"Yes. However, I don't know much about them," the Dragon Intent Grass replied, its voice morose.
"What? What do you mean you don't know much about them? Are you planning to stay in this Land of Thorn with me for as long as you live?" Ricky asked, visibly frustrated.
'It is always of no use when I need its help. What is the point of the grass being here, then?' he thought to himself.
"Those Rotten Thorn Men are already dead. How are you going to kill them?" the Dragon Intent Grass remarked.
"Is that all you know about them?" Ricky asked, disappointed.
"Yes, that's all I know about them," the Dragon Intent Grass responded.
"I'm not surprised to hear that. I know you can't give me any more useful information about them," Ricky said, an edge in his voice.
Although he was very frustrated with the Dragon Intent Grass, he still valued its advice. He just wanted to know what to do.
When he used the Devourer Zone to extract the powers in the blood-colored light, he was thinking about what it told him.
"So these Rotten Thorn men are already dead..." Ricky murmured to himself. "That means it's impossible to kill them because they're already dead in the first place.
No matter how many times we try to bring them down, they will always come back."
Ricky now understood what the Dragon Intent Grass meant.
If one possessed enough power, he could terminate any living being.
The Rotten Thorn Men had very little psychic intelligence and powers. However, they were already dead. No amount of strength could kill them further.
'It seems that it's not a problem of strength. The problem is that the Rotten Thorn Men are undead beings. Pelting them with attacks is useless. What we need to do is destroy the light. It seems that it is to them what hearts are to us. That's the only way to get rid of them for good.'
Ricky got excited by this realization.
After finding out how to destroy the Rotten Thorn Men, he focused on studying the blood-colored light.
With the help of the Devourer Zone and the Devouring Skill, Ricky finally discovered all of the powers in the blood-colored light. He had spent four days working on it, and he was glad that he was able to learn more.
He found that the death power was the light's main power.
He had also spotted many dark powers such as the gloomy, bloody, and evil spirit powers.
He even saw the power of life in it.
Much to his surprise, the erosive, blood-colored light could carry the power of life. He was even more curious because the power of life that he found was pure and primitive.
The power of life inside the blood-colored light was even purer and more primitive than the one in the Life and Death River of his Life and Death Zone.
Before this day, Ricky had thought that there was no vitality in the world as pure as the vitality in that Life and Death River of his Life and Death Zone. It was not the purest in the world, but it was purer than most others that he had encountered.
However, he now knew that he was wrong. The vitality in the blood-colored light was better than that in the Life and Death River.
"This is amazing!" Ricky exclaimed.
'If I absorb the life power inside the blood-colored light, I will have a deeper understanding of the Life and Death Zone. However, the speed of the blood-colored lighting invading my body is faster than the speed of the Devourer Zone devouring it. Drawing the life power from it will be difficult,' he thought to himself.
It was indeed a precarious situation.
'The death power and the dark powers are definitely not what scare the Rotten Thorn Men. So the only thing in the light that frightens them is the pure and primitive power of life,' Ricky thought.
'This could only mean one thing: life is the natural enemy of death. Just like my Life and Death Zone, life and death can change from one to the other, and they can restrain each other as well.
I now know how to deal with these Rotten Thorn Man.'
At once, Ricky opened his eyes.
"I think I know what we have to do," he said right away.
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