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

Bulletproof SUVs sped along the city's elevated highway.

The rain lashed against the windshield like whips, and even with the wipers on their highest setting, they could only clear a blurry curtain of water.

No one spoke in the carriage.

Old Li's hands, gripping the steering wheel, trembled uncontrollably. The SUV's tires slipped several times on the flooded road, the vehicle tracing a dangerous serpentine path, only to be pulled back onto the right track by his relentless efforts.

His stomach churned, and his back teeth clenched so tightly they clicked. Every time he closed his eyes, all he could see in his mind was the image of the genetically modified humans, their bodies smashed into iron discs, lying on the floor of the West Mountain Manor's main hall.

The ultimate weapon, costing 12 billion US dollars, was rendered useless in the hands of this man who didn't even possess true essence. He couldn't even put up a decent fight and became a piece that couldn't be put back together.

"Drive more steadily."

Lu Yuan leaned back in the passenger seat, his voice barely audible, without even a ripple.

"It's pressing on the line."

Old Li shuddered and quickly turned the steering wheel half a turn.

"Yes... sir."

Old Li swallowed a mouthful of saliva that tasted of blood.

"Chu Jianguo just sent an encrypted message. Something happened at the Tianlao ruins. A reinforced company that was responsible for sealing off the outer perimeter lost contact ten minutes ago. Military drones captured images of black gas rising from the bottom of the nuclear crater."

Lu Yuan didn't respond.

He closed his eyes and sensed the movements within his sea of ​​consciousness.

Just now, when I withstood that heavenly lightning on the martial arts stage, the extreme yang energy of the lightning did loosen the chains of the Heavenly Dao a little. But afterwards, when I forcibly used the Great Ascension stage Qi and Blood Clearing Field at the West Mountain Manor, that black chain began to tighten restlessly again, making the cracks on the surface of the Nascent Soul even deeper.

Not having true essence is indeed troublesome.

But it's enough to deal with the key point of the array under the Heavenly Prison.

Twenty minutes later.

The off-road vehicle crashed through the deformed barbed wire fence surrounding the ruins of the prison and drove directly to the edge of the huge nuclear crater, which was several hundred meters in diameter.

The rain intensified.

Old Li pushed open the car door, and as soon as he took one step out, he froze on the spot.

Hundreds of corpses dressed in camouflage lay scattered all around.

There was no blood. There were no wounds.

All the soldiers seemed to have been drained of moisture and life in an instant, turning into skin and bones, dried-up corpses. Their shriveled skin clung tightly to their skeletons, their eye sockets were sunken, and their assault rifles lay scattered on the ground.

Not only that.

The crater at the epicenter, which should have been filled with tens of millions of degrees of heat and deadly nuclear radiation, was now covered with a thick layer of black ice.

A bone-chilling cold, mixed with a thick, inky aura of death, was surging up continuously from a depth of a thousand meters underground. Before the rainwater could even fall into the pit, it was frozen into hail, pelting down on the black ice with a crackling sound.

"This...how is this possible..."

Old Li's teeth chattered, and he took several steps back, leaning against the car door.

"The residual radiation from the miniature tactical nuclear bomb... how come it's all gone... the radiation measuring instruments didn't even make a sound..."

Lu Yuan pushed open the car door and got out.

He walked barefoot through the muddy, icy ground. The tattered cloth around his waist was soaked through by the rain.

"Because I was completely devoured."

Lu Yuan walked to the edge of the pit.

"Those idiots from the Wang family thought they could drag me down with them by detonating a nuclear bomb. Xu Tiandao was just using them to use the violent energy of nuclear fission to complete the final step of charging the interdimensional teleportation array."

Lu Yuan looked down at the bottomless black hole.

"The earth's yin energy combined with nuclear weapon energy. That beast down there should be quite full by now."

Lu Yuan turned his head and glanced at Ye Qingcheng, who was lying on the back seat, still bleeding.

"Stay in the car. If you dare get out, you're dead."

The voice just fell.

Lu Yuan bent his knees slightly, without any running start or starting stance.

boom!

The permafrost beneath his feet blasted open a crater five meters in diameter. The violent reaction force flipped the several-ton armored SUV backward, moving it three meters.

Lu Yuan, like a meteorite with maximum gravitational acceleration, jumped directly into the vertical shaft that was a thousand meters deep.

The sound of the wind in my ears turned into a sharp whistle.

The extremely cold death energy surged upwards along the vertical shaft, scraping against Lu Yuan's Mahayana stage skin and causing a series of sparks to erupt like metal being hammered.

800 meters.

Nine hundred meters.

One kilometer!

Lu Yuan landed on both feet.

boom!

The underground space was originally covered by an indestructible layer of black ice. The moment Lu Yuan landed, the tens of thousands of tons of kinetic energy carried by his Mahayana stage physical body spread out in a ring.

The black ice within a radius of a hundred meters shattered like glass. Water from the underground river rushed in, but before it could flow more than a few meters, it was re-frozen by the extremely strange energy in the air.

This is the very bottom of the stagnant, cold pool.

Lu Yuan straightened up.

In the darkness ahead, a pair of dark red eyes lit up.

The thing slowly crawled out from the broken ice.

It was originally just an ordinary Yin Corpse, nurtured by the Ye and Wang families with meager amounts of cultivator's essence and blood, at most equivalent to the strength of an Inner Strength martial artist.

But now.

Its height suddenly increased to three meters. Its entire body was covered with a layer of eerie blue scales with a metallic sheen. From the gaps between those scales, not only did black death energy seep out, but it was also mixed with blinding nuclear radiation fluorescence.

Its chest cavity was completely cut open.

A fist-sized, purplish-red crystal floated where its heart had originally been. The crystal's surface was covered with densely packed star-shaped patterns.

This mutated corpse transformed itself into a living focal point of the array. It absorbed ninety percent of the energy from the miniature tactical nuclear bomb, directly catalyzing its physical hardness to an unbelievable degree.

"roar!"

The mutated corpse stared at Lu Yuan and let out a roar that was unlike anything in a human.

The sound echoed back and forth in the enclosed underground space, causing rocks to fall from the surrounding rock walls.

It opened its massive maw, filled with fangs, and a beam of light, mixed with highly concentrated nuclear radiation and corrosive death energy, shot directly towards Lu Yuan's face.

The beam of light was extremely hot, and the air along its path was directly ionized, emitting a pungent ozone smell.

Lu Yuan did not dodge.

He didn't even move his feet.

He raised his right hand, fingers spread, and slapped it towards the beam of light that was powerful enough to burn through the steel plates of an aircraft carrier.

Sizzle!

The beam of light struck Lu Yuan's palm.

The skin of the Mahayana stage cultivator was eroded by both nuclear radiation and death energy, emitting a sizzling sound that made one's teeth ache. The flesh of Lu Yuan's palm turned charred and carbonized at a visible speed, revealing the bones underneath that shimmered with a pale golden luster.

But next second.

During the Mahayana stage, Qi and blood surge, and the charred dead skin peels off instantly. New muscle fibers regrow in milliseconds, firmly keeping that destructive energy at bay.

"A deformed product spawned by the energy of nuclear weapons."

Lu Yuan suddenly clenched his five fingers.

They crushed the beam of light like they were squeezing a fluorescent light tube.

The light shattered on the ground.

"You dare to bare your teeth in front of me?"

Lu Yuan pushed off the ground with his right foot.

A deep, bottomless fissure opened up in the rock beneath their feet.

He transformed into a blur, and a shrill scream that broke the sound barrier exploded in the underground space.

Before the mutated corpse could react, Lu Yuan was already right in front of it.

The corpse instinctively swung its claw, covered in dark blue scales, and viciously clawed at Lu Yuan's chest.

The claw tip grazed Lu Yuan's pectoral muscles.

Click!

The three claws of the corpse, harder than diamonds, were instantly severed by the recoil. Black blood gushed out from the broken ends.

Lu Yuan reached out with his left hand, grabbed the corpse by the neck, and lifted its several-ton body into the air.

"Open it for me."

Lu Yuan brought his right hand together to form a knife and plunged it directly into the corpse's chest, which was covered in metal scales.

Without the support of true essence, it was purely physical puncture.

The high-density bones of the Mahayana stage rubbed against the ribs of the Yin Corpse, producing a chilling cracking sound. Lu Yuan's arm was completely embedded in the Yin Corpse's chest cavity, where he grabbed the array eye crystal that emitted a red glow.

The corpse began to struggle frantically. It opened its mouth, trying to bite off Lu Yuan's arm.

Lu Yuan exerted force with his left hand.

He dug his thumb directly into the corpse's Adam's apple and pulled it out.

He ripped the entire trachea, along with half of the spine, out. The corpse's head slumped limply, turning into a pile of rotten flesh.

Lu Yuan threw the corpse of the Yin Corpse on the ground.

He looked at the purplish-red crystal in his hand.

The star array patterns on the crystal surface were flashing violently, and the energy inside, instead of dissipating due to the death of the carrier, began to expand wildly.

The gravity in the entire underground space suddenly became chaotic.

Gravel and ice blocks floated upwards uncontrollably.

A dozen meters above Lu Yuan's head, the air seemed to be torn open like a tattered cloth, leaving a scarlet gap that stretched for over ten meters.

The interdimensional teleportation array has been activated.

Even without the Yin Corpse as a vessel, the Sirius Star Region detected the movement at the array's core and was forcibly opening a passage between the two realms.

From the scarlet gap, a rushing sound like flowing water could be heard.

That was the voice of Blood River, the symbolic protector of the Blood River Sect.

Followed by.

A withered, bony hand emerged from the spatial rift. The hand was covered in lividity, its fingernails were half a foot long, and it emitted a stench that could freeze one's soul.

"Ants of the Earth."

A loud, cold sound, as harsh as fingernails scratching a blackboard, pierced through the spatial rift and struck Lu Yuan's sea of ​​consciousness.

"You destroyed my Blood River Sect's avatar and slaughtered my disciples. Today, the formation is complete, and I will refine every living being in this barren star field into Blood Pills!"

This is the voice of the seventh elder of the Blood River Sect in the Sirius Star Region.

The old monster, who had been vomiting blood and whose mind had been crushed by Lu Yuan's reversed formation, was now attempting to descend through this passage in his true form.

Lu Yuan looked up at the withered hand that was stretching out longer and longer.

He couldn't even be bothered to say a single polite word.

He took two items directly from his storage ring.

One piece was a broken copper piece found among the remains of a car accident, and the other piece was the other half of a copper piece found after searching Xu Changqing's mind at Tianji Pavilion.

As soon as the two copper pieces were taken out, they began to vibrate violently, as if attracted by some kind of magnetic field.

Lu Yuan clasped his hands together and forcibly joined the two uneven copper pieces together.

Click.

Perfectly fitted.

A palm-sized bronze array disc, engraved with complete star coordinates, appeared in his hand.

"You guys who play with formations, you just like to leave backdoors in the keys."

Lu Yuan held the complete array plate in one hand.

He poured his vital energy and blood, which were at the Mahayana stage, into it without reservation. He didn't have true essence to activate the formation, but he could reverse it using the most violent physical means.

Lu Yuan suddenly swung his arm and slammed the array plate into the scarlet spatial rift like a brick.

The moment the array plate came into contact with the crack.

The surging blood energy and oppressive aura suddenly stopped abruptly, like a train being braked.

"You understand cross-dimensional array formations! Just who are you?!"

From the other side of the crack came the Seventh Elder's terrified roar.

"I am your ancestor."

Lu Yuan gripped the edge of the spatial rift tightly with both hands.

The terrifying power of his Mahayana-stage physical body erupted completely. Instead of tearing the crack wider, he exerted force in the opposite direction, forcibly distorting the physical curvature of this space.

He crushed the array core crystal that he had just pulled out of the Yin corpse with his left hand.

The residual energy from the nuclear explosion at tens of millions of degrees, mixed with the deathly aura accumulated thousands of meters underground for centuries, completely spiraled out of control at this moment.

Lu Yuan forced the violent energy flow back through the reversed spatial passage.

"Here you go."

Boom!

The high temperature of tens of millions of degrees and the deathly aura exploded inside the space passage.

A heart-wrenching scream came from the other side of the crack. The withered hand was instantly burned to ashes. The Seventh Elder of the Blood River Sect was definitely covered in the face by this sudden nuclear explosion energy; even if he didn't die, he would be badly injured.

The crimson crack collapsed completely under the reverse impact, turning into countless red specks of light that dissipated into the air.

The shaking in the underground space has stopped.

Lu Yuan patted the dust off his hands.

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the chains of Heaven tightened even more because of his continuous use of physical power beyond its limits. Cracks on the surface of his nascent soul spread to his cheeks. A sweet, metallic taste rose in his throat, which he swallowed forcefully.

He looked up at the sky.

The 1,000-meter-deep shaft is still there.

Lu Yuan used his legs to propel himself up the rock wall of the shaft, like a crazed gecko, and quickly climbed up.

on the ground.

The rain has stopped. A pale, fish-belly white light is appearing on the horizon.

Old Li leaned against the door of the SUV, staring blankly at Lu Yuan as he returned to the ground.

The suffocating pressure emanating from Lu Yuan was even stronger than before. The tattered cloth around his waist was now completely torn to shreds, and his entire body reeked of a strong mixture of ozone and blood.

"Sir..."

Old Li's legs went weak, and he almost knelt on the ground.

"Is the situation down there... resolved?"

Lu Yuan opened the car door and took out a clean set of sportswear from his storage ring and put it on.

"Those bastards won't be able to get down for a while. I blew up the tunnel."

Lu Yuan leaned back in his seat.

"Drive. Back to Panlong Mountain."

Old Li quickly opened the driver's side door. Just as he placed his hand on the steering wheel, the encrypted communicator in his pocket suddenly began vibrating frantically, as if demanding his life.

Old Li glanced at Lu Yuan's expression and carefully pressed the answer button.

Lin Zhen's extremely hoarse voice, even tinged with despair, came through the communicator.

"Old Li...something terrible has happened..."

Lin Zhen's voice was mixed with the sound of strong winds and alarms.

"The global spiritual energy monitoring network at the headquarters of the Celestial Observation Bureau went off the charts in just one minute."

Old Li's hand trembled, and he almost dropped the communicator.

"Explain yourself! Where did it exceed the limit?"

"Not just somewhere... it's all of it..."

Lin Zhen's swallowing sound could be clearly heard on the other end of the line.

"The underground dragon vein of Kunlun Death Valley has been forcibly drained. The energy source of the East Sea Ruins Secret Realm has completely disappeared. But the most terrifying thing is..."

Lin Zhen paused for a moment, seemingly trying his best to calm himself down.

"The Antarctic glacier base just sent its last top-secret file. Three thousand meters below the ice sheet, massive life signs were detected. Not just one, but an entire army. Those things... are all awake."

Old Li's face turned ashen, and he turned to look at Lu Yuan in the passenger seat.

The S.H.I.E.L.D.'s global scramble to collect fragments of the Boundary Stone isn't actually aimed at Lu Yuan. Their real target is something slumbering beneath the Antarctic ice sheet!

Although Lu Yuan destroyed the interdimensional array in the Sirius Starfield, Earth's own defense network was torn to shreds in the process.

Lu Yuan opened his eyes.

He looked out the car window at the gradually brightening sky and stroked his chin.

"interesting."

Lu Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth.

"I originally thought it was just killing a few flies, but now it seems like I've stirred up a septic tank."

Lu Yuan tapped lightly twice on the car window with his fingers.

"Pass on a message to Chu Jianguo."

Lu Yuan's voice was very calm.

"Have him send me the coordinates of Antarctica. I want to see what kind of bastard is buried under the ice."