556: Chapter 556 Creating Corrupted Puppets

Nie Ning looked at the increasing number of sea beasts, wondering when the battle would end.

At this time, casualties had appeared on both the fiends' and demons' sides.

And their side was not much better off either.

An eighth-order sea beast lured away the eighth-order Templar Knight, and the remaining people all had varying degrees of injuries.

Even Nie Ning had thrown himself into the battle to avoid casualties among their group, which had the fewest members.

The sea beasts were endless, putting immense pressure on Nie Ning and the others.

Especially when those huge deep-sea behemoths appeared, it took three or five peers of the same rank just to hold them back.

Soon, the surface of the sea was filled with all kinds of broken limbs and severed arms, and the casualties on both sides were growing larger.

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Nie Ning swung his sword, splitting a sea beast in half, and cast his gaze toward the battlefield dozens of kilometers away.

Although people still couldn't be seen, the intense energy fluctuations coming from there continued unabated, constantly spreading outwards accompanied by huge tsunamis.

Nie Ning looked at the flesh and blood floating on the sea surface, then took advantage of a lull in the fight to secretly collect quite a few experimental subjects, even gathering a large pile of sea beasts soaked in blood.

At this rate, this wave should be able to integrate almost all the genetic data of this world.

Most of the remaining complete genes were hidden inside top-tier sea beasts, so there was no point thinking about them for a short time.

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More than ten minutes passed.

By this time, Nie Ning and the others were completely surrounded by sea beasts, and even the sky was occupied by them.

In such a difficult battle, even the clergy suffered casualties.

However, compared to the fiends and demons, the clergy showed a very calm attitude toward death, perhaps believing that this would allow them to ascend to the world where the gods resided.

But in Nie Ning's view, gods were not short of pawns, and in the end, they would merely be transformed into spiritual matter.

The demons' losses were not large, but the fiends still suffered heavy casualties, with more than half dead or wounded.

Looking at the tide-like surge of sea beasts, Nie Ning felt a desire to retreat and already had plans to escape.

If he acted alone, relying on his current world affinity, he wouldn't be discovered for at least a short time, as long as he didn't encounter those powerful sea beasts.

Just at that moment, the sea beasts around Nie Ning and the others suddenly exploded.

Flesh and blood flew everywhere, and blue blood fell like raindrops.

In the bloody rain, Nie Ning saw three figures rapidly approaching them.

They were none other than Isidor, Capybara, and the Abyssal Succubus.

At this time, the state of the three of them was not good, and almost all of them had suffered quite heavy injuries.

Although it was three against one, the impact of the world's suppression was still too strong; even powerhouses like them could not unleash their full strength.

"Let's go!"

Isidor arrived beside the group, waved his sleeve to wrap everyone up, and fled into the distance.

The speeds of the Abyssal Succubus and Capybara were also extremely fast. After dealing with some annoying sea beasts, they pursued in the direction where Nie Ning and the others had left.

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Having fled all the way for two days, the group escaped to an extremely cold region.

At this time, the sky was dim, the surrounding temperature plummeted, and two dim celestial bodies emitted a faint light.

Looking forward, goose-feather-like heavy snow was falling, a vast expanse of white met the eyes, and an endless layer of ice floated on the sea surface.

After gaining a brief respite, the group along with the demons and fiends immediately began to set up formations to conceal their aura as much as possible, hoping to recover from their injuries as soon as possible.

And Nie Ning still stayed idle.

After getting the flesh and blood of a ninth-order sea beast from Isidor, Nie Ning directly drilled into an ice house to make the gene potion.

For Nie Ning now, this was almost his last hope.

If this still didn't work, I'm afraid they could only wait for Isidor and the others to find the world core and obtain the world rune from the world guardian.

Nie Ning was not optimistic about this, mainly because even if the world rune was acquired by then, the help it gave him might not be significant.

Because he simply had no time to manipulate the Power of the World core to help himself complete his plan.

In other words, this trip might end in failure with nothing accomplished.

Who knew how long they would have to wait before finding the next world...

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Spending about two hours, Nie Ning finally completed the super gene potion.

Nie Ning looked at the dark blue potion in his hand, pondered for a moment, and finally put it into his spatial ring.

Although he really wanted to use it directly, he suddenly thought of something.

Acquiring the world rune would cause resonance with the world.

With the strength of Isidor and the other two ninth-order beings, if they really obtained the world rune, he feared he would be discovered by them at the first moment.

Now he didn't know whether Isidor knew that he possessed the transcendent artifact for acquiring the Power of the World, so naturally he wouldn't easily show it in front of the other party.

As for using the gene potion of the Mutated Giant Dragon, he had been completely flustered by the forced matter at that time and didn't even remember that there was such a thing.

Now if it were suddenly revealed, Isidor would be easier to talk to, but the Abyssal Succubus and Capybara probably wouldn't let him off easily.

After all, a transcendent artifact that acquired the Power of the World had a long-term and significant impact on exploring the world.

Now Nie Ning had two choices: first, secretly leave here and use the gene potion in another place.

Second, wait until Isidor and the others found the world core, lure the world guardian out, and then take the opportunity to use it.

Of course, there was also the most insidious move: making a Corruptor to lure them all away, and then finding an opportunity to use the gene potion.

But this world was indeed rare; without intelligent creatures, various negative emotions were fewer, so Corruptors were rarely born.

Once he made a Corruptor, extreme emotions such as fear and despair would breed in large quantities, and the consequences went without saying.

Nie Ning had already buried a seed of Corruption in the area of the previous battle, and after activation, it would create a Corrupted Puppet.

Although its strength might not compare to a true Corruptor, it was highly likely to grow to that extent and become a true Corruptor.

"Every man for himself and the earth and heaven will destroy him..."

After hesitating for a moment, Nie Ning still decided to activate that hidden seed of Corruption.

After all, his time was limited, and constantly lingering on this would only make the situation worse.

If he found out in advance that he couldn't acquire the world core, then he might still have time to think of other methods instead of pinning his hopes on those people fighting the world guardian.

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In an area floating with a large number of broken limbs and severed arms, many marine predators were feeding.

Floating among them was an inconspicuous blue glass bead, filled with a bit of gray mist.

Just at that moment, a fish more than ten meters long leaped out of the water, swallowing the surrounding flesh, corpses, and the blue bead into its belly in one gulp.

The large fish dived into the water, carefully avoiding those large predators while searching for edible food.

But suddenly, a thick black shadow darted out and dragged the large fish, which was about to continue feeding, into the deep sea.

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