novelapdf Chapter 123 Even a Mortal Body Can Defy the Heavens
Chapter 123 Even a Mortal Body Can Defy the Heavens
The highest command center of the underground defense zone of the capital city.
A deathly silence.
The humming of the exhaust fan was the only noise in the entire space.
On the large screen in front of the control console, the satellite thermal imaging had been reduced to static by the powerful electromagnetic pulse from the nuclear explosion. But the technical department quickly switched to the optical lens of the high-altitude drone.
In the footage, the once vast Wang family manor has completely disappeared.
All that remains is a massive sinkhole, over 300 meters in diameter and seemingly bottomless. The soil around the sinkhole's edge has been burned to a dark red, glassy state, with wisps of black smoke swirling upwards.
"It's over..." Long Yuan's legs went weak, and he slumped into the ergonomic chair. He unbuttoned his collar and gasped for breath, like a fish that had just been thrown ashore.
"The temperature at the center of a nuclear explosion exceeds twenty million degrees Celsius. Let alone flesh and blood, even an aircraft carrier deck would vaporize there." Long Yuan wiped the cold sweat from his brow and turned to Old Li in the back row. "Commander, the threat has been eliminated."
The special-supply cigarette in Old Li's hand had been crushed to pieces. Tobacco shreds were scattered all over the ground.
The old man stared intently at the screen, saying nothing. Chu Jianguo, standing beside him, was also deathly pale, his Adam's apple bobbing laboriously.
"Zoom in," Old Li suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse like sandpaper scraping against a wall, "Aim at the bottom of the pit."
The technician quickly started typing on the keyboard.
The drone's camera zoomed in rapidly, piercing through the thick smoke and locking onto the still-churning lava pool at the deepest part of the crater.
next second.
A collective gasp filled the command center.
The technician plopped down on the floor, knocking over the coffee cup beside him. Scalding hot coffee spilled onto his trouser leg, but he seemed oblivious to the pain, just staring intently at the screen.
Center of the screen.
In that magma ruin where even steel could melt instantly.
A figure was stepping on the dark red crystals, walking out step by step.
It was a young man wearing a white shirt. His clothes were spotless, without a single wrinkle. He even had a piece of steel bar he'd picked up from somewhere in his hand, and he was tapping on the rocks next to him like an old man taking a leisurely stroll after a meal.
"This is impossible!" Long Yuan suddenly jumped up from his chair, his knee hitting the control panel and leaving a large bruise.
He lunged at the screen, his eyes practically popping out of their sockets.
"That's a nuclear bomb! A nuclear weapon! How could he still be alive! Is his protective aura even tougher than blast armor?!"
Old Li closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled.
When he opened his eyes again, all that remained in them was absolute rationality and resolve.
"Longyuan." Old Li's voice was unusually calm.
"Commander!" Long Yuan turned his head and looked at the old man as if he were grasping at a straw.
"Immediately activate the highest level of information blockade. Mobilize all elite forces from the Extraordinary Immortal Bureau, along with the Third Mech Squadron of the Defense Zone, and have them arrive at the scene within five minutes."
Old Li stood up and straightened the hem of his military uniform.
"Remember, you're not going there to fight a war. You're going there to clean up the mess."
"Wash the floor?" Long Yuan was stunned.
"Yes, whitewashing." Old Li stared into Long Yuan's eyes, enunciating each word clearly, "From this moment on, China's national policy towards Lu Yuan is only one—absolute obedience! If he wants to kill, you hand him the knife. If he wants to exterminate an entire clan, you dig the pit. Anyone who dares to provoke him again, I will personally kill them!"
Bottom of the sinkhole.
Lu Yuan did not rush up.
He followed the underground fissure torn open by the nuclear explosion and walked all the way to what should have been the lowest level of the capital's prison.
The concentration of nuclear radiation here is frighteningly high; a normal Geiger counter would immediately exceed the maximum level. But when this radiation hit Lu Yuan's body, which was no longer protected by spiritual energy, it didn't even leave a red mark.
The physical body of a Mahayana cultivator has already undergone a complete transformation. Even without true essence, the sheer physical strength is enough to punch through a main battle tank.
At the end of the crevice was a cold pool of water.
The pool water was an eerie, inky black, radiating a bone-chilling cold. This was the legendary Dead Water Pool, where the survivor of File Zero was imprisoned.
Wang Zhentian had previously threatened him, saying that his biological father was locked up here.
Lu Yuan walked to the edge of the pool.
The pool had dried up considerably due to the impact of the nuclear explosion, revealing several thick meteorite chains at the bottom.
At the end of the chain was a monster that was not human.
The creature was covered in black scales, had no eyes, only a gaping maw filled with fangs. It lay in the mud, barely alive from the aftershocks of the nuclear explosion, yet still exuded a nauseating aura of bloodlust.
Lu Yuan crouched down, grabbed the monster by the neck, and lifted it up.
He has no biological father.
This is just a mutated Yin Corpse that was forcibly fed with the essence blood of a cultivator by the Ye and Wang families.
"Trying to fool me with such disgusting stuff."
Lu Yuan exerted force with his fingers.
Click!
He snapped the monster's neck with one hand. Black, foul-smelling blood splattered onto the rocks, sizzling and corroding.
Lu Yuan threw the body back to the bottom of the pool.
His current state is very strange. His sea of consciousness is tightly locked by black chains, and his dantian is completely empty. Apart from his physical strength, he can't even cast the simplest fireball spell.
But this long-lost feeling of being a "mortal" gave his blood, which had been dormant for nine thousand years, a slight sense of excitement.
"Those old fogies in the cultivation world think they can trap me by sealing my cultivation?"
Lu Yuan patted the dust off his hands.
"Back when I was in the early stages of Qi Refining, I fought my way up from the bottom."
He leaped down the steep rock face like an agile cheetah, jumping out of the sinkhole more than 300 meters deep in a few leaps.
on the ground.
Hundreds of black armored vehicles have surrounded the ruins.
Blinding beams of searchlight crisscrossed the night sky. Fully armed special forces soldiers held their guns, but the muzzles trembled uncontrollably.
Long Yuan stood on top of the armored vehicle at the very front.
He watched Lu Yuan leap out of the deep pit and felt as if an invisible hand was squeezing his heart.
Lu Yuan dusted off his trousers and walked to the armored vehicle.
His aura now lacked the overwhelming pressure of his previous spiritual power. In Long Yuan's perception, Lu Yuan's current aura was as weak as that of an ordinary high school student who had never practiced martial arts.
But Longyuan dared not gamble.
He watched this man walk out from the epicenter of the nuclear explosion with his own eyes!
"Mr. Lu... Mr. Lu." Long Yuan swallowed hard, his voice hoarse.
Lu Yuan looked up at him.
"You're standing too high. I don't like looking up when I talk to people."
Lu Yuan's voice wasn't loud. He didn't use any true energy.
But he merely glanced coldly at Long Yuan. A trace of majesty, a remnant of his Mahayana stage cultivation, slammed into him following his gaze.
Long Yuan felt a sudden weight on his shoulders, as if a mountain had suddenly pressed down on him.
Click! Click!
The sickening sound of bones cracking could be clearly heard in the night sky.
Long Yuan let out a piercing scream. His kneecaps had been shattered into fragments by that invisible pressure in that instant!
He fell off the armored vehicle and landed heavily at Lu Yuan's feet.
The surrounding special forces soldiers were so frightened that they all took a step back, and not one of them dared to put their finger on the trigger.
Lu Yuan looked down at Long Yuan, who was writhing on the ground in pain.
"Go back and tell those old men hiding in air-raid shelters: the nuclear bomb, consider it just a warning shot."
Lu Yuan stepped over Long Yuan's body and strode into the night.
"I've been in a bad mood these past few days and need to rest. Anyone who dares to bother me, I'll go to the air-raid shelter and twist your heads off one by one."
Long Yuan lay on the ground, clenching his back teeth tightly to keep himself from fainting.
He watched Lu Yuan's departing figure, feeling only a bottomless despair in his heart.
This man is simply invincible.
Meanwhile, Lu Yuan, walking in the dark alley, touched the bronze fragment in his pocket.
The star-studded pattern on the surface of the copper sheet was shimmering with a faint light at an extremely slow frequency. The light was pointing towards the Kunlun Mountains in western China.
"Once I've recovered from this period of weakness, I'll fully nourish the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron."
Lu Yuan's eyes were icy cold.
"The Sirius region, is it? Wash your neck and wait."