"Yes, my master. I saw it, and I heard it!" Alva replied with a frightened voice. He was just as scared as Ricky was.
Being an ancient supreme weapon, he was stronger than Ricky. Therefore, he was certain how powerful that black hand was. It only appeared for a few seconds, yet it showed its overwhelming force. It was impressive and seemed to be strong enough to destroy everything it touched.
No one could resist it! Everything and everyone in the right mind would surrender to it!
'That black hand, its master is even more terrible than those gods I have met!' Alva, out of shock, said secretly to himself. "Who is he on earth? Why did he take Nate's body away? Was he finding fault with Ricky, or maybe with Nate?"
"Alva, do you have any idea?" Ricky asked again before he forced himself to stop panicking and calm down from the shock.
"I'm sorry, my master. I've searched every corner of my brain but failed to find an answer. The only thing I can confirm is that the owner of the black hand is older than me. I guess he is more terrible and stronger than a Great Dragon!" Alva replied.
'Why did he take Nate's body? What did he mean by saying that I and my friend would cross paths again?' Ricky pondered. This mysterious hand made him extremely uneasy. Somehow, he felt that something terrible was going to happen.
And just as the mysterious voice said, it could happen either far in the future, or sooner than we would expect!
It was his regained spiritual meridian who was showing him this vision, indicating that there was going to be a big trouble!
Ricky even felt his spiritual meridian shake a little bit, which had never happened before.
Riddled by shock and ton of questions, he stopped at where he had been for a long time, lost in his thought.
"My master, you must stop thinking about it! You just freed yourself from the nightmare Nate had once brought to you. I'm afraid you are being hunted by another nightmare! You might lose your mind if you let yourself become obsessed with that mysterious black hand! That's extremely dangerous!" Seeing Ricky couldn't stop thinking about the hand, Alva talked to Ricky in a worried tone.
Meanwhile, he activated the Heaven Melting Fire and poured it into Ricky's mind, hoping Ricky would come to his senses in no time.
Thank god, Ricky finally recovered from the panic and fear. He shivered a bit and said to Alva, "Thank you for your reminder, Alva. You've brought me back! Otherwise, I would have been stuck in my thought and eternal slumber! If it were not you, I might have already met a miserable end!"
A warrior getting stuck in a loop of thoughts was extremely dangerous. Being traumatized by someone was not the most terrible thing for a warrior, for he could just kill that person who hurt him! However, once a warrior ended up obsessing and losing control over himself, he would be banned from cultivation and the practices of a warrior. If Ricky did not wake up just now, today would've been his last day as a warrior.
"The pleasure is mine, my master. I'm relieved to see you wake up!" Alva replied with a nod.
Now that Ricky succeeded in regaining his consciousness, he could only get better from there.
"You said he is even older than you. I understand that no matter how hard I think about him, it would not make any difference. I would only annoy myself if I continue thinking!" Ricky nodded and said.
Then, he found a place nearby and hunkered down to adjust his breath and collect himself. He decided to stay here to keep his mind at peace and to eliminate the bad effects brought by the black hand before he entered the Heaven Wood Land.
He sat there for a whole day. Luckily, Ricky was used to this kind of long and boring cultivation. Thanks to his strong willpower, the black hand no longer had any effects on him even if he couldn't help but think about it from time to time.
"For now, I'll leave it at that. I will think about it more carefully when I grow stronger!" Taking a deep breath, Ricky said to himself.
"Be careful, my master! An innate spiritual king is approaching us!" Suddenly, Alva warned him in a serious tone.
"What? An innate spiritual king?" Alva's words surprised Ricky. "How could it be? I found us a remote hiding place on purpose. Could an innate spiritual king locate us? Besides, we are thousands of miles away from the Stone City now!"
"Oh, don't worry, my master. I could sense that this innate spiritual king probably doesn't mean to bring us harm! It is probably because of that black hand. The innate spiritual king from the Snow Land might have detected the powerful hand!" Alva explained.
"Anyway, go inside the Heaven Melting Pagoda! The innate spiritual king has arrived!" Alva urged. He preferred Ricky to stay in his body, whether the coming innate spiritual king had good or bad intentions.
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