Steve had fought a lot of creatures, but it was not until he had faced the power of eternal light did he
truly fear for his life. Thus, he chose to surrender. Under other circumstances, admitting defeat would
have been useless, and he would have died either way. Fortunately, the Shura Casket was present,
and that made all the difference.
Just as Steve had expected, the Shura Casket's blood shadow instantly moved as soon as he had
admitted defeat, and it immediately intervened. That indicated that the Shura Casket had been
prepared to move even before he surrendered, which made sense, as it only wanted to find a helper.
Ricky and Steve were both incredibly powerful geniuses, so, in its eyes, they were both assets who
could help in the fight against the devil race in the future. It would not let either side die.
Therefore, the shura power abruptly stopped Ricky, and his terrifying move dissolved into the air.
"Oh, man! It looks like you can't kill him this time," remarked the Dragon Intent Grass with some
disappointment.
"We have no choice. I can't go against the Shura Casket here,"
answered Ricky, who sounded just as bitter and disappointed as the Dragon Intent Grass.
At the same time, he turned to the Shura Casket and asked with a hopeful expression, "Sir, won't you
reconsider? This can be a life-and-death battle between Steve and me."
"You may have some serious grudge against each other, but that is not my business anymore. In my
opinion, you both have important roles to play in the future, and as such, I can't let you kill each other.
After all, I brought you here, so I'm somewhat responsible for the two of you," disagreed the Shura
Casket.
"Of course, if Steve had won this battle, I would have done the same thing for you," it added. "I
understand, sir!"
Ricky hesitantly nodded.
It looked like he needed to give up for today. The young man from the Phoenix tribe would have to die
another day. "Ricky, I will keep what happened today in my mind. The Phoenix tribe will hunt you down
as long as you live,"
Steve viciously said with his internal power once he managed to stabilize himself. "Don't make me
laugh. You'll be the one to die once we see each other again!" declared Ricky spitefully in response.
"You do know that once Steve gets out of here, he might reveal your identity to others, right? That
would be incredibly bad for you," reminded the Dragon Intent Grass.
Ricky frowned at this, sighed helplessly, and replied, "It's not like I have a choice. After all, I can't kill
him here!"
Meanwhile, the Shura Casket had turned to Steve. "Since you have admitted defeat to Ricky, I'm going
to send you out. I hope you won't tell anyone about what happened here," it warned the other man.
"Yes, sir. I won't!"
Steve answered, eagerly nodding in response.
However, even though he had given his word, no one knew if he would actually do as he had promised.
The next moment, the Shura Casket's power enveloped Steve and sent him back to the world they had
come from.
"Excuse me, sir. I'm afraid Steve has no plans of keeping his promise..." Ricky confided to the Shura
Casket once Steve had gone.
"Ha-ha, don't worry! I'm a hundred percent sure he won't tell anyone what happened here, including
everything about you,"
the Shura Casket reassured Ricky, laughing lightly when he saw how worried Ricky looked.
On the other hand, Ricky could only look at it with a confused expression.
"Before I sent him out, I had erased all his memories of this place and everything that happened here.
He can only restore those memories once he reaches the Sage Level at peak state, or if he asks a
demi-spiritual potentate for help," explained the Shura Casket.
"Oh, I get it now!" When Ricky heard this, the unhappiness in his face fell away.
He was reassured that his secrets would stay secrets, now that the Shura Casket erased Steve's
memories.
"All right, what should I do next?" Ricky asked after a while.
"I need you to help me thoroughly refine what's left of the body and power of Rex, who was the Corpse
Blood Devil Potentate, under the sealing array," the Shura Casket answered. "My master had
developed this sealing array, but it exhausted all of his strength. Besides, he used his own body, the
body of a spiritual potentate to create this array.
It was designed to keep refining Rex until all of his power has been consumed.
In this day and age, only one last step remains. I have prepared the final shura power for this last step,
but it still isn't enough."
"What else is missing?" Ricky asked out of curiosity.
"I still need the power to control this sealing array," sighed the Shura Casket, looking dejected at the
situation.
"This array was created by my master, so it contains my master's will. But after refining Rex for
countless years, the power from the will has been completely consumed.
And although I have the ability to control it, I still need to gather all my strength to launch the final attack
against Rex's remaining power. That's where you'll come in. I need you to temporarily become the
sealing array's will and stabilize it.
That may not seem like a big deal, but it is actually essential to the final refinement."
"I understand, sir. So I just need to give this array a will, so that it can provide the optimal power for
you," summarized Ricky.
"Exactly. Ha-ha, you are a very clever boy, aren't you?" the Shura Casket laughingly praised Ricky.
"But sir, this is an array developed by someone at the Potentate Level. Can I control it even when I'm
only at the Emperor Level?" Ricky asked, feeling a bit hesitant and anxious that he would fail.
"Don't worry. My master has foreseen this, so he also left a stream of energy that would help you,"
revealed the Shura Casket. At the same time, it flipped a bloody hand over, and a mass of blood power
appeared.
When Ricky saw this, he perceived that the mass was actually a ball of original energy that had already
been refined.
"This is my master's original energy. You can refine it and make it yours directly. Once the array detects
this energy, it will recognize you," the Shura Casket explained to Ricky.
'This is great! I get to have another ball of original energy!' Ricky was overjoyed when he heard the
Shura Casket's words.
He then refined the original energy, which immediately improved his strength and realm a little.
After that, he went straight to the array's core and released the energy belonging to Eli. The array
readily merged with him, indicating that he had complete control of the sealing array.
And at that moment, he saw everything in the array.
Howl! Howl! Howl! Amidst the endless howling, the dark and bloody evil spirit that contained the cold
and erosive corpse miasma surged like a swelling wave. Ricky felt like he had been thrust into an
endless hell.
In that place stood a dark figure, massive, rotten, and exuding the most potent devil power that Ricky
had ever felt.
If there weren't the array at that moment, the figure's terrible momentum would have turned Ricky to
ashes.
This person was undoubtedly Rex.
However, Ricky could sense that this creature was strong only on the outside and weak as a kitten
inside. It had a strong evil spirit, but the power it contained was almost gone.
"Gather the array's power in my body!" the voice of Shura Casket guided him from the outside.
"Yes, sir!"
With these words, Ricky compressed the power of the entire sealing array.
It seemed that this was what the two Shura Caskets were waiting for, as they immediately fused into
one, combining all the array's powers.
The next moment, the Shura Casket turned into a bloody blade, which flew directly towards the rotten
figure in the array. At the same time, the sealing array automatically created thick and murderous blood
chains that wrapped around the devil's entire body.
Howl!
Rex suddenly woke up! He raised his head to the sky and let out a deafening roar, as his rotten eyes
burst out an intense and bright light. All his strength congregated in his chest and turned into a fist
shadow, which immediately moved to resist the bloody blade.
"Eli! You died a long time ago. You're crazy if you think you can destroy me with such a broken array!"
Rex growled.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The next moment, a loud sound thundered through the sky, and the two sides clashed under the
sealing array with an ear-splitting explosion.
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