72: Chapter 72 Coffin Nails Fail

Seeing the Little Boy unchanged, Nie Ning frowned slightly.

Did he guess wrong?

Was the red flower not the Little Boy's weakness?

Just as Nie Ning was thinking, the lake water behind the Little Boy became restless, then transformed into several water columns rushing towards Nie Ning.

Nie Ning's reaction speed was fast, but he was still grazed on the shoulder by the incoming lake water, instantly feeling an inexplicable chill invading his body.

"What's going on!" Nie Ning rolled up his sleeve.

The spot on his arm that had been touched had turned black and was showing signs of spreading outward.

Seeing this, Nie Ning's expression grew grave.

Nie Ning wanted to use his battle aura to dispel the chill, but wherever his battle aura passed, it seemed to find nothing, and the chill continued to erode him.

If this continued, Nie Ning felt he might become like those residents.

Moreover, this place was clearly different from the outside world; if he wanted to leave, he probably had to kill the Little Boy.

Thinking of this, Nie Ning launched a fierce attack on the Little Boy again.

The Jerky Bear Head did the same, beginning to attack without regard for casualties under Nie Ning's control.

For Nie Ning, only if he survived would there be a future; if he died, the Jerky Bear Head would also find it difficult to survive here.

Under Nie Ning's desperate attacks, the Little Boy seemed to sense the danger and began to retreat back into the lake.

Seeing this scene, Nie Ning naturally could not let the Little Boy get his way.

Once he entered the lake area, there would be even less possibility of killing the opponent.

Nie Ning slashed his sword towards the Little Boy's head, and while the Little Boy was dodging, he reached into the pocket at his waist with his left hand, took out the coffin nail, and nailed it into the Little Boy's shadow.

The Little Boy was pinned in place, and the Jerky Bear Head took this opportunity to bite onto the Little Boy's head.

But for some reason, the Little Boy's body did not change under the biting, yet his face revealed an expression of pain.

It was as if the Jerky Bear Head was biting his spirit body.

Nie Ning's spirits lifted, and he controlled the Jerky Bear Head to bite even harder.

He himself took advantage of the momentum to rush forward, slashing his longsword diagonally across the Little Boy's shoulder.

The longsword tore open half of the Little Boy's body.

The Little Boy noticed the change in his body and kicked Nie Ning in the chest, sending him flying dozens of meters away.

Then, he used both hands to force open the bear's mouth, his powerful strength actually forcing the bear's mouth open to 180 degrees.

Perhaps because it had been injured, the soul body of the Jerky Bear Head became a bit dimmer.

Seeing this, Nie Ning ignored the pain in his chest, rushed forward again to the Little Boy's side, and slashed his glowing red longsword towards the Little Boy's arm.

The Little Boy clearly had the intention to retreat, but his body was firmly bound in place, and Nie Ning slashed off his left arm with one stroke.

At this moment, the Little Boy's expression didn't change, but his pitch-black pupils glanced at the coffin nail on the ground, clearly having discovered the source of his inability to move.

Nie Ning thought the Little Boy would go to pull out the coffin nail, so he immediately coordinated with the Jerky Bear Head to rush towards the Little Boy.

Suddenly, the sky dimmed, the deep blue moon disappeared, and the whole world plunged into darkness.

Before Nie Ning could recover, the deep blue moon appeared again.

But unlike before, the moon had moved from Nie Ning's left side to his right.

Nie Ning was baffled and didn't understand what this meant for a moment.

But just then, out of the corner of his eye, Nie Ning accidentally caught a glimpse of the shadow on the ground and finally discovered the problem.

The coffin nail was still in its original position, but the Little Boy's shadow had appeared in another direction!

In other words, the Little Boy had used that moment of darkness to make the coffin nail lose its effect.

After all, this coffin nail couldn't control the entire dark space, or perhaps the judgment mechanism of the coffin nail was just like that.

And as the moon changed position, the shadow naturally escaped the control range of the coffin nail.

"This works too?!" Nie Ning was instantly dumbfounded.

He hadn't expected the Little Boy to break the coffin nail's forced targeting effect so easily.

Even more troublesome things were yet to come; at this moment, the Little Boy had already arrived at the lakeshore, and the black lake water around him began to fluctuate violently because of his arrival.

It was already difficult to defeat the Little Boy, and if things continued like this, there would be no chance of winning at all.

Furthermore, as the black water connected to the Little Boy's legs, his lost arm and the wounds on his body had actually started to recover rapidly.

Nie Ning's face turned pale; could he really defeat this kind of thing?

"No!"

"I definitely can!"

A look of ruthlessness appeared in the depths of Nie Ning's eyes.

Seeing that the Little Boy's wounds were about to heal, the Jerky Bear Head pounced from behind the Little Boy.

The Little Boy seemed to sense it, and the black water around his body formed a water curtain.

The Jerky Bear Head crashed into the water curtain and couldn't advance an inch, only able to circle around the water curtain.

At this time, Nie Ning did not attack the Little Boy, but instead, like an executioner, decapitated the contaminated residents around him.

Because he knew that he could not defeat the Little Boy on his own.

Having fought for such a long time, the Little Boy was not only uninjured, but didn't even feel fatigue.

Therefore, if he wanted to defeat the Little Boy, he ultimately had to resort to some extreme methods, even if these residents could still be saved...

But the Little Boy didn't care about these things and controlled the black water in the lake to launch an attack on Nie Ning.

Nie Ning could only try his best to dodge, and then cut off the residents' heads to restrict their movements.

However, facing these attacks, Nie Ning was exhausted from running around and ultimately could not avoid all the black water; his back and left arm were both stained black.

Moreover, Nie Ning felt his head becoming dizzy, as if an inexplicable voice was telling him to give up resistance and merge with the surrounding black water.

Nie Ning shook his head, trying hard to keep himself awake.

Suddenly, the black water attacking Nie Ning surged towards the forest, as if something was coming towards them.

At this moment, a smile appeared on the corner of Nie Ning's mouth, and he then rushed towards the Little Boy, using battle aura to continuously launch long-range attacks, forcing the Little Boy to attack him.

Under Nie Ning's attacks, the Little Boy drifted slowly towards the center of the lake.

Looking at the strangely behaving Little Boy, Nie Ning narrowed his eyes, seemingly thinking of something.

But just then, a Human-Faced Balloon drifted over from above the forest.

The balloon had human faces and some mouse animal faces printed on it, looking very strange.

Now that the situation was urgent, Nie Ning couldn't care about whether someone was fishing for a trap.

At worst, he would deny it to the end, and Audrey might not necessarily do anything to him.

The moment the Human-Faced Balloon arrived, it floated towards those corpses that were still crawling on the ground.

As the Human-Faced Balloon entered one of the corpses, the corpse began to twist strangely, as if it were fighting for control of the body with something.

After only a few seconds, the black lake water on the corpse began to recede.