Some things were impossibly difficult, but once one had enough strength, they simply fell into place.
"Black Flame," along with the Burning Legion, had begun to inflict tangible harm upon the entire Octopus World.
Generally speaking, so-called poisons were harmful substances targeting specific creatures. Within the same world, natural enemies and lethal toxins were the most likely to emerge.
Those black flames had undergone their qualitative transformation within the Octopus World.
Part of it was Lu PingAn's essence, but a considerable portion had also been shaped by the Octopus World's own rules. Black Fire's traits of "plundering" and "Devour Life" were astonishingly compatible with Eight-Clawed.
And the Black Fire King possessed a Fishmen body. As a shark Fishman of the Eight-Clawed kin, he already carried traces of Eight-Clawed bloodline and rules. Lu PingAn had merely activated them.
"Black Flame is super-effective against Fishmen. No, against the entire Octopus Race."
The Burning Legion could slaughter so freely precisely because it was their natural enemy.
Anyone could see that Fishmen had negative resistance to high temperatures and flames. Never mind the physical damage from burning—even merely approaching intense heat was enough to destroy their moist, fragile skin, causing fatal combined symptoms such as loss of temperature control, organ collapse, and bodily fluid evaporation.
Moreover, this was not merely a powerful offensive trait. In close-quarters combat at sea, avoiding injury was nearly impossible, yet even a minor wound could prove fatal. Most healing methods, even when not completely nullified underwater, suffered greatly reduced effectiveness.
The more one used an ability that could "drain blood" through combat, the more one could appreciate its power.
The only way to resist it was to merge with it and become part of the Black Flame Race. But in practice, that was practically equivalent to joining the Burning