Steve's lips twitched, but An Lan was right.

Once he abandons his metallization, it's only a matter of time before he's completely corrupted by the power of death.

"Come on! I can handle it!" Steve said through gritted teeth, his eyes closed.

Lu Ning glanced at Steve silently, then reached out and placed his hand on Steve's arm, which was being corrupted by the power of death.

The next moment, Lu Ning grabbed a wisp of white mist and pulled it out.

The white mist seemed to contain a rotten, yellowish light, which twisted and appeared to vaguely form a hideous, decaying arm.

Lu Ning looked at the arm and fell into deep thought.

He seemed to have seen this arm somewhere before.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Ning thought of the location.

When he first entered Base City 65 in the mist, he saw a giant hand formed from white mist, which seemed somewhat similar to this arm.

The illusory arm in the white mist twisted and wriggled. Lu Ning pulled himself out of his thoughts and pressed the white mist into his chest.

The white mist was about to erupt upon entering Lu Ning's body.

However, Lu Ning at this moment is no longer the same as when he was weak.

Lu Ning is now at the sixth level, and his mental strength is already quite strong.

His mental energy immediately enveloped the white mist.

The white mist writhed and transformed into a rotting arm, attempting to corrupt Lu Ning's spiritual power and 'kill' it.

However, Lu Ning's spiritual power comes from Lu Ning himself, and Lu Ning is 'immortal'.

This white mist naturally could not kill Lu Ning's spiritual power.

Despite being enveloped by Lu Ning's mental power, the white mist was still struggling to break through the blockade.

This made Lu Ning frown slightly.

He absorbed only a small amount of white mist, just a wisp, but the power within it seemed to surpass the power of the fallen angel that Lu Ning had absorbed through the God's Grace.

It is conceivable that the mass of white mist in front of us is of very high quality.

However, if the quality of the white mist itself was not high, it wouldn't have left Steve, a ninth-tier awakened being, helpless.

Seeing Lu Ning remain silent, An Lan and the others who had been watching Lu Ning all showed expressions of worry.

Gina couldn't help but ask, "Lu Ning? Are you alright? Did you have some indigestion after absorbing it?"

Lu Ning snapped out of her daze and shook her head: "It's okay, let's continue."

Steve glanced at his arm, which had been absorbed by the white mist; the yellowish-brown marks on it had disappeared.

He revealed a hint of surprise: "It really works?! As expected of Lu Ning! That's wonderful!"

However, the next moment, Steve seemed to realize something and looked at Lu Ning with some worry: "Can you really still absorb it?"

Lu Ning nodded, then reached out and pressed his hand on another dim yellowish mark on Steve, and began to absorb it again.

There are five scars on Steve's body, which Lu Ning absorbed one after another.

As he absorbed the white mist from the three blemishes, the arm inside Lu Ning's body gradually became clearer, no longer the hazy, indistinct shadow it had been before.

The power contained within the phantom arm also increased explosively, and it could even begin to resist Lu Ning's mental power.

Lu Ning remained expressionless and continued absorbing the nutrients.

After Lu Ning absorbed the white mist from the last two marks, the giant hand inside Lu Ning's body didn't even seem like a phantom; it was as clear as a physical entity.

The giant hand was entirely yellowish-brown, with some areas rotting and covered in corpse fluid. The corpse fluid dripped down and landed on Lu Ning's mental energy.

As the yellowish-brown liquid from the corpses fell, Lu Ning's spiritual power immediately began to wither, as if he had fallen into a state of death.

However, in a very short moment, his withered spiritual energy was restored.

The giant hand, enveloped by Lu Ning's mental energy, waved wildly, trying to tear apart the mental energy.

Patches of dim yellow mist seeped out from the gaps in the mental energy cage and landed on Lu Ning.

At this moment, Steve's marks had been completely absorbed by the white mist, and the marks on his body gradually dissipated, restoring his metallic body to its original silver-gray color.

He looked delighted: "It's done! It's really done! Lu Ning, thank you..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Lu Ning's eyeballs fall out of their sockets.

Steve's smile froze on the spot, and his voice caught in his throat.

Others also witnessed this scene, and their expressions froze.

Gina looked terrified.

After Lu Ning's first eyeball slipped out of its socket, her second eyeball followed suit.

Steve and the others stared at Lu Ning's face with some stiffness.

Then they saw that Lu Ning's face had rotted, and the flesh around his eyes had turned into corpse fluid.

That's why Lu Ning's eyeballs fell out of their sockets.

As Lu Ning's face began to rot, his body gradually showed signs of decay as well.

His skin gradually turned bluish-green, with some areas showing yellowish spots.

Steve looked shocked, then his face fell with grief: "Lu Ning?!"

Lu Ning's calm voice rang out: "Why did you call me?"

Steve's grief-stricken cries stopped abruptly as he saw Lu Ning bend down, pick up the two eyeballs from the ground, wipe them on his body, and then put them back into his own eye sockets.

Steve and his friends: o_O ||