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

Rain pounded on the white marble ruins, trickling down the charred cracks in the stone.

The martial arts arena was completely surrounded by military armored vehicles. Two armed helicopters circled at low altitude, their searchlights casting long, glaring white beams through the rain.

Old Li stood beside an armored SUV. He held a black umbrella, its ribs warped by the strong wind. Beside him, Chu Jianguo, wearing a raincoat, held a tactical rifle, muzzle pointing downwards, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

Chu Jianguo saw it very clearly through the binoculars just now.

When the purple lightning struck, he thought it was all over. The power of that heaven and earth was simply beyond what a human could withstand. But when the lightning dissipated, the young man, who didn't even have true essence, hadn't lost a single hair. Instead, he had smashed two Grandmasters of the Transcendent Realm into mincemeat with his bare hands.

Footsteps came from deep within the ruins.

It was very light, but every step felt like it was stepping on Chu Jianguo's heart.

Lu Yuan, shirtless with only a tattered strip of cloth wrapped loosely around his waist, emerged from the darkness, carrying Ye Qingcheng, who was covered in blood, in his arms.

The hundreds of fully armed special forces soldiers around them didn't dare to breathe too loudly. The only sound in the deathly silence was the rain pattering against their helmets.

Old Li quickly threw away the black umbrella in his hand and ran over in a few strides. The age spots on his face were all scrunched up with fear, and he was bent over so much that his back was almost touching his knees.

"Mr. Lu..."

Old Li swallowed hard.

"The spies within the Bureau of Astronomical Statistics have been removed. Zhou Ming, who cut off the signal at Panlong Mountain, has been apprehended by Lin Zhen."

Lu Yuan didn't look at him. He walked directly to the bulletproof SUV, opened the door with one hand, and threw the barely alive Ye Qingcheng into the back seat.

The movements were hardly gentle; Ye Qingcheng let out a muffled groan as black blood seeped from her wound.

"The Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion."

Lu Yuan turned around, and rainwater streamed down his jade-like muscles.

"And where is the S.H.I.E.L.D. manager in Beijing?"

Old Li didn't dare to look Lu Yuan in the eye; he kept his head very low.

"A private estate halfway up the western hillside."

Old Li's voice trembled slightly.

"The Asia CEO of the S.H.I.E.L.D. has brought twelve S-class genetically modified humans with him, along with the head of the Tianji Pavilion. They... they thought you were intercepted in the East China Sea, and they're having a victory celebration at the manor tonight."

Lu Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth.

"Let's go to Xishan."

Without a word, Old Li opened the driver's side door and climbed in. Chu Jianguo quickly got into the passenger seat and yelled into the walkie-talkie, ordering the armored vehicle convoy on the perimeter to immediately make way.

The engine of the bulletproof SUV roared, its tires leaving two black mud tracks in the water, and it drove straight onto the ring road.

There was a strong smell of blood in the carriage.

Ye Qingcheng lay on the back seat. Blood was still oozing from the wounds in her limbs where the Soul-Suppressing Nails had pierced her joints. She barely opened her eyes and looked at Lu Yuan sitting next to her.

This man didn't possess the slightest trace of the true essence fluctuations of a cultivator. Yet, the violent blood energy emanating from his very bones made her feel a pain in her lungs even when she tried to breathe.

"Owner......"

Ye Qingcheng's voice was softer than a mosquito's buzz.

"The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion's protective formation... is connected to the formation in the Sirius Star Region... they possess..."

"Shut up."

Lu Yuan interrupted her.

He extended his calloused right hand and casually placed it on Ye Qingcheng's shoulder.

Without true essence, Lu Yuan directly activated the Qi and blood power of his Mahayana stage, forcefully channeling it into Ye Qingcheng's meridians.

This method is extremely brutal, equivalent to forcibly straightening a bent steel bar with a hammer.

Ye Qingcheng convulsed in pain, biting her lip tightly to keep from crying out. But the domineering surge of energy sealed off the bleeding points in her limbs, forcibly tying her life to the line.

"If you look at me like that again, I'll gouge your eyes out and stomp on them."

Lu Yuan withdrew his hand, leaned back in his chair, and closed his eyes to rest.

Ye Qingcheng quickly lowered her head. Far from feeling humiliated, she felt a strange sense of security.

After half an hour.

Halfway up West Mountain.

This sprawling private estate is perched on a cliff halfway up a mountain. It is usually the hideout for the city's top elites to squander their wealth.

The manor is now surrounded by electric fences. A dozen mercenaries in black tactical uniforms are patrolling the perimeter with fierce military dogs.

In the main hall of the manor.

Xu Tiandao, the head of Tianji Pavilion, was wearing a dark blue Taoist robe and holding two walnuts in his hands.

Sitting opposite him was Max, the Asia CEO of the S.H.I.E.L.D. conglomerate. A white man with a full head of blond hair and deep-set eyes.

A bottle of Romanée-Conti was open on the table.

"Master Xu."

Max swirled his wine glass.

"The thunderstorm over at the martial arts arena just now was quite loud. The Heavenly Thunder Array has been activated. It seems that traitor Ye Qingcheng has been reduced to ashes."

Xu Tiandao stroked his beard.

"The Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Formation of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion is a death formation that directly draws upon the earth's evil energy. Let alone a Grandmaster of the Transformation Realm, even if that kid surnamed Lu dared to go there, he would be skinned alive."

Xu Tiandao cracked the walnuts.

"As long as we can hold out for these two weeks, and wait for the array core at the bottom of the Dead Water Cold Pool to absorb its full energy, the adults will descend. The entire martial arts world of China will then be reshuffled."

boom!

Xu Tiandao hadn't finished speaking.

The manor's two-ton pure copper gate was knocked off its side by a Hongqi bulletproof SUV.

The bronze door smashed into the fountain statue in the courtyard, shattering the marble sculpture to pieces. A jet of water shot skyward, mingling with the rain and splashing everywhere.

The alarms in the lobby were blaring.

"What's going on!"

Max suddenly stood up, dropping the wine glass in his hand and shattering it on the floor.

The door of the bulletproof SUV was kicked open.

Lu Yuan stepped barefoot onto the marble floor, which was covered in puddles.

The dozen or so mercenaries on the perimeter immediately raised their guns, and infrared beams rained down on Lu Yuan's chest.

"Fire!"

The mercenary captain roared.

The intense gunfire ripped through the rainy night.

The bullet struck Lu Yuan, exploding into a series of blinding sparks, all of which were deflected by his dense skin. Not even a white mark was left.

Lu Yuan ignored these tickling bullets.

He flicked his toe off the ground.

He kicked a slab of gravel the size of a fist away.

The slab of gravel broke the sound barrier mid-air, slamming into the chest of the mercenary captain with a piercing shriek.

boom.

The captain's upper body exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

The remaining mercenaries were so frightened they could barely hold their guns.

"waste."

Max pressed a remote control in the lobby.

"Numbers one through twelve. Initiate cleaning mode."

The side gates on both sides of the manor suddenly opened.

Twelve genetically modified humans, each over two meters tall and covered in metal tubes, emerged.

This is the ultimate weapon that the S.H.I.E.L.D. invested 12 billion US dollars to create. Each one incorporates the genes of an S-class mutated beast, combined with the enhancement of modern exoskeleton armor.

"Go to hell, you Chinese monkeys!"

Max sneered.

The cyborg at the forefront suddenly had a layer of silver liquid metal surging across his body. He transformed into a sharp longsword, slashing down towards Lu Yuan's neck.

Lu Yuan did not dodge.

He raised his right hand, his five fingers spread.

He grabbed directly at the long, liquid metal blade.

The blade struck Lu Yuan's palm, producing a sickening metallic scraping sound.

Lu Yuan suddenly clenched his five fingers.

The terrifying grip deformed the liquid metal longsword.

"What a piece of junk."

Lu Yuan exerted force with his right arm, lifting the cyborg up and slamming him hard into the nearby support pillar.

Boom!

A reinforced concrete load-bearing column with a diameter of one meter was directly crushed. Faced with the physical kinetic energy of the Great Ascension stage, the liquid metal cyborg was compressed into a disc less than one millimeter thick, stuck firmly to the ground. It couldn't be pried off.

The remaining eleven cyborgs pounced on them at the same time.

Some people emitted high-frequency cutting rays from their eyes, powerful enough to slice through a tank. Others spat out liquid nitrogen at temperatures below -100 degrees Celsius.

Lu Yuan stood still.

During the Mahayana stage, the Qi and blood surge wildly within the body.

He didn't use any fancy magic. It was just pure physical overwhelming force.

He walked towards the high-frequency rays. The rays hit his chest, only burning off a little bit of the surface dust.

Lu Yuan walked up to the cyborg who was emitting rays.

Hold the other person's head with one hand.

Use your thumb and forefinger to apply force.

puff.

The cyborg's steel skull, along with its brain, was crushed like a rotten watermelon.

Lu Yuan turned to the side and kicked another cyborg who was spraying liquid nitrogen in the stomach.

The cyborg flew backward like a cannonball, crashing through three walls before finally slamming into the rock face behind the mountain, turning into a pile of minced meat.

Less than half a minute.

A toy worth 12 billion US dollars has been turned into a pile of parts that can't be put back together.

in the hall.

Max's legs went weak, and he knelt on the ground. A foul-smelling yellow liquid seeped from his crotch.

Xu Tiandao's face was deathly pale, and the walnut he was holding had long since fallen to the ground.

Lu Yuan stepped over the corpses scattered on the ground and entered the hall.

He didn't even glance at Max before stepping directly on Max's head.

The sound of skull shattering was crisp. Max didn't even have time to scream before he lay motionless on the ground.

Lu Yuan walked up to Xu Tiandao.

"You...you stay away!"

Xu Tiandao pulled out a stack of yellow paper covered with talismans from his Taoist robe and frantically threw it at Lu Yuan.

Before the talismans could even get close to Lu Yuan, they were blasted into ashes by the violent aura emanating from his body.

Lu Yuan grabbed Xu Tiandao by the neck and lifted him into the air.

"You mentioned earlier, the key point of the formation at the bottom of the stagnant, icy pool?"

Lu Yuan stared at Xu Tiandao's bloodshot eyes.

"Those extraterrestrial scum built the true core of the interdimensional teleportation array beneath the capital's prison?"

Xu Tiandao gripped Lu Yuan's arm tightly with both hands, his legs kicking wildly in mid-air.

"You...you knew...the adults were coming..."

"Too much nonsense."

Lu Yuan was too lazy to listen to his rambling.

Using the Soul Searching Technique without true essence is indeed quite difficult. But the consciousness of a Mahayana stage cultivator is still present.

Lu Yuan's eyes instantly turned completely black.

The powerful divine sense transformed directly into a sharp knife, brutally stabbing into Xu Tiandao's sea of ​​consciousness.

Xu Tiandao's body convulsed violently. His eyes rolled back, and he foamed at the mouth. His cerebral cortex had been completely churned into mush by Lu Yuan's unreasonable and violent manipulation.

Fragments of memory flashed rapidly through Lu Yuan's mind.

The Guixu Secret Realm in the high seas of the East China Sea was indeed just a decoy. It was bait used to attract the attention of the authorities and Lu Yuan.

The true grand scheme of the Blood River Sect in the Sirius Star Region has long been buried in the stagnant, icy pool a thousand meters underground in the capital's prison.

There was absolutely no clue about Lu Yuan's biological father in that document.

There, locked away, was a mutated Yin Corpse that had been fed with the essence and blood of cultivators for over a hundred years. That was the true core of the interdimensional teleportation array.

Lu Yuan paused for a moment when he read the last piece of memory.

The image of him enduring a miniature nuclear bomb in prison flashed through his mind.

A radiation shockwave with temperatures of tens of millions of degrees is enough to destroy everything.

Lu Yuan suddenly understood.

The Wang family's detonation of that nuclear bomb wasn't some desperate, all-or-nothing tactic. Xu Tiandao was the one stirring things up, using the Wang family to detonate it!

The energy from that miniature nuclear bomb not only failed to destroy the stagnant, cold pool underground, but was entirely absorbed by the mutated corpse.

The energy of modern nuclear weapons will be used to complete the final step of recharging the interdimensional array in the cultivation world.

Xu Changming was stalling for time at the martial arts arena in order to wait for the nuclear radiation to fully integrate into the array's core.

The countdown has now begun.

That's what it means to be outmaneuvered by the villain.

Lu Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth.

He clenched his five fingers together.

With a snap, Xu Tiandao's neck was broken. The body was tossed to the ground like trash.

The rain outside was getting heavier.

Lu Yuan turned around and walked out of the hall.

Old Li was still waiting beside the bulletproof car. When he saw Lu Yuan come out, he quickly opened the car door.

"Sir...where are we going now?"

Lu Yuan got into the car.

He touched the Heavenly Dao chain in his sea of ​​consciousness, which had begun to tighten again due to the forced reading of memories.

"Go to the ruins of the Heavenly Prison."

Lu Yuan's voice was calm, but to Old Li, it sounded like a death knell.

"Go see what surprise those bastards have prepared for me."