There was no need to hesitate; with the speed at which he currently earned Earth Vein Power, he could afford to splurge.
8,000 points of Earth Vein Power vanished in an instant.
Starting from the thirteenth floor, the floor passage extended rapidly downward, with endless lava flowing through the chaotic space to carve out the fourteenth floor.
As the lava flowed continuously, the even vaster fourteenth floor was shaped bit by bit, thoroughly connecting with the passage from the thirteenth floor.
Dalun Li quickly transferred himself to the fourteenth floor.
However, the moment he arrived, he plunged straight into magma.
Something was wrong with this floor!
Dalun Li tried to control the pedestal to teleport onto land, only to find there was no land at all, only lava.
Only where the passage connected was there a small patch of scorching rock.
"Damn, this floor is brutal!"
How could adventurers even survive on a floor like this?
Dalun Li quickly swept his gaze across the entire floor and realized it wasn't entirely lava.
The entire fourteenth floor was like an ocean of magma.
Upon this sea of magma were scattered, sun-baked islands that glowed with heat.
These islands were like lonely isles in the sea, disconnected from each other and separated by great distances.
In the center of most of these islands were volcanic craters belching thick, billowing smoke.
The scene looked like a vision of hell.
Dalun Li transferred himself to one of the islands and looked out over the endless sea of magma.
By now, he had accepted the power of this floor.
It was a fire power even more potent than the floors above, nearly staining his silver light red for three seconds before it recovered.
Such pure fire power significantly enhanced Dalun Li's own fire-related abilities.
This floor inherently contained pure fire power, making it a treasure in itself.
But Dalun Li was greedy.
He immediately began searching the floor for any useful tools that might have spawned.
Based on several experiences with treasure chests, Dalun Li focused his search primarily on the bottom of the magma sea and the cores of the islands.
As the floors he opened became deeper and larger, searching was becoming increasingly laborious.
Perhaps this was the burden of success.
Because the fourteenth floor was mostly magma, mineral deposits were actually scarcer; there were only a few large islands with small mineral veins that couldn't compare to the floors above.
However, at the bottom of the magma, Dalun Li soon discovered something good.
"This is..."
Dalun Li found a field of bones hidden beneath the magma.
He used his power to transfer an entire skeleton in front of him.
At this moment, scalding magma was still dripping from the white bones.
The skeleton was massive, appearing to be four meters tall with a pair of wings that had already ossified.
With the ossified wings spread out, the wingspan reached nearly eight meters despite being just bone.
Dalun Li quickly identified it as a wyvern.
A wyvern, though it has the word dragon in its name, is neither a true dragon nor a sub-dragon, and has no relation to the legendary dragon species.
If anything, a wyvern is more closely related to birds.
But wyverns are also extremely dangerous monsters, known as killers of the sky.
They dive from high altitudes, relying on their hard wings to slice and their sharp claws and teeth to bite.
Their skin is as hard as iron, and their flight capability is exceptional.
They can catapult directly from the ground into high-altitude flight, possessing the maneuverability to make sharp turns in mid-air like a straight line.
"I didn't expect to find so many wyvern skeletons at the bottom of this magma."
Dalun Li was somewhat excited.
Wyvern skeletons weren't particularly precious, but by using them to create monsters, he would have a creature that could dominate the sky.
From now on, the aerial capabilities of his monsters would be conquered.
Next, Dalun Li continued his search across the sea floor.
If the wyvern skeletons weren't exactly precious but merely useful, then what he discovered next was a treasure of true value.
A piece of red crystal growing at the bottom of the magma.
Although the crystal's mana was suppressed by the magma sea, it was still not to be underestimated.
Dalun Li quickly transferred the red crystal, along with the mineral bed it was attached to, in front of him.
Despite having just been pulled from the bottom of the magma, the red crystal had no heat at all, feeling only slightly warm to the touch.
The crystal's mana came primarily from its interior.
The inside of the crystal was not solid but liquid; as Dalun Li turned the crystal, the orange-red liquid inside flowed slowly like blood.
Both the fire power and the mana were very strong.
At the same time, it contained a faint vitality.
Good stuff.
Dalun Li carefully put the crystal away and continued his search in high spirits.
He then found two more slightly smaller lava crystals, their interiors also containing liquid that looked like blood.
However, the color of the liquid inside these two was progressively lighter.
The one with the lightest color allowed Dalun Li to identify it.
"A healing crystal."
Healing crystals are rare gemstones whose internal liquid is one of the ingredients for crafting top-tier life potions.
A top-tier life potion is also known as World Dew.
As long as a person still has a breath left and their brain is intact, a top-tier World Dew can bring them back to life and quickly heal missing body parts.
But these three healing crystals had undergone varying degrees of mutation within the lava sea.
Clearly, they could no longer be used as materials for crafting World Dew.
"But they must have some use."
Dalun Li had some unrefined ideas in his mind.
After placing the three lava healing crystals into a box, Dalun Li searched every nook and cranny of the floor again but found nothing else of value.
However, compared to the thirteenth floor which had absolutely nothing, this harvest was already very large.
As expected, as he continued to open floors downward, the floors grew larger and the probability of finding treasures increased.
[Earth Vein Power required to create the next floor] 13,000 points
After glancing at the Earth Vein Power required for the next floor, Dalun Li took a wyvern skeleton.
Next, he took a corpse of a dark wanderer.
"By using the dark wanderer's corpse as material, I can avoid having to create flesh and blood."
"After all, creating flesh and blood is troublesome and isn't my specialty."
"But I can't keep using other people's techniques forever; I need to develop my own flesh and blood creation technology."
Even as he said this, he decided to use the Remnant of the "Dark Starry Sky"'s technology to get by for now.
Heaping the flesh onto the skeleton, Dalun Li then brought over fire-resistant iron ingots, copper ingots, and mana water.
Preserve and enhance flight capability; bestow fire resistance.
Enhance the sharpness of fangs and claws.
Vision enhancement, vision super-enhancement, cover with smooth fire-resistant scales, speed enhancement, speed super-enhancement.
And then...
"Monster, Creation!"
[Name] Fire-resistant Wyvern of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment
[Level] lv14
[Skills] Wind Barrier Breakthrough lv4, Haste lv4, Sharpness lv4, Flight lv4, Hard Scales lv3, Haste lv3, Flame Resistance lv3, Clairvoyance lv2, Dynamic Vision lv2, Sharp Claws lv2, Sharp Teeth lv2
[Description] A monster servant created by the unknown entity Dalun Li. An evil monster that dominates the sky, it is brutal by nature and possesses extremely high flame resistance. It is incredibly fast in the air with extreme maneuverability, possessing razor-sharp fangs, wing blades, and claws.
A massive wyvern landed on the ground, its body covered in dark red scales. Ghoulish fangs protruded from its hard lips, sharp claws dug into the rock, and wings as sharp as blades pierced into the stone.
Hideous and powerful.
This was the power to dominate the sky; at this moment, Dalun Li finally extended his power into the heavens.
As the wyvern flapped its wings at his command and took flight, soaring into the air and becoming a phantom amidst the thick smoke, Dalun Li began to enrich the monster ecology of this floor based on the terrain.
At the same time, he began constructing special scenes based on the unique islands.
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