darknovel Chapter 31 The Boundary-Suppressing Stone Shatters, Spiritual Energy Soars to the Heavens
Chapter 31 The Boundary-Suppressing Stone Shatters, Spiritual Energy Soars to the Heavens
"Click—"
The crisp sound of bones grinding together pierced the deathly silence of Medicine King Valley Square. Sun Changqing was gripped tightly by the neck by a hand with distinct knuckles, his whole body suspended in mid-air, his feet half a foot off the ground, kicking futilely, his face turning purplish-blue, his eyeballs almost bulging out.
Who would have thought that the mighty Medicine King, Master Gugu, a figure with the cultivation of a terrestrial immortal who could roam freely in the cultivation world, would now be like a stray dog out of water, without even a shred of room to resist?
His prized Earth Immortal True Qi crumbled like paper under Lu Yuan's seemingly casual palm, not even worthy of approaching the other's clothes. The suffocating feeling in his throat grew stronger, and the chill of death shot up his spine to the top of his head. For the first time, Sun Changqing felt a sense of "fear"—a despair of being crushed by absolute power, where even begging for mercy seemed pale.
Around the plaza, a dozen or so elders from Medicine King Valley were frozen in fear, their legs trembling, unable to even stand. Just moments before, they had been swaggering around with Sun Changqing, clamoring to grind Lu Yuan to dust. But now, seeing their Valley Master suspended in mid-air like a chicken, they didn't dare breathe, let alone rush to his aid. Even the courage to turn and run was completely crushed by the chilling pressure emanating from Lu Yuan.
"Let...let me go..." Sun Changqing's voice was hoarse like a broken gong, every word was stained with blood, his hands frantically prying at Lu Yuan's wrists, his nails almost digging into the other's flesh, but those fingers were like ancient black iron, not moving an inch.
He panicked, utterly panicked, and could only resort to his last trump card. His voice trembled with tears, yet he still tried to appear tough: "You can't kill me... I am the Master of Medicine King Valley... I have... the people of Kunlun behind me! Do you know Kunlun? Those reclusive immortals could crush you with a flick of their wrist!"
He thought that the name "Kunlun" was enough to intimidate any powerful person in the world, enough to make Lu Yuan wary and spare his life.
But when Lu Yuan heard those two words, his eyes remained completely unmoved, and he didn't even frown. Instead, a faint, cold sneer appeared on his lips.
"Kunlun?" His voice was not loud, but it carried a condescending indifference, like a god looking down on ants. "After I finish dealing with the scum here, I will personally go to Kunlun and drag out those rats hiding in the ravines one by one and crush their bones."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yuan's fingers, which were gripping Sun Changqing's neck, began to slowly tighten!
"Crunch—crunch—"
The sickening grinding sound of cervical vertebrae rang out again, clearly reaching everyone's ears, sending chills down the spines of the elders and disciples. Sun Changqing's face had turned from bluish-purple to deathly ashen; his breathing grew weaker and weaker, and his struggles with his limbs gradually weakened. The shadow of death had completely engulfed him.
"No...no...I was wrong...please...let me go just this once..." Sun Changqing completely broke down, his desperate cries were broken and shattered, where was there any trace of the arrogant demeanor he had just displayed?
Just as his neck was about to be completely crushed and his consciousness was about to fade away—
"Buzz!!!"
Suddenly, a blinding black light burst forth from Sun Changqing's chest! The black light was extremely eerie, carrying a chilling fluctuation of law, and swept out like a tide, instantly enveloping the entire Medicine King Valley Square.
The surrounding temperature plummeted by tens of degrees, the previously sweltering air instantly froze, and even the light seemed to be swallowed up by the black light, leaving only a deathly darkness between heaven and earth. The elders and disciples who were lying on the ground trembling had their internal energy instantly locked up under the black light, their meridians stiff as stone, making it impossible for them to move, let alone blink or twitch a finger.
"Hahaha! Hahaha! Heaven hasn't forsaken me! Heaven hasn't forsaken me!"
Taking advantage of the moment the black light burst forth, Sun Changqing mustered his last bit of strength and managed to break free from Lu Yuan's grasp. He scrambled back more than ten meters, collapsed onto the ground, and gasped for breath, his face filled with the madness and triumph of surviving a disaster.
He ripped open the Taoist robe at his chest, revealing a black stone fragment the size of a fingernail embedded in his chest—the eerie black light was emanating continuously from this fragment.
"Boy! You forced me to this!" Sun Changqing's eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at Lu Yuan, his voice filled with resentment and arrogance. "This is the sacred artifact of my Medicine King Valley! It's a supreme treasure capable of influencing the laws of heaven and earth! As long as I possess it, the laws of this world are under my control! No matter how strong you are, can you be stronger than the laws of heaven and earth?"
Before he could finish speaking, Sun Changqing formed an extremely strange hand seal and slammed it onto the black fragment on his chest, roaring, "Law Suppression! Kneel down!!"
boom!
The black light intensified, instantly growing several times larger, transforming into a black pillar of light as thick as a bucket. With a world-destroying pressure, it crashed down, completely enveloping Lu Yuan within it!
This power is not true qi, not internal strength, and certainly not ordinary cultivation power—it is the true power of the laws of heaven and earth! It is the "chain" that was used to set up the Great Array of Separating Heaven and Earth and sealing off the spiritual energy of the entire earth. It is the supreme power that can suppress all living beings!
Sun Changqing burst into arrogant laughter, laughing so hard he almost fell over, tears welling in his eyes: "Hahaha! Lu Yuan! Weren't you so arrogant? Weren't you so powerful? Now that you're suppressed by the laws of heaven and earth, let's see how arrogant you can be! Even a true immortal descending to earth would be crushed into mincemeat under the weight of this pillar of light! You're dead! You're doomed!"
The elders and disciples in the square also showed expressions of ecstasy—they knew that the power of the laws of heaven and earth was irresistible, and Lu Yuan was doomed to die this time!
However, the next second, everyone's smiles froze on their faces.
Lu Yuan, shrouded in black light, stood tall and straight like a pine tree. He didn't kneel down, and not even a single hair bent. His face remained indifferent, as if what enveloped him was not a world-destroying pillar of light, but a wisp of insignificant breeze.
He slowly raised his hand, looked at the few strands of black law patterns flowing on the back of his hand, a hint of impatience and sneer flashed in his eyes, then he raised his eyes, his gaze like a knife, piercing straight at Sun Changqing.
"Taking a scrap of a world-suppressing stone used to prop up table corners in the cultivation world," Lu Yuan's voice pierced through the black light, clearly reaching everyone's ears, carrying a cold indifference and disdain that looked down upon all living beings, "you dare to talk about the suppression of laws before me?"
My true self?
These two words exploded in Sun Changqing's ears like a thunderclap, instantly silencing his laughter and replacing his arrogance with astonishment.
Before he could react, Lu Yuan didn't use any true essence or any immortal techniques. He simply clenched his right fist—the physical strength of a peak Mahayana stage cultivator erupted completely without reservation at this moment!
"Snap!"
A crisp, cracking sound rang out in mid-air.
That seemingly indestructible black pillar of law, capable of suppressing even gods, was like glass struck by a heavy hammer, instantly covered with countless cracks. Then, with a deafening "BOOM!!!", the entire pillar of light shattered, turning into countless black specks of light that receded like a tide, completely dissipating into the world.
At the same time, the black fragment embedded in Sun Changqing's chest also made a crisp "crack" sound, instantly splitting in two and falling to the ground, no longer emitting a trace of light.
"puff--!"
Sun Changqing suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the ground in front of him red. He collapsed to the ground, as if all his bones had been drained, his body convulsing, too weak to even lift his head.
He stared intently at Lu Yuan, his eyes wide open, devoid of resentment or arrogance, filled only with a deep-seated, unmasked, pure fear—this man could shatter even the laws of heaven and earth with a single punch! This was no human! This was a god! A true god who held the power of life and death over all things!
Lu Yuan slowly walked up to Sun Changqing, looking down at him with a cold gaze, as if he were looking at a corpse that was already dead.
"Who else but your Medicine King Valley set up the Great Array of Separation and Heavenly Connection back then?" He didn't bother to waste words with Sun Changqing, his tone was calm, but it carried an undeniable pressure.
Before he finished speaking, Lu Yuan reached out and placed his palm down on Sun Changqing's crown.
Soul Searching Technique!
The immense and domineering divine sense, like a raging flood, brutally tore open Sun Changqing's sea of consciousness, ignoring his soul's resistance, turning his 120 years of memories upside down, leaving no detail untouched.
Within seconds, Lu Yuan withdrew his hand.
Sun Changqing's eyes instantly lost focus, his pupils dilated, and bloodstains still wet at the corners of his mouth. He had become an empty shell without a soul—his soul had been completely crushed by Lu Yuan's divine sense.
With a casual wave of his hand, Lu Yuan unleashed an invisible gust of wind, instantly turning Sun Changqing's corpse into dust that scattered with the wind, leaving no trace as if it had never existed in the world.
"The martial god behind the Ye family in the capital, the bronze gate at the bottom of Kunlun Mountain, and those arrogant, self-proclaimed gods overseas..." Lu Yuan murmured, sorting through the information obtained from the soul search. A cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth. "It seems there are more insects on this earth than I thought. It saves me the trouble of searching for them one by one."
He didn't even spare a glance for the Medicine King Valley disciples who were terrified and trembling on the ground in the square—in his eyes, these people were no different from ants and not worth his time.
Lu Yuan walked straight to the back of the main hall of Medicine King Valley, where there was a bottomless dry well with faint spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from its mouth—that was the location of the miniature spiritual vein of Medicine King Valley, and also the place where the core fragment of the boundary-suppressing stone was enshrined.
Reaching the well, Lu Yuan did not hesitate at all, and leaped directly into the dry well.
At the bottom of the dry well lay a massive underground cavern, its interior chillingly cold and filled with a dense aura of laws. In the center of the cavern, a fist-sized black stone floated in mid-air, radiating a law fluctuation a thousand times stronger than the fragment on Sun Changqing's chest—this was the true core fragment of the World-Suppressing Stone!
It's like an invisible giant lock, tightly locking the miniature spiritual vein below that's churning and radiating rich spiritual energy, preventing even a trace of spiritual energy from leaking out. It's precisely because of it that Earth's spiritual energy is so scarce.
Lu Yuan walked up to the black stone, his eyes unwavering, and directly reached out and grabbed the core fragment of the World-Suppressing Stone.
"Something as worthless as this is not fit to suppress a spiritual vein."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yuan tightened his fingers slightly—
"Bang!"
The seemingly indestructible core fragment of the boundary-suppressing stone, capable of sealing off the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, was crushed into powder in his hands like fragile glass, and scattered with the wind.
Without the suppression of the boundary stone, the miniature spiritual vein below instantly became like a wild horse, rampaging wildly!
"Boom—!!!"
A violent tremor instantly swept across the entire Hundred Thousand Mountains. The earth shook, rocks tumbled down, as if the whole world was about to collapse. A visible, dense, and almost impenetrable spiritual energy surged forth from the spiritual veins, transforming into a towering white pillar of light that shot from the dry well, piercing the clouds and illuminating the entire southwestern land!
The scale of this spiritual energy tide is ten times larger than the one that swept across the earth last night. Wherever the spiritual energy passes, mountains and rivers change color, vegetation grows wildly, and even the dust in the air is stained by the spiritual energy, becoming crystal clear.
Lu Yuan stood at the center of the pillar of spiritual energy, took a deep breath, and the rich spiritual energy instantly surged into his body, nourishing his physical body and divine sense. He nodded slightly, his tone calm: "Barely enough for my sister to use for Foundation Establishment."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yuan's hands moved swiftly, forming hand seals and unleashing a series of profound immortal incantations that transformed into golden runes, coiling around the raging spiritual vein. Guided by the incantations, the turbulent miniature spiritual vein gradually calmed down, rapidly shrinking until it finally transformed into a crystal-clear, spiritually radiant bead, which slowly fell into Lu Yuan's hand—this was the Spiritual Vein Origin Bead, containing the essence of the entire spiritual vein, making it incredibly precious.
With the spiritual veins drained, the foundation of Medicine King Valley collapsed completely. The main hall, the square, and the houses all began to crumble, and smoke and dust filled the air.
Lu Yuan's figure flashed, emerging from the dry well like a ghost. His divine sense instantly swept across the entire Medicine King Valley, and he quickly located the batch of rare medicinal herbs that Lin Fei had stolen in a hidden treasure vault. With a casual wave of his hand, he stored all the herbs into his Nine Heavens Storage Ring without the slightest hesitation.
After doing all this, Lu Yuan lightly touched the ground with his toes, and his figure transformed into a streak of light, speeding towards Jiangnan City—he had promised his sister that he would return as soon as possible to help her establish her foundation.
……
Just as the core fragment of the Boundary-Suppressing Stone was crushed and a pillar of spiritual energy shot into the sky, the once peaceful hall of the underground command center of the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals in the capital was instantly engulfed by a piercing red alarm.
On the huge electronic screen, in the location of the Ten Thousand Mountains in Southwest China, a dark red dot of light flickered wildly, its glare almost burning the screen.
"Chief! Something terrible has happened! The spiritual energy index in the southwest has completely exceeded the limit!" A monitor's face was pale, his voice trembling, his hands gripping the keyboard tightly, almost crying. "The value... the value has exceeded the measurement limit of our instruments; we can't read it at all! The scale of the spiritual energy tide is unprecedented!"
Ye Tiannan, the director of the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals, stood in front of the screen, his body trembling slightly. He stared intently at the dark red dot of light, his fingers holding a cigar shaking uncontrollably. Hot ash fell onto the back of his hand, burning a red mark, but he was completely unaware and didn't even frown.
His face was extremely pale, his lips trembled, and he muttered to himself, "The boundary-suppressing stone... is shattered... really shattered..."
He knew better than anyone that the Boundary-Suppressing Stone was the key to sealing the Earth's spiritual energy. Once it shattered, the tide of spiritual energy would sweep across the globe, and all the demons, monsters, and hidden forces lurking in the shadows would emerge, completely disrupting the order of the entire world!
"Notify Skynet! Immediately mobilize all satellites to monitor the Ten Thousand Mountains in the southwest from all angles. Find out exactly what happened!" Ye Tiannan turned around abruptly, his eyes bloodshot, his teeth clenched, and roared, his voice filled with anxiety and gravity. "Also! Immediately send someone to Kunlun Mountain, at all costs, to persuade the Ancestor to come out of seclusion! Tell the Ancestor that the Boundary-Suppressing Stone has shattered, and the world... is about to change!"
The entire command center instantly descended into a flurry of activity and chaos, as everyone knew that a global storm was about to break out.
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