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

Lu Yuan's right foot slammed heavily onto the rock strata at the edge of the black hole.

There is no fluctuation of true essence. There is only pure mass that transcends the comprehension of carbon-based life forms.

The ear-piercing cracking sound drilled down into the earth's crust.

The white marble plaza, spanning 500 meters in radius, curves upwards from the point where Lu Yuan landed.

Then comes weightlessness.

Tens of thousands of tons of soil, rocks, and the rotten flesh of the twelve S-class cyborgs were all rammed into the cavern 300 meters underground by the terrifying kinetic energy generated by that stomp.

What array patterns, what interdimensional passages? Faced with the absolute violence of physical landfill, they were crushed into high-density biscuits without even a sound.

A violent shockwave swept across the ground.

Old Li was thrown more than ten meters away. He rolled several times in the mud, his hands tightly covering his ears.

All the windows of the bulletproof Hongqi car shattered.

The ground in the western suburbs of Beijing shook violently for more than ten seconds. Along the distant ring road, a long row of streetlights went out in unison.

Lu Yuan pulled his foot back.

Shake off the mud on the back of your feet.

What was once a bottomless pit has now been compacted into a flat, solid crater. Dark red blood has been squeezed out of the soil at the bottom of the pit by the high pressure.

In the Sirius star system, countless light-years away, the seventh elder of the Blood River Sect would probably vomit two mouthfuls of black blood again as he looked at the shattered array plate.

Old Li spat out the mud and sand in his mouth and scrambled to the edge of the pit.

He stared at the huge crater that had been completely filled in, his chest heaving violently.

In that instant, he had quickly calculated in his mind. If the capital's ley lines were severed, and the higher-ups blamed him, he would have to take the fall. But if he didn't let Lu Yuan step on this, and those monsters from the Sirius Star Region crossed over, the entire China would become a living hell.

Even a fool could do the math.

"Mr. Lu..." Old Li straightened up and wiped the rain off his face.

He adopted a very humble posture, even more so than when he was at the bottom of the nuclear crater.

Nuclear weapons can't kill it. Now, it doesn't even need true essence; its physical body alone can crush the earth's crust. Such a being is best treated like an ancestor; any attempt to test or check it is tantamount to playing with the future of the entire nation.

"The authorities will clean up the mess here in the capital."

Old Li swallowed hard.

"I'll personally investigate Zhou Ming's connection. I'll remove all the spies within the Celestial Surveillance Bureau within three days."

Lu Yuan turned his head and glanced at him.

"You're a smart person."

Lu Yuan walked to the side, picked up a security guard jacket that hadn't been torn, and put it on his bare upper body.

"In the world of cultivation, the clever live longer."

He walked up to Ye Qingcheng.

The youngest envoy of the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance was now covered in blood, leaning against the broken steps. Black blood was still seeping from the bloody holes left by the twelve Soul-Suppressing Nails.

"Can we walk?" Lu Yuan asked.

"able."

Ye Qingcheng gritted her teeth. She braced herself against the cracked floor tiles with both hands, forcing herself to stand up.

Her knees were trembling. But her eyes, fixed on Lu Yuan, were filled with undisguised fervor.

She watched with her own eyes as those lofty ancient martial arts masters and those genetically engineered monsters armed to the teeth were reduced to dust under Lu Yuan's fists.

Her Dao heart, that of a genius in the ancient martial arts world, had long been shattered. What was being rebuilt now was absolute submission to this man.

"Take her back to the Astronomical Bureau."

Lu Yuan gave instructions to Chu Jianguo.

"Use top-grade spirit stones to set up a spirit-gathering array to keep her alive. I'll rebuild her meridians when I get back."

Chu Jianguo quickly ran over and supported Ye Qingcheng's arm.

"Rest assured, sir! I guarantee Miss Ye's safety with my life!"

Lu Yuan ignored them.

His brain was rapidly piecing together fragments of memories scavenged from Charles's mind.

The Secret Realm of Return to Nothingness.

The high seas area of ​​the East China Sea.

The S.H.I.E.L.D. was frantically acquiring Boundary Stones around the world, even at the cost of exposing the Martial Arts Arena as a hidden stake, all to buy time for the super array in the Ruins of Return.

They believed that the formation was an evolutionary ladder leading to a higher-dimensional civilization.

A bunch of idiots.

Lu Yuan sneered inwardly.

That was essentially a giant blood-sucking pump set up in the Sirius star system. Using the skeleton of a Nascent Soul stage dragon as the array's core, it forcibly suppressed and extracted the last seabed dragon vein on Earth.

but.

The remains of a dragon in its fusion stage.

This thing is priceless in itself. More importantly, the place where the dragon's remains are located must also contain [Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow].

The latent cold poison in Lu Qingxue's body had been completely activated because of the strong extraction of earth veins and marrow cleansing in Kunlun last time.

Let's calculate the time. In less than ten hours at most, the cold energy of the Nine Yin Profound Meridians will break through the suppression.

Without the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow to neutralize it, his silly little sister would freeze inside and out into an ice sculpture that would never melt.

Arrange a private jet for me.

Lu Yuan turned to look at Elder Li.

"Where to?"

East China Sea. High seas area.

Old Li's expression changed drastically.

He quickly walked to Lu Yuan's side and lowered his voice.

"Sir, the East China Sea is a powder keg right now."

Old Li took out a military-grade waterproof communicator from his pocket, pulled up a satellite image, and handed it to Lu Yuan.

Four hours ago, three overseas carrier strike groups controlled by the A.H.I.E.L.D., under the guise of joint military exercises, completely blocked off a coordinate in international waters of the East China Sea.

"The Astronomical Observatory's satellites captured images showing that the sea area below those coordinates is radiating ultra-high frequency energy."

Old Li was filled with doubt. The master had just survived a nuclear explosion, and there wasn't even a trace of internal energy fluctuation in his body. He had relied entirely on his physical body to withstand it.

These scum on the martial arts stage are close-quarters combat fighters, but the master can crush them with sheer strength.

But upon reaching the East China Sea, they faced three fully-equipped carrier battle groups. Those were hundreds of supersonic fighter jets and countless cruise missiles!

"Sir, that's the ultimate firepower network in modern warfare. Should I transfer two nuclear submarines from the Southern Theater Command to provide support on the perimeter...?"

"Need not."

Lu Yuan tossed the communicator back to Old Li.

"A few piles of scrap metal floating on the water. No need for such a big fuss."

Radiation spillover.

That wasn't high-frequency energy at all. It was the formation unable to withstand the impact of the underwater dragon vein and about to leak air.

The interdimensional passage in the Sirius star system is about to be fully completed.

Just then.

Chu Jianguo's encrypted walkie-talkie rang. The piercing static was particularly clear in the rainy night.

"Director Chu! This is Lin Zhen! Please reply immediately upon receipt!"

Lin Zhen's voice completely changed, revealing an undisguised panic.

Chu Jianguo pressed the call button.

"speak!"

"Something's happened at Panlong Mountain!"

The background sounds of shattering glass and howling wind came through the walkie-talkie.

"Five minutes ago, Miss Lu was sleeping in her bedroom when her body temperature suddenly dropped to minus forty degrees Celsius!"

"The entire second-floor floor was cracked from the cold. Even the spiritual energy of the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array was being forcibly devoured by the cold energy within her body!"

Lin Zhen was panting heavily on the other end of the line.

"I brought three Grandmasters of the Transcendent Realm, intending to go in and use their internal energy to help suppress her condition. Before they even touched the doorknob, their arms were frozen solid, shattering into ice cubes on the spot!"

"Is Mr. Lu here?! This chill can't be contained! In at most nine hours, this entire villa area will turn into a glacier!"

Chu Jianguo's hand holding the walkie-talkie trembled slightly.

He subconsciously looked at Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan's eyes turned extremely cold in that instant.

Without the suppression of true essence, the backlash from the Nine Yin Profound Meridians was even faster than he had calculated.

"Tell Lin Zhen."

Lu Yuan snatched the walkie-talkie.

"No one is allowed to approach that villa. Evacuate all living people within a ten-mile radius."

"Sir... what about Miss Qingxue..." Lin Zhen was so anxious on the other end of the line that he kept stamping his feet.

"I can bring the medicine back within nine hours."

Lu Yuan crushed the walkie-talkie in his hand. The plastic casing embedded itself in his flesh, leaving not even a white mark.

He turned to look at Old Li.

"Where is the plane?"

"Nanyuan Military Airport in Beijing. Ready to take off at any time!" Old Li shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Two hours. I want to see the East China Sea."

Lu Yuan strode towards the Hongqi bulletproof car with its windows completely shattered.

Old Li chased after him for a couple of steps.

"Sir! The A.H.I.E.L.D.'s carrier radar network covers an area of ​​500 kilometers. Our special plane can't fly in that area; it will be shot down at the edge of international waters!"

Lu Yuan opened the car door.

The torrential rain pounded on his shoulders.

"Fly over to their radar head."

Lu Yuan got into the driver's seat and floored the accelerator.

"Then, jump down."