"What are you doing? Are you showing off to me?" Queenie pouted. Ricky kept saving her from the beginning to the end, which she resented very much. Proud as she was, she hated the fact that she had to be rescued, and to think that it was Ricky who saved her gave her the grief.
"I wouldn't do that. I'm not that brave," Ricky said sincerely with an appeasing smile on his face, although he wanted to declare the opposite. After all, beggars couldn't be choosers. He didn't want to provoke Queenie too much, or she could expose the Evil Mandragora's true identity. If that happened, he would only regret it, so it was better to play by Queenie's rules for now.
Without saying anything more, Ricky destroyed Chomper's heart with his thunder power, and then he divided the pistil into two halves and handed one half to Queenie.
Queenie accepted it without hesitation. She even looked like she wanted to monopolize the whole pistil for herself.
"You are more honorable than I thought, huh? I didn't do anything to help, but you're still willing to give half of it to me," she quietly muttered as if it physically hurt her to say these kind words.
Ricky didn't know how to respond to that, so he kept quiet instead.
He had expected her to thank him, as she had done earlier, but she didn't. Honestly, he should have expected that.
"By the way, the evil spirit in Chomper's pistil is quite powerful. Do you need my help with the refining?" Queenie asked out of the blue, smiling pleasantly all of a sudden.
"No, thanks," Ricky answered lightly.
He knew that if he handed his half to her too, she was likely to keep it for herself. He was sure of that.
"Humph! Why can't you just appreciate it when you are offered something good? There are too many geniuses in this world who want my help, but you refuse me when I offer to help!" Queenie snorted upon hearing Ricky's refusal.
"My Devouring Mutant is enough to deal with it," Ricky simply answered. Then, he sat down and began to refine his half of the pistil.
Now that Chomper had been destroyed, this garden was the safest place for them to stay in the ancestral land.
When Queenie saw Ricky sit down with crossed legs, the angry look on her face immediately disappeared. 'Calm down, ' she thought to herself. 'This guy is really extraordinary. I have to make him surrender to me, so that I can show my power that I can even make a genius like him obey to me to those old guys on the continents.'
Then, she also sat down with her legs crossed and started to refine her half of the pistil.
When his mind had finally integrated into the pistil, Ricky felt like he had entered an enormous world where there was nothing but abundant pure evil spirit and pure continent spirit.
"What tremendous power!" Ricky sighed.
"That's reasonable. Chomper lived for half an era, if not an entire era. And during that period of time, it should have accumulated endless power as long as it absorbed a little power every day. Imagine if it had absorbed as much as it could every day," the Dragon Intent Grass told Ricky.
"However, I'm not sure if this tremendous energy can help you reach the peak state of an incredible demi-spiritual emperor and become a real spiritual emperor.
You know that these geniuses who came are all spiritual emperors, and even though it is still difficult for them to break through further, they can still attain it much easier than you. As long as they encounter some opportunities, they can likely become two-star lower spiritual emperors. Although it will still be challenging for them, their experience will be like a walk in the park compared to what you will experience."
"I understand what you mean, Dragon Intent Grass. I'll become a spiritual emperor as soon as possible!" Ricky said.
Even if the Dragon Intent Grass hadn't said so, Ricky would not waste any more time. After all, he didn't want the evil spirit mass in Tina's body to grow too big.
With these thoughts in his mind, Ricky activated his six zones to absorb the continent's power from the pistil. Then he turned this power into his own power. As for the pure evil spirit, he left it for the Evil Mandragora.
Ricky guessed that the Evil Mandragora would surely become a two-star middle spiritual emperor at peak state when they left the ancestral land of human devils.
Time flew quickly, and it took Ricky ten days to refine the energy in his half of the pistil.
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