MMB Chapter 140 Plunder at the Bottom of the Dragon Transformation Pool, the Tide of Spiritual Energy Ri
Chapter 140 Plunder at the Bottom of the Dragon Transformation Pool, the Tide of Spiritual Energy Ri
The underground caves of Death Valley in Kunlun.
After the formation was removed, the blood rapidly cooled, turning into a pool of foul-smelling, dark red sludge. Not even a trace of the old man's bones remained.
Lu Yuan stood on the broken circular stone platform.
He didn't even bother to study those so-called ancient array patterns. These trash arrays, which could even cause a hundred-mile deviation in teleportation coordinates, were an insult to the divine sense of a Mahayana cultivator.
Lu Yuan raised his right foot and stomped heavily on the center of the stone platform.
boom!
The solid stone platform, over ten meters in diameter, collapsed instantly from its center. Countless fragments of stone, mixed with jade powder inscribed with array patterns, tumbled into the abyss below.
A dense, almost tangible golden mist shot into the sky through the gaping hole, crashing directly into the cave's dome with a thunderous roar.
Lu Yuan waved his hand, dispelling the dust in front of him.
Below the stone platform lies a bottomless natural sinkhole. At the bottom of the sinkhole flows a viscous liquid that emits a dazzling golden light. This liquid is not water, but rather highly liquefied, pure ley line energy.
This is not a naturally formed Death Valley maze at all. Rather, it was created by the Blood River Sect of the Sirius Star Region, which used extremely vicious methods to forcibly sever the dragon vein of western China, locking the earth vein energy within a radius of thousands of miles into this pit, serving as a backup battery for that dilapidated teleportation array.
No wonder those mutated snow wolves outside turned into such a grotesque sight; the life force of this land has long been drained away.
"What a waste of resources."
Lu Yuan snorted coldly.
Without the slightest hesitation, he leaped into the pool of golden liquid spiritual energy at the bottom of the pit.
The scalding hot spiritual liquid instantly submerged his knees.
Any so-called divine realm martial artist on Earth, even if they were merely exposed to this unrefined, high-concentration earth vein energy, would have their physical body burst open within three seconds, exploding into a cloud of blood mist.
But Lu Yuan didn't even frown.
He sat cross-legged in the golden pool, his hands forming a strange mudra.
"The Great Evolution Devours the Heavens, Begin."
The moment he finished speaking, Lu Yuan's body turned into a terrifying black hole.
The once calm surface of the Dragon Transformation Pool suddenly began to churn violently. The golden liquid transformed into thick columns of water, frantically pouring into Lu Yuan's body through every pore.
His parched dantian emitted a thirsty buzzing sound. The barrier of the peak Golden Core stage began to show fine cracks under the impact of the massive earth vein energy.
But just as the true essence was about to break through the barrier...
Deep within Lu Yuan's sea of consciousness, the black chain tightly bound to his soul suddenly erupted with a blinding black light.
The Heavenly Life Stealing Curse has been triggered.
The incomplete laws of Heaven on Earth sensed that someone was attempting to break the upper limit of the "severance of communication between Heaven and Earth," and immediately unleashed the most severe punishment. A strange, lifeless force spread along the chains, attempting to forcibly sever Lu Yuan's opportunity for breakthrough.
"The laws of a mere, incomplete planet dare to oppress me!"
Lu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.
Instead of retreating, he increased the speed at which he devoured the prey.
The golden liquid in the entire Dragon Transformation Pool decreased at a visible rate. He forcibly used the immense power of the earth's veins to fight against the black chain in his sea of consciousness.
Click click click!
A sickening metallic scraping sound echoed in Lu Yuan's mind. The black chain, which had been tightened, was forcibly stretched open by the frenzied erosion of the golden earth vein energy, creating a gap even thinner than a hair.
Just this tiny gap.
A pure aura belonging to a Mahayana Immortal Venerable briefly leaked out from Lu Yuan's body.
......
At the same time, at the headquarters of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory.
In the highest-level monitoring room located on the third basement level, alarms blared incessantly. All the red warning lights were flashing wildly, and the piercing buzzing sound was painful to the eardrums.
The blue-and-white porcelain teacup that Old Li was holding fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
He stared intently at the giant electronic screen that occupied the entire wall directly in front of him.
The screen displayed a thermal image of the spiritual energy distribution across the entire Chinese continent. At this moment, the area representing the Kunlun Mountains in western China had turned a blindingly bright white!
"Director Li! Satellite monitoring has detected an immeasurable energy fluctuation in the Kunlun Death Valley region!"
A technician in a white coat was sweating profusely as he typed on the keyboard, his voice distorted by extreme fear.
"The energy level has exceeded the detector's limit! The western tectonic plates are undergoing violent displacement, and the National Seismological Bureau is in complete chaos!"
Chu Jianguo stood behind Old Li, his face pale, and he subconsciously swallowed.
"It's Mr. Lu..."
Chu Jianguo's voice was terribly hoarse.
"He just skydived over Death Valley half an hour ago. No one else could have made that kind of commotion."
Old Li took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
Ever since he withstood the nuclear explosion in the capital's prison, he had completely given up on any further attempts to test the boy's strength. He knew all too well the consequences of such power spiraling out of control.
"Notify the Western Theater Command to enter a state of first-level combat readiness."
Mr. Li braced his hands on the control panel, his knuckles turning white from the force.
"But remember the top order! All troops are only allowed to set up perimeter defenses, responsible for evacuating civilians and dealing with mutated beasts. No one, no weapon, is permitted to aim towards Death Valley!"
"If he wants to extract the earth's veins, let him. Even if he uproots the entire Kunlun Mountains, we can only stand by and hand him shovels!"
......
After half an hour.
The Dragon Transformation Pool beneath Kunlun Mountain has completely dried up.
The last drop of golden spiritual energy liquid flowed into Lu Yuan's body through his fingertips. He exhaled a long breath, which transformed into a visible white sword of energy in the air, piercing a bottomless hole in the hard stone wall ten meters away.
His peak Golden Core stage realm was completely solidified, and he was only a thin veil away from the Nascent Soul stage.
He could force a breakthrough at any time if he wanted to. But now was not the time. The cold poison in his sister's body had not been completely eradicated, and he had to conserve his strength to deal with the possible backlash from the Heavenly Dao.
Lu Yuan stood up and patted the dust off his trousers.
His gaze fell on the very center of the bottom of the Dragon Transformation Pool.
The area was originally covered by spiritual liquid, but now that the liquid has been drained, a black stone about half a person's height has been revealed.
The surface of the stone is covered with honeycomb-like holes, and the surrounding space is even slightly distorted because of its presence.
Fragment of a boundary stone.
It was ten times larger than the space he used to build the spatial passage at Cloudtop Manor.
Lu Yuan walked over, picked up the fragment of the boundary stone, which weighed several tons, with one hand, and casually tossed it into his Nine Heavens Storage Ring.
This thing can be used to stabilize the formation of the Panlong Mountain villa. With it, the defensive level of the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Formation can be increased by at least three levels. Even if a tactical nuclear bomb were to bombard it head-on, it would not be able to harm the people inside the villa in the slightest.
After doing all this, Lu Yuan turned around and walked up the stairs.
When he returned to the ground, the dark purple thunderclouds over Death Valley had completely dissipated. Long-absent starlight shone on the bare, black rocks.
Shen Qingci stood on a high ground 500 meters away from the valley entrance, holding a military tablet in her hand, shivering from the cold.
Seeing Lu Yuan emerge unharmed, she finally felt relieved and quickly went to greet him.
"Mr. Lu!"
Shen Qingci handed over a thick military overcoat, but Lu Yuan waved it off.
His white shirt was perfectly wrinkle-free, and in the frigid sub-zero temperatures, no one could get even half a meter away from him.
"The matter is settled. Arrange a flight; I'm heading back to Jiangzhou."
Lu Yuan's voice was very calm.
Shen Qingci's expression changed. She looked at the top-secret intelligence she had just received on the tablet, gritted her teeth, and forced herself to speak.
"Mr. Lu, something might have happened in Jiangzhou."
Lu Yuan stopped and turned to look at her.
He didn't speak.
But the surrounding air temperature dropped by more than ten degrees in an instant. Shen Qingci felt as if the air she was breathing had turned into ice shards, which made her trachea ache.
"After the S.H.I.E.L.D.'s assets were completely frozen, they resorted to desperate measures."
Shen Qingci suppressed her fear and quickly reported the situation.
"The Bureau of Natural Resources' intelligence network has just intercepted their internal communications. Richard, the top executive officer of the S.H.I.E.L.D. in Asia, has secretly deployed twelve of the latest batches of S-class genetically modified humans to infiltrate China."
"Six of them remained in Beijing on standby, while the other six... an hour ago, they cut off all surveillance cameras near Panlong Mountain in Jiangzhou. Their target is your sister."
The temperature in Lu Yuan's eyes dropped to freezing point.
He didn't get angry; instead, a cold smile appeared on his lips.
"A bunch of trash produced by chemical treatments dare to touch the protective formation I left behind."
Lu Yuan looked up at the waning moon in the night sky.
"Since they're in such a hurry to be reincarnated, then we won't be going back to Jiangzhou this time."
Shen Qingci was stunned.
"Then you..."
"Go directly to the capital."
Lu Yuan pulled his hands out of his pockets, his knuckles cracking with a series of crisp sounds.
"To cut the weeds, you must pull them out by the roots. Send me Richard's location; tonight, I'll personally go and crush his bones inch by inch."