The legendary warrior novel Chapter 165

The Golden Iron Rod, with its tremendous momentum and power—the combined strength of two kinds of Beast Fire⁠—launched a roaring fire towards Ricky. Ivan thought that Ricky should have been overwhelmed after being attacked by such a strong force even if he had already reached the Sixth Degree of Nine-degree Body Refining Formula.

But to his surprise, there was no hint of fear in Ricky's eyes. In fact, he wore a smirk and even laughed really loud in a dismissive manner.

After a few seconds, Ricky retreated almost all of the powers on his body, except for the power of Devouring Fire. Ivan then saw that Ricky's whole body was filled with bloody flame.

But Ricky wasn't done. He threw a flame punch straight toward Ivan's Golden Iron Rod!

Ivan finally broke into a series of derisive laughter. Then, he spoke, "Are you scared or what?" Ivan was rather pleased to see Ricky's counterattacks, which he thought was stupid.

However, if one looked closely, there was also a trace of vigilance in his gleaming eyes. After so many times of being in battle with Ricky, Ivan pretended to look down on him. But deep inside, he knew all along that Ricky was a genius whose talents surpassed him, whether in martial art skills or weapon casting. Otherwise, he wouldn't be that eager to kill Ricky.

Based on how Ivan knew Ricky, his counterattack at the moment should not be that weak. Ivan was then worried that Ricky might have some tricks behind his moves. Therefore, besides being glad, he was likewise vigilant.

Bang! Ricky's punch hit the Golden Iron Rod. Immediately, the two kinds of powerful energies were head to head against each other. Of course, at that very moment, Ivan's force was far greater than Rick's.

In this duel, Ricky would almost certainly lose.

However, everything took a 360 degrees turn the next second. Ricky's Devouring Fire exploded all of sudden and with its bloody mouth, it began to easily devour the two kinds of Beast Fire on Ivan's Golden Iron Rod.

In a split second, more than half of the two kinds of Beast Fire were swallowed, while the power of the Golden Iron Rod was also weakened by more than half!

Puff! Being caught off guard, Ivan spewed out a lot of blood.

The two kinds of Beast Fire were connected with his veins. Even if he were to lose just one, he would be seriously injured. At that moment, however, both kinds of Beast Fire were swallowed up by more than half!

"No way! How could that bloody flame devour my Beast Fire!" Ivan screamed at the top of his lungs. He felt insulted with what had just happened.

He was already cautious with any of Ricky's further attacks and had made a lot of preparations for them. Yet, he could have never imagined that Ricky's next attack would be this strange bloody flame and that it could devour his Beast Fire so easily.

It turned out that Ivan's preparations were just in vain. As a matter of fact, he could only be attacked and had no way to counterattack. The facts had been revealed at last!

However, Ivan was quite stubborn and ruthless. He definitely would not give up and admit his failure so easily.

After the initial shock while denying it for a while, Ivan immediately abandoned all the power of the two kinds of Beast Fire on the Golden Iron Rod. Then, he withdrew the Golden Iron Rod and quickly retreated.

Of course, the consequence of abandoning all of that power was that his combat capabilities had been greatly reduced. He would also be susceptible to the counterattack force of the Beast Fire which was apparent from Ivan's pale face and constant spitting of blood.

At that moment, it would be fair and safe to say that Ricky would win the battle.

"Y-your flame..." Ivan struggled to say as he staggered and shoot daggers with his eyes at Ricky.

"If you used any other martial art skills, who wins and who loses today would be uncertain, but unfortunately, you use the power of your Beast Fire. I think you're asking for death. Do you have any idea how Andrew died? He died by using the power of Beast Fire in trying to kill me! Nevertheless, I killed him just like the way I'm going kill you." Ricky emphasized on his words while he withdrew his Devouring Fire.

"What kind of Beast Fire are you using?" Ivan asked reluctantly.

"You have no right to know that. Go to hell and ask Satan instead!" Ricky retorted.

After that, Ricky took out his Iron Destroyer and approached Ivan while his mind had connected with the Devourer Zone and Chaotic Fire Zone. He did so because Ivan, like Andrew, might have hidden trump cards to resist his attacks!

With the clanging sound of Iron Destroyer, Ricky was finally inches away from Ivan. Without any hesitation, he raised his Iron Destroyer and was about to slash it towards Ivan.

Bang! However, at that exact moment, a shining light started to cover Ivan. A blinding and dominant power came into being in an instant. Using that, Ivan managed to throw Ricky and his Iron Destroyer away from him.

"You want to kill me? You have to wait for another few hundred years!" Ivan said with disdain under the shining light.

Then, Ricky saw with his own two eyes that there was a black armor covering Ivan. The light and power were certainly coming from it. But as soon as it came, the light and power disappeared. Along with it, the armor slowly faded away.

"Even the flames of the ninth stair back there was nothing to this armor, not to mention you, such an insignificant little one," Ivan stated with contempt when he saw that Ricky was lying on the ground.

He had no doubt that Ricky was already dead by then!

To his surprise, however, Ricky then stood up and retorted back. "It seems like you just made it through the flames of the stairs only with the help of that black armor!"

Ivan immediately realized that Ricky was just a little disheveled and he had not been hurt at all!

"How is that possible? You're not dead!" Ivan exclaimed, doubting what he was seeing. He was so surprised to see Ricky unhurt and even stand up. He didn't want to believe the reality in front of him.

He was certain that even the strong warriors at the level of Bone Reinforcement could not resist the power of his armor! One time, when he went on a journey to strengthen his cultivation, a warrior at the second grade of Bone Reinforcement tried to kill him. However, in the end, the warrior was turned into ashes by the strength of his armor alone.

"If you use that power on other warriors, they will definitely become ashes after being attacked by it. But you met me, Ricky. All the trump cards that you have are destined to be invalid because God wants you to die in my hands!" Ricky coldheartedly said while he held on tightly to his Iron Destroyer again.

To be honest, he only said those words to disturb Ivan's mind and unsettle his composure.

"How dare you say that! That's nonsense!" Ivan responded defensively when he took in Ricky's words. But a keen observer would see that Ivan's eyes didn't look so calm as they usually did.

"Hmmm, your armor, if I guess right, is a spiritual weapon that is superior to mortal weapons. Yet, it must have been broken or I could never resist its power and light," Ricky told him.

"I can't believe you can figure out that this is a broken armor of Spirit Level!" Ivan said with a bit of a panic. Ricky was right. The armor on his body was a broken armor of Spirit Level. In fact, it was also quite incomplete.

'However, even so, this incomplete spiritual-level armor, coupled with its force on its array was enough to turn Ricky into ashes! But why was Ricky not hurt at all?' Ivan contemplated. He was very puzzled about how things turned out.

Clang! Clang! At that time, Ricky's Iron Destroyer rattled again, bringing Ivan's attention back to him.

As a weapon casting master of intermediate Mortal Level, not to mention his years of experience in the Casting Guild, Ivan immediately detected the grade of Ricky's Iron Destroyer.

"You... Your saber is half a step into Spirit Level! It's a Demi-spirit Level weapon!" Ivan uttered while he continued to tremble a little.

"Yes, I don't know why it took you so long to realize that," Ricky said while he smiled a little.

"No! No!" Ivan yelled, shaking his head violently. "Even though your saber is Demi-spirit Level, you couldn't have been unhurt at all!"

"It's true that weapons of Demi-spirit Level can't resist the attack of that of Spirit Level, not even when it's broken," Ricky agreed while he nodded.

Then, he continued, "But there is always an exception. The power of weapons at Demi-spirit Level depends on who makes them. If he is an innate spirit as well as a real casting master at Spirit Level, everything will be quite different."