ryethenovel Chapter 6 The Ants' Gaze
Chapter 6 The Ants' Gaze
The night wind suddenly stopped.
A harsh, acidic sound, like a thick steel plate being forcibly twisted, filled the air.
The hundreds of martial arts elites in the courtyard, carrying machetes, were shouting to rush into the villa a second ago, but the next second, they all seemed to be crushed by an invisible mountain.
"Puff puff puff puff..."
A series of muffled thuds.
It wasn't just being knocked down. It was being crushed flat.
Lin Zhentian was at the very front, and he didn't even have time to finish raising his hand to block. The moment his proud inner strength rose from his dantian and came into contact with this invisible pressure, his dantian exploded like a rotten tomato that had been crushed.
His spine snapped instantly at the neck, the white bone fragments piercing the collar of his Zhongshan suit. His entire body lay sprawled on the marble floor like a lump of rotten flesh.
Blood mixed with fragments of internal organs spread wildly through the cracks in the floor tiles.
The ground of the entire courtyard sank by half a meter.
More than a hundred internal energy martial artists. They didn't even get to utter a complete scream. Completely wiped out.
Ye Qingcheng stood at the very back of the crowd.
She was the only person still standing in the entire room.
But she looks completely different now than the aloof and powerful Grandmaster she was just moments ago.
Her pure white practice clothes were completely soaked with cold sweat, clinging tightly to her body. Her long, slender legs were shaking uncontrollably.
The kneecap made a creaking sound as if it might crack at any moment.
She bit her tongue hard, the rusty taste of blood filling her mouth, trying to maintain her last shred of consciousness with the excruciating pain.
A faint white light formed on her body from the Transcendent Qi, but this white light was cracking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Is this what he meant by...reinventing the awe of power?
Ye Qingcheng gasped for breath, her throat constricted like a bellows. She struggled to lift her head and looked at the young man in the blue robe on the second-floor terrace.
Lu Yuan had one hand behind his back.
He didn't take the stairs.
Instead, he stepped directly onto the edge of the terrace, his foot landing in the empty night.
There was no wire work. There was no internal energy lifting.
He walked down slowly, step by step, as if he were walking on the bluestone slabs in his own backyard, as if he were stepping on the air.
Ye Qingcheng felt a violent churning in her stomach.
Soaring through the air.
This is a threshold that only those in the divine realm can reach!
No, even a god-level expert could not do it so effortlessly. He didn't even let a trace of his inner energy leak out!
"Who...who are you?!"
Ye Qingcheng's voice cracked completely. She abruptly drew the soft sword wrapped around her waist.
He poured his inner energy into it frantically. The soft sword stood taut, emitting a clear, resonant sword cry.
"The Ancient Martial Arts Alliance is in charge!! If you dare kill me, you'll be mortal enemies with the entire Chinese martial arts world!!"
She had no choice but to move out of the mountain, hoping to use the sign to suppress the other party's murderous intent.
Lu Yuan stopped in mid-air, less than five meters away from Ye Qingcheng.
He looked at the sword in Ye Qingcheng's hand, which was trembling like a sieve.
"A fight to the death?"
Lu Yuan's tone carried a despairing calmness.
"All the masters in the city boast of ascending to heaven, but today I will use my mortal flesh and blood to crush your pride at the bottom of the well."
Lu Yuan raised his right hand.
He flicked his index finger lightly in the air.
"when!!"
The hundred-refined soft sword in Ye Qingcheng's hand shattered inch by inch, starting from the tip.
The steel blade turned into a flurry of flying iron filings.
The force of the recoil slammed into Ye Qingcheng's hand along the sword hilt. Her entire right sleeve instantly tore into strips, the skin and flesh rolled back, and blood gushed out.
Her proudly displayed Transcendent Qi was less than paper-thin, and was instantly torn to shreds.
Ye Qingcheng could no longer withstand the pressure, and with a "thud," her knees slammed into the broken glass and blood.
Her proud Dao heart. Her unparalleled talent, which allowed her to reach the Transcendent Realm at the age of twenty-four, became a complete joke in the blink of an eye for this man.
Lu Yuan landed on the ground.
The blue cloth shoes stepped into the pool of blood, yet remained unstained.
He walked up to Ye Qingcheng, looking down at the trembling woman.
"True rules are never spoken, but are built inch by inch with your own bones."
Lu Yuan did not kill her.
Killing such an ant, who couldn't even withstand a wisp of pressure from a Golden Core cultivator, would only dirty his hands.
He needed a messenger. A messenger that could instill fear in those insects lurking in the shadows.
Lu Yuan extended two fingers, pinched Ye Qingcheng's chin, and forced her to raise her head.
Ye Qingcheng was forced to meet Lu Yuan's eyes.
What kind of eyes were those? No murderous intent, no anger, only endless indifference. Like someone looking at a nest of ants at their feet.
"Go back and tell that so-called alliance of yours."
"Jiangzhou is now my training ground, Lu Yuan's training ground."
"Who dares to take even half a step in?"
"Kill without mercy."
Lu Yuan released his grip.
A wisp of black death energy slid down Ye Qingcheng's chin and into her meridians, settling deep within her dantian.
Ye Qingcheng groaned and clutched her stomach, collapsing to the ground. She could feel that if she circulated her internal energy even slightly, the deathly aura would cut through her internal organs like a knife.
Half of her cultivation was destroyed.
"roll."
Lu Yuan uttered a single word, then turned and walked into the villa.
Ye Qingcheng bit her pale lips tightly, not daring to utter a single harsh word. Using her only remaining left hand to support herself, she scrambled and crawled away from this hellish scene.
……
Lu Yuan returned to his bedroom on the second floor.
The Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array is now fully operational. The spiritual energy within a hundred miles of Panlong Mountain has been forcibly drained and poured into this villa.
The air in the bedroom was so thick that it condensed into wisps of white mist.
Lu Qingxue was lying in bed.
But the situation did not improve as Lu Yuan had expected.
in contrast.
The frost on Lu Qingxue's body not only did not disappear, but instead formed a thin layer of ice. Even her breath froze into ice crystals in mid-air.
Lu Yuan frowned.
He reached out and placed his hand on his sister's wrist.
An extremely domineering and chilling aura rushed straight into Lu Yuan's meridians from his fingertips.
The spiritual power of Lu Yuan's Golden Core Peak form automatically protected him, instantly shattering the chilling aura.
"Nine Yin Mystic Meridians..."
Lu Yuan looked at his sister's pale face.
He underestimated the unique nature of Earth in this degenerate age.
The Nine Yin Profound Meridian is an extremely cold physique that is extremely rare, appearing only once every ten thousand years in the cultivation world. Once this physique is activated, simply feeding it with spiritual energy will only make the cold poison grow stronger, eventually freezing the host completely into an ice sculpture.
The defective Marrow Cleansing Pill, combined with the spiritual energy of the entire mountain, became a deadly poison.
We must find something extremely hot to neutralize it.
Where can we find extremely hot items on Earth, a barren planet depleted of spiritual energy?
The copper piece that had been taken from the Chu family's safe flashed through Lu Yuan's mind.
Since there are fragments of coordinate scrolls for the Sirius star system on Earth, it means that cultivators once left their mark here.
Those hidden tycoons and powerful families must hold resources he is unaware of.
"If the laws of this world cannot tolerate Lu Qingxue, then I will overturn the ironclad rules of this earth, along with your lives."
Lu Yuan forced out a drop of golden primordial blood from his fingertip and placed it on Lu Qingxue's brow.
Her essence and blood transformed into an intricate golden rune, seeping into her skin.
The outbreak of the cold poison was temporarily halted.
But this drop of essence blood can only last for half a month at most.
We must obtain something extremely hot within half a month.
……
Jiangzhou First Hospital. Top floor VVIP ward.
Zhao Tianlong was wearing a custom-made Armani suit, but his tie was tugged and twisted.
Through the bulletproof glass, he looked at his son, Zhao Gongzi, who was strapped to the hospital bed.
The black lotus mark between Zhao Gongzi's brows was already half-bloomed. He was experiencing the midnight soul-devouring by ten thousand ants.
The piercing screams couldn't be blocked even by the soundproof walls. The various medical instruments in the ward emitted sharp alarms.
The doctors stood helplessly outside the glass. They severed Zhao Gongzi's pain nerves and injected the maximum dose of anesthetic, but the man on the bed continued to frantically tear at his own flesh.
Zhao Tianlong's phone vibrated.
After the call connected, the message inside made him smash the custom-made satellite phone against the wall.
The Chu family manor was burned to the ground. The elite Jiangzhou martial arts association was completely wiped out at Panlong Mountain. Lin Zhentian died without a complete corpse.
Zhao Tianlong slumped onto the leather sofa in the corridor.
His prized financial empire appeared utterly pale in the face of absolute violence.
But he was not willing to give up.
His son is dying. He absolutely cannot let that poor boy live comfortably.
"Go. Contact the dark web."
Zhao Tianlong gritted his teeth and gave an order to the butler beside him.
"Ten billion US dollars. To buy that little bastard's head."
The butler shuddered in fright.
"Sir... 10 billion US dollars... that would attract all the top ten madmen in the world. If things escalate and the higher-ups investigate..."
"I can't care about that anymore!!"
Zhao Tianlong kicked over the trash can next to him.
"A generous reward will surely attract brave men. If the martial arts world can't handle him, then let those superhuman monsters from abroad do it!! I refuse to believe that he can single-handedly stop assassins from all over the world!!"
……
At the same time.
The capital city. One thousand meters underground.
This is the headquarters of the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals, the highest-secret agency in China.
In a huge circular monitoring hall covering several thousand square meters, hundreds of supercomputers are running at full speed.
A 100-inch screen in the center of the hall is displaying a map of China.
Meanwhile, in Jiangzhou City, Jiangnan Province, a glaring red warning light is flashing wildly.
"Beep beep beep beep—"
The piercing alarm sounded throughout the hall.
A researcher in a white lab coat scrambled toward the control panel.
"Chief!! Something's happened!!"
A middle-aged man in a black military uniform, with general's stars on his shoulders, strode over. A scar running from the corner of his left eye to his chin twitched slightly as his taut muscles moved.
Director of the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals. Peak of the War God Realm. Long Yuan.
"What's the panic? Speak."
The researcher's finger trembled as he pointed at the red dot on the screen representing Jiangzhou City.
"Jiangzhou... the concentration of spiritual energy in Jiangzhou's ley lines has suddenly dropped by ninety percent in the past ten minutes!!"
Long Yuan suddenly grabbed the researcher by the collar.
"What did you say?! The earth's veins are dried up? Which S-class mutated beast has awakened?!"
"No...it's not a mutated beast..."
The researchers pulled up another set of data. An energy model resembling a tornado appeared on the screen.
"The spiritual energy within a hundred miles of Jiangzhou did not disappear... but was forcibly drawn out by some unknown force and gathered at one point."
The researcher typed on the keyboard, and the red dot on the screen grew larger and larger. It finally settled on a hilltop on the western outskirts of Jiangzhou City.
Panlong Mountain.
Long Yuan stared intently at the energy value on the screen, which was almost off the charts. The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end.
It forcibly drained the spiritual energy from the earth's veins within a radius of a hundred miles.
This is something that martial arts cannot accomplish. Even the legendary gods could never possess such earth-shattering abilities.
A top-secret file suddenly flashed through Long Yuan's mind.
One hundred years ago. File No. 0.
The white-clad man who appeared out of nowhere and wiped out half the city with a wave of his hand.
"Immediately contact the Jiangnan Provincial Military Region."
Long Yuan's voice was frighteningly deep.
"Mobilize space-based satellites to keep a close watch on Panlong Mountain."
"Notify those old monsters under the 'Heavenly Prison'... to be ready to be released at any time."
Long Yuan stared at the blinding red light on the screen, and his palms were suddenly covered in cold sweat.
Heaven has changed.