I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

The head was not attached to the torso, but floated around the severed neck, the cut surface oozing a dark red liquid that would never dry.

The five heads are all different.

One was as upright as a god, one as twisted as a demon, one inhuman, its outline indescribable by any known form. There were two more, indistinct and unrecognizable.

His eyes were completely closed.

The petite girl stood below the platform, looking up.

The worm of knowledge huddled in her arms, motionless.

"T̸̨̛͓̲̱̦̈́̊̽h̶̖̤̣̀̈́̚ë̵̢̖́ ̸̧̛̟̦̈̀Ǫ̵̛̲̈́̔n̶̡̮̈́̌̕e̸̢̛͔̊̾ ̶̧̛̻̊W̶̡̛̘̌h̶̡̛̺̓o̶̢̫̊̔ ̶̡̺̈́S̵̖̫̊l̵̢̛̫̿e̸̡̛̺̓ë̶̡̺́p̸̢̫̒s̴̢̛̻Ḩ̶̨̛̟̊̽ë̵̖̤́ ̸̧̛̲̈̀ẅ̵̡̟́̔ḧ̶̡̺́̌o̶̢̫̊̔ ̶̡̛̻r̶̡̺̈́e̴̢̛̫̿a̸̡̛̺̓c̶̡̺̈́h̸̢̫̒e̴̢̛̻s̸̡̺̓」

A series of strange syllables came from His direction.

But clearly the girl couldn't understand it at all.

He also realized the problem, and after a brief silence, He spoke again.

"You...have passed my test."

Five different timbres sounded simultaneously.

The entire palace was shaking, and the dead inscriptions on the dome trembled slightly in the sound waves, while grayish-white powder fell softly from the grooves.

The short girl didn't say anything.

There was no fear.

She just stood there quietly, looking up as if she were looking at something very, very tall.

The five heads continued to rotate, but the attention was clearly diverted.

He saw what was in her arms.

"My offerings... have been stolen by insects."

His tone was flat, but carried a hint of coldness.

The worm of knowledge trembled violently in the girl's arms. The symbiotic connection had been severed, but the worm of knowledge instinctively tried to contact Lu Yuan.

"Leave the worm, and you will be blessed."

The inscription solidified into a blood-red ring at the girl's feet.

Hand over the insects.

The headless torso's right hand slowly rose.

A crimson light gathered in his palm.

The spiral inscriptions on the dome, which had been silent for countless epochs, were lit up one circle at a time, spreading outward from the center, and the entire palace was shrouded in blood.

Corpses scattered everywhere cast distorted shadows.

The light was aimed at the worm of knowledge in the girl's arms, but the girl still didn't speak, only frowned slightly, clearly somewhat dissatisfied with it.

"Is this the true nature of the ocean of knowledge?"

Right at this moment.

Deep within Lu Yuan's left eye, the key stirred.

The teardrop-shaped key, brought out from the Sea of ​​Knowledge and which had remained motionless behind the insect's body, suddenly burst into light without warning.

Lu Yuan's consciousness was suddenly pulled away from his body.

Without any process or buffer, Lu Yuan's consciousness was simply pulled away without warning.

Barrier, sea of ​​blood, vortex, heart... everything in my consciousness turned into a blurry band of light, flashing by in an instant.

The next moment, Lu Yuan appeared in the palace.

He stood beside the petite girl in the form of a projection of his consciousness.

The outer perimeter of the sea of ​​knowledge forms a protective barrier.

Lu Yuan suddenly froze.

His body was still pressed against the bronze tabletop, and his fingers were still clenched in the palm print grooves.

But consciousness is gone.

He no longer sends rationality to the barrier.

The barrier has fluctuated.

"team leader?"

The night watchman next to him turned and glanced at him.

"Captain Lu?"

no respond.

Lu Yuan's body remained in the final posture, motionless, like a stone statue.

"Oh no! Captain Lu is in trouble! Everyone hold on! Take your medication! Quickly!"

The watchman on Lu Yuan's left reacted the fastest and immediately took over command.

All the Night's Watchmen exchanged glances, and without hesitation, took out pale gold potions from their inner pouches, uncorked the bottles, and drank them down.

The barrier shook violently due to the loss of one anchor point, but the ten people managed to hold it up. Temporary medicine filled the gap and barely stabilized the barrier.

Anomalies were also discovered outside the church.

The fluctuations in the barrier were transmitted to the blessing ring, and the pale golden holy light became disordered.

Among the church members, one figure immediately gave an order the moment he saw the barrier ripple.

"Change the blessing sequence. Increase the blessing strength."

The nuns behind them didn't know why, but no one asked, and they all did as instructed.

An even stronger holy light surged in from the outside, pressing down on the center circle in layers.

Lu Yuan's consciousness was no longer at the edge of the barrier.

But he sensed it.

The sanity pool is surging.

His sanity pool, which had only a little over one hundred points remaining, was completely filled the moment he lost consciousness.

Clearly, the Night Watchers were going all out, using potions, blessings, and all of them going all out, causing their sanity pool to surge to over 400.

A surge of reason rushed in and stood in front of Lu Yuan.

Gray and white text appeared one after another.

You have received the favor of the archangel.

You have been blessed by the angels.

You have been inspired by an angel.

You have been blessed by holy light.

[Sanity: +50 (temporary)...78/140]

[Resilience and resilience have been significantly enhanced. Pollution resistance has been greatly improved.]

Your sanity cap has been temporarily anchored.

A series of gray and white notifications made Lu Yuan feel a sudden decrease in the weight on his body.

But he didn't know where he was.

Before me stood a palace steeped in black and red, beneath my feet lay countless unspeakable corpses, and before me stood a five-headed being raising its hands.

Reason returned, but 78 points were far from enough.

Lu Yuan mobilized the defenses.

Without hesitation.

Temporarily reduce the maximum sanity by 20 points.

[Defense (Temporary): Consumes 20 points of maximum sanity.]

[Sanity cap: 140 → 120 (temporary)]

[Sanity: +50...128/140 (Anchoring)]

Your reason has been forcibly anchored. You have stolen a sliver of His light.

The moment reason filled his body, Lu Yuan finally saw everything clearly in front of him.

The rotation of all five heads stopped.

At the same time, they were heading towards Lu Yuan.

The head directly in front of them, as upright as a statue, had one eye open.

Vertical pupils.

Blood red.

The pupils bore spiral patterns, originating from the same source as the dim inscriptions on the dome.

That eye was fixed on the back of Lu Yuan's left eye.

He wasn't looking at him, but at the key behind his left eye.

Lu Yuan suppressed the unease in his heart.

[...His gaze...His bewilderment...]

His raised hand stopped.

The crimson light that had gathered in his palm did not shoot out.

The palace fell completely silent.

The dripping blood from the dome stopped, the shadows of corpses on the ground froze, and even the black and red particles that filled the air stopped, hanging in mid-air, no longer drifting.

"...authority?"

His voice, unusually, carried a hint of emotion.

Slowly lower your hand.

The worm of knowledge has not died.

Lu Yuan stood in the palace that was covered with black and red blood.

There were countless wrecks beneath my feet.

Above us was a blood-red dome thousands of meters high.

Before me stood a being with one eye open, five heads without a head, and who had been silent for countless eons.

He didn't know how long the outer barrier could hold out.

Before Lu Yuan could process the meaning of those words, the vertical pupil had already moved.

His consciousness swept over, but instead of attacking Lu Yuan, he attempted to examine Lu Yuan's consciousness.

It was as if someone had directly lifted Lu Yuan's skull and reached inside to turn the pages.

The fragments of knowledge stored in the key were laid out one by one, each unfolding before His consciousness, leaving nowhere to hide.

Lu Yuan felt a sharp pain in his left eye, his vision shattered into a white blur, and the dense gray and white text became a jumbled mess. Just as Lu Yuan was at a loss...

Then the key moved.

The ocean of knowledge is responding on your behalf.

The gray text only jumped one line.

The teardrop-shaped key that had been hovering deep within his left eye rose slightly and hovered directly in front of Lu Yuan's consciousness projection.

Lu Yuan felt a force surging from the key, firmly protecting him behind him.

The next moment, the entire palace began to shake.

The dim spiral inscriptions on the dome trembled violently, as if sensing some kind of danger.

Then, endless seawater surged out from the key, spreading wildly across the stone slabs of the palace. Endless colors filled the entire palace, dispelling most of the darkness.

His five heads stopped turning at the same time, as if they had encountered something.

The seawater was raging wildly, and the palace was being extensively washed away.

The open eye stared at the seawater, and in silence, it withdrew its consciousness.

The crushing sensation disappeared.

Lu Yuan's vision returned, his left eye still throbbed faintly, but the gray and white text became clear again.

The tremors in the palace lasted for several seconds, then the light from the key slowly faded. The seawater did not recede but seeped into the cracks in the stone slabs and disappeared.

Reason is the first thing to emerge.

[Rationality: -8...110/140 (Anchoring)]

Lu Yuan steadied his breathing, suppressed his emotions, and looked up. He saw that the vertical pupil on the palace was contracting, and then it closed its eye.

The five heads began to rotate again.

It's as if nothing ever happened.

Lu Yuan could feel that the pressure of consciousness weighing on him had completely disappeared; He was no longer paying attention to him.

But Lu Yuan did not relax, because he knew that with his current strength, the gap between him and the thing in front of him was immeasurable.

If the key hadn't blocked it for him, that single mental crushing would have been enough to break him down in seconds, and would have exposed all his secrets.

But He still made a concession, clearly out of fear of the Sea of ​​Knowledge, since the corpse was immersed in it.

Regardless of what He was like in His life, He is now just a corpse sinking in the sea.

Lu Yuan made his judgment in his mind, because he couldn't think of any other reason.

But the blood-red ring underfoot did not disappear.

The petite girl remained locked in place.

Lu Yuan looked at her, and the girl looked back at him. The worm of knowledge in his arms curled up in a ball, motionless.

He did not speak again, and the five heads continued to rotate, never looking in Lu Yuan's direction.

But the meaning is clear: humans are allowed, but girls and insects are not.

But Lu Yuan still made an attempt, and he slowly spoke.

The sound echoed in the palace, and compared to His immense sound pressure of five tones superimposed, the human voice was laughably soft.

"Will you come with me?"

no respond.

Lu Yuan did not back down.

He took a step forward and walked towards the girl.

The crimson ring expanded. The inscriptions on the ground suddenly lit up, and heat radiated from beneath the stone slab.

caveat.

Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.

He knew he was merely a projection of consciousness and had no means to break free from this ring.

But the insect of knowledge was in her arms; the insect was his symbiotic organism.

"Let her go."

Still no response.

The girl watched Lu Yuan walk towards her step by step, then be blocked by the ring. She looked down at the crimson light at her feet, then looked up at Lu Yuan.

Then she raised the worm of knowledge in her arms and gently pushed it towards Lu Yuan.

The insect slipped from her hand and floated toward Lu Yuan, who this time did not stop it.

"Take it with you."

Lu Yuan didn't answer; he looked at the girl.