UGB Chapter 168 Physical Closure and Cross-Industry Debt Collection
Chapter 168 Physical Closure and Cross-Industry Debt Collection
Lu Yuan stood in the very center of the martial arts stage. The white marble floor tiles beneath his feet were soaked with William's blood.
He lifted his right foot. Without any unnecessary movements, he simply stepped down straight down.
The entire solitary peak, from its summit to its midsection, emitted a dull, cracking sound.
A two-meter-wide, pitch-black crack tore and spread along the sole of his shoe, splitting the ancient martial arts holy land, which had existed for over a hundred years, in two. The rubble and soil, losing their support, collapsed violently inward.
With his hands in his windbreaker pockets, Lu Yuan jumped straight down into the abyss-like crevice.
Gravity pulled him rapidly down into the darkness. The wind whistled past his ears, sharp enough to pierce his eardrums.
They fell about 500 meters. The surrounding rock strata began to change. The originally grayish-brown soil turned into a kind of translucent black glass. The temperature in the air was so low that it could freeze an ordinary person's blood into ice crystals on the spot.
This is the trace left by the Wang family in Beijing who detonated a 5,000-ton tactical nuclear bomb. The high temperature of tens of millions of degrees burned the earth's crust into glass, and the death energy leaking from the underground spiritual veins tempered this glass into a highly toxic and cold substance.
boom.
Lu Yuan's military boots stepped on a layer of viscous liquid.
in the end.
This is directly below the ruins of the Heavenly Prison. It's a full kilometer below the ground.
Before me was an underground cavern roughly the size of a basketball court. In the very center was a stagnant, icy pool. The water was a thick, inky color, with a layer of white, oily substance floating on top.
This smell is even stronger than the sewers in a slaughterhouse that have been stagnant for half a month.
Lu Yuan's breathing didn't even change. His gaze passed over the icy pool and locked onto a bronze door embedded in the opposite stone wall.
The door was three zhang tall. Its surface was covered with dried, dark red blood grooves. From the cracks in the door, a steady stream of Yin energy from the cultivation world, mixed with the smell of sulfur, was spewing out. In the very center of the door, a copper plate the size of a palm was missing.
Splash!
The surface of the cold pool suddenly split open from the middle without any warning.
A monster nearly three meters tall crawled out of the ink-black stagnant water.
Its body was covered in chunks of rotting flesh, its skeleton completely defying human physiology, its spine bent outwards, and its limbs as thick as bridge piers. Most bizarrely, it had seven or eight different human faces growing on its chest. These faces, both male and female, were all twisting and struggling in agony.
This is not some missing old man from the Lu family at all.
This is a mutated Yin Corpse, bred by those fools from the Wang and Ye families in the capital by hybridizing human essence with nuclear radiation. They think they've mastered the secret to immortality, but in reality, they're just raising a living high-energy battery for the interdimensional teleportation array in the Sirius Star Region.
The corpse's cloudy, pupil-less eyes were fixed on Lu Yuan. It could smell the fresh scent of blood and life on a living person.
Roar!
The corpse let out a roar that sounded inhuman. Its massive body stirred up a foul-smelling gust of wind, spanning dozens of meters, and its two black-haired claws came straight for Lu Yuan's head.
Monsters of this caliber, if placed in the outside world, would be enough to crush those few reclusive elders of ancient martial arts and chew them up like snacks.
Lu Yuan didn't even take his hands out of his pockets.
He simply stared indifferently at the gaping maw that was gradually enlarging.
"Get out of my way."
The laws of heaven and earth in the Mahayana stage forcibly intervened in this small physical space.
Water control techniques.
The corpse froze mid-air without warning.
Its viscous blood, a mixture of nuclear radiation and yin energy, was forcibly extracted from its blood vessels in a fraction of a second. Tens of thousands of black blood droplets seeped out from its decaying pores, gathering in mid-air to form a black blood sphere the size of a water tank.
Without the support of bodily fluids, the massive, three-meter-tall body of the corpse resembled a punctured plastic bag. Its shriveled muscles and bones pressed together, emitting a series of crackling sounds like firecrackers.
pat.
A desiccated corpse, its marrow drained, crashed down at Lu Yuan's feet, turning into a pile of gray powder.
Lu Yuan didn't even glance at the pile of powder. He walked straight to the bronze door.
The eerie energy seeping from the crack in the door grew increasingly dense, even condensing in mid-air into a blurry, gigantic ghost face.
"Indigenous people of Earth."
A grand, cold voice, brimming with extreme arrogance, drifted through the crack in the door from the distant starry sky.
Lu Yuan recognized that voice. It was the same voice that had arrogantly referred to Earth's creatures as ants when he was searching the soul of the old man whose neck he had snapped. The Seventh Elder of the Blood River Sect in the Sirius Star Region.
"You actually managed to find this place. It seems that Zhang Chongyang, that good-for-nothing, is already dead at your hands."
The Seventh Elder's voice echoed in the underground cavern, causing the surrounding black glazed rock walls to shed dust.
"I must admit, in this wasteland where spiritual energy is depleted, your ability to cultivate such a physique is truly exceptional. Your physical strength even surpasses that of the Golden Core stage sword cultivators I have ever seen."
The ghostly face in mid-air looked down at Lu Yuan.
"But this is meaningless. The teleportation array's base is already saturated with death energy. The Nine Yin Mark within your sister's body is also fully formed. If even a wisp of my divine consciousness were to descend, the entire Earth would become a lowly pasture for the Blood River Sect."
The Seventh Elder's voice carried a hint of charity.
"Hand over the half of the key you hold. I may make an exception and accept you as a disciple. I will grant you the unparalleled opportunity to escape this perilous place and journey to the Sirius Star Region. This is your only chance in this life to escape this well."
Lu Yuan took out two copper pieces from the pocket of his down jacket.
One piece was left behind by his mother at the scene of the car accident. The other piece was just dug out of Zhang Chongyang's chest.
The broken edges of the two copper pieces fit together perfectly. The intricate star patterns on them emitted a faint, dark red glow.
Lu Yuan fiddled with the copper piece in his hand, then looked up at the ghost face.
"Playing tricks on someone else's turf. Is your Blood River Sect's rule simply to kill across borders with empty words?"
The ghost face contorted violently. The Seventh Elder clearly hadn't expected this Earth native to dare speak to him like that.
"How dare you! You have no idea what level of being you are facing!"
"I know."
Lu Yuan joined the two copper pieces together perfectly.
"A bunch of blind men who can't even calculate cross-dimensional coordinates properly, relying solely on planting cold poison in someone's womb for location. A worthless sect that can't even understand the laws of space when setting up a teleportation array, relying entirely on absorbing the resentment of the dead to get by."
Lu Yuan pressed the assembled copper pieces directly into the groove in the center of the bronze door.
"Your lousy formation is worse than the door to the outhouse used by outer disciples in the cultivation world."
Click.
The precise click of the mechanisms meshing together sounded unusually crisp in the silent underground cavity.
The dark red blood groove on the bronze door was instantly activated. Blinding red light surged wildly along the array patterns. A muffled rumble came from the crack in the door, and the entire door began to slowly open inward.
"Stubborn fool!"
The Seventh Elder's wild laughter came from behind the door.
"You think you can close the door by pressing the key in? This is a one-way connection array! Once the key is returned to its original position, it will drain all life force within a hundred miles to maintain the stability of the passage! You're courting death!"
A powerful suction force surged out from the crack in the door.
The icy water in the underground cavern was swept upwards, forming a waterspout that was sucked into the doorway. The surrounding rock walls began to collapse in large sections.
Just as the suction force was about to touch Lu Yuan's body.
Lu Yuan formed an extremely ancient hand seal with his hands.
"One-way guidance?"
Lu Yuan let out a cold laugh. His peak Mahayana stage true essence flowed through the Yongquan acupoint on the sole of his foot and poured into the remaining spiritual veins underground without reservation.
"Today I'll teach you what it means to go in both directions."
boom!
The violent energy that had been sucked into the door seemed to hit an insurmountable wall of sighs the moment it touched Lu Yuan's true essence.
The laws of heaven and earth during the Mahayana stage directly altered the star array patterns on the bronze gate.
Lu Yuan wasn't closing the door at all. He was reversing the energy flow of the entire interdimensional array!
The death energy, nuclear radiation, and toxic blood of mutated corpses extracted from the past of Earth, along with Lu Yuan's extremely domineering Mahayana stage true essence, were forcibly turned around in the array passage.
Following the network cable, the data flowed back to the Sirius star system at the speed of light!
"What did you do! This is impossible! A formation reversal of this level... You're a Nascent Soul stage monster? No! That's not right! The quality of your true essence..."
From behind the door came the Seventh Elder's scream filled with extreme panic.
That arrogant demeanor from moments before vanished completely. It was replaced by utter despair, as if facing the gaping maw of the abyss.
The Sirius star system is located countless light-years away.
Inside the natal cave of the seventh elder of the Blood River Sect, the gaunt old man, who was in seclusion, suddenly opened his eyes.
A mouthful of black blood mixed with pieces of internal organs was sprayed directly onto the white jade table in front of him.
His protective aura, which he was so proud of, was torn to shreds like paper. A destructive energy mixed with nuclear radiation and extremely violent true essence crashed directly into his sea of consciousness through the spatial passage.
Click.
The life tablet hanging on the wall of the cave had a deep crack in the middle, revealing the bone.
He didn't even have time to utter a complete scream before he collapsed to the ground, his cultivation level dropping by a major realm on the spot.
Meanwhile, on this side of the Earth...
Lu Yuan stared at the bronze door, now devoid of energy and tightly shut once more. The intricate star array patterns on the door had completely lost their luster, turning it into a piece of scrap metal.
"Tearing apart a distracted opponent isn't enough. The main body should also cough up blood a couple of times to be considered polite."
Lu Yuan pried the copper plate embedded in the door off with his five fingers.
The indestructible starry metal emitted a series of ear-piercing scraping sounds in his palm. It was instantly crushed into a shapeless lump of metal, which he casually tossed into his storage ring.
The hidden danger in the capital has been completely eliminated. Without the coordination of this underground formation, even if the Lord of the Heavenly Wolf Sect shouts himself hoarse, he won't be able to stick a single finger into China.
Lu Yuan turned around, preparing to return to the ground the way he came.
Just then.
The black chain deep within his consciousness, representing the Heavenly Dao Life-Stealing Curse, suddenly tightened without warning.
A faint, yet identical, fluctuation of starry sky array patterns, just like the one on the bronze door earlier, emanated from the direction of the East Sea.
Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.
He recalled the intelligence Lin Zhen had previously reported.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. consortium has assembled three thousand top assassins and Awakened Ones, gathering them aboard a super cruise ship in the high seas of the East China Sea. Meanwhile, the demon skeleton beneath the Antarctic glacier is racing across the ocean floor, preparing to receive this blood sacrifice.
"I see."
Lu Yuan squinted, looking at the endless darkness above his head.
The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion's digging of underground formations in the capital was a cover. The Shield Consortium's threat of dirty bombs against him was also a cover.
Even the demon skeleton that escaped from Antarctica was just a moving decoy.
Their real trump card isn't on land at all.
The high-dimensional energy overflow point in the East China Sea high seas area. This is the high-energy radiation source that the official Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals has always believed. That place is not a naturally formed Ruins of Return at all.
That was the place where the Sirius Star Region forcibly suppressed Earth's last underwater dragon vein using the skeleton of a Nascent Soul stage dragon. The demon skeleton that escaped from Antarctica wasn't there to devour people. It was there to remove the plug, allowing Earth's spiritual energy to leak out completely, thus forcibly opening a second interdimensional teleportation array on the seabed.
The life force of three thousand martial artists, plus the death energy of twelve high-yield dirty bombs, would be enough to blast the entire East Sea into a void that even the laws of Heaven cannot interfere with.
"He's got a good plan."
Lu Yuan patted the dust off his windbreaker.
"Unfortunately, you've run into a demolition office that doesn't follow the rules."
Lu Yuan's legs were slightly bent.
next second.
He was launched into the air like a cannonball. His ferocious physical strength shattered the thousand-meter-thick layer of rock and the glazed ruins above him.
At the ruins of the Wudaotai (Martial Arts Platform) on the outskirts of Beijing.
The few agents from the Extraordinary Immortals Bureau who stayed behind to clean up the battlefield were trembling as they covered the thirteen coffins with waterproof tarpaulins.
A localized earthquake of about magnitude 5 on the Richter scale suddenly occurred on the ground.
Immediately afterwards, a black afterimage burst forth from the depths of the earth, sending shards of white marble flying everywhere.
The afterimage didn't linger in mid-air. It didn't even change direction. It created a sonic boom in the air and hurtled towards the eastern coastline.
Its speed was so great that it left a visible white shockwave in the sky.
An agent dropped the tarpaulin he was holding. He stammered as he pressed the walkie-talkie.
"Headquarters... Mr. Lu is out."
"Has he gone back to Jiangzhou?" Lin Zhen's anxious voice came from the other end of the walkie-talkie.
"No. His flight path was a straight line. The direction was... the East China Sea, the high seas."
There was a complete silence on the walkie-talkie for a full half minute.
Lin Zhen's hoarse voice finally came through again.
"Notify Elder Li to shut down all civilian radar along the East China Sea coast. Transfer all satellite monitoring authority to the highest-encryption line of the National Space Administration."
"Tell the East China Sea Fleet: All ships must retreat 300 nautical miles. Regardless of the magnitude of the tsunami or solar radiation that occurs on the high seas, no one is allowed to fire. No one is allowed to approach."
Lin Zhen took a deep breath.
"He's going to reclaim land from the sea."