"Explosion Release is truly exhilarating. I can somewhat understand why Deidara in Naruto was so fond of explosions."
Amidst the swirling dust, Deidara, guided by the consciousness of his Uchiha clone and clad in Dragon Shadow attire, stood atop a giant bird fashioned from explosive clay, a smile of excitement on his face.
After all, what man doesn't love explosions?
His opponent was Isis, a 27th-tier demon general from the Demon Race. He had black hair, black eyes, wore a tailcoat, and possessed a sculpted Western face.
However, the once dapper demon now looked rather disheveled, his pristine clothes torn with several large holes. He gazed at Deidara in the sky, a hint of anger in his eyes.
"Hahaha!"
Deidara let out a hearty laugh and controlled the bird beneath him, which began to chew. The next moment, an "Explosive Clay: Winged Bird" was completed. With a flap of its wings, it shot towards Isis.
*Chii~*
The next instant, a black blade sliced through the air, instantly piercing the Winged Bird and causing it to fizzle out.
Yet, Deidara remained unfazed. He once again directed the bird beneath him to create "Explosive Clay: Small Birds." Instantly, a dense swarm of birds, like a bee colony, descended from the sky, a dark mass once again covering the area.
"A mere trick!" Isis snorted, conjuring a black curtain resembling a water surface before him. As ripples spread across it, millions of black needles condensed on the curtain, shooting towards the flock of birds.
"Boom boom boom!"
A terrifying explosion erupted in the air. The Small Birds detonated the moment they touched the black formation, blooming like fireworks in the sky, distorting the void and causing spiritual energy to become chaotic, blinding both sides' senses.
"Enough of this childish game. Die!"
Isis roared, and a pair of demonic wings suddenly sprouted from his back, tearing his tailcoat to shreds. However, just as he prepared to take flight, he felt his feet tighten.
He looked down, and his pupils contracted.
Beneath his feet, vines made of white explosive clay had emerged, imbued with primal energy, tightly coiling around him. Then, the ground ahead cracked open, and a thousand-meter-long centipede burst forth from the earth, lunging directly at him.
"How is this possible? When did this happen..."
His face displayed disbelief. Just as he was about to liquefy his body to escape the entanglement, he suddenly heard a shout from above:
"Hya!"
The next moment, flames reflected in his dark eyes.
"Boom!"
A terrifying explosion occurred. The moment the vines beneath his feet detonated, the centipede, moving at an incredibly terrifying speed, crashed into him, followed by another explosion.
The earth was pulverized, the void was torn apart, and the light and dark spiritual energy in the air became chaotic due to the explosions. Isis's body was instantly blasted into countless fragments.
However, Deidara had no intention of letting it go. He inserted his mouth-bearing hands into the back of the bird beneath him, and the bird began to chew again.
"C1: Clay Spider!"
"C2: Dragon!"
As the Explosion Release ninjutsu was unleashed, densely packed clay spiders, imbued with extremely agile bouncing power, automatically sought targets on the battlefield, leaping onto every piece of Isis's shattered flesh.
"Boom boom boom!"
A series of explosions sounded. The demon's body, already blown to smithereens, was further shattered. Then, a thousand-meter-long dragon descended from the sky, followed by another massive explosion, engulfing the entire battlefield in smoke.
"It's finally dead now, right!" Deidara's lips curved into a smile. The next second, his brow furrowed.
His spiritual power penetrated the smoke, revealing that Isis's demonic body, reduced to powder-sized fragments, had turned into liquid and was wriggling again. It was rapidly coalescing, soon forming a small figure less than ten centimeters tall, with surrounding demonic powder also turning into liquid and merging into its newly formed body.
It was practically an immortal body.
"You have angered me!" the mini-version of Isis stared coldly at Deidara in the sky. With a wave of its right hand, its demonic body fragments scattered across the battlefield released streams of incredibly dense black mist, soaring into the sky and quickly condensing into a black night sky.
Domain Expansion!
As the domain expanded, Isis's recovery speed accelerated, and its body quickly grew to nearly a meter tall. Seeing this, Deidara decided to forgo formalities. With a wave of his hands, the mouths on his palms spat out a dense swarm of bee-bird bombs.
Unlike the previous explosive clay birds, these bee-birds carried faint lightning, infused with Lightning Release and primal energy, making them even more terrifying.
"I only intended to kill you with Explosion Release, but you forced my hand. Why couldn't you just die obediently..."
A sigh echoed through the air. Under Isis's gaze, those bee-birds, like streaks of lightning, swarmed towards it.
"Boom boom boom!"
Explosions once again resounded throughout the battlefield. However, this time, with the enhancement of the domain, Isis's new body did not shatter but was merely twisted into an inhuman shape.
"You cannot kill me!"
Isis's face, resembling a distorted, mud-like mess, wore a twisted, ferocious smile. Then, with a thought, a giant black dragon materialized from the sky under the domain's shroud, spewing dark spiritual energy and lunging to devour Deidara.
"Body Flicker Technique!" Deidara's body vanished from its original spot, reappearing thousands of meters away. He then brought his fingers together at his chest: "Hya!"
Boom!
The bird swallowed by the black demonic dragon instantly exploded, blasting the flesh at its vulnerable point into black mist. The next second, Deidara spread his five fingers, pointing at Isis below:
"C4: Garuda!"
Terrifying primal energy, along with explosive clay, poured down like a waterfall from the mouth in his palm towards Isis, quickly forming a hundred-meter-tall giant Deidara, standing between heaven and earth.
"Is this all you've got?"
Isis sneered. With a thought, a massive demonic blade appeared on the domain's dome, beheading Garuda.
Just as he was preparing to counterattack, a voice with a hint of a smile reached his ears:
"I'm more curious, if I blow your body smaller than your cells, can you still reform your demonic body?"
Isis's face stiffened. At this moment, it finally realized that countless microscopic bombs had been embedded in its body without its knowledge, roaming within every inch of its demonic flesh.
Its pupils contracted sharply.
The next instant, like a death sentence, a roar came from the sky:
"Hya!"
Under that resounding roar, countless explosions erupted within its body, and its entire form annihilated itself inch by inch.
At this critical moment, its demonic念 transformed into an invisible black light, flying towards a finger-sized fragment of demonic flesh at the edge of the battlefield. The demonic flesh fragment writhed and twisted, quickly transforming into a new mini-figure.
This was its contingency.
As long as a piece of demonic flesh existed, it possessed a new life, and under the domain's shroud, as long as it consumed a large amount of demonic source, it could quickly recover its original strength.
But the price was that it would enter a brief period of weakness.
Just as it was preparing to stealthily lie low for a while and find an opportunity to counterattack, it suddenly heard the crackling sound of lightning from the sky above.
"Myriad Prison Heavenly Thunder Summon!"
"Grass mud horse!"
This was Isis's last thought before its consciousness dissipated.
The next second, lightning snakes writhed, and the earth shattered.