UGB Chapter 164 Remote Explosion and Antarctic Mutation
Chapter 164 Remote Explosion and Antarctic Mutation
The wind stopped.
The air around the Panlongshan villa became incredibly thick at that moment.
The four reclusive elders stood rooted to the spot. They found themselves suddenly unable to control their bodies, unable to move even a single finger.
The elder lowered his head in fear.
He saw that the air around his body was being compressed to such an extreme that it produced visible light refraction, as if he were trapped inside a transparent amber.
What did you do?!
The Second Elder frantically activated the Transcendent Qi within his body, attempting to break free from this invisible constraint.
His internal energy surged wildly through his meridians, causing his skin to swell. But as soon as that energy left his body, it was forced back in by the high-pressure air around him.
Lu Yuan stood several dozen meters away, slowly bringing his right hand's five fingers inward.
He really didn't have much true energy left in his dantian.
There's no need to use true energy to deal with these four good-for-nothings.
The physical strength of a peak Mahayana stage cultivator, even just by clenching their fist, is enough to change the physical pressure of the Earth within a small area.
"No! Don't kill me! I know the secret of that hole in Antarctica!"
The elder roared hysterically.
His eyeballs began to bulge outwards due to the extreme pressure difference, and blood gushed from his nose and eardrums at the same time.
"Too late. The soul has already been searched."
Lu Yuan clenched his fist tightly.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Four muffled, explosive sounds rang out in succession on the open ground.
There were no flashy moves or spectacular lighting effects.
The four reclusive elders at the peak of the Transcendent Realm, along with their Taoist robes, were instantly compressed into a lump by the surrounding collapsing high-pressure air.
The sounds of bones breaking blended together. The internal organs were crushed into a paste.
Four crimson clouds of blood mist exploded in mid-air and were then blown away by the shockwave, leaving not even a piece of flesh larger than a fingernail.
Four fragments of tortoise shell used for protection fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
Lu Yuan walked over, bent down, and picked up one of the pieces.
As soon as the tortoise shell was in his hand, the dark red patterns on it tried to burrow into Lu Yuan's palm.
Lu Yuan sneered, and the blood and qi of his Mahayana stage physical body trembled slightly. That deathly aura was directly shattered into nothingness.
"Trash from the Sirius star system. Treating a pile of junk like it's precious."
Lu Yuan put the four pieces of tortoise shell into his Nine Heavens Storage Ring.
He walked to the ornamental tree.
Lin Zhen's torso was half-covered in blood. His intestines, hanging from the tree bark, were still dripping blood.
Lu Yuan grabbed the steel spear that had pierced Lin Zhen's lung with one hand.
Without the slightest hesitation, he pulled it out in one swift motion.
"Well!"
The intense pain jolted Lin Zhen awake, causing him to open his eyes abruptly and convulse violently.
Lu Yuan casually tossed the spear aside and took out a flawed Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill from his storage ring. The pill had lost 99% of its medicinal efficacy in the void gale.
He crushed the pill with two fingers and sprinkled one-third of the powder directly into the wound on Lin Zhen's stomach.
He pried open Lin Zhen's chin and poured the remaining two-thirds into his mouth.
Swallow it. You won't die.
Lin Zhen's Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed the powder.
The potent medicine exploded within his body instantly. The half-foot-long gash on his stomach began to heal at a visible speed, and even the ruptured intestines retracted automatically.
Lin Zhen leaned against the tree trunk, panting heavily. He looked at the mess on the ground, then glanced at the ridiculously large dragon bone not far away.
"Mr. Lu...did you go to Donghai to demolish someone's ancestral graves?"
Lin Zhen still speaks with a slight lisp, but his life has been saved.
"Go get some building materials. The wall around Panlong Mountain is too thin; it won't keep out the dogs."
Lu Yuan clapped his hands.
He turned and walked toward the villa's mahogany gate.
The gate was covered with dense cracks. These were left by the aftershocks of the broken formation.
Lu Yuan pushed open the door.
The temperature inside the room was frighteningly high. It was practically like a steel furnace running at full power.
Lu Qingxue stood barefoot behind the entryway. She gripped a kitchen cleaver tightly in her hand.
Her skin had taken on an eerie, flushed red hue. It was the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow within her body reacting to the stimulation of the deathly aura outside, frantically releasing heat. Her current physical state was like a locked-down spiritual energy nuclear reactor; even a slight leak of its energy could scorch an ordinary person.
Upon seeing Lu Yuan enter through the door, Lu Qingxue's tense shoulders instantly relaxed.
The cleaver in his hand clattered to the floor.
"elder brother......"
Lu Qingxue ran over barefoot and buried her head in Lu Yuan's arms.
Her body temperature was frighteningly high. If it were an ordinary person, being hugged by her like that would definitely cause blisters to form on their chest instantly.
However, Lu Yuan's Mahayana-stage physical body was completely unaffected by this temperature.
He reached out and ruffled Lin Qingxue's hair, channeling the wisp of his newly recovered true essence into her body to forcibly suppress the restless Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow.
"It's alright now. There were a few rabid dogs barking outside, but I've already taken care of them."
Lu Yuan's voice was gentle, completely different from the murderous god who had just crushed four elders from a distance.
Lu Qingxue snuggled against Lu Yuan, and her burning body temperature began to slowly come down.
She looked up at the huge white bone outside the door.
"Bro, what's that bone that's taller than a building? Is it a dog bone too?"
"That's building material. I'll grind it into powder later and mix it into the cement to raise the yard wall a bit. Then you won't have any rabid dogs bothering you when you plant flowers in the yard."
Just then.
The encrypted communicator in Lu Yuan's pocket began to vibrate wildly.
This channel can only be dialed by a few people with the highest authority in the Astronomical Bureau.
Lu Yuan pressed the answer button, and Old Li's hoarse, almost distorted voice came from the speaker.
"Mr. Lu! Something terrible has happened!"
Old Li's voice was filled with a deep sense of despair and panic. The background noise was filled with piercing alarms and chaotic shouts.
"Did you dismantle anything in the East China Sea?"
Lu Yuan walked to the sofa and sat down, gesturing for Lu Qingxue to pour a glass of water.
"I dismantled the core of an interdimensional teleportation array. While I was at it, I brought back the bones of a Nascent Soul stage dragon to use as building materials. What's up?"
There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone.
Immediately following this were gasps of shock and the sound of a water glass shattering on the floor.
"A dragon in its fusion stage... building materials..."
Old Li forced himself to swallow, pulling his wandering thoughts back on track.
"Mr. Lu, fifteen minutes ago, around the time you left the East China Sea coordinates, the second wave of spiritual energy surged."
Mr. Li speaks extremely fast.
"This operation is ten times larger than the last one that drained the Jiangnan ley lines! The global spiritual energy concentration has instantly surged by fifty percent! In several famous mountains and rivers in the west, hundreds of wild beasts have undergone S-level mutations on the spot and are attacking the outer defenses!"
"That's nothing."
Old Li's voice trembled more and more violently.
"Our space-based satellites captured images showing that the central region of the Antarctic glacier has completely burst open. A massive crater over thirty kilometers in diameter has been created beneath the ice."
Lu Yuan leaned back on the sofa and took a sip of the water that Lu Qingxue handed him.
He already knew about the hole in Antarctica when he searched the soul. It was the true coordinate of the Sirius Star Region, pieced together from countless fragments of boundary stones.
Once the key point of the East China Sea formation is broken, the dragon veins on the Earth's seabed will be revived, and the massive surge of spiritual energy will inevitably overshadow the energy fluctuations that occurred when the Antarctic coordinates were activated.
Those people on the dark web are pretty quick.
"What did you photograph?" Lu Yuan asked casually.
"A dark figure."
Old Li's voice was already trembling with sobs.
"A dark shadow, larger than a mountain range, crawled out of that sinkhole. It emitted no heat and could even absorb electromagnetic waves. Our three research fleets deployed on the outskirts of Antarctica were completely wiped out the moment they sent back their last photograph. Not a single body was recovered."
The sound of typing came from the other end of the phone.
"I have sent the photos to your device via an encrypted channel."
Lu Yuan tapped the screen of the communicator.
The photo is blurry because it was taken from a very far distance and the lens was affected by a strong magnetic field.
But against the backdrop of that vast white ice field, a huge skeleton with six arms, completely black, can be clearly seen lying on the edge of the glacier.
Where the skull was, there were no eyes, only a burning dark red flame.
Lu Yuan looked at the photo.
The Mahayana stage divine sense detected a very familiar fluctuation in that ball of flame.
"A remnant soul of an ancient demon."
Lu Yuan tossed his phone onto the coffee table.
He stood up, walked to the French windows, and looked at the dragon skeleton in the courtyard that was hundreds of meters long.
"Those idiots in the Sirius Starfield. They don't dare come in their true forms, so they just rummage through the garbage heaps of the ancient demons and dump them on Earth. Do they really think Earth is a garbage dump?"
Lu Yuan turned to give instructions to Old Li on the other end of the phone.
"Blockade the Antarctic Ocean. Withdraw all official forces 5,000 nautical miles away. Don't go there to your deaths."
"But Mr. Lu, what if that monster leaves Antarctica..."
"It can't live without it."
Lu Yuan interrupted Elder Li.
"Awakening that skeleton requires an extremely large amount of vital energy. The vital energy collected by the S.H.I.E.L.D. was cut off by me in the East China Sea. It's now a cripple, half-paralyzed. To move, it has to eat people."
Lu Yuan squinted, looking at the dark, heavy clouds in the distance.
"The dark web definitely still has a bunch of living people as blood bags. Once they've fed that skeleton enough, they'll naturally come knocking."
Lu Yuan hung up the phone.
He pushed open the door and walked into the yard.
Lin Zhen was able to stand up with difficulty. Ye Qingcheng also leaned against the corner of the wall, her complexion having improved considerably.
"Lin Zhen, call the headquarters of the Astronomical Bureau."
Lu Yuan pointed to the dragon bone on the ground.
"Bring over ten heavy-duty grinders. Grind these bones into powder."
Lu Yuan gave a cold laugh.
"Since they want to play, then I'll turn this Panlong Mountain into an iron turtle that will make them despair even at the sight of it. Let's see if those demon skeletons are enough for me to dismantle."