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

The white fog in the inner city was gradually fading, and most of the thick fog that had lingered in the streets had dissipated.

Only the Tower of Learning in the distance remained shrouded in that grayish-white mist, standing alone in the middle of the sea of ​​blood, becoming the last piece of the inner city that had not been swallowed by flesh and blood.

Above the main tower of the Tower of Learning, the rift in the sea of ​​knowledge still hangs there, with a large number of characters of various colors constantly overflowing from the rift, and colorful light trailing long tails as it falls downwards.

The words fell onto the churning flesh, where they touched became scorched and dry, leaving a dent. But before the dent could widen, more fresh flesh surged up from below, filling the gap.

Flesh and blood and words are locked together, neither able to overcome the other.

Lu Yuan stared at the crack for a few seconds.

He could feel the authority deep within his left eye slightly warming, with a faint connection to the rift.

Logan, following behind the group, said, "Look carefully, everyone. This is what the inner city will look like from here on out. We'll be passing through it. If you want to back out now, it's not too late."

No one replied.

The airship continued its advance toward the Tower of Learning, and the scene of flesh and blood intertwined with plant roots spread out beneath its feet, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Green suddenly groaned.

"What is that?"

His gaze was fixed on the edge of the gray fog above the Bo Xue Tower, his wrinkled face scrunched up, and his hand unconsciously gripped the tool bag on his apron.

Everyone's eyes followed the direction he was pointing.

Deep within the gray fog, a colossal, dark golden object hangs suspended.

At first, it was not clear. Through the gray fog and the rising blood and flesh, one could only vaguely make out that it was a dark golden light and shadow, which landed heavily directly above the Tower of Learning.

The airship flew forward a little further before the outline of the object gradually became clear.

It was a huge crown made of solidified flesh and blood.

The crown is entirely dark gold, with its tip pointing upwards, and seven jewel-like eyeballs are embedded in its body.

Six of them were cloudy and black, with stained lines spreading from the depths of the pupils to the whites of the eyes. Only the one in the center retained its original clarity and brightness, its color still shifting.

Lu Yuan and the Blue Knight recognized him almost immediately.

Isn't this the huge crown we saw below the copper wall before? How did it end up here?

Flesh and blood hung down from below the crown, connecting bit by bit with the churning flesh and blood below. The entire crown was dragged down by countless strands of flesh and blood, suspended in the air.

At this moment, it is colliding head-on with the falling fragments of knowledge from the sea above.

The authority deep within Lu Yuan's left eye trembled slightly.

The feeling was faint yet extremely clear; authority seemed to recognize the crown, or rather, to have some kind of relationship with it.

The six cloudy eyes on the crown, which had been fixed on the direction of the Sea of ​​Knowledge, did not look at the Sky-Seeking Fortress flying in from the sky.

But as the Sky-Seeking Fortress drew closer, one of the satellites suddenly turned around, as if it had sensed something. Its gaze pierced through the blood and gore and the remaining mist, landing directly on the airship.

In that instant, the hairs on Lu Yuan's body stood on end.

The air inside the cabin instantly turned gloomy, a real sense of oppression emanating directly from that eyeball. Even through the thick metal shell and inscribed glass, one could feel a tightness in their chest.

The people in the cabin reacted almost simultaneously, with Green turning pale and taking a few steps back.

Logan didn't hesitate at all. He strode to the control panel and called out to the nearest person searching for directions. The person immediately turned on a metal valve beside him.

Logan simultaneously pressed a metal button embedded in the central metal control panel.

The next moment, all the inscriptions on the entire airship lit up simultaneously.

An extremely restrained aura emanated from the grooves of the inscription, spreading along the metal surface and enveloping the entire airship in layers.

The pressure inside the cabin suddenly dropped, the sound of gears underfoot gradually subsided, and even the hissing sound of steam escaping from the pipes became indistinct.

Lu Yuan felt a blur before his eyes, and the sticky feeling of being stared at disappeared completely.

He turned his head to look at the eyeball. The eyeball was still in the airship's previous position, its gaze falling on the empty space where it had been. It paused, then slowly scanned left and right, searching around.

The gaze swept over the advancing Sky-Searching Fortress without pausing, instead gliding straight past it and searching the distant sky.

Clearly, it couldn't find the Sky Fortress.

Green let out a long sigh, beads of sweat running down his wrinkled face. He wiped the sweat from his face, rubbing the back of his hand on his gray beard, his whole body still trembling slightly.

"Good heavens," he muttered, "I almost died."

Logan's hand was still on the button; he hadn't let go.

He stared at the readings on the control panel, his voice low. "Once the stealth runes are activated, the rune load on the airbags and outer shell will double, but it won't last long, so we need to hurry."

Lu Yuan looked at the eyeball that was still searching on its own and felt a chill run down his spine.

The inscriptions on this Sky-Searching Fortress were so powerful that they could block the view of a forbidden being, making it impossible for him to even search for them. Clearly, the Empire held far more than he had imagined.

Logan was right; the Sky Fortress wouldn't last long, and everyone could feel the temperature inside the cabin rising rapidly.

The Seeking Sky Fortress did not increase its altitude further; instead, it concealed its presence and flew slowly towards the Tower of Learning, clinging to the edge of the gray lingering mist.

But the flight didn't last long.

The airship stealthily made its way toward the Tower of Learning using the concealed inscriptions, and no one in the cabin made a sound.

It had barely flown out for the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea when the eyeballs on the crown moved again.

The one that was left behind continued its search, but this time, another one appeared next to it.

Two cloudy eyes, one on each side, constantly scanned the surroundings, the search area doubling in size from before. Green's face paled even more.

As a dwarf, he was particularly sensitive to the aura of such beings.

The flesh and blood below also began to change at this moment.

Thin, elongated things bulged out from the churning flesh and blood. Dark red tentacles were pulled out of the sea of ​​blood and swayed in the air, their tips twisting and turning, tentatively probing around.

The tentacles made of flesh and blood grew taller and taller, with the longest ones reaching almost the same height as the airship. The tips of the tentacles were cracked with sticky fissures and reached out into the air.

Logan cursed under his breath, but had no choice but to raise the airship's altitude a bit. However, the airship's service ceiling was limited; the higher it climbed, the greater the pressure in the gasbags became, and the more power the inscription needed to maintain stealth.

The sound of gears meshing below the deck suddenly became louder, the pipes on the walls began to heat up, and the white steam emitted by the airship fortress grew thicker and thicker, leaving a faint white trail behind the airship.

Although Crown could not see the airship, he could sense something disturbing in the air.

The white steam trail was very conspicuous at high altitude, and it couldn't be blown away by the wind for a short time, hanging behind the airship.

The third eyeball on the crown turned around.

The three cloudy eyeballs simultaneously ceased their struggle with the sea of ​​knowledge, turning together to gaze slowly into the sky.

A massive amount of flesh and blood turned back from the sea of ​​knowledge, swarming in to fill the gaps in the crown's defenses, blocking the continuous fall of colorful words.

Logan's face darkened completely.

Green, standing beside him, his white beard trembling violently, managed to squeeze out, "Maybe we should hurry up and leave; this thing's intelligence is just too high."

No one expected that this flesh and blood crown would be so determined to block the Sky-Seeking Fortress from the outside, and that it would possess such a level of intelligence, or rather, no one expected that this thing, which had just recovered, would already have its intelligence restored.

It's important to understand that whatever they are, their concept of time is different from that of humans. What humans consider a day may be just a moment in the eyes of certain taboo beings.

So it returned to its original state in an instant?

As the three eyes surveyed the scene, the flesh below had completely exploded.

Large swathes of flesh and blood rose from the ground, coalescing into fleshy tentacles tens of meters high, swaying in the air, their sticky, wet openings frantically exploring in all directions.

The number of tentacles continued to increase, emerging one after another from the sea of ​​blood, constantly exploring left, right, front, and back, spreading a loose net along the airship's flight path.

The airship had no choice but to rise another notch, and the nearest tentacles had caught up.

With the airbag above, everyone stayed in the cabin below, and the tentacles were only a few dozen meters away from the cabin.

At this moment, the tear in the flesh was wide open, and mucus flowed down the edge of the tear. The stench could be faintly smelled even through the cabin.

One of the tentacles suddenly grew and slid along the starboard side of the Seeking Void Fortress, its sticky slime splashing onto the glass window, leaving a dark red mark and a slight corrosive sound.

The expressions of the several pathfinders in the control room changed simultaneously.

The Blue Knight had already drawn half of her sword, but Klaus pressed down on her wrist and shook his head slightly.

Logan slammed his hand on the control panel.

"Full speed ahead, all weapon systems ready for battle."

The pathfinder immediately received the order, and the cabin instantly sprang into action.

Several people in front of the control panel simultaneously turned various buttons and valves, causing the brightness of the inscriptions on the air-seeking fortress to surge several levels, and the pipes on the pipe walls to become so hot that they could not be approached.

The gears on the deck beneath their feet spun rapidly, causing the entire airship to tremble violently, making it difficult even for those in the control room to stand steadily.

The airbag on my head had expanded to its limit, making a teeth-grinding creaking sound, and the texture on its surface seemed about to crack.

The airship suddenly shot upwards a large distance.

Large amounts of white steam billowed out from all sides, enveloping the airship in a thick layer of white fog.

The fleshy tentacles that had been chasing them slowed down noticeably after they touched the white mist. The fissures groped around haphazardly in the fog, unable to find the Sky-Seeking Fortress.

Just then, a tentacle that suddenly grew taller crashed into the airbag of the Sky Fortress. The entire airship shook, and the inscriptions on the airbag burst out with a dazzling light, burning the tentacle off.

The violent shaking made it difficult for the people in the cabin to stand up for a moment.

Logan pressed a switch with a heavy expression, and the speed of the Sky Fortress suddenly increased, barely shaking off the tentacles behind it.

Although the white steam still had a trail, the altitude was already sufficient, and the airflow here was relatively stable, so the inscription barely managed to stabilize the Sky Seeker Fortress.

The three eyeballs below were still searching, but their gaze could no longer keep up.