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Octopus Brother was so interesting that, if he weren't so bizarre-looking and hard on the eyes, Hao Shuai might have been reluctant to kill him. He could've kept him around and poked him a couple of times whenever he was bored. What fun!
Sigh
Alas, it seemed he and Octopus Brother were destined to be star-crossed.
With that thought, Hao Shuai made no grand gesture. He simply turned his hand over, and a crystal-red flame sprang to life in his palm, gorgeous and mysterious, like a bewitching blood-red flower.
Davy Jones raised an eyebrow. Though the flame was no bigger than his palm, he could sense the threat of death coming from it.
"Go!"
Hao Shuai casually flicked the flame away. It drifted toward Davy Jones, seemingly slow but actually fast, and in the blink of an eye, it landed on him.
The flame looked ordinary, but its power was astonishing. Even the space around it warped and collapsed under its heat. The instant it touched Davy Jones, an indescribable, scorching heat surged through him, burning his insides with searing pain.
In no time, the flames spread over Davy Jones's entire body. Writhing in the fire, he tried to teleport into the sea to put it out, but failed. Hao Shuai had already spread his Divine Thought across the entire Flying Dutchman.
"Ahhh! Ahhh!"
The flames burning his soul made Davy Jones let out a deafening scream. The seafood crew and undead pirates, who had been fighting fiercely, stopped in their tracks and stared at the burning Davy Jones in terror.
"Get back to the Queen Anne's Revenge, all of you! I'm about to set this place on fire!" Hao Shuai called out to the stunned undead pirates, helpfully reminding them.
The pirates came to their senses. Seeing the