The fire that surrounded Andrew right now was no longer the Lava Fire. Despite having the same color, it looked distinctively different from Andrew's previous one. It was apparent that Andrew must had cultivated the Beast fire that he had just obtained from the last trial, and now he was able to put it into play in a very clever way.
"Little bastard, this is called the Heaven Burning Fire. You should feel lucky and grateful to be killed by such an honorable Beast Fire!" Andrew sneered. As he channeled more power into the Beast fire, it promptly spread to cover all of his body and made him look like a fierce, predatory fiery bear. Then he shouted and charged at Ricky without a sign of hesitation. Meanwhile, the predator opened his bloody mouth like a sacrificial bowl, as if one bite would be enough to take Ricky's life!
"I have already told you. You will never beat me, no matter how hard you try. Remember that you will always be nothing but a loser in my eyes!" Ricky replied indifferenly, calmly facing Andrew's fury. Then he threw a quick punch towards Andrew, fully confident that he would defeat Andrew again.
Ricky didn't think that the pagoda was able to restrain his power, because his regained spiritual meridian was so strong that it would have the capacity to resist the pagoda's boundaries.
Without wasting too much effort, Ricky released the Devouring Fire to combat Andrew's Beast Fire.
The Devouring Fire could not only protect Ricky from being hurt by Andrew's Beast Fire, but also easily swallow Andrew's Beast Fire with its strong devouring ability. So when Andrew charged at him with his Beast Fire in play, Ricky couldn't be happier.
In a flash, the Devouring Fire morphed into a big mouth, even bigger than that of Andrew's Beast Fire, and began to consume the power of Andrew's Beast Fire.
"What the hell is happening? What the fuck are you doing!? What kind of Beast Fire are you manipulating?" Andrew stammered in a trembling voice, alarmed at the sudden loss of the power of his Heaven Burning Fire.
"You don't deserve to know!" Ricky replied coldly. Withholding no mercy, he decided to use Chaotic Fire Skill and strengthen the power of the Devouring Fire.
Andrew could hear his impending demise in Ricky's tone. He struggled to get rid of Ricky's Devouring Fire and then seized a chance to fight back. However, Andrew soon realized that this Ragged Iron Pagoda he was in right now had taken away all his spiritual energy as soon as this trial began. So there was no other way to fight against Ricky if he lost his Beast Fire.
"Very well! Since you're now forcing me to kill you, how could I refuse your request?" Andrew shouted with gritted teeth. Knowing he couldn't stop Ricky from devouring his Heaven Burning Fire, Andrew decided to use his secret weapon!
He suddenly released the Lava Fire again with full power. Once released completely from his body, it seemed even more powerful than the Heaven Burning Fire. Immediately, the Lava Fire transformed itself into a fiery dragon, diving and roaring at Ricky like a rapacious predator.
"Did you have enough of devouring my Beast Fire? Now let me give you my Beast Fire as much as you want. I will satisfy you to death!" Andrew shouted loudly, with a rather hideous look on his already unsightly face.
"Hahaha, what did you say? You'll satisfy me to death with your Beast Fire? I beg to disagree! You are just going to make me laugh to death!" Ricky couldn't help but roar with laughter. Even as he was still chuckling, he quickly maximized the Devouring Skill by deploying more power from the Devourer Zone.
In fact, Ricky was fully aware that his body wouldn't be strong enough to contain Andrew's two different kinds of Beast Fire, if he only had an ordinary Beast Fire. Because his spiritual energy hadn't been suppressed by the Ragged Iron Pagoda, it would be highly possible that the powers from these two kinds of Beast Fire were too much to control. His body would explode if it were pushed too far or too long.
However, Andrew would never know the fact that it wasn't the Beast Fire, but the Chaotic Fire Zone that helped Ricky devour all of the other Beast Fires. The Chaotic Fire Zone could absorb thousands of kinds of Beast Fire with only the slightest effort-- not to mention just two kinds of Beast Fire, which were just a piece of cake!
What Andrew was trying to do right now was exactly what Ricky had wanted all along.
Both of them got excited, each confident that he would completely obliterate his opponent as he had been planning all along. They let out a loud roar as they continued to fight each other with their magic fire. Sinister smiles crossed their faces, as a promising hint that this battle would soon come to an end once either of them buckled under the pressure.
But that one to fall first would be Ricky!
However, Ricky suddenly detected something fishy as he kept absorbing Andrew's Lava Fire. There was another sort of power inside the Lava Fire which really took him by surprise. Even though he had the Chaotic Fire Zone to protect himself, he couldn't help but feel rather frightened when detecting that mysterious power.
Besides, what surprised him even more was that he found out it was not totally unfamiliar to him. He had once seen that power exerted by both Zenith and Elder Alexander. Undoubtedly, that power only belonged to the innate spiritual energy, the supreme power owned only by those innate spirits!
Ricky felt too shocked to believe what he himself had realized. He questioned, "What is that? Inside your Lava Fire, is that the innate spiritual energy? Why do you have that sort of power?"
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