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

Therefore, it is highly likely that the timekeeping device had its own consciousness a long time ago, but it has never manifested itself.

Lu Yuan felt a chill run down his spine. He decisively followed Auden's advice and completely withdrew his consciousness back into the pathway.

Meanwhile, in the rest area, the Great Knight Commander of Rock looked at Lu Yuan, who had suddenly frozen in place, and his eyebrows twitched. What's wrong with this kid?

We were just chatting about timekeeping, and this kid was even fiddling with his pocket watch, turning it over and over to look at it. How come he suddenly froze while looking at it?

Is there a problem with your own time synchronization? Or is it that there's a problem with his time synchronization?

The Grand Knight Commander of Rock stared at the Holy Light Stone in his palm. The Holy Light Stone was quiet and there was nothing unusual about it. Obviously, Lu Yuan's path was smooth and there was no pollution.

That would be strange.

However, the Grand Knight Commander of Rock did not immediately intervene, but looked at Lu Yuan with a strange expression.

Lu Yuan had no time to explain. The consciousness within his timekeeping device was targeting the timekeeping watch in his hand. Since that was the case, he should quickly move it away and absolutely not let it get any closer. Now, Lu Yuan just wanted to figure out the situation inside his body as soon as possible, so he flipped his wrist and threw the heavy pocket watch back.

"Grand Knight Commander Rock, please wait a moment."

The Grand Knight Commander of Rock raised his hand to receive his timekeeping, and saw Lu Yuan leaning back in his chair, completely still.

After uttering those words, Lu Yuan's consciousness immediately returned, and he found himself next to Auden.

Oden was now cautiously making his way toward the time signal location.

This place is extremely dangerous; it's located on the left side of the chest, very close to the heart. If anything happens here, it will have a domino effect, and he won't even have a chance to save Lu Yuan.

At present, Oden is just a fragmented consciousness, and there is no good way to directly help Lu Yuan clear away the newly formed consciousness. All he can do now is to set up as many barriers as possible on Lu Yuan so that he can protect Lu Yuan if a real problem occurs.

As Auden sank from the edge of Lu Yuan's consciousness, he inscribed a series of swaying, eerie characters on the flesh and blood he passed through. His aura gradually increased, but his movements became slower and slower, slowly moving towards his chest.

Once that thing truly connects with Lu Yuan and develops its own consciousness, it can kill Lu Yuan at any time if it wants. Knowledge transcendence is not the same as alienation transcendence. Lu Yuan's body doesn't have such powerful qualities. If his heart explodes, at his current level, he can go straight to the basement of the Hall of Knowledge.

So Oden must be extremely careful, lest he cause Lu Yuan's death because of his own actions, or he would be truly doomed.

However, to be fair, although this kid is young, he is indeed one of the most outstanding students they could find in their lineage.

As Auden inscribed the characters, he muttered to himself that although he didn't particularly want to admit it, he had to acknowledge Lu Yuan's excellence after spending time with him.

Lu Yuan's consciousness stood guard to the side, watching the strange characters disappear into his flesh and blood one after another, not daring to even breathe loudly, for fear of disturbing Auden's actions.

As Auden inscribed words on his flesh, he quickly thought of a way to deal with it. Anything that could survive by consuming a little bit of sanity from its own body parts was very likely related to taboos, or rather, it was definitely an extraordinary existence.

Innate extraordinary beings are most likely to be some kind of taboo, some kind of immortality, or beings related to taboos, such as branches of the offspring of some taboo.

The later stages of transcendence are much simpler, but also much weaker. They are a kind of polluted organism or animal that, through generations of evolution, eventually forges its own path. Among them, the swarming insects are particularly noteworthy. These creatures are also a product of the evolution of earthworms.

Therefore, the thing on Lu Yuan's chest is most likely a forbidden existence, or even an immortal one. After all, even a forbidden existence would find it difficult to survive by simply consuming a little bit of reason from a body that has been cut into pieces.

Having figured this out, Oden now wanted to both beat Lu Yuan up and run away on the spot, but running away was definitely out of the question.

With no other option, Oden could only take precautions, forcibly searching through his consciousness for all the defensive measures he could currently set up, while cautiously approaching that consciousness.

Unlike Auden, who was on high alert, Lu Yuan opened his eyes with a hint of helplessness as he watched Auden's actions.

I really can't be of much help, and I shouldn't show too much of a strangeness in front of the Rock Grand Knight Commander. It doesn't matter if the timing is discovered, but if Auden is discovered, it will be a big problem. The most important thing is that the Rock Grand Knight Commander is a fifth-order rank. If he really discovers something, then it's really hard to say.

"Oh, I'm fine, Grand Knight Commander of Rock," Lu Yuan said, putting on a relatively calm expression. "It's just that after I came into contact with your timekeeping system, I found that my timekeeping system seems to have a tendency to merge with it, which should be an instinctive attraction."

Grand Knight Commander Pan Shi looked at Lu Yuan's somewhat bewildered expression, and after thinking about his explanation, realized that it did indeed make sense.

But would something that has been made into an extraordinary weapon still have an instinctive attraction to itself? I've never noticed it before.

You see, he had met other timekeepers before, and this was the first time he had ever heard of a timekeeper in the world who was different from his own. That's why he was somewhat shocked.

After all, there are actually several pieces of this thing, and he has certainly come into contact with other owners.

However, he was not very clear about where Lu Yuan's items came from. Logically speaking, these items were all exchanged from the Night Watchers' warehouse, so he should have no recollection of them.

"Are you sure you're not mistaken?" Grand Knight Commander Rock frowned slightly. "These things shouldn't have any possibility of mutual attraction. After all, this is an extraordinary weapon crafted by a master craftsman. So far, there hasn't been a single instance of it going out of control due to the resurgence of the original material's consciousness. Not even once. All extraordinary weapons that can be added to the exchange vault have undergone careful verification, whether they are standard or non-standard."

"There is a bit of that," Lu Yuan nodded with a wry smile, "but it shouldn't be called consciousness. It's more like an instinct, or perhaps an attraction between materials that disappears when the distance is far enough."

Grand Knight Commander Rock looked at the timekeeping device in his hand and sensed its reaction. It was still empty. Only after injecting a little reason could a slight fluctuation appear, but it was not consciousness or anything that attracted anything. It was just the normal behavior of the timekeeping device.