Boom! Boom! Boom!
Ricky looked on as Rex and the Shura Casket viciously attacked each other. He figured that the two were completely on par with each other, but it was even more than he had expected.
The blade derived from the Shura Casket was indestructible. It met Rex's strike head-on, obliterated it, and cut Rex in half.
In the blink of an eye, the blood-colored chains crushed him to dust.
Typically, an individual as powerful as the spiritual potentate could not destroy a spiritual potentate's body. But Rex had spent eras trapped in the array, which had greatly weakened him, making it possible for the Shura Casket to destroy his body.
"Give up now, Rex! You can't get out of this alive. How can you resist my master power when you only have your soul left?" declared the Shura Casket sternly as it stared down on Rex's body parts.
If it terminated Rex's soul right now, he would die for good.
"Darn it!" Rex's soul howled ferociously.
He hated to admit it, but he knew that he couldn't do anything more. Although he was a spiritual potentate, the years he had spent in the array had weakened him to the point that he could not fight as well as he used to. To make matters worse, his fight with Eli had left him greatly injured, which put him in a more disadvantageous position.
"Get ready to die!" the Shura Casket yelled out. Its blood-colored blade came swinging toward Rex's soul once again. With this, it could finally fulfill its promise to Eli, and it would even be killing a spiritual potentate from the devil race as a bonus. It was like killing two birds with one stone.
They were fortunate to have Rex trapped in the array, as he would have brought great pain and suffering to the continent otherwise.
"You're dreaming! The likes of you can never kill me," Rex's soul shouted back in rebellion.
He would not just stand by and wait to be killed! At once, he condensed his remaining power and collided against the blood-colored blade with all his might.
But his struggle was futile. Even from where Ricky was standing, he could sense that Rex's soul was too weak to hurt the Shura Casket's blood-colored blade.
'I can't believe I get to see a spiritual potentate from the devil race die while I am at the Emperor Level! I'm so lucky!' Ricky joyfully cried in his mind.
However, his rejoicing was abruptly cut off, and all his hair stood on end. His zones were screaming at him that something dangerous was coming.
The zones had never let Ricky down before. Thus, he immediately became wary of his surroundings. He activated the Ultimate Golden Body at the sixth level without a second thought, and then he gathered all his powers into his golden body to protect himself.
Meanwhile, Rex's soul continued to make his move. "Devil Corpse Possession!" he shouted at the top of his lungs.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As the words fell from his lips, something stirred within the array. Grey storm clouds emerged, violent winds furiously blew, and strong evil spirit and corpse miasma appeared and filled the array instantly. Intense tremors plagued the giant array as if it was about to break.
Rex's soul changed into a tiny beam of light, which bypassed the Shura Casket's blade and pierced through the array. It went straight for Ricky.
'No way! He is trying to take over my body!' Ricky cried out silently in shock when he saw this, and terror took hold in his heart.
At this point, he finally understood why his zones were freaking out earlier.
He hastily harnessed the array's power to protect himself from Rex's soul, which was quickly approaching. However, the light beam seemed immune to the array's power, and it reached Ricky in the blink of an eye.
"Oh, crap! Ricky!" exclaimed the Shura Casket as it was caught by surprise. It didn't expect that Rex could possess others. At this point, the Shura Casket was unsure what would happen if Rex successfully possessed Ricky. But one thing was for sure—Ricky would die after he got possessed.
That was the last thing the Shura Casket wanted to happen.
After all, it was a supreme weapon that had the strength of a spiritual potentate. And it was the one that had brought Ricky here. The Shura Casket felt somewhat responsible for him, so it couldn't let him die under its watch.
It also admired Ricky's talent and saw him as an asset on their side.
However, it was too late. Rex had caught the Shura Casket completely off-guard.
The light beam flew into Ricky's Soul Sea. It was so fast that Ricky couldn't even move to stop it.
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