Born Almighty Warrior
Chapter 20 The Astonishing Reversal

"Check it out, Grace. I think we know who the winner is,” Connie claimed arrogantly, staring down atthe field. Needless to say, the winner she referred to was her disciple, Wade. She then continuedteasing, "I thought yours would at least have half a brain. Seems I was wrong. He's such a newbie.”Wade had enormous power, being at the seventh grade of Skin Refinement. Not only that, but therewas his blade, imbued with the power of the winds. His command of all these energies was sopowerful that not even a warrior at the ninth grade of Skin Refinement would dare to fight him.Such a challenger would be risking his life. Wade's energies were powerful enough to destroyanything—or anyone.

But Ricky dashed right into that bladestorm. Everyone thought he was suicidal.

"Shut your mouth and watch,” Grace responded calmly. She would never show any worry orweakness around Connie.

In reality, she was worried, heart threatening to leap right out of her chest. She wondered what onearth Ricky thought he was doing. He was usually cool and calculating, but now he just seemedreckless. Did he want to die? How could he survive this attach? Grace was at the end of her wits."Humph!" Connie replied with a disdainful look and then turned her arrogant eyes to the battlefield,expecting this to be over any minute now. She decided not to gloat before it was over. After that,though, victory would taste sweet, and she would definitely lord it over Grace.

That would be vengeance for her son.

She wanted to see Ricky defeated for that.

"What the hell are you doing?" Wade asked in surprise. Most other warriors would close cautiously,hoping he would expend most of his power before they went toe to toe, or even jump aside.However, Ricky just rushed toward him with nothing but merely a sword in his hand.

"Swatting a fly," Ricky replied, turning his cold eyes to Wade.

Meanwhile, an evil smile found its way to his face.

There was a glint in Ricky's gaze. Wade noticed it, and it bugged him. However, that feeling fledquickly because Wade was super confident in himself. He did not believe that Ricky would be ableto resist his ferocious attack.

Wade thought it a good idea to pump more and more spiritual energies into his blade just in case.He knew he had to defeat Ricky, and wanted to be prepared. He didn't know what his foe wasdoing, but he had to do his part of attacking. The air around them crackled with the awesomeenergies.

"Go to hell!" Wade roared with a mask of rage.

"Nine-degree Body Refining Formula - the First Degree!"

At the same time, Ricky focused his energies into a spiritual roar which boomed around the battlering.

Visibly, the spiritual energies shot out from every pore of Ricky's body. Then they moved quicklyand started to circle him. Finally, they were absorbed back into his body. He was bursting withspiritual power.

In an instant, both Ricky's black hair and his fair skin turned to red.

Light red, though.

Something happened to Ricky. His flesh became as hard as iron.

Thump! Thump!

In the meantime, Wade's blade slashed towards Ricky's shoulders, intending to end the fight bydismembering him. However, the young man remained tactic, except that his clothes were slashedaway, revealing four slight marks. The sword then fell to the ground. It was now dead, lifeless.

"No, no! How could this happen? That's impossible! No!!" screamed Wade. The man was astounded.Seeing what just happened, the warrior panicked.

Wade was strong, his technique perfect. He was certain that even a warrior at the ninth grade ofSkin Refinement would have been taken down. How did Ricky manage that?

"Anything's possible. You saw it yourself. Time to end this,” Ricky pronounced with a cold voice,staring at Wade with emotionless eyes.

Then he raised his sword. Countless fire elementals surrounded the blade. In a blink of an eye, hewaved his sword and three flames danced through the air.

It was Nonuple Flame Strike - the Third Strike!

Wade was ill prepared. He was still in shock from what happened. He was lost in thought, and didn'tnotice Ricky's attacks until the three jets of flame reached him. But by then, it was too late. He wasstruck full in the chest. He had violated the cardinal rule of fighting and allowed himself to bedistracted.

The warrior screeched, carried along the field from the force of the blow, causing a loud bang. Thenhe was buried with the dust and blast from the crash.

There was only silence from the crowd. Everyone was taken aback and their jaws dropped.

It happened in the blink of an eye. Like Wade, no one thought it possible.

They were sure that Ricky would be slain by Wade. Instead, he stood victorious.

"Wh... What is that? I've never seen a cultivation method like that. How could it make his body turnred like that? Weird! And his body—tough as iron? He even survived Wade's blade!" People beganto whisper to each other about Ricky's cultivation method.

"That's incredible!" one of the inner disciples asserted.

"Yeah, no kidding! Fantastic body refining technique!" other inner disciples also chimed in with him.They exchanged looks with each other with greedy eyes. They wanted to know how to do this too.Even for those core disciples, there was unrestrained greed in their covetous eyes. All of them wereeager to learn Ricky's cultivation method.

This method helped Ricky resist a fierce attack from a warrior at the seventh grade of SkinRefinement by only using his body. That was just unfathomable and fair enough to prove it to be anextremely marvelous cultivation method of body refining.

"The stage of this cultivation method is definitely no lower than the intermediate stage of BlackLevel," the Elder murmured to himself with intense suspicion. He blinked, incredible shock springingup in his ancient eyes. That was the first time he had felt like this.

As an Elder, with his rich experience, he was better able to recognize the extraordinary nature ofthat cultivation method.

"Oh, God! How is that... possible?!" Grace, on the other hand, gasped in shock. She managed toremain as calm as she had been, but in her head there was chaos.

She merely intended to test it out when she gave the Nine-degree Body Refining Formula to Rickyearlier, and had never expected that Ricky might succeed in the cultivation. She knew well thetremendous difficulty on the road to success.

In the past millennium, no warrior had ever succeeded in cultivating this formula. She had neverexpected Ricky, a warrior at the sixth grade of Skin Refinement would make it.

But the fact was that he did it, within just twenty days.

Rumor had it, the warrior who created Nine-degree Body Refining Formula spent a whole yearmerely reaching the first grade.

"Is this how he has planned to surprise me? By mastering that secret Formula?" Grace swooned inher heart.

"No way! That's impossible! He must be cheating!" Connie was taken aback and was struck dumbbefore she screamed hysterically. Then she got to her feet, intending to rush to the battlefield.

She did this not because she cared about Wade, one of her nominal disciples. She just wanted to gothere to check, to see if everything was on the up and up. There was no way she would accept thefact that her side was defeated.

"Stop it, Connie! What? Are you trying to challenge the rules of our Snow Sect?" the Elder said,humming in a tune of paralyzing cold to stop Connie from walking ahead.

He was an Elder, but he was not blind or senile. He clearly knew the importance to maintain theauthority of the Snow Sect. Leaving Connie to behave badly would stain the reputation of the SnowSect.

On the battlefield, gradually the dust blew away, and Wade's prone form came into view. He wasmore dead than alive, thanks to Ricky.

Ricky, on the other end of the field, walked to him at a slow pace, sword in hand. There were still fireelementals surrounding the blade. He raised the sword high, ready to slash at Wade's neck to endthis fight.

"No, Ricky! Wade is Master Nick's nephew! He dies, your father dies!" Scott, another man from theNan Clan, threatened Ricky before it was too late.

The crowd started to whisper again upon hearing his words. They figured out the Nan Clan hadRicky's father held hostage. The Elder chose not to get between Ricky and Scott. He just stood aside,watching Ricky with interested eyes. He was curious about how Ricky would deal with Scott's threat.As everyone expected, Ricky stopped mid-swing at Scott's threat.

Scott smiled coldly as Ricky paused. He stared at Ricky with a sneer as if he were saying, "You won.But so what? We have your father, and you'll never be rid of us. You will be always under the NanClan’s thumb!"

When Scott was rejoicing at Ricky's hesitation, Ricky merely turned around and made a face at him.Then he turned to face Wade and beheaded him without the slightest hesitation.

'No, no, no! That's not how things are supposed to be!" Scott howled in his heart in great shock.

All the disciples were shocked. Their jaws dropped again. The men from the Nan Clan, includingScott, were totally stunned.

"Oh my God! His father will die! What a heartless man he is!" Many disciples sighed in their mindsabout Ricky's bold behavior. They despised him because they thought him to be someone whoabandoned his family for fame and success. And more, they feared him.

A man who showed no consideration for his father was definitely a nut. None of them would pisshim off now.