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

The tea in Zhou Gong's crotch had gone completely cold.

The black stone in the glass display case had completely cracked. The stone fragments fell onto the metal tray with a soft, rustling sound. The bloodshot eye not only opened, but the eyeball also rolled half a circle in its socket, staring intently at Engineer Zhou.

This isn't some ancient, inanimate object. It's a living surveillance camera.

Zhou's fingers trembled as he reached for the red button on the control panel.

boom!

He slammed the button down with his hand.

There were no alarms. No red lights. The fourth basement level was so quiet that the only sound was the wind blowing through the ventilation ducts.

The alloy door behind them slid open.

Two men wearing black tactical vests walked in. The one in front was a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, with an unlit cigar between his fingers.

"Zhou, why are you so angry in the middle of the night?"

The man with the gold-rimmed glasses walked up to the display case and glanced at the bloodshot eye.

"Good stuff. The matter at Panlong Mountain is settled. The passage through the Sirius Star Region has completely locked onto Earth's coordinates. Those powerful extraterrestrial cultivators will be arriving soon."

Engineer Zhou gripped the edge of the control panel tightly.

"Chairman Zhao... are you insane? That's the world-destroying monster from File 0 of the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals! If you bring something like that in, not even a bone fragment will remain of the twenty million people in Beijing!"

"Bone fragments?"

The man, referred to as Chairman Zhao, put a cigar in his mouth.

"Ordinary people wouldn't even leave behind bone fragments. But we're different. The elders of the Blood River Sect promised that as long as the boundary stone is successfully located, the Divine Shield Consortium and the few families in Beijing will be able to obtain genuine cultivation techniques. This is called natural selection."

Chairman Zhao tilted his head slightly.

The man in black behind him stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Gong by the neck with one hand.

click.

Mr. Zhou's cervical spine was broken, and he collapsed limply onto the control panel.

"Clean it up thoroughly. Take the boundary stone with you."

Chairman Zhao exhaled a smoke ring.

"That guy surnamed Lu drained the earth's veins on Panlong Mountain, but ironically helped us activate the incubator. He's probably been chewed up by that dried-up corpse by now, leaving not even bones behind. With that biggest variable gone, we can use Ye Qingcheng as a scapegoat at the martial arts arena three days later to set some rules for all ancient martial arts practitioners in the world."

The information gap lies here. These people in the capital don't even know that Lu Yuan burned that flesh worm underground in Panlong Mountain like a kebab; they're still dreaming of welcoming the Blood River Sect's arrival.

Jiangzhou.

On the winding mountain road leading to Yunding Mountain Villa.

The streetlights receded one by one. Lu Yuan carried Lu Qingxue as they walked on the asphalt road.

He walked very slowly.

With each step forward, the soles of my feet would carve a clear, two-inch-deep hole in the hard asphalt. Gravel mixed with asphalt would be squeezed out, making a creaking sound as it struggled to bear the weight.

After losing the support of true essence, his body, which was at the Mahayana stage, has seen its weight soar to over five tons due to the sheer density of his bones and the mass of his muscles. This is even with him forcibly controlling his muscle contractions. If he didn't control them, a single stomp of his foot would collapse the entire mountain road.

cough.

Lu Yuan turned his head and spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

The spittle landed on the roadside guardrail, corroding a fist-sized black hole in the steel structure.

The situation in my sea of ​​consciousness was a complete mess.

The Heavenly Dao Chain had malfunctioned because he had deliberately severed his Nascent Soul's left arm. The chain was stuck inside the Nascent Soul's broken body, unable to be pulled out or tightened further.

Lu Yuan glanced at Lu Qingxue in his arms.

The girl was sleeping soundly. The coin-sized red mark on her belly was flashing with a regular halo. That was Ye Qingcheng's remnant soul.

The Nine Yin Profound Meridian combined with the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow transformed Lu Qingxue's body into a miniature spiritual energy nuclear reactor. Ye Qingcheng's remnant soul remained inside, not only refusing to dissipate but also greedily absorbing the overflowing spiritual energy to strengthen its own divine soul.

"You eat my food, use my things, and even steal my sister's spiritual energy. You're living the high life as a dog."

Lu Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth.

The roar of a car engine came from behind.

Lin Zhen drove a beat-up tactical jeep, not even daring to turn on the headlights, and followed far behind in first gear.

The car was parked in front of the wrought iron gate of Yunding Mountain Villa.

This place was once the property of Zhao Tianlong, the richest man in Jiangzhou, but was later forcibly seized by Lu Yuan. A secondary array of the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array was set up around it.

Lu Yuan carried the person to the front door.

The formation did not recognize him.

He currently has not a single drop of true essence in his body; he merely possesses the aura of a mortal.

A visible ripple spread through the air. A semi-transparent light barrier rose up, and several streaks of purple lightning danced across its surface, locking onto Lu Yuan's location.

Lin Zhen jumped out of the jeep, his back soaked with cold sweat from his bulletproof vest.

"Mr. Lu! This is a protective mountain-protecting lightning formation you set up yourself. Without true essence verification, it will activate and kill you instantly!"

Lu Yuan didn't even glance at the light shield.

He raised his right hand.

Bring your five fingers together.

No laws were invoked, nor were any incantations recited.

He simply and forcefully slapped the light barrier that could even turn a Grandmaster of the Transcendent Realm into charcoal.

boom!

Absolute physical dominance.

Tens of thousands of tons of kinetic energy are concentrated on a contact surface the size of a palm.

The light shield didn't even last a second before it emitted a piercing explosion, shattering into countless streaks of light like a piece of cheap glass being smashed by a hammer.

The lightning didn't even touch a hair on Lu Yuan's head before it dissipated under the terrifying blood and energy of his Mahayana-stage physical body.

"What kind of broken formation is this? It's not even as good as a security door."

Lu Yuan flicked his wrist and stepped into the area, treading on the remnants of the array scattered on the ground.

Lin Zhen stood outside the door, swallowing hard. He finally understood why the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals' File No. 0 listed extraterrestrial cultivators as a world-destroying threat.

This guy has even run out of mana; he can rub the rules of the world to the ground with just basic attacks.

At the same time. In Beijing, at the secret Asian branch of the S.H.I.E.L.D. conglomerate.

This is a nuclear shelter built 200 meters underground.

In the center of the bunker was a huge circular conference table.

Steve, the Asia CEO of the S.H.I.E.L.D., held a glass of red wine and looked at the data trend chart on the big screen.

Sitting next to him was Wang Hai, the second master of the Wang family and the new head of the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance.

"The energy reaction at Panlong Mountain has been completely cleared."

Steve swirled the wine in his glass, leaving a viscous trail of red wine on the rim.

"The probes from the Jiangnan branch of the Celestial Surveillance Bureau showed that not only were there no fluctuations of immortal cultivation essence there, but even vital signs could not be detected. That kid surnamed Lu perished together with that dried corpse underground."

Wang Hai touched the tuft of hair on his chin.

"We can't be careless. Even the nuclear explosion under the dungeon didn't kill him. This kid is really strange."

"Nuclear weapons are physical attacks. He was able to withstand them because of his protective magic weapon."

Steve threw several photos on the table. The photos showed twelve muscular monsters, each over three meters tall, covered in tubes.

"These are S-class mutants that the conglomerate just developed. Each one cost one billion US dollars. Their muscle fibers are mixed with powder from star-refined gold and meteorites. Ordinary Grandmasters in the Transcendent Realm can't even break their skin."

Just then, the conference room door was pushed open.

An intelligence officer quickly walked up to Wang Hai and handed him an encrypted tablet.

Wang Hai glanced at the screen, his face darkening.

"What's wrong?"

"Steve asked."

"Lin Zhen from the Jiangnan branch just sent a private line communication."

Wang Hai threw the tablet on the table.

"Lu Yuan is not dead. Lin Zhen relayed his exact words. Three days later, Lu Yuan will bring Ye Qingcheng to the martial arts arena. He told us to prepare the Heavenly Thunder Formation. If it doesn't kill anyone, he'll scatter all our ashes on the martial arts arena."

There was a two-second silence in the conference room.

Then, Steve burst out laughing.

"There's an old Chinese saying, 'bluffing.' If he truly had the strength, he would have stormed into the capital by now. Why wait three days?"

Steve stood up and placed his hands on the table.

"The energy burst during the Antarctic fusion period completely exposed his weaknesses. He's just a paper tiger now."

Steve stared at the big screen.

"Three days later, at the martial arts arena. I'll ambush all twelve S-class mutants below the stage. I'm going to capture this Mahayana Immortal Venerable alive in front of all the ancient martial arts practitioners in China. The secrets he holds are worth more than all the gold mines on this planet."

The basement of the main villa at Yunding Mountain Villa.

Lu Yuan laid Lu Qingxue flat on a jade bed carved from a single piece of thousand-year-old cold jade.

The moment the chill from the jade bed touched Lu Qingxue's skin, it was completely drained by the nuclear reactor-like spiritual energy within her body, and cracks even appeared on the surface of the jade bed.

"You can really eat."

Lu Yuan pulled up a chair and sat down.

He must stabilize the leg that his Nascent Soul had severed within three days; otherwise, if he relies solely on physical attacks on the martial arts arena in the capital, he might accidentally break through the very foundation of the capital, which would be too much trouble to clean up later.

He reached his left hand into the Nine Heavens Storage Ring, trying to find some scraps that could repair his soul.

As soon as he reached in, Lu Yuan's brows furrowed.

Something was getting hot in the corner of the storage ring.

He took the thing out.

They were two irregular pieces of stone fragments.

It is a fragment of the Guixu Boundary Stone, which was dug out from the Guixu Secret Realm in the East China Sea.

One piece is a Kunlun branch tortoise shell that I obtained in Kunlun Death Valley.

These two items were originally completely unrelated, but after Lu Yuan lost the suppression of his true essence, they actually pieced themselves together in his storage ring.

The edges of the stone and the tortoise shell fit together perfectly.

The chaotic patterns on the surface lit up with a dazzling dark red light the moment they were pieced together.

The blood-red light projected a three-dimensional star compass in mid-air.

The compass needle spun wildly, finally pointing dead to the spot beneath Lu Yuan's feet.

Click.

A crack appeared on the surface of the pieced-together boundary stone.

A bloodshot eye peeked out from a crack in the rock.

This eye is exactly the same as the one on the fourth basement floor of the Beijing Astronomical Bureau.

It stared intently at Lu Yuan with a condescending, indifferent gaze, as if looking down at livestock in a pigsty.

A chilling voice, so powerful it seemed to peel the plaster off the basement walls, exploded directly into Lu Yuan's mind, not through the air. It was the voice of the Blood River Sect Master of the Sirius Star Region.

"The Mahayana stage... so you were hiding here all along."

The voice carried an uncontrollable, cruel laugh.

"Do you really think we've set up all these schemes on Earth just for that pitiful amount of spiritual energy?"

The eyes inside the boundary stone were fixed on the Nine Heavens Storage Ring in Lu Yuan's hand.

"What we want is your void ring that connects to the nine heavens. The coordinates have been locked. Countdown: three days."

Lu Yuan sat in the chair.

He looked at the blood-red eye in his hand, whose eyeballs were still constantly rolling.

"Three days?"

Lu Yuan exerted force with his right hand.

The grip strength of the Mahayana stage suddenly erupts.

The Guixu Boundary Stone, which was said to be unbreakable even by nuclear weapons, let out a mournful cry in Lu Yuan's palm and was crushed into a handful of dark red stone powder.

That eye, along with the divine consciousness hidden within it, was crushed to dust by this brute force.

Lu Yuan casually tossed the stone powder onto the floor and clapped his hands.

"What a coincidence. I also made plans to watch the thunder in the capital in three days."

He stood up and looked at the powder all over the ground.

"If you delivery drivers delivered to my door, I could save on transportation costs."