560: Chapter 560 World Core: Jellyfish Form

'Bang, bang, bang...'

Several energy balls forced the shark-man to retreat step by step.

However, this kind of attack did not cause too much damage to the shark-man.

The shark-man shook his head, heavily planting his harpoon into the ground, and in an instant, a large number of ice spikes extended from the ice surface to beneath the Mutated Giant Dragon.

The energy within the Mutated Giant Dragon suddenly erupted, and a blue plasma pulse wave spread rapidly, melting all the ice spikes like flying snow wherever it passed.

Relying on the powerful Power of the World, the shark-man managed to endure the energy shock, and then rushed forward like a fierce tiger to knock down the Mutated Giant Dragon.

However, the Mutated Giant Dragon's strength was incomparably powerful, and its wings on its back were as flexible as arms, flapping to directly swat the shark-man to the ground.

Following closely, the Mutated Giant Dragon's sharp claws deeply embedded into the shark-man's shoulders.

As blue flames erupted from the wings on its back, the Mutated Giant Dragon directly carried the shark-man crashing into the opposite iceberg.

"Do you need help?"

Nie Ning relied on the Power of the World to force himself to stand up, and then asked in a pretense of a low voice.

"It seems that help is probably not needed."

Looking at the collapsed iceberg opposite, Nie Ning's gaze returned to the spatial rift on the other side.

He certainly had not forgotten his purpose for coming here.

Now that the Mutated Giant Dragon and the World Guardian were fighting fiercely, wasn't this a prime opportunity to reap the spoils?

Without delay, Nie Ning plunged headfirst into the spatial rift.

Only, unlike what Nie Ning had imagined, the spatial rift was not like the flower and grass plains of Lata World, but rather a pure water space filled with blue seawater.

Nie Ning transformed into human form, and the world rune emerged in the palm of his hand.

After some searching, Nie Ning quickly found the location of the world core.

Without lingering too much, Nie Ning rushed towards the world core.

But when he arrived at the location of the world core, Nie Ning was dumbfounded.

At this moment, a pile of pink creatures resembling jellyfish was floating in front of Nie Ning, and the world rune was pointing directly at this group of seemingly very cute creatures, which were also covered with various Runic Formulas.

'Is this right?'

Nie Ning's mind was full of question marks.

Although he knew that the world core did not have a specific appearance, he truly did not expect the world core here to take a biological form.

More importantly, the world core before him was not a single entity, but was dispersed into nearly a hundred 'sub-bodies'.

While Nie Ning was observing the world core, several world cores unexpectedly began to approach him.

Having learned from past experience, Nie Ning instinctively retreated, fearing that he would be injured by the other party's Power of the World.

However, after observing for a moment, Nie Ning discovered a problem.

The world coercion on his body was not as strong as he had imagined, and was even less than a tenth of Lata World's.

'Because my strength has increased?'

Nie Ning thought about it and felt something was a bit off.

His strength had indeed increased, but the world core here ought to be even stronger; his own improvement was simply not enough to look at in front of the world core.

After pondering for a long time, Nie Ning still couldn't figure out the reason behind it.

However, this was a good thing for Nie Ning.

Looking at those swimming jellyfish, Nie Ning was suddenly struck with inspiration, trying to activate the world rune to attract the jellyfish.

This action indeed attracted the attention of the nearby jellyfish, and one of them slowly swam towards Nie Ning.

The world suppression generated by the jellyfish's approach continued to increase, but the intensity of the amplification was far lower than Nie Ning had anticipated.

'Could it be because they are dispersed?'

Nie Ning couldn't help but look at the other jellyfish.

If this were the case, were these jellyfish only at about one percent strength?

Thinking of this, Nie Ning felt a slight headache.

Even one percent strength was not something he could resist; the two were simply not things of the same dimension.

Now that the world core was dispersed, should he take one for an experiment, or seal them all up?

But back then, Claude, to prevent unexpected accidents, had only given him two Xuanbing Youquan Formations.

He had already used one last time, and the remaining one was completely unable to trap such a dispersed world core.

Although he had copied another two Xuanbing Youquan Formations, their power was several tiers inferior compared to the genuine Xuanbing Youquan Formation.

Furthermore, the world core here was even stronger, leaving Nie Ning completely unconfident in his heart.

He was just afraid of being too clever by half, completely activating the world core, which would truly be the end of him.

But time waits for no one, and the Mutated Giant Dragon's battle could end at any moment; no matter who won, it might not necessarily be a good thing for him.

Especially the World Guardian; if it died, it would definitely directly activate the world core.

By then, let alone him, even if Isidor and the others came, they would be completely finished off directly.

This was also one of the reasons why Lata World had only trapped the World Guardian last time.

Strength was only one aspect; the other aspect was that the world core would be activated, which was equivalent to the Heavenly Dao of this world directly taking action to wage war.

Nie Ning gritted his teeth and decided to take a gamble.

Immediately, Nie Ning used the world rune as bait and began to lure the jellyfish to gather together.

This step was extremely difficult; the gathered jellyfish emitted a powerful world coercion, and even when situated a hundred meters away, he still bore immense pressure.

Because his body could not withstand the oppression, his skin and blood vessels began to burst, and his soul also trembled incessantly under this coercion.

At this moment, Nie Ning had no other choice but to continue gathering the jellyfish.

By the time all the jellyfish were gathered together, with only a single jellyfish left outside, Nie Ning had already turned into a bloody person, and even the surrounding seawater had been dyed into an eerie dark gray.

Fortunately, Nie Ning's self-healing power was extremely strong; even having suffered world suppression, it could still exert impressive effects.

To prevent his blood from polluting the world core, Nie Ning used his Spiritual Power to gather the bloody water around his body, and then packed it into a vacant spatial bag.

When all this was done, Nie Ning began to set up the Xuanbing Youquan Formation, while also setting up a knockoff version of the formation for the single jellyfish.

But after Nie Ning finished doing these things, he keenly perceived that the world coercion had increased.

Nie Ning's spirit jolted, knowing that this was a precursor to the world core being activated, clearly having perceived the danger.

Without wasting too much time, Nie Ning activated both formations.

Perhaps because the world core of this realm was too powerful, the formations trembled incessantly under the suppression of the world core, as if they would collapse at any moment.

However, fortunately, they held on.

Nie Ning looked at the individually trapped jellyfish, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly.

"As expected, knockoffs simply won't do."

Because it was copied by him, the formation's effect was far weaker than the authentic Xuanbing Youquan Formation.

This caused the formation not to directly collapse, but the coercion emitted by the jellyfish increased to a very exaggerated degree.

At this point, the arrow was on the bowstring and had to be fired; Nie Ning took a deep breath, and then approached the single jellyfish.

Merely coming within twenty meters of the jellyfish, the coercion it emitted caused the bones inside Nie Ning's body to begin breaking down.

There was no other way; Nie Ning could only forcibly activate the Forbidden Domain of Living Beings.