Chapter 1013: Chapter 521: Stuck?_2

Realizing this, Taigos’s reactions became even more intense, his pair of giant claws enveloped in purple flames continually tearing at the chains, sparking a burst of brilliant sparks.

He understood the urgency at hand; the suppression method had already been activated, and now attacking the wreckage would be pointless.

However, the hardness of the chains was beyond imagination, and even though Taigos’s attack intensity was extremely high, it still didn’t cause them to shatter instantly.

“What kind of material is this?” Li Ming was fervent; the durability of these silver chains was beyond imagining, likely containing a lot of metal energy.

“Almost there, almost there…” Greenlinger was impatient, the energy symbol had already spread to the end of the chains and would soon cover the collar part.

Li Ming held his breath, focusing intensely, ready to face the potential strong impact.

Yet at the last moment, the energy symbol, nearly touching the collar, suddenly stopped and flickered incessantly.

The previously pulsing purple star cluster began to tremble irregularly.

Puffs of grey-white substance were ejected.

“What’s happening? Why did it stop?” Greenlinger widened his eyes.

Meanwhile, Taigos seemed to find a lifeline and began frantically attacking the chain on his neck.

He attacked only one spot, the giant claws’ accuracy impeccable, clear marks appearing at the impact point, and it wouldn’t take long to cut the chain.

“It’s over, it’s over.” Greenlinger slumped to the ground again in despair, “The nest has been corroded by the Eternal Abyss. We’re stuck, one step away, just one step away!”

“It’s stuck.” Li Ming couldn’t help but frown and remained speechless.

“Sigh… This time, we’re really finished.” Greenlinger glanced over, “Sadly, you can’t get out either. Once that guy breaks free, he will destroy everything.”

“Isn’t there another way?” Li Ming asked.

“I don’t know.” Greenlinger hesitated, “However, the energy has almost accumulated; just the last step remains. If there’s a sufficiently strong external force to stimulate it, it might break through the blockage.”

“But right now, the strongest is Taigos. With his cunning, there’s no way he would let us succeed.”

“A sufficiently strong external force?” Li Ming paused slightly in thought, “I’ll give it a try…”

“You’ll give it a try?” Greenlinger was stunned, “You’re just a Lord Level life form, even if you win the King’s Trial of the same level, it doesn’t help. It’s essentially the difference in life levels.”

“Your attacks can’t shake this nest.”

“Whether it works or not, we’ll find out by trying.”

The next moment, Li Ming engaged the Body Guard, instead of acting directly, he opened the Control Bar and found [Vortex Swift Shadow] in the Main Battle System.

He still had a portion of the Blood of the World in hand, and metallic energy was sufficient. Just upgrade this controlled object first—better safe than sorry.

As the metal energy poured in, the controlled object with the shoe emblem underwent a tremendous change.

[Vortex Shadow—X Level: Beware, your body might be torn apart.

Control Effect: Flowing Shadow

Control Ability—Super Compression Burst: Gain a hundredfold speed buff.]

[Flowing Shadow: Gain a fiftyfold speed buff, and the true body will not be harmed by speed backlash.

Additionally, it can mimic a Shadow Hunter with the true body’s aura, freely move within a certain range, share the true body’s speed buff, and can switch places with it at will, able to withstand attacks not exceeding the true body’s limit.]

The X-Level [Vortex Swift Shadow] abilities fused and enhanced, allowing the Shadow Hunter to share his speed buff, enabling not just free movement but also to withstand enemy attacks, vastly improving its effectiveness.

He exhaled deeply in preparation, heading straight to the metal portal.

“Are you really going?” Greenlinger followed hesitantly, unsure, “Should I try to find a way to get you out?”

Li Ming ignored him, having already engaged the Body Guard.

“Sigh…” Greenlinger suddenly voiced uncertainty, “Your life aura and presence traces, why are they gone?”

Li Ming started fiddling, first layering all the speed buffs; with his left hand, the Infinite Hammer appeared. Then, a nearly identical figure appeared beside him, swiftly darting away.

“What is this thing?” Greenlinger was startled, inspecting closely, “Projection? No, how does it have a tangible presence?”

Li Ming targeted the purple star cluster, raising his hand first, holding the short-handled hammer with the Body Guard in front to avoid not adjusting in time due to excessive speed.

The next instant, the speed buffs stacked on him burst forth ferociously, with Li Ming and the distant Shadow Hunter shooting out with an unstoppable momentum.

The terrifying potential energy from the speed converted directly affected the surrounding environment, instantly tearing through the void in front, causing the space structure to suffer devastating impact.

Moving into the second moment, Li Ming converted speed buffs into power amplification.

The distance to the purple star cluster was too short; he didn’t have time to react much during the process, so he could only preemptively transform it.

The combination, enhanced by the power of the Infinite Hammer, fell like a purplish meteor, faintly visible to the naked eye.

Taigos seemed to sense it but hesitated for a moment because two figures, almost identical, fell from two directions.

Even if he blocked, he could only stop one. In that moment of hesitation, it was already too late.

Boom!

It was like a fierce blow smashing onto a nearly stilled heart.

The magma-like veins on the surface of the purple star cluster suddenly shone brightly, the light intense and hot, with the purple foundation intertwining with the bright glow.

The purple star cluster abruptly contracted and then expanded with a roar, and a large volume of gray matter spewed from the gaps of these veins.

In Taigos’s eyes was a human-like astonishment; he didn’t have time to stop any of it.

And at the end of the silver chain, the stagnant energy symbol, as if triggered by something, began to quiver madly, surged unpredictably, and instantly covered the last collar segment.

“What the heck just smashed through?” Greenlinger only came to his senses at this moment.

“Ugh—” Taigos let out a wretched howl, as the Dominator’s backup measure had been activated, the chain wound up like a winch pulling back inch by inch.

Even though Taigos gave his all, he was helpless. The surrounding space was torn into cracks under his force, his massive claws tearing piece by piece from the space barriers.

Everything along the way collapsed; the chain seemed long, yet on the road to death, it felt short.

Li Ming’s form had already flown in the opposite direction, quickly covering a long distance.

Boom!

This narrow space, under the nearly despairing resistance of Taigos, almost completely broke apart.

“Greenlinger…” A weak, barely discernible spiritual fluctuation emanated from Taigos, sounding mournful, desperate, yet relieved…

Greenlinger lay against the glass wall, his body convulsing, inevitably feeling a sense of sorrow, sighing despondently: “Farewell…”

Silently, Taigos was dragged into the purple star cluster by the chains.

Buzz—

The once enormous and brilliant body of the purple star cluster began to rapidly collapse inward, resembling a giant fortress with its supports withdrawn.

It vibrated at an extremely high frequency, releasing strong energy fluctuations with each vibration.

The internal structure rapidly collapsed and disintegrated, materials colliding and fusing, bursting with dazzling light.

It was like a collapsing micro-universe, occasionally suddenly expanding, Taigos still in his last resistance.

“So it was to be pulled into the nest, to obliterate the body…” Li Ming was surprised; the energy fluctuations caused by the collapse of the purple star cluster made him feel uneasy.

Yet it didn’t cause extra damage to the outside world. Even his own fierce assault moments ago didn’t produce a spread of aftershocks. This control ability was indeed impressive.

As time passed, the purple star cluster quickly condensed to only the size of a basketball, with energy waves gradually vanishing.

“There goes the corpse…