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

"Mahayana... Immortal Venerable..."

The stiff, perfectly enunciated ancient Chinese language echoed at the bottom of the glacial mine, three thousand meters deep. This sound didn't travel through the air; instead, it carried a frequency of mental pollution, drilling directly into the brainstem.

Lu Yuan stood in the center of a crater over a hundred meters in diameter. He looked down at the skeletal arm he had casually torn off earlier, then looked up at the Nascent Soul stage demon general in front of him, who was over ten meters tall.

"You bunch of alien skeletons, you can even learn foreign languages."

Lu Yuan casually tossed the bent bone in his hand aside.

"You have a heavy accent. Who taught you that?"

The two eerie green flames in the demon general's eye sockets flickered violently twice. Its massive body had been sealed for thousands of years, and black ice still lingered in the gaps between its bones. Every movement it made produced a muffled popping sound.

It could sense that the human in front of it possessed not even a trace of immortal cultivation essence.

But it is this feeling that terrifies it the most.

How could a mortal body without true essence possibly smash through the Antarctic ice sheet thousands of meters high from a height of 20,000 meters and crush the bone armor that the Nascent Soul stage demons were so proud of as if it were paper?

"No true essence..."

The demon general's jaw opened and closed again, his voice revealing a probing ferocity.

"You've been backfired by Earth's Heaven and Earth Separation Formation! What good is a Mahayana stage physical body? Without the support of immortal laws, you're nothing more than a slightly harder piece of mortal iron!"

boom!

The demon general didn't waste any more words. It suddenly raised its three-meter-long giant bone claw.

The surrounding frigid air, at minus sixty degrees Celsius, was instantly sucked away. The moisture and free-floating death energy in the air rapidly condensed, transforming into thousands of dark purple frost spears, each over ten meters long, which hovered above the demon general's head.

The Law of the Fusion Stage, Netherworld Ice Spear.

The tens of thousands of demon minions that had just crawled out of the ground around them instinctively lay prone on the ice under the pressure of this Nascent Soul stage cultivator, not daring to even raise their heads.

"die!"

The demon general's enormous bone claw crashed down.

Thousands of dark purple frost spears broke the sound barrier, whistling as they tore through space, and rained down on Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan stood still.

He didn't even raise his hand.

The first frost spear pierced Lu Yuan's chest.

boom!

The moment the spear tip touched Lu Yuan's skin, it burst into a blinding burst of sparks. Then, the entire spear shattered from the tip down into a pool of purple ice powder.

The second one. The tenth one. The hundredth one.

The sounds of intense impact merged into one. Lu Yuan's location was completely engulfed by the blizzard and purple energy light.

Above the ice cap.

In the main control room of the Observatory headquarters.

Old Li and Lin Zhen stared intently at the giant satellite monitoring screen on the wall.

On the screen, in the model of the Antarctic plates, a purplish-red light source representing the energy of the fusion phase is flashing wildly, and the energy index has exceeded the measurement limit of the Astronomical Bureau's instruments.

"What... what level of attack is this...?"

Technician Zhou's hands flew across the keyboard, cold sweat dripping into his eyes, but he didn't dare wipe it away.

"The temperature three thousand meters underground has dropped to absolute zero! The surrounding rock structure is being completely altered by some kind of law-based force. If this level of energy output were in Jiangzhou, it could freeze half of Jiangnan Province into an ice sculpture in a second!"

Lin Zhen clenched his fist, his nails digging deep into his flesh.

"Where is Mr. Lu?! Where is Mr. Lu's energy reaction?!"

"No......"

Engineer Zhou swallowed hard, his voice filled with despair.

"From the moment Mr. Lu entered the Antarctic zone, our instruments have been unable to detect any energy fluctuations from him. He is now... like a ghost that doesn't exist."

Old Li's face turned deathly pale, and he slumped into a chair.

An ancient demon general in the Fusion stage. This world-destroying monster, which only existed in the top-secret file No. 0 of the Extraordinary Immortal Bureau, has now fully awakened.

Even if Lu Yuan is a Mahayana Immortal Venerable, he doesn't even have a single drop of true essence within him. Can he really win by using his physical body to withstand an attack of laws?

Bottom of the Antarctic crater.

The purple energy storm finally subsided.

The ghostly flames in the demon's eye sockets suddenly shrank to the size of a pinhead.

The ice at the bottom of the pit was sheared off by more than ten meters, and hundreds of demon minions that were too close were instantly turned to dust by the aftershocks.

But at the eye of the storm.

Lu Yuan remained standing there.

Not only did he not die, he didn't even retreat a single step.

A thin layer of frost covered the surface of his skin, which was in the Mahayana stage. Lu Yuan moved his shoulders, and the high-density muscle fibers bulged slightly, directly shattering the layer of frost.

"Who told you that the Mahayana stage is useless without the blue bar?"

Lu Yuan looked up at the ten-meter-tall demon general.

"Have your brain been frozen stupid or eaten by dogs over the past few thousand years?"

boom!

The ice beneath Lu Yuan's feet exploded, creating a huge crater.

Pure physical reaction force. No fancy lighting or special effects.

Lu Yuan transformed into a blur that was impossible to detect with the naked eye, completely ignoring the protective aura surrounding the Demon General that was powerful enough to kill even a Divine Realm warrior, and crashed straight into the Demon General's arms.

The demon general had no time to react.

It only saw a human fist that wasn't very thick, which rapidly magnified in its field of vision.

Lu Yuan's right fist slammed solidly into the thickest part of the demon general's chest, the sternum.

Click!

A crisp cracking sound echoed from the bottom of the mine.

The dark purple bone, which was a hundred times harder than modern composite armor, caved inwards under the tens of thousands of tons of kinetic energy from Lu Yuan's punch.

Dense cracks spread along the heart-protecting bone to the demon general's entire body.

"roar!"

The demon general let out a painful roar, its massive body flying uncontrollably backward and crashing heavily into the rock wall behind it. The entire glacier shook violently, and large chunks of ice rained down from above.

"You're too weak. Didn't you eat?"

Lu Yuan's voice rang in the demon general's ears.

Before the demon general could break free from the rock wall, Lu Yuan had already stepped onto the vertical ice wall and walked up to it.

The demon general swung his enormous bone claws, attempting to smash Lu Yuan to pieces.

Lu Yuan reached out with his left hand and directly grabbed the joint of the bone claw that the demon general was slapping at him.

The thumb and forefinger were stuck tightly into the gap between the bones.

"Get down here."

Lu Yuan exerted force with his left arm, and his waist muscles tensed instantly.

A chilling tearing sound rang out. Lu Yuan forcefully ripped the demon general's five-meter-long right arm off its shoulder.

Black, viscous liquid gushed out from the broken surface.

"No...impossible! You don't have true essence! How could you possibly break through my Law Bone Armor!"

The demon general panicked completely. The ghostly flames in its eye sockets flickered violently as it struggled to retreat.

But behind it was a rock wall, leaving it nowhere to retreat.

It finally realized that the man in front of it didn't need any immortal laws at all.

His physical body, which is at the Mahayana stage, is itself the most unreasonable physical law in the world!

"You need true energy to break your armor? You overestimate yourself."

Lu Yuan casually tossed the giant arm that had been torn off onto the ground.

He pushed off the rock face with his right foot, his body soaring into the air and landing directly on the ten-meter-high shoulder of the demon general.

Lu Yuan gripped the sides of the demon general's enormous skull with both hands.

"No...don't kill me!"

The demon general's voice finally carried fear, and that lofty, ancient majesty vanished completely.

"Keep me alive... I can tell you the Blood River Sect's true plan... They don't want Earth's spiritual energy... What they want is..."

"I don't like listening to other people's stories."

Lu Yuan interrupted it.

"I'll see for myself."

Lu Yuan's eyes instantly turned completely black.

The divine consciousness of the Mahayana stage transformed into countless invisible steel needles, directly piercing through the defenses of the demon general's skull and brutally plunging into that ball of eerie green ghost fire.

This method of forcibly searching the soul is extremely domineering. Without the protection of true essence, Lu Yuan is essentially using his divine sense to physically crush the enemy.

The demon's massive body convulsed violently. From its vocal cordless throat came a scream as sharp as fingernails scraping glass.

Countless fragmented images flashed rapidly through Lu Yuan's mind.

A cross-border war thousands of years ago. The humiliation of being sealed beneath a glacier by a powerful figure from China.

But these are not the main points.

Lu Yuan's divine sense swept directly over these scraps, precisely cutting into a fragment of memory deep within the demon general's subconscious.

The image freezes on a dark underground cave.

In the center of the cave, there was a coffin carved from the finest jade. The surface of the coffin was covered with talismans used by the Earthly Mystic Sect to suppress corpses, but every single talisman had turned pitch black.

A man in a gray robe, whose face was obscured, stood beside the coffin.

The man's voice was completely different from that of the seventh elder of the Blood River Sect who had come from the spatial rift earlier.

It was an extremely weak voice, yet it was filled with extreme greed.

"The advance force in Antarctica was just bait."

The gray-robed man stroked the jade coffin.

"When all of Earth's attention is drawn to Antarctica, the real passage lies beneath that locked dragon vein. That Mahayana Immortal Venerable thought he had solved everything by blowing up the stagnant, icy pool of the Heavenly Prison... He had no idea what was buried beneath Panlong Mountain in Jiangzhou."

The memory ends abruptly here.

The soul search is over.

Lu Yuan stood on the Demon General's shoulder, his black eyes slowly returning to their normal color.

Panlong Mountain.

It turns out these scum from outside the region had also planted landmines in Jiangzhou. No wonder that meager dragon vein had been converging on Panlong Mountain all along. That wasn't a natural feng shui treasure land at all; it was an "incubator" that had been tampered with long ago.

By forcibly draining the Jiangnan earth veins to suppress Lu Qingxue's cold poison, he inadvertently provided the "incubator" with its final energy.

"You bunch of tacticians, your hearts are truly dirty."

Lu Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth.

He placed both hands on the demon general's skull, exerting force from his palms.

The high-density calcium crunched under Lu Yuan's powerful grip during his Mahayana stage.

"Let's get going."

boom!

The demon general's enormous skull shattered instantly, like a watermelon struck by a heavy hammer.

The eerie green ghost fire inside had lost its vessel and was directly exposed to the air. Without any hesitation, Lu Yuan unleashed his Mahayana stage qi and blood, transforming it into an invisible furnace that instantly burned the ghost fire into nothingness.

All the demon generals in the Fusion stage have been completely wiped out.

Not even a single intact bone was left.

With the death of the Demon General, the oppressive pressure of the Nascent Soul stage at the bottom of the mine instantly dissipated.

The tens of thousands of demon minions around him were stunned for a second, then their eyes blazed with red light, and they fell into a state of complete frenzy without a leader, rushing towards Lu Yuan like a tidal wave.

"Noisy."

Lu Yuan jumped down from the fallen corpse of the demon general.

He didn't go and crush these cannon fodder one by one with his hands.

Lu Yuan raised his right foot, aimed it at the ice beneath his feet, and stomped down hard.

Boom!

This was no ordinary physical impact. It was a Mahayana-stage physical body instantly injecting tens of thousands of tons of kinetic energy deep into the Earth's crust.

Beneath this foot, the Antarctic plate's crust split open, creating a massive abyss stretching over ten kilometers.

The high-temperature magma deep underground, freed from the constraints of the rock layers, burst through the ice layer like a fountain and shot into the sky.

The scorching magma mixed with water vapor instantly raised the surrounding temperature from absolute zero to thousands of degrees.

The tens of thousands of demon minions that rushed over didn't even have time to scream before they were swallowed up by the sea of ​​lava and burned into ashes that flew everywhere, mingling with the melting snow and scattering all over the ground.

Physical exorcism, ashes mixed with snow.

Lu Yuan stood on a protruding rock at the edge of the lava.

His naked body glowed with a faint reddish light under the scorching heat.

Suddenly, Lu Yuan frowned.

He clutched his chest.

A strong, sweet, and fishy taste welled up from deep in my throat.

"cough......"

Lu Yuan turned his head and spat out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. The black blood landed on the dark red rock and instantly evaporated into a wisp of black smoke.

In his sea of ​​consciousness, the black chain representing the laws of heaven had tightened around the nascent soul's neck because he had just recklessly used the power of his Mahayana stage physical body.

The cracks on the surface of the nascent soul widened again, as if it would shatter at any moment.

"This damn chain is such a nuisance."

Lu Yuan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.

Without the lubrication of true essence, relying solely on the physical body to withstand the backlash from the laws of heaven and earth is indeed squandering one's life.

He turned around and pulled out a military-grade encrypted communicator from the remains of Klaus, the SHIELD executive he had just crushed into a pulp.

This thing has a titanium alloy shell, and it actually withstood the commotion just now.

Lu Yuan pressed the emergency call button on the communicator.

The frequency band automatically switched to the public network of the Astronomical Bureau.

"Lin Zhen".

Lu Yuan's voice came through the communicator.

The deathly silence in the main control room of the Astronomical Observatory was instantly shattered by this sound.

Lin Zhen jumped up from his chair as if he had been electrocuted and grabbed the microphone from the table.

"Mr. Lu... Mr. Lu! You're alright! The energy reaction in Antarctica had completely disappeared, we thought..."

"I dismantled those skeletons."

Lu Yuan interrupted Lin Zhen's excitement.

"I'm heading back to Jiangzhou immediately. Is there anything unusual at Panlong Mountain?"

As Lu Yuan spoke, he walked to a relatively flat ice surface, began to gather strength in his legs, and prepared to fly back via an intercontinental ballistic trajectory.

Lin Zhen's voice suddenly paused on the other end of the communicator.

Immediately afterwards, an extremely piercing alarm sounded in the background, along with the roar of heavy weapons firing.

"Mr. Lu..."

Lin Zhen's voice began to tremble violently, even sounding like he was about to cry.

"I'm sorry...we...we couldn't protect ourselves..."

Lu Yuan abruptly stopped his charged movement. The ice within a radius of several dozen meters around him was instantly crushed into powder by the invisible aura caused by his emotional fluctuations.

"Explain yourself. Who went in?"

Lu Yuan's voice was very soft, but to Lin Zhen's ears, it was even more terrifying than the pressure from the Integration Stage cultivator in Antarctica.

"It didn't come in from outside..."

Lin Zhen was panting heavily, and the loud explosion of an armored vehicle could be heard in the background.

"It's underground! The basement of the Panlong Mountain villa suddenly collapsed! A jade coffin rose from the ground..."

Lin Zhen swallowed hard.

"A person crawled out of the coffin... He... He used only one finger to cut through the defenses of the heavy combined arms brigade that Old Li had transferred... The sonic repulsion devices of the Astronomical Bureau all exploded..."

Lu Yuan's eyes narrowed slightly.

He recalled the scene he had witnessed when he searched the Soul Demon General.

"He took Lu Qingxue away?"

"No......"

Lin Zhen's voice was filled with despair and incomprehensible fear.

"The person who crawled out... he didn't try to grab Miss Lu... he... he went to the backyard and... ate Ye Qingcheng, whom you had thrown on the steps!"

Lu Yuan tightened his grip on the communicator.

With a "crack," the titanium alloy communicator was crushed into a lump of scrap metal.