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

"Click."

The titanium alloy military communicator turned into a sharp, jagged lump of scrap metal in Lu Yuan's palm.

Metal shards mixed with the black blood seeping from Lu Yuan's palms dripped onto the hard, cooled rock of Antarctica.

He didn't get angry or yell.

Only the irregular swallowing sounds deep in his throat echoed in the air.

The Heavenly Dao chain in his sea of ​​consciousness had already tightened around the nascent soul's neck. If he were to use physical kinetic energy beyond its limits even once more, the nascent soul would suffer an irreversible collapse.

Lu Yuan raised his head and looked at the pitch-black Antarctic night sky.

"Eat my dog."

He spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

"I'll rip your guts out."

Boom!

The Earth's crust in Antarctica let out another mournful cry of unbearable strain.

The cooling rock beneath Lu Yuan's feet caved in, creating a massive crater hundreds of meters deep. The violent reaction force shattered the surrounding, newly solidified magma back into powder.

He transformed into a dazzling dark red meteor, tearing straight through the wind and snow, and crashing into the troposphere with a posture that completely defied aerodynamics.

The downpour had stopped long ago.

However, a layer of blood-red mist, thicker than the night, shrouded the Panlong Mountain in Jiangzhou.

Lin Zhen knelt amidst the ruins of the villa's porch. His bulletproof vest was ripped open with a deep gash that exposed bone, and his intestines spilled out. He could only clutch his stomach tightly with his left hand, while he couldn't even disengage the safety from the tactical pistol in his right hand.

The surrounding area was a scene of carnage.

The heavy combined arms brigade that Old Li brought, with its thirty-two main battle tanks, was all bizarrely cleanly sliced ​​in half. There wasn't even a trace of high-temperature melting at the cut; it was as if an invisible thread had simply slid across it.

The spot in the front yard of the villa that was scorched by lightning has now completely collapsed.

A jade coffin covered with black patterns floated in mid-air.

A man dressed in a tattered gray robe sat on the coffin lid.

He was clutching half a pale arm in his hand. It was Ye Qingcheng's arm.

"Crunch... crunch..."

The sound of chewing echoed through the deathly silent ruins. It made one's stomach churn and one's mouth fill with nauseating acid.

The gray-robed man stuffed the severed arm into his mouth, chewing it up along with the skin and bone, black juice dripping down his withered chin.

"The true essence of the Mahayana stage makes all the difference... This meat is far more delicious than those so-called Grandmasters of the Transcendent Realm."

The man let out a burp.

His face, which was originally like a dried corpse, became plump at a visible speed after he swallowed most of Ye Qingcheng's body, and a dark red halo emanated from his body.

Lin Zhen banged his head against the gravel, his teeth grinding together.

"What exactly are you...?"

The man in the gray robe didn't even glance at Lin Zhen. He jumped down from the coffin, his gray cloth shoes landing on a broken section of a cannon barrel.

"A mere outcast from the Sirius star system dares to set up this kind of interdimensional teleportation array on Earth. He doesn't even know where the real array's core is on Earth."

The man stuck out a long, barbed tongue and licked the blood off his lips.

"I was locked under this incubator by those old fogies of your China for two thousand years. If it weren't for that brat surnamed Lu forcibly draining the earth's veins and turning Panlong Mountain into a true dragon's lair, I wouldn't have seen the light of day so soon."

He walked to the stone slab that bore the name of Lu Qingxue.

Lu Qingxue was still unconscious, but the pale blue vortex inside her body had expanded to its limit, and her entire body could explode at any moment.

"Nine Yin Profound Meridians... Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow..."

A greedy glint flashed in the gray-robed man's eyes.

"That man surnamed Lu is truly a good person. The top-grade elixir he painstakingly cultivated is now entirely mine."

He stretched out his hand, covered in lividity, and reached for Lu Qingxue's neck.

Once he drains the girl dry, he can return to his peak state of being a half-step Mahayana cultivator, directly tear apart the Heaven and Earth Separation Formation, and return to the Sirius Star Region.

"boom--"

The man's hand was still half an inch away from Lu Qingxue's neck.

A ring of white sonic boom clouds, visible to the naked eye, burst open over the entire city of Jiangzhou.

The air raid sirens didn't even have time to sound.

A surge of physical kinetic energy, so powerful it distorted space, crashed down from the stratosphere.

That's too fast.

The man in the gray robe suddenly raised his head, his hands instinctively stopping their movements.

A blinding red light appeared on the horizon. The next second, that red light pierced directly through the thick, blood-red mist above Panlong Mountain.

boom!

Lu Yuan landed on both feet.

There was no buffer. There was no protective essence.

The sheer kinetic energy of tens of thousands of tons, carrying the intense heat of thousands of degrees generated by breaking through the atmosphere, slammed solidly into the jade coffin in front of the gray-robed man.

The top-grade jade coffin, capable of blocking the detection of the Heavenly Dao and withstanding nuclear weapons, exploded into a pile of jade fragments smaller than fingernails within a fraction of a second of contact with Lu Yuan's feet.

The violent shockwave spread out in a ring.

The gray-robed man let out a piercing scream as he was thrown hundreds of meters by the brute force, crashing into an entire artificial hill behind the villa and being buried alive under tens of tons of rubble.

Lin Zhen was thrown back several times by the blast wave, his back hitting a concrete slab, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood. But he laughed like a madman.

"Mr. Lu..."

Lu Yuan stood still.

Large patches of his charred, dead skin peeled off. His muscle fibers creaked and groaned under extreme strain.

He didn't look at Lu Qingxue lying on the stone slab, nor did he pay attention to Lin Zhen on the ground.

He walked step by step toward the ruins of the collapsed artificial mountain.

"You ate her."

Lu Yuan's voice wasn't loud. There was no anger, no roaring. Only an extreme, deathly stillness.

Splash!

The artificial hill ruins exploded.

The gray-robed man crawled out. His tattered gray robe had been completely burned away, revealing his withered body covered in eerie runes. His chest was caved in by the shockwave, but there was no blood flowing from the wound. Instead, countless black threads were writhing rapidly, forcibly pulling the broken bones back into place.

"What a powerful physique..."

The gray-robed man coughed twice, spitting out several pieces of internal organs. He stared intently at Lu Yuan, his eyes showing not fear, but rather a kind of fanaticism.

"A Great Ascension Stage Immortal Venerable... truly lives up to his reputation."

He wiped the dust off his face.

"What a pity. You don't even have a drop of true essence in your body right now. You're relying solely on your physical body to resist the rejection of the laws of heaven and earth. Every time you move, the chains of heaven tighten even more."

The gray-robed man suddenly opened his mouth and vomited a fist-sized, blood-red bead from deep in his throat.

The bead was wreathed in pure immortal essence. It was a Blood Essence Pill that Ye Qingcheng had forcibly refined after he had taken advantage of her.

"The dog you raised with your true essence does taste quite good. Now I not only have the foundation of a half-step Mahayana cultivator, but I also have your immortal aura as cover. What do you have to fight me with?"

The gray-robed man suddenly crushed the blood-red bead.

Blood energy mixed with Mahayana true essence flowed directly into his limbs and bones. His previously sunken chest began to swell, and the runes on his body surface burst forth with dazzling red light.

The immense pressure, exceeding the limits of Earth's dimensional capacity, squeezed out fine black cracks in the space surrounding Panlong Mountain.

Do you think you're funny?

Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.

He stood less than ten meters away from the man in the gray robe.

A rusty, sweet, metallic taste welled up in his throat. Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the black Heavenly Dao chain was completely embedded in the Nascent Soul's body. The Nascent Soul's left arm shattered, turning into countless specks of light.

The tearing pain originating from the depths of the soul is enough to drive any Divine Realm warrior insane on the spot.

But Lu Yuan didn't even frown.

He raised his right hand and casually flicked it twice in mid-air. The knuckles cracked crisply.

"You think I'm not using my true essence because I'm afraid of the backlash from Heaven?"

Lu Yuan tilted his head.

"I'm not using my true essence because using immortal techniques to kill trash like you would dirty my hands."

Before he could finish speaking...

Lu Yuan slammed his right foot into the ground.

The rock beneath his feet instantly turned to dust. At this moment, the muscle engine of the Mahayana stage was running at full overload.

There are no tricks. There are no rules.

It was a pure, brutal physical collision.

The gray-robed man's pupils contracted sharply. He was about to use the blood energy he had just absorbed to defend himself when Lu Yuan's fist slammed into his face.

boom!

The man's jawbone shattered instantly. A mouthful of teeth mixed with black blood spurted out from the back of his head.

Before he could even scream, Lu Yuan's left hand had already gripped his skull tightly. His five fingers forcefully pierced through his skull.

"You enjoyed your meal, didn't you?"

Lu Yuan lifted the man into the air.

He cupped his right hand into a knife and plunged it directly into the man's stomach.

The high-density bones of the Mahayana stage rubbed against the man's organs. Lu Yuan's arm stirred inside, and he grabbed the man's intestines.

puff.

Lu Yuan exerted force with his arm and pulled outwards sharply.

He pulled out a section of black intestine covered in mucus and bits of flesh.

"ah--"

The gray-robed man let out a scream that was not human. The blood energy within his body was completely thrown into chaos by Lu Yuan's unreasonable physical dismantling.

"You don't have true energy... how could you possibly break through my runic invincibility!"

The man struggled frantically, trying to pry Lu Yuan's fingers off his head. But his fingernails snapped off at the root the moment they touched Lu Yuan's skin.

"Rune Invincibility?"

Lu Yuan casually threw the piece of intestine on the ground and stomped on it.

"They dare to call it armor just because they drew two circles on a tattered rag."

Lu Yuan's right hand reached out again, plunging directly into the man's chest. He grabbed the heart, which was beating wildly due to absorbing Ye Qingcheng's blood and energy.

"Spit out what you've eaten."

Lu Yuan clenched his five fingers.

His heart was forcibly compressed in his palm. The gray-robed man's eyes bulged, and he opened his mouth, spitting out a large mouthful of pure blood mist mixed with true energy.

Lu Yuan loosened his skull with his left hand, grabbed the cloud of blood mist, and slapped it into the air behind him.

The blood mist was forcibly locked by the Mahayana stage's qi and blood, condensing into a dark red blood bead that hovered in mid-air. It was the last remaining fragment of Ye Qingcheng's life force after she was forcibly devoured.

thump.

The man in the gray robe fell to the ground.

His chest cavity completely collapsed, his heart was crushed, and his intestines were torn apart. But he was, after all, at the half-step Mahayana level, and such injuries were still not enough to kill him completely.

He lay on the ground, crawling backwards while letting out a mournful laugh.

"You can't kill me..."

The man kept vomiting black blood, staring intently at Lu Yuan.

"The ley lines of this Panlong Mountain have been corrupted by my blood energy. The incubator here is fully activated. As long as I live, the passage to the Sirius Star Region will remain open! And..."

The man stopped. He looked at Lu Yuan's face.

"Your nascent soul is about to shatter. The Heavenly Dao Chains have already severed your foundation. You can't even activate the protective formation of Panlong Mountain now. What will you use to suppress this passage below?"

Lu Yuan stood still.

He didn't chase after them.

He looked down at his hands, which were covered in black, filthy blood.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness.

The Heavenly Chains finally tightened for the last time. A huge gash appeared in the Nascent Soul's body.

The punishment of the Heaven and Earth Severing Formation has arrived.

The air above Panlong Mountain became incredibly stagnant. A repulsive force emanating from the very essence of Earth pressed down heavily on Lu Yuan's shoulders.

"Are you done talking?"

Lu Yuan raised his head.

He looked at the gray-robed man lying on the ground, laughing wildly.

Lu Yuan did not fight against the chain.

He directly used his divine sense to deliberately collide with the severed left arm of the nascent soul.

Click.

Lu Yuan deliberately broke one of his own legs, which belonged to the Nascent Soul stage of the Mahayana realm.

The purest and most authentic source of immortality exploded within the sea of ​​consciousness.

This is no ordinary true essence. This is the life-giving source of a Mahayana immortal who has swept across countless ages.

Lu Yuan opened his mouth.

A blinding golden flame erupted from his mouth. It was not the Samadhi True Fire, but the natal immortal fire obtained by burning his very essence.

The flames didn't burn the gray-robed man; instead, they crashed directly into the riddled fissures in the earth's veins of Panlong Mountain.

"You...you're insane!"

The smile on the gray-robed man's face froze, and his voice became shrill and piercing.

"You've ignited the earth's veins! Do you want to drag the entire Jiangzhou down with you?!"

"To be buried with them?"

Lu Yuan wiped the black blood from the corner of his mouth. His bones cracked under the backlash of the immortal fire, but he still managed to force a cruel smile.

"So this Panlong Mountain is an incubator."

Lu Yuan stomped on and crushed the gray-robed man's cervical vertebrae.

"Then today, I'll give it a little push. Let's see if I can bake up a dish that goes well with drinks."

From deep underground came a mournful scream, like that of an ancient, ferocious beast.