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

The communicator slipped from Lin Zhen's hand and crashed heavily onto the muddy ground of the temporary command tent.

The distorted shouts of the head of the technical department could still be heard coming from inside.

"Chief! The diameter of that whirlpool has exceeded five nautical miles! The water level in the surrounding sea is dropping at a rate of three meters per second!"

Lin Zhen turned his head stiffly.

The tent flap was lifted by a long, clean hand.

Lu Yuan walked in.

He had changed out of his black windbreaker and into a plain white casual T-shirt. The ferocious, almost blindingly powerful pure Yang energy he possessed when tearing apart the mutated beast on the mountaintop was now completely gone.

Even if Lu Yuan were to walk down the most bustling pedestrian street in Jiangzhou now, no one would give him a second glance.

Lin Zhen's throat bobbed, and a chill inexplicably rose in his stomach.

This isn't a weakening. It's a power that has been contained to a terrifying dimension that even the laws of Earth's physics cannot capture.

Lu Yuan bent down to pick up the communicator from the ground and held it to his ear.

"Send the real-time coordinates of that nuclear submarine to Lin Zhen's tablet."

The head of the technical department on the other end of the communicator paused for half a second, then, upon hearing Lu Yuan's voice, the sound of typing on the keyboard instantly became a torrential downpour.

Three seconds later, a flashing red dot appeared on the tactical tablet behind Lin Zhen.

The high seas area of ​​the East China Sea. Longitude 125°, Latitude 28°.

The red dot is surrounded by a dense ring of contour lines, representing a rapidly expanding deep-sea vortex.

Lu Yuan threw the communicator on the table.

"Drain the East China Sea."

He stared at the red dot on the tablet, a cold smile curving his lips.

"They think they can devour the entire East Sea's water veins by setting up a broken formation with the bone of a long worm that's been dead for tens of thousands of years? These bumpkins from the Sirius Star Region have gone astray in their cultivation."

Lin Zhen stood to the side, not daring to even breathe loudly.

"Lin Zhen".

Lu Yuan turned around.

"The physical barrier around Panlong Mountain, spanning fifty kilometers, remains sealed off by the Astronomical Bureau. Before my sister wakes up, not even a flying mosquito should be allowed near the villa."

"yes!"

Lin Zhen put his legs together and roared at the top of his lungs.

When he looked up again, the tent was empty.

Outside, in the torrential rain of the night sky, only a white shockwave remained, cleaving the thick thunderclouds in two. There was no sonic boom, because the figure's speed far exceeded the limits of sound propagation, forcibly compressing the air into a vacuum.

East China Sea. High seas, deep within the ocean. Three thousand meters below sea level.

The Leviathan, the flagship nuclear-powered submarine of the Aegis Consortium in Asia.

This underwater behemoth, costing over five billion US dollars, is currently hovering on the edge of that massive whirlpool. No matter how frantically the seawater rushes in from the outside, it remains firmly anchored in the undercurrent.

Inside the luxurious cabin midway through the submarine.

Old Master Wang Henian gripped the armrest of the leather sofa tightly. His face, covered with age spots, was filled with the relief of surviving a disaster and an barely suppressed resentment.

Sitting next to him was Ye Feifan, the sole heir of the Ye family in the present day.

The entire cabin was crammed with over thirty core direct blood relatives from the Wang and Ye families who had escaped.

"Grandpa Wang."

Ye Feifan held a glass of red wine, his hand trembling slightly. The red wine spilled onto the expensive Persian carpet.

"Are the people from the S.H.I.E.L.D. really reliable? We revealed all of our two companies' dark web assets in the country, and they're trying to fob us off with just this one submarine?"

Wang Henian snorted heavily, his sandalwood cane thumping loudly on the floor.

"You know nothing! This is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s top-tier shelter. Once we get to their base at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, that little bastard surnamed Lu, even if he has extraordinary abilities, won't be able to find us!"

A ruthless glint flashed in Wang Henian's cloudy eyes.

"Once we establish ourselves overseas and rebuild our genetically modified army, I'll make that Lu Yuan kneel on the martial arts stage in the capital and devour his own flesh, bite by bite!"

The hatch made a slight exhaust sound and slid open to both sides.

Charles, the top executive officer of the S.H.I.E.L.D. in Asia, walked in. He was wearing a well-tailored silver suit and holding a micro-terminal in his hand.

"Mr. Wang, Young Master Ye."

Charles's smile was so perfect it looked like a mannequin's.

"You probably won't be able to go to the base at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean."

Wang Henian's fleshy face twitched, and he suddenly stood up.

"Charles! What do you mean?! Our two families have invested a full 50 billion US dollars in your conglomerate!"

"That is indeed a huge sum of money."

Charles pressed a red button on the micro-terminal.

"But compared to the grand Blood River Sect's descent plan, your bunch of natives' money isn't even worthy of shining shoes."

hum!

Suddenly, a dazzling dark red array of patterns lit up the floor of the entire luxury cabin.

The array patterns are exactly the same as those on the mutated Yin Corpse in the capital's prison, only hundreds of times larger.

"You powerful and privileged people think you're using the S.H.I.E.L.D. conglomerate."

Charles took a step back, retreating to the edge of the hatch, his eyes full of mockery.

"In fact, from beginning to end, you are nothing more than mobile blood bags kept in cages by the sect leader. Now, the blood sacrifice formation of the East Sea Ruins needs high-purity human essence blood as a catalyst. You aristocratic bloodlines who eat rare and precious herbs to prolong your lives can be put to good use."

The array patterns unleashed an extremely strong suction force.

"ah--!"

Ye Feifan let out a bloodcurdling scream. The wine glass in his hand fell to the ground and shattered.

He stared in horror at his hands. His skin was visibly drying out, his veins were bulging, and the blood inside was vaporizing into a red mist, forcibly drawn out of his body through his pores.

The thirty-odd core members of the Wang and Ye families inside the cabin all collapsed on the ground and rolled around wildly.

Wang Henian gripped his own neck tightly. His pride in his internal energy cultivation couldn't even withstand a second of this demonic formation that specifically drained his vital energy.

"Charles...you'll die a horrible death..."

Wang Henian's eyes bulged outwards, and his eyeballs were full of cracked red blood vessels.

"You won't live long either."

Charles straightened his tie, preparing to close the cabin door.

"Once the blood sacrifice is complete, the dragon skeleton in the Ruins of Return will tear through space. At that time, the entire Earth..."

Boom!

Charles hadn't finished speaking.

The entire nuclear-powered submarine, weighing 18,000 tons, suddenly tilted violently at a 45-degree angle.

A piercing metallic creaking sound came from the top of the submarine. It was the mournful cry of special high-tensile steel plates being forcibly squeezed by some unimaginable force.

The alarm in the control room instantly blared throughout all the cabins.

"Warning! The top shell has suffered devastating damage!"

"Warning! The pressure hull is cracking!"

Charles's smile froze completely. He grabbed the communicator on the wall.

"What happened?! We've hit an underwater reef?"

The driver's hoarse, tearful screams came through the communicator.

"Sir! It's not a reef! Sonar indicates... there's a person standing on the submarine!"

Charles's mind went blank.

At a depth of 3,000 meters in the ocean, the water pressure is enough to instantly flatten a main battle tank into a disc.

A person is standing outside the submarine?

Click.

A large crack appeared directly in the special steel plate on the roof of the cabin.

The icy seawater did not rush in as violently as expected.

The high-pressure seawater, powerful enough to cut through steel, eerily stopped at the edge of the crack, as if blocked by an invisible pane of glass.

A figure wearing a white casual T-shirt jumped directly into the cabin through the crack.

Lu Yuan patted the non-existent water droplets off his shoulder and glanced at the remnants of the Wang and Ye families rolling on the ground.

"It seems I've arrived just in time."

Charles's legs went weak, and he leaned against the hatch. He recognized the face.

This is the monster who crushed lightning with his bare hands and withstood nuclear weapons in the Heavenly Prison.

"You...how could you have found this place! This is three thousand meters deep in the ocean!"

Charles drew his electromagnetic pistol from his waist and fired wildly at Lu Yuan.

The dark blue bullet struck three feet in front of Lu Yuan, instantly melting into molten iron that dripped onto the floor.

Lu Yuan didn't even glance at Charles.

Having restored his true essence at the peak of the Golden Core stage, coupled with the water-based laws of the Mahayana stage, this three-thousand-meter-deep sea was no different from his backyard on ordinary land.

He walked up to Wang Henian, who was still convulsing.

Wang Henian's body had been half drained by the formation. He looked like a skeleton wrapped in skin.

He looked at Lu Yuan, his withered lips moving up and down, making a sound like a broken bellows.

"Save me...save me...I'll give you everything the Wang family owns..."

"I promised Chu Jianguo."

Lu Yuan raised his right foot and stepped on Wang Henian's chest.

"I want to see the ashes of the Wang and Ye families within three days."

Power comes from the toes.

boom!

Wang Henian's chest cavity collapsed directly. The remaining internal organs were shattered into a pile of mud by the power of his Mahayana-stage physical body.

Lu Yuan did not stop.

He stirred his consciousness. The phantom of the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron flashed behind his head and disappeared.

A stream of extremely pure true essence transformed into dozens of invisible threads, precisely piercing the foreheads of all members of the Wang and Ye families within the cabin.

Physical soul search, plus the stripping of the soul.

The piercing screams echoed in the enclosed cabin for less than two seconds before abruptly ceasing.

More than thirty desiccated corpses lay stiffly on the floor. Their souls had been utterly crushed by Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan took an empty metal box out of his storage ring and casually threw it on the ground.

A ball of golden-red Samadhi Fire flicked from his fingertip.

Flames swept through. The thirty-odd mummies instantly turned into fine gray powder, all of which was sucked into the metal box.

Lu Yuan closed the box and kicked it into a corner.

The urn is ready.

As Charles watched this scene, a stream of yellow liquid flowed directly from his crotch.

His pride in modern technology, and the mysterious and unpredictable powerhouse of the Blood River Sect behind him—all seemed like a clumsy joke in front of this young man.

"Lu Yuan... killing me won't change anything!"

Charles pressed himself against the wall and screamed hysterically.

"The blood sacrifice formation has been activated! You will soon witness the true power to destroy the world!"

Lu Yuan turned his head and looked at the still-operating dark red array pattern on the cabin floor.

The array patterns had absorbed the dissipated blood energy and were now emitting a nauseating, fishy stench.

"This kind of dilapidated formation."

Lu Yuan walked to the center of the array patterns.

"They don't even deserve to be called the end of the world."

He raised his right foot. A thick layer of primordial yellow true energy clung to the sole of his foot.

He stomped heavily on the center of the formation.

boom!

The entire nuclear submarine shuddered violently.

The dark red array pattern didn't even last a second before shattering into powder all over the ground.

The energy lines that were maintaining the formation were forcibly severed. Before Charles could even let out a desperate wail, half of his body was blasted apart by the energy backlash from the formation, and rotten flesh splattered all over the wall.

The moment the formation was destroyed.

In the deep sea outside the submarine, the enormous whirlpool suddenly paused for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, a violent suction force, ten times stronger than before, erupted from the depths of the sea.

Without the array formation inside the nuclear submarine as a buffer, the main array eye at the bottom of Guixu went berserk.

It began to indiscriminately devour everything around it.

The Leviathan nuclear submarine was like a falling leaf, caught in the center of the whirlpool and crashed violently into the bottomless black crack on the seabed.

All the instruments in the control room exploded. The submarine's pressure hull emitted a series of cracking sounds.

Lu Yuan stood in the tilted cabin. His feet seemed rooted to the steel plates.

"That's getting urgent."

He peered through the cracked cabin roof into the deepest part of the vortex.

There, a colossal skeleton, hundreds of meters long, was emitting a ghostly green light.

The remains of a dragon in its fusion stage.

At the center of the skeleton, a fist-sized crimson bead was spinning wildly. That was the main array eye of the interdimensional teleportation array set up on Earth by the Sirius Star Region.

The moment the submarine was pulled into the crack, the powerful tearing force ripped the steel behemoth into pieces.

The icy seawater, carrying tens of thousands of tons of pressure, crashed against Lu Yuan from all directions.

Lu Yuan didn't even use the water-avoidance technique.

He directly released a protective shield of true essence from the peak of the Golden Core stage.

The azure light shield stretched out to a radius of ten meters. The seawater, powerful enough to crush steel into dust, crashed into the light shield without even causing a ripple.

Lu Yuan stepped onto a piece of submarine wreckage. His body, like a cannonball, darted against the raging current of the whirlpool, heading straight for the dragon's skeleton.

The closer you get to the seabed, the more viscous the surrounding seawater becomes.

In the end, the seawater had turned a pure blackish-red, filled with a strong aura of death and corrosiveness.

Roar!

A dragon's roar, which did not exist in the physical realm, exploded in Lu Yuan's sea of ​​consciousness.

Two blood-red flames suddenly ignited in the empty eye sockets of the dragon skeleton that had been dead for tens of thousands of years.

It sensed the extremely threatening aura of the Mahayana stage emanating from Lu Yuan. This was an instinctive rejection deep within its bloodline.

The massive tailbone lashed out violently, whipping up a dark current a hundred meters in diameter, mixed with black lines of spatial shattering, which lashed directly at Lu Yuan.

This attack has barely reached the power of a god-level being on Earth.

If this were to be displayed to the outside world, it would be enough to raze the entire city of Jiangzhou to the ground.

Lu Yuan hovered in the dark red seawater.

He looked at the massive tailbone that had been pulled towards him. He slowly raised his right hand.

"In life, he was nothing more than a mudfish that had just touched the threshold of the Integration Stage. Even in death, he dared to bare his teeth in front of the original self."

The phantom of the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron solidified completely above Lu Yuan's head.

The Mother Qi Cauldron, now with its severed legs repaired, exudes a terrifying pressure that suppresses all ages.

Lu Yuan clenched his right fist. His true essence and blood qi were perfectly integrated.

He threw a punch at the severed tailbone of the dragon that was being pulled towards him.

boom!

A blinding white light burst forth from the seabed.

The shockwave from this punch emptied the seawater within a radius of several nautical miles, briefly creating a huge vacuum zone on the seabed.

The seemingly indestructible tailbone of the Nascent Soul stage dragon was like a withered tree being struck by a hammer the moment it came into contact with Lu Yuan's fist.

It shattered into pieces, turning into a sky full of bone dust.

The dragon's skeleton emitted a mournful wail.

Lu Yuan gave it no chance to breathe. He took a step forward, covering a distance of over a thousand meters, and appeared above the skull of the dragon skeleton.

His right foot, imbued with profound true energy, stomped hard on its blood-red eye socket.

Click!

The massive skull was dented by the force of the foot.

Lu Yuan bent down and thrust his left hand directly into the crack in the skull.

He grabbed the blood-red bead that was spinning wildly.

The main point of the formation.

Dense crimson lightning erupted from the surface of the bead, attempting to scorch Lu Yuan's palm.

Lu Yuan sneered. His Mahayana stage divine sense transformed into an invisible steel needle, piercing directly into the bead.

"Get out here!"

He pulled hard.

They forcibly pulled the main array eye out of the dragon's skeleton.

The skeleton, having lost the support of the array's core, collapsed instantly. The enormous vortex that had been swallowing the seawater also stopped spinning.

Lu Yuan held the blood-red bead in his hand.

Suddenly, a grand yet emotionless voice emanated from within the bead. It traversed the endless void and resounded directly in Lu Yuan's mind.

"Indigenous. You're asking for it."

The voice of the sect leader of Sirius Star Region.

Lu Yuan looked at the bead in his hand. His thumb and forefinger gripped the edge of the bead.

"Wash your neck clean. Once I ascend to heaven, I'll personally crush your head."

Apply force with your fingertips.

Snapped.

The crimson bead was crushed into powder. The spatial coordinates were completely severed.

Lu Yuan casually sprinkled the powder into the sea.

The moment the bead shattered, an inner core radiating a soft golden light floated out from the collapsed skeleton of the dragon.

This is the primordial dragon pearl remaining from the fusion stage of a dragon. Without the blood-draining effect of the formation, it has finally seen the light of day again.

Lu Yuan's eyes lit up. He reached out and put the dragon pearl into his storage ring.

The Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. With this Dragon Pearl, Lu Qingxue's Nine Yin Profound Meridians can be completely opened.

They could even forcibly raise her to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Just as Lu Yuan was about to surface.

He suddenly stopped moving.

The divine sense of the Mahayana stage keenly detected it in the seabed crack beneath the dragon's skeleton.

There was also an extremely faint fluctuation, yet it carried the pure aura of ancient Earth martial arts.

That wasn't an inanimate object. That was a living person.

They were suppressed under the Guixu Formation for at least thirty years.

Lu Yuan looked down.

Deep within the silt of the crevice, a rusty iron chain protruded. At one end of the chain, a gaunt, emaciated figure was tightly bound.