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

The sea surface exploded completely.

Billions of tons of seawater lost their bottom support and poured back down violently. At the center of the enormous funnel-shaped vortex, a black column of water shot skyward against gravity.

Lu Yuan stepped on the water column and landed on the wreckage of the aircraft carrier "Lexington" that had been broken in two.

His windbreaker dripped with murky seawater. In his left hand he clutched a jade bottle that sealed the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow, and in his right hand he dragged a three-meter-long pale golden dragon tendon.

The body temperature of someone in the Mahayana stage soared within 0.1 seconds. The moisture on their clothes evaporated instantly, turning into a cloud of white mist that dissipated.

The aircraft carrier wreckage beneath our feet is sinking rapidly.

Lu Yuan looked up at the eastern sky.

The night sky, which had been obscured by torrential rain and dark clouds, was now forcibly torn apart by a layer of so dense purple energy that it seemed impossible to dissolve. The spiritual energy of the underwater dragon vein, which had been suppressed for hundreds of years, was now gushing out of the Earth's surface as if it were free, flowing through the collapsed Guixu Secret Realm.

He forcibly widened the cracks in the Heavenly Dao Severing Array once more.

Lu Yuan stuffed the dragon's main tendon into his storage ring.

His legs were slightly bent, and the special steel plate beneath his feet let out a mournful cry as it could not bear the weight.

Boom!

The remaining half of the aircraft carrier was shoved into the seabed by the recoil. Lu Yuan transformed into a sonic boomerang, hurtling towards Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou. Panlong Mountain Villa.

Lin Zhen stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the lobby on the first floor, the walkie-talkie in his hand crackling.

It wasn't night outside the window. The sky was filled with a blinding purple haze.

The expensive green plants in the villa's backyard all grew and sprang up at a rate that defied the laws of biology the moment they came into contact with the air. The vines even climbed up the walls and onto the second-floor balcony.

"Chief! All the spiritual energy meters at the thirteen monitoring stations in Jiangnan Province have exceeded their limits and burned out!"

The technician scrambled into the hall, carrying a terminal machine belching black smoke.

"The current concentration of spiritual energy outside is more than eighty times the historical peak! Military satellites have captured images of mountain peaks in the Qinling Mountains that have risen by three hundred meters!"

Lin Zhen did not respond.

He stared at his feet.

A layer of white frost is spreading visibly across the marble floor.

It wasn't ordinary frost. It was a chilling aura that seemed to seep into your very bones.

Click. Click.

The sound of glass shattering came from the second floor.

Lin Zhen felt a chill run down his spine and abruptly turned to look at the staircase leading to the second floor.

The entire solid wood staircase was covered by a layer of half-inch-thick, dark blue ice. Cold air rolled down the stairs, and the temperature in the hall dropped below minus thirty degrees Celsius within ten seconds.

Something happened in Lu Qingxue's room.

The Nine Yin Profound Meridian, a physique that appears only once every ten thousand years, completely went out of control under the violent stimulation of the external spiritual energy tide.

"Turn on the backup heat source! Bring out all the high-pressure flamethrowers from the warehouse!"

Lin Zhen roared at the top of his lungs.

His breath instantly turned into swirling ice shards, stinging his face.

Several special operations team members, trembling, carried over two individual flamethrowers and pulled the triggers at the stairwell.

call!

Two orange-red tongues of fire, each 3,000 degrees Celsius, shot out.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

The flames, powerful enough to melt steel, were extinguished the instant they touched the dark blue ice. Even the flamethrower barrels were frozen solid by the backlash of the cold air, falling to the ground and shattering into pieces.

"Retreat! Everyone, evacuate the villa!"

Lin Zhen's palms were covered in cold sweat.

Just as all the special operations team members were preparing to evacuate.

Suddenly, the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array above the villa emitted a piercing buzz. A gap was forcibly torn in the array's protective barrier.

boom!

A dark shadow fell from the sky, smashing through the second-floor balcony and landing on the corridor.

Lu Yuan strode towards Lu Qingxue's bedroom, stepping on the broken ice scattered on the ground.

The temperature in the corridor was approaching absolute zero. Any living thing entering this area would have its cells and tissues instantly frozen.

Lu Yuan's breathing remained perfectly steady. His Mahayana stage Qi and blood surged through his veins, forcefully repelling the chilling energy that approached his body from within three feet.

He kicked open the bedroom door.

The room had been transformed into an icy hell.

Lu Qingxue was curled up on the large bed. The three layers of down comforter covering her had long since frozen into solid blocks of ice. Her skin had a deathly bluish-gray hue, and her eyelashes and long hair were covered with icicles.

Breathing had completely stopped. The heartbeat had slowed to only two beats per minute.

The extreme cold was slowly eroding her last remaining blood vessels.

Lu Yuan walked to the bedside and crushed the jade bottle in his hand with a backhand.

A fist-sized ball of golden-red Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow floated in mid-air.

The moment this thing appeared, the temperature in the room began to soar. The dark blue ice emitted a mournful hissing sound as it vaporized, and large plumes of water vapor swirled around the ceiling.

Lu Yuan doesn't care about any gradual and gentle treatment methods.

Having lost the protection of his true essence, his only remaining reliance is now pure physical violence.

He ripped open Lu Qingxue's clothes at the chest, revealing her Tanzhong acupoint.

With his left hand forming a knife shape with his fingers together, he directly struck the ball of Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow. The precise burst of muscle power from the Mahayana stage forcefully slammed the ball of liquid, which was over a thousand degrees Celsius, into Lu Qingxue's heart meridian.

"ah--!"

Lu Qingxue, who was in a deep coma, suddenly opened her eyes and let out a blood-curdling scream.

The extreme pure Yang fire and the chilling Yin energy collided head-on in her fragile meridians. This was tantamount to detonating a nuclear bomb in her blood vessels.

If left unattended, she will explode and die within three seconds.

Lu Yuan remained expressionless. He reached directly into his storage ring with his right hand and pulled out the pale golden dragon tendon.

He grasped both ends of the main tendon with both hands and rubbed it rapidly with his thumbs and index fingers.

Sizzle!

The three-meter-long main tendon of the dragon in the fusion stage was forcibly peeled off from his fingertips into dozens of fine golden threads.

"Bear with it."

Lu Yuan uttered two words.

His hands transformed into a blur, carrying those golden threads, precisely piercing into thirty-two major acupoints all over Lu Qingxue's body.

Physical suturing.

Without the nourishment of immortal essence, Lu Yuan directly used the pure yang qi and blood of the Mahayana stage as a catalyst. He used his fingers as sewing needles and the dragon's main tendon as thread.

Each golden thread piercing into her body tightly binds a surge of violent Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow medicinal power, then forcibly drags it into Lu Qingxue's broken meridians, violently reshaping them.

Lu Qingxue was in so much pain that she couldn't even scream; she bit her lip until it bled. The blood that flowed out was immediately evaporated by the intense heat.

Her bones crackled like popping beans. Beneath her bluish-gray skin, golden-red veins peeked out.

This is a cruel process of forcibly elevating a mortal body to the level of a cultivator.

A full ten minutes.

The frost and steam in the room all disappeared.

Lu Qingxue collapsed back onto the bed. Her complexion regained its sickly rosy hue, and her breathing became extremely long and even. With each rise and fall of her chest, a tiny vortex of spiritual energy swirled in the surrounding air.

The medicinal power of the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow completely neutralized the cold poison. She has now become a spiritual energy nuclear reactor that has been forcibly locked.

If even the slightest hint of their presence is revealed, mutated beasts and ancient martial arts masters within a hundred miles of Jiangzhou will pounce on them like sharks smelling blood.

Lu Yuan extended his right hand and tapped her forehead, throat, and dantian three times.

The Qi and blood of the Mahayana stage transformed into three tangible shackles, firmly pinning the rampaging spiritual energy within her body deep into her bone marrow.

After doing all this, Lu Yuan pulled over a blanket that hadn't been frozen and covered his sister with it.

Lobby.

Lin Zhen was wrapped in two military overcoats, holding a cup of boiling water in his hands, shivering from the cold.

Heavy footsteps echoed down the stairs.

Lu Yuan walked down slowly, one hand in the pocket of his windbreaker.

The temperature in the hall miraculously returned to normal.

Lin Zhen quickly put the water glass on the coffee table and straightened his back.

"Mr. Lu! Miss Lu, she..."

"He won't die."

Lu Yuan walked to the sofa and sat down. He picked up an apple from the table that hadn't cracked from the cold and took a bite.

"What exactly happened in the East China Sea?"

Lin Zhen swallowed hard and mustered up his courage to ask a question.

"Headquarters just sent an urgent message saying that the high-dimensional energy vortex in the high seas has disappeared. But the spiritual veins of the entire China have come back to life."

"I demolished a dilapidated illegal building. I also took some medicinal ingredients along the way."

Lu Yuan swallowed the apple flesh in his mouth.

Lin Zhen's eyelids twitched violently.

Releasing all the seabed dragon veins in eastern China is called demolishing illegal buildings? The US Navy hasn't even retrieved a single piece of debris from that 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier yet, and you call that just taking it easy?

"That section chief named Zhou Ming at the headquarters of the Astronomical Observatory."

Lu Yuan precisely tossed the apple core into a trash can ten meters away.

"I've formatted his brain. He's become a plant that can only breathe. Your Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals is responsible for watering him."

Lin Zhen's back was soaked with cold sweat, which completely drenched his military overcoat.

He didn't even dare to ask how Lu Yuan managed to travel from Jiangzhou to the capital in three hours, demolish the headquarters of the Tianjian Bureau, and then rob the Shield Corporation on the way to the East China Sea.

The logic behind the actions of this Mahayana-stage living ancestor is simply beyond the comprehension of earthlings.

"Yes! I will arrange for someone to take over the work of the Third Division of the Astronomical Bureau immediately."

Lin Zhen took a deep breath, pulled a document stamped with a red top-secret seal from his briefcase, and handed it to the coffee table with both hands.

"Mr. Lu, something has happened in Beijing."

Lu Yuan didn't take the document; he just leaned back on the sofa and looked at him.

"The five reclusive elders of the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance, together with twelve S-class mutants from the Shield Consortium, have sealed off the Beijing Martial Arts Arena."

Lin Zhen's voice was filled with barely suppressed anger.

"They announced that in three days, they would set up a Heavenly Thunder Formation on the martial arts stage and publicly execute Ye Qingcheng."

Lu Yuan's gaze lingered on the document for a second.

Ye Qingcheng. The aloof woman whose meridians she had cleansed and whom she had forcibly taken as her sword attendant.

Since these people can't beat me, they've started targeting my nominal subordinates.

"What's the reason?"

Lu Yuan's tone was indifferent.

"They say Ye Qingcheng betrayed the martial arts world and colluded with demons from beyond the realm, a crime deserving of death."

Lin Zhen gritted his teeth.

"These bastards are trying to use Ye Qingcheng's life as bait to force you to show yourself. The Heavenly Surveillance Bureau's inside information reports that the twelve S-class mutants brought the latest antimatter weapon developed by the S.H.I.E.L.D. Consortium. The Ancient Martial Arts Alliance has even brought out their trump card, the Heavenly Thunder Array Plate."

Lin Zhen paused for a moment, then looked up into Lu Yuan's eyes.

"This is a dead end. The Wang and Ye families in Beijing are also secretly fueling the flames. Elder Li's idea is that with just one word from you, the military can directly use strategic missiles to wipe the entire martial arts arena off the map."

Erasing the martial arts arena. This is the biggest concession the Chinese government can make to appease Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan stood up.

He walked to the French windows and looked at the sky outside, which was shrouded in purple mist.

"No need for that."

Lu Yuan patted the dust off his windbreaker.

"I know more about thunder than they do."

He turned his head and looked at Lin Zhen.

"Go tell the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance and those people from those conglomerates to increase the voltage of the Heavenly Thunder Array."

Lu Yuan walked to the top of the stairs.

"Don't let it end up being completely silent. Otherwise, I'll have wasted my money on the plane ticket."

At the same time.

Beijing. Abandoned air-raid shelter in the Western Hills.

Ye Qingcang, the current head of the Ye family, knelt on the dark and damp cement floor.

Directly in front of him was a bloodstained offering table. On the table lay a black wooden plaque broken in two.

Just ten minutes ago, this life tablet, representing the demise of the seventh elder of the Blood River Sect in the Sirius Star Region, exploded without warning.

A terrifying cross-dimensional backlash force pierced through the air-raid shelter along the life tablet.

Ye Qingcang was so shocked by this force that he coughed up three mouthfuls of black blood, and his sternum collapsed by more than half.

"The core of the Guixu Formation in the East Sea... has been forcibly reversed..."

Deep within the air-raid shelter, the Yin Ghost Sect demonic cultivator's split soul, hidden in the darkness, let out a furious roar.

"The life force of thousands of living beings has been wasted! The coordinates for the sect leader's descent have been severed!"

The demonic cultivator's phantom distorted violently in mid-air, bringing with it a foul-smelling gust of cold wind.

"Investigate! Find out who did it!"

Ye Qingcang clutched his chest, his facial muscles twitching uncontrollably.

Aside from that little beast Lu Yuan, there's absolutely no one on Earth who could dismantle a cross-dimensional formation set up by a Nascent Soul cultivator with their bare hands!

He forced himself to stand up and stared intently at the shattered wooden plaque on the offering table.

"My lord, please calm down."

Blood trickled from the corner of Ye Qingcang's mouth, and his voice was as harsh as sandpaper being rubbed.

"Now that the core of the East Sea formation is destroyed, there's only one last way left."

He turned his head and looked towards the direction of the Beijing Martial Arts Arena outside the air-raid shelter.

"Three days later, I will throw that bitch Ye Qingcheng, along with all those old geezers in the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance, into the Heavenly Thunder Formation for a blood sacrifice."

Ye Qingcang clenched his fingers, his nails piercing his palms.

"If Lu Yuan dares to step even half a step onto the martial arts stage, I will use his Mahayana stage body to pave a new path for the sect leader's descent!"