UGB Chapter 162 Physical Tooth Extraction and the Undersea Dragon Vein
Chapter 162 Physical Tooth Extraction and the Undersea Dragon Vein
The water pressure at a depth of 10,000 meters in the ocean can instantly crush a main battle tank into a flat iron disc.
But the thousand-meter-long skeleton of a Nascent Soul stage dragon slowly straightened halfway up under this immense pressure. In its empty eye sockets, two eerie green flames illuminated the surrounding cold seawater, turning it a ghastly green.
The water flow was churned by the massive skeleton, forming eddies and currents powerful enough to crush a nuclear submarine.
"Ignorant natives."
The old man's distraction transmitted the sound directly into Lu Yuan's sea of consciousness through the vibration of his bones.
"So what if you destroyed the light barrier? This wisp of my spirit has been nurtured within the remains of this Nascent Soul stage dragon for a hundred years. Under the extreme water pressure of this Ruins Secret Realm, even if your physical body is extraordinary, without true essence to protect you, you will still obediently become food on this altar."
Lu Yuan stepped on the soft mud without even raising his head.
He looked at the dark red array patterns hanging on the dragon's skeleton and quickly calculated in his mind.
This skeleton is as hard as a mid-grade spiritual weapon; if my true essence were still intact, I could crush it with a single finger. Now that my dantian is completely empty, it would be too much of a waste of energy to smash it piece by piece with my physical body. I need to find the weak points in the joints.
"Borrowing a dead person's skeleton to wear, and treating it like some kind of treasure."
Lu Yuan's voice also transformed into a shockwave of divine sense, retorting without any politeness.
"With your taste, you'd only be fit to scavenge for trash in a mass grave in the Sirius Star Region."
The two eerie green will-o'-the-wisps suddenly contracted inward.
The old man was clearly enraged by those words.
The dragon skeleton opened its enormous maw, large enough to swallow a destroyer, and with a tidal wave of water, it snapped down at Lu Yuan. The water pressure at a depth of ten thousand meters was pushed by this force, forming a visible white high-pressure water blade that sliced right in front of Lu Yuan a step ahead of time.
Lu Yuan did not dodge.
He bent his knees slightly and placed his feet directly into the rocky seabed.
Just as the giant mouth was about to close, Lu Yuan raised his hands, one above the other, and forcefully held up the upper and lower jaws of the dragon skeleton.
boom!
A white underwater shockwave exploded outwards from the two of them.
The seabed rocks within a few hundred meters were shattered, and turbid silt instantly engulfed the area.
The old man's distraction echoed arrogantly within the skeleton.
"An ant trying to shake a tree! Crush it!"
With the enhancement of the formation, the biting force of the skeleton's upper and lower jaws increased exponentially, and hundreds of thousands of tons of force pressed down on Lu Yuan's arms.
The mud and sand dispersed.
Lu Yuan stood still, the seabed rock beneath his feet had collapsed more than ten meters.
But his hands, supporting the dragon's bone jaw, didn't even bend. The bone density of his Mahayana-stage body displayed a resilience that could completely shatter geophysics.
The two rows of sharp dragon teeth got stuck in Lu Yuan's palms and shoulders, making a screeching sound, but they didn't even scratch his fair skin.
"Is that all the strength you have?"
Lu Yuan raised his head and looked at the will-o'-the-wisp that was so close to him.
"He's out here trying to possess other people without even having enough to eat. He's making a fool of himself."
Before the old man could react, Lu Yuan suddenly released the dragon's upper jaw with his right hand.
The enormous biting force caused an instantaneous imbalance.
Using this force, Lu Yuan twisted his body strangely underwater and directly entered the mouth of the dragon skeleton.
His goal was very clear.
Instead of smashing those tough bones, they went straight for the black array-patterned stone pillar nailed to the back of the dragon's skull.
That was the core of the formation, and also the hiding place where the old man was distracted.
"Insolence! Get out!"
The old man realized Lu Yuan's intentions, and a hint of panic finally crept into his voice.
The dragon skeleton began to tumble wildly on the seabed, its thick bony tail lashing out like a whip, causing half of a small active volcano on the seabed to collapse. The scalding magma and the cold seawater came into contact, erupting into a large amount of high-temperature steam.
Lu Yuan moved through the skeleton as if walking on flat ground.
He gripped the gap between the cervical vertebrae with one hand, ignoring the terrifying centrifugal force caused by the rolling of the skeleton, and darted to the back of the skull in a few steps.
The black stone pillar, over two meters in diameter, was like a giant nail, firmly embedded in the seam. Dark red runes shimmered on its surface, continuously drawing upon some kind of power from the depths of the sea.
Lu Yuan leaned closer for a look.
He finally understands now.
This Ruins of Return is not a natural relic at all; it's a blood-sucking pump created by the Blood River Sect. That stone pillar is not only absorbing the life force sent by the Shield Consortium, but it is also forcibly suppressing the only remaining underwater dragon vein on Earth.
The residual aura of the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow was seeping down the stone pillar, serving to neutralize the backlash from the dragon vein's violent outburst.
"Using the lifeline of Earth as fuel for your interdimensional teleportation, you're really shrewd."
Lu Yuan grabbed the thick black stone pillar with both hands.
The power of the physical body at the Mahayana stage erupted without reservation at this moment.
Click!
The extremely piercing sound of bones cracking echoed in the deep sea.
Lu Yuan didn't try to pull out the pillar. Instead, he used it as a crowbar, grabbing it with both hands and forcefully pulling it to the side.
Hundreds of thousands of tons of force directly impacted the dragon's skull.
The enormous dragon bone, along with the ghostly fire burning inside, was forcibly broken off from the cervical spine by Lu Yuan!
The massive skeleton, now headless, stopped rolling instantly, crashing heavily onto the seabed silt like a pile of scattered building blocks, kicking up clouds of dust.
"ah!"
The old man, distracted, let out a piercing scream.
The eerie green flame burst forth from the shattered skull, transforming into a hideous human face, attempting to escape upstream with the water flow.
Lu Yuan casually tossed away the skull, which was bigger than a truck.
With a heavy tap of his toes on the seabed rock, he was like a torpedo launched from its barrel, instantly catching up with the will-o'-the-wisp.
With his five fingers spread, he pinched the will-o'-the-wisp's throat.
"Weren't you just going to burn me alive? Why are you running away?"
Lu Yuan's fingers gradually tightened.
Without any further words, the drop of restored pale golden true essence pierced into the ghost fire through the fingertip, and the Mahayana stage Soul Searching Technique was forcibly activated.
The will-o'-the-wisp struggled violently in Lu Yuan's hand, emitting a hissing sound like boiling water.
A jumble of fragmented memories flooded into Lu Yuan's mind.
Lu Yuan filtered out the useless nonsense and precisely extracted the information he wanted.
This old thing's footprint on Earth is far larger than it appears on the surface.
The S.H.I.E.L.D.'s collection of those patterned antique boundary stones around the world wasn't for energy extraction at all. It was bait deliberately laid out by the old man.
The real trump card lies beneath the Antarctic glaciers.
Using the resources of the S.H.I.E.L.D., the old man transported all the collected Worldstone fragments to Antarctica, attempting to piece together a complete coordinate system for the ancient demon race. Once the coordinates were complete, even if the interdimensional teleportation array was destroyed, the Sirius star system could directly deploy an advance force via interstellar jump.
The Dragon Locking Well, which Tao Xuan guards in the underground air-raid shelter of the Jiangnan Astronomical Bureau, is actually an energy vent valve at the Antarctic coordinate.
"So this is where I was waiting."
Lu Yuan gave a cold laugh.
He exerted force on his wrist.
Snapped!
He crushed the will-o'-the-wisp directly, turning it into specks of green light that completely dissipated into the cold seawater.
The last link in the cross-border passage was physically severed.
Just as the will-o'-the-wisp dissipated.
A huge crack suddenly appeared on the surface of the black array-patterned stone pillar that had been freed from suppression.
The East China Sea's seabed dragon vein, suppressed for thousands of years, sensed the loosening of the seal and emitted a deep, rumbling sound that shook the entire ocean plate.
Rumble!
The seabed rock strata began to collapse on a large scale. An extremely pure and concentrated spiritual energy, almost liquefied, surged out wildly through the cracks.
This spiritual energy mixed with the cold seawater, instantly triggering a violent physical reaction.
The seawater boiled over a large area.
A massive waterspout, over 100 meters in diameter, formed on the seabed and surged toward the surface with devastating force.
Lu Yuan looked at the surging spiritual energy and pondered in his heart.
This second wave of spiritual energy surged quite violently; things are probably going to get unsettled in Jiangzhou again. I need to hurry back and reinforce the defenses around my sister.
He turned around and looked at the pile of broken bones of a Nascent Soul stage dragon on the ground.
"Since we're already here, we can't leave empty-handed."
Lu Yuan walked over and grabbed the main spine of the dragon, which was hundreds of meters long, with both hands.
Although this thing has been drained of its vitality, the material itself is still there. If we take it back, grind it up, and mix it into cement to reinforce the exterior walls of the Panlong Mountain villa, even if a nuclear bomb hits the wall head-on, it won't even leave a white mark.
He dragged the hundreds-of-meters-long, pale bone with one hand, and then exerted force with both legs.
boom!
The seabed rock strata were trampled, creating a large pit tens of meters deep.
Lu Yuan, holding onto the dragon bone, followed the soaring waterspout and rapidly rose towards the surface of the sea.
at the same time.
The Deepsea-1 drilling platform on the sea surface.
The entire platform was shaking violently. The thick alloy supports creaked under the strain.
Inside the control room, the flashing red alarm lights made one's eyes sting.
Blake gripped the edge of the control panel tightly, staring at the completely out-of-control energy data on the holographic radar, his face trembling.
"What exactly happened on the seabed?! Where is the data transmitted by the sonar detector?!"
The radar operator was sweating profusely, his hands frantically typing on the keyboard.
"Sir! The sonar array has overloaded and burned out! A magnitude 12 or higher underwater earthquake has occurred at a depth of 12,000 meters! An unknown, massive energy is rapidly approaching the surface!"
Blake stared at the increasingly large red high-energy reaction zone on the screen.
"What about that Chinese monster? Is he dead?"
"The signal disappeared five minutes ago; it was probably torn to pieces by the high pressure and earthquake on the seabed... Wait! Sir, look!"
The operator pointed to a corner of the screen, and his voice suddenly rose eight octaves.
In the surveillance footage.
Less than 500 meters from the platform, a huge bulge suddenly rose from the sea.
Followed by.
boom!
Thousands of tons of seawater were blasted into the sky.
A black figure, dragging a massive, pale, and eerie skeleton hundreds of meters long, burst from the sea!
The bone gleamed with a chilling light in the sunlight, its enormous size even surpassing that of a SHIELD corvette.
Lu Yuan hovered in mid-air.
He held one end of the dragon bone in one hand and glanced at the Abyss No. 1 platform not far away.
"The package has arrived."
Without any unnecessary movements, Lu Yuan swung his arm in a wide arc and smashed the hundreds-of-meters-long dragon bone directly towards the platform.
woo-
The enormous bone tore through the air, producing a whooshing sound like a train whistle.
Blake stood behind the bulletproof glass, staring blankly at the pale bone that rapidly magnified in his field of vision.
"Fire...fire..."
He hadn't finished shouting.
Boom!
The dragon bone was like a divine whip descending from the sky, striking heavily in the center of the Abyss No. 1 platform.
The two-meter-thick special alloy deck was as brittle as a soda cracker in front of this fused bone.
The entire platform was smashed in half!
The helipad, cranes, and close-in weapon systems were all reduced to twisted scrap metal in an instant. Countless fireballs erupted from the broken pipes, turning the sea surface a fiery red.
Lu Yuan didn't even glance at the mercenaries struggling in the sea of fire.
He shouldered the intact dragon bone, turned around and transformed into a blur, soaring into the sky towards China.
The rear half of the control room was hanging precariously on a tilted alloy support.
Blake was trapped under a piece of collapsed ceiling material, with several broken ribs and blood gushing from his mouth.
He watched the red dot on the radar gradually recede into the distance, the fear in his eyes completely solidified.
"Monster... This is what the files described as an incomprehensible dimensional crushing..."
Just then, the highest-level communicator on his wrist suddenly lit up.
Instead of the North American headquarters logo, a blood-red scale pattern was displayed on the screen.
That's the exclusive badge of the Dark Web's Supreme Judgment Council.
Blake pressed the answer button with trembling hands.
A mechanical voice, processed by a voice changer and devoid of any emotion, came from the communicator.
"Inspector Black, we have received the data from Abyss One. The S.H.I.E.L.D.'s investment has failed."
Blake coughed twice and spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.
"You bunch of lunatics on the dark web... he dismantled the core of the formation... we're all finished..."
"No. The game has only just begun."
The mechanical voice ignored Blake's miserable state and immediately issued a new command.
"The surge of spiritual energy triggered by the rupture of the array's core has already masked the energy fluctuations that activated the Antarctic base's coordinates. Our advance team has successfully awakened the first ancient demon skeleton beneath the glacier."
Blake was stunned.
"Based on our analysis, that Chinese man will definitely return to Jiangzhou to protect his weakness. The thirteen coffins we left for him at the martial arts arena in the capital are just a smokescreen."
The mechanical voice paused for a moment, then dropped a bombshell that sent a chill down Blake's spine.
"Three hours ago, the remaining four reclusive elders of the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance secretly infiltrated Panlong Mountain in Jiangzhou with the Kunlun branch tortoise shell. The signal jamming network set up by Lin Zhen for the Celestial Surveillance Bureau has been physically cut off from the inside by our people."
"If he rushes back now, he can only make it in time to collect the bodies on that mountain."
Communication was cut off.
Blake stared at the black screen, then suddenly grinned, letting out an extremely mournful and desperate laugh.
The waves rolled.
On the other side, in Jiangzhou.
The sky outside the Panlongshan villa had become so gloomy that it resembled a sponge soaked in ink.
Ye Qingcheng clutched the bleeding wound on her chest and leaned against the white marble gate of the villa.
On the bluestone path in front of her lay the bodies of more than a dozen special operations team members from the Observatory Bureau.
Lin Zhen was pinned to a nearby ornamental tree by a steel spear, his fate unknown.
Four elderly men dressed in tattered Taoist robes stood less than ten meters from the villa, each holding a fragment of tortoise shell that emitted a strange fluctuation.
The defensive light barrier of the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array was flickering with an extremely unstable red light due to the interference of the four tortoise shells, as if it would completely collapse at any moment.
The leading elder looked at Ye Qingcheng, who was gritting her teeth and trying to hold on behind the door.
"Ye Qingcheng, you traitor to the martial arts world!"
The elder handed the tortoise shell in his hand forward.
"Once we drain the Nine Yin Meridians from this little girl's body, let's see what that guy surnamed Lu will use to fill that hole in Antarctica!"