The Horned race priest of the evil god continued to draw closer until he arrived before the dungeon.
Then, he let out a low, excited laugh.
"The glory of my Lord shall begin here."
He stepped into the dungeon.
His Lord was named the Dark Starry Sky.
It was a great and noble existence, symbolizing devouring and the darkness that stood in opposition to this world.
Now, his Lord had prepared to recover from ancient times and manifest His former greatness and nobility.
The dungeon was the hope of his Lord, the Dark Starry Sky.
The believers of the Starry Sky Church had already selected several new dungeons that had appeared in recent years.
And the one he was responsible for was this newly emerged dungeon in the northern border.
This was also the highest quality among the selected dungeons, estimated to even approach the size of a medium-sized dungeon.
According to his Lord's guidance, dungeons were chaotic places that even the gods could not influence.
As long as his Lord was hidden within these dungeons and devoured their power,
He could grow stronger step by step without the righteous gods noticing.
He placed one hand on the pitch-black orb inside his robe that contained his Lord.
He stepped into the dungeon.
His vision went dark as he entered the first floor of the dungeon.
Just as he was thinking of his Lord's glory,
Swoosh!
A greatsword swung down directly at his head!
The greatsword was like a reaper's scythe, wrapped in purple Sword Qi that had condensed into a tangible, sharp edge!
Even the rocks that the Sword Qi merely brushed past were split in two without any resistance.
The remaining sword marks were also stained purple, continuously corroding.
The Horned race priest didn't even understand what had happened before the greatsword had already fallen upon him.
What a sharp and powerful force!
'Someone was ambushing him—who was it, and when? Was that gaze he had sensed a while ago not a hallucination after all?!'
'Why strike only now? With this kind of power, why didn't they act back then!'
The Horned race priest was completely unable to comprehend it.
Even as the thought of understanding entered his mind, the arm he had subconsciously raised had already been severed.
'I'm going to die!'
'I'm going to die!!'
The Horned race priest's pupils constricted, countless thoughts flashing through his mind in an instant.
Finally, just as the blade cut halfway through his neck, his body exploded first!
A massive amount of mana surged and gathered as his life faded away.
Dalun Li, who was fully concentrated, did not dare to be careless.
Because that sense of crisis had not dissipated!
This time, Dalun Li did not devour the remains of the Horned race priest, nor did he covet the magic items on him.
Instead, he transferred the chunks of flesh along with everything else out of the dungeon.
He even directly abandoned his own Wellmouth Greatsword.
To hesitate is to invite disaster!
However, he failed.
No matter how hard he tried, he could not transfer any of it out of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment!
Not good!
From among the shattered corpse parts and debris, a pitch-black orb slowly rose.
An intense, ominous aura spread outward from the orb, permeating the entire dungeon.
Dalun Li floated up from his pedestal, his entire body glowing with a brilliant silver light.
One silver, one black—two forces clashed within the dungeon!
Dalun Li felt as if some entity had been awakened from the black orb by that priest using his own life.
Furthermore, that black orb looked exactly like his own core, except for the color.
The opponent's target was him!
It was the dungeon.
The enemy didn't intend to clear the dungeon floor by floor like other adventurers and then take control of it.
Instead, he intended to devour Dalun Li as nourishment!
Without hesitation, the Wellmouth Greatsword was raised once more, and the purple, toxic Sword Qi condensed again in an instant, hacking down heavily toward the black orb!
However, the attack was ineffective.
Dalun Li's attack felt as powerless as if he were striking into another dimension.
It wasn't a difference in quantity, but a difference in quality.
Dalun Li was not discouraged.
He quickly shifted his strategy, rapidly opening a hidden floor within the first floor.
While there were foreign objects within a floor, he could not make changes to the parts of the floor that had already been created.
But he could add new sections.
Then, as if cutting out a tumor, he transferred the orb to the hidden floor for isolation.
Sensing Dalun Li's purpose, the black orb quickly leaked power, corroding the created hidden floor and spreading toward the rest of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment.
Dalun Li had no intention of making direct contact with the opponent.
After just one clash, Dalun Li already understood that there was a qualitative difference between them.
A direct confrontation would only lead to him being crushed.
If he wanted to defeat the opponent, he could only use quantity to wear them down.
Dalun Li immediately withdrew his main body's gaze from the hidden floor, wary of the opponent using his gaze to attack him.
Next, he had the Tongmu observe the hidden floor and transmit the images.
Inside the hidden floor now, the black orb was continuously emitting black smoke, and that terrifying evil power was constantly destroying the hidden floor.
"Floor guardian, create!"
A brilliant light shone from Dalun Li on the pedestal.
In an instant, within the hidden floor,
One Wellmouth Sentry after another was generated from the void.
Until a total of nine Wellmouth Sentries had been generated, they raised their greatswords and attacked the black orb from nine directions.
The black orb spun as it floated up, and the black power transformed into a giant hand, swatting at the Wellmouth Sentries in front of it.
The Wellmouth Sentries quickly raised their shields.
However, the difference in absolute power shattered the shields in an instant.
The Wellmouth Sentries were also swatted into fragments.
The other Wellmouth Sentries took the opportunity to hack at the orb.
To his surprise, the orb simply phased out, directly dodging the surrounding attacks.
Dalun Li struck the pedestal, silver light glowing.
The dead Wellmouth Sentries were quickly resurrected.
"For my Lord."
The resurrected Wellmouth Sentries charged forward again, only to be swatted away.
No matter how the nine Wellmouth Sentries attacked, they couldn't damage the black orb in the slightest.
And the black orb seemed to grow bored of the Wellmouth Sentries' attacks.
Dodging the attacks, it slowly floated toward the highest point of the hidden floor.
A massive amount of black Qi instantly swept through the entire floor.
The nine Wellmouth Sentries raised their copper shields, but they were quickly corroded by the black Qi.
Dalun Li did not hesitate to decompose the Wellmouth Sentries and reclaim their power.
And the hidden floor had also reached its limit; it was crushed by that massive black Qi, which then burst out of the hidden floor.
It continued to spread toward Dalun Li.
At the final moment of collapse, Dalun Li transferred the hidden floor.
Since the hidden floor was occupied by the black orb, he could no longer change it.
But he could transfer this floor individually.
Before this entity, a floor was just a decoration, just nourishment that could be devoured.
Therefore, the floor's resistance was meaningless.
Dalun Li directly transferred the hidden floor below the ninth floor.
The black orb did not hesitate; it simply turned and continued to devour upward.
Dalun Li took the opportunity to use the current nine floors to pin the black orb along with the hidden floor firmly beneath him.
The black orb showed no reaction, continuing to spread its pitch-black evil power, devouring Dalun Li from the bottom up.
After the clash, Dalun Li already understood that this orb was not the true evil god.
It could only be considered a remnant; its power was very weak, but its status was exceptionally high—even a weak power could crush him.
To resist it was fundamentally impossible.
Suppression was also impossible.
Because the opponent would continuously devour him; the power used to suppress it and the power used to attack it would only become its nourishment, allowing it to grow continuously.
But the opponent only had the instinct to devour and not much intelligence.
At this moment, on the first floor, the flesh of the Horned race priest had already been devoured by Dalun Li.
Dalun Li really hadn't wanted to devour this flesh unless it was absolutely necessary.
But now, he had to lay his hands on it.
[Earth Vein Power +2000]
[Medium Piece of Earth Vein Essence] x 1
Fortunately, the flesh of this third-rank priest had not been affected by the black orb.
Looking at the abundant Earth Vein Power, Dalun Li made his move.
The power status of this black orb was too high, in a completely different dimension from his own power.
To counter its power, he needed power of the same status, or even higher.
Earth Vein Power was capable of carving out floors within the chaotic space.
Therefore, Dalun Li intended to use Earth Vein Power to counter the black orb.
Transferring the black orb below the ninth floor was not just for temporary suppression, but also for this purpose.
Looking at the black orb pinned under the ninth floor, still corroding upward,
Dalun Li slowly floated up from the pedestal.
"Floor creation, tenth floor!"
Silver light flashed, and the stone pedestal was also stained silver!
The tenth floor began to be carved downward.
But this time, it was blocked by the hidden floor.
Dalun Li quickly cut off the hidden floor and gave it to the black orb, preventing the Earth Vein Power used to carve the new floor from bypassing the hidden floor by identifying it as part of the main body.
The blocked Earth Vein Power did not carve out or create the tenth floor in the chaotic space.
Instead, it directly used the entire abandoned hidden floor as material to create the tenth floor!
The black orb that was devouring Dalun Li finally realized something was wrong.
It tried to resist, but it was already too late!
The hidden floor, structured as a stone grotto, was continuously being transformed into yellow sand and rock.
At the same time, the surface of the black orb was constantly peeling off, transforming into pitch-black rock!
The black orb resisted violently, and that terrifyingly high-status evil god power poured out continuously, resisting the erosion of the Earth Vein Power.
However, it was all in vain.
The Earth Vein Power rapidly transformed this high-status power into a part of the new floor.
That black power was transformed into chunks of pitch-black rock, towering over the yellow sand.
The pitch-black orb spun rapidly, trying to contend with the Earth Vein Power.
Through the direct confrontation, Dalun Li discovered that the Earth Vein Power was not particularly strong, but it was extremely unique.
It could utilize the power of the chaotic space to transform everything within it, along with the chaos itself, into ordered physical matter.
It was not creating out of thin air from nothingness.
Therefore, although the black orb's power could suppress the Earth Vein Power, it was still transformed into physical matter by the power of the chaotic space, becoming part of the tenth floor.
The pitch-black orb became covered in cracks during the continuous transformation.
A single orb had actually been transformed into an entire small mountain of stacked pitch-black stones on the yellow sand.
Seeing that the last part of the orb was also about to be transformed into the tenth floor,
The orb made its final stand.
The pitch-black orb took the initiative to accept the Earth Vein Power and shattered, turning into a massive surge of pitch-black power that poured into the pitch-black stone mountain beneath it.
And the pitch-black stone mountain also underwent a change as a result.
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