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

Barna’s pained voice gradually turned cold and distorted.

"Since you remain so stubborn, since you would rather choose these ants, then I will grant your wish!"

"I will destroy all of this with my own hands, and then I will tear your soul from that filthy body! I will make you see with your own eyes how foolish your choice was!"

"Purgatory Descends—The Last Judgment!"

Baal unleashed his final roar! The massive magic circle that enveloped the entire planet shone brightly at that moment! Countless enormous meteorites composed of "Original Sin Fire" roared out of the magic circle, trailing long fiery tails, like a grand meteor shower, crashing down on every corner of the Earth!

The end of the world has come!

"Well done!"

However, faced with this truly apocalyptic scene, Lu Yuan was not alarmed but delighted, bursting into laughter! This was the moment he had been waiting for!

He patted Yan Ji on the shoulder: "Well done, now leave the rest to me."

After saying that, he soared into the sky, bravely facing the rain of fire!

"Today, I'll show you what the true...realm of the gods really is!"

"The Realm of the Gods!"

Lu Yuan's voice, transmitted clearly across the globe through the vibrations of the rules, rang out. Everyone looked up at the tiny figure rushing towards the apocalyptic rain of fire, their hearts pounding in their throats.

What is he going to do? How can he, all alone, fight against an attack that covers the entire planet?

The next second, Lu Yuan answered everyone's questions with his actions.

"In my name—"

Lu Yuan hovered ten thousand meters in the air, arms outstretched as if embracing the entire world. Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the "divine seed," formed from the fusion of the three elements of ice, fire, and sea, began to spin wildly at an unprecedented speed!

"Decree: The Rules of Ice, to govern the entire globe!"

"Buzz—!!!"

An invisible wave of energy, representing "absolute zero," spread out instantly from Lu Yuan's center! Its speed surpassed that of light!

In an instant, an invisible, crystal-clear "ice shell" composed of pure rules appeared above the entire Earth's stratosphere! This "ice shell" enveloped the entire Earth!

Immediately afterwards, countless fiery meteorites, trailing long tails of flame and powerful enough to smash a city into ruins, finally collided with this "ice shell"!

"Boom? No..."

The anticipated earth-shattering explosion did not occur. Nor did the cataclysmic scene of Mars colliding with Earth unfold.

People all over the world witnessed a scene they will never forget, through satellites and high-altitude probes.

Those terrifying meteorites burning with the "fire of original sin" were like red-hot irons falling into liquid nitrogen the moment they touched that "ice shell".

"Sizzle—!"

With a soft thud, the flames on the meteorite's surface were instantly extinguished. Immediately afterward, the entire meteorite, from the outside in, was frozen solid by an irresistible force of extreme cold, transforming into crystal-clear ice sculptures, which then floated silently outside the atmosphere.

Thousands upon thousands! Densely packed! It's as if the Earth is adorned with a magnificent "ring" of ice crystal meteorites!

This is Lu Yuan's "Domain of Gods"!

Instead of intercepting meteorites one by one, he directly altered the entire battlefield's "environment" at the most fundamental level of rules! Within this area covered by his "absolute zero," all "fire" attributes would be infinitely weakened, and all "ice" attributes would be infinitely enhanced!

Here, he is the only god!

"..."

The whole world was deathly silent. Everyone's brains had gone blank; they couldn't comprehend what they were seeing.

In the blink of an eye, the entire globe was frozen. What could have been a cataclysmic natural disaster was transformed into a magnificent astronomical spectacle. This is a power beyond human comprehension; it is the authority of a creator god!

"No...impossible!"

Baal, the Balrog King, roared in disbelief in the sky. He sensed that his connection to the fiery meteors had been forcibly severed by a force from a higher dimension! His "Original Sin Flame" had been frozen?!

This completely overturned his understanding!

"Nothing is impossible."

Lu Yuan's voice drifted leisurely from above its head.

Baal looked up sharply and saw that Lu Yuan had appeared directly above the enormous magic circle that covered the entire globe! He was looking down at the behemoth composed of countless runes and energy lines with great interest, his eyes like those of a master craftsman examining a flawed work of art.

"This magic circle is quite well designed," Lu Yuan nodded and commented. "The idea is very bold; it actually aims to build a temporary divine kingdom that can accommodate your true form's descent, based on a low-level material plane."

"What a pity..." He shook his head, looking regretful. "Your theory has fundamental flaws. Your energy circuit is too crude; at least thirty percent of the energy is wasted during transmission. Also, your core rune is a joke. Its stability and compatibility are terrible, riddled with loopholes—it's practically a sieve."

As Lu Yuan spoke, he pointed his finger at the enormous magic circle in the air. Each time he pointed to a spot, the runes there would flash intensely before the light dimmed.

In just a few words, the once imposing and globally-encompassing magic circle became flickering and shaky, as if it could collapse at any moment.

"You... what kind of monster are you?!"

Baal was utterly terrified! It felt like it was a naked little girl in front of this mortal, with all its secrets and the composition of its power completely exposed! This feeling was absolutely terrifying!

"I told you, I'm just a blacksmith," Lu Yuan smiled. "A blacksmith who knows a little about 'disassembly' and 'reassembly'."

"Alright, that concludes your tour. Now, it's time to take you home."

After saying that, he lifted his foot and gently stepped down on the huge magic circle below.

"boom--!!!"

This kick seemed to have struck at the very heart of the world! An indescribable, terrifying power erupted instantly!

The enormous magic circle that enveloped the entire planet was like a piece of glass struck by a giant hammer. Starting from the point where Lu Yuan landed, countless huge and ferocious cracks spread wildly in all directions!

"No--!!!"

Baal let out a desperate scream. Its enormous head, constructed of energy and rules, began to crumble inch by inch as the magic circle shattered!

"Mortal! You just wait! I will return! Next time, I will lead my entire army of hell to raze your world to the ground!"

After leaving behind this curse filled with resentment, with a loud "Boom!", the entire magic circle, along with Baal's head, exploded and shattered into countless red specks of light, dissipating into the world.

The sky cleared up, and sunlight shone on the earth again, as if the apocalyptic scene just now was merely an illusion.

Only the magnificent "star ring" composed of countless ice crystal meteorites, suspended outside the atmosphere, silently testifies that everything that just happened was real.

Lu Yuan slowly descended from the sky and arrived in front of Yan Ji.

"Alright, all done." He clapped his hands, looking relaxed. "Your brother's home now, he shouldn't bother you anymore."

Yan Ji stared blankly at him. After a long while, she finally found her voice, her tone trembling slightly, a tremor she herself didn't even realize: "You...killed him?"

"Kill?" Lu Yuan paused for a moment, then shook his head. "No. How could I bear to kill such a top-quality material?"

He grinned, revealing a set of white teeth: "I just sent him back to his hometown, and incidentally installed a 'back door' there. From now on, I can go to him to 'buy goods' whenever I want."

Flame Princess: "..."

worldwide:"……"

"They...they installed a backdoor in hell?"

At the Zenith World Command Center, Dean Qian Sen's data tablet fell to the ground with a "thud," but he was completely unaware of it. Looking at Lu Yuan on the screen with an expression that said, "I just did a small thing," he felt that his scientific worldview was being repeatedly crushed, shattered into nothingness.

"Old Su...did you hear that? He said he went to hell to buy supplies..." Qian Sen's voice was trembling.

Su Lie's lips twitched, and he slapped his forehead, letting out a painful groan: "I heard it... I don't just want to plug my ears now, I even want to gouge my eyes out."

While others are still worrying about how to defend against the invasion of the abyss, this kid is already thinking about how to open up the supply chain and turn Hell into his own private material warehouse.

How can the difference between people be so great?

On the Pacific Ocean, Yan Ji was speechless for a long time after hearing Lu Yuan's words. She felt touched, amused, and a little relieved.

No matter how capable her adopted brother was, no matter how bizarre her background was, it seemed that as long as this man was around, even the biggest problems would ultimately become a matter of "material for forging" for him. This feeling was quite nice.

"Alright, stop standing there like idiots." Lu Yuan glanced around and began issuing orders, "Pass the word down to have that newly formed 'Earth Defense Alliance' send people over to clean up the battlefield."

He pointed to the magnificent "ring" outside the atmosphere: "Those ice blocks are all good stuff. They contain the purest 'Original Sin Fire.' If you collect them and refine them, they can be used as the highest-grade energy blocks, which could solve the world's energy problem for at least a hundred years."

"Also, after that magic circle exploded, it scattered a lot of fragments of rules. Oppenheimer and his research team came over to collect them carefully; it'll be enough for them to study for decades."

In just a few words, Lu Yuan clearly arranged the "post-war waste" from a world-ending crisis, maximizing resource utilization. This "blacksmith's mindset" ingrained in his bones left Yan Ji in awe.

"And what about you? Where are you going next?" Yan Ji couldn't help but ask.

"Me?" Lu Yuan stroked his chin. "Of course I'm going to collect the final payment."

"Final payment?"

"Yeah, right." Lu Yuan said matter-of-factly, "Your brother ran away, so as his sister, shouldn't you pay off his debts?"

"I..." Yan Ji was about to retort, saying that she was not familiar with him.

"Don't try to renege on your debt." Lu Yuan interrupted her directly. "I just used up a full 0.01% of my divine power to help you settle this matter. You need to give me an explanation for the emotional distress, lost wages, and service fee..."

Seeing Lu Yuan's serious yet nonsensical manner, Yan Ji chuckled. All the gloom brought about by her background and her brother vanished at that moment.

She rolled her eyes at Lu Yuan, exuding charm: "Fine, I'll pay. Tell me, what do you want? I have no money, but I want... one person."

After saying that, she deliberately puffed out her chest and looked boldly at Lu Yuan.

However, Lu Yuan acted as if he didn't see her at all, and just looked her up and down before revealing a look that Yan Ji was very familiar with—a look of scrutiny as if examining "materials".

"You?" Lu Yuan stroked his chin and pondered, "Your body is still too weak. A mortal body simply cannot bear the soul of the 'Primordial Phoenix.' Your cheap brother is right, you are like a glass bottle containing a nuclear reactor, which could explode at any moment."

"That won't do." Lu Yuan shook his head. "My number one henchman can't be a defective product."

"So..." A sudden burst of fanatical light erupted in his eyes, making even Yan Ji feel a little uneasy! That light was like a mad scientist seeing the most perfect experimental subject, or a gambler seeing an opportunity to go all in!

"I've made up my mind!" Lu Yuan slapped his thigh. "I'm going to help you upgrade! No, I'm going to reshape you! I'm going to personally forge a divine body worthy of the 'Primordial Phoenix' for you!"

"ha?!"

Yan Ji was completely dumbfounded. Forging…a body? Are you kidding me?! How could a person be forged?!

"Don't use your meager imagination to judge my abilities." Lu Yuan saw through her thoughts at a glance. "It's impossible for others. But for me..."

He grinned: "It's just a slightly more complicated 'part'."

"Your cheapskate brother said he'd use the 'Fire of Original Sin' to reshape your divine body, right? His idea is correct, but his method is incredibly stupid. Directly reshaping you with hellfire will erase your humanity and memories. What's the difference between that and killing you?"

"And I..." Lu Yuan's eyes gleamed with confidence, "have a better way."

He reached out and grabbed at the air. The spatial rift, torn apart by Baal's magic circle, hadn't healed; instead, it was forcibly fixed in place by an invisible force! A pitch-black, black hole-like spatial passage appeared before them. From the other end of the passage, the faint stench of sulfur and the roars of demons emanated—there lay the "back door" to Hell!

"Let's go," Lu Yuan said to Yan Ji.

"Where to?" Yan Ji asked instinctively.

"Of course..." Lu Yuan grabbed her hand and, before Yan Ji could react, dragged her into the spatial passage leading to hell!

"Go and bring your brother back! Let him be your 'main ingredient'!"

"boom--!"

Lu Yuan's words were like a nuclear bomb, exploding in the minds of everyone in the world!

Capture...capture the Lord of Hell...as material?!

What kind of outrageous language is this?!

In the zenith, Dean Qian Sen's eyes rolled back, and he fell straight backward.

"Quick! Call a doctor! The hospital director... he's had a heart attack from fright!"

The command center was in complete chaos.

Su Lie stared blankly at the figure that had disappeared into the dark passage. After a long while, he finally managed to squeeze out a trembling sentence: "He's not going to Hell to buy goods... He's fucking going to Hell to 'rob' it!"

……

Hell, the seventh level, the Molten Throne.

Baal, the Balrog King, who had just escaped back in a sorry state through the dimensional portal, sat on his throne, which was made of countless demon skeletons and solidified magma, and roared madly.

"Aaaaaah—! Damn mortals! Damn ants! I, Baal, swear in the name of hell! I will make you pay!"

Its massive energy body had become somewhat ethereal due to the shattering of its primordial magic array. Clearly, the battle just now had severely weakened it.

Beneath the throne, countless bizarre and high-ranking demons prostrated themselves on the ground, trembling and not daring to utter a sound.

Just as Baal was gripped by impotent rage, the space before his throne suddenly distorted without warning. A pitch-black spatial passage appeared out of thin air.

"Um?!"

Barna's enormous eyes narrowed sharply. This spatial fluctuation... why does it feel so familiar?

The next second, two figures walked out of the passage unhurriedly. Leading the group was the Chinese youth it both hated and feared like a tiger. Behind him followed his younger sister.

"You...how did you get here?!"

Baal was completely dumbfounded. It had considered a thousand ways to get revenge on Lu Yuan, but it never imagined that the other party would actually come to its own home!

This is unscientific! This is not hell!