Scales straightened up gingerly as he spoke. Meanwhile, a world materialized behind him once again.
It shrank and sank into his body, and his power quickly returned to its peak state.
However, two muscular arms were missing from his Heavenly Jail Body.
And any warrior who had a sharp sense would be able to feel that his power had weakened slightly.
Ricky also noticed that.
'It seems that Scales' capability in recovery is far inferior to mine!' he thought to himself. He narrowed
his eyes at Scales and declared confidently,
"Are you sure about that?
Then let me see how powerful your last resort is!" Ricky's voice resounded with steel in his tone as if he
thoroughly believed his words. At the same time, he also stood up, and the Life Wings gradually formed
behind him.
"You seem very calm. It seems that you also have a trump card that I have yet to see. Now, show it to
me!" Scales responded. He had anticipated that Ricky still had another trump card up his sleeve, for he
would never underestimate a genius who had cultivated the chaotic power.
At this time, Ricky also recovered to his peak state with the Life Wings.
"Their recovery capability is incredible!" Gage exclaimed when he saw this.
"But it seems that Ricky's capability in recovery is much more powerful compared to Scales. Look,
Ricky has truly recovered to his peak state, while Scales' strength has slightly decreased," noted
Rodger.
"Hmnn... Perhaps. But I feel that both of them will end up suffering great losses," Gage remarked.
"But it might be better for us if both of them are badly hurt," Rodger added.
Meanwhile, Ricky and Scales were still engaged in a battle of words. Ricky yelled at Scales,
"As you wish!" In an instant, purple patterns began to spread all over his body.
"He is an array deployer at the Emperor Level!" Scales muttered under his breath.
His face darkened as he grew more serious and put all his focus on Ricky. No one would
underestimate an anomalous genius like Ricky, especially when his expertise with the arrays could be
considered unrivaled.
"He is an array deployer at the Emperor Level!" Rodger and the others also exclaimed in shock.
"He is already so strong! If he combines the great ability he just showed with the power of the arrays,
then I can't even imagine how strong he can be!" Gage blurted out expectantly, his eyes wide with awe.
He didn't have any connection with Ricky, but Scales was a devil, so as long as he and Ricky were not
mortal enemies, he would unconditionally stand by Ricky's side every time.
"The second killing array—the Wail of Ghosts and the Howl of Wolves!"
As the patterns spread all over his body, Ricky knitted his hands together. Soon, purple marks also
spread and covered the entire competition platform, and a purple array appeared instantly.
"It seems that you have set up the array secretly during the battle just now. I can tell that you have
great attainments in the cultivation of arrays," Scales lauded Ricky in an icy tone. At that moment, he
could vaguely feel the thunderous strength of this array.
It was his Heavenly Devil Jail blood power that felt the invisible threat.
Ricky ignored Scales' words. Instead, he clapped his hands and gathered all his strength to the array in
a flash.
Roar! Howl!
When Ricky poured his power into the array, the competition platform was shaken by the roars and
howls that echoed from nowhere. It was like a pack of ghosts and wolves were about to descend.
At the same time, the purple array turned dark in an instant—like an inky blanket of darkness in hell.
The array worked! It absorbed the space power and Ricky's power and transformed them into the most
violent power in a flash. The shadows of ghosts and wolves made their appearance one after another,
raising their heads and roaring fiercely at the sky.
At that moment, it seemed that this array was the real world of hell.
"This array has such violent power. What's more, under its extreme power, both ghosts and wolves
exist at the same time. It deserves its name — the Wail of Ghosts and the Howl of Wolves!" Gage
exclaimed.
"Besides, those wolves and ghosts aren't the most frightening thing in this array. Do you know what's
more frightening? It's the array's power of killing!" said Rodger in a husky voice.
"I wonder what Scales' trump card is. Can it top this?"
At that point, Ricky broke out his Devouring Mutant, because what Rodger had guessed was right.
This array belonged to the second killing arrays, so the power of killing was the most suitable one to
control it.
And the Devouring Mutant was relatively designed to kill.
"Kill!" Ricky shouted loudly.
As everybody looked on in amazement, the array evolved like a living thing. Innumerable shadows of
ghosts and wolves in the array merged and formed two massive shadows— a ghost's silhouette and a
wolf's shadow.
Howl! The roar reached their ears the same moment that both the ghost shadow and the wolf shadow
pounced towards Scales. As soon as they landed, Ricky summoned the Devourer Zone, which evolved
into the bloody massacre, and fused it into the ghost shadow and the wolf shadow.
"Heavenly jail! Summon the devil king!"
Upon seeing Ricky's array attack, Scales didn't dare to hesitate. He gathered all his strength in his
hands and clenched them into fists, punching down on the competition platform.
Boom!
Immediately, the entire competition platform was devoured by Scales' power and transformed into a
bloody hell.
"Devil king, come out!" Scales roared.
Growl!
No sooner had Scales finished his words that the bloody hell on the competition platform spun at high
speed. Simultaneously, a bloody devil king with twelve arms appeared out of it with a roar, which made
the whole area tremble.
The devil king thumped its chest with a fearsome roar before it threw itself toward the ghost and wolf
shadows.
After that, Ricky and Scales fused with the power they summoned into the battlefield. The whole scene
was like a battle between two giant beasts.
And the winner of the fight, as Gage had said, was still in doubt, even when both the ghost and wolf
and the devil king had used up their strength. This time, these two people truly exhausted all their
power and were both at their last gasp.
Queenie and another devil immediately rushed to Ricky and Scales respectively, guarding them against
each other now that they were vulnerable.
"Can you recover this time? Can you still use your sacred fire?" Queenie said to Ricky through
telepathy. "At this moment, Scales is truly at his last breath, so if you give him another shot, I'm sure
you will kill him!"
"I hope you're right, Queenie! And I pray he doesn't have any other trump card to recuperate!" Ricky
responded and prepared to break out the Blood Vitality Devouring Skill, the Evil Devouring Mouth, and
the Life Wings.
He might not recover to his peak state this time, but it would still be enough to kill Scales.
However, at that point, something that Ricky hadn't expected happened. The devil beside Scales said
straightly, "We admit defeat and quit this test of the grand humanoid evil tree!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the competition platform changed instantly. Two rays of light flared,
and the two devils disappeared in an instant.
"Ricky, I admit my failure this time. When the passage between Devil Land and the continents opens, I
hope we can meet again. At that time, there is nothing but life or death waiting for us," echoed Scale's
voice for the last time, as he and his companion disappeared.
"Does this guy know that you still have a trump card to recover?" the Dragon Intent Grass asked with
pity after seeing Scales admit defeat and leave. It knew that Scales escaping with his life was terrible
because if Scales didn't die today, he would be a formidable enemy in the future.
After all, if he reached a higher level with his powerful Heavenly Devil Jail blood power, he would be a
great enemy of the continents' creatures.
"I don't know, but he certainly doesn't have any more trump cards to recover," Ricky also replied with
pity in his voice. "That is why he didn't dare to risk whether I have another trump card or not. It is better
for them to leave. After all, Rodger and the others are still here.
I believe Scales is bound to become a powerful enemy in the future. He is tenacious and able to accept
and learn from his mistakes and failures. I am certain that his growth will be exponential in just a few
years."
"You are right. The most terrible enemy must be those who are tenacious and can face and learn from
their failure," the Dragon Intent Grass exclaimed. "What a pity!"
Queenie, Rodger, and the others also sighed in dismay at that time. After all, Ricky had been so close.
If the devils had not surrendered, Scales would surely be dead by now.
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