The legendary warrior novel Chapter 164

With an enormous blast of energy, the two of them were flung back several feet away from each other by the immense power.

Without wasting a second, the two immediately rushed back towards each other as fast as they could the moment they regained their footing.

Bang, Bang!

Before they could react or say anything, another sound from a violent collision resounded in the ring. Flames from the intense blasts of powers surged and spread around them.

It was hard to follow their movements. One moment they were in the east, fighting, and in a blink of an eye, they were already in the completely opposite direction.

In a battle as fierce as this one, neither of them could afford to reduce their energy and power. Instead, they had to increase it and push their Blood Purification to its limit.

This kind of battle was a true test to their abilities. They had to bring their physical power to the maximum.

After striking at each other more than a hundred times, both their energies changed tremendously. In that moment, they both activated the power of the manual. Magnificent black runes surrounded Ivan, while rich scarlet runes covered Ricky.

Ivan stretched out his arm and punched into the air with a black rune spreading black spiritual energy. From his fist emerged an image of a black viper teeming with venom and cruelty racing at enormous speed towards Ricky.

"The bite of the viper!" Ivan hissed.

"Blood devouring!" Ricky wasted no time. He channeled his own power to counter his opponent's attack. The scarlet rune that ran with Ricky's punch projected a bloody mouth.

Boom!

In a flash, the two runic powers collided with intensity. The black viper and bloody mouth started attacking each other, every attack by one being met by the same intensity as the other.

The black viper, like an invincible thorn, pierced fiercely into the blood mouth. And the bloody mouth poised to swallow the black viper with its strong devouring power and transform it into Ricky's own power.

However, Ricky had underestimated the runic power of Ivan. Unbeknownst to him, he could apparently only absorb certain parts of Ivan's power with his Devouring Skill. In an instant, the rest of his power struck hard against his right fist.

Before he could realize it, Ricky had already staggered back, spitting out the blood that had clotted in his lip.

Ivan, on the other hand, was in no way in a better shape than him. His runes had been parts of his body for such a long time, and now some of his runes had gotten devoured by Ricky. He felt awful, as if parts of his body had been cut off.

"How is this possible? You can devour my runic power? Is this because of your secret manual?" Ivan hissed, wiping the blood on his lips.

Even given the situation he was in, he was still ferocious, his eyes sharp with greed.

It was the first time he had ever heard of a manual that had the devouring power. He was well aware though, that having a manual with the devouring power had priceless value.

"How did someone like you even come to possess a manual like that? An extremely powerful manual is being wasted on someone with an incomplete spiritual meridian. Give it to me now, and I'll give you a quick and merciful death and turn you into ashes," Ivan said, reaching out his right hand to Ricky.

"Are you sure that you are not the one turning into ashes?" Ricky sneered upon hearing what Ivan said. "if that's what you want I'm afraid things aren't going to end well for you."

"You're playing with fire!" Ivan shouted, " Since you won't give it up, then you can go to hell with your manual. In the next move, you are so dead!"

"Ha-ha, likewise!" Ricky laughed arrogantly.

"Come on!"

Ivan raised two kinds of flames. One was the Bony White Beast Fire he already had, the other was a black Beast Fire that he tamed in this pagoda.

The two kinds of Beast Fire entangled and integrated into each other, forming a much stronger infernal power.

Then Ivan took out a Golden Iron Rod from his storage bag, and as if on cue, the two kinds of Beast Fire swept up in the rod and engulfed it.

"Iron Rod, flames, endless strikes!"

Ivan shouted, swinging the rod at extremely high speeds. His body was surrounded by strong flames gathering around the Golden Iron Rod.

For a moment, Ricky felt that Ivan broke his own Blood Purification level.

'Ivan is so much stronger than Andrew. They are in no way in the same level!' Ivan had definitely cultivated the Beast Fire perfectly. It's like nothing I've seen before!' Ricky thought as he watched Ivan using two kinds of Beast Fires with ease.

Unfortunately for Ivan, it didn't matter how perfectly he had cultivated his power. No matter what kind of fire it was or how strong, Ricky could devour it without question.

"Go to hell!"

This time, Ivan had already gathered all of his power. He immediately swung his Golden Iron Rod with the Fire with all his might. In that moment, Ricky saw nearly a hundred rods with flames running at full speed towards him.

Golden Iron Rod itself was an extremely powerful weapon. Combined with the Beast Fires, it looked as terrifying as the deathly weapon in hell.

'Although those rods were just shadows, their power was definitely real. If I had gotten hit by those rods, I might have been seriously injured, ' Ricky thought.

'Ivan might still have other moves after this!'

All of Ricky's hesitations evaporated. He summoned all of his energy and immediately channeled the Sixth Degree of Nine-degree Body Refining Formula.

Then Ricky clenched his fists and rushed towards the shadows with his Body Refining Formula.

"You are so naive! Do you really think you are strong enough to resist my rods?" Ivan said ferociously upon seeing Ricky use his body refining to resist his power. He could hardly wait to see how Ricky was going to be beaten by him.

"You know, maybe I'll be scared if you actually had that power. But right now, it seems like you just are not strong enough. I can deal with you with my bare hands!" Ricky replied.

Boom!

Ricky collided head first with the shadows of rods spreading flames with Ivan's fists! The power of the Sixth Degree of the Nine-degree Body Refining Formula was definitely strong enough. Even the most powerful flames could not get through it. Not to mention the two kinds of Beast Fire.

Therefore, every punch from Ricky could crush several shadows with ease.

"How is that possible? Such a powerful method of body refining!" Ivan hissed, enraged upon seeing what was happening.

In spite of his disbelief, Ivan didn't stop striking. He mercilessly smashed the real Golden Iron Rod surrounded with Beast Fire towards Ricky.

Ivan put all of his might into this blow, making it the strongest one yet. He combined the power of the two kinds of Beast Fire, believing that it was enough to break Ricky's body refining method.