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

Marcus moved.

His body emitted a piercing hiss, the sound of gears overloaded, and red light flashed wildly on his half-mechanical face, as if some kind of alarm was about to be sounded.

Steam burst.

White mist surged out from every crevice of his body, expanding, churning, and wrapping around him like a cloak of steam. Even from a distance of more than ten meters, Lu Yuan could feel the air distorting.

A wave of heat hit us.

The ground trembled, and countless tentacles suddenly spread out from the cracks in the ore beneath their feet, as if stimulated, and frantically rushed towards Marcus.

But Marcus had already noticed.

With a stomp of his foot, he transformed into a white shooting star, not rushing towards the tentacle-like mutated creature, but bypassing it and heading directly towards the upward-winding passage behind the altar.

The tentacles that surged out from underground were scorched by the high temperature as soon as they emerged, making a "sizzling" sound, and twisted and retracted. The tentacles that pulled out from the side had their skin instantly rotten upon contact with the steam, and could not stop his steps at all.

"He's gone mad!" Alice's voice was filled with shock.

Philip remained silent, only clutching the holy emblem to his chest, its pale golden light shimmering faintly between his fingers.

Lu Yuan stared into the depths of that passage.

The heart is inside.

The source of strange dreams.

If it's not resolved, the strange dreams will never stop.

He'll end up like Leisen, or worse.

"Philip." Lu Yuan watched Marcus walk away, his voice calm.

Philip glanced at him but said nothing. The holy emblem lit up, and a layer of pale golden light covered Lu Yuan's entire body.

Lu Yuan took out the last three bottles of intermediate-grade holy water, tilted his head back, and drank them all in one gulp.

[Sanity: +7.70/70]

You have received an angel's blessing, which has temporarily restored your sanity.

He held the timekeeping device in his arms with his left hand.

He had already taken out a gunpowder for exorcising demons with his right hand.

"What are you going to do?" Gray grabbed Lu Yuan's shoulder and frowned.

Lu Yuan did not answer, but simply broke free from Gray's grasp.

The next moment he rushed out.

Accompanied by the clicking sound of the time signal.

The world has slowed down.

Everything around him seemed to be sinking into a quagmire; sounds became low and movements slowed down. Only Lu Yuan walked through the accelerated flow of time.

Marcus's steam appeared as a slowly spreading white mist in Lu Yuan's eyes, and the twisting of the tentacles seemed like a slow-motion replay. Alice turned to look at his movements, but her gaze froze halfway through.

In his eyes, the trajectory of the gunpowder was clearly visible, cutting through the air, passing over the writhing tentacles, and landing precisely in the center of that mass of flesh.

"boom!"

It's like a sun rising from the ground.

The blinding light instantly engulfed everything, and the scorching airwaves spread outwards like a shockwave. The holy power exploded in the temple, as if to purify all the filth here.

All the tentacles trembled simultaneously, twisted, contracted, and retreated frantically.

It felt like being burned.

The road to the heart has finally been opened.

Marcus seized the opportunity, and steam erupted again. His figure instantly covered that distance and disappeared into the ore passage behind the altar.

Lu Yuan followed closely behind.

It was a semi-transparent passage made entirely of solidified dark blue minerals.

The passage wound its way upwards, with blue light flowing through the ore, making it difficult to see the path ahead.

The moment Marcus stepped into the passage, countless tentacles sprouted from the cracks in the ore, blocking his path.

But Marcus didn't stop. His mechanical arm blasted out, steam carrying terrifying force, smashing a path through the air.

The power emanating from each swing of his fist was even more terrifying than that of the judge.

Lu Yuan followed behind, the blue light in the passage growing brighter and brighter until it was blinding.

My headache started to get worse.

The images from the strange dream kept flashing back in my mind.

【理智：-2...-2...-2...64/70】

But Lu Yuan didn't stop; he had to go in and find out what was going on.

Finally, at the end of the passage, Marcus stopped.

Lu Yuan also stopped.

eye.

Countless eyes.

At this moment, they all opened their eyes.

Behind the translucent ore lies more than just a heart.

The heart is only one part of it.

It was larger, as massive as the temple hidden in the darkness.

The scene before Lu Yuan's eyes began to distort, and his mind could no longer process what he was seeing.

It is not advisable to look directly at it.

indescribable.

Incomprehensible.

His eyes were bleeding, and his body was trembling.

[WARNING: An unspeakable object has been detected. Direct gaze will cause a breakdown of sanity and irreversible alienation.]

[Warning: The sanity barrier has reached its limit]

[Warning: Sanity Barrier... Collapsed (0/3)]

[Rationality: 11/70]

Lu Yuan's consciousness began to blur.

Reason is about to crumble.

Marcus also stalled.

The guy who had already transformed himself beyond recognition had his half-mechanical face flashing red light even more frantically, as if he were on the verge of collapse.

But the next moment, a meaty aroma wafted over.

This spurred Lu Yuan, who was on the verge of collapse, to regain his remaining rationality.

Why does it taste like this?

That came from Marcus.

Marcus seemed to have been prepared.

In an unconscious state, his mechanical skeleton began to burn, and red flames boiled.

The intense heat instantly cooked the remaining human parts of his body.

The flesh began to curl and fall off, dropping in large chunks to the ground, and even the bones gradually changed color.

At this moment, Marcus finally regained his last shred of reason and began to move again.

His still-human eye flashed with a final, frenzied light before exploding.

Marcus strode forward, rushing to his heart.

The robotic arm deformed, extending a golden needle.

The needle was covered in runes and glowed faintly. The next moment, the needle pierced the heart!

My heart was pounding violently.

The entire temple began to shake.

Although it only pierced the edge, its enormous size still caused the wound to gush out a large amount of blue blood.

Marcus aimed a small vial at the wound and caught the liquid.

At the very moment Marcus pierced the heart's defenses, the countless eyes that had been hidden behind the ore gradually closed.

One after another, slowly and heavily, as if falling into a deep sleep once more.

The overwhelming tentacles stopped wriggling.

They ceased their attack and drooped to the ground, as if all their strength had been drained.

The entire temple fell into an eerie silence for a moment.

Lu Yuan's mind was blank at this moment, but his body's instincts still drove him to rush to his heart, where the wounds caused by the golden needles were still bleeding.

He took out an empty holy water bottle.

He caught some dark blue liquid, plugged the bottle, and put it in his pocket.

[Item Obtained: Blood of ██ (Small Amount)]

Lu Yuan didn't have time to look at the prompt that appeared in front of him. His last remaining instincts were driving him to leave, but his rationality was about to disappear and his body had reached its limit.

As the time synchronization was shut down, Lu Yuan could no longer hold on; his vision blurred and his consciousness began to fade.

Just then, a mechanical arm grabbed him.