Fresh Knife: White Calm swept across Saint Saturn's enormous ox-spider body like a giant paintbrush, carrying towering blue-violet flames.
Except the "paintbrush" in Xie Wen's hands was more like an "eraser," or perhaps the color it painted was transparent. Wherever the Purple Flame passed, nothing remained, and Saint Saturn was no exception.
There were differences even among Mythical Zoans. If it had been Kaido, he probably could have endured it through his extraordinarily tough body and powerful Haki. Saint Warcury, the "Fengxi" renowned among the Five Elders for his defenses, would also have had some hope of leaving something behind.
Saint Saturn, however, was not up to the task. The ox-spider's defenses were fairly ordinary, and although his own Armament Haki was not weak, it was not particularly strong either. He simply could not withstand Klee Meow's "flames of destruction," which deserved that name even more than Iori Yagami's did.
As Xie Wen's "brush tip" swept past, Saint Saturn did not even have time to make a sound before his entire head, most of one shoulder, and one arm vanished outright. There was not so much as a wisp of smoke, let alone charred residue or ash. The overall effect thoroughly lived up to the "reduced to ash" in "Heaven and Earth, Reduced to Ash."
After erasing Saint Saturn's head with one slash, Xie Wen did not pause. He raised the burning Salted Fish Long Sword again and cleaved Saint Saturn's remaining body in two from top to bottom. Upon landing, he immediately followed up with a Spirit Roundslash, burning away most of the eight spider legs.
Only then did the chunks of Saint Saturn's body below slowly begin emitting a little black mist. It twisted and writhed in the air, trying to restore the parts Xie Wen had erased,