With a low roar, Ghost Aura erupted from Moke's entire body like a volcanic explosion!
In an instant, an incomparably terrifying presence spread wildly outward from him, condensing around his body into the phantom image of a majestic Avici Hell.
At that moment, Moke resembled a Demon God descending from the depths of the underworld. He exuded a heart-palpitating pressure and savage aura, his eyes filled with contempt for all living things.
Then, a deafening boom rang out. The two blades clenched in Moke's hands—Shusui and Sandai Kitetsu—simultaneously bloomed with dazzling purple light, like two masses of blazing netherfire.
He slowly crossed the two treasured blades before his chest, then violently flung them backward. At that instant, a heaven-shaking giant X-shaped sword slash tore through the air, roaring forth with towering flames!
The slash came with overwhelming force, like lightning streaking across the sky. Its speed was beyond imagination, and even the powerful Gecko Moria failed to react in time.
In the blink of an eye, the sword slash crashed down across his chest, leaving behind a shocking, enormous X-shaped wound. Yet strangely, despite the wound cutting all the way to the bone, not a drop of blood flowed out.
Even more bizarrely, the purple flames, which should have been blocked by the severed flesh, seemed to possess a will of their own as they forced their way into the wound.
"Ah..."
Gecko Moria let out a miserable scream that seemed to tear apart the entire night sky.
The shadows he had swallowed into his body earlier seemed to have found an exit, bursting wildly from the countless hideous wounds across his body... As those shadows fled, Gecko Moria's body rapidly shriveled and withered at a visible rate, eventually returning to its original form.
Gecko Moria was now kneeling on