Seeing that the humanoid monster's remains had vanished, Yern asked, "Was it pulverized by the black hole?"

Yan Bing shook her head: "No."

After she finished speaking, the space around her froze, then shattered, revealing a void.

As the void appeared, Yan Bing stepped inside.

Seeing this, Lu Ning pondered, "Did they go to another timeline?"

Yan Bing had previously traveled to other timelines in this way, and now that she has left this timeline, she is obviously going to hunt down that humanoid monster.

Yann frowned: "Then what do we do?"

Neither of them has the ability to travel through time.

The crimson sword in Lu Ning's hand still held power.

He thought for a moment, then dispersed the power gathered on the crimson sword and looked at the golden crack, saying, "My mental energy is almost depleted. I'll close the crack in the barrier first."

Yann glanced at the huge golden crack and nodded slightly: "Okay."

Lu Ning sheathed the Crimson Sword and soared into the area of ​​the golden cracks.

This time, nothing unexpected happened, and nothing else interfered with Lu Ning.

He looked into the mist on the other side of the crack, where the disordered time worm was still going through the cycle of being severely injured and repairing itself, while the eerie figure in the distance had diminished considerably.

Lu Ning guessed that the appearance of the disordered insects might have made them somewhat wary.

He didn't think about it any further.

Lu Ning currently has no plans to enter the fog.

He planned to follow Yan Bing to Base City No. 1, and then go to the Ruins of Return hidden in the mist.

The natural course of action now is to close this crack.

Lu Ning grabbed one edge of the golden crack with one hand and forcefully closed it to the other side.

Closing the rift this time is much more difficult than doing so in Mist 233.

Lu Ning's strength was so much greater than it had been in the 233rd Mist, yet he still felt extremely strained.

Fortunately, although it was difficult, it was still possible to shake it.

As the golden cracks were gradually closed, the twisted figures hidden within the mist began to dance wildly.

Lu Ning felt a series of gazes, some cold, some angry, and some violent, directed at him.

Lu Ning remained expressionless and continued to close the window.

The disordered time worm, which was originally closest to the golden crack, had no time to attend to Lu Ning closing the crack.

Other figures hidden deep within the mist seemed wary of the Time-Disordered Insects and none dared to approach.

Of course, these figures probably won't be able to interfere.

After all, even though the barrier has cracks, the fact that even the out-of-order insects cannot directly emerge from the cracks is enough to prove that the barrier is still effective.

As time went by, Lu Ning's mental energy was being depleted more and more, and even Lu Ning felt a little tired.

The golden crack had closed about halfway by now, and Lu Ning gritted his teeth and continued to exert force.

When the golden crack was completely closed, Lu Ning's spiritual energy was almost completely depleted.

As his mental energy was completely depleted, the source of pollution from the disordered time worm and the Lord of Radiant Embers collided wildly in his mental sea, shattering Lu Ning's mental sea into pieces.

Lu Ning's vision blurred for a moment, and then everything went black.

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When Lu Ning regained consciousness, he found that the scene before him had changed.

What he looked up at was no longer the dark cave ceiling, but a white mist.

He paused for a moment, then propped himself up on the ground and sat up.

He then felt a chill coming from below, and when he looked down, he found that there was a patch of frost below.

Su Qi's surprised voice came from the side: "Lu Ning? You're awake?"

Other people's voices followed.

"Lu Ning is awake?"

"Lu Ning, how are you?"

Lu Ning turned his head and saw a group of people gathered around him.

Including Steve, Anlan, Suqi, Ya'en, Osiris, and Aishalin.

Besides them, Lu Ning even saw Ella, who had previously gone missing.

Aila was not in good condition; she was covered in wounds and blood, and her face was pale.

Yan Bing stood not far ahead.

Lu Ning was somewhat confused: "How did I get here?"

Yaen said calmly, "You fainted after you closed the golden rift. I took you out of the cave first and met up with Osiris and the others. When Yan Bing returned, we left the cave."

An Lan looked at Lu Ning with some confusion and asked, "Lu Ning, how did you faint? This is the first time I've ever seen you faint."

Steve nodded in agreement: "Yeah, back in the Mist 233, we fought the projection of the Hand of the Underworld's power for so long, and you died so many times without passing out. Why did you pass out this time?"

Just then, Yan Bing calmly said, "He didn't faint, but his mental sea collapsed, and he's been going through a cycle of death and rebirth."

Hearing this, An Lan and the others looked bewildered and looked up at Yan Bing.

Osiris's expression went blank: "No... Lord Yanbing, didn't you just say he was alright?"

Everyone else was also full of questions.

They all thought Lu Ning was just unconscious before, but it turns out he had been dead all along?

Dead for so long? How can this be considered nothing happening?

Yan Bing looked at Osiris and said calmly, "Isn't he perfectly fine now? Death really doesn't matter to Lu Ning."

Everyone was speechless.

Su Qi looked at Lu Ning with some concern: "Why did Lu Ning's mental sea collapse? Normally, the mental sea shouldn't collapse, right? After all, Lu Ning wouldn't be mentally corrupted."

Lu Ning said, "It should be that there are two sources of mental pollution from evil gods in my mind. They are causing quite a commotion in my mental sea. Before my mental energy was depleted, I could stabilize my mental sea, but in order to close the crack, my mental energy was almost exhausted."

Everyone fell silent, and the way they looked at Lu Ning changed.

"...Two evil gods are the source of mental pollution in your head?" Steve felt like he was listening to a joke.

That's an evil god!

None of them had entered the Eternal Corridor's base, but they could all feel the commotion inside.

That's just a demigod.

A source of mental pollution at the level of an evil god—what level of thing is that?

Although the others knew that Lu Ning could absorb mental pollution, they did not expect that Lu Ning actually had two sources of mental pollution from the evil god in his mind.

This shocked them immensely.

Only Yan Bing remained calm as always, seemingly unsurprised by the situation.

Lu Ning ignored their questions and instead sensed his own mental sea. His mental strength had recovered considerably, and his mental sea had now stabilized again.

This situation made Lu Ning thoughtful, as this was the first time he had exhausted his mental energy to this extent.

After all, encountering several demigods in a row had taken a heavy toll.

Furthermore, the resources required to close the cracks in the barrier are considerable.

He truly exhausted all his mental energy until he had no energy left.

I never expected that this would happen after my mental energy was completely depleted.

I should try to conserve some mental energy in the future.

Just then, Lu Ning remembered something and looked at Yan Bing: "By the way, what about that fused monster?"