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

The Wang Family Manor, covering 300 acres, is located in the eastern suburbs of Beijing.

The once bustling white marble archway is now eerily silent; not even the chirping of insects can be heard.

More than one hundred fully armed guards within the defense zone used high-powered welding torches to firmly seal the four vermilion gates. Three electrified barbed wire fences were erected around the perimeter. Twelve military signal jamming vehicles were parked in a circle, completely blocking all communication frequencies inside and outside the manor.

Deepest part of the manor. A secret chamber thirty meters underground from the Wang family ancestral hall.

This was converted from an air-raid shelter dug during the War of Resistance against Japan. The walls are lined with half a meter thick lead plates to block radiation.

The pillar of the Wang family, Old Master Wang Changgeng, who had lived to be 120 years old, was sitting on a rosewood armchair. His withered hands gripped a dragon-headed cane tightly, the veins on the back of his hands bulging.

The secret room was crammed with more than thirty core members of the Wang family. Some were pacing back and forth, while others were crouching in the corner with their heads in their hands. The air was thick with a pungent stench of sweat and despair.

"Grandpa. The guards outside have welded the door shut. The helipad has also been locked by an EMP. Are we really going to be trapped here and die?"

The speaker was Wang Tianhua, the eldest grandson of the third generation of the Wang family. He was tugging at the collar of his custom-made shirt, which cost tens of thousands of yuan, while his tie was nowhere to be found.

Wang Changgeng slammed his dragon-headed cane heavily onto the ground.

thump.

The dull thud brought silence to the basement.

"What's the panic? Chu Jianguo, that peasant, at most he'll just block our way. Old Man Li still has some shame; he wouldn't dare order the complete extermination of the powerful clans. He's waiting for us to voluntarily hand over half of our family's assets in exchange for our lives."

A sinister glint flashed in Wang Changgeng's cloudy eyes.

"As long as we can hold out until tonight, and once the adults from the Sirius Star Region complete their guidance in Antarctica, the laws of the entire Earth will be rewritten. At that time, both the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals and that little beast named Lu Yuan will have to kneel down and become dogs."

Wang Tianhua swallowed.

"But... the news from the Skywatch Bureau says that even twelve electromagnetic cannons couldn't harm Lu Yuan in the slightest. What if he really comes to kill us..."

"He can't get in."

Wang Changgeng snorted coldly and reached out to press on the armrest of the armchair.

The bluestone bricks on the floor of the secret chamber rumbled and receded to both sides. An altar emitting a dark red light rose up. In the center of the altar was a banner embroidered with strange runes.

"This is the [Four Fiends Blood River Formation] array plate bestowed upon us by the Blood River Sect ten years ago when we sent Lu Zhan into the interdimensional passage. It can withstand a full-force attack from a peak Divine Realm expert. Even if Lu Yuan is a living god, with extraterrestrial array patterns on this, he would be helpless outside."

Wang Changgeng had just finished speaking.

The half-meter-thick lead shield overhead suddenly emitted an extremely sharp tearing sound.

It wasn't an explosion. There was no tremor either.

Thirty meters of rock strata and special steel plates, along with the entire ancestral hall above, are as if they were cut straight through by an invisible giant pair of scissors.

Black spatial turbulence rushed in wildly through the crack.

The younger members of the Wang family in the corner didn't even have time to shout before they were swept into the turbulent current. Their bodies were shredded into a bloody, red mist within half a second by the gale.

Wang Tianhua was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, leaving a large yellow stain beneath him.

Within the void rift, a pair of military boots trod on the bluestone bricks of the secret chamber.

Lu Yuan walked out expressionlessly, wearing a black windbreaker that was still dripping with Pacific Ocean water.

The temperature in the basement plummeted at an unreasonable rate. Moisture on the walls condensed directly into frost.

Wang Changgeng's facial muscles twitched violently. He suddenly bit his tongue, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the array plate.

"Charge!"

A dark red light barrier opened, protecting the remaining twenty-odd members of the Wang family in the center. The surface of the light barrier was swirling with the corrosive true energy unique to the Blood River Sect.

Lu Yuan didn't even lift his eyelids.

He didn't even glance at the array plate that was said to be able to block even the peak of the Divine Realm.

"You native Earthlings always have such a poor understanding of power."

Lu Yuan raised his right hand. His index finger casually drew a line in the air.

Sizzle!

The dark red light shield, within half a second of contacting the Mahayana stage true essence, offered absolutely no resistance. It was neatly split in two.

The battle flags were blown to pieces.

A whistling scream escaped Wang Changgeng's throat. The backlash from the formation had broken seven or eight of his ribs.

Lu Yuan strode to the grand master's chair.

"What you did ten years ago in the dungeon. I just finished investigating half of it at the bottom of the sea."

Lu Yuan's voice was perfectly steady, without any inflection. But to the Wang family, it was more piercing than a death warrant from hell.

"Now. Complete the other half. How did you manage to steal my father's destiny and send him into the passage?"

Wang Changgeng vomited black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. He stared intently at Lu Yuan.

The old monster knew he was doomed today. But he was still scheming about how to preserve the last vestige of the Wang family bloodline.

"Lu Yuan...you've won...but killing us all won't change anything."

Wang Changgeng grinned, revealing his blood-stained gums.

"Your father is in the hands of the Blood River Sect. Back then, the interdimensional passage was unstable, and we used his destiny as a stabilizer. When he passed away, he left me a jade tablet that represents his life. This jade tablet is connected to his soul!"

Wang Changgeng shakily pulled out a cracked blue jade pendant from his bosom.

"You dare destroy my Wang family? I'll crush it! Even if he doesn't die in the outer realms, his soul will be incomplete, turning him into an idiot!"

Wang Changgeng held the jade plaque above his head.

"Let Tianhua go! I'll give you the jade token. All past grievances are wiped clean. Otherwise, we'll all die!"

The room was eerily quiet.

Wang Tianhua knelt on the ground and scrambled towards Lu Yuan's feet.

"Yes, yes, yes! Grandpa Lu! Please let me go! I promise I'll get out of China and never come back! I'll transfer all 30 billion US dollars in the Wang family's overseas accounts to you!"

Lu Yuan looked at the jade tablet.

The lowest-grade Soul-Binding Jade in the cultivation world. It does indeed contain a tiny, faint trace of divine soul energy. However, the connection has long been severed by the void turbulence, leaving only an empty shell.

These idiots don't even realize the magic artifact is broken, yet they use it as a bargaining chip.

"A fight to the death?"

Lu Yuan raised his foot. The sole of his shoe landed directly on Wang Tianhua's head.

Click.

Wang Tianhua's head shattered on the floor tiles like a ripe watermelon. Red and white matter splattered all over Wang Changgeng's face.

"You don't even deserve to be fish. You're only fit to be the mud at the bottom of the river."

Lu Yuan formed his five fingers into claws and suddenly inhaled at Wang Changgeng from a distance.

The cyan jade tablet flew directly into Lu Yuan's hand.

At the same time, Wang Changgeng's aging soul also flew over.

The Great Ascension Stage Soul Searching Technique. A brutal, unrestrained tearing apart.

Wang Changgeng's body convulsed violently. His eyeballs bulged out of their sockets, and a guttural roar escaped his throat. In a fraction of a second, Lu Yuan's divine sense churned his cerebral cortex into a pulp.

Memories from ten years ago flashed rapidly through Lu Yuan's mind.

The broken array plate unearthed from Kunlun Death Valley. Bloodletting beneath the Heavenly Prison. Lu Zhan chained to the altar, his meridians severed. The Wang and Ye families greedily devour the longevity pills bestowed by the Blood River Sect.

At the end of the scene, before being swept into the tunnel, Lu Zhan used his last breath to forcefully shove a tortoise shell engraved with a map of Antarctica into his own flesh, and then crashed into the Earth through a gap in the space outside the tunnel.

"Guard the Earth's Eye...they're going to drain this planet dry..."

The memory ends.

Lu Yuan withdrew his divine sense.

Wang Changgeng had become a vegetative, fleshy mass, devoid of all vital signs, slumped in a grand chair.

"Let's pave the road."

Lu Yuan put the Soul-Tethering Jade into his storage ring. He then formed his right hand into a knife shape and casually swept it around the perimeter of the secret chamber.

The true essence of the Mahayana stage transformed into a ring-shaped blade of energy.

The secret chamber contained over twenty core members of the royal family, along with the remaining hundreds of collateral relatives and assassins in the manor outside.

At the same time, a smooth line of blood appeared on my neck.

Their heads rolled off their necks in unison.

There was no resistance. There were no last words.

Lu Yuan flicked his finger. A wisp of Samadhi True Fire landed on Wang Changgeng's corpse.

Black flames ignited the entire sealed chamber and spread outwards along the ventilation ducts.

This kind of fire doesn't burn buildings. It only burns living things and flesh and bones.

Outside the manor.

Chu Jianguo stood beside the command vehicle, a cigarette dangling from his fingers.

He watched as a black pillar of fire suddenly rose above the Wang family manor. The presence of several hundred people vanished completely within half a minute.

A trembling voice came from the communicator.

"Reporting, sir... There's no movement from the Wang family... Thermal imaging shows zero vital signs within the manor."

Chu Jianguo's hand trembled, and the cigarette fell directly onto his feet.

He swallowed hard and pressed the intercom button.

"Notify the second team at the Ye family's side. No need to weld the door anymore. Just contact the crematorium and arrange for a truck to collect the ashes."

The voice just fell.

A ripple spread across the void in front of Chu Jianguo.

Lu Yuan walked out from inside.

The more than one hundred guards around instinctively took a half step back, even holding their breath. This was not the kind of courage that could be trained in an exercise; it was the instinctive fear of a living being facing its natural enemy.

"I've already taken care of things with the Ye family."

Lu Yuan patted the dust off his windbreaker.

"Ten meters of land in Nanshan have been leveled. The ashes have all been scattered into the stagnant, cold pool beneath the Heavenly Prison. Your men don't need to make this trip."

Chu Jianguo's legs went weak, and he almost knelt on the ground.

This is the most prestigious clan in the capital! A behemoth with a history spanning over a hundred years!

Lu Yuan's journey from the Wang family to here took no more than three minutes. In those three minutes, he also managed to wipe out the Ye family, fifty kilometers away.

"Mr. Lu... Mr. Lu..."

Chu Jianguo forced himself to stand up straight.

"The matter Lin Zhen asked us to handle has been taken care of. Miss Qingxue, on the top-secret special plane of the defense zone, landed in the underground hangar of the Chu family manor ten minutes ago. There is a top-level independent life support system there. It can withstand a nuclear attack for seven days."

Lu Yuan nodded.

"You did something worthwhile."

Lu Yuan raised his head, his gaze sweeping across the night sky above the capital city towards the far south.

Inside the Nine Heavens Storage Ring, the fragment of the Returning Void Boundary Stone salvaged from the seabed, and the tortoise shell left behind by Lu Zhan, were resonating wildly.

The frequency increased rapidly, emanating a sense of oppression that made the Earth's native spiritual energy tremble.

The real killer move in the Sirius Starfield is neither Richard nor the Blood River Sect's split soul.

Ten thousand meters below the Antarctic glacier.

The core of the Earth's Heaven and Earth Separation Array is buried there.

That ancient demon skeleton was merely a hammer used to pry open the Earth's core. They intended to completely drain the planet's core essence to repair the nearly depleted spiritual veins of the Sirius star system.

The temperature in Lu Yuan's eyes dropped to freezing point.

He was a cultivator. He didn't care about the fate of Earth at all.

But his sister lives on this planet.

Lu Qingxue is now a walking, human-shaped source of spiritual energy. If the Earth's source is drained and its laws collapse, the backlash from the Heaven and Earth Separation Array will tear Lu Qingxue to pieces immediately.

"Chu Jian Guo"

Lu Yuan withdrew his gaze.

"Tell Old Man Li that you're responsible for cleaning up the mess in the capital these past few days."

"I've wiped out all the dogs from the Sirius region on Earth. Now it's time to nip their roots in the bud."

Chu Jianguo was stunned for a moment.

"Mr. Lu, where are you headed? Do you need satellite positioning and fire support from the defense zone?"

"Your junk can't keep up with my speed. Besides, going there would be suicide."

Lu Yuan turned around.

His divine sense, honed to the peak of the Mahayana stage, exploded without reservation. The spatial laws within a radius of a hundred miles were forcibly distorted by him.

A spatial tunnel, larger and darker than ever before, was forcibly torn open above the capital. Destructive spatial lightning flashed along the edges of the tunnel.

Lu Yuan stepped onto the void staircase.

"I'll go to Antarctica to collect the mess my father left behind."

The black passage is closed.

Only Chu Jianguo and more than a hundred guards remained, standing outside the Wang family manor, staring blankly at the grayish-white powder covering the ground.

And at the southernmost point of the Earth.

The center of a millennia-old ice sheet up to 3,000 meters thick.

On the once desolate white wasteland, a huge abyss stretching for more than ten kilometers suddenly appeared.

At the bottom of the abyss, a dark red light pierced through the ice.

A massive, black skeleton, too large to be fully visualized, is slowly emerging from the magma beneath the earth. Each vertebra of the skeleton is covered with dense, blood-red runes.

The other end of the array pattern was firmly embedded in the core of the earth's deepest veins.

As the skeleton began to writhe, the magnetic field across Antarctica descended into complete chaos. In the same second, the monitoring screens of all observatories and official agencies worldwide turned a glaring blood red.

The countdown has begun.