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

His attack, wielding the Sea of ​​Knowledge, struck the inscribed flesh and blood, causing the rate at which it scorched and became contaminated to slow noticeably.

The plant roots within the flesh and blood continuously multiplied, growing from extremely thin to extremely thick, wrapping around the surface of the flesh and blood. This not only brought great resilience, but the roots also showed a significant resistance to the baptism of the sea of ​​knowledge.

For a moment, Lu Yuan and his physical body were locked in a stalemate.

But if this continues, Lu Yuan will only suffer, because the Crown of Kings is producing some strange reaction with that starry flesh and blood.

But Lu Yuan had another trick up his sleeve: the Knowledge Worm.

At this moment, the insect swarm outside the city seemed to have sensed something. Above the outer city, a large number of Knowledge Insects took to the air, and countless tiny creatures suddenly flew up from the half-eaten flesh and carcasses.

Their bodies have undergone obvious changes; they are no longer the thin creatures they once were, but have grown considerably larger.

They gathered together, their bodies flashing with light, forming a flowing river of colorful light that surged toward Lu Yuan's location.

The river of light grew wider and brighter as it flew, stretching across most of the Bronze City's sky from the outer city to the inner city, like a rainbow bridge built over this land of flesh and blood.

At the same time, numerous colorful points of light emerged from the cracks in the sea of ​​knowledge.

As if responding to something, they surged out of the sea through the cracks in groups, their bodies shimmering with colorful light and covered with dense text.

These insects of knowledge and the swarms of insects flying in from the outer city converged above the Tower of Learning, forming an overwhelming, colorful insect tide that rushed straight down towards the flesh and blood below.

Lu Yuan continuously issued commands to his knowledge worm through the symbiotic connection.

The worm of knowledge then led a swarm of insects to help Lu Yuan launch a pincer attack from both inside and outside.

Colorful light, words, and worms of knowledge collided violently with flesh and blood.

The flesh and blood body covered in inscriptions was finally punched with a noticeable gap by this attack.

The colorful river of light formed by the worms of knowledge swarmed in instantly, burrowing into the flesh and blood, frantically devouring the knowledge contained within. Colorful light spots exploded continuously on the dark red flesh walls, one after another.

At this moment, the Seeking Sky Fortress finally took root in the outer city.

The airship had deflated considerably, most of the inscriptions on it were broken, and the entire airship was crookedly parked on a patch of ruins in the outer city, hollowed out by the Worms of Knowledge. Logan's expression had not yet recovered.

Klaus was the first to jump out of the hatch, followed closely by the Blue Knight carrying the Earl, while Hilde, her legs a little weak, jumped off the Sky Fortress while clutching her books.

The Guardian seemed to have regained some consciousness. Instead of letting Klaus take his black eyeball, it floated out of the hatch on its own and hovered in mid-air without landing.

Rick was there too. He had arrived at the landing point sometime earlier, and his half-crippled body had recovered somewhat, with swarms of insects swimming all over him.

As soon as everyone regained their footing, they almost simultaneously looked back towards the inner city.

Looking across most of the city, the colorful sea of ​​knowledge has fully unfolded, and the original fissures in the sea of ​​knowledge have now expanded to more than twice their original size.

The extremely sticky white fog was torn open, revealing large gaps in the outline of the inner city, which was faintly visible under the colorful light. At the same time, the swarms of insects floating in the sky dragged along the light, which looked like the colors of hope.

But beneath this magnificent scene, everyone sensed another aura.

The aura surged out from the direction of the inner city, so complex and terrifying, so heavy that it made it hard to breathe.

It was an aura that no one had ever seen before, like some extremely powerful being that was constantly awakening.

Unlike others who can only sense a general outline, the guardians can perceive much more.

He could sense that although the sea of ​​knowledge was vast and magnificent, the actual threat it posed was perhaps much weaker than he imagined. Meanwhile, the aura emanating from the flesh and blood within the inner city, and from the crown made of flesh and blood, was constantly growing stronger.

The guardian's enormous black eyeball, suspended in mid-air, slowly gazed toward the inner city.

His remaining human head had shrunk considerably, the skin on it was even drier, his eye sockets were sunken, and his lips were cracked, making it almost impossible for him to make a human voice.

He gazed at the atmosphere of the inner city, an atmosphere he had never seen before, and pondered silently.

Lu Yuan, how much longer can you hold on?

Moreover, he's actually a forbidden scholar associated with the Sea of ​​Knowledge? That's rare; I should have expected this.

If possible, Lu Yuan should be transferred away from Bronze City as soon as possible. But now, it's getting too late. If nothing unexpected happens, the entire empire's high command will know that Lu Yuan is inextricably linked to the Sea of ​​Knowledge.

The guardian turned his gaze away from the inner city and towards Klaus.

"Remember, protect Lu Yuan."

These were the last words a human could utter to Klaus, spoken by the Guardian.

After saying that, he pulled the bottle of fifth-tier potion that Klaus had forcibly shoved into his eye from the thread at the bottom of his eyeball and threw it at Klaus.

He ultimately did not choose to drink the potion.

Klaus gripped the potion tightly in his hand, staring at the Guardian's enormous eyeball and the shriveled head atop it. He already knew what was about to happen.

The Guardian looked at Klaus, his black eyeball still hanging there, the dry threads at the bottom swaying slightly in the wind.

"Klaus, I have completely lost my humanity. I am no longer human."

His voice grew increasingly muffled, and each word required immense effort to be squeezed out of his body.

"The rest is up to you."

The guardian's only remaining, cloudy eye on its head suddenly opened to its widest point, then slowly shrank back down.

With his last glimmer of vision, he looked around.

He had made up his mind. As a human being, he could feel his power spreading out of control.

He has no chance left... No one can save him now.

However, after lingering on for half an era, it was time for me to rest. The Bronze City in my memory had collapsed beyond recognition in just a few months.

As a coward who barely survived, I ended up not even being able to protect my own home.

"What a failure..." The guard glanced one last time at Klaus and the others below. "I hope you won't disappoint me..."

Then, the enormous eyeball on its body took over the guardian's vision.

His gaze swept across the colorful lights of the inner city in the distance, lingered for a long time, and finally fell back on the land he had guarded for most of his life, on the remaining stone pavement amidst the ruins, and on the flesh and blood remains gnawed away by the sea of ​​knowledge.

He didn't say anything more.

Klaus and Lake reacted almost simultaneously.

"No...sir, no!"

But he hadn't finished speaking.

Above those eyeballs, the guardian's head was visibly shriveling. Flesh withered, skin collapsed and clung to the skull, and facial features quickly blurred. The eyebrows, eyes, mouth, and nose, which were still vaguely discernible, shrank into a shriveled mass of wrinkles almost simultaneously, as the eyes closed completely.

The next moment, the last symbol of humanity, the head, detached from the enormous eyeball. It slid down the curved surface of the eyeball and rolled onto the gravel ground with a very soft thud.

A shriveled object, so dry it was unrecognizable as human, fell to the ground, rolled slightly in the wind a few times, and then slowly came to a stop.

Klaus stood still, without moving.

The enormous, completely blackened eyeball then rose high into the air, detached from the ground, and hovered above the outer city. It was a pure, jet-black eyeball, radiating an incredibly eerie aura.

It no longer yields, nor does it resist.

When an extraordinary being discards their human identity, they become truly extraordinary.

The guardian abandoned everything he had protected, transforming into a true monster.

His consciousness was dissipating at an extremely rapid pace. All the good intentions he had as a guardian, and everything he cherished, vanished into thin air at this moment. The guardian could feel the eerie aura emanating from his body spreading downwards continuously.

Klaus and the others below could also clearly feel that the dark eyeball hanging in the sky was emitting an extremely eerie aura and an undisguised threat.

The guardian's consciousness was still fading, but he didn't wait any longer. He wanted to give Lu Yuan one last gift.

A forbidden scholar needs to come into contact with forbidden things, right? In his current state, although he can't reach the true forbidden level yet, he can at least get a glimpse of it. As a special way to improve his level by witnessing the bizarre, he is the best material.

After all, in his memory, there didn't seem to be anyone who could reach the fifth rank through his own path.

The next moment, the dark eyeball began to collapse inward.

Lu Yuan, who was struggling to hold out in the inner city, suddenly noticed something unusual about the outer city.

In the distance, a huge hole suddenly appeared in the flesh and blood wall.

The next moment, a huge, pitch-black eyeball emerged from the void. It was several meters in diameter, completely black, and its surface gleamed with a venomous expression, a hatred for everything.

Not only flesh and blood, but also the countless insects of knowledge seemed to be within its attack range.

The distant light shone on its eyeballs, completely swallowing them up, leaving them with an almost pathological, pitch-black color.

[Environmental Sensing: Extremely strong pollution source detected, please stay away...]

Lu Yuan also noticed that the source of the pollution was the huge, dark eyeball hanging high above the wall of flesh and blood.

[Target detected: Pale Eye (Completely Mutated) (Strange)]

[A special contaminant formed from a powerful human, whose pale eye should have been embedded in a land of the dead, now seems poised to ascend to another level, to feel the pale gaze...]