The legendary warrior

"Ha-ha, how can I refuse a beauty like you when you've already said that? If I refuse you, it will be inhumane,"

Ricky responded to Claire with a charming smile.

After that, Lloyd led Ricky, Mordechai, Claire, and the others to the Five-element Sect.

The battle in the Passage World was far from being the last battle between devils and creatures from the continent. But they were fairly confident that there would be no large-scale battles in the near future.

For now, all Ricky had to do was cultivate and focus on growing stronger. That meant he wouldn't return to the Passage World for now.

Instead, he would embark on a new journey to the inner region after he returned to the Five-element Sect. His first stop would be the Misty South Palace, as it would pave the way for him to rise to the top. He was already counting the days when he would get to meet the talented geniuses of the ancient tribes and top forces.

As for Lloyd, he had become a saint at the middle stage and gained two thirds of the blessing power, so it would probably take him about half a month to get to the Five-element Sect from the Third Sheol City. After all, the central region stood between them.

And since Ricky had already become one of the Misty South Palace's core disciples, he figured that no saint or force would dare to attack him in secret anymore. That meant he could let his guard down, even just a little.

Unfortunately, he had underestimated those forces' killing intent and their greed for Paul's inheritance.

When his group reached a remote place at the junction of the central region and the outer region, nearly ten figures stopped them in their tracks.

Their auras revealed they were all saints.

And they all looked familiar, too! Some of them were from the Phoenix tribe, and some from the Nether Phoenix tribe, while some even looked to be from the Heavenly Black Winged Snake tribe. There were also some others they could vaguely identify, but they all had a single goal in mind—Paul's inheritance.

Ricky's face darkened when he saw these saints. How stubborn were these people? They wouldn't give up, even though he had become one of the Misty South Palace's core disciples.

"What do you want from us?"

Lloyd asked them curtly.

However, none of the saints paid him any attention. Even though Lloyd was stronger than some of them, these people still thought he was beneath them, simply because of the powerful forces behind them. The Five-element Sect was nothing compared to their influential groups.

In fact, they didn't think highly of any saint from the outer region.

"Well, well, well, Ricky, it looks like you expected us to back off just because the Misty South Palace took you in as their core disciple. What can I say? You are too naive! Now, if you don't want to get hurt, just hand over Paul's inheritance to us."

The Phoenix tribe's saint was the first to speak up, and he smirked at Ricky as if his victory had been assured.

think the forces behind you are still afraid of the Misty South Palace. Otherwise, they wouldn't have sent

Ricky replied

asked internally, "Sir, can you oppose the power of their sealing

They don't have any medium saints with them, so it would be easy for me,"

Lloyd immediately

be

to himself

heard his words, their

their forces,

South Palace would send powerful warriors to protect Ricky, so they were the ones assigned to come after him. They would receive praise if they succeeded, but if they failed and died, their

upset their relatives. Their forces' senior leaders would be more preoccupied with the failed mission rather than the loss of

nail on the head? Judging from

Ricky mocked them even

talk

Ricky's direction. "Perhaps you're right, but you are no

because you are going to die right here,

words hardly fell from his lips before

to bring his companions into the Massacring

area they were in. A solemn voice sounded from the shadows. "No

a figure emerged from the

donned a black robe, and a black mask obscured

the Misty

recognized the man in an instant as fear clutched at their hearts with sharp claws. They could only stare in disbelief.

you didn't take the words of the Misty South Palace seriously, you will pay with your lives," the man

and the next, he moved.

from the void and passed over the opposing saints in a wave. Finally, only the man remained, hovering over the sky like an

that was left of them was some kind of bloody mist. The metallic smell of blood lingered thickly

black-clad man a single moment to

"Whoa! No way!"

Ricky and the others could only gape in

at the Sage Level

understood why those saints were terrified when they spotted the man