I can receive unlimited protection; my parents handed me over to the state.

"This feeling... is really not bad." Lu Yuan clicked his tongue, feeling very satisfied with his crazy act.

He stood up and examined his body. The injuries he had sustained from forcibly fusing with the rules had been completely healed the moment the "divine seed" was formed, making him even a hundred times stronger than before! His body had been completely transformed by the radiance of divinity without him even realizing it.

"Hmm? Why is it so noisy outside?"

Lu Yuan frowned. His powerful senses easily detected the probe waves buzzing around the villa like flies.

He pushed open the door to the training room and went out.

As soon as he stepped outside, he saw a scene that made him both laugh and cry.

Dean Qian Sen was seen leading a group of researchers dressed in white lab coats, sneaking around like thieves on the energy shield of his villa. In his hand, Qian Sen was holding a strangely shaped, magnifying glass-like object, which he was shining into the villa.

"Dean Qian?" Lu Yuan called out.

"Who?! Who's speaking?" Qian Sen was startled, almost dropping the magnifying glass in his hand. He turned around and froze when he saw Lu Yuan standing calmly at the door watching them.

"Lu...Lu Yuan? You...you've emerged from seclusion?"

Qian Sen was a little confused. The cataclysmic upheaval of rules and the miraculous phenomena of heaven and earth celebrating were still vivid in his mind. How could the instigator appear as if nothing had happened in the blink of an eye? Shouldn't he be seriously injured or consolidating his cultivation level?

"Yeah, just came out." Lu Yuan nodded, pointing to the "magnifying glass" in Qian Sen's hand. "What are you doing? Is there anything about my protective shield that's worth studying?"

"Ahem!" Qian Sen blushed and awkwardly hid the equipment behind his back. "Well... I was just passing by, just passing by! Yes, we were just looking at the scenery!"

The group of researchers behind him also had their heads down, pretending to be looking at the ants on the ground.

"Is that so?" Lu Yuan looked at him with a half-smile.

With a thought, the "divine seed" that had just formed in his sea of ​​consciousness trembled slightly. A divine pressure containing the three supreme rules of ice, fire, and sea was released silently.

"Thump!"

"Splash! Splash!"

The researchers behind Qian Sen didn't even have a chance to react before their eyes rolled back, and they collapsed to the ground, foaming at the mouth and unconscious, as if their bones had been removed.

Only Qian Sen, being an A-rank Star Envoy with sufficiently strong mental power, managed to avoid fainting on the spot. However, his legs were trembling violently and uncontrollably, as if an invisible mountain was pressing him firmly to the ground, rendering him unable to move!

His face was filled with a horror that words could not describe!

He felt it! He felt it clearly! The aura emanating from Lu Yuan! That wasn't the power of a mortal! It was a divine authority that transcended all rules, seemingly capable of ruling over heaven and earth!

He was right! This kid... he actually managed to transform himself into a 'god' in such a short time?!

"Dean Qian, what's wrong? You look so pale." Seeing that things had gone well, Lu Yuan dispelled his oppressive aura. He smiled at the old man, who was now pale with fright and drenched in cold sweat. "Have you been working too hard lately? Are you feeling a bit weak? Should I give you a 'nutrient injection'?"

"No...no need..." Qian Sen waved his hands repeatedly, looking at Lu Yuan as if he were looking at a prehistoric beast in human skin. He finally understood why that old man Su Lie had handed over supreme command to this kid. Going against this monster wasn't fighting a war; it was suicide!

"Oh, right," Lu Yuan said, as if remembering something, "Have all the 'seafood' I asked you to prepare arrived?"

"Huh? Oh! It's...it's here!" Qian Sen suddenly snapped out of his daze and quickly pointed to the makeshift warehouse not far away, piled high with all sorts of enormous corpses and warship wreckage. "It's all over there! I guarantee nothing's missing!"

"Very good." Lu Yuan nodded in satisfaction, patted Qian Sen on the shoulder, and said, "Then, I'll trouble you to clean up this place for me. I'm going to get started."

After saying that, he ignored Qian Sen, who was still petrified, and strode towards the huge warehouse.

Looking at Lu Yuan's not-so-tall figure, Qian Sen suddenly felt as if he were seeing a creator god about to create the world. And he, and the entire China behind him, were just insignificant witnesses in this creation myth.

He took a deep breath, picked up the communicator, and connected to Su Lie's top-secret channel.

"Old Su..." His voice trembled with barely suppressed joy, "We might... really be about to witness history."

The temporary warehouse of the Divine Craftsman Palace was transformed into a huge open-air workshop.

When Lu Yuan walked in, he was instantly stunned by the scene before him.

The massive corpse of the Xuanwu Dragon Turtle, as imposing as a mountain, lay silently in the center of the workshop. Its shell, covered in mysterious patterns, exuded an aura as heavy as the earth itself. Beside it lay the Hydra, a nine-headed serpent over a thousand meters long. Even in death, its nine enormous heads remained ferocious and terrifying.

Further away, there were mountains of Atlantis crystal warship wreckage, each of those metal fragments shimmering with blue light containing technology and energy that humanity could not yet comprehend.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this is truly... a feast."

Lu Yuan rubbed his hands together excitedly, feeling like a glutton who hadn't eaten for three days and three nights suddenly seeing a Manchu Han Imperial Feast.

His gaze first fell on the Xuanwu Dragon Turtle.

"Good stuff, really good stuff." He reached out and gently stroked the cold tortoise shell.

[Ding! Legendary material detected: Xuanwu Dragon Turtle Armor (Fragment)]

[Material Properties: Absolute Defense, Earth Resonance, Energy Reflection...]

[Number of layers that can be reinforced: 128 (theoretical value)]

"One hundred and twenty-eight layers?" Lu Yuan's eyes lit up. The material of this thing was better than any he had ever seen before!

"This tortoise shell is tough enough, its defensive capabilities are undeniable. If we took it off and made it into an external armor for 'Pangu,' the defensive capabilities would be..." Lu Yuan was already calculating in his mind, "No, no way, that would be too wasteful."

He shook his head, and an even bolder idea took shape in his mind.

"Why dismantle it? Refine the whole thing! Use this Xuanwu Dragon Turtle's corpse as a base, then install the power cores, weapon systems, and energy shields of those magic crystal warships onto it! Build a super mobile war fortress that can fight, withstand attacks, and move around! We'll call it... 'Xuanwu'!"

The idea struck even Lu Yuan as somewhat insane. This wasn't forging weapons; it was building Gundam! No, it was creating a bio-mecha, even more absurd than Gundam!

"Let's do it!"

Lu Yuan became more and more excited as he thought about it, and he immediately took action.

Instead of immediately using the furnace, he went to the pile of wreckage of the magic crystal warships and began his "garbage sorting".

"This is an energy transmission circuit that uses spatial folding technology. Not bad, I'll take it."

"Oh? This is their central processing unit? It's actually a combination of a biological brain and a crystal matrix. Interesting. I'll take it too."

"This is the main gun's charging module; its structure is very ingenious, we could take inspiration from it..."

Under the astonished gazes of Qian Sen and the group of researchers, Lu Yuan moved swiftly through the massive pile of wreckage like a highly efficient scavenger. His hands seemed to possess some kind of magic. No matter how complex the mechanical structure or how precise the parts, in his hands they were like children's building blocks, easily disassembled, analyzed, and then neatly categorized.

The Atlantis technology that Qian Sen's team had been studying for days and nights without understanding was no secret to Lu Yuan at all.

Because what he was looking at was not technology, but the "rules" that constituted the most basic foundation of these technologies.

"I see... Their energy shield deflects attacks by distorting space. No wonder conventional energy weapons are so ineffective."

"Their main cannon isn't a pure energy attack either; it compresses energy into a miniature 'singularity of rules' before projecting it. That's practically a dimensional reduction attack."

"And this bio-brain... it can actually read the pilot's thoughts and operate synchronously. This is far superior to our operating system, which still requires manual input."

In less than half a day, Lu Yuan had already grasped most of Atlantis's core technology. He even went so far as to draw inferences from this and discover many design flaws and areas for improvement that the Atlanteans themselves had not noticed.

"A bunch of idiots." Lu Yuan looked at the design drawings in his hand and curled his lip in disdain. "They're guarding such a huge treasure trove, and all they've produced is a bunch of flashy but impractical lumps of iron. If you gave me this technology... I could improve their performance by at least three times!"

If these words were to get out, they would be enough to drive the entire Atlantis technology department to suicide.

Standing at a distance, watching everything through the surveillance cameras, Qian Sen was completely numb. He felt that all the scientific knowledge he had accumulated in his life was a joke in front of Lu Yuan.

"A monster... he's an utterly unreasonable monster..." Qian Sen muttered to himself. He finally understood why Su Lie had rated Lu Yuan's talent as the legendary "ACE level." This ability to directly perceive and rewrite everything from its very essence went beyond the realm of "genius"—it was a power possessed only by "gods"!

Just as Lu Yuan was immersed in the joy of disassembling and learning, the arrival of an uninvited guest interrupted him.

"Report!" Zhao Qingxuan appeared at the workshop entrance, his expression somewhat strange. "Sir, someone outside requests an audience."

"I won't see you," Lu Yuan said without looking up. "Can't you see I'm busy? Even if it's the King of Heaven himself, he'll have to wait."

"But...they said they came on behalf of the 'World Security Council'." Zhao Qingxuan's tone was somewhat troubled.

"The World Security Council?" Lu Yuan stopped what he was doing and frowned. What was that? He seemed to vaguely remember it; it was supposedly a so-called global organization formed by several top powers besides China. To put it bluntly, it was a bunch of guys who were jealous of China's rapid development after the arrival of *Star Sea* and wanted to band together for mutual support. They mostly just held meetings and exchanged empty words; they didn't have any real power. What were they doing here?

"Tell them to get lost." Lu Yuan gave a simple and direct answer; he didn't want to waste a single second.

"This... I'm afraid that won't work." Zhao Qingxuan gave a wry smile. "General Su is also here. He asked me to make sure you come over."

"Old Man Su?" Lu Yuan then realized something was amiss. For Su Lie to personally intervene, these guys must have ill intentions.

"Alright." Lu Yuan patted the engine oil off his hands, stood up, and said, "I want to see what kind of trouble these foreign devils are up to this time."

……

The atmosphere in the makeshift meeting room was somewhat heavy.

Su Lie and Qian Sen sat on one side of the main seat, while opposite them sat three blond, blue-eyed, and arrogant foreigners.

The leader was a middle-aged white man in a sharp suit with slicked-back hair. On his chest was a badge representing the CEO of the World Security Council.

"General Su, I think I've made my purpose quite clear," the middle-aged white man said in an unquestionable tone. "According to our high-dimensional energy detection satellites deployed around the world, three days ago, an unprecedented super-S-class energy conflict broke out in the East China Sea, your own territory. We even detected energy fluctuations that appeared to be at the level of 'gods'."

"Why did you, China, choose to conceal an event that could threaten the safety of the entire planet? Our World Security Council has the right to demand that you share all intelligence and hand over the 'destabilizing factors' that triggered this conflict to our 'international oversight'!"

His words were grand and righteous, but the underlying meaning was clear: We know you're hiding a great treasure. Hand it over now, and we'll all share it. Otherwise, don't blame us for labeling you a "threat to world peace"!

"Heh." Su Lie laughed in anger. "CEO Smith, what you're saying is quite interesting. We Chinese are fighting pirates and protecting our homeland in our own territorial waters. When did it become your 'World Security Council' to interfere?"

"As for that 'unstable factor' you mentioned..." Su Lie glanced at the door, "Sorry, that 'unstable factor' has arrived."

The conference room door was pushed open, and Lu Yuan, wearing work clothes stained with oil, walked in yawning. He didn't even glance at the three foreigners, went straight to Su Lie's side, plopped down, picked up Su Lie's teacup, and gulped it down.

"I'm dying of thirst."

"Hey, old man Su, you called me here just for this?" He pointed to the three foreigners opposite him, whose faces had turned ashen from being ignored. "Next time there are flies buzzing around like this, just swat them dead. Don't let them keep me from getting to work."

Lu Yuan's words, spoken casually, were like a resounding slap across CEO Smith's face.

"Insolence!" Beside Smith, a burly white man in a specially made tactical uniform slammed his hand on the table and stood up. He exuded an S-class aura, glaring at Lu Yuan, "Who do you think you are? How dare you speak to the CEO like that!"

This burly man was the ace of the "World Security Council," an S-class genetically modified warrior codenamed "Thor," whose strength was enough to take on an entire armored division. His outburst seemed to freeze the air in the entire conference room.

However, Lu Yuan didn't even lift his eyelids. He simply poured himself another cup of tea and blew on it to cool it down.

"It's so noisy."

He uttered three words calmly.

The voice just fell.

"Thump!"

The "Thor" who had been so menacing just a moment ago suddenly rolled his eyes back and fell straight backward, crashing to the ground with a thud. He had simply passed out without a sound.

Throughout the entire process, there were no energy fluctuations, no warning signs of an attack. Lu Yuan didn't even move a finger.

"..."

The meeting room was deathly silent.

CEO Smith and the other man beside him, a man with effeminate features and gold-rimmed glasses, were completely dumbfounded. They hadn't even seen what had happened! The S-class "Thor" had just fallen like that?! Was this some kind of magic trick?!