Victory

"Myriad Thunder Invocation!"

The vast blue sky darkened with storm clouds, while countless silver serpents of lightning flashed across the heavens.

After sensing that a certain presence had completely vanished, Long Yi seemed to lose all patience for continuing to stall with Kaido. Wielding the demon blade Kitetsu, he summoned endless lightning with his remaining divine power, transforming it into the dazzling golden Demon-Subduing Baochun. It looked as though he intended to finish everything in a single stroke.

"Dream on! You can't kill me! No one can kill me!"

Kaido's greatest reliance was his "immortality."

As a remnant soul formed from a dragon's resentment, he truly was something that could not be killed, in a sense. So long as even a trace of his true spirit remained, and so long as the dragon was still trapped upon the Sacred Tree with its resentment unresolved, he would eventually revive somewhere.

After lying low for a few years, he could return to his peak strength.

Yatogami Long Yi might be powerful, but he could not take Kaido's life!

"Die, evil dragon!"

His pale eyes wide, Long Yi's dharma image roared behind him and drew down lightning upon his enemy. The Demon-Subduing Vajra descended at tremendous speed, while the majestic dharma image did not pause. It reached out with one hand, intending to trap Kaido tightly within its palm.

Though weakened, Kaido was no clay doll. With the Demon-Subduing Vajra formed from towering lightning before him and the divine hand of the Thunder God dharma image reaching for him from behind, how could he possibly sit still and await death?

His body rolled again and again as black mist formed sturdy armor around him. At last, the great pirate became ruthless. Twisting his dragon head, he lashed his spiked, thick-scaled tail, escaping the