For a full half minute, the smoke and dust dissipated.
In the sky above, Marco's figure had completely disappeared, with only a wisp of blue flame still burning.
"He's still not dead," Vladimir narrowed his eyes, carefully gazing.
Sure enough, as his words fell, the wisp of blue flame that seemed about to extinguish suddenly surged, the fiery light instantly expanding to a height of seven or eight meters.
The next moment, a cry rang out, and the blue flame condensed, transforming into Marco's appearance.
"It's useless, no matter how strong your attack, I can revive!"
No longer maintaining the phoenix form, Marco transformed his hands into blue flame wings, flapping them and watching the Nine-Tailed Fox from afar.
"Indeed powerful, not a Logia, but better than a Logia."
Vladimir couldn't help but say, "You don't have a 'fluid body', so you were dead just now, at least you experienced the taste of death, it's just that your fruit ability allowed you to revive again."
Mythical Zoan types were even rarer than Logia types, and each one was incredibly powerful.
And the Marco before him, having eaten the Bird-Bird Fruit, Model: Phoenix, possessed a nearly infinite ability to revive.
"Infinite revival is impossible, even the most powerful abilities have a limit."
Vladimir wasn't rushed, but instead full of interest: "If I kill you a hundred times, can you still revive?"
Hearing this, Marco laughed loudly, "If you can do it, feel free to try. However, how many times can you use a technique like that from just now?"
As soon as the words fell, he dove down again.
He was a Zoan type, and although he appeared to be covered in flames, in reality, this blue flame didn't have the power to spread and didn't possess the properties of ordinary flames.
Therefore, he could only engage in close combat.
And he had calculated that even Vladimir couldn't use a technique like that continuously an infinite number of times, so this moment was a good opportunity for him to launch a counterattack.
"You're very clever, I indeed can't use it continuously."
Seeing Marco approaching at an extremely high speed, Vladimir said calmly, "But it's more than enough to beat you."
Suddenly, Vladimir's nine long tails contracted, then, they suddenly opened again.
"Youkai Fox Divine Fire!"
A flash of blazing white light disappeared in an instant, the Nine-Tailed Fox's body suddenly covered in a layer of white divine fire.
This flame had no temperature to speak of, and like the blue flame, it didn't have the characteristic of spreading. Its only function was to directly strike the heart, a soul-level attack method!
Facing Marco's dive, Vladimir didn't retreat but advanced, actively went to meet him.
A fox and a bird collided directly in mid-air, instantly creating a massive explosion, the two-colored flames intertwined, the entire night sky dyed with bizarre and fantastic colors.
Suddenly, a muffled groan came from Marco, he failed to land a hit and pulled away in the opposite direction.
However, deep within his brain, it felt as if some kind of force was scorching him.
"Impossible! What is this power that can ignore the revival properties of the blue flames!"
He stared at Vladimir in disbelief, his expression shocked.
...
"Impossible...!"
Marco looked at Vladimir in disbelief, a burning sensation constantly coming from the depths of his soul.
Not only that, but that strange power was also accompanied by intense evil, eroding his consciousness.
Vladimir looked at the other from afar and chuckled: "What's impossible, is it strange that an attack that directly affects the soul can ignore your blue flames?"
The reviving blue flames could repair physical injuries, even if Marco was blasted into dust in one go, he could rely on a wisp of blue flame to be reborn from the ashes.
However, an attack on the soul could ignore this.
Hearing these words, Marco's expression immediately turned ugly.
"A soul attack... Four Emperor BIG MOM!" he said solemnly: "An extremely rare ability in the entire world, as far as I know, only Four Emperor BIG MOM's Soul-Soul Fruit can do this, just who are you?"
"Enough nonsense, let me suppress you."
Vladimir grinned, spreading his two front paws, and suddenly, two clusters of blazing white divine fire condensed, burning, and dancing in his palms.
"Youkai Fox Divine Fire - Swarm of Foxes!"
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
In an instant, from within the two clusters of flames, tiny foxes emerged one after another, their number reaching dozens.
This group of white foxes flew out, like locusts crossing the border, flying towards Marco in the sky.
"Let's try out my newly mastered technique, this is specially used to deal with Admirals, I'll use you as a test subject!"
Seeing this, Marco's expression changed drastically.
He knew the power of the white flames, that was an attack that ignored physical defense and directly affected the soul.
He never expected that this flame could leave the body, transforming into long-range, homing techniques.
Immediately, he shook his wings, his body transforming into a phoenix, rising higher into the sky, attempting to shake off the pursuing white foxes.
He indeed succeeded, the phoenix's flying speed far exceeding the white foxes' tracking ability.
In the sky above, a blue flame bird flew, and behind it, a group of white foxes struggled to pursue.
However, this stalemate didn't last long, the white foxes condensed from Youkai Fox Divine Fire gradually dissipated, completely extinguished.
Seeing this scene, Marco was slightly stunned, then snorted and said: "I see, your technique is still immature, it doesn't have enough duration, only about ten seconds or so."
Hearing this, Vladimir laughed.
Hearing this mocking laughter, Marco's heart tightened, and he suddenly had a bad premonition, and that premonition was fulfilled in the next moment.
The dissipated white arcs suddenly reappeared, although the number was reduced by half, the remaining ones merged with each other, transforming into a flying bird.
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