They understood at that moment.
This rotting giant hand uses the souls of these awakened ones to sustain its own existence.
If Lu Ning and the others hadn't come, the rotten giant hand evil god would have still canceled the connection to the mist after it pushed its clone's power to the limit.
In this situation, the souls of these awakened beings are needed to maintain the stability of the evil god's phantom power.
This is why the souls of these awakened beings appear in the base city.
They are the final and most crucial link in the arrival of the rotten giant hand's clones!
However, due to the actions of Lu Ning and Qinglan Saint, the power of the Rotten Giant Hand's clones has been greatly reduced.
If the souls of the awakened ones are not absorbed now, the phantom of the rotting giant hand will likely collapse as the dim yellow mist is swallowed by Lu Ning and the channel for power transmission is lost.
Just like how the phantom flickered erratically after Lu Ning absorbed the mist at the connection point!
That's why the rotting giant hand clone absorbed these souls ahead of time!
Only in this way can the rotting giant hand clone materialize ahead of time, and even without the connecting mist, it can still exist on Earth!
Lu Ning accelerated the process as he absorbed the mist at the connection point.
In fact, as long as Lu Ning absorbs a patch of mist, a large number of awakened souls will be absorbed.
This caused Lu Ning and Saint Qinglan to stop their actions simultaneously.
Wei Xuan and the other Death Warriors naturally saw their comrades being absorbed, and they also had their own ideas.
A middle-aged man gave a bitter laugh: "So this is why we appeared here after we died? This really is hell..."
The other young woman's soul expression turned ugly, and she immediately looked at Lu Ning, saying, "Don't worry about us!"
The others realized what was happening too.
Wei Xuan stared intently at Lu Ning and asked, "Lu Ning! How are my parents now?"
Lu Ning paused for a moment, then said calmly, "They're doing very well. We visited them a few days ago... They often talk to us about you, so it's clear they miss you."
Wei Xuan's eyes flickered, and he asked, "Are they proud of me?"
Lu Ning nodded silently: "Mm."
Wei Xuan smiled with relief, then roared, "Go ahead and do it, Lu Ning! Don't give this son of a bitch a chance!"
Lu Ning took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, and then, expressionless, charged towards the connecting mist once more.
Instead of reaching his hand into the mist, he stood directly in front of the path through the dim yellow fog, cutting it off.
As Lu Ning severed the mist, the corrosive giant hand's form suddenly fluctuated violently.
He growled angrily, about to continue absorbing the souls of the death warriors.
Just then, the bone pocket watch on Lu Ning's hand flashed with a silvery-white light.
The space around the corrosive giant hand that he originally intended to absorb froze, and he seemed to freeze for a moment.
However, even if the corrosive giant hand now only possesses Saint-level power, the bone pocket watch still cannot imprison it for as long as it could against the Death Warrior.
In a mere instant, the corrosive giant hand was restored once more.
As the corrosive giant hand recovered, Wei Xuan and the others' souls suddenly shattered, turning into a dim yellow ball of light.
Lu Ning gritted his teeth, frantically absorbing the connecting mist while channeling his mental energy into the bone pocket watch.
Every time Lu Ning stopped the corrosive giant hand, the Azure Mist Saint beside him would attack the corrosive giant hand with all his might.
The Azure Mist Saint's expression was ferocious; he wanted to pull the corrosive giant hand even further.
As long as these corrosive giant hands are far enough away from the souls, the souls will not be devoured by the corrosive giant hands.
However, even with their combined efforts, one streak of light after another was absorbed by the corrosive giant hand.
As he watched these souls being continuously absorbed, Saint Qinglan felt a sense of powerlessness.
They couldn't even save their souls.
Is this humanity's fate in the face of evil gods?
The Azure Mist Saint roared repeatedly, yet seemed to be sinking into a predetermined fate, only able to watch helplessly as souls merged into the corrosive giant hand.
Just then, an extreme chill suddenly appeared.
The chill came on very unexpectedly.
The rotting giant hand was immediately frozen in ice.
At the same time, the souls that had transformed into a dim yellow halo were also separated from the corrosive giant hand.
Both Lu Ning and Qinglan Saint were taken aback upon seeing this scene.
Lu Ning turned his head to look in the direction from which the mental fluctuations came.
It was a figure wearing a dirty white dress and with disheveled hair.
It's her?!
Saint Qinglan also looked at the woman in the white dress.
He stared wide-eyed, a look of astonishment on his face.
They encountered the woman in the white dress after entering the 233rd mist.
I never expected to see it here again.
As the mist swirled, the woman in the white dress disappeared into it.
The next moment, she suddenly appeared not far from them.
The woman in the white dress looked at Lu Ning through her disheveled black hair, her numb voice carrying complex emotions: "Long time no see."
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