Gray felt a burning sensation coming from his throat as Darwin's Blinding Crescent blade quickly incinerated his flesh while digging deeper into his crystal spine.
"Crack"
Even though the cracking sound wasn't loud, it sounded like thunder to Gray as he knew that his Crystal Spine's defenses were falling apart. If he didn't do anything fast, he would soon find himself dead at the hands of his own brother.
Gray swiftly closed his eyes as he used the last bit of his crystal energy to use one previous spell that should save him from this situation. Knowing that he couldn't hesitate any longer, he swiftly rearranged the blood tattoos on his body into a pattern of a Two-headed and Two-Tailed Snake eating its own tails.
Once Gray's new tattoo was complete, the Two-headed and Two-tailed Snake tattoo blinked as thousands of gallons of blood poured out of the tattoo. The blood quickly formed a large pool around ten feet wide, but even after more blood poured out, the blood pool didn't get wider.
Instead, Gray's blood swiftly formed a giant blood ball that contained all his blood. As more and more blood entered the blood ball, which seemed to have infinite space, it gave Yoze the impression that it wasn't Gray who was giving his blood, but some unknown entity was taking it.
Strangely unlike Gray's Thirty Lion Spring spell, which seemed to contain infinite amounts of blood and didn't harm Gray in the slightest, his new spell caused his body to age as he swiftly turned into a dry corpse.
His plump skin, filled with youth, rapidly turned thin and yellow before his skin began to crack. His chest and stomach, which were in good shape, quickly sunk inside his body to the point that it made him look like he didn't have any internal organs.
Gray's hair was the next to fall as it swiftly turned white and fell off his head, chunks at a time. His white pearly teeth quickly followed as they all turned black and fell out of his mouth one after another.
Even though Gray seemed to be on the brink of death from his own spell, his mouth morphed into a sinister grin as the Blinding Crescent blade struggled to continue cutting through Gray's neck. What Yoze was finding strange was that he noticed that Gray's spiritual energy was beginning to be tinged by a blood-red color.
The contamination wasn't fast, but it was noticeably expanding and engulfing Gray's spiritual energy. From his prediction, if this speed continued by the time Gray's spell reached completion, half of his spiritual energy would have been engulfed by the blood-red color.
"The only reason for this to happen is that spell that Gray had just cast. For it to be capable of influencing his own spiritual energy could only mean that the spell was quite strong." With his interest in this battle reaching a new high, Yoze glanced at the announcer's spiritual energy inside the obsidian platform before quickly shifting his gaze away.
After his experience with Immortal Patty, Immortal Miessy, and Immortal Scotty, Yoze knew that Immortals seemed to have extraordinary senses and would know that he was looking at them if he looked too long. To avoid getting in trouble or putting himself in unnecessary danger, he swiftly moved his gaze back to Darwin and Gray.
"God damn it, brother! Stop what you are doing; how could you be messing with that deity!" Darwin's face quickly changed to horror as soon as he saw Gray's tattoo and snapped out of his rage state.
"Two-Headed God Serpent Rises!" Ignoring Darwin's plea, Gray's empty eye sockets turned a deeper black while his voice deepened unnaturally.
As soon as Gray shouted the name of the spell, his dried body rapidly swelled uncontrollably, turning him into a disfigured ball before exploding.
"Puff!"
Unlike the massive explosion that many of the immortal cultivators in the audience expected, Gray's self-explosion was tiny and barely caused a gust of wind. However, while it didn't have much power, it seemed to have triggered something in the blood ball as it rapidly expanded.
In less than two seconds, the ordinary ball of blood transformed into a ten feet long and 3 feet wide Two-headed and Two-tailed snake. The snake's body, made out of Gray's blood, quickly solidified and turned into flesh before a thick layer of its flesh turned into purple scales.
"Hisss! Hisss!"
In a short time, the situation on the platform seemed to have reversed as standing before Darwin was Gray, who had transformed himself into the Two-Headed and Two-Tailed Serpent God. Without Gray even moving, the gusts of wind from his two hisses sliced through Darwin's skin with ease.
"This should be over. There is no way for Darwin to win at this point."
"To be nuts enough to completely give up his original body just to win this battle means that he shouldn't have any qualms about killing his brother at this point. As long as Darwin gives up now, he will lose the battle but win the war."
As the battle between Darwin and Gray reached a new intensity, the audience of immortal cultivators began to softly discuss their thoughts in the battle. It wasn't long before most of the immortal cultivators agreed that Darwin should give up immediately before collecting Gray's corpse a few hours after the battle.
Though they found Gray's battle spirit commendable, in the end, he made the wrong choice of not giving up when things were not going in his favor. Not only did he have the opportunity to surrender when Darwin's Blinding Crescent blade was cutting through his Crystal Spine, but he took another step and used a self-destructive spell to live.
They might not have exactly known what spell Gray had used and why Darwin was so afraid of it; they had seen similar types of spells before. These types of spells would usually give the user immense power but would always end up killing their own user by the end.
Since these spells were a guaranteed way to die, most immortal cultivators would never spend the time to learn these spells. Simply to avoid the situation of them losing their rationality and using this spell when there are other options.
In other words, most immortal cultivators viewed Gray more as a corpse than alive. So they quickly concluded that Darwin needed to surrender before he also lost his life.
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