With this kind of difference in their power output, it had become impossible for the dragon king to escape from Money Body. But the dragon king still tried to escape. He gave up on the fight, turned away, and took off. So Money Body had to pull him back and hold him down as he gave the dragon king a beating he would never forget if he somehow managed to survive.
The other dragons also decided that this was a good time to escape from Oceania. Even though the heart of the world would become vulnerable if they all left Oceania, the will of Oceania still ordered them to leave so that there would be a chance for survival.
Unfortunately for them, their willingness to leave the will of Oceania behind wasn’t going to save them. Loki was determined to kill them, so he pursued them beyond Oceania and into the void of space.
It took longer and longer for him to find and kill the dragons because they ran in opposite directions, and as time went by, the distance between the dragons widened. But he was too fast to be left behind.
He was always able to catch them, and he was always able to kill them. And the will of Oceania had lost the willingness to keep them alive, so it had also become extremely easy to kill them.
The will of Oceania couldn’t even be bothered to spend 10,000 years of lifespan on them. Most of the 1 million or so years of lifespan that it had were saved for the dragon king. So Loki was able to pursue and kill all of them.
After he killed the last dragon, he returned to Oceania. When he got there, he discovered that the fight between Money Body and the dragon king was still going on.
At this point, the power of the dragon king had before 8(Cultivation Rank) × 8(Body) × (8)Divine Metacs × 1,406 million(Cave Heaven) × 10(Law Fragment), which is 7,198,720 units of divine power. So even Nether Flame had a chance of killing the dragon if he could combine the power of his three Divine Metacs.
Since the dragon king had become so vulnerable, he thought about going over to steal the kill from Money Body. But he decided that it wasn’t worth it to antagonize Money Body before the mission ended.
So instead of doing something that could push Money Body to sabotage the mission by destroying the outpost core or doing something equally disastrous, he decided to go over and help the outpost core.
He entered the third dimension and went over to the outpost. Then he placed his hand on the black crystal to feed it life energy. While he was doing this, he was also feeding the world essence to help it grow stronger.
The outpost core didn’t need world essence anymore at this stage of its growth. All it needed was time to drain power and energy from Oceania.
Now that Oceania had been weakened, it wouldn’t take a month for the outpost core to reach 30% control rights of Oceania. With this control right, the sect would be able to convert half of the world into a domain that would be completely under the control of the sect.
The construction of the domain is another mission entirely. For now, all that matters for the outpost mission is for the outpost core to carve out a territory in Oceania that is safe for the sect to establish a branch here.
As long as the size of the territory reaches 30% of the size of Oceania, the mission would be considered a success. And as things were, it was only a matter of time before this was achieved.
Other divine beings might be content to wait, but Loki wasn’t willing to wait. He didn’t want anything to go wrong, so he gave the outpost core life energy and world essence, even though it didn’t need it.
Thanks to the world essence, the outpost core didn’t have to grow slowly. It didn’t have to expand its growth slowly by wresting control from the will of Oceania. Instead, it could directly displace the control of the will of Oceania over the world essence.
The struggle between the will of Oceania and the outpost core stopped being about who was stronger and became about who was richer.
It could be likened to shareholder stakes in a company. The total value of the shares in this case is the total value of the lifespan of both parties. And the higher the proportion of shares held by a single party, the higher the proportion of control that they will have over Oceania.
By giving the outpost core world essence, he increased the amount of lifespan that the outpost core possessed. This increased the proportion of the total amount of lifespan that the outpost core possessed, which increased the size of the territory that the outpost core controlled in Oceania.
On the other side, by trying to kill the dragon king and forcing the will of Oceania to spend its lifespan to keep him alive, the proportion of lifespan held by the will of Oceania was falling rapidly, which reduced its controlling power over Oceania.
With Loki and Money Body working together like this, the outpost core was able to make a lot of progress quickly. By the time Money Body killed the dragon king, the will of Oceania only had 100,000 years of lifespan left. So the outpost core would need 43,000 lifespan for it to gain 30% controlling share of Oceania.
World essence worth 43,000 years is a lot to most divine beings. After all, even with a conversion efficiency of 8.25%, they would still be able to get 3,547.5 years of lifespan from it.
Loki would be able to get the entire 43,000 years of lifespan from the chunk of world essence, so it is worth even more to him. It is worth about 12 times what it is worth to the average divine being, but he didn’t hesitate to sacrifice all of the world essence to the outpost core.