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

Without any hesitation, Lu Yuan grabbed Klaus's arm.

The next moment, the churning flesh and blood suddenly rose from the bottom of the abyss and rushed towards them with unstoppable force.

The moment the flesh and blood fell, Klaus's arm yanked sharply, plunging Lu Yuan's vision into darkness once more.

My body was enveloped by an immense force, and the sounds of wind and the creaking of bone armor filled my ears.

He felt something brush against his back, hot and sticky, bringing a sharp pain; it was flesh rubbing against him.

In less than a breath, I regained a sense of solidity beneath my feet.

Lu Yuan was thrown to the ground, his knee hitting the somewhat tough flesh, causing him to wince in pain.

They have returned to the hollow above.

Klaus stood beside him, a piece of his bone armor's right shoulder sliced ​​off, revealing the flesh beneath, dark green crystals covering the wound and sealing it.

Klaus was also scratched by the blood and flesh.

He glanced down to make sure the wound wasn't contaminated, then scanned Lu Yuan's back to confirm he was alright before hurrying upwards.

The sounds from the battlefield could be heard from a dozen steps away.

The Blue Knight was still using the threads on her body to pull at the enormous creature, while purplish-black flames burned fiercely.

Adrian's jet-black wings were enveloped in almost endless black flames, which burned wildly on the enormous creature's body.

But Lu Yuan didn't have time to look any further.

A rapid, writhing sound came from the passage behind them, and dark red flesh and blood were gushing out from the depths of the passage, lunging towards him and Klaus.

That thing caught up.

Klaus reacted much faster than Lu Yuan.

The bone armor covered his entire body again, and he grabbed Lu Yuan by the back of his collar, lifting him up.

With a slight misstep, his last afterimage appeared behind him, and the next moment his speed increased dramatically as he rushed towards the battlefield.

The passage behind him was completely blocked the moment Klaus left, and dark red flesh and blood surged out from the gaps like waves.

A faint roar emanated from within the flesh and blood, making one dizzy and disoriented.

Klaus and Lu Yuan rushed into the hollow, and the battlefield was very different from when they left.

The colossal creature was now only sixty percent of its original size, its entire body charred black. Adrian hovered in mid-air, his body enveloped in black flames, which continuously clung to it, burning it to a crisp and revealing the pitted and mangled flesh beneath.

The silk threads covering the Blue Knight resembled a spiderweb, almost completely filling the huge void, drawing arc after arc in mid-air, lifting her figure to an astonishing speed.

Adrian's wings flapped incessantly, and purplish-black flames surged from his body, enveloping most of the enormous creature's body.

Margaret and her attendants circled around to keep the creature at bay, while the Great Ascended occasionally unleashed a beam of light. The creature was already struggling to maintain its footing.

But the moment Klaus and Lu Yuan stepped into the cave, a large section of the ground beneath their feet rose up, arching half a foot higher, causing everyone to sway.

The Blue Knight's expression changed drastically; she was the first to realize something.

At the same moment, the enormous creature began to swell.

The flesh that Adrian had just burned was now growing back out at an abnormally fast rate.

The charred surface was pushed open by new, dark red flesh, layer upon layer, arching from the waist and abdomen to the chest, and spreading all the way to the shoulders.

In the blink of an eye, it returned to its original size, and its size even continued to grow.

The purplish-black flames were still burning, but the newly grown flesh was more than twice as thick as before, and the burning efficiency had obviously slowed down.

Adrian frowned, and the flames enveloping his body suddenly swelled, with some dark characters rising from within the flames before vanishing into thin air.

The flames had almost turned completely black, yet they still couldn't suppress its growth rate. Its recovery speed far exceeded the rate of burning.

New flesh and blood surged up from the ground, flowing into its body through its legs and stretching its body outwards inch by inch.

Adrian's expression finally changed.

His gaze passed over the colossal object and fell upon Klaus and Lu Yuan, who burst forth from the passage, and the flesh and blood gushing forth behind them.

"withdraw!"

Adrian and Klaus shouted it out almost simultaneously.

Adrian's scorching flames encountered an obstacle—a force that shouldn't exist in reality.

He instantly snapped back to reality and, without the slightest hesitation, leaped backward.

The Blue Knight had already retracted most of the silk threads, leaving only a single strand wrapped around the giant creature to slow its movements as much as possible, before launching himself backward.

Margaret followed and retreated. The attendant withdrew the purple light net, and steam billowed from the Great Ascended One's body. Despite being the one who was closest to the front, he retreated the fastest.

But before they could get close to the passage they had come from, it was blocked by flesh and blood.

Dark red flesh gushed out from the walls around the passage, completely blocking the exit.

The holes of varying sizes on the walls of the hollow were the same; one after another, they were covered by flesh and blood, which then surged out and converged towards the center of the hollow.

The entire cavity is being filled with flesh and blood.

The blood and flesh on the ground had spread up to everyone's ankles, and the sticky texture clung to their calves, carrying a burning sensation and a nauseating stench.

An extremely unsettling aura was spreading through this flesh and blood.

The Blue Knight's rapier slashed down at the flesh and blood at his feet, the crimson sword energy cutting a deep trench. The flesh and blood at the bottom of the trench instantly closed up, filling the trench completely.

The beam of light from the Great Ascended One slammed into the nearest wall of flesh and blood, scorching a hole the size of a bowl. Before the flesh and blood around the hole could even sizzle, it was filled with fresh flesh and blood.

With their current strength, they simply cannot forge a new path.

Upon seeing this, Adrian spread his jet-black wings to their maximum extent.

The flesh and blood curled and shrank the moment they touched the rain of fire, shrinking back a few inches, but in the blink of an eye they surged back, pushing against the flames and pushing inward. The rain of fire illuminated the entire cavern, stopping the flesh and blood falling from above, barely buying everyone a few breaths.

Adrian's expression changed slightly.

He no longer maintained the shape of his wings; the jet-black wings spread out from behind him, transforming into countless feathers that shot in all directions, reigniting the dying rain of fire, which was now almost extinguished, and barely keeping pace with the endless torrent of blood and flesh.

But this wouldn't last long; the feathers were burning away at a visible rate.

Adrian landed back on the ground.

Without that wing, most of the purplish-black aura around him dissipated, his face turned ashen, and a trickle of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

He hunched over slightly, panting for a while before finally managing to lift his head.

Klaus had already reached the group.

The green light on the bone ring flickered wildly; he wanted to take everyone away at once.

The green light flashed repeatedly, but the teleportation failed to activate.

The bronze pillar in the hollow was still casting an oppressive light, pressing down on him; that forbidden aura permeated the entire hollow, and he couldn't mobilize his power for the time being.

Klaus frowned.

Just as he was about to try again, Adrian reluctantly pulled something out of his pocket. It was a pure white feather with a very faint golden halo around its edges.

"Be prepared, I only have one of these."

The archbishop gave an instruction, then carefully held it between his fingertips, couldn't help but glance at it a couple more times, a hint of reluctance flashing in his eyes, before pressing it into his palm, clasping his hands together, and rubbing it vigorously.

White debris drifted out from between his fingers.

[Environmental Sensing: A high-risk pollution source has been detected. Please move away immediately.]

This was the notification that popped up in Lu Yuan's field of vision the moment Adrian took out the feather.

The next moment, the last trace of black aura on Adrian vanished completely.

The power of the fallen angel completely faded from his body, the dark flames went out, and his gray-black hair returned to its original white color.

He knelt down on the ground, clasped his hands together, and closed his eyes.

The prayer came out of his mouth.

"The lost lamb weeps blood here, begging your mercy."

The sound wasn't loud, but it traveled extremely far in the cave filled with the stench of blood.

The fiery rain outside was dissipating at a visible speed.

At most, it can hold on for another ten breaths or so before that flesh and blood surge up.

The last afterimage behind Klaus was about to be thrown out. If he couldn't hold on any longer, he planned to sacrifice it and forcibly take everyone away.

The ascendant silently took a few steps back.

The gears in his silver-gray pupils turned silently, but he had already understood Adrian's plan.

One moment he had defected to the Second Church, the next he was calling himself a lost sheep before the Church of Angels.

Adrian continued chanting.

"Great and holy angel, your most devout follower, offers you my humblest prayer."

His voice was urgent and sincere, each word emphasized, and his face was filled with an almost fanatical devotion.

Lu Yuan and the others heard it clearly from a few steps away, staring at Adrian's ashen yet extremely devout face, unable to utter a single word.

Compared to the others, Lu Yuan's consciousness was already connected to those fragments. Although he hadn't reached five yet, having collected four fragments, he seemed to already possess the ability to control some kind of power.

Lu Yuan was prepared to forcibly take the fragments and break out of this place if the archbishop's method failed.

At the same time, the shattered feather in his palm completely transformed into golden light halfway through the prayer.

The light burst forth from his clasped palms, rushing upwards and piercing through the churning flesh and the hollow ceiling, disappearing straight into the darkness above.

The emptiness and silence lasted for a moment.

At that moment, all the flesh and blood stopped, the churning and writhing solidified at the same time, the layer of flesh and blood that had spread over the calves underfoot froze in place, and even the huge creature that was approaching froze.

Because an eye suddenly opened above everyone's heads.

The golden eye was so large that it occupied most of the dome, its pupil carrying an indifferent quality, slowly turning, with an indescribable pattern floating on its surface.

The entire eyeball possessed a quality that only a living being could have, so sacred that one dared not look directly at it, yet the indifference in those eyes had absolutely nothing to do with humans.

Golden light poured down from that eye, illuminating the entire hollow.

The golden patterns on those bronze pillars, which flickered on and off, shone brightest the moment the golden light fell upon them, then vanished completely the next instant, along with the oppressive aura that clung to their very bones.

The flesh and blood, riddled with cavities, crumbled violently in the golden light. Wherever the golden light touched, the flesh and blood lost their color, losing vitality from the surface to the depths, turning into a layer of dead ash.