214: Chapter 214 Purple Spirit Manifestation Array

Nie Ning was just about to pick up the empty cicada fruit when he suddenly felt a trace of anomaly and immediately turned to look at Heloise.

"Do you feel like something is missing?"

Heloise blinked, looked left and right, but did not discover anything missing.

"I don't think so. Isn't everything we brought here?"

"Something's wrong! Something is definitely missing!"

Hearing this, Nie Ning frowned.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was off, but he could not recall what exactly the problem was for a moment.

At this moment, the backpack swayed, and several Green Crystal Vines stretched out from it, intertwining to form a small vine bird.

Seeing this scene, Nie Ning was suddenly shocked.

That's right, ever since they left the castle, they hadn't seen the Crimson Feather Fire Demon!

Nie Ning looked abruptly at the broken mirror, only to see a strange smile on the face of the always timid Viscount Carter.

Then, the mirror shattered directly, exploding into a patch of light and shadow before vanishing.

Heloise took a look at the wing pattern on her wrist.

At this moment, the pattern was dim and unclear, with a faint wisp of the Power of Corruption wandering through it; clearly, the Crimson Feather Fire Demon had encountered something unfortunate.

"Quickly sense the location of the Crimson Feather Fire Demon!"

Nie Ning said with a solemn expression.

The Crimson Feather Fire Demon is currently a Tier 3 exotic beast; if it were corrupted, the consequences would be imaginable.

Heloise closed her eyes to sense carefully and discovered that the Crimson Feather Fire Demon was still staying at the location of the previous castle, so she hurriedly told Nie Ning this news.

fire element swirled around Nie Ning's body, instantly transforming him into a flaming bird shadow.

Immediately, Nie Ning picked up Heloise and escaped towards the Viscount's residence like a large flaming bird.

"Big Brother, Big Brother, I'm still here! Take me with you!"

Seeing the two run off, Kim became anxious and chased after them while shouting.

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Red firelight streaked across the dark night as the two returned to the Viscount's ancient castle.

As far as the eye could see, everything had returned to its original appearance.

Nie Ning frowned slightly, his terrifying Spiritual Power erupting, but the surrounding scene remained unchanged.

For a moment, even Nie Ning himself could not tell if he was in an illusion.

"Is Crimson Feather in the ancient castle?"

Nie Ning released Heloise and asked.

"It's inside, but its condition is getting worse and worse."

Heloise extended her arm; the wing pattern on her wrist had already begun to turn gray.

Although Sensen was there, and the Power of Corruption could not affect Heloise, she could see the state of the Crimson Feather Fire Demon.

Whether the Crimson Feather Fire Demon was corrupted itself or absorbed by the Corruptor, it was not a good thing for them.

Nie Ning looked at the ancient castle below, feeling quite strange in his heart.

Could what he saw before really be an illusion?

But why was the Blade of Corrosion useless? Could it be useless against corrupted creatures?

Or was it that he didn't attack the Corruptor before?

After pondering, Nie Ning did not rashly enter the ancient castle.

After all, he was a wizard; he relied on his brain and shouldn't go charging in like a hothead.

Moreover, the Crimson Feather Fire Demon was trapped, and no one knew to what extent the Corruptor's strength had reached.

Even if it were just at the same rank as him, in a situation where they could not even confirm the opponent's true form, it would be very difficult for them to defeat this Corruptor suspected of being proficient in illusions.

This was also one of the abilities Nie Ning was least willing to face.

Entering rashly; if they happened to fall into the Corruptor's trap, it would be difficult to get out then.

However, Nie Ning was somewhat hesitant, pondering whether certain things should be let known to Heloise.

In the end, Nie Ning sighed slightly in his heart.

Heloise already knew quite a few things.

Given Heloise's talent for Alchemy, discovering these things was only a matter of time.

"Sensen, can you withstand the Tier 3 Power of Corruption?"

Nie Ning looked at the backpack on Heloise's chest and asked.

Although Sensen was born from the Power of Corruption, this absorption ability had an upper limit; the strength of the power was the key to the amount of absorption.

Sensen's little head stretched out from the backpack, and then it gave Nie Ning a thumbs up to indicate there was no problem.

Seeing this, Nie Ning waved his hand, and a large amount of materials flew out from his spatial ring.

As a cluster of flames solidified in the air, a large amount of materials were calcined and melted by the flames, and then transformed into an array diagram under Nie Ning's mental control.

"Purple Spirit Manifestation Array?"

As a genius in Alchemy, although Heloise was not very proficient in large-scale arrays, she often used various Runic Formulas in her daily life, so she recognized the array before her at a glance.

This array was mainly used for creating artificial spirits; it could collect spiritual energy particles diffused in the air, used for condensing and enhancing Spiritual Power.

Nie Ning had often secretly studied this array before, so she had also read that book on creating artificial spirits.

But what was the use of this? Could it be that Nie Ning wanted to convert the Corruptor into an artificial spirit?

But that was too impractical.

Based on her understanding of Corruptors, doing so would only infect her own Spiritual Power, causing her own Spiritual Power to be corrupted.

Nie Ning placed Heloise in the middle of the array: "Use your Spiritual Power to link with Crimson Feather."

Heloise was stunned for a moment upon hearing this.

Currently, the Crimson Feather Fire Demon was being corroded by corruption, and doing so would inevitably expose her to the influence of the Power of Corruption.

"Trust me."

Nie Ning patted Heloise's shoulder and said with a smile.

Out of trust for Nie Ning, Heloise did not hesitate too much and sat cross-legged in the middle of the array.

Because from the incident at the earth hills last time, it could be seen that Nie Ning was not someone who liked to joke with other people's lives.

As Heloise activated the contract, the contract array diagram flew out from Heloise's wrist and expanded.

A surge of energy filled with various negative emotions flooded into Heloise's heart.

In just a split second, the Purple Spirit Manifestation Array lit up with a gentle purple light, causing Heloise's Spiritual Power to be enhanced, resisting the Power of Corruption.

But this was ultimately only treating the symptoms and not the root cause; the Power of Corruption was an energy that could even corrode Elemental Power.

And under the influence of the contract array diagram, the Power of Corruption began to infect the Purple Spirit Manifestation Array along the contract.

Once successful, this would accelerate Heloise's corruption speed, and might even complete the transformation process from a living being to a corrupt spirit within a few breaths.

At this time, a large number of Green Crystal Vines stretched out from the backpack and then embedded directly into the Purple Spirit Manifestation Array below.

The Green Crystal Vines were like straws; the dark, murky Power of Corruption flowed along the vines towards Sensen.

Seeing the array operating normally, Nie Ning breathed a slight sigh of relief.

His purpose in doing this was very simple: he wanted to use this to weaken the Corruptor.

Because the working principle of the Corruptor was not hard to understand; since the Corruptor wanted to absorb or assimilate the Crimson Feather Fire Demon, he would simply let Sensen seize the Power of Corruption within it.

One could only say he was lucky; under normal circumstances, Sensen definitely would not be able to absorb it directly, just as a wizard could not seize the magic power inside someone else's body.

But with the contract as a medium, everything was easy to handle.

The only one suffering might be the Crimson Feather Fire Demon; under this tug-of-war between the two sides, whether it could survive would depend on luck.