Mordechai, Hayes, and Ashley all released their powers, enveloping the Rotten Thorn Men. The three
of them stood in different spots, and each of them had two Rotten Thorn Men to deal with.
"See? Ashley and Hayes are here. We are saved," the disciples of the Five-element Sect exclaimed
excitedly. They peered through the blood-colored light, and they were ecstatic to see the group. They
wasted no time and got out of the blood-colored light. They began to heal themselves.
Earlier, they had no choice but to set foot in the area covered by the erosive blood-colored light to hide
from the eight Rotten Thorn Men.
They were extremely grateful to Ashley and her companions at this time.
However, Raylan was in a complicated mood. He caught a glimpse of Ricky, and he immediately did
not know how to feel.
The Rotten Thorn Men were incredibly powerful. They possessed the rotten power, and they could
mobilize the shady power in the Land of Thorn. Moreover, when the rotten power merged with the
shady power, the terrifying death power was formed.
The Rotten Thorn Men could also control all the ancient thorny plants as if they themselves were the
masters of the Land of Thorn.
Thorny plants sprouted out of the ground and rushed towards Ricky.
They were going to wrap themselves around his body.
Ricky immediately activated his Ultimate Golden Body before the thorny plants could get to him.
Bang! Bang! The sound of clashing metal suddenly rang out. The thorny plants coiled around Ricky's
hands.
"Damn it! I've already integrated the primitive cultivation method of the Ultimate Golden Body. However,
I still can't destroy these thorny plants with my physical strength," Ricky murmured to himself.
"After all, they are old, thorny plants. They have absorbed a lot of strong warriors' will and the essence
of their bones. It's not surprising that they are so hard to destroy," the Dragon Intent Grass responded.
Seeing that Ricky had fought off the old thorny plants, the two Rotten Thorn Men roared ferociously.
They were enraged. In an instant, all the thorny plants nearby began to form one larger, sharper thorn.
It carried the immense death power, and it was aimed straight at Ricky.
'Such strong death power!' Ricky remarked in his heart, sensing the power that the thorn contained.
He didn't dare to waste any more time. Ricky made a gesture with his hands, and the Death Wings
appeared. They spread outwards and collided with the thorn.
As the two strikes collided, a loud crash resounded. Ripples containing the death power manifested,
filling the space instantly. A figure with wings appeared in the ripples. It was none other than Ricky!
Since he possessed the Life and Death Zone, he was immune to the death power.
Under the protection of the Death Wings, he activated the Space-shrinking Pace. He reached his
opponents instantly.
Crack! Crack! Crack! A shrill noise resounded through the air, getting louder and louder by the second.
Ricky's right arm was surrounded by bright, purple bolts of thunder.
"Thunder Light Blade, come out!" he shouted.
A split second later, the thunder light flashed, and a huge blade appeared out of thin air.
At the same time, the chaotic fire runes surged, and a torrent of flame appeared. They covered the
Thunder Light Blade. In the blink of an eye, the blade Ricky summoned rushed towards its targets.
Although the two Rotten Thorn Men were not very bright, they acted on their instincts. After all, they
possessed many strong warriors' will.
They growled fiercely. Lots of ancient thorny plants gathered and stopped in front of them. They formed
the death power and turned it into a shield. They were meant to withstand Ricky's strike, which was a
combination of his two Omnipotent Skills.
Suddenly, the entire space was engulfed by the thunder light. The death power released by the two
Rotten Thorn Men and the ancient thorny plants was suppressed by Ricky's chaotic fire runes and life
and death runes.
A second later, the two Rotten Thorn Men were thrown backwards. Their bodies had been mangled by
the impact, and their faces had been battered beyond recognition.
However, if Ricky didn't kill them, injuring them was useless.
Since they didn't possess the psychic intelligence, they couldn't feel any pain. Their bodies were made
up of old, thorny plants and rotten corpses. They could control thorny plants and absorb rotten flesh,
and they could heal themselves almost instantly.
Hence, it only took the seriously injured two Rotten Thorn Man a few seconds to recover to their peak
states.
"I see. It looks like I need to give them a fatal blow to eliminate them. Otherwise, I won't be able to get
rid of them," Ricky said in a serious voice.
"Ancestral Thunder Net!" he shouted.
Ricky released a myriad of ancestral thunders, which flew towards his targets. Before the two Rotten
Thorn Men could realize what was going on, the ancestral thunder had already formed the Ancestral
Thunder Net.
The Ancestral Thunder Net kept the Rotten Thorn Men and the old, thorny plants apart. In this way, the
Rotten Thorn Men's fighting power decreased for they couldn't control the thorny plants anymore.
It was not over yet.
The moment that the Ancestral Thunder Net fell from the sky, Ricky released the chaotic fire to form the
Furnace of Heaven and Earth.
Once Ricky unleashed two suppressing Omnipotent Skills, the two Rotten Thorn Men were unable to
move. They were temporarily paralyzed.
This short amount of time was enough for Ricky to finish them off. He activated his Golden Spirit Eyes
and merged the Fire Dragon Extremity with ten types of flames. In an instant, two, sharp blades
appeared and slashed toward the two Rotten Thorn Men.
The two Rotten Thorn Men instantly disintegrated into ashes.
In the meantime, Ashley, Hayes, and Mordechai were also delivering their strongest blows.
They crushed their enemies with their most powerful Omnipotent Skills.
"It looks like that these Rotten Thorn Men are not as powerful as we imagined. The main reason is that
they don't have psychic intelligence. Once we give them a fatal blow, we can take care of them,"
Mordechai said.
"Well, let's check how they are doing," Ricky said.
The four of them turned to look at Raylan and the six other disciples of the Five-element Sect. They
could tell that they had sustained severe injuries.
They were about to walk towards the injured disciples when guttural growls began to ring out again.
It was the Rotten Thorn Men again!
"What was that? Are there other Rotten Thorn Men coming our way?" Hayes said in a low voice. "If a
horde of them are coming for us, we will be in trouble."
"No. The sound is near to us. The Rotten Thorn Men must be the ones that are here," Ashley said,
frowning.
As soon as those words left her mouth, eight balls of light containing the death power emerged from
the air waves. The lights had emerged from right where they took out the eight Rotten Thorn Men.
The growl had come from the lights.
The four of them slightly panicked. They felt that something bad was about to happen.
"What the hell are you? Reveal yourself!" Mordechai bellowed. He gathered all of his strength and
threw a punch at one of the light balls. However, his strike didn't cause any damage to the light. The
power in his strike simply dispersed once it hit the light.
As the growl grew louder and louder, more and more ancient thorny plants appeared. They were
covered by rotten flesh and broken bones.
Splash! Splash! Splash! The thorny plants flew into the lights, and the death power appeared. In an
instant, new Rotten Thorn Men appeared.
The newly condensed Rotten Thorn Men were much bigger and stronger than the ones that had just
died.
"This can't be happening! Wouldn't it take a long time for the Rotten Thorn Men to form? What the heck
is going on here?" Mordechai murmured to himself in disbelief.
The faces of Hayes and Ashley turned gloomy.
"This only means one thing. We didn't kill the eight Rotten Thorn Men at all," Ricky said.
The Dragon Intent Grass observed what was happening and began to wonder, 'The Rotten Thorn Men
are already dead. How could they be killed then? Let's see if Ricky can get out of this.'
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