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

Northern suburbs of Beijing. Ruins of the former imperial prison.

This place was originally the highest-level underground structure in China, but now only a huge meteorite crater with a diameter of more than two kilometers remains.

A dozen days ago, the miniature tactical nuclear bomb was detonated a thousand meters underground. The resulting high temperature burned all the rocks at the bottom of the prison into a translucent glass.

Today, the military has set up three top-level red alert lines here.

More than a dozen heavy armored chemical protection vehicles were parked around the perimeter. Hundreds of fully armed special defense soldiers, wearing heavy lead-lined radiation protection suits, were staring intently at the center of the crater with large-caliber electromagnetic rifles.

Beep beep beep. Beep beep beep.

The Geiger counter on top of the armored vehicle emitted a piercing scream. Red warning lights flashed wildly.

"Reporting to command. The radiation level at the bottom of the pit has surged four hundredfold in the past five minutes. It has exceeded the detection limit of existing instruments."

The chemical defense company commander held the walkie-talkie, his palms covered in cold sweat.

He looked at the scorched earth in front of him through the goggles of his gas mask.

There was no wind at the bottom of the pit. Yet, a thick, almost impenetrable, yellowish-black mist was continuously gushing out from the cracks in the ground.

That wasn't ordinary nuclear fallout.

Wherever the fog passed, the vitrified rocks formed after cooling at temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius developed a layer of dark blue frost on their surface.

"All personnel, engage the electromagnetic rifles. Retreat thirty meters."

The company commander gritted his teeth and gave the order.

Click. Click.

Hundreds of large-caliber rifles were loaded simultaneously.

Just as everyone was retreating, a large bulge suddenly rose from the ground in the center of the crater.

boom!

A two-meter-thick layer of vitrified rock was forcibly shattered from below by a tremendous force. Large chunks of debris, accompanied by a shrill sound, crashed into the surrounding armored vehicles, creating deep craters in the special steel plates.

The yellow-black mist exploded instantly, enveloping an area of ​​hundreds of meters in radius.

A teeth-grinding chewing sound came from the center of the fog.

"Fire! Indiscriminate firing!"

The company commander didn't bother with any tactical confirmation; he just pulled the trigger.

Hundreds of eerie blue electromagnetic projectiles tore through the fog, raining down on the hole. These specially designed armor-piercing projectiles could easily penetrate even the frontal armor of a main battle tank.

Sparks flew. The bullet struck some hard object, producing a dense clanging of metal against metal.

The chewing sounds stopped.

The yellowish-black mist was forcibly torn apart by a pair of withered arms covered in long white hair.

It was a monster over three meters tall. Its entire body was covered in a thick layer of dark red grease. That grease was greedily absorbing the surrounding nuclear radiation, transforming it into a tangible, chilling death aura.

Its face had no features. There was only a black hole that took up most of its head. The edges of the black hole were covered with jagged, fine, sharp teeth.

Those electromagnetic armor-piercing rounds that were powerful enough to penetrate a tank were all embedded in its white, long hairs, without even scratching its skin.

The monster raised its right arm. Embedded in its wrist was a miniature metal plaque engraved with the joint emblem of the Wang and Ye families.

It turned its eyeless head, precisely facing the direction of the chemical defense company.

"roar--"

A roar that did not belong to human vocal cords exploded from that black hole.

The sound waves, mixed with a strong stench of corpses and eerie energy, transformed into a visible gray ripple that instantly swept over the dozen or so guards in the front row.

These dozen or so people didn't even have time to scream before their lead-lined radiation protection suits shattered.

Their skin turned bluish-gray in a fraction of a second, and their blood was instantly frozen by the extreme cold of the yin energy. They crashed straight to the ground, shattering into countless ice shards.

"Retreat! Retreat quickly! Call in air support!"

The company commander's eyes were bloodshot as he desperately pounded on the armored vehicle's door.

The monsters gave them no chance to retreat.

Its thick thighs slammed into the ground. Its entire body transformed into a yellow-black afterimage, crashing directly into a heavy armored vehicle.

Boom!

The armored vehicle, weighing thirty tons, was violently rammed into the air, tumbled twice in mid-air, and crashed heavily onto the defensive line behind it.

The monster reached out and grabbed two soldiers who weren't quite dead yet. Its gaping maw, like a black hole, opened and shoved their heads inside.

The nauseating sound of bones cracking rang out again.

Just when the defense line was about to completely collapse.

A black military SUV bearing the highest-level pass for the Beijing Defense Zone crashed through the outer perimeter barrier, screeching as it came to a stop less than fifty meters from the monster.

Chu Jianguo gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands. He had torn off a large piece of the leather cover from the steering wheel.

He stared at the white-haired monster in front of him, which was devouring soldiers, cold sweat dripping from his chin onto the collar of his uniform.

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

Chu Jianguo's voice was dry, as if he had swallowed a handful of sand.

"This is the... mutated corpse you were talking about?"

The passenger door was kicked open.

Lu Yuan, wearing that black windbreaker, walked down slowly and deliberately.

He didn't even glance at the fleeing defense troops; his gaze was fixed directly on the monster.

"The Wang and Ye families are definitely out of their minds."

Lu Yuan closed the car door behind him.

"They used the essence and blood of cultivators as a catalyst, and then kept the corpse in a stagnant, cold pool. Then a nuclear bomb exploded, and this thing treated the radiation from the tactical nuclear bomb as a tonic. It turned itself into a deformed, monstrous creature."

The monster swallowed the bits of flesh in its mouth. It seemed to sense the extremely pure Mahayana stage blood energy emanating from Lu Yuan.

For a zombie that mutates by absorbing yin energy and radiation, Lu Yuan is now a human-shaped elixir exuding a deadly allure.

It threw away the two dried corpses in its hands, and on all fours, it charged towards Lu Yuan like a giant spider.

With each step, a deep pit, corroded and emitting black smoke, is left in the ground.

Chu Jianguo shouted anxiously in the car.

"Mr. Lu, be careful! This thing's corpse poison carries strong radiation!"

Lu Yuan stood still, not moving an inch.

He had no true energy protecting him. Facing this mutated monster, which was mixed with nuclear radiation and extremely cold yin energy, he simply raised his right hand.

The monster charged at Lu Yuan, its gaping, black maw full of fangs snapping open, sending a stench-filled gust of wind through it as it lunged at Lu Yuan's neck.

Lu Yuan opened his right hand, his five fingers precisely gripping the upper and lower jaws of the monster's large mouth.

boom!

The enormous impact slammed into Lu Yuan.

The radiation-proof cement road beneath Lu Yuan's feet was blasted open, creating two deep craters. His legs were deeply embedded in the mud, but his upper body didn't even sway.

The monster's fangs, powerful enough to crush special steel plates, were firmly lodged in Lu Yuan's palm. Yet, they couldn't even pierce the outermost layer of his skin's stratum corneum.

The physical density during the Mahayana stage. This is a physical concept that no mutated organism on Earth could comprehend.

"Your breath smells so bad. How long has it been since you brushed your teeth?"

Lu Yuan's voice was completely flat.

He gripped the monster's right hand, which was holding its upper and lower jaws, and began to exert force outwards.

Creak. Creak.

The monster let out a painful groan. Its cervical vertebrae, strengthened by nuclear radiation, cracked under the strain of the pure power of the Mahayana stage.

The monster frantically swung its white-haired claws, scratching and clawing at Lu Yuan's arms and chest.

The screeching sound continued incessantly.

Lu Yuan's waterproof jacket was torn into strips, revealing well-defined muscles with a faint bronze sheen underneath.

The highly corrosive and nuclear-radiation corpse poison, which adhered to Lu Yuan's skin, was directly evaporated into wisps of green smoke by the pure yang qi and blood surging within his body.

"Is that all you've got?"

Lu Yuan reached out with his left hand and grabbed the monster's right arm joint as it swung at him.

The thumb and forefinger wedged the bone joint. With a forceful twist, it snapped open.

Click!

The monster's thick right arm was snapped off in the opposite direction. The white bone fragments pierced through the rotting flesh and were exposed to the air.

Lu Yuan didn't stop. He was determined to completely dismantle this disgusting thing.

He released his right hand from the monster's jaw, turned his palm into a fist, and smashed it directly into the monster's chest.

boom!

This punch didn't involve any fancy external energy projection. It was purely based on bone density and muscle explosiveness.

The monster's chest cavity was severely caved inward. The vertebrae on its back protruded directly from its body. The enormous reaction force slammed its two-ton body, lifting its feet off the ground.

Lu Yuan grabbed its long white fur on its chest and yanked it back.

The right knee then strikes upwards with force.

boom!

The monster's jaw was kicked open and shattered. Black blood mixed with broken teeth sprayed all over Lu Yuan.

Before the blood and corpses even hit the ground, they were forcibly vaporized by the high-temperature blood and qi on Lu Yuan's body.

This was not a battle. It was a one-sided physical dismemberment.

Chu Jianguo, inside the armored vehicle, and the fleeing defense troops in the distance all stopped in their tracks. They stared blankly at the young man in the tattered down jacket, who was dismantling the terrifying mutated monster into pieces as if taking apart a toy.

The monster let out a desperate scream. It finally realized that the human before it was not some tonic at all, but an ancient ferocious beast in human skin.

It desperately tried to mobilize the yin energy within its body to escape.

Lu Yuan grabbed the monster's shoulders with both hands. He placed his right foot on its sunken chest.

"Get down."

The muscles in his arms bulged instantly.

Sizzle!

The monster's massive body was torn in two by Lu Yuan.

Black blood and pieces of internal organs were scattered all over the ground.

Lu Yuan casually tossed the two severed corpses onto the ground. He then rummaged through the pile of foul-smelling entrails.

Soon, his fingers touched a hard object.

Lu Yuan reached out and pulled.

From the monster's shattered heart, a palm-sized black stone was pulled out.

The surface of the stone was covered with dark red array patterns. The material of the stone was extremely similar to the mysterious copper piece in Lu Yuan's storage ring. High concentrations of nuclear radiation energy remained in the gaps between the array patterns.

This is the fundamental reason why this Yin Corpse was able to mutate and absorb the energy of a nuclear explosion.

The backup array eye of the interdimensional teleportation array set up on Earth by the Blood River Sect of the Sirius Star Region.

The monster went berserk just now. Actually, this array eye sensed that the main array of the East Sea Returning Ruins had been destroyed, and it tried to forcibly drain the life force of all the living people around it in order to re-establish the cross-dimensional coordinates.

Lu Yuan took the stone and walked to the SUV.

He wiped the black blood off his hands on the rearview mirror.

The dark red array patterns on the stone were flashing at an eerie frequency. With each flash, a trace of free energy in the surrounding space was forcibly drawn away.

"Those bastards from the Sirius star system. They really haven't given up their wicked intentions."

Lu Yuan sneered.

He lacked true essence, making it impossible for him to seal the array's core using celestial techniques.

But he has the most direct way.

Lu Yuan held the stone in his left hand. He put his right index finger in his mouth and bit down hard.

A drop of golden-red pure yang essence blood seeped from the fingertip.

This is the most primordial essence and blood of the physical body during the Mahayana stage. Every drop contains pure yang fire powerful enough to burn mountains and boil seas.

Lu Yuan applied the drop of blood essence directly to the dark red array patterns on the stone's surface.

Sizzle!

The moment the essence blood came into contact with the array patterns, it burst forth with dazzling golden light.

A muffled groan emanated from within the stone. The evil runes used to establish the interdimensional coordinates melted away rapidly under the violent cleansing of the pure yang essence blood, like snow hitting boiling water.

In just a few seconds, the core of the array, which had been radiating terrifying energy, turned into an ordinary black stone devoid of any spiritual energy.

Cross-boundary coordinates. Physically severed again.

Lu Yuan casually tossed the broken stone into his storage ring.

Only then did Chu Jianguo dare to open the car door. His legs were weak, and he could barely stand by holding onto the door.

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

Chu Jianguo glanced at the monster's remains scattered on the ground, and his stomach churned. He forcibly suppressed the nausea.

"That... solves it?"

"Just a malnourished failure."

Lu Yuan opened the passenger door and got in.

"Tell Old Li that not a single member of the Wang or Ye family will be spared. I don't care which country they flee to overseas or which bank they transfer their assets to."

Lu Yuan leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

"Within three days, I want to see the urns containing the ashes of all the immediate family members of these two families. If even one is missing, I'll go to the defense zone and have a chat with him."

Chu Jianguo straightened up abruptly and loudly accepted the order.

"Yes, sir! The military will immediately activate a global manhunt. We will not allow a single member of either of these families to escape alive!"

Lu Yuan didn't reply. He needed to close his eyes and rest.

Although there is no pain from the backlash of true essence, the continuous high-intensity use of the physical strength of the Mahayana stage still puts a great strain on the muscles and bones.

He needed to find a place as soon as possible to refine the star-refined gold meteorites in his storage ring and repair the legs of the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron. Only when the Mother Qi Cauldron was running again could he suppress the Heavenly Dao Life-Stealing Curse in his sea of ​​consciousness and restore his true essence.

Just then, Chu Jianguo's military-grade encrypted communicator on his waist suddenly started vibrating wildly.

Chu Jianguo glanced at the caller ID and his expression immediately changed.

He connected the communicator and pressed the speakerphone button.

Lin Zhen's hoarse and anxious roar came through the communicator.

"General Chu! Is Mr. Lu with you?! Something terrible has happened!"

Chu Jianguo glanced at Lu Yuan, who was resting with his eyes closed, and then forced himself to speak.

"Director Lin, Mr. Lu just finished dealing with the prison matter. What's going on in Jiangnan?"

"Panlong Mountain is about to fall!"

Lin Zhen's voice was accompanied by the dense sounds of gunfire and the roars of wild beasts.

"The medicinal power of the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow within Miss Lu's body has overflowed! The spiritual energy within a hundred miles of Jiangzhou is pouring into the villa area. Those mutated beasts hiding deep in the mountains have all gone mad! They formed an S-level beast tide, directly breaking through the first physical barrier of the Celestial Surveillance Bureau!"

A deafening explosion came through the communicator.

"Our high-pressure flamethrowers and heavy weapons in the warehouse are no match for them! A mutated black-scaled python, over ten meters long, has already climbed halfway up the mountain. It has cracked the defensive shield of the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array!"

Lin Zhen was breathing heavily.

"These beasts are after Miss Lu. They want to devour her to advance their cultivation! If Mr. Lu doesn't return soon, the villa area will be completely flattened within half an hour!"

There was a deathly silence in the carriage for three seconds.

Lu Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

There was no anger in those unfathomable eyes. Only a cold indifference towards lifeless things.

He took out a clean set of spare clothes from his storage ring and slowly changed into them.

Tell Lin Zhen.

Lu Yuan's voice was very soft, yet it instantly lowered the temperature in the carriage to freezing point.

"Make him take the people from the Astronomical Bureau and retreat to the foot of the mountain to smoke. Don't let the blood of those beasts soil my yard."

Lu Yuan pushed open the car door and stepped out of the SUV.

He looked up and gazed south. In the direction of Jiangzhou.

During the Mahayana stage, the Qi and blood are compressed wildly in the muscles of the legs.

The ground collapsed instantly, creating a deep pit with a diameter of more than ten meters, centered on his feet.

boom!

A terrifying sonic boom that tore through the air exploded over the ruins of the Heavenly Prison.

Lu Yuan transformed into a shooting star flying backwards, accompanied by a white shockwave, breaking the sound barrier and hurtling towards Jiangnan Province.

Chu Jianguo was knocked to the ground by the shockwave from the sonic boom.

He looked at the white trail of air in the sky that lingered for a long time and swallowed hard.

The mutated beasts in Jiangzhou have angered the most fiercely protective madman on this planet.

At the same time. Panlong Mountain, Jiangzhou.

The rain poured down, mixed with a violent surge of spiritual energy, washing the entire mountaintop into a muddy mess.

Lin Zhen's face was covered in blood, and he held an electromagnetic rifle with an empty magazine in his hand, staring intently ahead.

On the winding mountain road leading to the mountaintop villa, countless mutated beast corpses were piled up like mountains.

But behind these corpses, a giant python, over ten meters long and covered in black scales, was coiled outside the light barrier of the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array.

Two fleshy growths have appeared on the head of the black-scaled python. This is a sign that it is about to transform into a dragon.

Its vertical pupils were fixed on the room on the second floor of the villa, which exuded an extremely pure yang aura. The poisonous saliva dripping from its mouth dripped onto the array's light barrier, making a sizzling, corrosive sound.

"Chief! Let's retreat! The formation is about to break!"

Several injured special operations team members grabbed Lin Zhen's arms and tried to drag him down the mountain.

"Get out of here my ass!"

Lin Zhen flung his subordinate aside and pulled out a high-frequency vibrating knife from his waist.

"Old Li gave a death order! Even if we all die here, we can't let Miss Lu lose a single hair!"

Lin Zhen knew. What if something happened to Lu Qingxue here?

After the man who had just crushed the heavenly lightning with his bare hands and tore apart the mutated Yin Corpse in the capital returned.

The entire Jiangnan Province, including the Celestial Observation Bureau, will be burned to ashes by him.

The black-scaled python seemed to have lost its patience. It raised its massive head high and, with immense force, slammed it into the already cracked array barrier.

Click!

A crisp cracking sound rang out in the downpour.

The defensive breach in the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array was completely torn open.

The black-scaled python let out an excited hiss, its massive body crushing the villa's iron gate as it slithered towards the first-floor lobby.

Lin Zhen closed his eyes in despair.

It's over. It's all over.

Just as half of the black-scaled python's body was about to squeeze into the hall...

High in the sky, a terrifying sound that ripped through the sound barrier crashed down like the death knell.

boom!

A figure dressed in clean casual clothes slammed straight into the black-scaled python's massive head in a manner that completely defied the laws of physics.

There was no fluctuation of true essence. There was only absolute gravity and muscle potential energy.

The head of the black-scaled python, which was about to transform into a dragon and could not be penetrated even by electromagnetic armor-piercing bullets.

The moment Lu Yuan stepped on it, it exploded into a pile of mud like an overripe watermelon, right in front of all the special operations team members of the Sky Surveillance Bureau.

The headless snake corpse, ten meters long, convulsed violently on the ground, its dark red blood splattering onto the villa's exterior walls.

Lu Yuan stepped on the corpse of the black-scaled python. He turned his head.

Looking at the mutated beasts that were still rushing up the mountainside.

He reached out and flicked a speck of dust off the corner of his clothes.

"Tonight."

Lu Yuan watched as the group of mutated beasts, terrified, braked in unison.

"The stray dogs in Jiangzhou can have an extra meal now."