The Flame Demon Severs the Snake's Head (Middle)

Under the cover of the Poison Mist, Slick slowly walked towards Issui, intending to take the opportunity to eliminate Issui. In this environment filled with Poison Mist, he could sense Issui's location by feeling the heat, while Yishui did not have this ability. With the naked eye, it was impossible for him to find himself in this fog. Let's see how he fights.

Issui cold, Byakugan on her forehead watched Slick's movements. "Hmph, trying to ambush me? Dream on! If I were to actually be ambushed, what would my Byakugan mean? The strength of us is inherently unbalanced in this battle. Yes, I am indeed much weaker than you, but in terms of intelligence, you are weaker. I already know everything about you from Leins, but you know absolutely nothing about me. That's my advantage."

Ignoring Slick's actions, Issui continued walking towards him without stopping. With his Byakugan, he could see all the enemy's movements.

"How could this be?" Slick felt a presence rapidly approaching his location. How could this be? How did he find my position? I had already moved within the Poison Mist. How could he find me? Could he see through the Poison Mist? That's impossible. How could the human eye see me clearly in such a thick fog?

Seven seconds...

Issui was only 100 meters away from Slick. He kept stimulating his body with lightning-attribute Chakra, increasing his speed, faster, faster still, until he had only five seconds left.

"No, this doesn't make sense. How could you see my location? Even as a magical beast, I can't see anything more than a meter away in this situation. How could your mere human eyes see it?" Slick felt the powerful energy getting closer and closer to him, and he could no longer calm down. At first, he was just Issui, but when he changed his position again, Issui also changed his direction of movement and increased his speed.

"Ah! Flame Demon Purgatory Slash! Slash! Slash!!!" Issui shouted, clenching his right hand forcefully into the void. The Black-Gold Flame Demon God on his body also raised its fiery right hand and clenched it into the void.

A massive black and gold flame blade appeared in the right hand of the Black-Gold Flame Demon God. The Flame Demon God roared and slashed forcefully at Slick's body. The space where the flame blade passed through gradually began to distort.

"Oh no, there's no way to dodge! Damn it! The Ten Thousand Poisons Bone-Devouring Shield!"

As the flaming blades drew ever closer, Slick could no longer remain calm. A bead of cold sweat dripped from the snake's right head, then it suddenly opened its mouth, spitting out a massive bone. Poisonous gas gradually condensed on the bone, solidifying and completely enveloping it, forming a wide, purple bone shield that blocked Slick's path against the barrage of Issui blades. "Slash! Slash it to pieces!"

Issui's face contorted in rage, clearly from overexertion. He pressed down hard with his right hand, and the blade in the Flame Demon God's hand emitted alternating golden and black light—one dazzling, the other eerie black—the two extremes of light radiating astonishing power.

"Clang..."

The flaming blade struck the purple bone shield and bounced back.

Huh... uh?

Slick was about to laugh at Issui seemingly overwhelming attack, but before he could even utter a laugh, his face darkened again.

"Clang... clang... clang..."

The flame blade fell back down the instant it was deflected. The time between its bounce and descent seemed to pass in the blink of an eye, as if the flame blade had been continuously striking Slick's bone shield. However, the fact was that the flame blade had indeed been deflected, but the time it took to fall was incredibly fast, less than a tenth of a second.

After two consecutive bouncing attacks, Slick's bone shield finally shattered, and the massive flaming blade fell straight down on Slick.

The scalding heat made Slick's face turn extremely pale, then he gritted his teeth, as if he had made a decision...

"The Snake Molting!"

"Boom..."

The massive flaming blade struck Slick, causing a huge explosion. The entire swamp was vaporized by the explosion and heat, turning into solid ground, no longer the damp, muddy swamp it once was.

Eight seconds...

He rolled Issui Byakugan, staring intently at the area where the flaming blade had struck. He noticed that Slick hadn't been hit; only a layer of tattered, Orochi remained on the ground. How could this be? His Flame Demon Purgatory Slash wasn't that simple; it was a direct lock-on attack that couldn't be avoided. How did Shrek escape? The snakeskin on the ground was probably the reason.

Slick hid behind the area where the explosion had occurred. The snake head on his left side, which had changed from dark gray to dark green, was now grayish-white. Slick had a secret that few people knew: his three snake heads could shed their skin at crucial moments to take the damage for him. No matter what kind of attack he was being attacked, he could use this Secret Technique. However, it was not unlimited; each snake head could only be used once, and then it could not be used again.

Regardless, Slick never expected that he would use his ultimate survival technique today. The snake head on the right had already used the Snake Molting once before, during his battle with the Blazing Liger, Leins. As for why the two fought a life-or-death battle, it was actually over a mate. Years ago, they both coveted the Snowbird Uriala, God Level magical beast, and both wanted to become its mate. So, the two had no choice but to fight. In the end, Lein won, of course. However, the Snowbird ignored both Leins and Slick, so their battle was essentially a waste. It was during that battle that he used the Snake Molting.

Issui couldn't afford to delay any longer; only four seconds remained. He prepared to unleash one of his methods to alter the battlefield: the Magma Hell he had used to counter Danzo's ambush. Back then, as a Chunin, he had fallen unconscious after using such a powerful battlefield Secret Technique, but now, with Kage Level power, using Magma Hell would prevent him from falling unconscious again.

Only by altering the entire battlefield's terrain can Slick's movements be restricted, allowing him to deliver a fatal blow and achieve his goal of severing Slick's poison-gas-emitting head!

"The Flame Demon's Summoning - Magma Hell!!!"

A large amount of Chakra from Issui's body was poured into the Flame Demon God's body. Replenished with a large amount of energy, the Flame Demon God roared silently to the sky in excitement, and then raised its huge fiery demon fist and slammed it hard into the ground.

"Rumble... Crash... Clang..."

Roars of magma echoed from the earth, and the land within a hundred-meter radius of the Flame Demon God rapidly cracked open. The next moment, surging magma erupted from the ground, tearing apart the once damp swamp area with huge fissures. Hot, dark red magma burst forth from the earth, burning all the water, aquatic plants, and some swamp creatures to ashes. In an instant, the entire swamp area was transformed into a world of rolling, splashing magma.

"Roar..."

"The Snake Molting!"

Caught off guard by the sudden magma attack, Slick was forced to use his final Snake Molting technique. The next moment, he stood upright in mid-air, the central serpent head turning from dark gray to grayish-white. The layer of shed serpent skin beneath him, formed from the central serpent head, had instantly turned to ash.

Nine seconds, ten seconds...

Issui threw the last antidote pill into his mouth. His pale face showed that Chakra. He calmed his rapid breathing slightly and prepared for the final attack. There were only two seconds left. Time was of the essence!

"Roar... Hiss... I will kill you! An ancient call, proclaiming the aura of life's destruction, the despair in the Land of No Beginning, the resentment within the sorrowful despair, the lingering curse, the Bloody Poison King's Annihilating Fallen God Strike!!!"

Slick shook his body wildly, his right snake head tearing chunks of flesh from his lizard body. Any normal person would be utterly astonished by this sight—eating his own flesh? Damn it, was he mutilating himself?

The snake's head on Slick's right side changed color from deep purple to increasingly black, emanating a dangerous aura. The purplish-black snake head suddenly thrashed, forcefully opening its mouth, and a ball of purplish-black light emerged from its mouth.

The purplish-black orb of light emerged from the snake's mouth on Slick's right and appeared in front of Issui and his Flame Demon God in the next instant, as if the orb hadn't moved at all, arriving in front of Issui in a mere moment.

Issui was terrified. From this purplish-black sphere of light, he sensed a threat no less powerful than the sonic attack that could tear through the void by Leins. Clearly, being hit by it would be no joke; he might lose his life in an instant...

Issui attempted to enter his own Sumeru World, only to find that he had suddenly lost contact with Sumeru World. Last time, it was the Two-Headed Frost Wolf Xiaotian who summoned the golden wolf to Imprisonment the power of space. This time, Slick's purple-black light sphere attack also Imprisonment space. It seems that this is definitely not a simple attack, and it contains a lot of Space Profound Mystery.

"Flame Demon God!!"

There was no time to think. In this time of crisis, Issui couldn't mount any defense, so he had no choice but to order the Flame Demon God to attack the purplish-black orb. It was better to be proactive than passive.

"Explode! Explode! Explode!"

Slick shouted "Boom!" three times in a row. After using this move, he had calmed down. Although he would be weak for a while after the battle, he was sure he could kill this wretched brat who had repeatedly caused him to suffer losses.

"Boom!"

The Flame Demon God collided with the purplish-black orb of light, and the surrounding space, unable to withstand the combined force, slightly distorted and shattered...

The Flame Demon God normally absorbs everything within a half-meter radius to power its flames. However, when an energy source exceeds its absorption capacity, it can no longer absorb it. Clearly, this purplish-black sphere of light has exceeded the Flame Demon God's absorption capacity.