UGB Chapter 8 Breaking Through the Iron Laws of This World
Chapter 8 Breaking Through the Iron Laws of This World
The western suburbs of Jiangzhou. Panlong Mountain winding road.
The torrential rain was like countless whips, lashing the asphalt road surface.
Zhao Tianlong lay face down in the mud. His custom-made Armani suit, worth six figures, had been torn to shreds by the thorns and gravel along the way.
He did not take a car.
After seeing the 137 green dots representing the world's top assassins on the tablet instantly go out, he kicked the driver out of the car and, barefoot, began to climb the mountain, prostrating himself with each step.
The skin and flesh on his knees were long worn away. The white bone fragments were faintly visible under the rain.
But he dared not stop.
The dignity of Jiangzhou's richest man is utterly worthless in the face of absolute violence. His mind is now consumed by thoughts of his son, lying in a hospital bed, being devoured by ants.
"Master Lu..."
Zhao Tianlong's voice was hoarse from shouting. He swallowed the rainwater, his mouth filled with the metallic taste of rust.
He climbed to the collapsed, solid copper gate of the villa.
The strong smell of blood assaulted my nostrils.
Zhao Tianlong experienced a violent spasm in his stomach. He lay face down in the puddle and vomited up the expensive Wagyu beef he had eaten that evening, along with the bile.
There wasn't a single intact body in the courtyard.
The more than one hundred elite members of the Jiangzhou Martial Arts Association were all reduced to minced meat embedded in the cracks between the floor tiles. As for the one hundred and thirty-seven assassins from the dark web, all that remained were puddles of foul-smelling pus.
A pair of light blue cloth shoes stopped in front of Zhao Tianlong's line of sight.
Not a single drop of mud or water remained on the shoes.
Zhao Tianlong shuddered violently and scrambled over to grab the ankle of the shoe tightly.
"Mr. Lu!!"
"Ancestor Lu!!"
Zhao Tianlong slammed his head against the shards of glass. His forehead was instantly pierced and bloodied.
"I was wrong... I was blinded by greed!!"
He shivered as he pulled a waterproof document bag, warmed by his body heat, from his pocket and held it high above his head.
"This is the transfer document for all of the Zhao family's assets... absolute control over seven commercial centers and three listed companies in Jiangzhou, plus a bearer account in a Swiss bank!!"
"Twelve hundred billion!! It's all yours!!"
"If you'll be merciful and remove the curse mark from my son's forehead, I, Zhao Tianlong, will be your dog from now on!!"
Lu Yuan stood under the eaves, letting Zhao Tianlong wipe the blood on his trouser leg.
He lowered his eyelids and looked at the tycoon who had dominated Jiangzhou for half his life.
"120 billion."
Lu Yuan's voice was completely devoid of any emotional fluctuation in the rainy night.
"In the eyes of the world, this amount of money could buy half of Jiangzhou."
"But here, you don't even qualify to buy a single hair of my sister's."
Zhao Tianlong's hand, which was holding the document bag high, froze in mid-air.
He looked into Lu Yuan's eyes, which were completely devoid of any emotion. It wasn't the look of a person looking at another person; it was the look of a butcher looking at a piece of rotten meat on a chopping board.
Money is useless.
There is actually a kind of fate in this world that money can't buy.
The fear in Zhao Tianlong's eyes was instantly replaced by extreme madness. He abruptly released his grip, took two steps back like a mad dog, and roared at the top of his lungs.
"You can't kill me!! You can't kill me!!"
"You think you're invincible just because you wiped out the Chu family and crushed the Jiangzhou Martial Arts Association?!"
"The copper pieces in that shabby safe in the Chu family are something the royal family in the capital specifically requested!! I transfer one billion yuan to that account in the capital every year just to do things for them!!"
"If you mess with me, those powerful figures in the capital will skin you alive!! Your sister will be executed along with you!!"
Lu Yuan's hand, which was originally about to crush Zhao Tianlong's skull, stopped in mid-air.
The royal family of the capital.
The copper piece lost at the scene of the Chu family's car accident.
The line finally clicked.
My mother's death wasn't an accident caused by drunk driving or speeding. It was a premeditated murder targeting the fragments of the Sirius star system's coordinates.
The Zhao family were the executors. The royal family of the capital were the masterminds behind the scenes.
A cold smile appeared on Lu Yuan's lips.
"The royal family of the capital."
"They've been in heaven for so long that they've forgotten what they even are."
"When I return from the East China Sea, I will personally go to the capital and crush their bones inch by inch."
Lu Yuan formed his five fingers into a claw and grabbed at the air above Zhao Tianlong's head.
"arrest."
Zhao Tianlong's roar came to an abrupt halt.
His eyes bulged outwards, and the corners of his eyes ruptured instantly. Thick, dark red blood gushed from his seven orifices.
A grayish-white soul was forcibly pulled out from the top of the head.
Lu Yuan's Mahayana stage divine sense directly and forcefully crashed into the depths of Zhao Tianlong's soul.
Fragments of memory flashed through Lu Yuan's mind like a revolving lantern.
Luxury cars. Women. Bribery.
Finally, the image focuses on an encrypted satellite phone number and a remittance code from Beijing.
enough.
A cluster of dark red Samadhi True Fire emerged from Lu Yuan's fingertips.
"boom!!"
Zhao Tianlong's soul couldn't even withstand half a second of the true fire before it was instantly burned to nothingness.
The soulless body slammed straight into the mud and water, quickly decomposing into a pool of foul-smelling blood that seeped into the ground of Panlong Mountain.
A reward of ten billion US dollars. The century-old empire of Jiangzhou's richest man.
And so it turned into fertilizer to nourish the Spirit Gathering Array.
Lu Yuan turned and walked into the villa.
Second-floor bedroom.
The Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array was still operating frantically. However, the ice shell on Lu Qingxue's body had already become half an inch thick.
The extreme cold energy of the Nine Yin Profound Vein is devouring the spiritual energy of the entire mountain to strengthen itself.
We must obtain the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow from the Ruins of the East Sea immediately.
Lu Yuan walked to the bedside and extended his right hand.
Align your palm with the storage ring.
"out."
Suddenly, the fine cracks on the surface of the storage ring burst forth with a blinding flash of light. The surrounding air emitted a deafening, shattering sound.
A broken bronze cauldron phantom was forcibly pulled out of the void rift by Lu Yuan.
The Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron.
Even though it was just a phantom image of the spirit in its slumbering state, the moment it appeared, the space inside the villa visibly distorted.
Lu Yuan pressed the illusory image of the small cauldron downwards.
"town."
The bronze cauldron sank directly into Lu Qingxue's brow.
The rapidly spreading chilling energy was instantly suppressed and forced back into the depths of the dantian, as if it had encountered its natural enemy.
"With this cauldron protecting you, no one below the Divine Realm can harm you in the slightest."
Lu Yuan withdrew his hand.
He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and pushed open the glass door.
A fierce wind whipped up torrential rain that lashed at our faces.
Lu Yuan stepped onto the edge of the terrace with one foot and rose up from the ground.
Without relying on any external force, he smashed through the thick curtain of rain, transforming into a long blue rainbow that shot straight into the night sky east of Jiangzhou.
Target: High waters of the East China Sea.
……
The capital city. One thousand meters underground. The headquarters of the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals.
The red lights in the main control room were so bright they made it hard to open your eyes.
"Bang!!"
Long Yuan kicked over the synthetic resin workbench in front of him.
The scar on his face twisted into a centipede shape due to extreme tension.
"What did you say?! Mach 10?!"
Long Yuan grabbed the researcher in the white coat by the collar and spat in his face.
"Even the most advanced hypersonic missiles today travel at this speed!! You're telling me this is the trajectory of a single person?!"
The researcher's hands flew across the keyboard. On the screen, a high-energy red dot representing Lu Yuan was traversing the map of China in a straight line.
"Chief... radar data doesn't lie. It completely ignores air resistance and the sound barrier..."
The researcher swallowed hard and pointed to the coordinate system in the lower right corner of the large screen.
"His target isn't Beijing...it's the high seas area of the East China Sea. Coordinates: XX North latitude, XX East longitude."
Long Yuan's head buzzed.
That coordinate.
Guixu Trench.
In the past two weeks, the sea temperature in that area has risen abnormally, and sounds resembling the heartbeat of an ancient behemoth have even been heard from the seabed.
The Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals had long ago designated that area as a top-secret S-level zone.
"Immediately connect to the East China Sea First Fleet command center!!"
Long Yuan shoved the researcher aside and snatched the red secure phone from the control panel.
"Are the dark web's carrier strike groups still confronting us in international waters?!"
There was static on the other end of the phone, followed by the fleet commander's urgent voice.
"Report to Director Long!! The 'Leviathan' nuclear-powered aircraft carrier group from the Dark Web has crossed the median line of international waters!! They have deployed three Class A ability users and a fully armed deep-sea submersible, preparing to forcibly dive and probe the energy source!!"
Longyuan almost crushed his molars.
"Detect my ass!!"
"The entire fleet must retreat immediately!! Withdraw 100 nautical miles from the Guixu Sea area!! No!! 200 nautical miles!!"
The commander on the other end of the phone was stunned.
"Director Long, are we going to give way on our own turf? Those lunatics on the dark web will empty the entire ocean floor!!"
"You know nothing!!"
Long Yuan roared wildly into the microphone.
"A live nuclear bomb is hurtling towards you!! If you're even a minute later, you'll all be buried with those idiots overseas!!"
Long Yuan abruptly hung up the phone.
He braced his hands on the table, panting heavily.
What was that person doing in the East China Sea?
What exactly is hidden at the bottom of the sea that would make this monster, which transcends worldly laws, personally take action?
Long Yuan turned his head to look at the isolation door made of extraterrestrial meteorite iron deep in the hall.
That's the elevator leading to the bottom of the prison.
"Notify the detention center."
Long Yuan's voice was hoarse, as if he had swallowed a handful of sand.
"Take out the spare key for file number 0."
"The sky is about to fall."
……
The high seas of the East China Sea. The Guixu Sea area.
The gale whipped up giant waves tens of meters high, which slammed violently against the armor of the steel behemoth.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Leviathan" is like a mobile steel fortress at sea. It is surrounded by two guided-missile destroyers and a nuclear submarine.
Inside the bridge control room of the aircraft carrier.
Jack, a burly white man and the highest-ranking commander of the Dark Web in Asia, was biting on a thick Cuban cigar.
He watched the Chinese fleet slowly retreating on the radar screen, a smug smile spreading across his face.
"The Chinese are a bunch of spineless cowards."
Jack exhaled a puff of smoke.
"Just a little show of muscle and they'd tuck their tails between their legs and run away."
"Notify the deep-sea diving team to prepare for the dive. I want to see that heating treasure on my desk before dawn."
The first mate next to him was about to turn around and give the order.
"Beep beep beep beep—"
The air raid sirens on the entire bridge suddenly erupted in an extremely sharp wail.
The blinding red light turned everyone's faces deathly pale.
"Sir!! High-altitude radar has detected an unidentified flying object!!"
The radar operator frantically tapped on the control panel, the sound crackling like a duck's quack.
"Speed of Mach 10!! No radar cross-section!! Thermal imaging shows..."
The radar operator stared intently at the screen, his eyes almost bulging out of their sockets.
"It's one person!!"
Jack's cigar fell onto the tactical chart, burning a black hole in it.
"Are you fucking kidding me?! A Mach 10 guy?!"
Before he could finish speaking...
A blinding blue light suddenly shone through the high-strength explosion-proof glass outside the bridge.
The light tore through the thick curtain of rain, turning the night into day.
Jack lunged to the window.
Above the 10,000-ton giant ship.
A long-haired young man wearing a blue robe floated silently in the raging storm.
There were no aircraft. There were no parachutes.
The rainwater automatically slid off to both sides within half a meter of his body.
"Fire!!!"
Jack didn't care what it was and instinctively pressed the red button that would provide full-scale fire support for the entire ship.
"Anti-aircraft missiles!! Close-in weapon systems!! Shoot it down!!"
The metal covers on the aircraft carrier deck popped open instantly.
"Swish, swish, swish——"
More than a dozen anti-aircraft missiles, trailing long plumes of white smoke, rose from the ground and headed straight for the figure in mid-air.
The close-in weapon systems on the two surrounding destroyers also began to spew fire wildly. Tens of thousands of armor-piercing shells per minute crisscrossed the night sky, forming an impenetrable metal net of fire.
With this level of firepower, even a legendary martial artist at the Divine Realm would be reduced to mincemeat in a fraction of a second.
Lu Yuan hovered in mid-air.
He looked down at the missiles and bullets whizzing towards him.
"You regard these piles of scrap metal as maritime supremacy. Today, I will use this Nine Heavens Sword Qi to shatter your laughable warships and powerful cannons."
Lu Yuan didn't even try to dodge.
He raised his right hand. He brought his index and middle fingers together, forming a sword-like gesture.
Facing the dense network of fire below.
A light swipe.
"break."
A hundred-foot-long azure sword aura materialized out of thin air between heaven and earth.
The sword energy was silent.
But the moment it appeared, all the sounds of wind, rain, and missile thrusters around it were completely sucked away.
The dozen or so anti-aircraft missiles didn't even have the chance to explode the moment they came into contact with the sword energy; they were sliced in half and turned into two lumps of scrap metal that fell into the sea.
The dense barrage of close-in weapon system bullets struck the gale surrounding the sword aura, instantly turning into a shower of iron dust.
The sword energy continued its momentum undiminished.
Heading straight for the aircraft carrier "Leviathan" below.
Jack stood on the bridge, looking at the blue light that filled his entire field of vision.
He didn't even have time to let out a scream.
"laugh--"
A very faint cutting sound.
The 300-meter-long nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was sliced in two without any obstruction by the azure sword energy, starting from the very center of the island superstructure.
The special steel armor, which is tens of centimeters thick, is like a piece of butter being sliced by a hot knife in front of the sword energy.
The break is so smooth that it can be used as a mirror.
"BOOM!!!"
It wasn't until the aircraft carrier broke in two and seawater rushed into the engine room that the deafening explosion finally resounded on the sea.
Flames shot into the sky.
The two destroyers nearby were capsized by the huge waves caused by the aircraft carrier breaking apart.
The invincible fleet that the dark web is so proud of.
One sword strike. Annihilation.
Lu Yuan didn't look at the ants struggling and screaming in the sea of fire.
He turned his gaze to the black sea beneath the aircraft carrier wreckage.
His divine sense had penetrated ten thousand meters into the seawater and locked onto the massive crustal fissure on the seabed.
An extremely pure aura of extreme heat was slowly circulating deep within the crack.
"Found it."
Lu Yuan's body suddenly plummeted downwards.
Just before it touched the sea surface.
He once again drew his sword fingers together.
"open."
The seawater, weighing tens of thousands of tons, was forcibly torn apart as if by a pair of invisible giant hands.
A vacuum passage, ten meters wide and seemingly bottomless, suddenly appeared on the turbulent sea. The seawater on both sides was blocked by an invisible force, forming two blue walls of water tens of thousands of meters high.
Lu Yuan stood with his hands behind his back.
We walked down the vacuum tunnel that led straight to the seabed as if on flat ground.
The moment he stepped onto the edge of the seabed crevice.
Lu Yuan suddenly stopped in his tracks.
His Mahayana-stage divine sense detected a fluctuation that did not belong to Earth.
It was an extremely subtle spiritual energy array pattern, carrying the unique aura of the Sirius star region.
In this Ruins of Return, besides the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow...
There are still living people here.
Moreover, he is a cultivator.
A cold killing intent flashed in Lu Yuan's eyes.
"interesting."
"A dragon that has crossed the river is actually hiding in this abandoned fishpond of Earth."
Lu Yuan lifted his foot and stepped into the ancient ruins that radiated terrifying heat.