pjbooks Chapter 122 The Immortal Venerable Withstands Nuclear Weapon, the Heavenly Dao's Life-Stealing
Chapter 122 The Immortal Venerable Withstands Nuclear Weapon, the Heavenly Dao's Life-Stealing
The blue bricks beneath our feet began to shake violently, like boiling water.
Lu Yuan wiped the soles of his shoes, which were covered in Wang Zhentian's blood and flesh, on the grass next to him.
Over the manor's loudspeakers, Long Yuan's voice continued to echo, his attempt at composure barely concealed. The shrill, high-pitched static of the radio seemed particularly jarring in the silent night.
"Lu Yuan! Don't put up a futile resistance! Although the yield of the miniature tactical nuclear bomb is controlled to the kiloton level, the 30 million degree Celsius temperature generated when detonated in a confined underground space is enough to instantly vaporize any carbon-based life form! Raise your hands now..."
Lu Yuan picked at his ear.
"Noisy."
He raised his right foot and stomped it hard on the ground, which was already covered with spiderweb-like cracks.
Boom!
This is not an earthquake. This is the sound of pure physical force tearing the earth's crust apart.
Thirty meters thick reinforced concrete defense layer, explosion-proof steel plate, and the Wang family's ancestral protective formation collapsed completely under this one step, like a fragile mille-feuille pastry.
Lu Yuan's body plummeted vertically down the collapsed pit.
Amidst billowing dust, he landed steadily in a spacious underground hall.
The air here was so foul it made you want to vomit. A thick, pungent stench of blood mixed with the putrid smell of rotting corpses assaulted your nostrils.
In the center of the hall is a huge octagonal altar with a diameter of over ten meters.
A dark red, viscous liquid flowed in the grooves of the altar. It was a pool of blood formed from the blood of countless living people. And in the very center of the pool, on a white bone pillar, a palm-sized fragment of bronze floated silently.
Lu Yuan walked over and reached out to grab the bronze fragment in his hand.
The bloodstains on the surface of the fragment were instantly burned away by the true fire in his palm, revealing the complex and ancient star array patterns inside.
"It really is a fragment of the coordinates from the Sirius star system." Lu Yuan ran his fingers along the serrated edge of the copper piece. "What do these demonic cultivators think Earth is? A backyard garden for raising prey?"
He threw the copper piece into the Nine Heavens Storage Ring.
Just then, the red alarm lights in the four corners of the underground hall suddenly started flashing wildly.
The piercing buzzing sound penetrated the eardrums.
Directly below the altar, a chilling sound of mechanical gears meshing echoed. This was followed by a muffled, electronic countdown.
"ten."
Lu Yuan looked down at the stone slab beneath his feet.
His divine sense penetrated the rock strata, extending downwards. Less than five hundred meters away from this altar lay the legendary Heavenly Prison of the capital.
A special nuclear bomb, modified into a cylinder, had its outer shell glowing red-hot due to the violent chain reaction inside.
"Nine."
The highest command center of the underground defense zone of the capital city.
Long Yuan stared intently at the thermal imaging radar on the large screen. His hands were gripping the control panel, and the cold sweat on his palms left two clear handprints on the metal surface.
"Chief! The target hasn't moved! He's still directly above the nuclear explosion center!" The technician next to him said, his voice trembling.
Sitting in the back row was Li, the commander of the defense zone, with an unlit, specially supplied cigarette between his fingers. The old man's hand was steady, but the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitched uncontrollably.
"Long Yuan, are you sure this thing can kill a monster who can crush a Grandmaster of the Transcendent Realm with one hand?" Old Li's voice was hoarse.
"Rest assured, Commander." Long Yuan swallowed hard. "This is the latest directional nuclear weapon developed by the Military Industry Research Institute. At the moment of explosion, the core temperature can reach twice that of the sun's core. Let alone a Divine Realm martial artist, even a Great Luo Golden Immortal descending to earth would absolutely not be able to withstand this kind of pure physical destruction!"
"three."
"two."
In the underground lobby.
Lu Yuan didn't run. He didn't even move a step.
run?
If a Great Ascension stage Immortal Venerable were to be so frightened by a single firecracker from a mortal that he would run away with his head in his hands, the news would make those nine old fogies laugh their heads off when it got back to the cultivation world.
"Since you know nothing about power."
Lu Yuan closed his eyes and formed a strange hand seal in front of his chest.
"Then I, the Venerable One, will teach you what the difference between immortals and mortals truly means."
"one."
boom--!
No sound can describe the deafening roar of that instant. Because in the 0.01 second that the explosion occurred, all the surrounding air and sound-transmitting mediums were completely sucked away.
A blinding white light burst forth from the depths of the earth.
The hard granite strata instantly transformed into boiling magma upon contact with the white light. The underground water system was instantly evaporated, and the terrifying high temperature, mixed with shockwaves powerful enough to tear apart an aircraft carrier, surged wildly upwards through underground channels.
"Condense!"
A low growl rolled down Lu Yuan's throat.
A brilliant golden light shone from between his eyebrows.
A palm-sized, three-legged bronze cauldron phantom was forcibly pulled out from the depths of the sea of consciousness.
The Primordial Chaos Cauldron!
The earthy yellow maternal energy descended, like an inverted bowl, tightly protecting Lu Yuan in the center.
next second.
The intense heat of tens of millions of degrees and the devastating nuclear storm crashed violently into the primordial energy.
Two completely different forces collided. The underground space was transformed into a living hell. The surrounding rocks melted into glassy crystals, and the blast-proof steel plates were torn to shreds like paper.
But that seemingly thin layer of yellowish-brown mist remained unmoved despite the impact of the nuclear explosion.
Lu Yuan stood beneath the cauldron, his clothes not even rolled up at the corner.
But his condition at this moment is terrible.
"Damn it."
Lu Yuan bit his tongue and forced down a mouthful of blood that surged into his throat.
Forcibly summoning the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron to resist nuclear weapons drained all the true essence from his body, which was at the peak of the Golden Core stage. Even more fatally, this immortal power, which exceeded the tolerance limits of Earth's current laws, completely awakened something deep within his sea of consciousness.
slam-la-
A sickening scraping sound of iron chains echoed deep within Lu Yuan's soul.
The lurking black chain phantom suddenly swelled tenfold. The curse aura of the Heavenly Dao Life-Stealing Curse, like countless greedy venomous snakes, surged wildly along his eight extraordinary meridians, tightly locking down all his spiritual energy nodes.
The meridians are blocked.
True essence has dried up.
Lu Yuan's aura plummeted like a diving ship, plummeting from his lofty position as an immortal.
Foundation Building... Qi Refining...
Finally, all was silence.
Aside from his physical body, forged through countless trials during the Mahayana stage, he couldn't mobilize even a trace of spiritual power. He had become a complete mortal.
The aftershocks of the nuclear explosion are still raging.
The illusory image of the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron exhausted its last bit of energy, flickered twice, and then disappeared back into Lu Yuan's brow.
Lu Yuan stood amidst a dark red lava wasteland. All around him were still burning toxic fires and deadly nuclear radiation.
He ripped off his tie and casually wiped the golden blood from the corner of his mouth.
"The mines planted by those nine old geezers have finally exploded."
Lu Yuan looked up at the blown-through dome. Starlight streamed down from the ground hundreds of meters away.
He wasn't alarmed; instead, he gave a cold laugh.
"But this is for the best. If I don't pretend to be weak, how can I lure those rats hiding in the gutter out one by one to kill them?"