Dalun Li had crossed over into this world and become a dungeon.
As the core, besides the orb itself, there was another thing of secondary importance: the pedestal that housed the orb.
The pedestal allowed Dalun Li's core to exert its maximum power; it could be said to be a part of the core itself.
Relying on the pedestal, Dalun Li could also utilize all the skills and power of every monster.
The orb lit up with a silver treasure light.
Under the silver glow of the orb, the pedestal also began to undergo a slow transformation.
Ultimately, it transformed into a humanoid shape, taking the form of stone armor.
The interior of the stone armor was filled with darkness.
Inside the horned head-armor of the stone armor was a shadow that felt almost physical.
At the chest position of the armor, one could faintly see the silver orb floating within, shimmering with a slight light.
Transforming the pedestal into humanoid armor to be operated by Dalun Li—this was his combat form.
However, if possible, Dalun Li hoped he would never have to use this combat form.
After all, just like the core, there was only one stone pedestal in the entire dungeon, and there was no way to create a second one.
Once destroyed, it would cause irreversible damage to Dalun Li.
But it was still better than dying after the core was destroyed.
Dalun Li activated the Plant Clone ability once more, and sprouts slowly grew inside the stone armor.
Eventually, a green wooden orb grew, taking root within the armor.
As the core, Dalun Li detached from the pedestal and returned to the outside.
At this moment, without the pedestal, simply floating over the desert made Dalun Li feel a bit uncomfortable.
Suppressing that discomfort, Dalun Li came to the side of the treasure heap and equipped the Leaf-Rolling Belt onto the armor.
By now, all the magic items had been turned into leaves, growing on the surface of the Leaf-Rolling Belt.
This excluded the Wellmouth Greatsword hanging at his waist and a silver shield carried on his back.
The silver shield was a magical artifact Dalun Li had created using a Medium Piece of Earth Vein Essence combined with drops from the Desert Sword Attendant.
It looked like a piece of heavy metal, oval-shaped, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with bladed edges.
[Eternal Imprisonment Sword-Shield · greater magic grade]
[Special Effects] 1. Damage Sharing: Evenly distributes received attacks across the entire shield; attacks exceeding the endurance limit can also be actively distributed across the wielder's body at the holder's discretion.
Ascendant Sacrifice: At the cost of a permanent downgrade, strengthens a lesser magic grade magic item to greater magic grade.
Bladed Edge: Slightly strengthens the power of the wielder's Sword Qi.
The Eternal Imprisonment Sword-Shield was currently Dalun Li's only greater magic grade magic item.
As a defensive magical artifact, it was already quite excellent.
At the same time, it possessed certain auxiliary effects.
The Ascendant Sacrifice ability could also be used in critical situations to convert his magic items, providing a glimmer of hope to break through a deadlock.
With all the magic items equipped, Dalun Li walked toward the treasure heap again.
He picked up the Whirlwind Badge from the very top of the heap and tucked it inside the armor.
Then, he did not hesitate.
Since he had made up his mind, he would see it through.
Transferring himself to the passage connecting the ninth and tenth floors, Dalun Li took a step forward.
Although he wanted to bring Zeno down to clear the floor together, only he could enter the current tenth floor.
How could that old geezer occupying the tenth floor possibly give him a chance to challenge it with accumulated monsters?
What a truly wicked fellow.
As Dalun Li went deeper into the passage, his connection with the dungeon became weaker and weaker.
At this point, the connection to the dungeon was reduced to a simple link of power.
All other connections were suppressed and severed by the tenth floor.
He continued deeper down until the dark aura became increasingly thick, and Dalun Li finally reached the tenth floor.
At this moment, the sky above the tenth floor was shrouded in darkness, with only a purple starry sky visible within that void.
The desert beneath his feet was also filled with a cold, dark aura.
'How eerie.'
'Even though it has been converted into the tenth-floor palace, can it still affect the entire stratum to this extent?'
The situation on the tenth floor was even worse than he had imagined.
However, there was no turning back now.
Dalun Li gripped the Wellmouth Greatsword in his hand and looked up.
Clairvoyance activated.
The entire tenth floor reappeared within his vision.
Then he discovered that the tenth floor, which was supposed to be devoid of a single monster, actually had a large number of monsters!
Monsters could not appear out of thin air.
Clearly, this was the handiwork of that evil god remnant.
The monsters appearing on the tenth floor had entirely pitch-black bodies and walked on all fours.
Sharp claws scraped the yellow sand; their posture was humanoid, yet excessively grotesque.
Dalun Li quickly activated [Insight] to obtain information on these monsters.
[Name] dark wanderer of the Dark Starry Sky
[Level] lv10
[Skills] Spatial Skin lv4, Haste lv4, Spatial Claws lv3, Hard Shell lv3, Void Render lv3, Spatial Sensing lv3, Starlight Empowerment lv2, Dark Vision lv2, Dark Stealth lv2
[Description] Monsters created by the evil god, Dark Starry Sky, using the dungeon's power; they possess the power characteristics of space and darkness from the Dark Starry Sky, being swift, eerie, and powerful.
'Dark Starry Sky! The power of space and darkness!'
Dalun Li finally understood the name of this evil god remnant.
Spatial abilities.
Dalun Li remembered that during their previous encounter, he had always felt like the two of them were not in the same dimension.
No matter how powerful his attacks were, they could not reach the opponent's position, making them meaningless.
That was a gap in the dimension of power, a crushing difference in quality.
If it was an evil god of space and darkness, that sense of powerlessness during the previous battle became understandable.
But how was he supposed to fight later?
He would take it one step at a time; at least he now understood the principles of the opponent's power.
Dalun Li retracted the vision of Clairvoyance, focusing it around his body.
Then he began to move toward the position of the pitch-black palace.
He initially maintained his Stealth ability as he began to move.
But he found it to be meaningless.
The Dark Starry Sky possessed the power of darkness, and darkness symbolized hiding and plotting.
This made Stealth and schemes directed against the Dark Starry Sky completely pointless.
The dark wanderers instantly saw through Dalun Li's Stealth and launched attacks at him without hesitation.
"Damn it."
Dalun Li cursed, and facing the rushing dark wanderers, he raised the Wellmouth Greatsword.
Poisonous purple Sword Qi aimed at the dark wanderers and slashed down violently.
The dark wanderers tried to rely on their swift speed and spatial abilities to dodge.
However, under the absolute hit of the Wellmouth Greatsword, dodging was meaningless.
The poisonous Sword Qi easily sliced the dark wanderers in half.
The scattered remains were still billowing with purple mist, corroding the corpses.
Dalun Li did not become careless just because he won in one strike.
The absolute hit of the Wellmouth Greatsword was quite effective against these monsters that were fast and skilled at dodging.
As expected of the Wellmouth Greatsword, the first magic item he had created; it had slightly helped him regain a bit of a chance for victory.
However, since Stealth was ineffective, it seemed he could only fight his way into the palace.
The dark wanderers possessed Spatial Sensing, allowing them to sense each other across space.
Once one of them discovered Dalun Li.
The surrounding dark wanderers would discover him at the same time.
And when the surrounding dark wanderers discovered him, they would let the ones further out know, spreading continuously in this manner.
It was like a pebble thrown into the water, spreading instantly.
Every monster in the entire stratum discovered Dalun Li, the intruder, at this moment.
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