Daily News: Intercepting the Female Lead at the Start, with a 10,000-fold Return

The ancient tree is translucent green-gold in color, as if it were carved from the finest divine gold.

Through the translucent tree trunk, one could even see golden sap, like blood, slowly flowing inside.

Among the branches and leaves, countless fine rays of divine light flowed, and the texture of each leaf seemed to contain the most primordial laws of nature.

"Splash..."

The ancient tree seemed to sense the breeze. The unfolding and friction of each leaf would cause a violent resonance of the laws of plants within a radius of hundreds of millions of miles, emitting waves of laws that made one's heart palpitate.

The Everlasting Tree.

Before the Immortal King attained enlightenment, he entrusted his original essence to the Great Dao.

It is also the absolute foundation for his future ascension to the pinnacle of the Immortal King realm.

Lu Yuan's gaze followed the tree trunk upwards and landed on the top of the tree crown.

There, three blue flower buds, exuding a rich, chaotic aura, were about to bloom.

Around the flower bud, the void constantly arises and vanishes, as if giving birth to three miniature universes.

Clearly, the Immortal King of Immortality is still busy traveling around, searching for opportunities, and has not yet reached the crucial point of truly integrating with this ancient tree and breaking through to the Immortal King realm.

This immortal tree is still missing a final bit of potential before it can fully mature.

"What a wonderful spiritual root of heaven and earth."

Lu Yuan stood at the edge of the spiritual spring, looking at this strange ancient tree that seemed to defy the creation of heaven and earth. There was no greed or appreciation in his eyes, only an extreme indifference.

He walked slowly toward the spiritual spring, and the void beneath his feet automatically solidified into solid steps the moment he stepped down.

"Since you are not mature yet, then never mature."

Lu Yuan slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers slightly spread. The hazy chaotic laws gathered wildly in his palm, transforming into a chaotic hand that blotted out the sky and the sun. With a terrifying and destructive power, it was about to uproot the ancient tree and completely extinguish its life.

However, just as Lu Yuan's palm was about to touch the trunk of the Longevity Tree...

A sudden change has occurred!

"Gurgle..."

Suddenly, violent ripples appeared in the depths of the once calm and still spring.

The milky white elixir seemed to boil, churning wildly.

"Buzz!"

The originally gentle and restrained green-gold divine light on the surface of the Tree of Immortality suddenly became dazzling, like a green sun bursting at extremely close range, so bright that people could hardly open their eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the bark on the ancient tree's translucent trunk began to writhe violently, and a face that was old, majestic, and exuded an aura of endless vicissitudes and superiority slowly emerged.

"Boom!"

As this face appeared, the laws governing all vegetation seemed to be summoned by some absolute force, frantically converging towards the Tree of Immortality.

The laws intertwined and recombine in the void, eventually transforming into a majestic phantom, ten zhang tall, wearing a green-gold Taoist robe, which stepped out from the tree trunk!

The moment the phantom landed, the entire hundred-foot-long spiritual spring suddenly sank several feet, and an incomparably powerful aura erupted like a volcanic eruption, shattering the surrounding void into pieces.

Despite being restricted by the laws of this world and the constraints of the Tree of Immortality not being fully mature, the power fluctuations emanating from this phantom were only at the level of a Perfect Immortal Lord.

However, the charm that resonated with the Great Dao in every gesture, and the cold indifference towards all living beings revealed in his eyes, carried the complete wisdom of a Celestial King and the instinct for battle!

This is precisely the core will Dharma image that the Immortal King of Longevity left in his own proof of the Dao as a precaution!

The ten-zhang-tall phantom lowered its head, its eyes, burning with green divine flames, fixed intently on Lu Yuan, who was dressed in black robes below.

The immortal king of this era would naturally not recognize that the black-robed youth before him was the mighty Great Luo Immortal King who would dominate the heavens millions of years later.

However, in the darkness, the karmic entanglement between the two enemies, which had spanned the river of time and been intertwined for countless eras, was completely ignited the moment their eyes met!

This is an extreme aversion and murderous intent etched deep within the soul, inexplicable in words.

The killing intent within this phantom of will surged to its peak almost instantly, causing the surrounding temperature to plummet and even the boiling immortal liquid to condense into a layer of green frost.

Deep within the soul, the Tree of Immortality, which served as its vessel, began to tremble violently.

Its branches and leaves shook wildly, making a terrifying "rustling" sound, as if sensing that some irresistible catastrophe was about to befall it.

"Who are you, you petty scoundrel?"

The phantom of the will to live slowly spoke, its voice like two dry, ancient logs rubbing together violently—deep, piercing, and carrying a superior, judgmental majesty.

"How dare you steal my proof of enlightenment? You truly have no regard for your own life."

Faced with this oppressive aura that would terrify any immortal lord, Lu Yuan stood expressionless.

His black robe fluttered in the dense storm of spiritual energy, and his back was ramrod straight, like a sharp sword piercing the sky.

"Petty thief?"

Lu Yuan raised his head slightly, looking at the aged face that had appeared countless times on his kill list millions of years later, and a cold, mocking smile slowly curled at the corner of his mouth.

"You old dog of immortality, even in a different era, your self-important attitude will still be just as repulsive."

Lu Yuan's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly pierced through the raging roar of the laws and reached the ears of the illusory figure.

He slowly raised his right hand, and the chaotic laws in his palm transformed into a long sword that exuded an aura of destruction.

"Today, I will not only steal your tree," Lu Yuan's eyes became domineering, his killing intent slicing through the void like a tangible force, "I will also sever your path, your road to immortality ends here!"

Before he could finish speaking...

The lofty, immortal phantom was thoroughly enraged by Lu Yuan's extremely arrogant words, which directly addressed him by his name.

The green-gold Taoist robe suddenly swelled up, and a destructive storm of vegetation swept towards Lu Yuan!

The battle erupted in the blink of an eye, tearing everything apart with a deafening roar.

The once tranquil bottom of the spiritual spring is now completely filled with a violent killing intent.

The phantom of immortality floated in the turbid water. In its huge eyes, which were formed from pure laws, the originally dark green light suddenly shone brightly, like two burning, ghastly green demonic suns, turning the surrounding dim spring water a ghastly green.

Without uttering any unnecessary words, he suddenly raised his right hand, his index and middle fingers joined together like a sword, the fingertips exuding a chilling sharpness, carrying a ruthless intent to completely cleave this world apart, and fiercely slashed at the earth below.

"A thousand trees pierce the heart."

The voice of the immortal phantom was hoarse and cold, like a chilling wind blowing from the depths of the Netherworld, devoid of any warmth from the living.

"Boom—Rumble!"

As these four words were uttered, the earth at the bottom of the entire spiritual spring suddenly let out a mournful cry of unbearable pressure, followed by a complete collapse as if the sky and earth had shattered.

The hard rock layer was torn apart instantly, like a fragile piece of paper, and countless bottomless black cracks spread wildly like a spider web.

Amidst the deafening roar, countless incredibly thick longevity vines burst forth from the cracks deep underground.

These vines don't look like plants at all; they shimmer with a cold, metallic luster, as if they were cast from the hardest divine iron in the world.

The surface of the vines is covered with countless barbs.

Dozens of ferocious green pythons twisted and intertwined wildly in the void. Their speed was so great that they tore apart the surrounding space, creating a series of sharp and ear-piercing sonic booms.

Wherever the vines passed, the spring water was instantly drained and squeezed out, creating an absolute vacuum zone.

These are no ordinary vines; they are entwined with the terrifying Law of Death.

This is a terrifying power capable of forcibly stripping away the lifespan of living beings; the aura of decaying laws faintly appears on the green vines.

If an ordinary True Immortal were to stand here, let alone be struck head-on, even if the barbs merely grazed the very surface of their skin, the Law of Death would seep into their body like a bone-deep infection. Their millennia of arduous cultivation and vitality would be devoured in the blink of an eye, instantly turning them into a skeleton.

Faced with this overwhelming, all-or-nothing attack, Lu Yuan stood quietly in place.

The wind whipped his black robes, making them flutter loudly, but he didn't move an inch, nor did he even blink.

His gaze was as calm as a stagnant pool, looking at the longevity vines that were enough to make even a true immortal die as if they were just a few weeds swaying in the wind.

Just before those dozens of ferocious green pythons were about to touch his body, the Great Five Elements Chaos Technique, which seized the creation of heaven and earth, began to operate in a way that defied common sense within Lu Yuan's body.

"Buzz—"

As the internal energy cultivation technique circulated within him, an ancient, vast aura, seemingly capable of encompassing all things in the universe, awakened within Lu Yuan's body.

The grayish-white chaotic essence burst forth from his body like a flood bursting its banks, rapidly intertwining and condensing around Lu Yuan's body, transforming into a grayish-white protective light screen that appeared as thin as a cicada's wing but was in fact indestructible.

The next moment, the violently lashing green-gold vines, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, slammed heavily into the gray-white light barrier.

There was no earth-shattering explosion as expected, nor did a violent energy shockwave spread outwards.

At this moment, the laws of chaos revealed to the world their all-encompassing yet domineering nature.

"Hiss... hiss hiss..."

A series of piercing melting sounds rang out from the bottom of the spiritual spring, like a red-hot iron being suddenly pressed into ice water.

The longevity vines, which were originally as hard as immortal weapons and could easily tear apart space, were completely disintegrated and stripped away the despairing death calamity law attached to them the moment they touched that seemingly insignificant layer of chaotic energy, as if they had encountered a natural enemy.

Immediately afterwards, the entire thick vine, like ice and snow meeting the scorching summer sun, began to melt at a visible speed.

Their divine iron-like texture quickly faded, and their violent destructive power was forcibly smoothed out. Under the unreasonable assimilative power of the chaotic laws, these deadly attacks were forcibly reduced to the most primitive, purest, and attribute-free spiritual energy.

Lu Yuan tilted his head back slightly, opened his mouth, and took a deep breath.

"call--"

The massive amount of attribute-less spiritual energy that was assimilated transformed into a visible river of spiritual energy, which Lu Yuan swallowed whole.

His chest rose and fell slightly as the Great Five Elements Chaos Technique instantly refined the spiritual energy without causing even a ripple within his body.

Upon seeing this, the immortal phantom suspended in mid-air suddenly changed its expression.

For the first time, an incredulous look of shock appeared on his blurry face, which was woven from the laws of nature.

He never expected that his life-defining killing move, which he had unleashed at the cost of his life force, would be so easily neutralized by the black-robed man in front of him, and even swallowed by the man as a tonic!

"Death reverses life, prosperity and decay are both extinguished."

The phantom of immortality, enraged, laughed and let out a roar that shook the entire spiritual spring.

With his roar, the green-gold Daoist robe on his body, formed from pure laws, began to flutter wildly, and an aura even colder and more deathly than before erupted from his body.

His already enormous eyes, filled with the power of law, began to spin wildly at an eerie frequency.

The boundary between the whites of the eyes and the pupils began to blur, and then a chilling scene appeared—within those enormous eyes, hundreds of double pupil phantoms were forcibly split and generated!

Within each of the double pupils, there lies the essence of death and decay.

next moment.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Hundreds of grayish-white beams of destructive death rays, as thick as buckets, shot out simultaneously from his double pupils, like hundreds of scythes of death from hell.

These death rays traveled at speeds beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. The moment they were fired, they tore through the void, leaving hundreds of black spatial rifts at the bottom of the spiritual spring that could not be healed for a long time.

Wherever the death ray passed, the spiritual spring and immortal liquid, which originally contained boundless vitality, instantly lost all their spirituality upon contact with the death ray, turning into a pool of foul-smelling black stagnant water.

The surrounding void had completely lost its vitality, and even the laws of space itself had been forcibly pulled into absolute annihilation by this force of decay and flourishing.

Faced with this terrifying offensive that could wipe out an entire region, Lu Yuan's eyes only flashed with undisguised disdain.

"You dare to show off your rudimentary understanding of life and death before me?"

Lu Yuan sneered. His voice wasn't loud, but it clearly pierced through the shrill screams of hundreds of death rays tearing through the void and reached the ears of the immortal phantom.

Before he finished speaking, Lu Yuan slowly raised his left hand, his five fingers slightly spread, and casually pressed forward against the overwhelming gray-white death light shooting towards him.

"The Pure Land of the Gods".

The four words, spoken calmly by Lu Yuan, were like a divine decree from the heavens.

"boom!"

A sacred, vast, and pure golden divine radiance erupted from Lu Yuan's body like a supernova explosion.