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

The heater in the SUV was turned up to the highest setting.

With trembling hands, Old Li handed the military-grade rugged tablet to the passenger seat.

The light from the tablet screen shone on Lu Yuan's face. It was a real-time satellite thermal image map of Antarctica.

What should have been a deep blue, minus sixty-degree ice sheet area now has a large, glaring crimson patch in the middle.

The red dots of light were densely packed together. Not just one or two, but tens of thousands. These dots were distributed in a ring shape three thousand meters below the ice layer, and the body temperature characteristics represented by each dot far exceeded the limits of human carbon-based life.

"The S.H.I.E.L.D. has a joint research station in the Antarctic Circle. They've been digging there for almost ten years."

Old Li swallowed hard, his voice low, as if afraid of disturbing something.

"The Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals had previously assumed they were mining some kind of high-energy radioactive ore. It wasn't until three minutes ago, when a massive collapse occurred inside the ice layer, that our deep-space satellites were able to detect these things."

Lu Yuan stared at the screen.

He didn't swipe the screen with his finger. His Qi and blood in the Mahayana stage were now in a completely instinctive defensive state; even a slight touch would shatter the tablet and its motherboard into dust.

The image of the old man from the Sirius Star Region, whom he had forcibly searched for souls in the old town of Jiangnan, flashed through his mind.

There was a very vague fragment in the old man's memory at that time.

The tortoise shell of the Kunlun Mountains is the starting point. What lies buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet is not minerals at all.

They are the remains of an ancient demon race.

Or rather, they were the vanguard of the Sirius Starfield, sealed in an extremely cold land by the combined forces of Earth's native divine realm experts during that interdimensional war thousands of years ago.

"Raise the alarm threshold of your so-called spiritual energy monitoring network to the highest level."

Lu Yuan tossed the tablet onto the instrument panel.

"You call this temperature off the charts? You've never seen anything like it."

Old Li nodded quickly, not daring to utter a single word of rebuttal.

Lu Yuan leaned back in his chair.

His current condition isn't actually that good. Just now, a thousand meters below the Dead Water Cold Pool, he forcibly reversed the interdimensional formation of the Blood River Sect of the Sirius Star Region, and his Mahayana stage physical body took the brunt of the backlash from a nuclear explosion mixed with death energy.

At this moment, in his sea of ​​consciousness, the black chain representing the laws of heaven had already tightened around the neck of the nascent soul.

With each breath, a rusty, sweet, and metallic taste would rise from deep in my throat.

But he forced himself to swallow the blood.

Sirius Starfield created a fake array eye in the Ruins of Return secret realm and a real passage in the Dead Water Cold Pool, and now both have been destroyed. The Heaven and Earth Separation Array on the Earth's surface has been brutally torn apart with several large holes.

The awakening of those things beneath Antarctica is a chain reaction caused by the collapse of the magic array.

Those idiots at S.H.I.E.L.D. think they're digging up some ultimate weapon that will allow them to rule the world. They're just being free locksmiths for others.

"Back to Panlong Mountain."

Lu Yuan closed his eyes.

The bulletproof off-road vehicle sped to its maximum speed on the ring road and quickly drove out of the city and onto a special airway cleared by the military.

Two hours later. Panlong Mountain, Jiangzhou.

The villa area on the mountaintop has been temporarily fenced off by military engineers using high-strength alloy plates.

The SUV was parked in front of the villa.

Lin Zhen, wearing a bulletproof vest and with two tactical pistols tucked into his waistband, was pacing back and forth in the doorway. His eyes were bloodshot, clearly indicating he hadn't dared to close them for a single minute.

The car door opened.

Lu Yuan walked down barefoot.

Just as Lin Zhen was about to report the situation, he saw Lu Yuan open the back door of the car and lift Ye Qingcheng, who was covered in blood, out like a chick.

boom.

Ye Qingcheng was thrown onto the steps of the porch.

Her white clothes had turned dark black. Although Lu Yuan had forcibly sealed the blood from her wounds with his own qi and blood, she remained in a deep coma.

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

Lin Zhen gasped when he saw the woman's face on the ground.

"Isn't that Special Envoy Ye from the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance?!"

"It used to be. Now it's my watchdog."

Lu Yuan pointed to the steps.

"Find someone to set her bones. Don't let her die."

Lin Zhen felt a chill run down his spine.

The youngest Grandmaster of the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance was treated like a watchdog and thrown on the ground. Only this man in front of me in all of China dared to say such a thing, and he said it with such confidence.

"How is Lu Qingxue?"

Lu Yuan strode into the villa's lobby.

The load-bearing walls of the hall were all cracked. The large crater that Lu Yuan had created when he took off was still in the center of the floor.

Lu Qingxue was still lying on that clean stone slab.

Her body temperature had completely returned to normal. The domineering medicinal power of the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow had completely swept away the cold poison in her Nine Yin Profound Meridians. Now, a slowly rotating pale blue vortex could even be seen with the naked eye in her dantian.

This is a portable aura nuclear reactor.

As soon as she wakes up, even the slightest hint of her presence will cause mutated beasts within a hundred miles to rush towards her like madmen.

"Lin Zhen".

Lu Yuan stood beside the stone slab.

"Yes, sir! What are your orders?"

Lin Zhen immediately stood at attention.

"I'm going out for a bit. It'll probably take half a day."

Lu Yuan did not turn around.

"For half a day, not even a fly can get in within a ten-mile radius. Is that possible?"

Lin Zhen gritted his teeth.

"Old Li has already deployed a heavy combined arms brigade from the Jiangnan War Zone to the foot of the mountain. All three high-frequency sonic repellent devices from the Astronomical Bureau are operational. As long as I, Lin Zhen, have a breath left, no one can touch a single hair on Miss Lu's head!"

Lu Yuan nodded.

Without saying another word, he turned and walked directly to the backyard of the villa.

Old Li followed behind, jogging all the way.

"Sir! If you are going to Antarctica, Chu Jianguo has already coordinated with Nanyuan Airport to provide the latest supersonic strategic bombers. Once you board the plane, you will be there in three hours..."

"Too slow."

Lu Yuan walked to the lawn in the backyard that had been scorched by lightning.

This is the core of the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array.

Lu Yuan sat down cross-legged.

He closed his eyes and released his Mahayana-stage consciousness.

He forcibly gathered up all the tiny bits of spiritual energy that had leaked out due to the broken magic array within a radius of a hundred miles.

The quality of this spiritual energy is extremely poor, with an absurd number of impurities.

But Lu Yuan didn't care. He opened his mouth and swallowed the turbid spiritual energy in one gulp, like a whale sucking in water.

The spiritual energy entered the body, rushing wildly along the dried-up meridians, and finally crashed hard into the black Heavenly Dao chain in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Click click.

The chain loosened slightly by half an inch due to the impact of this external force.

Just this half inch.

Lu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

He stood up, legs apart, shoulders slumped.

At that moment, every muscle fiber in his body emitted a terrifying, explosive sound, like a bowstring being fully drawn. The soil beneath his feet was instantly shattered into dust finer than flour.

Physical ejection during the Mahayana period.

"Get away from me."

Lu Yuan uttered three words.

Boom!

Old Li scrambled back, and just as he collapsed behind the porch, the entire backyard erupted in chaos.

It wasn't an explosion. It was purely a physical reaction force.

A giant crater, twenty meters in diameter, appeared out of nowhere. The surrounding soil and rocks were thrown dozens of meters into the air.

Lu Yuan transformed into a sonic boom that broke the sound barrier, crashing straight into the clouds above.

A piercing sonic boom cloud exploded in the sky above Jiangzhou, creating a white ripple.

Air raid sirens blared throughout the city.

On the radar screen, an unidentified object with no heat source reaction but terrifying kinetic energy was traveling at Mach 20, following the suborbital trajectory of an intercontinental ballistic missile, heading straight for the southernmost point of the Earth.

......

Antarctica.

Glacier Base XIII, part of the S.H.I.E.L.D. conglomerate.

The wind speed outside reached fifty meters per second. The blizzard, mixed with ice, pounded against the high-strength, blast-proof glass surrounding the base, making a sound like sandpaper grinding against steel.

The base was in complete chaos.

The red alarm lights flashed wildly. The piercing alarm, mixed with human screams, echoed from the depths of the mine, three thousand meters underground, all the way to the control room.

"Fire! Weld that blast door shut! Don't let those monsters get up there!"

Klaus stood behind the bulletproof glass of the control room, roaring into the microphone.

He is one of the twelve directors of the S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Supreme Council. He personally led the team to Antarctica to witness the momentous occasion of the corporation's control over ancient powers.

In his hand, he tightly gripped a fragment of a black boundary stone engraved with twisted array patterns.

This is the "key" they spent tens of billions of dollars searching around the world for. They believed it could control the dormant super-creatures beneath the ice.

Half an hour earlier, when the ice melted and the first skeleton stood up, Klaus even opened a bottle of champagne.

But his joy didn't last more than two minutes.

Those ancient demons, four meters tall and covered in white bone spikes, didn't even glance at the fragment of the boundary stone in his hand.

They tore the alloy drilling machine apart.

The armor-piercing bullets in the mercenaries' hands bounced off the demons' bone armor. High-explosive grenades exploded at their feet, without even scratching them.

massacre.

One-sided physical crushing.

boom!

The half-meter-thick titanium alloy explosion-proof door below the main control room suddenly let out a mournful cry of despair.

A thick, barbed, skeletal arm pierced right through the titanium alloy plate.

Like tearing paper.

The blast door was violently ripped open with a large gash.

Three ancient demons squeezed in.

They had no eyes, only two dark eye sockets. Their lower jaws were split open, revealing a dense array of sharp, shark-like teeth.

Dozens of fully armed mercenaries picked up Vulcan machine guns and opened fire wildly.

The demon walked forward through the metal storm, casually waving his arm.

The first row of mercenaries was cut in half at the waist. Their internal organs and blood splattered all over the ground, quickly freezing into red ice shards in the sub-zero temperatures.

"What the hell is that?!"

Klaus was so frightened that he fell to the ground with a thud, the fragment of the boundary stone in his hand falling to his feet.

He scrambled to the bottom and pressed the button for the emergency exit.

"Cover me! I'll give you an extra ten million dollars! No, a hundred million!"

Klaus rushed into the private elevator and frantically pressed the close button.

The elevator goes directly to the helipad at the top of the ice sheet.

A specially modified heavy-duty cold-weather helicopter is already warming up. Its propellers kick up a flurry of snow.

Klaus rushed out of the elevator and practically pounced into the helicopter cabin.

"Take off! Take off now! Get out of this damn place!"

The driver pulled the control lever sharply.

The helicopter wobbled as it took off, detaching from the platform at the glacier base.

Klaus leaned back in his seat, breathing heavily. He looked down through the porthole.

A huge hole had been torn open in the glacier base beneath. Hundreds and thousands of ancient demons surged out from the ground like ants.

"That was close... If we can sell these coordinates to the Chinese military or the dark web, the conglomerate's losses will be..."

Klaus hadn't finished speaking.

The radar on the helicopter's instrument panel suddenly emitted an extremely sharp and continuous alarm sound.

"Sir! Something's falling from above!"

The driver screamed in terror.

"It's too fast! We can't measure it! It's broken Mach 20!"

Klaus suddenly looked up.

Inside the dark, heavy blizzard clouds.

A meteor streaked with dark red, high-temperature flames hurtled straight toward their helicopter.

That wasn't a shooting star at all.

That was a person.

As Lu Yuan traversed the atmosphere, his Mahayana-stage physical body experienced intense friction with the air, generating temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius on his skin. His clothes were burned to ashes long ago.

He crossed his arms over his chest and straightened his legs.

It's like a solid steel nail driven straight down from the heavens.

boom!

The helicopter's rotor blades were instantly crushed into scrap metal by the violent kinetic energy the moment they touched Lu Yuan's feet.

Lu Yuan did not slow down at all.

He smashed right through the top armor of the helicopter.

Klaus didn't even have time to scream, or even for his pain receptors to register.

Lu Yuan's feet landed directly on his head.

The impact force of a fall of several thousand tons.

Klaus's head, cervical spine, chest cavity, and pelvis were all crushed in a fraction of a second. His entire body was ruthlessly trampled into a meat patty stuck to the cabin floor.

The helicopter completely disintegrated, turning into a huge fireball that crashed heavily onto the glacier base three thousand meters below, accompanying Lu Yuan's descent.

boom!

The entire Antarctic plate seemed to tremble.

The seemingly indestructible ice sheet was stomped into a crater over a hundred meters in diameter by Lu Yuan's foot.

The hundreds of ancient demons that had burst out of the ground were blasted away by the terrifying shockwave, their bones breaking and splintering in mid-air, leaving fragments of bones scattered all over the ground.

The thick smoke mixed with the ice jelly, obscuring the view.

The very bottom of the impact crater.

Lu Yuan straightened up.

Large patches of the scorched skin on his body were peeling off, revealing the smooth, new muscle underneath.

The extremely cold wind, at minus sixty degrees Celsius, whipped against his naked body, not even giving him the chance to shiver.

There was silence for three seconds.

Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of ancient demons that surged out of the ground turned their heads at the same time, their tens of thousands of dark eye sockets staring intently at Lu Yuan at the bottom of the pit.

They have no reason, acting only on their killing instincts. But at this moment, they smelled a bloody scent on this naked human that was more brutal and ancient than their own.

Lu Yuan twisted his neck.

The cervical vertebrae made a cracking sound.

He raised his hand and took out the Kunlun tortoise shell he had obtained in Jiangnan from his storage ring.

The tortoise shell was radiating intense heat, and the patterns on its surface seemed to come alive and move around.

This thing is the remote control left on Earth by the Sirius star system to activate this vanguard force.

Lu Yuan looked at the glowing tortoise shell in his hand.

His five fingers suddenly clenched together.

A snap.

He crushed the incredibly hard tortoise shell into powder, completely destroying the array inside as well.

"I heard."

Lu Yuan dusted off his hands and looked up at the massive, dark army of demons surrounding him.

"You bunch of skeletons, you want to eat in China?"

The dozen or so demons in the front row roared and charged at Lu Yuan, brandishing their bone spikes.

Lu Yuan did not back down.

He walked towards the demon at the very front.

He reached out with his right hand and grabbed the opponent's thick, bony arm that was thrusting at him.

The grip strength explodes during the Mahayana stage.

They ripped off that bone arm, which was harder than a steel pillar.

Lu Yuan grabbed the bone arm with his other hand, used it as a stick, and swung it around, smashing it onto the head of another demon next to him.

boom!

The demon's head exploded on the spot, like a watermelon hit by a baseball bat.

"It's a pity."

Lu Yuan threw away the bent bone arm in his hand and stomped on the still twitching half of the torso on the ground.

"I didn't bring any takeout containers. You'll have to lie down here."

Just as Lu Yuan was physically dismantling this group of henchmen.

Deep within the ice, in the core mine that originally belonged to the S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Base XIII.

A terrifying pressure that instantly lowered the surrounding temperature by another twenty degrees slowly rose up.

It was a giant demon general whose body was over ten meters tall.

Its bone armor was an eerie dark purple. Two ghostly green flames burned in its two empty eye sockets.

That was the oppressive aura equivalent to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage in the cultivation world. Although it had been sealed for thousands of years and its strength had greatly diminished, it was still far superior to the mutated beasts on Earth.

The Nascent Soul stage demon general raised its head, and its eyes, burning with ghostly flames, accurately locked onto Lu Yuan's location through the three-thousand-meter-high ice ruins.

Its jaw opens and closes, producing extremely stiff, yet perfectly pronounced, ancient Chinese words.

"Mahayana... Immortal Venerable..."