Qingya brandished the broken silver spear, attempting to parry Dalun Li's attacks.
However, the pouring, violent force continued to suppress her, making it impossible to resist.
The successive slashes of the Wellmouth Greatsword did not give Qingya even a moment's gap to activate her teleportation.
The absolute hit of the Wellmouth Greatsword was Dalun Li's greatest reliance against spatial abilities.
Dalun Li could afford to make countless mistakes, but if Qingya made just one, she would be directly suppressed and relentlessly pinned down by the Wellmouth Greatsword.
Qingya did not go down without a fight.
The Wellmouth Greatsword only ensured she could not dodge the attacks; it did not lock down her spatial abilities or prevent her from attacking.
She continuously used her spatial power to slash and cut at Dalun Li.
However, his powerful defense meant her spatial severing could not break through Dalun Li's protection at all.
The powerful vitality inherited from Zeno allowed small wounds to heal in the blink of an eye.
Feiwan's volcanic explosive power ensured that spatial locks could not restrain him for even a single second.
Tongmu's vision allowed him to instantly detect spatial attacks, letting Dalun Li adjust his body and resist the strikes to the greatest extent.
Dalun Li's defensive power was not particularly outstanding.
With the Eternal Imprisonment Sword-Shield used for defense destroyed, he only possessed defensive skills like those of the wood armor monster or gargoyles.
However, even if his defense was slightly lacking, as long as a single move could not kill him, he could rely on his vitality to heal rapidly.
Healing vitality required consuming power, but he now had fifteen floors as his source of energy.
Currently, Dalun Li could even think while fighting.
'My defensive power is too unreliable; I need to create a guardian specialized in ultimate defense later to be truly safe.'
Qingya's movements became increasingly difficult to keep up with Dalun Li's parries and attacks.
Dalun Li did not continue the fight or harbor any insulting thoughts of testing his power against her.
He gripped the greatsword tightly, seized a gap in Qingya's attack, and swung without hesitation.
The Wellmouth Greatsword, coiled with scorching flame Sword Qi, easily sliced through Qingya's body.
The flames instantly burned away the last of her life, and from the drifting ashes, two special ores dropped.
The notches of the two ores could be perfectly joined together, and they contained powerful mana and spatial power.
Dalun Li picked up the two ores and stored them away.
With Qingya's death, the surrounding space returned to normal.
Dalun Li landed on the ground, and the core that Qingya had protected until the end appeared in this space.
This was the first time Dalun Li had seen the core of another dungeon.
Upon a broken pedestal lay a cracked purple orb, dim and lusterless.
Dalun Li finally confirmed that this spatial cluster was the remnant of a dungeon.
The dungeon was named Atmospheric Rift.
He did not know how many years it had drifted in the chaotic space, but all its floors had disappeared, leaving only the remnants of some floors shrunk into this small spatial cluster.
The dungeon core could not hold on much longer, and the guardian's soul had long since died.
Only the guardian's corpse remained to protect the shattered dungeon core.
If he had not discovered this spatial cluster, this dungeon remnant would have eventually vanished completely in the chaotic space, returning once more to chaos.
Dalun Li gained some insight.
Dungeons were gatherings of massive amounts of Earth Vein Power within the earth that seeped into the chaotic space, formed by the power of the chaotic space itself.
And after a dungeon broke and died, everything returned to the chaotic space.
It came from the chaotic space and ultimately returned to the chaotic space.
So, did other dungeons have consciousness?
There should be none.
Other dungeons did not have the ability to absorb Earth Vein Power; from the moment they were born, their floors were fixed.
As for why dungeons hid so many secrets or why there were ruins, it might all be because of the chaotic space.
He stopped overthinking and gazed at the shattered orb before him with some emotion.
Then he reached out and took the orb from the pedestal.
As the orb was removed, the shattered pedestal crumbled completely, dissipating into dust.
He had thought he might gain an extra pedestal.
It seemed the pedestal was as unique as the orb.
Dalun Li placed the shattered purple orb into the chest of his pedestal armor.
The orb was quickly enveloped and absorbed by the plant mimicry orb within the chest.
Meanwhile, outside the core, the entire world of the lifeless, shattered spatial cluster began to undergo rapid changes.
The broken earth was mended, and the turbid sky became clear.
Vitality began to recover across this land.
"What is this?"
The man-bodied spiders looked at everything before them in disbelief.
What was happening to this harsh world that had existed since they were born!
What had that great being done!
The monsters of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment excitedly felt this power from their Master, praising the greatness of their Lord.
As for Dalun Li's main body in the Well of Eternal Imprisonment...
"What's going on? What's going on!"
The power within him was surging out constantly, being absorbed by that spatial cluster.
This rate of consumption was even more exaggerated than creating a guardian.
Wait, this was not how the script was supposed to go.
Shouldn't I be the one absorbing the power of the spatial cluster and devouring it!
Power was indeed being consumed, but similarly, spatial power from the spatial cluster was being continuously fed back to Dalun Li.
Seeing that the power of fifteen floors was almost unable to withstand the spatial cluster's consumption, Dalun Li quickly took out the magic crystals produced by the pitch-black palace and supplied the spatial cluster with their massive mana.
As the world within the spatial cluster stabilized, the entire cluster also began to feed power back to Dalun Li.
However, compared to the floors Dalun Li had created himself, although the power of this subordinate floor was stronger than the power provided by the fifteenth floor, it felt somewhat distant.
It could not perfectly merge with his fifteen floors.
It was more like an external force rather than power that truly belonged to him.
"As expected, only the power provided by floors I create myself is the most perfect."
Of course, Dalun Li had no intention of being ungrateful.
Would one discard a precious blade just because it was not as handy as one's own muscles?
Tell him where it was thrown; Dalun Li would go pick it up himself.
Although he was not quite adjusted to the power of the subordinate floor, the spatial abilities it provided were very handy for Dalun Li to use.
Furthermore, the area of the subordinate floor was vast, and since it was a special floor, its resources should be quite abundant.
However, a subordinate floor was a subordinate floor after all; he could not control it as easily as the floors he had created himself.
It would take some effort to confirm what resources and treasures were inside.
He would leave this task to Tongmu.
Then there was the matter of how to govern the monsters within the subordinate floor.
Zeno should be able to handle this properly, either by killing them all or by subjecting them to Well of Eternal Imprisonment monsterification.
At this moment, the pedestal returned to the Well of Eternal Imprisonment, reverting to its pedestal form.
Dalun Li returned to the pedestal and looked at the mineral materials dropped by the guardian Qingya.
These materials had an extremely high compatibility with the subordinate floor.
Dalun Li took out a large piece of Earth Vein Essence, and an idea formed in his mind.
The power of the subordinate floor was an external thing to him and could not merge with his existing floors at all.
In that case, it would be better to completely externalize the power of the subordinate floor.
He would create a special magical artifact, a magical artifact that used the entire subordinate floor as its power source.
This would have no negative impact on him, and through the form of a magical artifact, he could still utilize this external force of the subordinate floor.
At the same time, this power could be used by his guardians to better complete certain tasks!
Moreover, what kind of magical artifact would be created by making one in this manner?
Or rather, could such a thing even be considered a magical artifact?
Dalun Li wanted to try.
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