MMB Chapter 116 Is he even worthy of a seat before me?
Chapter 116 Is he even worthy of a seat before me?
"Who... disturbed... my... spirit-locking array..."
Ancient divine thoughts crept up from the cracked rock layers beneath the earth. The sound didn't travel through the air; it exploded directly in the mind.
The trees that had just sprouted leaves around him withered and fell instantly the moment this divine thought swept over them. The pebbles on the ground trembled restlessly, colliding with each other and making a soft, crackling sound.
Lu Yuan looked down at the deep crack beneath his feet.
He did not release his protective true essence, allowing the divine thought carrying an aura of decay to sweep over him.
"A mere native who hasn't even reached the Qi Refining stage dares to destroy my array plate." The voice from underground became clearer, carrying an arrogant air of superiority. "Kneel down, open your sea of consciousness, and allow my primordial spirit to reside within. This is the greatest fortune of your life."
Lu Yuan sighed.
"Didn't the jade slips of the outer disciples of the Tianyan Sect even teach them how to speak properly?"
The sounds from underground paused for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, a visible surge of black malevolent energy erupted from the crack, coalescing in mid-air into a gigantic human face. The face's features were indistinct, with only a pair of empty eyes staring intently at Lu Yuan.
"Who are you! How do you know about the Heavenly Evolution Sect!" The face let out a shrill cry.
Lu Yuan patted the dust off his trouser legs.
"A remnant soul, whose physical body was destroyed at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, can only hide in the lower realm and eke out a living. He uses the spiritual veins of Earth to set up a spirit-locking array, hoping to reshape his physical body by draining the spiritual energy of this planet."
Lu Yuan raised his eyelids and looked at the menacing face in mid-air.
"That's a good idea, but the formation is poorly set up. The array eye in the southeast corner was replaced with a low-quality water spirit stone, causing the spiritual energy to flow backward. Even if I don't break the coordinate stone, you'll only last another five hundred years before being devoured by the spiritual veins and ending up with your soul scattered."
The face in mid-air twisted violently.
Being exposed by a native Earthling to his face is worse than being killed.
"You brat! No matter which tattered ancient book you saw the name of the Heavenly Evolution Sect in, you must die today!"
The human face opened its blood-red maw, transforming into a black tornado that pierced directly towards Lu Yuan's crown chakra. This was the most insidious body-snatching technique in the cultivation world, specifically designed to devour the souls of others.
Lu Yuan stood still without moving.
He found it amusing.
A remnant soul at the Nascent Soul stage tries to possess a peak Mahayana stage immortal. What's the difference between this and an ant opening its mouth, attempting to swallow an entire sun?
The black tornado struck Lu Yuan's forehead without any obstruction.
"Hahaha! This body belongs to me..."
The old monster's maniacal laughter abruptly stopped.
In Lu Yuan's sea of consciousness.
The old monster's remnant soul had just rushed in and hadn't even had a chance to take control when it saw a scene that nearly shattered its own soul.
It was a boundless golden ocean.
Every drop of seawater was formed from the materialized divine consciousness of the Mahayana stage. Above this golden ocean, nine colossal sword phantoms, reaching to the heavens and the earth, floated, radiating a terrifying pressure capable of severing galaxies.
The remnant soul of the old monster is not even a speck of dust in the face of this vast ocean.
"A Great...Great Ascension Stage Immortal Venerable..."
The old monster's remnant soul's voice transformed into an extremely piercing scream.
"Senior, spare my life! I was blind! I'm willing to be your dog..."
Lu Yuan coldly watched him from within his sea of consciousness.
"Soul Search".
The divine consciousness of the Mahayana stage transformed into a giant hand, which grabbed the old monster's remnant soul.
The extremely crude information flow was forcibly extracted.
This old monster was named Youmingzi. Five hundred years ago, he was hunted down for stealing a secret treasure from the Tianyan Sect. With nowhere else to go, he escaped to Earth through an abandoned teleportation array. He discovered that although the spiritual energy on the Earth's surface was depleted, there were vast spiritual veins hidden underground. So he set up a spirit-locking array in an attempt to secretly absorb the spiritual energy.
There wasn't much useful information.
However, Lu Yuan saw an interesting scene in Youmingzi's memories from the last few decades.
Decades ago, a group of people dressed in Chinese military uniforms and Taoist robes ventured deep into the heart of the Western Mountains. Although they failed to break the Spirit-Locking Array, they did manage to take away a fragment of bronze bearing array patterns from the outer perimeter of the array.
The fragment and the copper piece that was lost from Lu Yuan's mother's car accident belongings were identical in material and array pattern.
In the memory, the leading officer had a dark gold bauhinia flower embroidered on his shoulder.
The royal family of the capital, the Bauhinia family.
Lu Yuan cut off the soul-searching.
The golden hand in his mind clenched tightly.
Before Youmingzi's remnant soul could even utter a final scream, it was directly crushed into the purest fragments of his soul and merged into Lu Yuan's sea of consciousness.
outside world.
Lu Yuan opened his eyes.
From the cracks in the ground beneath their feet, the spiritual veins, no longer suppressed by the remnant soul of Youmingzi, began to surge forth with spiritual energy like wild horses.
This spiritual energy is immense.
A huge hole was torn open in the clouds above Yanjing City. An invisible storm of spiritual energy swept outwards from the Western Hills in all directions.
Lu Yuan was bathed in the pillar of spiritual energy.
The cultivation barrier within his body, suppressed at the peak of the Golden Core stage, began to emit a crisp cracking sound.
The threshold of the Nascent Soul stage is right before our eyes.
If he wanted, he could form a Nascent Soul right now, or even rush to the Deity Transformation stage in one go.
But he didn't do that.
Because at the moment the spiritual energy washed over his body, he felt a black chain phantom wriggling restlessly in the deepest part of his consciousness.
A muffled rumble of thunder could be faintly heard from the horizon.
This is not a tribulation brought about by the Heavenly Laws of Earth. This thunder carries an extremely malevolent aura of curse.
The Heavenly Curse of Stealing Life.
The nine immortal immortal emperors of the cultivation world planted a hidden trap for him before his ascension.
"Now is not the time to settle accounts with you." Lu Yuan quickly formed hand seals, forcibly suppressing the surging true energy within his body.
The shattered cultivation barrier was stitched back together.
His cultivation level was stuck at the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage, just a hair's breadth away from the Nascent Soul stage.
The rumbling thunder in the sky, unable to find its target, lingered for a while before slowly dissipating.
Lu Yuan let out a long breath.
Although he did not break through to the Nascent Soul stage, he absorbed Youmingzi's soul and a portion of the spiritual essence, making him more than twice as strong as when he first returned to Earth.
"The royal family of the capital... Bauhinia flower."
Lu Yuan put his hands in his pockets, stepped on the wild grass that had sprung up from the spiritual energy, and walked down the mountain.
It's time to settle this score.