518: Chapter 518 Delaying Time

The Long-armed Elder showed no hesitation and began attacking the barrier frantically.

Seeing the increasing number of cracks on the world core, Nie Ning was truly panicking.

"Can you stop so we can talk? We actually have preferential policies; there is no need for this. If you are unwilling, you can simply leave this place. Do you really have the heart to let these hundreds of millions of living beings be buried with us?"

The Long-armed Elder actually stopped upon hearing this, but his calm eyes revealed a soul-snatching dead silence.

"I have simulated this countless times during this period. Do you know what the outcome of this world will be?"

The corners of Nie Ning's mouth twitched slightly.

'I have no clue, I haven't even taken any divination classes.'

"Nothingness. Nothing will exist here, not even a single stone," the Long-armed Elder said to himself.

Nie Ning frowned slightly.

"You must have calculated it wrong. You and I are both humans; we have never intended to destroy this world. Why don't you calculate it again carefully?"

After all, Lapu and the others had tested it; the Long-armed Humans were a type of human.

They only wanted resources; there was no reason to slaughter the entire world, and it did not align with their interests.

Even if there were no humans, they would at most restrict the intelligent lifeforms rather than choose to destroy the world directly.

Furthermore, this was a world rich in life energy, simply a natural cultivation field for spiritual plants.

Unless the Extreme Phase Demon Palace had truly gone mad, they would absolutely never do such a thing.

The Long-armed Elder did not speak, simply attacking the barrier relentlessly.

Nie Ning felt completely numb, and the continuous backlash caused his Spiritual Power to drop rapidly.

If this continued, he feared he wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.

Carefully sensing the world rune, it was still not fully completed; it needed at least another three minutes.

The problem now was that he couldn't wait any longer.

If he continued to delay, the world core would inevitably be destroyed, and the world rune might even become useless as a result.

Yet, if he left with his tail between his legs like this, Nie Ning was unwilling.

After all, there was still a deity lingering above; this was a rare opportunity to gain intuitive power, and he didn't even need to have great strength.

Perhaps when he reached the seventh rank, the amplification from the Power of the World would allow him to forcibly reach the ninth rank.

'Should I risk it?'

Nie Ning gritted his teeth and pulled a small box from his bosom.

A sealing box!

The sealing box that held the Corrupted Wizard!

Because of his low level at the time, he had left the Corrupted Wizard at home, which is why it hadn't been left behind at the Yishi Mansion along with Jerky Bear Head and the others.

As the sealing box was opened, a stain seemed to appear in the originally pure core space, and immediately after, Nie Ning released the Corrupted Wizard.

The Long-armed Elder's eyes narrowed slightly, but he didn't say much; such a feeble Corrupted Creature was no different from an ant in his eyes.

However, since this was the core space, the Long-armed Elder couldn't help but increase the frequency of his attacks.

Nie Ning activated the world rune and began to draw the Power of the World, injecting it into the Corrupted Wizard's body.

Compared to Nie Ning himself, the Corrupted Wizard, having no sense of pain, was clearly better suited to bear the Power of the World.

Although doing this did more harm than good for him, as long as he held on for these few minutes, he would open a portal and leave this place.

Once he went back to call for help, given the strength of the Extreme Phase Demon Palace, suppressing the Corrupted Wizard should be an easy task.

Under the augmentation of the Power of the World, the Corrupted Wizard's body began to twist and deform, expanding rapidly like a balloon, and numerous holes appeared on the tentacles used to release witchcraft.

Along with this change came a tyrannical aura.

Resisting the dizziness in his mind, Nie Ning gritted his teeth and controlled the Corrupted Wizard to attack the Long-armed Elder.

The Corrupted Wizard's plump tentacles stood up, and from their holes, colorful spells spewed out, instantly burying the Long-armed Elder.

After all, the Long-armed Elder was a ninth-ranker; attacks of this intensity were like scratching an itch to him.

However, as time passed, the Corrupted Wizard's strength began to increase exponentially.

Looking at the mountain-like Corrupted Wizard, Nie Ning felt its limit.

The eighth-rank limit.

At this moment, the Corrupted Wizard was truly like a balloon; even injecting a little more Power of the World carried the risk of an explosion.

Since Nie Ning and the Corrupted Wizard were both inside the barrier, the consequences would be unimaginable if it exploded.

Under the Corrupted Wizard's bombardment, the Long-armed Elder was finally moved.

Although they were all low-rank spells, the eighth-rank strength caused the power of the spells to rise significantly, and the super-fast casting frequency was like a machine gun.

The five-colored sacred runes on the Long-armed Elder's body lit up, and violent energy formed a barrier around him.

As the Long-armed Elder discarded his long blade, surging energy gathered on his right fist.

Knowing that the opponent was about to use a big move, Nie Ning didn't even think; he directly controlled the Corrupted Wizard to walk out of the barrier, preparing to take the opponent's attack head-on.

For Nie Ning, the time was almost up anyway, and keeping the Corrupted Wizard was just a source of trouble.

It was already difficult enough for him to control the Corrupted Wizard briefly; if it took too long, he would face the risk of being directly corrupted, so it was better to use it as a shield.

The Long-armed Elder's expression was calm, showing neither joy nor anger because of the Corrupted Wizard's appearance.

As the Long-armed Elder punched out, a giant golden fist with a diameter of several tens of meters descended.

Energy surged from the Corrupted Wizard's tentacles, hundreds of rays of light condensed into one, colliding with the giant golden fist in the sky.

The difference in strength between the two was obvious.

The giant golden fist merely paused for a moment before continuing to advance toward the barrier.

Seeing that the giant golden fist was about to hit the barrier, Nie Ning did not hesitate to have the Corrupted Wizard step up to block it.

'Boom!'

The Corrupted Wizard was smashed to pieces, and violent energy waves surged everywhere.

Nie Ning felt a pain in his head, as if he were drunk, and his whole being fell into a groggy state.

Not only that, but the formation was connected to Nie Ning's Spiritual Power, and the Corrupted Wizard was also connected to Nie Ning's Spiritual Power; the backlash between the two caused the Power of Corruption to take advantage of the situation.

Nie Ning's body began to show signs of mutation; bean-sized eyeballs appeared on his skin, and various alien faces grew out.

Enduring the physical and mental torture, Nie Ning tried hard to control his mind, wanting to break free from the Corruption.

Fortunately, multiple instances of Corruption had allowed Nie Ning to accumulate sufficiently strong resistance to Corruption.

The Long-armed Elder naturally would not give Nie Ning a chance to recover; he charged up again, preparing to break the barrier in one blow and end the life of the ant that was Nie Ning.

The powerful energy fluctuations caused the space to begin to twist and deform.

But suddenly, Nie Ning's expression tightened, and he turned his head sharply to look at the world core.

On the world core, which was covered in cracks, a trace of gray had appeared in the fissures at some unknown time, and it began to spread toward the surroundings with Nie Ning's hand as the center.

"We're doomed!"