great-warnovel Chapter 153 The Dog in the Stagnant Pool
Chapter 153 The Dog in the Stagnant Pool
Lu Yuan put the mysterious bronze piece covered with starry sky patterns into his pocket.
He didn't even glance at Zhou Ming, who was now in a vegetative state, on the ground, before turning and walking out of the office that reeked of burnt food.
At the end of the corridor, a dedicated elevator leading 1,500 meters underground was flashing a glaring red light. The elevator shaft's physical locking system was fully activated. Behind the thick, bulletproof glass beside it, dozens of fully armed bodyguards, holding electromagnetic pulse guns, stared intently at Lu Yuan.
Their hands were shaking so badly that even the gun barrels were rattling.
Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.
He lifted his foot. The white canvas sole seemed to casually tread on the superalloy floor beneath his feet.
Boom!
A dull, loud bang exploded from underground.
The half-meter-thick special alloy steel plate, like a thin, crisp biscuit, was stomped into a hole three meters in diameter by Lu Yuan's foot.
A feeling of weightlessness suddenly descended.
With his hands in his pockets, Lu Yuan plummeted down the vertical shaft he had broken through, crashing into the bottom of the prison 1,500 meters below in a freefall motion.
The wind whistled past my ears like knives.
Layer upon layer of defensive barriers were shattered by his falling body. The radars and sensors, costing hundreds of millions, were reduced to scrap metal before they could even sound an alarm.
At the same time.
The lowest level of the capital's imperial prison is a stagnant, icy pool.
The air here is so cold it could freeze your lungs. There are no lights, only the eerie green glow emanating from the surface of the icy pool.
The pool water had a deathly black color. It was mixed with an extremely high concentration of earth vein evil energy and the toxins of extraterrestrial meteorite iron. Not to mention living people, even a Grandmaster of the Transcendent Realm would have his bones melt into a pool of yellow water within three seconds if he got a little bit of it.
Five or six people stood by the cold pool.
The leader was a gaunt old man dressed in a custom-made Tang suit. He was Wang Zhentian, the current head of the Wang family in the capital.
Standing next to him were several core elders of the Ye family.
Wang Zhentian held two mutton-fat jade walnuts in his hands, his eyes fixed on the center of the cold pool with fervor.
"Master, Zhou Ming has cut off the signal to Panlong Mountain. The people from Tianji Pavilion have already made their move in Jiangzhou."
A steward from the Wang family stepped forward and reported in a low voice.
Wang Zhentian snorted coldly.
"That little bastard Lu Yuan is probably already turned into fish droppings in the deep sea trench of the East China Sea. The S.H.I.E.L.D. has deployed three nuclear submarines, plus S-class experts from the Dark Web. Even if he were a celestial being, he would be skinned alive."
Wang Zhentian squeezed the jade walnuts until they made a cracking sound.
"Once the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion kills his sister and extracts her Nine Yin Profound Meridian, coupled with the treasures at the bottom of this cold pool, and the arrival of the envoy from the Sirius Star Region, our Wang and Ye families can directly replace that spineless Elder Li and take over the entire China!"
An elder of the Ye family rubbed his frozen hands.
"Old Wang, the Yin Corpses down there are getting increasingly voracious. We've thrown in thirty death row inmates in the last two days, and it hasn't even made a ripple. How much more blood will we need once the formation is fully activated?"
"What's the panic?"
Wang Zhentian's triangular eyes revealed a ruthless glint.
"Twenty years ago, our two families joined forces to imprison his cultivator father here, draining his life essence to feed this Yin Corpse. Now it's just on its last breath. At worst, we can capture a few hundred civilians from outside the defense zone to fill the pit."
Wang Zhentian had a very clear plan in his mind.
What does it matter if a few hundred civilians die? As long as the interdimensional array is activated, they can obtain cultivation techniques and gain hundreds of years of lifespan. This deal is a sure win no matter how you look at it.
Just then.
Suddenly, a teeth-grinding tearing sound came from the super-strong alloy dome above.
boom!
A steel plate weighing over ten tons fell from the sky, crashing heavily less than ten meters from the icy pool. The ground trembled violently, and fragments of rock flew in all directions like bullets.
Wang Zhentian's eyelids twitched suddenly, and the jade walnut he was holding fell to the ground and broke in two.
The dust settled.
A boy in a white shirt stands on a deformed steel plate.
There wasn't a single wrinkle on the clothes.
Dead silence.
Even breathing stopped in the entire bottom level of the prison.
The elders of the Ye family stared wide-eyed at the suddenly appearing evil star, like ducks with their necks being choked.
"Lu...Lu Yuan?!"
Wang Zhentian took half a step back and his back slammed into a load-bearing pillar.
His mind was buzzing. Jiangzhou was 1,200 kilometers away from the capital. Even if Lu Yuan hadn't died in the East Sea, it was impossible for him to suddenly appear in the underground prison 1,500 meters underground in such a short time.
This is completely beyond the realm of common human understanding.
Lu Yuan pulled his hands out of his pockets.
He looked around the dark and damp underground space, finally fixing his gaze on the stagnant pool of cold water bubbling with black bubbles.
"Your Wang and Ye families have been dogs of the Sirius Star Region for twenty years just for this disgusting thing?"
Lu Yuan's voice echoed in the empty underground cave.
Wang Zhentian forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart. He glanced at the stagnant pool behind him, and a twisted confidence suddenly arose in his originally panicked eyes.
This is a stagnant, cold pool.
It is an absolute magic-free zone.
No matter how capable Lu Yuan was outside, he couldn't even muster his internal energy here.
"You little bastard, don't be so arrogant!"
Wang Zhentian pointed at Lu Yuan's nose and started cursing.
"Since you've delivered yourself to our doorstep, it saves us the trouble of going to Jiangzhou to arrest you. Do you know what's locked at the bottom of this pool?"
A perverse pleasure appeared on Wang Zhentian's face.
"Your dead father has been soaking in this water for twenty years! This vengeful corpse has devoured all his flesh and blood. Today, I'll send you to reunite with that good-for-nothing!"
Lu Yuan looked at Wang Zhentian's smug face.
He felt that these natives' imaginative abilities were wasted if they didn't use their talents to write novels.
His cheapskate father had long since died, leaving not even ashes behind. These people actually thought that a mutated Yin Corpse fed on scraps could pose a threat to him, a Great Ascension Immortal Venerable.
"You talk too much nonsense."
Lu Yuan took a step forward.
Wang Zhentian's expression changed, and he suddenly bit his tongue, spitting a mouthful of blood onto a black array plate in his hand.
"Charge!"
With a loud shout.
The black water in the stagnant, cold pool began to churn violently.
Splash!
Eight ancient, cold iron chains, each as thick as a child's arm, snapped straight up from the bottom of the pool. The surface of the water exploded, and a corpse over three meters tall, covered in black scales and emitting a nauseating stench, burst forth from the bottom of the pool.
The mortal corpse had a mysterious copper plate embedded between its eyebrows, identical to the one in Lu Yuan's pocket.
The copper plate gleamed with a scarlet light. It was the coordinate node of the Blood River Sect's interdimensional teleportation array in the Sirius Star Region.
The corpse let out a roar that was not human.
With the support of the interdimensional array, the pressure emanating from it broke through the limits of the Earth's Divine Realm and reached the level of a half-step Golden Core.
The elders of the Ye family were forced to retreat repeatedly by this oppressive force, and eventually collapsed to the ground.
"Kill him! Chew his bones to pieces!"
Wang Zhentian hid behind the load-bearing pillar and roared hysterically.
The corpse's pale eyes locked onto Lu Yuan. It opened its blood-red maw, spewing poisonous water capable of melting steel, and lunged at Lu Yuan like a heavy tank.