noffsinger Chapter 128 Touching the Scale Means Death: The Crimson Defense Line of Cloud Peak Manor
Chapter 128 Touching the Scale Means Death: The Crimson Defense Line of Cloud Peak Manor
Golmud Military Airport.
A Gulfstream G650ER private jet, painted entirely in black, roared deafeningly on the runway.
Lu Yuan strode up the gangway.
Ye Qingcheng gripped the rusty iron sword tightly, shrinking into the corner of the cabin like a maid who had made a mistake, not daring to even breathe loudly.
She watched as Lu Yuan tore the old man's dried corpse apart with his bare hands, and then did something at the bottom of the Dragon Transformation Pool. The aura that had been suppressed to the extreme on his body now had a trace of the warmth of a living person.
But this temperature was even more terrifying than the absolute stillness of before. It was like an active volcano about to erupt, with lava already surging to the crater.
"take off."
Lu Yuan leaned back in the leather seat, not even fastening his seatbelt.
The captain swallowed through his internal communicator.
"Mr. Lu, the control tower reports severe convective weather ahead. Forcing an ascent now could result in the structure disintegrating..."
"I'll let you take off."
Lu Yuan's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached the ears of the two pilots in the cockpit through the bulletproof glass and soundproofing layer.
The captain's back straightened abruptly. His previously steady breathing instantly became thin and broken. Instinctively, he pushed the throttle to its maximum, ignoring the tower's warnings, and forcefully lifted the multi-million dollar plane into the air.
Lu Yuan turned his head and looked out the window at the snow-capped mountains that were rapidly shrinking.
He spread out his left hand.
There was a pinch of grayish-white powder in his palm, which was the low-grade spirit stone that he had just crushed.
A wisp of golden true essence, so faint it was almost negligible, burrowed into the pile of powder from his fingertip. The spirit stone powder, which had already turned into waste, was drawn back together by the true essence and condensed into a tiny speck of light the size of a grain of rice.
Refine the first layer of true essence.
too weak.
But this proves that the Heavenly Dao Life-Stealing Curse jointly planted by the nine Immortal Emperors is not a monolithic entity. As long as there is a sufficiently high-level energy impact, that black chain will eventually be completely broken.
"Mr. Lu..."
Ye Qingcheng boldly took half a step forward.
"You just said that the things in the Dragon-Locking Well went to Panlong Mountain. Should I contact the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance's people in Jiangnan and have them hold out for a while?"
Lu Yuan didn't even lift his eyelids.
"Are those useless trash from your Ancient Martial Arts Alliance who haven't even mastered the Transcendent Realm going to fill its teeth?"
Ye Qingcheng was so choked that her face turned pale, and she bit her lip tightly, daring not to speak anymore.
The rusty iron sword in her hand radiated warmth from its hilt. Simply by holding this sword, her dantian, which had been half-destroyed, showed signs of restarting.
This broken sword, which Lu Yuan considered less than trash, would be an absolute divine weapon on Earth, capable of stirring up a bloodbath throughout the martial arts world.
At the same time.
Jiangzhou, Panlongshan Villa District.
Heavy rain.
Large raindrops pounded on the asphalt road outside Yunding Mountain Villa, splashing up a white mist.
Lin Zhen, dressed in a black waterproof tactical suit, stood before the checkpoint halfway up the mountain. His palms were sweaty, and rainwater streamed down the edge of his tactical helmet.
As the head of the Jiangnan branch of the Astronomical Observatory, he is currently under more pressure than Mount Tai.
Shen Qingci gave a firm order over the phone: no matter the cost, that monster must be kept out of Panlong Mountain. If Lu Yuan's sister lost even a single hair, the entire Jiangnan Astronomical Bureau could start buying coffins in advance.
"Director Lin! The monitoring equipment for the underground water veins has exceeded its maximum speed!"
A technician held a tablet computer, his voice trembling and distorted.
"That thing was incredibly fast! It didn't use the sewers; it burrowed directly into the underground rock!"
Lin Zhen snatched the tablet away.
The red dot on the screen looked like a cruise missile traveling underground, cutting straight through the underground rock layers of Jiangzhou, and was less than three kilometers away from Panlong Mountain.
"First line of defense ready!"
Lin Zhen drew his specially made sidearm from his waist and pulled the bolt.
"Anti-armor rocket launcher loaded! Liquid nitrogen injector preheating! Once it shows its face, blast it to pieces!"
More than three hundred fully armed elite soldiers from the Celestial Surveillance Bureau lined up along the mountain path of Panlong Mountain. These were all veterans who had experienced numerous missions to exterminate mutated beasts, but at this moment, everyone's breathing became extremely heavy.
Suddenly, a strong, fishy stench filled the air.
The smell was like ten thousand rotting corpses being stuffed into a sewer and fermented for over a decade; even through a gas mask, it was enough to seep into your nasal cavity.
boom!
A huge bulge suddenly appeared on the asphalt road halfway up the mountain.
Immediately afterwards, the hard road surface was torn apart as if it were made of paper.
A black column of water, as thick as a water vat, mixed with gravel and mud, shot into the sky.
"Fire!"
Lin Zhen roared hoarsely.
Bang bang bang bang!
Six anti-tank rockets, trailing long plumes of flame, struck the black column of water with pinpoint accuracy.
The deafening explosion echoed through the valley. The flames instantly illuminated half the night sky.
But the next second, Lin Zhen's mouth was half-open, and the light and shadow in his eyes flickered violently. The noisy background noise around him vanished completely in that instant.
The flames died down.
A huge head slowly emerged from the blasted crater.
It was a head resembling a snake's, but with a huge fleshy growth on its top and barbs covering its lower jaw. Its entire body was covered in palm-sized black scales.
The rocket that had just struck the scales, powerful enough to penetrate the armor of a main battle tank, left only a few white marks.
Black water snake.
This monster, which had been suppressed at the bottom of the Dragon-Locking Well for three hundred years, finally saw the light of day again after absorbing the overflowing underground water veins.
Its inverted triangular, yellow, vertical pupils coldly swept over the surrounding elite officers of the Skywatch Bureau, its eyes revealing undisguised contempt. It was like a human looking at a group of ants trying to stop a bulldozer with toothpicks.
"hiss--"
The black water snake opened its blood-red maw and let out a chilling hiss.
A visible black miasma gushed from its mouth, rushing towards the first line of defense with the wind.
"Put on your gas masks! Retreat!"
Lin Zhen hadn't finished speaking.
The first dozen or so special forces soldiers had just come into contact with the black poisonous miasma when their high-polymer protective suits began to hiss and corrode.
"Aaaaaah!"
Screams ripped through the rainy night.
Several team members couldn't even last ten seconds. The lenses of their gas masks melted, toxic gas filled their respiratory tracts, and they turned into a pool of foul-smelling blood from the inside out.
Lin Zhen gripped the edge of the tablet computer tightly in his hand. The edges of his fingernails were bloodless, and his knuckles stood out starkly against a thin layer of skin. His strength was so great that the muscles in his entire forearm were twitching silently.
Unstoppable.
This is something that modern conventional firepower simply cannot deal with.
The black water snake completely ignored the defeated "ants." It raised its head and greedily sniffed the air.
At the Cloud Peak Manor atop the mountain, there exists a pure spiritual aura that drives it to madness.
That was the scent of a top-grade furnace cauldron emanating from the Nine Yin Profound Meridian after it was opened by the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow. As long as it devours that girl, it can completely transform into a dragon and even break through the constraints of this world.
Boom!
The black water serpent's enormous body emerged completely from the ground, reaching a length of over thirty meters. It swung its tail, covered in bone spurs, and smashed two armored vehicles blocking its path into scrap metal. Its massive body crushed the asphalt road as it charged madly towards the mountaintop.
"Director Lin! It's charging forward!"
The technician slumped down in the mud, his face filled with despair.
Lin Zhen flung the tablet aside and pulled a high-frequency vibrating knife from a box next to him.
"I'll risk my life today to stall until Mr. Lu gets back! Follow me!"
Just as Lin Zhen was preparing to lead his men up to their deaths.
Suddenly, a blinding purple light burst forth from the Cloud Peak Villa atop the mountain.
The Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array that Lu Yuan had previously laid down was forcibly triggered by external forces.