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

Dark red, foul-smelling blood dripped down the treads of Lu Yuan's shoes into the muddy water.

The black-scaled python, over ten meters long, even stopped its instinctive tail twitching. Its massive body, weighing several tons, slumped limply at the edge of the shattered array's protective barrier.

The rain was getting heavier. Raindrops the size of soybeans pounded on Lu Yuan's down jacket, but before they could even splash, they were instantly evaporated into puffs of white steam by the extremely high body heat emanating from his body.

The horde of mutated beasts that covered the mountains and plains stopped halfway up the mountain.

At the forefront was a group of mutated wild boars, each over two meters tall at the shoulder. Their bristles were so stiff they could deflect large-caliber rifle bullets. Yet, they collectively took two steps back, emitting uneasy grunts from their massive mouths.

Wild animals have far more acute instincts than humans.

They couldn't detect any spiritual energy fluctuations from Lu Yuan. But that terrifying aura, towering above the entire Earth's food chain, was spreading wildly with the rain.

That was the unique sense of oppression that the physical body experienced during the Mahayana stage.

Lu Yuan pulled his hand out of his pocket and shook the raindrops off his fingertips.

He looked down at the horde of mutated beasts that were stirring restlessly.

The three-headed, blood-red S-class mutated snow wolf could not resist the temptation of the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow medicine. It exerted its strength in all four limbs, crushing the bluestone steps, and opened its blood-red maw covered with barbs, pouncing on Lu Yuan from three directions at the same time.

Lu Yuan didn't even lift his eyelids.

He flicked his right foot across the black-scaled python's corpse.

He flicked a palm-sized black scale into the air with his toe. Lu Yuan turned and delivered a whip kick, striking the edge of the scale precisely.

boom!

The scales broke the sound barrier, leaving a white trail of air in their wake.

The mutated snow wolf at the front didn't even have time to howl. The scale sliced ​​through its proud, hard skull, and down its spine, splitting it in two.

Scalding hot entrails spilled all over the floor.

The remaining two snow wolves tried to turn around and escape in mid-air.

Lu Yuan didn't give them a chance to land at all.

He slightly bent his knees and leaped into the air. In less than half a second, he appeared directly above the snow wolf on his left.

With his right elbow bent, he used the momentum of his fall to slam heavily onto the snow wolf's back.

The sickening sound of bones shattering echoed in the torrential rain. The snow wolf's spine was smashed to powder by the elbow strike, and its massive body slammed into the concrete like a lump of mud, impossible to pry out.

As soon as the last snow wolf landed, Lu Yuan grabbed it by the scruff of its neck with one hand.

Lu Yuan exerted force outward with his wrist.

tear up.

Lu Yuan forcibly peeled the entire wolf pelt, complete with thick fur, off the wolf. The skinless, fleshy body rolled wildly in the mud and water, before falling completely still a few seconds later.

In less than ten seconds, the three-headed beasts, capable of slaughtering a fully armed reinforced company of S-class mutants, turned them into a pile of minced meat.

There were no spells. There was no true essence. It was all absolute force, pulled and ripped out of existence.

The entire place was deathly silent. Even the sound of wind and rain was drowned out by the overwhelming stench of blood.

retreat.

It's unclear which mutated beast started it. The horde of beasts that had been crowding the mountain road suddenly turned and fled frantically into the deep forests outside Jiangzhou. The sound of bones breaking as they trampled each other was deafening.

They finally realized that the two-legged creature standing on the mountaintop was not food they could mess with.

Lin Zhen, holding a blunt, high-frequency vibrating knife, leaned against the wrecked armored vehicle, panting heavily.

He watched as Lu Yuan casually tossed the bloodstained wolf pelt to the ground. His stomach churned involuntarily.

The Skywatch Bureau's barrage of firepower couldn't break through the defenses of this S-class monster for half an hour. This guy just tore it apart with his bare hands.

"Lin Zhen".

Lu Yuan's voice came through the rain. It was devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

Lin Zhen jumped up with a start. He scrambled to Lu Yuan's side, bending over so low his back was almost touching his knees.

"Mr. Lu! Your subordinate is incompetent. These beasts have disturbed you."

Lu Yuan pointed to the corpse of the black-scaled python on the ground.

"Dig out the snake's gall bladder and send it to my storage room. The remaining snake meat and the corpses of those mutated beasts are for your Sky Surveillance Bureau to divide among yourselves. S-grade beast meat contains a trace of spiritual energy; eating it can strengthen your body."

Lin Zhen swallowed hard and nodded repeatedly.

"Any news from Chu Jianguo's side?"

Lu Yuan walked to the front of the villa. The original pure copper gate had been smashed into a pile of scrap metal.

Lin Zhen quickly followed, keeping his voice very low.

"The military has issued the highest-level arrest warrant. All members of the Wang and Ye families in Beijing have been detained. But..."

Lin Zhen wiped the rain off his face.

"The core members of these two families, namely the old masters and the heirs to the family heads, had already escaped to international waters through special channels before you went to the prison. They boarded a nuclear-powered submarine belonging to the S.H.I.E.L.D. conglomerate."

Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.

International waters. The S.H.I.E.L.D. Foundation.

"The Astronomical Bureau's technical department tracked the submarine's signal. Its last known location was near the coordinates of the East China Sea Ruins."

Lin Zhen's forehead was covered in a mixture of cold sweat and rain.

"We suspect they went to activate some backup plan."

Lu Yuan's lips twitched upwards slightly.

The Eastern Sea Returns to Ruins. That is the location of the main array eye of the interdimensional teleportation array set up in the Sirius Star Region.

The mutated Yin Corpse in the capital's prison was merely a defective product. These fleas ran to the main array's eye simply to use their pitiful essence and blood to feed the skeleton of that Nascent Soul stage dragon.

"Let them be."

Lu Yuan stepped over the threshold of transformation.

"Tell Old Li. The three-day countdown remains unchanged. If I don't see the ashes of everyone from the Wang and Ye families in three days, I will personally go to the defense zone and dismantle the table in their command post for firewood."

Lin Zhen's legs cramped, and he bit his lip hard to keep himself from trembling. He had no doubt that Lu Yuan was capable of such a thing.

Lu Yuan walked into the lobby on the first floor.

The mahogany furniture in the hall was covered with a thick layer of white frost. The paintings on the walls, however, were charred and curled due to the extreme heat.

The entire villa was in a strange state of alternating extreme cold and extreme heat.

Lu Yuan went up the stairs to the second floor.

The door to Lu Qingxue's bedroom had long since crumbled into wood chips.

in the room.

That once pure and delicate high school girl is now suspended in mid-air.

Her clothes had been burned to ashes by the high temperature. Her exposed skin showed two completely different colors.

The left half of her body was crystal clear, radiating a chilling aura that could freeze the soul. The right half, however, was dark red, with the domineering medicinal power of the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow surging wildly through her meridians.

Two extreme forces are locked in a life-or-death struggle, using her dantian as their battlefield.

Lu Qingxue kept her eyes tightly shut. Her brows were furrowed in a tight knot. She bit her lip so hard that the blood that spilled out instantly evaporated into a mist.

If an ordinary person gets within three meters of this room, they will either be frozen into an ice sculpture or burned to ashes.

Lu Yuan walked straight in.

The extreme cold stung Lu Yuan's skin, leaving not even a red mark. The intense heat of the flames swept over his hair, but it couldn't ignite it in the slightest.

The physical density of the Mahayana stage is itself a perfect container that isolates itself from all harm caused by the laws of nature.

Lu Yuan walked to the bedside and looked at his sister, who was struggling in pain in mid-air.

The Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow did indeed neutralize the cold poison of the Nine Yin Profound Meridians. However, Lu Qingxue's mortal meridians simply could not withstand this level of energy reshaping.

She's like a spiritual energy nuclear reactor that could explode at any moment. Even a wisp of her aura has attracted all the S-class mutated beasts in Jiangnan Province.

It must be forcibly suppressed.

Lu Yuan extended his right hand. He pinched Lu Qingxue's chin with his index finger and thumb, forcing her to open her mouth.

A drop of golden-red pure yang essence blood was forced out from the tip of Lu Yuan's tongue and flicked into Lu Qingxue's mouth through his fingertips.

The essence and blood enter the abdomen.

boom!

The pure Yang Qi and blood of the Mahayana stage, carrying an irresistible and domineering will, rushed directly into Lu Qingxue's dantian.

The two forces, extreme cold and extreme fire, which had been locked in a fierce battle, ceased their violent clash the moment they encountered this drop of pure yang blood essence, as if they had met a true sovereign. They immediately shut their rage and obediently huddled in two corners of their dantian.

Lu Qingxue's pained expression gradually eased. Her body, which had been suspended in mid-air, slowly descended.

Lu Yuan pulled over a blanket that hadn't been burned yet and covered his sister with it.

He extended two fingers and placed them on Lu Qingxue's wrist.

Her meridians had been widened hundreds of times. The cold poison that had been blocking her vital points had been completely cleared away. The medicinal power of the Extreme Fire Dragon Marrow was slowly nourishing her internal organs.

Misfortune and fortune are intertwined.

Lu Qingxue's current physique is a top-grade dual cultivation vessel that is extremely rare even in the cultivation world.

This means that as the Earth's spiritual energy revives, more and more old monsters lurking in the shadows will set their sights on her.

"Looks like we need to speed things up."

Lu Yuan withdrew his hand and pulled the blanket up a little.

He must recover his true energy as soon as possible. Without true energy, many Mahayana-stage killing formations and soul-searching techniques cannot be used. Relying solely on his physical body to challenge each martial arts school would be too time-consuming.

Lu Yuan turned and left the bedroom. He went down the stairs to the quiet basement room on the bottom floor of the villa.

This is the core of the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array. It is also the place with the most abundant spiritual energy in the entire Panlong Mountain.

Lu Yuan closed the heavy lead door.

He sat cross-legged on the futon. A thought struck him.

Swish.

Three massive black boulders, each weighing over ten tons, flew out of the storage ring. They crashed directly into the special steel floor of the quiet room, creating three deep craters.

Star Essence Gold Meteorite.

This substance is considered highly radioactive waste by Earth scientists. However, in the world of cultivation, it is a core material for refining top-tier magical artifacts.

Lu Yuan now intends to use it to repair the damaged Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Without true essence, it cannot be refined using the Samadhi Fire.

Lu Yuan could only resort to the most primitive and brutal methods.

He bit his right index finger. Under the powerful blood-producing ability of his Mahayana-stage body, streams of golden-red pure Yang blood gushed out wildly from the wound.

Lu Yuan applied all of this blood and qi to the surface of the three pieces of refined gold meteorite.

"Melt it for me."

During the Mahayana stage, the temperature of the Qi and blood instantly soared to a terrifying value that could not be measured by earth-based instruments.

The air in the underground chamber was completely sucked out. The three indestructible refined gold meteorites, under the scorching heat of pure yang energy, began to slowly melt, turning into pools of liquid metal that emitted a dazzling starlight.

Lu Yuan closed his eyes. His consciousness sank downwards.

Deep within his consciousness.

A colossal bronze cauldron floated in the void. Its body was covered with ancient star patterns. However, one of its legs was missing from its base.

Around the ancient cauldron, hundreds of black chains were densely wrapped around it.

The Heavenly Curse of Stealing Life.

These chains tightly bound Lu Yuan's consciousness. Whenever he tried to mobilize even a trace of true energy, these chains would tighten frantically, attempting to shred his soul into pieces.

Last time, when he withstood a tactical nuclear bomb in the capital's prison, Lu Yuan forcibly used the illusory image of the Mother Qi Cauldron to protect himself, causing the chains to violently backfire. His true essence was completely drained.

Now, he was going to force the molten starlight into the broken leg of the Mother Qi Cauldron.

Lu Yuan's divine sense transformed into a giant hand, grabbing the mass of liquid metal outside and slamming it directly onto the bottom of the ancient cauldron.

Sizzle!

The moment the essence of gold entered the body, a violent earthquake occurred throughout the entire sea of ​​consciousness.

The black chains seemed to sense the threat and immediately began to tighten frantically.

An excruciating pain, indescribable in words, instantly overwhelmed Lu Yuan's senses. It was the torment of his soul being torn apart and reassembled inch by inch.

Lu Yuan's body, which was sitting on the futon, began to convulse violently. Tiny cracks appeared on the surface of his skin, and the golden-red blood that had just seeped out was instantly evaporated by his extremely high body temperature.

He clenched his back teeth tightly. A strong, metallic taste of blood filled his mouth.

"The mere laws of Heaven on Earth dare to imprison my true form."

A beast-like growl escaped Lu Yuan's throat.

The giant hand of divine consciousness completely ignored the strangling chains. Grabbing the Star Essence Gold, it slammed it down on the base of the tripod again and again.

With each strike, the primordial aura emanating from the Mother Qi Cauldron intensified.

Under the impact of the primordial energy, the black chains began to show fine cracks.

After half an hour.

The last bit of Star Essence Gold was completely smashed into the Mother Qi Cauldron.

The broken legs of the tripod were finally repaired.

hum!

A loud bell tolled in Lu Yuan's mind.

The Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron slowly began to rotate. A stream of extremely pure Mahayana stage true essence gushed out from the cauldron's mouth, flowing wildly through Lu Yuan's parched meridians and into his limbs and bones.

Click. Click.

The black chains binding the divine consciousness were forcibly broken in more than a dozen places by the revitalized true energy. The remaining chains could only retreat helplessly to the edge of the sea of ​​consciousness, temporarily falling into slumber.

Lu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

Two beams of solidified golden light shot out from his pupils, directly piercing through the half-meter-thick special steel plate wall of the underground quiet room.

True essence restored. Peak Golden Core combat power fully unlocked.

Lu Yuan stood up. His wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving not even a scar.

He flexed his wrist, listening to the crisp cracking sound of his knuckles.

"Finally, I don't have to rely solely on my fists to beat people up anymore."

At the same time.

Tens of thousands of light-years away from Earth. Sirius Star Region. Blood River Sect Headquarters.

Inside a black palace built on a blood-red waterfall.

The Seventh Elder, who was sitting cross-legged in the center of the blood pool, suddenly coughed violently.

Wow.

He spat a mouthful of black blood mixed with pieces of internal organs onto the bronze table in front of him.

On the table were hundreds of nameplates engraved with names.

Just now, the life tablet representing the mutated Yin Corpse array eye in the Heavenly Prison of Earth's capital city shattered into powder with a snap.

The muscles on the Seventh Elder's withered face, as dry as tree bark, twitched uncontrollably.

"The backup array core has been destroyed... and the main array core of the East Sea Ruins has also lost contact..."

He looked up, staring intently at the enormous star map above him.

On the star map, the outer edge of that remote blue planet, a sealing light shield composed of a celestial-severing array, is dimming at a visible speed.

At most, another two weeks will pass before the seal completely collapses.

If a stable cross-dimensional coordinate cannot be established before then, the Blood River Sect's century-long plan to descend will be in vain.

From the depths of the main hall, a grand but emotionless voice resounded.

"Seventh. Your distraction was killed by that native. Now you've even lost the coordinates."

The voice of the sect leader of Sirius Star Region.

The Seventh Elder was so frightened that he lay prone in the blood pool, not daring to even lift his head.

"Sect Master, please calm down! That native's physical body named Lu Yuan is strange... He's definitely not an ordinary Golden Core cultivator. He knows how to search souls and can withstand the Heavenly Thunder Formation."

"nonsense."

The voice interrupted him.

"Since the key point of the formation is gone, let's use the most primitive method."

From the void deep within the main hall, a palm-sized black jade tablet floated out and landed directly in front of the Seventh Elder.

"Send a message to that force on Earth called the S.H.I.E.L.D. Foundation. Have them transport all the Boundary Stone fragments they've collected to the coordinates of the Ruins of the East Sea."

"Tell them to activate the blood sacrifice formation at all costs. Use the remains of that Nascent Soul stage dragon as a catalyst to forcibly tear open a spatial rift."

The Seventh Elder held the jade tablet in both hands, his voice trembling.

"Sect Master... if you force a blood sacrifice, the entire ecosystem of the East Sea will be completely destroyed. And... Lu Yuan will definitely try to stop it."

"Let him go."

The booming voice carried a chilling calculation.

"If he dares to take even half a step into the Void, I, the sect master, will personally take action and crush him to death from across the void."

The Seventh Elder accepted the order and withdrew.

Earth. Jiangnan Province. Jiangzhou.

Special agents from the Natural Resources Bureau are clearing the carcasses of mutated beasts from the mountain road.

Lin Zhen stood in the temporary command tent, looking at an urgent, top-secret report that had just been delivered by the technical department.

His face turned deathly pale instantly.

The satellite imagery in the report shows that this happened just ten minutes ago.

The nuclear submarine belonging to the S.H.I.E.L.D., carrying core members of the Wang and Ye families, detonated a depth charge with a yield of over 100,000 tons in the high seas of the East China Sea.

The bombs did not create much of a wave on the sea.

Because all the energy from the explosion was swallowed up by a huge vortex that suddenly appeared deep in the ocean.

At the center of the vortex, high-dimensional energy fluctuations emanated, defying even the most advanced instruments of the Celestial Surveillance Bureau.

"Chief."

The head of the technical department swallowed hard.

"The energy level of that vortex... is still rising. If it's not stopped, within three days at most, the entire East China Sea... will be sucked dry."

Lin Zhen grabbed the communicator from the table. His hands trembling, he dialed the dedicated line for the Panlong Mountain villa.

This is a mess that the Astronomical Bureau simply cannot handle.

This is going to destroy the world.