MMB Chapter 144 The Immortal Venerable Returns on His Sword, How Dare a Mortal Steal the Heavenly Craft?
Chapter 144 The Immortal Venerable Returns on His Sword, How Dare a Mortal Steal the Heavenly Craft?
Gao Tiancheng's back straightened abruptly.
His casual stance just moments before instantly transformed into an extremely dangerous defensive posture. Even the surrounding air seemed to grow colder.
He stared intently at the boy standing a dozen meters away who wasn't even wearing a coat, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty.
He fell from a height of several thousand meters and crashed to the ground, leaving a two-meter-diameter crater in the asphalt road, but his white shirt didn't even have a single wrinkle.
Although Gao Tiancheng was arrogant, he was not stupid.
This kind of entrance, which defies the common sense of physics, is definitely not something that an ordinary martial arts master could do.
"Who are you?"
Gao Tiancheng forcibly suppressed the panic in his heart, slightly turned the muzzle of the electromagnetic restraint gun in his hand, and aimed it at Lu Yuan's chest.
"The Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals is handling a case. All bystanders must immediately step back! Otherwise, they will be punished for treason!"
He is still trying to use his official position to intimidate people.
In this land, the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals represents the highest will. No matter what kind of reclusive family or powerful conglomerate it is, they all have to bow their heads obediently when they hear these three words.
Lu Yuan didn't even lift his eyelids.
He didn't even look at the electromagnetic guns that were still charging; he simply turned to look at Ye Qingcheng standing on the ruins.
"Is this how you guard the door for me?"
Lu Yuan's voice wasn't loud, but to Ye Qingcheng, it was more terrifying than thunder.
thump.
Without any hesitation, Ye Qingcheng knelt on one knee on the icy ground. She lowered her noble head, her voice trembling uncontrollably.
"I have failed in my duties; please punish me, Master."
Gao Tiancheng's eye muscles twitched violently twice.
What did he see? The youngest Grandmaster of the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance was actually kneeling and kowtowing to a boy who looked like a high school student, calling him master?
"Lu...Lu Yuan?"
Suddenly, Gao Tiancheng recalled the brief X-level file sent by the Celestial Surveillance Bureau. He finally realized the identity of the boy in front of him.
"Fire! Fire immediately! Activate the highest power electromagnetic grid!"
Gao Tiancheng roared at the top of his lungs, his finger gripping the trigger tightly.
He dared not even entertain the slightest thought of testing the waters; fear sent his adrenaline soaring to its peak.
A dozen or so eerie blue electromagnetic beams instantly wove together into an impenetrable net, descending upon Lu Yuan. This weapon was specifically designed to deal with high-level martial artists; once hit, the 30,000-volt current could instantly paralyze the nervous system of any creature below the Divine Realm.
A flash of blue light.
The electromagnetic net landed precisely on Lu Yuan.
Gao Tiancheng hadn't even had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief.
The piercing electrical sound suddenly disappeared.
Those blue electric arcs, capable of melting even steel plates, were squeezed into a walnut-sized ball of blue light less than an inch from the surface of Lu Yuan's body, as if they had hit an invisible wall of sighs.
Lu Yuan raised his right hand and gently pinched the pulsating ball of electromagnetic light between his index finger and thumb.
"With this low voltage, it's not even enough to serve as a backup battery for the array at the bottom of the Dragon Transformation Pool."
Lu Yuan shook his head.
He applied slight pressure with his fingers.
Snapped.
The ball of light was crushed instantly.
next second.
The broken blue arcs of electricity did not dissipate; instead, they followed a strange trajectory and rolled back at a speed ten times faster than before.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
A dozen or so muffled thuds rang out almost simultaneously.
The special forces soldiers behind Gao Tiancheng didn't even have time to scream before their bulletproof exoskeletons were instantly pierced. There was no blood flowing from the wound; the surrounding flesh was directly carbonized by the terrifyingly high temperature, emitting a pungent, burnt smell.
More than a dozen corpses lay stiffly in the snow.
Only Gao Tiancheng remained, standing stiffly in place, holding the broken rifle whose barrel had completely melted.
His mouth was slightly open, and the light in his eyes flickered violently. The howling wind around him vanished completely in that instant.
What the hell is that monster?!
"You...you can't kill me..."
The scrap metal in Gao Tiancheng's hand fell to the ground. He staggered back three steps, his back slamming heavily against the door of the armored vehicle.
"I am the special operations captain of the Jiangnan branch of the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals! If you dare to touch me, you are declaring war on the entire national machine! We must take that Awakened one away; her energy level is out of control, and if it erupts, it will destroy the entire Jiangzhou!"
Gao Tiancheng tried to find a glimmer of hope by imposing the most severe consequences.
Lu Yuan walked up to him.
"The state apparatus?"
Lu Yuan forced a cold smile.
"That tactical nuclear bomb beneath the capital's prison couldn't do anything to me. You think you can teach me how to do things with a few pieces of junk?"
Gao Tiancheng's pupils shrank to their maximum size.
The capital's prison? A nuclear bomb?
His rank was too low to have access to such top-secret information. But from Lu Yuan's eyes, which regarded all living beings as ants, he instinctively sensed that this was definitely not a joke.
"Mr. Lu! Please have mercy!"
Just then, Lin Zhen's anxious, almost hoarse shout suddenly came from the communicator clipped to Gao Tiancheng's waist.
Lin Zhen was currently hiding in the security booth inside the villa's gate, so cold he could barely speak. He saw what was happening outside through a blind spot in the surveillance camera and was terrified.
"Mr. Lu! Gao Tiancheng was sent down from headquarters; he doesn't know the rules! Please don't kill him. I'll take the blame. The Astronomical Bureau will give you a satisfactory explanation!"
Lin Zhen was genuinely afraid.
If Lu Yuan were to kill the head of the operation team of the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals, the situation would completely change. The "absolute obedience" policy established by Elder Li simply could not suppress the anger of the radicals within the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals.
Lu Yuan glanced down at the buzzing communicator.
"Lin Zhen, I remember telling you this."
Lu Yuan's voice came through the communicator into Lin Zhen's ears, chillingly cold.
"Anyone who dares to touch my sister will be utterly destroyed."
The moment the words fell.
Lu Yuan raised his right hand and placed it directly on Gao Tiancheng's crown.
"No......"
Gao Tiancheng only managed to utter one word.
An extremely domineering surge of true essence directly blasted into Gao Tiancheng's sea of consciousness through Lu Yuan's palm.
It wasn't as bloody as crushing a skull.
Gao Tiancheng's body convulsed violently, his eyes instantly losing focus and turning a deathly gray, rolled-back state. His cerebral cortex was forcibly smoothed over by the divine sense of the Mahayana stage, all his memories, intelligence, and even instincts were brutally crushed.
Lu Yuan released his grip.
Gao Tiancheng collapsed to the ground like a limp rag. He was still alive, but for the rest of his life, he would need someone to teach him how to breathe, and he had completely become a vegetable with a perfectly intact body.
He was spared not because of Lin Zhen's pleas.
Rather, Lu Yuan wanted to use this living dead to give a wake-up call to those arrogant old fogies in the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals who thought they controlled everything.
There are consequences to overreaching.
"Clean up the trash here."
Lu Yuan gave instructions to Ye Qingcheng, who was kneeling in the snow.
He ignored the mess on the ground and strode towards the frozen villa.
The protective shield of the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array automatically cracked open the moment he approached.
Lu Yuan stepped into the formation.
The temperature here is more than ten degrees lower than outside. The entire villa's walls are covered by a layer of dark blue ice half a meter thick. This ice is not formed from ordinary water, but is a crystallization of spiritual energy containing the laws of extreme cold.
If an ordinary person were standing here, even just one breath of air would cause their alveoli to freeze and rupture instantly.
Lu Yuan pushed open the heavy door of the villa.
Lin Zhen, wearing his frozen winter coat, huddled in the corner of the entryway, his face covered in ice shards, too weak to even stand up.
"Mr. Lu... Mr. Lu..."
Lin Zhen's lips trembled as he pointed towards the second floor.
"Miss Lu... she can't hold on any longer..."
Lu Yuan didn't say anything, and directly transformed into a blur and rushed up to the second floor.
The door to the master bedroom was completely frozen and shattered.
Lu Qingxue lay quietly on the bed.
The red and white glow that had once enveloped her had vanished. Now, she resembled a perfect ice sculpture. Her skin was a translucent, frosty white, and even her eyelashes were adorned with tiny ice crystals.
The intense heat and blood energy brought by the dragon's main tendon were ultimately too weak.
After forcibly breaking through the seal of the Nine Yin Meridians, the immense medicinal power was completely exhausted. Freed from suppression, the extreme cold energy, dormant for over a decade, surged forth like a burst dam, instantly engulfing her entire body.
Lu Yuan walked to the bedside.
He reached out and placed his fingers on Lu Qingxue's wrist, which was colder than a dead person's.
Her pulse had almost stopped beating. Only deep within her heart pulse remained a faint glimmer of life. If he had returned half an hour later, the chill would have completely frozen and shattered her internal organs.
"elder brother......"
A very faint murmur escaped from Lu Qingxue's frozen lips.
Even while in a coma, she retained an instinctive dependence on Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan's eye muscles twitched violently.
He bit his tongue so hard it bled.
A drop of dark golden life essence blood flowed from his fingertip and landed on Lu Qingxue's brow.
boom!
The essence blood of a Great Ascension stage Immortal Venerable contains unimaginable laws of life. The moment that drop of blood touched Lu Qingxue's brow, it transformed into a layer of golden light, forcibly suppressing the cold energy within her body back to her dantian.
The ice in the room stopped spreading.
Lu Qingxue's complexion finally regained a hint of color, and her breathing became steady.
But this is only a temporary solution, not a permanent one.
The power of the essence blood can only suppress it for a maximum of seven days. After seven days, if nothing can be found to completely neutralize this extreme cold energy, the Nine Yin Profound Meridian will erupt completely, and even Lu Yuan will be helpless then.
"I have to go to the East China Sea."
Lu Yuan withdrew his hand and looked at his younger sister's peaceful sleeping face.
Memories of the old man with the mummified corpse flashed through his mind, along with the information he had just obtained from Richard through soul-searching.
In the high seas of the East China Sea, at that point where the spatial node loosens, lies the Ruins of Return, a secret realm left behind before Earth's spiritual energy was depleted. There, the remains of a fallen dragon reside, within which lies a drop of "Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow."
That is currently the only thing on Earth that can completely cure the Nine Yin Profound Meridian Cold Poison.
Lu Yuan stood up and took out the large fragment of the boundary stone, weighing several tons, from his Nine Heavens Storage Ring.
"Bang."
The heavy boundary stone crashed onto the bedroom floor.
Lu Yuan quickly formed hand seals, and intricate array patterns flew from his fingertips, directly engraving themselves into the stone filled with honeycomb-like holes.
He wanted to forcibly integrate this boundary stone into the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array of Panlong Mountain.