CHAPTER 525 ACCEPTING THE LIFE-AND-DEATH CHALLENGE

Hearing what Tonino, a demi-spiritual emperor of the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce, just said, all

the onlookers got curious and immediately focused their attention on him. What he had just suggested

was completely beyond their wildest imagination.

"Oh? Then, I'd like to hear how your Luxurious Chamber of Commerce is going to make this battle

interesting," the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor, deputy dean of the Oriental College, questioned

as he was slightly taken aback by Tonino's words.

Judging from the manner of the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce today, he foresaw that there must be

a menacing plan waiting for him! But he felt trapped and saw no way to sabotage the plan they had

devised.

Tonino's eyes fell on Ray.

"Ricky, why don't you and I have a life-and-death battle? Do you dare to step up and accept my

challenge?" Ray immediately asked Ricky, loudly and casually, when he sensed Tonino's gaze. The

Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor was right. They did have a very dangerous plan in store.

When he finished his question, the entire audience was deeply shocked and they burst out in a loud

uproar. All kinds of heated discussions were booming everywhere. The life-and-death battle was such a

huge deal. No matter who died in the battle, it would definitely generate a lot of hatred and revenge.

"Well...this Luxurious Chamber of Commerce actually wanted to turn the combat into a life-and-death

battle. I could have never expected this! But why did they do this?"

"Precisely! After all, they are two spiritual-emperor forces, and they are still united on the surface. Is it

just because Ricky had beaten Pearl earlier and made the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce lose

face?"

"It is obvious that the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce is announcing a challenge against the Oriental This belongs to : ©.

College. The two forces are not as united as they appear to be."

"This would have been inevitable. You all think about this carefully. The Oriental College has Jasper

now. In the future, it will undoubtedly dominate the Oriental Realm. Now, it has an even more talented

disciple, Ricky. It is not hard to imagine that in the future, the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce will

have no foothold over the Oriental Realm at all."

"Yes, that's it. The Luxurious Chamber of Commerce has to find a way to kill Ricky when he is still

honing his power. After all, Jasper has grown up to be such a powerful warrior that it's not possible to

kill him easily."

"Oh, that explains everything. It's just how the old saying goes, 'One nation can't have two queens.' It

seems that these two forces are about to start a real collision. I just hope that such a clash does not

affect our small forces."

The onlookers had so many concerns in their minds. Meanwhile, they found it hard to peel their eyes

off the people involved in the battle. The next few minutes would determine how the future situation

would be.

"Have a life-and-death battle?" Ricky repeated out of shock. He was stunned at the proposal.

"Tonino, what do you want to do?" the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor questioned coldly.

"There is no hidden meaning but only a battle of revenge. Although Ricky is a disciple of your Oriental

College, he has made our Luxurious Chamber of Commerce lose face in public. If it was another

warrior who dared to do that, we would have already crushed him as easily as an ant," Tonino

responded smoothly.

After a pause, he continued, "Yet, because Ricky is a disciple of your Oriental College, he has the

opportunity to have this fair battle with our disciple."

The thoughts and plans of the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce were completely clear to the Heavenly

Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor. They just wanted to kill Ricky while he was still budding.

"Sir, what should we do now?" the Skyward Sword Spiritual King and the Array-shattering Spiritual King

urgently asked using their telepathic power.

"At this critical moment, we will have to ask our dean to intervene in the crisis. Otherwise, the Luxurious

Chamber of Commerce will not give up. It is my fault. I had underestimated its strong intent of killing

Ricky," the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor replied telepathically as well.

"Damn it! These guys from the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce must have an ace up their sleeve for

Ray. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been so confident about the battle," Soar said furiously to Madeline

using telepathy.

"Yes, you are right. After all, they are not going to let Ray die because he does have the potential to

grow into a demi-spiritual emperor," Madeline replied gravely.

"Now, the only ray of hope is our dean. He is the only one who can stop the battle."

"I guess even our dean can't stop it. Since the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce has made such a

request, it shows that they must have already expected the possibility that our dean may intervene in

the battle. At this moment, the spiritual emperor of the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce is probably

taking care of it and preventing our dean's intervention," Soar said anxiously.

Coincidentally, just after Soar had finished speaking, the Oriental Emperor communicated telepathically

with the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor. The latter's face grew even more forlorn after the

conversation. It was now that he finally realized the gravity of the situation.

"Ricky, this time, we were negligent about the intention of the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce.

Perhaps, I should have stopped you from fighting against Ray from the very beginning," the Heavenly

Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor said earnestly to Ricky by using their telepathic link at once.

"Sir, what on earth is going on?" Ricky asked as he was completely confused.

"The Luxurious Emperor, along with a spiritual emperors from another realm, has put pressure on our

dean when our other spiritual emperor is not at our college. They have only given you two choices: one

is to fight with Ray and the other is that they ignore the name of our Oriental College and directly kill

you," the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor told him grimly.

"Sir, I had already thought of that. If they have dared to propose a life-and-death battle, naturally, they

are fully prepared," Ricky responded calmly.

At the same time, Ricky was utterly conscious that he was not allowed to refuse this battle anymore

because even if the Oriental Emperor really chose to fight for him, he would be in danger as well. After

all, the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce now had two spiritual emperors.

Ricky was also aware that the Luxurious Emperor was really desperate to kill him and had even

included another spiritual emperor to fulfill his motive. All because the Oriental College had given rise

to a peerless genius and an ace genius.

In the Eastern Land, if there was even a single first-class genius from any force, the other forces would

hunt them down. The Oriental College had a peerless genius and an ace genius at the same time, so

this attack was expected.

Moreover, Ricky felt very fortunate that the Oriental College had not given up on him, so the Luxurious

Chamber of Commerce was deterred from killing him directly. Instead, it let its disciple Ray have a life-

and-death battle with him. If it were not for the Oriental College's sake, the Luxurious Emperor would

come straight up and crush him ruthlessly into powder.

"Sir, it seems that I have no other choice but to agree to have the battle," Ricky responded.

At that time, Ricky realized that even an innate spiritual emperor sometimes would feel helpless. This

was an innate spiritual emperor's status in the Eastern Land. If he was in the Middle Land filled with

more strong warriors, what would be his status?

'It seems that I still have a long way to go in the world of martial arts, ' Ricky thought seriously.

"Ricky, this time, I owe you an apology! But you can be assured that at the moment of your life and

death, our dean will do his best to save you. Our Oriental College won't allow you to fall in the battle,"

the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor promised Ricky earnestly.

Ricky was, of course, very grateful for that. Immediately, he expressed his sincere appreciation and

gratitude.

However, Ricky understood that when the time came, even if the Oriental Emperor tried, he might still

fail to save him. After all, the Luxurious Emperor and the other spiritual emperor would not sit still and

let the Oriental Emperor save him.

One more point was that even if Ray was defeated by Ricky in this deadly battle, he would still not die

because the Luxurious Emperor and his joint spiritual emperor would save him. When that happened,

the Oriental Emperor alone wouldn't be able to stop them from doing that. But if Ricky was defeated, he

would only face the end of death. Of course, he wouldn't allow himself to be killed because he could

save himself by his four zones and Doris' spiritual hologram.

It was easy to imagine what would happen to him if Ricky did not have the four zones and Doris'

spiritual hologram.

'This may be how the weak who are trampled and killed by the strong at their whims may feel. So

helpless and utterly lost!' Ricky thought with a sigh.

However, he didn't blame anyone. Nobody but himself should be responsible for the improvement of

his strength when it hadn't grown extremely powerful.

What Ricky had to do now was beat Ray with all his efforts. Only by defeating Ray could he continue

his cultivation at the Oriental College.

Otherwise, his only way would be to escape by his four zones. But, he hated to run away like that. He

had a strong desire to win and stay at the Oriental College.

"What about now? Do you agree to the battle or not?" Tonino questioned impatiently after waiting for a

few moments. "Or is your ace genius afraid of such a deadly challenge?"

"In my dictionary, the word 'afraid' does not exist. This life-and-death challenge that you have proposed,

I accept it!" Ricky responded indifferently and looked straight into Tonino's eyes.