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

Lu Yuan glanced at the disappearing shadow behind him and nodded.

He walked to the edge of the collapse and glanced into the depths.

It was pitch black down there, and even the light from the marching lamps couldn't illuminate anything. Only the rotating inscriptions began to cover the walls from the edges, becoming denser as you went deeper.

Without further hesitation, Lu Yuan carried the war lantern in one hand and went inside.

Klaus stood in the pipe network layer, watching Lu Yuan's figure disappear into the darkness. He turned to look at Margaret.

"Go and clear out the ghouls around here. They've surged up again under the cover of fog. I'll keep an eye on these few."

Margaret nodded, said nothing more, and turned to walk towards the entrance.

The pipe network quickly quieted down. Klaus stood alone in front of the collapse, looking down into the darkness, lost in thought.

The moment Lu Yuan stepped into the darkness, he felt the ground beneath his feet tremble slightly, as if something was slowly wriggling beneath him.

He raised his war lamp and shone it around.

The light only illuminated three to five steps in front of me; any further away, the light seemed to be swallowed up.

Those swirling, eerie inscriptions covered every inch of the passage, overhead and underfoot, spinning in circles and swallowing the light bit by bit.

Lu Yuan narrowed his eyes.

The moment my gaze fell upon those inscriptions, an intense sense of dizziness surged up, and the whole world began to twist and turn along with those rotating arcs.

He immediately looked down, trying not to focus his gaze on any of the inscriptions, and the dizziness subsided considerably.

Before venturing deeper, a single rotating inscription was indeed no match for him.

The number of these inscriptions has increased many times over, but the conclusion remains the same; it just has a slightly greater impact when viewed directly.

His rationality remained unchanged, and the gray text offered no warning.

Lu Yuan composed himself, picked up the war lamp, and took a few steps forward.

Before I had taken more than a few steps, a line of text popped up at the edge of my field of vision.

[Advanced - Mysterious Inscription: +1...20.5/50]

Lu Yuan paused in his steps.

Immediately after, another one popped up.

[Advanced - Mysterious Inscription: +1...21.5/50]

You should know that right now, the only way he can get the experience of the strange inscription is to carve the brain core of a ghoul.

Even if you engrave several of those things, you might not be able to make up 0.1%.

He has only taken a few steps in this passage, and he has already gained a full point, and he is still going up.

This place is practically a paradise for grinding experience points.

However, Lu Yuan did not forget why he came here.

He suppressed his joy, raised his marching lamp, and, by the faint light of the sandworm oil, strode quickly into the depths of the passage.

This wasn't Lu Yuan's first time passing through this passage; he was quite familiar with the surrounding roads.

The light was reduced to only two or three steps by the rotating inscriptions, but the path beneath his feet remained unchanged. He walked according to his memory, and his speed did not slow down.

The passageway was extremely quiet.

The spinning, eerie inscriptions made no sound whatsoever; only the flame of the marching lamp was occasionally pressed down slightly by something unseen, casting shadows that swelled and shrank within the bronze lampshade.

As we rounded the second bend, a pale blue light emerged from the darkness ahead.

The light was very faint and dim, but it stood out starkly in the darkness seven or eight steps away.

Lu Yuan slowed his pace and raised the marching light forward. The light couldn't reach that spot, but the blue light was moving towards him.

It's the Blue Knight.

The Blue Knight emerged from the darkness, his demeanor different from before.

The light blue silk threads on the outer layer of the armor were tightly bound, layer upon layer, covering the armor plates, making the whole body completely airtight. Only the eyes, shining with a deep blue light, stood out conspicuously in the dark passage.

She seemed to sense someone behind her, paused for a moment, then took a few steps toward Lu Yuan before confirming that there was indeed someone behind her, and it was Lu Yuan.

She stared blankly at Lu Yuan in the darkness, clearly not expecting to see him here.

A second-tier being, carrying a lamp, walked nonchalantly through the overwhelming, eerie inscriptions.

You should know that she only managed to get here after walking for so long thanks to the special training methods of the Knight Academy and her extraordinary equipment.

The young man behind her, who arrived later, had already caught up with her, which made no sense at all.

The Blue Knight opened his mouth, but ultimately didn't ask the question.

Lu Yuan noticed her confusion but didn't explain. He simply walked quickly to her side, nodded, and continued forward.

The Blue Knight paused for a moment, looking at Lu Yuan who had already walked ahead, seemingly lost in thought, before following him.

Lu Yuan walked in front, with the Blue Knight following behind. The two were less than a step apart. Lu Yuan quickly noticed something: these strange, rotating runes seemed to have their own consciousness.

When something passes by, they subconsciously, like eyes, stare at the moving object.

So when Lu Yuan walked ahead, almost all the attention of those densely packed, strange inscriptions fell on him.

They surged in from all directions, their swirling forms seemingly carrying gazes, relentlessly pursuing Lu Yuan.

That spinning, twisting sensation landed on him and then slid away along his body.

Lu Yuan, who was walking in front, relieved a lot of pressure for the Blue Knight. Almost all the gazes that were originally fixed on the Blue Knight were drawn to Lu Yuan.

The Blue Knight felt the pressure on his body suddenly ease. Looking at the young man in front of him, the threads binding him loosened a bit, and his previously rapid breathing calmed down.

Her confusion reached its peak at this moment.

This is completely illogical. How exactly did Lu Yuan manage to block these things? Was it through his extraordinary abilities? But she didn't ask.

Klaus had mentioned Lu Yuan to her a month ago.

She had just returned to Bronze City from the Knight Academy when Klaus approached her, saying he had a young man under his command whom he wanted to send to the Knight Academy for training.

Each branch of the Night's Watch has a quota for training at the Knights Academy, but it is often empty.

Having a spot doesn't guarantee you'll get in.

Most of the time, this spot was used to house the sons of nobles, either for prestige or to avoid trouble; very few people actually went to the Knight Academy to train.

The Knight Academy's admissions process largely relies on knights discovering and recommending students themselves.

Once a person trains to become a "knight" in the academy and obtains the qualifications of a knight, they will leave the academy to pursue their own path to becoming a Grand Knight Commander.

However, most graduating knights never reach the rank of Grand Knight Commander in their lifetime. So they scatter throughout the empire, searching for their own paths, sharing the empire's burdens, and keeping an eye out for truly promising talents for the academy.

This method can indeed send some extremely talented young people to the academy, but it is far too slow.

Those who become knights have extremely high standards, and a graduated knight might not bring in a single student for the academy even after several years. That's how scarce the academy's student body is.

So when she heard Klaus mention that he had a young man under his command, Blue Knight's first thought was: "Whose young master is this, wanting to go to the Knight Academy to get some experience and hone his skills?" She didn't take it to heart.

Klaus held some weight within the Night's Watch, and his strength was undeniable, so she didn't refuse him and said she'd see how things went.

It wasn't until she met Lu Yuan in person that she changed her mind and truly took him seriously.

The first time she examined Lu Yuan's pathways, she knew that this person's pathways were definitely not as described in the files, merely a strange and extraordinary knowledge.

While bizarre knowledge is dangerous and powerful, it is far from being this heaven-defying, unless the bizarre knowledge he chose is extremely powerful, but Lu Yuan has no trace of corruption on him.

Moreover, after getting to know him, she could sense that Lu Yuan's rationality was ridiculously high, almost comparable to her classmates at the Knight Academy.

She had only ever seen one person with such a strong foundation of reason in all the years she had spent at the Northern Branch of the Knowledge Transformation Academy.

Lu Yuan's background is clean. He is from the East, with no family background, no powerful backers, and the origin of his Night Watch membership is unknown.

Such a background means nothing in the imperial aristocracy, but the Knight Academy doesn't care about that.

The academy only looks at two things: whether one has enough talent and whether one's mind is strong enough. In any case, Lu Yuan's talent is definitely sufficient.

The scene before her eyes further confirmed her judgment. A young man of the second rank was calmly clearing a path for her in a place where even a fourth rank would have difficulty handling it.

This goes beyond what the word "genius" can fully describe.

The Blue Knight suppressed the thought. The passage rounded its final bend ahead, and the space suddenly opened up.

The two turned the corner one after the other, and the ground beneath their feet suddenly opened up, their footsteps echoing in the vast space.

The light from the marching lights couldn't illuminate anything in this open space; the pale flames flickered and then dimmed considerably.

The oppression it felt here was much heavier than in the passageway.

Lu Yuan held up the war lamp and circled around before he could barely make out the outline of this space.

The copper wall should have been directly in front of him. The last time he came, the copper wall stood at the end of this space, like a mountain, its surface smooth as a mirror.

But right now, there's nothing.

The eerie, rotating inscriptions covered every wall, spinning wildly in the vast darkness, their speed and density many times greater than those inside the passage.

As long as he doesn't lose his rationality, he is invincible.

At that moment, Lu Yuan's left eye suddenly felt slightly warm; the Worm of Knowledge had awakened.

It peeked out from under the key at some point, looked around a few times, and then suddenly its whole body lit up with colorful light, flashing and flickering, much more active than during the period when it was recuperating and dormant.

Lu Yuan could sense the emotions it conveyed: excitement and joy.

Clearly, the strange inscriptions rotating in this vast space are exactly what it likes.

It was shimmering with light as it buried its head in something and ate.

Lu Yuan ignored it.

When the worm of knowledge is full, it will always feed back something to him; the more it eats, the better it is for itself.

When he was seriously injured a while ago, no matter what he fed it—crystals or anything else—the little thing showed no interest. Now that it's eating, Lu Yuan is naturally happy to see it.