"Well, the answer is very simple—to destroy the heart of the humanoid evil flower!" replied Queenie.
"What? the heart?" Ricky inquired.
"The humanoid evil flower is similar to creatures like us for its power all comes from its heart, too. In
fact, the vines would grow endlessly and could not be eliminated no matter how hard we try unless the
heart of the flower is destroyed," expounded Queenie.
"So, where can we find the real body of the flower? I just can't wait to end this."
"A humanoid evil flower does not come alone. In fact, they come in groups," Queenie replied. "They
usually live underground and form a world of their own. We can never get rid of these vines unless we
directly go to the source and destroy their heart," Queenie added.
"So what are we waiting for? Let's go underground. I really don't want to be entangled by these vines
any longer," Ricky murmured.
At that moment, he used the Iron Justice Saber and cut these vines for good. However, it seemed that
the more he cut them, the more they grew.
"As I've told you, the humanoid evil flowers form a world of their own underground—a garden.
However, it's not easy for us to enter the garden," said Queenie in a low voice.
At this moment, she felt very unhappy as well. After all, it was not very pleasing to come across the
tough humanoid evil flowers on their first day in the ancestral land of human devil race.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Ricky asked.
Since he knew nothing about the ancestral land of human devils, he asked Queenie for what she knew.
"That would depend entirely on our guts," Queenie said monotonously. "Well, we can intentionally let
these vines catch us. Once they do, they will send us to their heart to devour and absorb us.
That can be our chance to destroy the heart.
That's the only way I know how we can get rid of them."
"If you have the guts, then how couldn't I? If I don't have the courage, then you might end up belittling
me, and I don't want that to happen," Ricky said with a smile on his face.
Ever since they set foot in this ancestral land, both Ricky and Queenie promised each other that they
would try and work with each other no matter how they despised one another. Otherwise, they would
most probably regret not being civil with each other in the end.
After finishing his words, Ricky erupted his Ultimate Golden Body and wrapped it around Queenie.
Soon after, Ricky gave in and no longer resisted the vines that kept twining around the golden body.
At that moment, the bloody and disgusting mouths on the vines continued to release thorns, trying to
penetrate through both of their bodies. Luckily, Ricky's Ultimate Golden Body had absolute defense
capacity to strop these thorns from pricking their bodies.
"It seems that your golden body is not only powerful in attacks but also powerful in defense. Maybe I
made the right decision to bring you here after all. Plus, I really don't have any good way to deal with
these flowers. So, you kind of saved this mission," Queenie sighed with appreciation.
"Well, thanks for your compliment," Ricky said with a smirk.
"Ha-ha, Ricky, I think your charm is working. Maybe you can change Queenie's attitude towards the
creatures on the continent, and even fascinate her," the Dragon Intent Grass said in a teasing tone.
"Dragon Intent Grass, can't you see that she only wants me to surrender to her? Unfortunately for her, I
think she's thinking too much," Ricky answered.
Just as Queenie had said, once the vines twined them, they quickly went underground.
After traveling for a while, they had reached and entered a void as if they just jumped through spaces.
And after an hour of traveling, they finally arrived at an underground world.
It was a large, dark, and perhaps, a bloody kind of world.
Here, the power of the evil spirit was much stronger than that of the air on the continent. As it turned
out, the humanoid evil flowers mainly lived on absorbing evil spirit.
Meanwhile, in the darkness, humongous black and bloody flowers floated into the air successively. To
scale, a single flower was as huge as a small world. And the vines spread from these flowers.
On the other hand, flowers with eight petals appeared to be at the top of the rachises. At that moment,
Ricky could clearly feel that this was where the power of the evil spirit came from.
As it turned out, these were the humanoid evil flowers that they were hunting down.
Moreover, the flowers with eight petals were the hearts of these flowers.
Howl!
As soon as Ricky and Queenie were caught, the hearts of the humanoid evil flowers started to give out
a blood-colored light, and let out a deafening roar.
Immediately, this bloody light rushed towards Ricky and Queenie. It could not be denied that there was
the presence of strong power in the light. Moreover, it acted as if it wanted to turn Ricky and Queenie
into a fog of blood in an instant.
"Oh, my! I think there are more than a hundred humanoid evil flowers here!" Ricky murmured in a low
voice.
"And each one of them has the power at the Emperor Level. Lucky for us, they seem to have just
reached the Emperor Level," Queenie said. "Have you seen those flowers with eight petals that are
releasing bloody light? Those are their hearts.
I think you can feel it, too.
There is a dark blood pistil inside the heart. All we need to do is to take away the pistil so that the
humanoid evil flower will wither."
"The dark blood pistil?" Ricky said lightly. "What's the use of this dark blood pistil?"
"I can't believe that you would still think about its use. You're not so bad after all. You really do pay
attention," Queenie commented upon hearing Ricky's question.
"That's because you said 'take away' instead of 'destroy' it. If it's useless, then we can simply destroy it,
and we would not need to take it away," Ricky explained with a smirk on his face.
"Well, I was about to tell you," Queenie said. "Anyway, I don't want the two of us to be on guard against
each other in this place. It will be too tiring.
But for your information, those pistils contain the evil spirit and the continent spirit that have already
been purified by the original energy. Once absorbed, they would be directly transformed into the power
that can help us with the breakthrough to the Emperor Level without the need of anymore training."
"I see. So these humanoid evil flowers are also an opportunity for us." Ricky nodded his head upon
realizing this information.
Soon after, thousands of rays of golden light erupted from his Ultimate Golden Body to resist the attack
of the bloody light.
Immediately, flames spread on his golden body once again.
"Ricky, I've already told you that flames don't work on these flowers. They would only strengthen them,"
Queenie reminded upon seeing that Ricky was about to burn the flowers with his flames.
"I know, but it will still depend on what kind of flames they are," Ricky said in a flat tone.
As soon as Ricky finished his words, ten different kinds of flames rose from his body. Because of the
activation of the Ancestral Thunder Zone, Ricky had one more kind of peculiar fire—the Ancestral
Thunder Fire.
"What...This is..." Queenie was dumbfounded to see these ten types of flames surge from his body.
As a genius human devil, she could most certainly recognize these flames as the sacred fire and the
peculiar fire.
In particular, when she looked at the black flame, she said in a shocked voice, "Is that the Heaven
Illuminating Fire? The one that never dies out?"
"Exactly! This one can burn everything in the world. And it can also burn the humanoid evil flowers.
Plus, I don't have anything to worry about because I'm stronger than these flowers," Ricky said.
"You have ten kinds of sacred flames. And you even have the Heaven Illuminating Fire. Your body must
be a treasury," Queenie sighed with emotions. "I guess the reason why you can control so many flames
is because of your eyes.
Perhaps I can guess the name of your magical eyes."
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