563: Chapter 563: Plan Complete!

As time passed, Nie Ning's soul body transformed into a bizarre, transparent glass-like appearance.

Its surface looked like a pure glass sculpture, but its facial features constantly shifted among various heteromorphic creatures whose genes had been extracted.

There were dragons, tigers, humans, foxes—faces of all sorts of heteromorphic creatures.

By this stage, Nie Ning distinctly felt that his soul had much lighter, accompanied by a bizarre sensation.

At this moment, his soul state was extremely strange.

It felt as though some kind of energy was constantly vanishing and being reborn within his soul body, or perhaps two forces were continuously devouring each other.

Nie Ning did not feel too much discomfort.

Aside from his Spiritual Power becoming more solid, it seemed no different from before.

Of course, if there were no changes at all, Nie Ning wouldn't have subjected himself to this hardship.

Compared to the Artificial Spirit protected by the Power of the World nearby, his soul aura was completely different from that of the Artificial Spirit, as if they were two entirely different soul bodies.

And Nie Ning had gone to such painstaking lengths precisely to change his own soul aura!

Because under normal circumstances, a soul could not be altered; Nales being able to find him was most likely due to this soul characteristic.

Therefore, when he saw the Spirit Puppet and thought of the Soul Reversal and Sha-Turning Art, different thoughts arose in his mind.

Although it might not necessarily succeed, some attempts simply had to be made.

Rather than being controlled by a deity for a lifetime, Nie Ning was willing to meet his death!

At least for him, the deities would not let him off easily; if he didn't fight for a chance, he would sooner or later end up being played to death.

Moreover, if time hadn't been limited, he wouldn't have resorted to such a crazy action.

Of course, he still had a contingency plan.

Because whether it was the Power of Corruption or elemental erosion, he could devour one side and then use the Power of the World to 'drive out' the energy.

However, doing this easily left behind aftereffects.

But with Supernatural Adaptability, there was a high probability that this problem could be resolved.

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Now that everything was ready, the next step was the most important one.

As long as he succeeded, he could completely eliminate the deity's threat!

Forcing back the drowsy thoughts, Nie Ning began to control the Power of the World Core and formed a protective film around his soul.

'Watching' the black lines surrounding his soul, Nie Ning's soul slowly pushed outward.

The black lines quickly showed unusual activity, once again beginning to contract their defensive line.

However, compared to before, the force was indeed far inferior.

Nie Ning felt a slight joy in his heart, proving that this path was indeed correct!

Those black lines were indeed distinguishing soul auras.

As long as the soul aura was different, the black lines would not overreact like before.

Thinking of this, Nie Ning began to increase his force, wanting to forcibly squeeze his soul body out of the range of the black lines.

Everything happened in an instant, and the sole pressure was mostly canceled out by the Power of the World Core.

In other words, he would soon welcome true freedom!

Yet just as Nie Ning had freed the majority of his soul body, the Power of the World suddenly shook, and the violently fluctuating Power of the World began to dissipate uncontrollably.

The soul body stuck in the black lines instantly bore immense pressure, and the entire soul body was compressed into a 'thin pancake' because of it.

Nie Ning wanted to forcibly control the Power of the World, but most of the Power of the World no longer obeyed his command.

Seeing this, Nie Ning instantly realized that the World Guardian had died!

What was even worse was that the world core was being awakened!

Once the world core was completely activated, he probably wouldn't even be able to control a single thread of the Power of the World!

Yet with his current strength, his soul body had no possibility of breaking free from the cage of the deity's restriction.

At this moment, Nie Ning felt a splitting headache.

Without the protection of the Power of the World, his soul body bore immense pressure, as if it could be obliterated by the black lines at any moment, yet Nie Ning could do nothing about it.

"Could it really be over..."

Nie Ning slowly opened his eyes, a look of bewilderment appearing within them.

There was no panic, nor was there fear; all that remained was an inexplicable melancholy.

After all, everything was his own choice, and now it truly was beyond saving.

The soul trapped between the gaps of the black lines would perish at any second, and all he could do was watch all of this happen with his own eyes.

Nie Ning looked at the jellyfish in the distance, whose body runes were emitting a white light and beginning to devour and merge.

Even the jellyfish near Nie Ning were stirring restlessly, and the violent energy reactions were about to break free from Nie Ning's makeshift array at any moment.

But right at this moment, Nie Ning's peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of blue firelight.

A figure flashed past Nie Ning at an extremely fast speed, and the Mutated Giant Dragon rushed toward the jellyfish condensed by the world core like a cannonball.

The jellyfish seemed to have sensed danger, condensing a translucent barrier covered in runes around itself.

The Mutated Giant Dragon opened its bloody maw, spitting out a blue-white energy beam from its mouth that directly blasted against the runic barrier formed by the Power of the World.

Under this strike, the entire core space shook violently.

Yet the Mutated Giant Dragon did not stop there.

The ends of its wings spewed dazzling blue light, and its entire body formed a hard silver warhead wrapped by its wings.

Erupting with ultimate speed, even space twisted and fractured at this moment.

In the blink of an eye, the dragon-breath-spitting Mutated Giant Dragon had arrived in front of the runic barrier, its massive body directly crashing into the runic barrier.

'Bang!'

Under the collision of the Mutated Giant Dragon, the runic barrier shattered at the sound.

Immediately after, the Mutated Giant Dragon opened its bloody maw wide and devoured more than a dozen jellyfish in the blink of an eye.

The other world cores wanted to counterattack, but the Mutated Giant Dragon didn't give them any chance to react at all.

Its wings aimed at the world core like cannons, firing blue energy balls and unleashing a barrage of wild bombardment on the world core.

Taking advantage of this gap, the Mutated Giant Dragon continuously devoured the world cores.

Sensing the violent fluctuations of the Power of the World, Nie Ning hurried back into his sea of consciousness to try and control the Power of the World.

Just as he had thought, although the Power of the World had weakened significantly, his own control authority had increased correspondingly by quite a bit.

Without any delay, Nie Ning used the Power of the World to forcibly squeeze his soul body.

Under the pull of the Power of the World, numerous dense tear marks appeared on the soul body, and even Nie Ning himself was in a state of extreme pain.

However, compared to death, soul trauma was not worth mentioning at all; after all, he still had a chance to live.

Once the Mutated Giant Dragon finished devouring, the completely out-of-control Power of the World would only cause even greater harm.

Through Nie Ning's reckless operation, his soul was forcibly dragged out of the deity's restriction.

At this time, his soul body was already covered in scars, looking like glassware that would shatter at any moment.

However, all of this was not yet over.

Nie Ning took a deep breath and began to execute the Soul Transfer Technique.

This step was much easier than Nie Ning had imagined.

More crucially, while the Artificial Spirit was being transferred out, the deity's restriction was simultaneously transferred onto the Spirit Puppet.

At this point, Nie Ning's plan was completed, and he had successfully broken free from the control of the deities!

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