With a crashing noise, Ray's Triple Deadly Doors and Ricky's Gale Strike collided mid-air.
On impact, the Triple Deadly Doors fused to ear-splitting screams of evil spirits, which released the most erosive and deadly power of Death Enlightenment.
At the same time, Ricky's Gale Strike was changing when an endless stream of gale runes popped up everywhere in the air. The four fang-like blades formed by the Gale Strike became more illusory but also materialized.
In other words, Ricky's Gale Strike had been turned into two kinds of contradictory force. One was nothingness, while the other was solidity. The force of solidity collided with the Triple Deadly Doors, while the force of nothingness turned into transparent power, passed through the Triple Deadly Doors, carried the mirage and smashed into Ray's body the moment Ray burst out huge momentum.
Only strong demi-spiritual emperors could detect Ricky's double-pronged attack, and they became amazed.
'That's one hell of a skill! It is so profound. It actually produces two kinds of opposite force—nothingness and solidity, ' they wondered, seeing how profound Ricky's skill was. The double-pronged attack was so powerful and mysterious that they realized they had underestimated him all along.
"No, no! After being attacked by the two kinds of force, Ray is very likely to lose!" The three demi-spiritual emperors of the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce got seriously concerned. They had expected this to be a real baptism of fire for Ricky. But instead, things were quickly going south for Ray.
"From the look of it, Ray may have to pull his trump card right now," one of the demi-spiritual emperors said, unable to help. The only consolation was that they had made a fall-back plan for Ray as they couldn't underestimate Ricky.
While they discussed, they eagerly watched the fight, hoping for a result in favor of their camp.
Except for the few demi-spiritual emperors, who were watching from high in the air, no one else could see Ricky's twofold powers. So, everyone apart from the demi-spiritual emperors only saw the collision of the Triple Deadly Doors and the Gale Strike.
Meanwhile, Ray had felt the impact of Ricky's invisible force—the nothingness.
In response, Ray instinctively tried to fight back, but even his best effort was ineffective. The invisible power of nothingness left him virtually defenseless. Panic quickly set in.
Images of the most heartbreaking experiences from the past began to flash in his mind, like a creepy movie scene. Those disturbing recollections made him change his mind.
The images didn't last, but he had a light bulb moment, right after.
From that transient recollection, he knew that if he concentrated, entirely keeping his mind focused, he'd draw enough inspiration to fight back no matter how difficult the challenge. With the right frame of mind, nothing would be impossible.
It happened the same time that his Triple Deadly Doors were also attacked by the power of the nothingness and fell into the most vulnerable state. However, Ricky's Gale Strike, shown in the form of four fang-like blades, was now at its peak.
Meanwhile, Ricky burst forth the power at the first level of Ultimate Golden Body. Without any warning, the Triple Deadly Doors were completely crushed by Ricky's two powers.
Yet, the four blades didn't stop their attacking. They kept dashing towards Ray, who had just recovered from his vulnerable and sad state.
Terrified and stunned, Ray couldn't have enough time to cope with the offensive. So on instinct, he crossed his arms and gathered all the enlightening power he could into a shield to cover himself.
But just when he was almost done with creating the shield, he heard something snap. Apparently, his shield could not offer protection as it cracked on its first contact with Ricky's powerful Gale Strike.
Recoiling in pain, Ray let out a terrifying scream and spat blood. Dislodged from his stable path of flight in the sky, he came tumbling down like a shooting star. With a loud thud, he fell on the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.
"Flame Torrent!" Ricky thundered. At this rate, the next attack could well be the final nail in the coffin for Ray, who was now cornered and outsmarted in every way. To kill his enemy on the next and final assault, Ricky activated his chaotic fire runes, which turned into roaring flames instantly and dashed towards Ray.
As the dust settled, the raging inferno receded, pulled by an invisible force to one particular point. On and on, until it was finally a small ball from which Ricky reemerged, popping up in midair.
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