Azure Flames Scorch the Sky, Dragon Flames Scour the Earth! A Ninety-Thousand-Year Skull Bone and Gold of Life?

An Ice and Snow Storm engulfed the entire area around the Soul-Eating Overlord Flower.

The flower's prized ability to regenerate severed limbs became a joke against Ultimate Ice.

No matter how much life force surged up from underground, it was trapped beneath the ice. Not a drop could escape.

Rumble!

The ground shuddered violently.

The Soul-Eating Overlord Flower finally panicked.

It thrashed the few main vines that had yet to freeze, trying to smash the ice and snow.

But the snowflakes clung to them and would not come off.

The terrible cold of Ultimate Ice raced down the frozen vines at a terrifying speed.

The hard layer of frozen earth split apart.

Frost followed its roots downward, threatening to turn even the stems buried deep underground into ice sculptures.

All its arrogance vanished.

Its dark purple flower head contracted sharply in fear.

With its life on the line, the flower grew desperate.

An eerie, piercing light flared from its purple stamen.

The unnatural glow bathed the dim forest in a sickly violet.

Then the entire flower head contracted to its limit, like a great beast drawing breath.

And snapped wide open!

Pfft!

Pink mist, ten times denser than before, erupted like lava from a volcano.

It billowed outward, staining the white world of ice and snow a strange, suggestive pink.

This was no cheap hallucinogen that a casual sneeze could blow away.

The Soul-Eating Overlord Flower had burned its ninety thousand years of life force to unleash its ultimate illusion.

The pink hallucinogenic miasma descended like a boiling swamp, blotting out the sky.

Its cloying, nauseating sweetness filled their noses and attacked their very life force.

The Heavenly Black Monkey stumbled back several steps.

Its massive body swayed. Its sturdy legs trembled so badly it could barely stand.

"My lord...