The legendary warrior

The tense silence on the battlefield went on for a long time. All of a sudden, a confident voice broke through their reverie.

"Extreme chaotic fire!"

It seemed to come from the rift in the sky.

The next instant, the fissure slowly swelled up as if it would explode.

Crack! Crack! Crack! Hairline cracks started appearing, as grey-white flames seemed to burn from within.

This was the power of the Fire Dragon Extremity combined with the power of Ricky's sacred fire and peculiar fire. Each cloud of chaotic fire that the Fire Dragon Extremity created acted like a sharp blade that cut the rift like it was a thin piece of paper.

Before long, the cracks had multiplied thousands of times, and Fernando's rift began to leak too much power. And at this point, he couldn't gather more, as Ricky's Chaotic Fire Lotus was looming too near.

The flaming lotus, which was bolstered by the protective covering of the chaotic power, instantly expanded, causing the fissure to widen until it finally broke apart.

It gradually dissipated into thin air, as the flaming lotus burned all of it unto the very last trace of its power.

Suddenly, blood spurted out from somewhere in the sky. It looked like crimson rain for a second. A figure showed up on the platform, shuffled away, and backed down. He didn't stop until he was about a thousand meters from where he had been standing.

It was none other than Fernando, who had clearly lost.

Ricky could have easily killed him with the lotus if this were a life and death battle.

But, fortunately, it wasn't. The flames soon died down, and Ricky alighted on the platform as well.

It was only at this moment that the disciples came back to their senses. They couldn't help but gasp in shock. "No way!" they exclaimed with their mouths agape in disbelief.

They were stupefied that Ricky didn't even need the power of his second mutant to take down Fernando, a genius who was a middle spiritual emperor at peak state.

"No middle spiritual emperor can challenge him now. I'm afraid he can even go toe to toe against a three-star upper spiritual emperor. At the very least, he could probably hold his own against a three-star upper spiritual emperor even if he couldn't outright take him down," a disciple who was an upper spiritual emperor remarked thoughtfully as he gazed at Ricky in awe.

have a higher cultivation level than him,

then. He will certainly

could be heard as the surrounding disciples heatedly discussed about

Fernando turned to Ricky with a

wiped the blood off the corner of his mouth and remarked, "I don't think anyone at your level can fight you, so you'll probably find those with higher levels as more imposing opponents. However, you'll find that not even the three-star upper spiritual emperors are a challenge to you,

win, Fernando," Ricky humbly remarked as he cupped his hands with

answered Fernando. He tried to smile, but his defeat still stung a

emperors at peak state, their strength had an enormous gap, which was decided by their limits and potentials.

at peak state, and he easily defeated them all. Not even one of his opponents

strongest among those who hadn't become upper spiritual emperors yet in

had seen him fight believed that Ricky would soon

were finished, Ricky

level. But I probably can't do this if my opponents are stronger than three-star upper spiritual emperors. I won't get the upper hand even if I burst out my

challenge those

can be the best of all warriors at your level,"

will certainly defeat everyone at my level. If I can't do that, how can I even compete for the prestigious position of First Mister and fulfill the promise I made in twenty years?" Ricky solemnly declared,

way, have you heard anything about Wayne recently?"

decision to take you as his teacher has caused a sensation not only in the Misty South Palace and Short Human tribe but also with the other top forces,"

be such a big deal?" Ricky shook his head

from the continent. And besides, no creature from the Short Human tribe has ever become a disciple of another force's casting master, and I doubt anyone else would dare to accept them as their disciples. Wayne is one of their most talented disciples, so the senior members place a great value on him. It's

Mordechai explained.

this would happen earlier, I wouldn't have accepted Wayne as my disciple, or

then asked with much concern.

His grandfather is one of the ten casting elders of the Short Human tribe, after all. But the bad news is that the senior members are deliberating if they should expel him from their tribe. They think that Wayne's

you on a pedestal, and if you weren't a disciple of

much to Ricky's

Human tribe and learn their casting skills, or at least, that's