Chapter 1000: Chapter 756: Take It All Away
Long Yi let out a roar, his body sparking with golden arcs of electricity, and in the blink of an eye, he too transformed into a five-meter-tall golden Giant. This was a technique he had acquired from Adaman!
Boom! Their fists collided, and Long Yi was actually forced backward over a dozen steps before he stopped, leaving behind deep footprints in the ground!
"Hahaha! Come on!" Nielan charged straight at Long Yi.
In that punch just now, Long Yi’s Gluttonous Snake and the opponent’s red arcs of electricity had only slightly entangled. But Long Yi could feel the astonishing absorptive power within the opponent’s arcs. Long Yi’s Gluttonous Snake was primarily interested in rules, whereas Nielan’s red lightning seemed to be interested in all forms of energy and matter. This was the first time Long Yi had encountered such a rule. Although it was said that the vast world was full of wonders, the nature of these red rules still instinctually felt somewhat off. Seeing Nielan charge at him again, Long Yi swiftly turned around while delivering a powerful punch under Nielan’s armpit. A dull thud sounded as Nielan’s shoulder joint was broken. The red lightning entangled Long Yi’s hand, and to his surprise, a portion of his energy was forcibly taken away!
"Oh! Energy! I want more!" Nielan sneered as he turned around, his shattered shoulder slowly regenerating.
At that moment, Long Yi’s body also contained a strand of red lightning’s rule. The Gluttonous Snake firmly wrapped around it, constantly crushing it. Some unknown rules were pruned from the red lightning, which gradually turned golden. At the same time, Long Yi felt his Gluttonous Snake had become stronger.
Upon a detailed examination of the extracted portion, Long Yi found that these red rules were no different from the Gluttonous Snake, but the details within were entirely distinct! It was these excess rules that caused the lightning to turn from gold to red and allowed it to incessantly devour both energy and matter.
"Nielan, where did you get these rules from?"
Long Yi shouted.
"Haha, want to know? Defeat me and you’ll find out!"
Nielan laughed.
"These mutant rules definitely don’t come from the Giant’s legacy, and Giants would absolutely not use such rules. In this plane, the only thing that could possibly provide this kind of rule support would be the Ancient Mage Tower."
Long Yi said.
"Hmph! Even if you know, so what! The lords of the Ancient Mage Tower have invited me in, and this rule is my gift. But I refuse to enter so simply; I want to devour you all. Even if I do enter the Ancient Mage Tower, I will be the strongest!" Nielan said excitedly.
"Heh, you fool, it seems that you don’t truly understand the nature of rules. Whoever gave these to you can take them back in the future. And when they take back the rules, all the power you’ve gained through these rules will also be taken by them," Long Yi said with a smile.
"You’re spouting nonsense!" Nielan bellowed. "How could that lord deceive me!"
"Is that so? Think about it carefully. After swallowing so much energy, if the lord you speak of also possesses this power, who then does he intend to devour?"
"This..." Nielan was shaken for a moment, for Long Yi made sense! Yet he still roared: "You... won’t shake my resolve!"
Boom! Boom!
Long Yi and Nielan clashed again, grappling with each other. The Gluttonous Snake began to fully devour Nielan’s rules. Meanwhile, Nielan’s red lightning continued to absorb energy from Long Yi.
When the two parted once more, Long Yi, due to the huge loss of energy, had to revert to his original form. But by that time, the red rules within Nielan had all been siphoned out by the Gluttonous Snake.
Long Yi was now wrapped in flickering red electrical arcs. Little Zi wanted to rush over but was stopped by Long Yi.
"Don’t come near me, I can’t control these wild rules right now!"
Long Yi stood up feeling very weak. What greeted him was a terrifying mana shock, which sent him flying and crashing against the barrier at the edge of the Arena before falling to the ground.
Having absorbed Long Yi’s strength, Nielan’s body once again swelled to a gigantic ten meters!
"You...you stole my rules! You dare steal my rules!" Only then did Nielan realize, the rules of devouring within him were gone!
"Yes, it was I who took them. What are you going to do about it?" Long Yi asked with a smile.
"I will kill you! Crush you! I want to eat you, eat you alive!" Nielan charged towards Long Yi. The massive Red Demon Scorpion blocked the battlefield, its giant claws slamming into Nielan while toxic beams blasted at full force. Yet, Nielan lifted the Red Demon Scorpion high and tossed it aside!
At that moment, Ai Lin had also completed her most powerful single-target magic spell!
"Sword of Apocalypse!"
A hundreds-of-meters-long gigantic Light Sword swung down vertically, Nielan instinctively blocked, and one of his arms was directly severed. The Light Sword disappeared after cutting into Nielan’s shoulder.
"I can’t believe it didn’t cut through!" Ai Lin had thought that this strike would be lethal. It was one of the strongest spells of the Dragon Clan! Even though it didn’t achieve the length of a kilometer, this strike didn’t cut through Nielan, which left Ai Lin puzzled.
"Nielan has absorbed Brother Long’s strength, his resistance to magic has increased a lot!" Silverlight said.
"Soul Piercing!"
After a long build-up, Little Zi and the thirteen Female Demon avatars unleashed their strongest single-target mental magic spell, concentrating all of the avatars’ psychic energy into Little Zi. Then, Little Zi fired an exceedingly thin beam of Soul Piercing magic.
The Soul Piercing beam struck Nielan with precision, causing him to suddenly feel dizzy, his mind to swim, and his steps to stagger.
Meanwhile, at the back, Lingling’s Light Cannon had grown to thirty meters in length, with her backing crystal spreading out massively.
Bang!
The crystals that had formed like wings instantly shattered, and the beam of light tore through space in an instant, turning black. It hit Nielan, who was still in a daze. Amidst the roaring, half of Nielan’s shoulder completely vanished, and a huge dent also appeared near his chest.
But, he didn’t die!
"He dodged it..." Silverlight murmured.
"Roar!"
At this moment, Nielan actually let out a roar that did not sound human at all as he struggled to walk towards Long Yi, his eyes brewing a terrifying radiance!
Boom!
The light fell, but Long Yi’s personal shield was not activated.
It was actually silver light!
At this time, silver light had his back to Long Yi, using his own body to block the beam emitted from Nielan’s eyes.
"Quick reaction," Long Yi said.
"This is probably the only thing I can do now," silver light said.
"Nice figure," Long Yi, seated on the ground, ogled silver light from the bottom up.
"Hey..." both Ai Lin and silver light blushed at the same time.
"What should we do?" Little Zi asked anxiously.
"It’s okay now, our reinforcement has arrived," Long Yi said.
A personal space opened up, and a naked girl tumbled out from within. She was petite, yet her black hair was extremely long. She stood up, her wet hair clinging to her body.
In her mouth, she kept repeating one word: "Hungry..."
Suddenly, the girl opened her eyes, which were filled with a black chaos. In that chaos reflected the huge form of Nielan!
"Energy! Mine!"
The girl screamed, scrambling towards Nielan on hands and feet. Nielan’s gaze shifted slightly, and a fatal beam of light instantly bombarded the girl. But something eerie happened—the originally thick beam, as if twisted, was completely absorbed by the girl. And she comfortably stretched out her body, slowly levitating!
By now, Nielan, who had regained consciousness, tried to divert his gaze, but he found himself utterly unable to do so. The energy inside his body uncontrollably surged out, being completely absorbed by the girl without end!
Behind the girl, black energy slowly spewed out, forming a pair of pure black wings!
"She’s actually transformed into a butterfly!" Ai Lin exclaimed in surprise.
"Look, compared to devouring energy, how could you, Nielan, possibly stand a chance against an energy eater? But now it seems like a name change is in order, how about Xiaodie?" Long Yi commented from the side.
As energy continued to be drained, Xiaodie’s body grew slowly; she began as a little girl, but as energy poured in, she gradually became a young maiden. In contrast, Nielan kept shrinking, returning to his normal size.
Xiaodie gently landed, while Nielan, who had lost both arms, lay on the ground, gasping for air.
"Impossible... this can’t be... how could you forcibly plunder my power..." Nielan weakly yelled.
"Why not? You just stumbled upon these rules halfway, while she was born with this ability," Long Yi said with a smile.
The girl, who had just been casually dubbed Xiaodie by Long Yi, turned around, and before she could speak, a large robe was draped over her by Ai Lin.
"I’m not cold..." Xiaodie said.
"It’s not because of the cold," Ai Lin said.
"Oh."
"Hehehehe, hahahahaha! Who would have thought, after all my secret planning, I still ended up failing," Nielan roared with regret.
"Don’t be too upset. Not only have you failed, but your life is about to end as well," Long Yi walked over; the power of the rocks frantically replenished his strength, and the power he had just lost was now fully restored.
"Dead? No, no, no, Long Yi, oh Long Yi, even though I’ve failed, if you’re thinking of killing me, I’m afraid it won’t be that easy!" Nielan’s personal space suddenly opened, and a huge crystal fell out.
"Space Barrier!"
Buzz! A soft resonance, and Long Yi’s fist hit an invisible space barrier.
"The space between us has been completely sealed off; you can’t touch me. And I will soon be heading to the Ancient Mage Tower! You might as well wait here for the wrath from the Ancient Mage Tower!" Nielan declared triumphantly.
Inside the space barrier flashed strange runes, all of them Giant’s script. It looked like, in a few minutes, he would be teleported away from here!
"Is that so? Do you really think no one can break your Space Barrier?" Long Yi smirked and said.
"Maybe Lou Aran could, as he helped me create this magic artifact. But too bad, he just got killed by you! And where are you going to find another person who can break the Space Barrier in a few minutes?" Nielan said with a challenging look in his eyes.
"No, no, no, I think you might have gotten one thing wrong," Long Yi lifted a finger and waggled it: "Take a look behind you."
Nielan turned around, only to see Lou Aran standing right behind him, wearing a smile of someone whose schemes had succeeded.
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