223: Chapter 223 Half-Body Centipede

As the Human-Faced Balloon dealt with Furnar, Nie Ning turned his head to look at the other side.

At this moment, Wizard Kadisan was lying on the ground, his body charred like charcoal, and his twitching body was still emitting faint wisps of smoke.

Meanwhile, Heloise had lightning coiling around her hands, connecting to Wizard Kadisan on the ground; it seemed she was performing CPR on Wizard Kadisan.

Nie Ning shook his head slightly and turned to look at the giant statue of a one-eyed centipede with a human face in front of him.

"Come out, Wizard Minian."

As his voice fell, a figure walked out from behind the statue; it was none other than Wizard Minian, the Guardian Wizard of Lianshui Lane.

The reason Nie Ning had suddenly attacked was because he had smelled Wizard Minian's scent.

Wizard Minian was only a Second Ring Wizard. Appearing here while knowing full well that a Third-Ring Wizard was present—it couldn't possibly be to save him, right?

To prevent any accidents, Nie Ning had suddenly attacked to take care of everyone on the scene.

"I didn't expect your strength to be this formidable. I really underestimated you."

Wizard Minian smiled slightly, seemingly indifferent to the life or death of the others, and showed no signs of worrying for herself either.

"Speak. Why did you lure people here?"

Nie Ning asked, somewhat puzzled.

As a Guardian Wizard, Wizard Minian should have no reason to be mixed up with this group of overseas bandits.

After all, the overseas regions were the domain of exotic beasts, and traveling to such places made one prone to danger.

"More than ten years ago, when Furnar and I were still apprentices, we discovered this place."

Wizard Minian gently stroked the centipede statue, a look of fanaticism appearing in her eyes: "As long as we sacrifice this statue with the blood of the living, we can obtain blood fruits that rapidly increase our strength."

"As a wizard, you actually sacrifice to an Evil Spirit? Don't you know the consequences of doing this!"

Upon hearing this, a stern look appeared in Nie Ning's eyes.

Even if Wizard Minian didn't say it, Nie Ning could guess a thing or two about what happened next.

Clearly, the two had joined forces; one guarded this place, while the other lured knights and wizards from the city to complete the blood sacrifice, thereby raising their strength to their current levels.

"What do you know!"

Wizard Minian was full of anger, roaring loudly at Nie Ning.

"The path of a wizard is extremely difficult. Do you think everyone is as talented as the two of you? Do you know how much I suffered to reach the late stage of a Witch Apprentice?"

"No! You don't understand! Because in your eyes, it's always that others aren't working hard enough!"

Nie Ning's expression was calm as he stared coldly at Wizard Minian: "And then you sacrifice others to achieve your own future?"

"Heh, that is how a world of survival of the fittest works. Even if it is just a fleeting eternity, it is still better than a desolate life."

A look of madness appeared on Wizard Minian's face, and then she slapped the statue beside her.

At this moment, the statue seemed to come alive; the single eye on top of the centipede's head bloomed with a green light, sucking all the dead wizards in the area into the green eye.

Seeing this, Nie Ning waved his hand, and several Wind-Thunder Blade attacked Wizard Minian.

But just as the Wind-Thunder Blade reached a few meters in front of Wizard Minian, they were completely blocked by the green light emitted by the one-eyed centipede.

"Actually, it's good that the idiot Furnar died; now his power is mine!"

Wizard Minian placed her hand by the mouth of the centipede statue, and immediately after, the centipede statue spat out a green sphere covered in saliva.

"You leave here first!"

Seeing that Wizard Minian was about to swallow the green orb, Nie Ning said to Heloise without turning his head.

Heloise hesitated for a moment, knowing that with her strength, staying behind would only be a hindrance: "You be careful, I will wait for you above."

After saying this, Heloise rode the Crimson Feather Fire Demon and flew towards the passage they had come from.

As Heloise left, Nie Ning directly activated his exotic beast. As the god-forbidden ring flew out, Nie Ning pulled a Light Spear from it and shot it towards Wizard Minian.

Originally, Nie Ning wanted to break through the green light screen of the centipede statue.

But it seemed that because of the green orb, the green light screen did not appear, and the Light Spear pierced straight into Wizard Minian's body.

At this time, Wizard Minian had already swallowed the orb, and her entire aura began to climb rapidly.

Nie Ning curled his lips, then snapped his fingers.

"Boom!"

The Light Spear exploded.

The terrifying energy fluctuation blasted a large pit into the ground, causing the entire cave to shake violently.

But when the dust cleared, it was seen that Wizard Minian's lower body was shattered, while her upper body stood on the ground.

Wizard Minian seemed to feel no pain, and a strange smile still hung on her face.

Just then, a glimmer of green light burst out from Wizard Minian's body, and immediately after, a centipede-like insect body suddenly grew from her lower torso.

Seeing this scene, magic power surged within Nie Ning, and he raised his hand to summon dozens of Wind-Thunder Blade to slash at Wizard Minian.

Wizard Minian opened her mouth and spat out a green light screen, instantly defeating the Wind-Thunder Blade.

At this moment, Wizard Minian's aura climbed again, quickly exceeding the limit of the Third Rank and rapidly approaching the Fourth Rank.

Suddenly, the stone tiles beneath Wizard Minian exploded, and several tentacles shot out from the ground, piercing into Wizard Minian's insect body.

In pain, Wizard Minian grabbed the tentacles, dragged the Flesh Spider hiding underground out, and slammed it heavily onto the ground.

However, as its strength increased, the Human-Faced Balloon's recovery ability was strengthened.

In just a moment, the Flesh Spider's shattered body had recovered to its original state, and then it waved its tentacles to wrap around Wizard Minian.

On the side, Nie Ning controlled the god-forbidden ring, releasing a large number of water droplets to form an attack on Wizard Minian with no blind spots.

Due to the entanglement of the Flesh Spider, Wizard Minian, in pain, placed the Flesh Spider in front of her, seemingly wanting to force Nie Ning to stop attacking.

But Nie Ning was completely unmoved, attacking the Flesh Spider along with her.

To Nie Ning, the Human-Faced Balloon just needed to change into a new body; there was no need for him to show mercy at all.

Under the attack of the water droplets, dense wounds appeared all over Wizard Minian's body.

However, whenever this happened, a green light would emerge from Wizard Minian's body, quickly repairing her wounds.

The sharp-eyed Nie Ning still discovered the problem.

Even the Flesh Spider's recovery ability could be suppressed, let alone Wizard Minian, who was a human—er, half-human.

Every time Wizard Minian recovered from an injury, the green light on her body would weaken by a fraction.

After realizing this, while Wizard Minian was entangled by the Flesh Spider, Nie Ning summoned a Light Spear again and threw it towards Wizard Minian.

But since Nie Ning had launched such an attack before, Wizard Minian naturally knew the power of this thing, and her lower centipede body moved quickly to dodge the attack.

When the Light Spear pierced into the ground, a cold sneer appeared on Wizard Minian's face, and she used her hands to forcefully tear the Flesh Spider in half.

Suddenly, a figure moved quickly and, in an instant, had already arrived in front of Wizard Minian.

Nie Ning kicked Wizard Minian in the abdomen.

Such an attack obviously could not cause too much damage to Wizard Minian; it merely kicked her flying.