ragginovel Chapter 127 Cross-World Blood Shadow, Cracks in the Chains of the Nine Emperors
Chapter 127 Cross-World Blood Shadow, Cracks in the Chains of the Nine Emperors
"Let go of my dog. You ants of the earth."
A grand and chilling sound echoed through the underground cavern. The sound waves crashed against the surrounding rock walls, sending boulders tumbling down. The liquid in the blood pool churned wildly like boiling water, billowing out large plumes of pungent red steam.
Lu Yuan stood at the edge of the altar.
He didn't even glance down at the boiling pool of blood, but instead turned his head to look at the dried-up old man he was carrying.
Did you hear that?
Lu Yuan suddenly flipped his wrist.
Click!
A crisp, clean cracking sound echoed through the empty cavern. The old man's cervical vertebrae were snapped by this sheer brute force, the white bone fragments piercing the withered skin of his throat and exposed to the air.
Those pure scarlet eyes rolled violently upwards, the light in their pupils going out instantly like a candle with its wick snapped.
Lu Yuan casually tossed it aside.
This physical body, possessing peak Divine Realm cultivation and with one foot already in the Foundation Establishment stage, was like a bag of rotten garbage, tracing an arc in mid-air before crashing into the churning pool of blood with a thud.
Blood splattered more than three meters high.
The old man's mummified body didn't even float for a second before being sucked in by some kind of enormous suction force at the bottom of the pool.
The air in the cave suddenly stopped.
The once boiling pool of blood instantly fell into a deathly stillness. Then, the entire underground space began to tremble violently.
"You're asking for it..."
The voice rang out again. This time it was no longer cold and aloof, but rather filled with obvious rage.
The surface of the water in the center of the blood pool suddenly bulged upwards. Countless dark red blood lines intertwined and entangled, forcibly piecing together a huge phantom three zhang tall in mid-air.
The phantom was draped in a wide, blood-red robe, and wore a bronze mask that appeared to be crying but wasn't. The surrounding air was compressed by this sudden spiritual pressure, producing a teeth-grinding grinding sound.
The overwhelming pressure of a peak Foundation Establishment stage cultivator!
For an Earth depleted of spiritual energy, this power is enough to wipe out a megacity of ten million people overnight.
Blood Shadow looked down at Lu Yuan on the altar. Two eerie green flames flickered in the eye holes behind the mask.
"A mere uncivilized native, who hasn't even condensed true essence, dares to destroy my array core furnace on Earth with just a bit of brute force."
Blood Shadow slowly raised an arm made entirely of blood.
"I am the seventh elder of the Blood River Sect in the Sirius Star Region. Kneel down now and offer your body, and I may consider extracting only your soul, leaving you with a complete corpse."
Lu Yuan stood still.
He reached up and picked at his ear, flicking away a speck of non-existent dust with his fingertips.
"You sent a distraction across hundreds of galaxies just to spout these two pieces of nonsense?"
Lu Yuan looked up at the enormous blood-red shadow, his tone filled with undisguised mockery.
"You poor bastards from the Sirius Star Region can't even afford a decent high-level transmission talisman? The sound coming out of this broken formation is all static, it's giving me a headache."
The ghostly flames behind the Blood Shadow Mask suddenly surged.
"Arrogant!"
Blood Shadow's arm swung down heavily.
The liquid in the blood pool shot skyward, transforming into hundreds of sharp, blood-red spears that rained down on the altar. Each spear was coated with an extremely potent corrosive poison; even a slight scratch would turn a Grandmaster into a puddle of pus within three seconds.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The sound of rushing air was so dense it was like a torrential downpour inside a cave.
Lu Yuan showed no intention of avoiding it.
Facing the barrage of blood-red spears, he stomped his left foot hard on the solid black stone ground of the altar.
boom!
The ten-meter-diameter altar was shattered into pieces by this stomp. The enormous recoil propelled Lu Yuan's body like an armor-piercing bullet, sending him straight into the blood-red shadow in mid-air.
Bang bang bang bang!
Those blood-red spears, powerful enough to pierce steel plates, pierced Lu Yuan's thin white shirt, but couldn't even last a second before being shattered by the abnormal density of his flesh during the Mahayana stage.
Red venom splattered on his bare arms and neck, hissing white smoke.
Lu Yuan didn't even frown. This level of corrosion was no different from being bitten by a mosquito.
"How is this possible!"
Blood Shadow let out a horrified scream. It couldn't understand how a mortal with no true energy fluctuations could withstand the Blood River Sect's secret technique with his bare body.
Lu Yuan had already rushed up to it.
"Too slow."
Lu Yuan extended his right hand, spread his five fingers, and inserted it directly into Xue Ying's chest cavity.
Without the support of true essence, Lu Yuan's Qi and blood in the Mahayana stage were pushed to their limit at this moment. The skin of Lu Yuan's entire right arm instantly turned bright red, and the blood vessels bulged out under the skin like small blue snakes.
Extreme heat erupted from his palm.
"Aaaaaah!"
The blood shadow let out a shrill scream. The blood that made up its body was instantly evaporated by the high temperature of Lu Yuan's palm, emitting a strong, foul stench.
"You're not a native of Earth! Who are you?!"
Blood Shadow struggled frantically, trying to sever its connection with the divided spirit and escape back to the Sirius Starfield.
You have no right to know.
Lu Yuan suddenly clenched his five fingers and pulled them outward with force.
Sizzle!
The blood shadow, towering three zhang tall, was forcibly torn in two. The violent blood energy flowed upstream along the blood shadow's remains, surging through the unseen interdimensional passage and crashing violently into the Sirius Starfield's main body.
A distant and muffled groan echoed from the cave.
The Blood Shadow completely collapsed, turning into a rain of blood that fell on the rocks of the cave.
A palm-sized, dark red jade pendant fell from mid-air.
Lu Yuan reached out and caught the jade tablet.
It felt cold to the touch. The surface of the jade pendant was engraved with intricate star patterns, and the back bore the ancient character for "blood".
He took out the bronze fragment he had obtained from the Wang family's car accident belongings from his pocket and placed it next to the jade pendant.
The two inanimate objects emitted a faint buzzing sound at the moment of contact. The edge of the fragment and the groove of the jade plaque fit together perfectly, as if they were a single, seamless piece.
"So this is the complete coordinate key."
Lu Yuan considered it in his mind.
The Sirius star system is at least half a galaxy away from Earth. That Blood River Sect elder who forcibly crossed realms to send his avatar must have paid a heavy price. Now that the coordinate key is in our hands, those demonic cultivators will have to wait at least half a year before they can launch a large-scale invasion.
In the past six months, he has had enough time to plow through the Earth's hidden forces three times over.
Lu Yuan stuffed the assembled key into his pocket and turned to look down at the Dragon Transformation Pool, which was now mostly dried up.
Although the old man with the dried corpse and the Blood Shadow were dead, the broken spirit-gathering array was still functioning. The power of the Chinese earth veins and the essence of flesh and blood, accumulated at the bottom of the pool for countless years, were surging like a thick slurry.
These energies are too complex and too rudimentary for Lu Yuan at his current level.
If this were the world of cultivation, this kind of trash wouldn't even deserve to have his feet washed.
But now, he has no other choice.
"The Chains of Death..."
Lu Yuan touched his brow. Deep within his sea of consciousness, the black chain representing the curse of the nine Immortal Emperors was tightly binding his soul, squeezing out all his true essence.
He jumped directly into the pool, which was more than ten meters deep.
My feet were submerged in sticky, blood-red mud, up to my ankles.
Lu Yuan sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes.
He didn't use any cultivation techniques from the immortal cultivation world, because without true essence, it's impossible to activate them. He used the most primitive and brutal method—devouring.
At this moment, the physical body of the Mahayana stage transformed into a greedy black hole.
The viscous earth vein energy and flesh essence surrounding him surged wildly towards Lu Yuan's body like sharks smelling blood. They forcefully penetrated his meridians through all 36,000 pores.
pain.
Excruciating pain.
These unfiltered, violent energies rampage through the meridians, like rusty blades being stuffed into blood vessels, frantically scraping against the inner walls.
Lu Yuan's breathing became heavy. His body temperature soared, and the surrounding mud dried and cracked, emitting a burnt smell.
He clenched his teeth tightly, forcibly guiding this enormous energy towards his sea of consciousness.
boom!
The torrent of energy slammed violently against the black chains.
A colossal wave surged within his sea of consciousness. The black chains trembled violently, and nine blurry phantoms appeared on their surface. These were the spiritual imprints left on the chains by the nine Immortal Emperors.
"Get out of my way!"
Lu Yuan let out a silent roar in his heart.
The immense power of the earth's veins slammed into the same spot on the chains one after another.
One, two, ten.
I don't know how much time has passed.
Click.
A faint, crisp sound rang out from the depths of his consciousness.
A hair-thin crack appeared on the black chain.
Although it was just a crack, for the completely sealed dantian, it was like chiseling a pinhole in an airtight iron house.
A drop of extremely pure golden true essence seeped out along the crack and dripped into the parched dantian.
Lu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.
A sudden gust of wind swept through the cave. He stood up, and the grime on his body was instantly shattered by the invisible force, leaving his white shirt spotless once more.
"One layer of Qi refinement..."
Lu Yuan sensed the pitifully small amount of true energy within his body and twitched the corner of his mouth.
This amount of true energy is barely enough to cast even the most basic fireball spell. But it's just about enough to open the surface space of a storage ring.
He raised his left hand and gently stroked his thumb on the Nine Heavens Storage Ring on his index finger.
The fine, ethereal cracks on the surface of the ring flickered.
A low-grade spirit stone and a rusty iron sword appeared out of thin air in his hand.
"This is the only kind of garbage we can produce."
Lu Yuan weighed the iron sword in his hand with a hint of disdain. In the cultivation world, this thing was used by outer disciples to chop wood, but on this Earth where spiritual energy was sealed, the material of this sword was enough to cut through iron like mud.
He looked up at the crack above the cave.
It's time to go up.
......
The edge of a glacial crevasse on the main peak of Kunlun Mountains.
Ye Qingcheng had curled up into a ball. A thick layer of white frost had formed on the surface of her heavy down jacket.
Her lips were frozen purple, and her eyelashes were covered in ice crystals. Her internal energy was almost depleted; if Lu Yuan didn't come out in another ten minutes, she would freeze to death here.
"He...did he die down there...?"
The thought popped into Ye Qingcheng's mind uncontrollably.
Just as she was hesitating whether to use her last breath to escape.
The ice beneath our feet suddenly began to shake violently.
boom!
A huge piece of solid ice shot into the sky and crashed into the snow a dozen meters away.
Lu Yuan, with one hand in his pocket, lightly leaped out of the crack. His white shirt fluttered in the minus thirty-degree wind, yet he exuded a heart-stirring heat.
Ye Qingcheng was so frightened that she scrambled back two steps.
"Mr. Lu..."
Lu Yuan ignored her and casually tossed the rusty iron sword at her feet.
"Take it."
Ye Qingcheng was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously reached out to grasp the sword hilt.
A warm current flowed from the sword into her palm and traveled through her body along her meridians. Her previously frozen limbs regained sensation within seconds, and even her dantian, which had been half destroyed, showed a faint sign of loosening.
Ye Qingcheng stared intently at the broken iron sword in her hand, her breathing becoming rapid.
What level of divine weapon is this?! Even a rusty, broken sword thrown out casually contains spiritual energy ten times stronger than the sect's treasured sword that the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance has worshipped for a hundred years!
"Let's go. There's nothing left here."
Lu Yuan turned around and prepared to go down the mountain.
Just then.
The special communicator in his pocket vibrated rapidly.
This thing was provided by the National Astronomical Observatory. It uses military satellite signals and can be used normally even in the snow-covered Kunlun no-man's-land.
Lu Yuan pressed the answer button.
"Mr. Lu!"
Shen Qingci's voice came through the receiver. This usually calm and capable deputy director of the Astronomical Observatory spoke with barely suppressed panic, her voice even trembling noticeably.
"What's the big deal that you're making such a fuss about?"
Lu Yuan's voice was very calm.
A noisy background sound came from the other end of the phone, like someone frantically typing on a keyboard, mixed with the booming sound of heavy objects collapsing.
"Something's happened at the Locked Dragon Well in the old town!"
Shen Qingci swallowed hard and spoke very quickly.
"Old Master Tao Xuan, who was originally in charge of guarding the Locked Dragon Well, suddenly disappeared. Gu Ning from the Archives of the Astronomical Bureau was the mole. She stole the warehouse doorplate and forcibly opened Pump No. 3... The underground water veins backed up and flooded into the bottom of the well."
Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.
Get to the point.
"The thing that was suppressed at the bottom of the well for hundreds of years has awakened."
Shen Qingci paused for a moment, as if she were looking at some extremely terrifying data report.
"The monitoring station shows that the thing didn't go down the underground river to the sea. It followed the flow of the earth's spiritual energy and broke through three lines of defense... Its current trajectory is heading straight for Panlong Mountain in Jiangzhou!"
Lu Yuan's eyes turned cold in that instant.
Panlong Mountain. Yunding Mountain Villa.
Lu Qingxue was there.
Why would they target Panlong Mountain?
"The technical department has just determined..." Shen Qingci's voice trailed off, "When your sister was cleansing her meridians and marrow at Panlong Mountain, the first breath of pure spiritual energy she exhaled seeped into the Dragon-Locking Well along the earth's veins. That thing... remembered that taste. It's treating your sister as a highly nourishing blood food."
The wind and snow seemed to stand still at that moment.
Standing three meters away, Ye Qingcheng suddenly felt that the surrounding temperature was ten times colder than before. She looked at Lu Yuan's back in horror; the murderous intent emanating from his very bones made it hard for her to breathe.
Click.
The low-grade spirit stone that Lu Yuan had just taken out of his left hand was unconsciously crushed into powder by him.
"Get your people away from here."
Lu Yuan said something into the communicator, then crushed the device in his hand.
He turned his head and looked at Ye Qingcheng, whose face was full of shock.
"Don't you have a private jet parked in Golmud?"
"Yes, yes..."
"Contact the captain; preheating will be complete in three minutes."
Lu Yuan strode down the mountain, and with each step, the solid ice beneath his feet cracked open like a spiderweb.
"Return to Jiangzhou."