"The trick of an ant!"
At this moment, Imu was furious. That method of Kenbunshoku Haki killing was very clumsy. Even if his Kenbunshoku Haki couldn't detect the opponent's trace, his body's instinct seemed to be able to predict which direction the opponent was in.
But he didn't expect that Nox would actually use the power of a Devil Fruit to create so-called clones to deceive him twice!
With Kenbunshoku Haki unable to detect anything and time being urgent, his intuitive judgment was misled, and ultimately, he was slashed by the opponent!
The opponent was actually able to break through his double defense and slash his divine bone, stealing a considerable amount of his divinity once again!
Most importantly, compared to the previous clashes of fists and swords, this time, after being truly injured by the slash, the opponent's special sword road, which could wound his soul, also fiercely struck his soul!
In the previous numerous collisions, that strange sword road was like a sharp wind blowing across his soul, causing him only a little pain and doing no real damage to his soul, which could recover within a few seconds.
But this time, it truly wounded his soul, and recovering wouldn't be so easy.
Compared to his physical body, he valued his soul more because he possessed an immortal body. Physical injuries were easy to recover from, but soul injuries were not!
"Go to hell!!"
At this moment, Imu hadn't originally intended to use too many Devil Fruit abilities, wanting to kill the opponent purely by relying on Haki and fists, and incidentally regain his former combat instincts.
But now, he had been completely enraged by Nox. He wanted Nox to die right now; regaining combat instincts and such had been thrown to the back of his mind!
Countless black mists burst forth from Imu's body, enveloping an area of several thousand to ten thousand meters.
Then, with a wave of Imu's hand, dozens of black chains, like venomous snakes, shot out from Imu's body and surrounded Nox from all directions.
"Die, die, do you have nothing else to say? It's the same few words over and over again, I'm already tired of hearing it!"
Nox dodged Imu's encirclement at an extremely fast speed, not forgetting to mock Imu's "limited vocabulary" with his mouth.
However, just after he finished mocking and had already used Haoshoku to conceal himself to create the effect of Kenbunshoku Haki killing, and had also avoided Imu's line of sight.
Just as he was about to sneak attack Imu again, he found that those dark chains were surrounding him. His Kenbunshoku Haki killing had failed, otherwise Imu couldn't have known his location so accurately!
"You dare to use this ant's trick a second time!"
Imu snorted coldly, and his figure had already disappeared from his original spot.
"Behind!!!"
Seeing Imu disappear and feeling a chilling sensation on his back, Nox didn't even need to think. The next moment, he turned around and slashed backward.
Imu's fist, burning with dark flames, which was smashing towards the back of Nox's head, was instantly blocked by the Seven Star Sword!
However, at this moment, Nox noticed something was wrong, because the power in the fist was much weaker than Imu's previous power.
But it was already too late to notice now. Imu's other fist had already slammed into his chest.
"Crack!!!"
In an instant, the massive Haki power erupted. Nox's blood armor, covered in Busoshoku Haki, was instantly shattered. Imu's fist directly smashed onto Nox's chest muscles with irresistible force.
The powerful force instantly caused Nox's chest to cave in. The massive Haki penetrated Nox's skin and muscles and directly blasted into his body, even passing through Nox's body to create a violent shockwave impacting the sky behind him!
"Pfft!!"
Having suffered such a violent attack on his chest, even though Nox had trained his body to be tough, his body was still in great pain from this punch. The food residue he ate yesterday was directly expelled, and his body shot out like a laser.
"This power is even more terrifying than before, and he used both fists. It seems Imu was really provoked!"
As Nox flew backward, the injuries within his body were rapidly healing, and he found that Imu's state was now more agitated than before.
"Although this ant's blood power is not as good as my dark power, nor is it comparable to an immortal body, it has a very strong effect on healing injuries, comparable to a weakened version of an immortal body!"
As the one who inflicted the injury on Nox's chest, Imu was very aware of it, but now he noticed that Nox's injury was healing at an extremely fast rate!
"If one punch can't severely injure you, then I'll hit you a few more times. As long as the damage is faster than your recovery speed, I can kill you!"
Imu's gaze instantly turned fierce. His figure suddenly flew forward, chasing after Nox's backward-flying body, and in an instant, he disappeared from his original spot.
"Die!!"
Before Imu even caught up to Nox, his fist, burning with dark flames, punched over from a distance.
Seeing this scene, Nox thought Imu was really punching over from a distance, but he didn't expect that the dark fire burning on Imu's fist had swallowed the space again. Imu's fist directly passed through the swallowed space!
"Not good!!"
Feeling the back of his head turn cold, Nox knew where the sense of danger was coming from!
Subconsciously, Nox flapped his wings, lowering his body and simultaneously lowering his head.
In an instant, Nox felt a fist carrying immense power punch past his head. All the air was instantly sucked out, and intense sonic booms were incessant.
"This guy, he has used the power of darkness swallowing space to this extent, to the point where he can make only his limbs traverse space. This is no longer just dark power, it's practically indistinguishable from spatial abilities!"
Seeing Imu's body in the distance, but his fist appearing above his head, this was a truly hair-raising scene!
Nox really suspected that this guy's ability wasn't darkness, but space!
"Since you've used so many abilities, then I'll use mine too. Don't you really think my abilities can only be used for self-healing?"
Although somewhat shocked by Imu's advanced use of dark power, Nox's own Vampire Devil Fruit ability wasn't just for healing his own injuries with blood.
If his Devil Fruit hadn't awakened, perhaps that would be the case, but since his Devil Fruit Awakening, he wasn't just strengthened physically; his abilities had naturally also been extremely enhanced!
"Supersonic Shatter!!"
Nox opened his mouth wide and roared. Instantly, incredibly powerful ultrasonic waves gushed out of his mouth like a lion's roar.
In an instant, under the sweep of the terrifying ultrasonic waves, the entire space was shattered as a result. This was exactly like when Whitebeard activated the Tremor-Tremor Fruit Awakening ability.
All the ultrasonic power didn't spread out due to its sonic properties, but under Nox's control, formed layer upon layer of huge waves, completely enveloping Imu!
Ultrasonic waves have strong interference power on space, causing the space around Imu to become chaotic and fractured, thus preventing Imu from using the method of darkness swallowing space for instant movement.
"Swallow for me!"
The power of ultrasonic waves was pervasive and extremely destructive. Even Imu didn't dare to resist it with his body.
After his teleportation ability was restricted, countless dark powers burst out from Imu's body, wrapping him into a dark sphere.
All the ultrasonic power that approached Imu was completely swallowed by this dark power. Even the shattered space couldn't break through Imu's dark sphere.
"Supersonic Blades!"
Seeing that his attack was ineffective, Nox immediately changed the form of his ultrasonic waves, turning them into countless massive sharp blades that slashed fiercely.
"Tear!!!"
As expected, after changing the wave-shaped ultrasonic attack to sonic blades, the dark sphere was immediately broken through by the sonic blades.
However, the next moment, the dark sphere became huge again, making it difficult for the sonic blades to continue breaking through.
"I don't believe I can't break through your turtle shell!"
Just as Nox was about to personally wield his sword to break through Imu's dark defense, countless dark arrows instantly condensed in the air, and then shot towards Nox in a volley of ten thousand arrows.
"Shatter!!!"
Seeing this, Nox spoke again, shouting loudly. In an instant, the ultrasonic waves turned into vibrating power, shattering all the incoming dark arrows.
But just as Nox thought the attack of these dark arrows was nothing special, the dark energy formed by the shattered dark arrows did not dissipate as a result, but continued to shoot towards Nox.
This ability was like Golden Lion's Float-Float Fruit ability; even if an island was shattered, the remaining rocks would still continue to crash forward under Golden Lion's control!
At the same time, Imu's dark sphere, like a turtle shell, broke open. Imu seized this opportunity and flew towards Nox with infinite rage.
In response, Nox did not retreat at all. After silently increasing the thickness of his blood armor, he also charged towards Imu with the Seven Star Sword.
When Imu and Nox clashed again, there was not much difference in their strength. After a brief stalemate in the collision, both sides retreated simultaneously.
However, normally, the huge aftershock generated by the collision between the two would be enough to push back and shatter everything, including the dark energy released by Imu.
But the dark energy that Nox had shattered earlier, under Imu's deliberate control, was not pushed back. Instead, it condensed behind Nox.
When Nox retreated due to the collision with Imu, Nox immediately crashed into that massive dark energy.
"Dark Erosion!"
Seeing that his scheme had succeeded, Imu immediately controlled the dark power from a distance to corrode the blood armor on Nox's body, also wanting to directly erode Nox's body through the gaps in the blood armor.
"Sizzle sizzle!!!"
It must be said that Imu's dark erosion power was very strong. Nox's blood armor was corroded with a sizzling sound. If it directly corroded the skin, the skin might be completely corroded in just one second.
"Don't think I have no other power besides ultrasonic waves!"
Nox knew that Imu was certain that his ultrasonic waves could not clear away this dark power that was like bone-piercing poison, because even if the ultrasonic waves completely shattered this dark power, they still couldn't eliminate it.
Because the essence of the dark power was not eliminated, they would continue to erode Nox's blood armor until Nox's entire body was completely eroded!
"Blood Burning!!"
Infinite fresh blood from the Seven Star Sword was injected into Nox's blood armor, and then gushed out from the blood armor, completely isolating the dark power outside the blood armor.
At the same time, the fresh blood began to burn under Nox's control. The blood-colored flames continuously burned the dark energy. Even the corrosive power of darkness could not erode Nox's blood fire.
The only troublesome thing was that the burning of blood fire required fresh blood as fuel.
Fortunately, the Seven Star Sword stored all the fresh blood accumulated by the Limitless Pirates over the past few decades, so there was no need to worry about not having enough fresh blood.
It should be noted that since Nox ate the Vampire Devil Fruit, the Limitless Pirates began to continuously collect fresh blood.
The fierce beasts on Beast Island ruled by the Limitless Pirates, the domesticated poultry, and Sea Kings, etc., would all have their blood drawn regularly.
All territories within the Limitless Pirates encouraged people to donate blood and gave generous rewards to those who donated.
As a result, a massive amount of fresh blood could be collected every month. The fresh blood accumulated over so many years was much more than the seawater Golden Lion controlled before, so Nox was not worried about not having enough fresh blood at all!
Moreover, since his Sword Intent had evolved into a Sword Soul, the original sword spirit of the Seven Star Sword also received great benefits, causing the Seven Star Sword's spirituality to greatly increase, and the Blood-Blood Fruit eaten by the Seven Star Sword also miraculously awakened!
It should be known that after inanimate objects eat a Devil Fruit, the ability of the Devil Fruit is basically fixed and will not change.
But the current Seven Star Sword can no longer be regarded as an inanimate object, because the Seven Star Sword has a sword spirit, just like a human has a soul. It can be regarded as a living creature.
So the Blood-Blood Fruit awakened. The awakened Blood-Blood Fruit formed a boundless Blood Sea within the Seven Star Sword.
All the blood collected by Nox was stored in the Blood Sea of the Seven Star Sword, and the Blood Sea would constantly produce new blood, which allowed Nox to have a continuous supply of fresh blood!
"Blood power, and the power of ultrasonic waves, this is the Mythical Zoan Vampire form!"
Seeing Nox use the burning blood fire, Imu remembered that he had also seen a Devil Fruit ability user with this ability before.
He had never actively sought information about Nox before, and the Gorosei would not give him such information, because in his opinion, he didn't need to know the information of such ants, thinking that such ants would never appear before him, and even if they did, he could easily crush them just like he crushed Golden Lion.
But now, he had to face Nox squarely and try to guess Nox's Devil Fruit ability from Nox's fighting style, and then find a way to counter him.