"Black flames?"
"Is it covered by Armament Haki?"
When Sakazuki saw the flames of Blaze Release, he was stunned for a moment, then realized that his nearly thousand-degree magma couldn't engulf the flames.
However, his magma was more abundant, directly charging through the black flames' burning, breaking through the ice surface like a volcanic eruption.
Kuzan also returned, blood still on his lips; such an attack, with just one strike, naturally couldn't cause him fatal harm.
Seeing magma erupting everywhere, Kuzan was a bit annoyed, as he didn't particularly like high temperatures.
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!"
However, what greeted Kuzan was the powerful Fire Release unleashed by Uchiha Tamahiko.
Kuzan frowned, lightly stomped his foot, and a tiered ice wall rose directly in front of him, easily blocking the Great Fire Annihilation.
But Uchiha Tamahiko's Great Fire Annihilation wasn't meant for attack; it was for spreading the Blaze Release.
After the Fire Release of Great Fire Annihilation made contact with the black flames, the black flames rapidly spread across the ice surface.
After Sakazuki emerged from beneath the ice, he saw scattered black flames everywhere, and they were continuously spreading.
"It actually ignited my magma!!"
When Sakazuki saw the black flames burning on the magma flowing beside him, even consuming the magma, he found it somewhat unacceptable.
He used magma to cover the black flames, intending to suffocate them by depriving them of oxygen, but found that the black flames stubbornly persisted and simply couldn't be extinguished.
Similarly, Kuzan also discovered this point, and he was shocked when he saw that even the ice he created couldn't extinguish the flames.
He tried to assimilate the flames by elementalizing with his Logia ability, but found it impossible; he even tried to control the ice surface to melt, letting the flames fall into the sea, only to find that even the seawater began to burn.
"Now it's my turn, prepare for defeat!"
Uchiha Tamahiko held raiu, and the electric arcs flickering on raiu also transformed into the flames of Blaze Release.
This was the form change of Blaze Release, Kagutsuchi.
Ninjutsu released from ordinary five attributes posed little threat to Logia users; the opponent could even assimilate certain attributes, just as the Sand-Sand Devil Fruit could easily turn walls created by Earth Release into fine sand.
However, Bloodline Limit, the nature of two merged attributes, made it very difficult for these Logia users to assimilate. This was what he discovered when he used Deep Forest Emergence earlier.
Kuzan and Sakazuki both used brute force destruction, rather than turning Wood Release into magma or ice, and Katakuri also didn't assimilate the trees created by Wood Release. He was an awakened Paramecia ability user, and seeing this situation, Uchiha Tamahiko decided to use Blaze Release as a countermeasure to restrict them from using their abilities.
Although it couldn't cause them fatal harm, if they got stained with Blaze Release, it would take them some time to get away.
Uchiha Tamahiko charged towards Kuzan again. Sakazuki naturally wouldn't allow this to continue, but seeing the black flames everywhere, he also didn't want his body to get contaminated with such a thing. He chose to abandon elementalization for movement and instead used Moonwalk coupled with Soru to rush towards Uchiha Tamahiko in mid-air.
"Boom!"
Uchiha Tamahiko directly split off a Shadow Clone, which had about one-fifth of his main body's Chakra.
He didn't need to defeat Sakazuki, just delay him.
The Shadow Clone immediately formed hand signs and unleashed Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique, blocking Sakazuki's movement path.
"Sizzle sizzle sizzle!"
However, ordinary Water Release naturally posed no threat to Sakazuki. He raised his hand and punched, directly evaporating the water condensed by the Great Waterfall Technique, but the assistance also stopped.
"You think one clone can stop me!"
"Dream on!"
Sakazuki was furious, feeling underestimated.
Meanwhile, Kuzan had already begun close-quarters combat with Uchiha Tamahiko.
The ice blade in Kuzan's hand constantly changed, because each time it touched the opponent's black flame-covered blade, his own ice blade would also be stained with black flames.
Moreover, he had to constantly use the power of his Ice-Ice Devil Fruit to push away the spreading black flames, while also controlling the ice surface beneath Uchiha Tamahiko's feet, continuously raising ice pillars to attack him.
But all of them were blocked by the Susanoo bones on Uchiha Tamahiko's body, coupled with the constantly extending Nine-Tailed Chakra arms.
Facing the current Uchiha Tamahiko, Kuzan felt like he was facing an enemy with a mop covered in feces; he simply didn't dare to touch him.
In this situation, Kuzan's close-combat strength couldn't even be seventy percent effective.
Soon, Uchiha Tamahiko seized an opportunity. Two Susanoo arms horizontally grabbed Kuzan by the waist, lifting him up. However, Kuzan activated his freezing power, rapidly freezing the Susanoo arms, and the freezing power spread, about to freeze Uchiha Tamahiko himself.
But from the front, Uchiha Tamahiko's raiu, imbued with black flames, directly cut off the ice blade in Kuzan's hand. Two Nine-Tailed Chakra arms condensed two Sage Art: Super Big Ball Rasengan, which directly slammed into Kuzan.
Kuzan raised both hands, projecting Armament Haki outwards, intending to use Haki to block the two sudden large orbs.
Uchiha Tamahiko immediately severed the two arms of the Susanoo skeleton, and Kuzan was also pushed straight back by the impact force of the two exploding orbs.
He wanted to elementalize, but feared there wasn't enough time and he would be injured by the power of the two exploding orbs.
"Chibaku Tensei!!"
But Uchiha Tamahiko's combo wasn't over yet.
Towards the direction Kuzan was sent flying, he directly squeezed with one hand, releasing a powerful gravitational pull from a single point in mid-air.
The ice surface directly cracked due to this gravity, shattering into pieces and rushing towards the sky.
Kuzan was also uncontrollably sucked towards the sky. After all, he was currently suppressed by the two orbs and couldn't elementalize at all. Neither Kuzan nor Sakazuki could elementalize as quickly as Kizaru; this was based on the characteristics of their Logia Devil Fruits.
In just three seconds, Chibaku Tensei was completed. Kuzan was sealed by Chibaku Tensei, much faster than when Uchiha Tamahiko first unleashed it. The outside of this Chibaku Tensei was still burning with black flames—this was the Blaze Release that had spread earlier and hadn't been extinguished.
However, a large number of ice pillars immediately appeared on the outer layer of Chibaku Tensei. This was Kuzan using his ability to completely freeze Chibaku Tensei, break the seal, and then break free.
Although Chibaku Tensei carried a certain spatial sealing ability, as long as one was strong enough, they could break free. Clearly, this couldn't completely trap Kuzan.
"Power of Heavenly Calamity!!"
But Uchiha Tamahiko's attack was not over.
The Complete Body Susanoo reappeared. Susanoo's right hand clenched, and a giant lightning spear, nearly one hundred and fifty meters long, appeared in Susanoo's hand.
He unhesitatingly threw this spear, which rushed towards the Chibaku Tensei in the sky.
The lightning spear directly pierced through Chibaku Tensei.
"Boom!"
The spear formed by the Power of Heavenly Calamity directly exploded, and Chibaku Tensei was directly pulverized by this force.
The dark clouds in the sky instantly unleashed a lightning bolt, over ten meters thick, striking the very center.
A colossal mushroom cloud directly shot towards the sky.
"Is it over?"
Katakuri, who was rushing to Dressrosa, turned his head and looked at the scene behind him, which resembled a collapsing sky.
He couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
At the same time, he felt he needed to speed up and complete his objective and leave before the Marines arrived.
After all, there were two Admirals here.