The Eight-Headed Fire Python and the Fire Demon were at a standstill. Both of them were products of the Fire Magic derived from Thousand-Year Fire, hence neither could initially overpower the other.
Like a beast, the Fire Demon mercilessly severed two heads of the Eight-Headed Fire Python, but then two more grew out from the severed necks.
The snake symbolizes the fall and the intensified desire for immortality, especially one with eight heads. Its level of fall and desire for immortality have become even more profound and ingrained.
The corrupt flames splattering off the Eight-Headed Fire Python tainted the Fire Demon's body, polluting the flames of the Thousand-Year Fire.
However, from the heart of the Fire Demon sprung an exceedingly pure flame, burning the invading flames of the Eight-Headed Fire Python.
Flame burned flame!
Such was the power of the Thousand-Year Fire, the grand Law Power that could incinerate everything!