After the college entrance examination, my identity as a Mahayana Immortal Venerable could no longer

7:30 AM. Gangnam International Airport.

The boarding information was being announced over the loudspeaker in the departure hall in a sweet female voice. Lu Yuan, dressed in an ordinary black windbreaker with a sports backpack slung over one shoulder, mingled in the crowd while queuing to have his ticket checked.

His backpack contained a few changes of clothes, and he tossed the half of the Starfall Disc directly into his Nine Heavens Storage Ring. Before leaving, he set up a small "Four Symbols Strangulation Array" around Villa No. 1. The array's core was a low-grade spirit stone he had brought back from the cultivation world.

Let alone those Divine Realm Grandmasters on Earth who haven't even reached the Qi Refining stage, even if Yanjing were truly willing to use heavy earth-penetrating missiles, that formation could withstand it for three days and three nights.

Once the formation is broken, Lu Yuan will be able to sense it instantly, no matter where he is on Earth.

"Sir, here is your boarding pass." The ground staff handed over the ticket with both hands, her cheeks slightly flushed as she glanced at Lu Yuan.

The young man was remarkably clean-cut. Not in the kind of refined, heavily made-up way, but rather with an ethereal quality that emanated from his very being, making him stand out starkly from his chaotic surroundings.

Lu Yuan took the plane ticket without saying a word and walked straight to the VIP channel.

Flight number MU5188. First class.

Lu Yuan found his seat and casually stuffed his backpack into the luggage rack.

The air conditioning in the cabin was on full blast. He leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes.

The divine sense of the Golden Core stage cultivator spread out silently like an invisible net, instantly enveloping the entire Boeing 787 passenger plane.

Two hundred and thirty-one passengers and twelve crew members.

Most people are either looking down at their phones or catching up on sleep.

But in seat 2A to Lu Yuan's right, sat a middle-aged man in a gray suit. The man was flipping through an aviation magazine and seemed perfectly normal.

The only abnormality was that this man's heart rate was only half that of an average person. Also, there was a noticeable bulge under the armpit of his custom-made suit.

gun.

Not only that.

Lu Yuan probed downwards with his divine sense. In the cargo hold under the aircraft's belly, right next to the landing gear hydraulic compartment, there were two black suitcases without any security markings.

The box contained highly concentrated C4 plastic explosives, and was also fitted with a complex electronic timing device and a remote control receiver.

Lu Yuan opened his eyes and saw the flight attendant pushing a beverage cart over.

"Sir, would you like something to drink?"

"Plain water. Thank you."

Lu Yuan took the plastic cup and played with it in his hand.

The thought processes of those people in Yanjing are indeed quite interesting.

If you can't win on the ground, you want to solve the problem at 10,000 meters in the air?

This is a vicious move. Once the attack takes place in the air, no matter how high Lu Yuan's cultivation level is, as long as the plane disintegrates, the karmic consequences of losing hundreds of lives and the immense public pressure from the secular world will instantly push the entire incident into an uncontrollable abyss.

Moreover, even if a martial artist on Earth cultivates to the divine realm and can briefly release true qi and remain suspended in the air, they absolutely cannot withstand the low pressure and lack of oxygen at an altitude of 10,000 meters. If they fall, they will still be a pile of minced meat.

pity.

They overlooked one thing.

Lu Yuan is not a martial artist at all.

The plane taxied on the runway, accelerated, and suddenly pulled up its nose, soaring straight into the sky.

Half an hour later, the aircraft smoothly reached cruising altitude. The seatbelt indicator lights went out.

The curtains in the first-class cabin were drawn.

The man in the gray suit in seat 2A closed his magazine. He unbuckled his seatbelt, stood up, walked to the empty seat next to Lu Yuan, and sat down with an air of nonchalance.

He reached into his suit jacket pocket and pulled out a dark red ID card, flashing it in front of Lu Yuan.

Special agent of the Observatory of Natural Resources, East China Region, codenamed Black Wolf.

"Mr. Lu, I've heard so much about you."

Black Wolf's voice was low, carrying the bureaucratic tone of someone who had been giving orders for years. He leaned back in his chair, took a cigar out of his pocket, but didn't light it, just held it between his fingers.

"Last night, Old Zhou was killed in Jiangnan. You also ransacked Yunding Villa. This has caused quite a stir in Beijing's social circles."

Lu Yuan, holding his plastic cup, didn't even glance at him.

Get to the point.

Black Wolf smiled and tapped his cigar on the armrest.

"Mr. Lu is a man of few words. So I'll be frank. The General Administration's assessment of your strength is seriously flawed. You are not only at the Transcendent Realm, but you may even have touched the threshold of the Divine Realm, or... you possess some kind of ancient inherited magical artifact."

He leaned forward slightly and lowered his voice.

"But no matter how strong you are, you're in the air now. There's fifty kilograms of C4 hidden under this plane. The remote control is in Yanjing."

Black Wolf stared at Lu Yuan's profile, trying to see a hint of panic on the young man's face.

"The Lu family patriarch has spoken. As long as you hand over the Meteorite Disc to me, your father, Lu Changfeng, will be able to return to Jiangnan safely once the plane lands. From now on, the Astronomical Bureau and the Lu family will not interfere in Jiangnan. You can be your own local tyrant."

"This deal is a great deal. What do you think?"

Lu Yuan finally turned his head and looked at Black Wolf.

"Do people from Yanjing go out without using their brains?"

Black Wolf's face darkened.

"Lu Yuan! Don't be so stubborn! Do you think I'm negotiating with you? I know you're powerful, but no matter how powerful you are, can you protect these two hundred civilians on this plane? If I send out a single signal, we'll all be torn to pieces!"

He suddenly ripped open his suit jacket, revealing a miniature heartbeat sensor strapped to his chest.

"The moment my heart stops beating, the explosives in the cargo hold will detonate!"

Lu Yuan looked at the sensor and sighed.

He placed the plastic cup in his hand on the small table.

"You set off several tons of C4 fireworks just to test whether I dare to risk hundreds of lives out of spite."

Lu Yuan's voice was calm, so calm it sent chills down one's spine.

"Since you guys enjoy playing with explosives so much, then keep them for yourselves and play with them slowly."

Before the words had even finished, the words were spoken.

Lu Yuan suddenly raised his right hand, put his index and middle fingers together, and touched the black wolf's forehead.

"Buzz!"

A pure and extreme divine power, like a steel needle, pierced the black wolf's brain.

Soul Search!

Before the black wolf could even let out a scream, its eyes rolled upwards and its entire body convulsed violently.

The red light on the heartbeat sensor on his chest was flashing wildly.

But in that fleeting moment, Lu Yuan made a grabbing motion with his left hand.

A wisp of pale golden spiritual energy, invisible to the naked eye, pierced through the cabin floor and tightly enveloped the two black suitcases filled with explosives in the cargo hold.

The spiritual energy seal of a Mahayana-stage immortal.

Let alone an electronic detonation signal, even the shockwave from a nuclear explosion wouldn't be able to break through this spiritual energy shield.

Two seconds later.

Black Wolf's brain was completely turned into mush, and his heart stopped beating.

The sensor on my chest emitted a piercing long beep.

"drop--"

The detonation signal has been issued.

But there was no movement in the cargo hold.

Black Wolf slumped in his seat, bleeding from all seven orifices, completely dead.

Lu Yuan withdrew his hand and painstakingly pieced together the information from Black Wolf's memories, quickly finding the information he wanted.

"Daxing Airport, thirty armored vehicles, two hundred armed officers. The deputy director of the Astronomical Observatory personally led the team."

Lu Yuan grabbed an airline napkin and slowly wiped his fingers.

"That's quite a grand affair."

He stood up, grabbed Black Wolf by the collar with one hand like a dead chicken, and shoved him into the first-class lavatory, casually hanging up a "in use" sign.

Back in his seat, Lu Yuan picked up the glass of water and took a sip.

The water was still warm.

He looked out the window at the thick clouds, his gaze growing colder and colder.

"Lu Zhentian, do you really think that hanging my dad from the flagpole will make me hesitate to act?"

The plane began its descent, breaking through the clouds.

Below, the massive outline of Yanjing City gradually becomes clear.