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

The screams from underground blended together.

That wasn't the noise of one or two wild beasts. It was the agonizing howl of hundreds of vocal cords, each with a completely different frequency, simultaneously being blistered by temperatures of several thousand degrees. This extremely piercing sound scraped against the eardrums, and caused a sudden churning in the stomach. Even if a normal person was standing far away, they would instinctively clench their teeth and resist this kind of mental pollution.

The gray-robed man's cervical vertebrae shattered into powder under Lu Yuan's feet.

He wasn't quite dead. Half of his shriveled head lay tilted in the rubble, his only remaining eye fixed on the crack in the ground.

The golden natal immortal fire burned downwards along the earth's veins.

This fire doesn't burn soil or rocks; it specifically targets flesh and blood imbued with the aura of the Sirius star system.

The ground in the backyard of Panlong Mountain began to bulge violently. It was as if some enormous creature was frantically ramming its head against the earth's crust from below.

boom!

The rock strata, which were more than ten meters thick, were directly pushed open.

A translucent, fleshy worm, over thirty meters long, sprang from the ground. It had no scales, only countless tiny human faces. These faces, which had originally been absorbing the spiritual energy of the Jiangnan earth veins to hatch, were now charred black by golden immortal fire, large chunks of rotten flesh falling off.

This is the physical vessel used by the Blood River Sect to smuggle high-level combat power.

The maggot had just emerged, opening its barbed mouthparts, but before it could even unleash its venomous death aura.

Lu Yuan's right leg is bent.

During the Mahayana stage, the leg muscle fibers burst with a crackling sound like popping beans.

He was like a solid steel bullet, crashing headlong into the flesh worm's mouthparts.

Without true internal energy or protective qi, it's just a head-on collision.

puff.

A cloud of foul-smelling black blood exploded. Lu Yuan emerged directly from the tail of the flesh worm.

The 30-meter-long giant flesh worm froze in mid-air. Its internal structure had been forcibly severed by Lu Yuan's main nerve, and then the immortal fire that had been contaminated by the wound directly penetrated its internal organs.

The fleshy worm crashed to the ground. Tens of thousands of tons of fat created a huge crater in the earth. Before it could even twitch, it was burned to a pool of black ash in seconds.

"That's it."

Lu Yuan landed on the ground and shook the black slime off his hands.

He turned his head and looked at the gray-robed man on the ground, who was barely alive.

"I thought you were raising something special. Turns out, it's just a maggot that hasn't been weaned yet."

The gray-robed man made a hissing sound that seemed to leak air from his throat.

His proud interdimensional teleportation array eye, the incubator he had planned for two thousand years, was completely destroyed by this madman who didn't even dare to use his true essence, with a ball of his natal fire.

"You... severed your nascent soul..."

The man's eyes bulged outwards, and his voice sounded like two rusty iron plates rubbing together.

"Heaven's will... will not let you go... the will of Earth... will expel you..."

Lu Yuan walked up to him.

She lifted her right foot and stepped on the back of the man's head.

"The will of the Earth".

Lu Yuan exerted force with the soles of his feet. His dense bones pressed against the rubble on the ground.

"Even if I crush this ball today, it'll still have to hold it in."

click.

Half of his head exploded like a rotten watermelon.

The last trace of blood remaining in the gray-robed man's body was burned away completely by the immortal fire.

Sirius's largest secret base on Earth was destroyed before it even had a chance to send a message.

Panlong Mountain is quiet now.

The ground was littered with rubble and the wreckage of tanks cut in half, emitting black smoke in the night wind.

Lu Yuan coughed.

He couldn't hold back the mouthful of black blood, and it trickled down his chin.

The situation in his mind was a complete mess. The black chains, due to his forceful severing of the Nascent Soul's left arm, were now in a state of malfunction. The chains were embedded in the remaining shell of the Nascent Soul, temporarily no longer tightening, but also impossible to pull out.

Lu Yuan considered the cost.

The Nascent Soul cultivator lost a leg, but in return, Earth wouldn't have to deal with extraterrestrial scum at the Integration stage or higher for a short period. It was a good deal. The problem was that without the foundation of his Mahayana stage true essence, his current physical body was like a powder keg filled with explosives but without a fuse. Even the slightest movement would cause an earthquake, and he had to rely entirely on brute force to do anything delicate.

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

My younger sister is still asleep.

The medicinal power of the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow had completely subdued the Nine Yin Profound Meridians within her body. Now, Lu Qingxue was like a fully wound-up spirit-gathering array, absorbing any spiritual energy in the surrounding air into her stomach.

Once this girl wakes up, she could probably slap an ordinary Grandmaster to death against a wall with a single slap.

"stand up."

Lu Yuan kicked Lin Zhen, who was lying in the rubble next to him.

Lin Zhen clutched the gash in his stomach, his intestines already forced back in. His face was deathly pale, and he shakily got to his feet, kneeling directly in front of Lu Yuan.

"Mr. Lu... I'm useless... I couldn't protect Envoy Ye..."

"With your meager skills, you're lucky to even be standing here breathing."

Lu Yuan spread out his left hand.

A dark red bead of blood floated in the palm of his hand.

This was the original life force that Lu Yuan painstakingly extracted from the dried corpse's belly using physical means after Ye Qingcheng was devoured.

Lin Zhen stared wide-eyed at the bead of blood, completely forgetting the pain in his stomach.

"Envoy Ye...she's not quite dead yet?"

"The body was chewed up. Half of the soul remains locked in this drop of blood."

Lu Yuan pinched the blood droplet between his fingertips, his brows furrowing into a knot.

He quickly reviewed the existing resources in his mind.

Without the true essence of the Mahayana stage, he couldn't conjure a person out of thin air. The soul within this blood bead was extremely fragile; without the nourishment of his own blood and energy, it would dissipate in the wind within half an hour at most. Using a living person to possess another's body was too filthy, and he wouldn't even consider it.

Lu Yuan's gaze fell on Lu Qingxue, who was unconscious beside him.

The Nine Yin Profound Meridian combined with the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow. After these two extreme forces were neutralized, they produced a pure and vital energy similar to that of the beginning of chaos.

This girl is a ready-made furnace.

Lu Yuan walked over and pried open Lu Qingxue's mouth.

He shoved the dark red blood bead directly into Lu Qingxue's mouth.

Lin Zhen, who was watching from the side, was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.

"Mr. Lu! What are you doing! That's Envoy Ye's soul inside!"

"Shut up."

Lu Yuan placed a finger on Lu Qingxue's brow.

The physical body and blood of the Mahayana stage transformed into an invisible steel needle, directly piercing through Lu Qingxue's spiritual energy defense and forcibly pressing the blood bead into her dantian.

The moment the blood droplet fell in, it was immediately enveloped by the pale blue vortex of spiritual energy.

A red mark the size of a coin was faintly visible on the surface of Lu Qingxue's stomach.

That's it.

Lu Yuan released his grip.

They would nurture Ye Qingcheng's remnant soul within the nuclear reactor of the Nine Yin Profound Vein. Once this lackey had absorbed enough spiritual energy and fully developed her three souls and seven spirits, they would find high-grade materials to reshape her physical body. During this time, she would not only survive but would also indirectly help Lu Qingxue alleviate some of the pressure from the overflowing spiritual energy.

one stone two bird.

Lu Yuan took out the rusty iron sword from his storage ring.

This thing was originally taken from the warehouse of the Celestial Observation Bureau; it was a wood-chopping sword from an outer sect of the cultivation world.

He casually tossed the iron sword at Lin Zhen's feet.

The iron sword fell to the ground with a muffled thud. A faint wisp of spiritual energy emanated from the blade, seeping into the wound on Lin Zhen's abdomen.

Lin Zhen gasped. He discovered that his ruptured intestines and muscle tissue were growing back together at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Holding this piece of junk, you won't die for at least half an hour."

Lu Yuan looked down at Lin Zhen.

"Now, let's settle the score for your Celestial Surveillance Bureau."

Lin Zhen had just caught his breath when he heard these words, and the hairs on the back of his head stood on end.

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

"The reason that the mummified corpse was able to emerge from underground on time was because the signal outside Panlong Mountain was cut off."

Lu Yuan interrupted him.

"You just said that the heavy combined arms brigade that Elder Li transferred didn't even have time to react. All the sonic repulsion devices from the Astronomical Bureau exploded. What does that mean?"

Cold sweat dripped down Lin Zhen's forehead.

He wasn't stupid; the person in charge of the Astronomical Bureau in Jiangnan was quick-witted.

"This means... someone tampered with the system. They not only blocked our warnings, but also sold the coordinates of our defense deployment to something underground."

Lin Zhen gritted his teeth, drawing blood from his back molars.

"You've turned Zhou Ming, the director of the Third Division, into a vegetable after searching his soul... This highest-level physical barrier is something no one in the Jiangnan branch can touch..."

"The capital city."

Lu Yuan looked at the ruins on the ground, his tone completely flat.

"Zhou Ming cut the signal on the orders of a powerful figure in the capital. These powerful figures are now reaching far and wide. They even dare to interfere with the interdimensional formations in the Sirius Star Region."

Lin Zhen gripped the rusty iron sword tightly.

"Mr. Lu, it's your word. Whoever you want killed, the Celestial Surveillance Bureau will pave the way for you, even if it means going bankrupt."

"You're paving the road too slowly."

Lu Yuan bent down and lifted Lu Qingxue off the stone slab.

The physical strength of a Mahayana practitioner supporting a living person is like supporting a feather.

"Panlong Mountain is destroyed. Let's move to another place."

"Where to?"

Lin Zhen quickly asked.

"Isn't Cloud Peak Villa empty?"

Lu Yuan walked out, stepping barefoot on the broken glass, leaving not even a white mark.

"Please pass on a message to Old Li."

Lu Yuan stopped and turned his head.

"Isn't the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance going to strike Ye Qingcheng dead with heavenly lightning at the Beijing Martial Arts Arena three days from now?"

Lin Zhen was stunned for a moment.

"But Envoy Ye is now..."

Whether she's dead or not, only you know.

Lu Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth.

"Tell those people in the capital. Three days from now, I'll take Ye Qingcheng to the martial arts arena. Tell them to prepare the Heavenly Thunder Formation. If it doesn't kill anyone, I'll scatter their entire family's ashes on the arena."

Lu Yuan, carrying Lu Qingxue, disappeared at the edge of the Jiangnan Military Region's defense line.

Lin Zhen leaned on his rusty iron sword, looking at the mess on the ground. He knew that three days later, blood would fall in the capital.

It was less than ten minutes after Lu Yuan left Panlong Mountain.

The headquarters of the Astronomical Bureau in Beijing, on the fourth basement floor.

This is the sealed storage room for File No. 0 of the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals.

The walls were covered with radiation-shielding lead plates and ancient Taoist talismans. In the center of the room stood a glass display case. Inside the case was a palm-sized, jet-black stone.

This is half a boundary stone that the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals dug out from the bottom of Kunlun Mountain thirty years ago.

For a long time, this stone was like a lifeless piece of scrap metal, without any energy fluctuations.

But at this very moment...

A thin, golden line of fire suddenly lit up the surface of the stone.

The frequency of that fire line was exactly the same as the natal immortal fire that Lu Yuan spat out at Panlong Mountain.

In the monitoring room, Engineer Zhou, sitting in front of the screen, had just taken a sip of strong tea.

He stared at the stone that suddenly lit up on the screen, his hand trembled, and the scalding tea spilled all over his crotch.

"alarm......"

Engineer Zhou pressed the red button, and his voice cracked.

"The Kunlun Boundary Stone is alive! It's receiving coordinates..."

Inside the glass display case, the black boundary stone began to vibrate violently, and the surface layer of stone peeled off layer by layer.

What's showing inside isn't a stone at all.

Instead, it was a tightly closed, bloodshot eye.

The eye slowly opened, and what was reflected in the pupil was the silhouette of Lu Yuan carrying Lu Qingxue as they walked through the night.