it had managed to hit Moria with its head without injuring him, it immediately charged over.

They gave Moria no chance to catch his breath.

That makes sense, since Moria is the human who killed its snake. It won't stop until it eats Moria.

"We need to attack the inside of the giant snake's body!"

Moria followed behind the rapidly shooting shadow spear, pondering to himself.

It's obvious that the snake's scales are now very hard and its strength is immense, easily shattering his shadow.

Therefore, the method used to deal with the previous large snake—wrapping the snake's head with a shadow and then manipulating the shadow to enter the snake's mouth to attack—becomes no longer feasible.

"Only when the giant serpent opens its mouth will manipulating the shadows to attack likely be effective," Moria thought to himself.

"Clang!"

As Moria pondered, his shadow spear collided with the serpent's head once more.

As expected, the Shadow Spear collapsed once again.

In that instant, Moria flew diagonally upwards from behind the shadow spear, facing the giant serpent, passing over its head, and looking at the serpent with disdain.

The giant snake's vertical eyes darted around and met Moria's gaze, understanding the provocation in Moria's eyes.

In an instant, the serpent, enraged, twisted its body in a spiral to bring it to a stop. Then, its head shot out, opening its blood-red maw to bite Moria, who was in mid-air.

It will bite off this human who dares to provoke it.

"Now!"

Moria's eyes lit up, and a shadow needle the thickness of a thumb shot out from his shadow armor and flew towards the serpent's open mouth.

"Clang!"

At the crucial moment, the giant snake closed its mouth prematurely, and the shadow needle struck its lips but did not enter its mouth.

"You reacted very quickly!"

Moria glanced at the giant serpent, sighed regretfully, then flew quickly past it, hurtling towards the end of the passageway.