ragginovel Chapter 138 A Clumsy Spirit Gathering Array, One Foot Crushes Kunlun
Chapter 138 A Clumsy Spirit Gathering Array, One Foot Crushes Kunlun
The fighter jets began to shake violently above the clouds.
Inside the cabin, red warning lights flashed wildly, and a piercing buzzing sound scraped against eardrums.
"Sir! An extremely abnormal magnetic field has been detected in the airspace ahead!"
The pilot's anxious voice came through the communication channel.
"All instruments have malfunctioned, and the navigation system is down! We are encountering unexplained turbulence, and the fighter jet cannot maintain its altitude. We must return to base immediately!"
Through the narrow porthole, Shen Qingci saw that the night sky outside was shrouded in an eerie, dark purple cloud layer. Thick arcs of electricity flickered faintly within the clouds, and a suffocating sense of oppression filled the air.
This is not a celestial phenomenon that should occur on Earth.
"Open the hatch."
Lu Yuan stood up and casually tugged at the collar of his shirt.
Shen Qingci straightened up abruptly. She glanced at the altimeter on her tactical watch.
"Mr. Lu! We are currently at an altitude of 8,000 meters, the wind speed outside exceeds level twelve, and the temperature is minus forty degrees Celsius! Forcibly opening the door will cause cabin depressurization, and the fighter jet may disintegrate!"
Lu Yuan ignored her.
He walked directly to the tightly closed alloy hatch, raised his right hand, and gripped the solid steel plate at the edge of the door seam with his five fingers.
Without using any true essence, it was a pure burst of physical strength.
Sizzle—!
A sickening metallic tearing sound echoed through the cabin.
The military-grade alloy hatch, strong enough to withstand the impact of anti-aircraft missile fragments, was torn off by Lu Yuan as easily as tearing off a piece of cardboard, and casually thrown into the howling wind.
The violent airflow instantly rushed into the cabin.
Shen Qingci was pulled off the ground by the huge suction force, clinging tightly to the steel column that held the seat in place, unable to even breathe.
Lu Yuan stood in the eye of the storm, his clothes fluttering in the wind.
He turned his head and glanced at Shen Qingci, who was clinging tightly to the seat.
"Go back and tell Chu Jianguo that the repair costs for this plane will be included in the assets of the S.H.I.E.L.D. that have been frozen."
The voice just fell.
Lu Yuan took a step forward and disappeared into the dark purple thunderclouds outside the cabin.
Gravitational acceleration once again became his most violent weapon.
The sound of the wind in his ears turned into a sharp whistling sound. The cold hail mixed with snowflakes hit Lu Yuan's face, but the moment they touched his skin, they were directly shattered into dust by a layer of invisible protective energy.
Below are endless snow-capped mountains, which look like giant beasts lying in wait in the night.
Deep within the embrace of the mountains lies a massive canyon that appears to have been cleaved open by a sharp axe.
Kunlun Death Valley.
There wasn't a single snowflake in the valley, revealing bare, black rocks. Countless stark white skeletons, some of wild animals and others of human origin, were scattered on the ground.
boom!
Lu Yuan's feet slammed heavily onto the hard rocks at the entrance to Death Valley.
The ground within a ten-meter radius shattered like a spider web. The violent recoil sent surrounding rocks flying into the air, creating a crater half a meter deep at the mouth of the valley.
Lu Yuan patted non-existent dust off his shoulders and stepped out of the pit.
He twitched his nose.
In addition to the smell of ozone, there was a strong stench of blood and decay in the air.
"This kind of dilapidated formation dares to call itself a maze."
Lu Yuan looked at the black boulders arranged according to a certain pattern around him, his eyes filled with undisguised disdain.
The formation was extremely crudely constructed. Instead of using jade as a medium between the spiritual energy nodes, it was forcibly pieced together using human and animal bones. The location of the formation's core was completely exposed, practically as if the words "Come and fight me" were written all over its forehead.
Lu Yuan had no interest in even making a deduction.
If this thing were in the cultivation world, any outer sect servant who dared to set up such a formation would definitely be slapped into mincemeat by an elder, lest they lose face for the sect.
Just as he was about to walk straight in.
Suddenly, a dozen pairs of scarlet lights appeared in the darkness ahead.
Accompanied by a chilling growl emanating from its throat, a group of mutated snow wolves, each over two meters tall and covered in gray-white fur, slowly emerged from behind the boulder.
Their eyes were completely bloodshot, and their mouths dripped with highly acidic, corrosive saliva. The wolf king at the front even had a half-foot-long black bone spur growing from its forehead.
These beasts have lived on the edge of the formation for many years, and have been constantly corroded by the leaked violent spiritual energy and death energy. They have long lost their minds and become monsters that only know how to kill.
"Awooo—!"
The wolf king let out a mournful howl.
More than a dozen mutated snow wolves suddenly exerted force with their hind legs, charging towards Lu Yuan like a dozen cannonballs, leaving a trail of foul stench. Their sharp claws even dug deep furrows into the black rocks.
Lu Yuan stood still, his hands still in his pockets.
"You can't afford to pay for the clothes you've soiled."
He lifted his right foot and stomped it on the ground seemingly casually.
thump.
A deafening, muffled roar reverberated deep within the earth's veins.
The gravitational field within a radius of 100 meters was completely overturned in that instant.
The dozen or so mutated snow wolves that had taken to the air suddenly froze in mid-air. Immediately afterward, an irresistible and terrifying force acted directly on every bone in their bodies.
Bang bang bang bang!
A series of muffled thuds as flesh and blood burst open.
Those dozen or so mutated snow wolves, powerful enough to tear apart martial artists with internal energy, didn't even touch Lu Yuan's clothes before being crushed into clumps of blurry flesh by invisible gravity in mid-air.
The fragments of shattered bones, mixed with dark red blood, rained down on the surrounding rocks.
He didn't even have time to let out a scream.
Lu Yuan stepped over the bits of flesh scattered on the ground and walked to the tallest black rock in the center of the canyon.
This is the core of the entire incomplete spirit-gathering array. The rock surface is covered with twisted runes, and dried dark red bloodstains remain in the crevices.
"To survive by draining the earth's veins from this planet, that's a truly disgusting thing to do."
Lu Yuan raised his right leg and kicked the black boulder.
Click!
The seemingly indestructible boulder split open in the middle. Then, the entire boulder collapsed with a deafening roar, turning into dust.
With the core of the formation destroyed.
The dark purple thunderclouds swirling over Death Valley froze for a moment, then dissipated rapidly like a punctured balloon. The suffocating, oppressive magnetic field within the valley vanished as well.
On the mountainside ahead, a huge crack, three meters wide, slowly appeared on the originally smooth and flat rock surface.
A staircase leading deep underground is exposed to the air.
The stench emanating from the Sirius star system was coming from this crack.
Lu Yuan walked down the steps.
Footsteps echoed through the empty underground passage.
The stone walls on both sides were covered with dried corpses, their blood drained. Judging from their clothing, some were expedition members wearing modern mountaineering gear, while others were martial arts practitioners with internal energy, dressed in ancient robes.
They had clearly suffered immense pain before their deaths, their facial features contorted in extreme agony.
At the end of the passage was an underground cavern the size of a football field.
In the center of the cave was a huge pool of blood, more than ten meters in diameter. The water churned like boiling magma, emitting a pungent, bloody odor.
Above the blood pool floated a dilapidated circular stone platform. The surface of the platform was engraved with star array patterns that were a hundred times more complex than those on the outside.
This is the abandoned teleportation array.
And at the edge of the blood pool.
An old man, thin and bony, with skin like dried tree bark, was sitting cross-legged on the ground.
He was wearing a tattered, blood-red robe, with three rusty silver needles stuck in his chest, and a thin, transparent tube extending from the pool of blood, piercing directly into his carotid artery.
The old man with a dried corpse.
A disgraced disciple of the Blood River Sect in the Sirius Star Region.
Hearing footsteps, the old man with the mummified corpse slowly opened his eyes. They were cloudy pupils with no whites, completely filled with dark red.
He looked at Lu Yuan as he walked in, his withered lips parted into an extremely ugly grin, revealing two rows of yellowed, sharp teeth.
"Such pure blood and energy...such a perfect physical body..."
The mummified old man made a sound like a broken bellows being pulled from his throat.
"I've eked out a living in this wretched place for three hundred years, and finally, I've been granted a decent meal. Once I've drained you dry, this teleportation array will replenish its last bit of energy, allowing us to welcome the sect leader's arrival!"
Lu Yuan stopped five meters away from the blood pool.
He sized up the old monster with the same look he had on a pile of unrecyclable hazardous waste.
"An outer disciple of the Blood River Sect in the Sirius Star Region came to Earth to act all high and mighty."
Lu Yuan's voice sounded particularly jarring in the empty cave.
"Who gave you the audacity to plot against the ley lines of this planet?"