great-warnovel Chapter 173 The Reverse Pump and the Bloodstained Broken Sword
Chapter 173 The Reverse Pump and the Bloodstained Broken Sword
Lu Yuan gripped the edge of the well with one hand and jumped down.
His toes landed firmly on the dark red, broken dragon vein. The violent earth vein energy surged upwards from the sole of his shoe, tearing several long rips in the hem of his black windbreaker.
The temperature at the bottom of the deep well was terrifyingly high. The surrounding rock walls had been baked into a glassy state by the high temperature of the earth's veins, reflecting a dark red light.
The blood-red hourglass, as tall as a three-story building, hung less than half a meter above the top of his head.
The blood inside was thick and black. With each drop it fell, the dragon vein's light dimmed a little. All the extracted primordial energy was continuously sent to the Sirius star system, countless light-years away, through a semi-transparent void vortex at the top of the hourglass.
Lu Yuan looked up at the void vortex.
"In the cultivation world, even those who steal someone's vegetable garden know to close the fence behind them when they leave."
Lu Yuan raised his right hand and made two illusory gestures in the air with his fingers.
"Leaving such a thick pipe uncut is like treating the Earth like a public toilet."
This hourglass is connected to the core of the dragon vein of Jiangnan Province. It's not difficult to smash it with a single punch, but the underground water system and geological structure of Jiangnan Province will explode along with it. At that time, not even a complete corpse will be left within a radius of hundreds of miles.
We must follow this existing pipeline and extract back everything they've ingested, with interest.
Lu Yuan pulled out the military satellite phone from his pocket, its screen cracked into a spiderweb pattern.
It was still covered with salt frost from the East China Sea and the monster's slime.
Dial Lin Zhen's hotline.
"Get in here."
The phone hangs up.
The entrance to the air-raid shelter.
Lin Zhen looked down at Wang Jianguo, who was slumped on the floor, his crotch covered in yellow liquid. This once arrogant special envoy from headquarters could no longer utter a complete sentence; only his throat emitted a hissing sound like a broken bellows.
The special lead-core door next to it, which is said to be able to withstand bunker-buster missiles, is curled up like a piece of waste paper and embedded in the load-bearing wall dozens of meters away.
Lin Zhen clenched his back teeth tightly, forcibly suppressing the acid churning in his stomach.
"Leave two people outside to keep watch. Don't let even a mouse in."
Lin Zhen waved his hand.
"The rest of you, take your medical kits and tactical lights, and follow me down into the cave."
A dozen or so powerful flashlights cut through the darkness inside the air-raid shelter.
The column had only advanced two hundred meters when a stench of dead fish, left to bake in the scorching sun for half a month, filled their nostrils. The two guards at the front immediately knelt on the ground and vomited up their breakfast along with stomach acid.
Lin Zhen pinched his nose and continued walking forward.
The flashlight beam shone into the center of the underground cavity.
The ground was covered with murky, black water. Thick shards of broken glass littered the ground.
Zhou Gong's withered and pale body lay in the mud, his chest rising and falling slightly.
Ye Qingcheng leaned against the dilapidated iron cage, holding a half-cup of water she had somehow found, and was pouring it into Tao Xuan's parched mouth.
Tao Xuan was missing an eye, and three blackened blood holes in his chest were still oozing black threads. He was on the verge of a final burst of energy before death.
"Where is Mr. Lu...?"
Lin Zhen's tongue was a little tied.
Ye Qingcheng put down her water glass and pointed to the huge gap in the corner of the wall that had been violently kicked open.
Lin Zhen swallowed hard, mustered his courage, walked to the edge of the gap, and peered down.
He almost fell headfirst into it.
A bottomless vertical shaft. At the bottom is a glowing red band of light.
A young man was sitting cross-legged on the strip of light, with several stones of different sizes in front of him.
The largest piece was a fragment of a boundary stone that Lu Yuan had dug out from the seabed of the Guixu Secret Realm in the East Sea. The other pieces were scraps left over from setting up the Panlong Mountain Spirit Gathering Array.
Lu Yuan completely ignored Lin Zhen, who was peeking around.
He placed the black jade plaque with the reverse coordinates engraved in the very center.
"Boundary stones, such a high-dimensional material, are used by you natives as nothing more than the outer shell of a locator."
Lu Yuan picked up the largest Guixu Boundary Stone.
His five fingers tightened suddenly.
The physical body of the Mahayana stage unleashed a terrifying crushing force. Countless cracks appeared on the surface of the indestructible boundary stone, and grayish-white stone skin fell off in a flurry.
Lu Yuan directly crushed the boundary stone into a puddle of fine stone powder.
He grabbed some stone powder and quickly sketched it on the dark red dragon vein spine, circling the jade tablet with the opposite coordinates.
The divine consciousness of the Mahayana stage transformed into a sharp carving knife, guiding the powder of these high-dimensional materials to forcibly embed into the texture of the dragon vein.
Less than three minutes later.
A two-meter-diameter inverted six-pointed star pattern has been formed.
The originally chaotic stone dust glowed with a blinding scarlet light the moment it came into contact with the earth's malevolent energy.
Lu Yuan patted the dust off his hands.
"Lin Zhen".
The sound came up from the bottom of the well and echoed in the empty air-raid shelter.
Lin Zhen quickly lay down by the well.
"Yes, Mr. Lu, what are your orders?"
"Carry Engineer Zhou and that old blind man out. Have the higher-ups prepare the highest-grade nutrient solution to keep them alive."
Lu Yuan looked up at the blood-red hourglass above him.
"Also, what do you, the Astronomical Bureau, plan to do with that fat guy surnamed Wang outside?"
The hairs on Lin Zhen's back stood on end.
He knew this was a life-or-death question. Wang Jianguo represented the face of the Beijing Astronomical Bureau headquarters, and also the last tentacle the Wang family extended into Jiangnan.
But Lin Zhen didn't hesitate for even half a second.
"The green belt at the entrance of the Jiangnan branch has been growing poorly lately. It's lacking fertilizer."
Lu Yuan withdrew his gaze.
"Go and do it."
Lin Zhen waved his hand, and several bodyguards quickly lifted Zhou Gong and Tao Xuan onto stretchers and fled as if their lives depended on it.
Ye Qingcheng did not leave.
She dragged her still-recovering body to the edge of the well and stared intently at the inverted six-pointed star pattern at the bottom.
"Master, do you intend to reverse that interdimensional vortex?"
"It is impolite not to reciprocate."
Lu Yuan stood up.
The true essence of the peak Mahayana stage exploded out of the dantian without reservation.
The air at the bottom of the well was instantly emptied by this terrifying energy. The surrounding rock walls cracked under the strain, and large chunks of glassy stone peeled off.
Lu Yuan stepped on the black jade tablet engraved with the reverse coordinates.
"Start the motor."
boom!
A deep, muffled roar erupted from the depths of the earth.
The crimson light within the inverted hexagram array transformed into a pillar of light that shot straight up and crashed violently into the blood-red hourglass in mid-air.
The blood that was dripping from the hourglass came to an absolute stop in 0.1 seconds.
Followed by.
The water flow reversed!
The viscous blood was pouring back into the upper part of the hourglass at a speed a hundred times faster than when it was dripping.
The translucent void vortex at the top of the hourglass was forcibly expanded to three times its original size by this violent thrust. Black spatial cracks burst forth from the edge of space, emitting a piercing shriek like tearing through steel.
Lu Yuan formed an ancient mudra with his hands.
The phantom of the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron suddenly appeared behind them. The enormous bronze cauldron overturned, completely covering the entire Jiangnan dragon vein and severing the connection between the dragon vein and the hourglass.
"I've connected the tube to your blood pool."
Lu Yuan's lips were pursed, but his eyes showed no emotion whatsoever.
"Give me a good beating."
......
It's countless light-years away.
Sirius Star Region. Blood River Sect Main Star.
This is a massive planet, entirely dark red. Its surface is devoid of vegetation, only crisscrossed by countless crimson rivers.
The Seventh Elder's main hall was built at the source of the largest blood river.
Deep inside the main hall.
The Seventh Elder sat cross-legged on an altar made of stark white bones. His old face, which was already as withered as tree bark, was now deathly pale.
The avatar he had previously sent across realms was crushed by Lu Yuan with a single hand on Earth, and his main body was severely injured. He had been soaking in the blood pool for a full half month, barely managing to stabilize his shattered life tablet by absorbing the essence blood of tens of thousands of low-level furnace cauldrons.
"Damn you lower realm natives. Once the Soul-Severing Guidance Array drains the essence of that ruined star, I will personally extract your soul and light it in blood and fire for ten thousand years as a celestial lamp."
The Seventh Elder bit his fingertip, preparing to conduct a new round of cross-domain deductions on the tortoise shell in front of him.
Just then.
The pool of blood beneath him, churning with a thick aura of blood, suddenly and eerily paused for a moment.
The blood in the pool stopped seeping into his body; instead, it seemed to come alive, rushing wildly towards a black vortex at the bottom of the pool.
"What's going on!"
The Seventh Elder suddenly opened his eyes.
Before he could react...
A terrifying suction force, so violent it didn't even belong to this dimension, crashed down without restraint along the black vortex.
This suction force was extremely domineering. Not only the blood in the blood-drawing pool, but even the spiritual energy of the protective array around the main hall and the top-grade spiritual veins buried underground for tens of thousands of years were all forcibly torn apart by this force.
Click!
The dozens of white bone pillars in the main hall were covered with dense cracks.
"Someone is reversing the cross-border channel!"
The Seventh Elder's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
He frantically channeled his Nascent Soul stage true essence, attempting to sever the array nodes on the altar.
But to his despair, he discovered that the force that crashed down through the passage was of terrifyingly high quality. The moment his Nascent Soul stage true essence came into contact with that force, it was like an egg hitting a solid iron ball, shattering instantly without leaving a trace.
"No!"
The Seventh Elder let out a piercing scream.
His vital essence burst out of his body uncontrollably, turning into streams of blood that shot directly into the black vortex.
At this moment, a geological-level catastrophe occurred in the southern hemisphere of the Blood River Sect's main star.
The main blood river, stretching tens of thousands of kilometers, saw its water level drop by hundreds of meters in just a few seconds. Countless low-level blood cultivators who were practicing along the riverbank were sucked dry, reduced to skin and bones, before they could even scream.
"Sect Master, save me!"
The Seventh Elder's physical body began to shrink violently. With his last bit of strength, he crushed the sect master's jade talisman in his hand.
A vast, cold, and overwhelming force awakened from the core of the planet.
A massive, blood-red hand, obscuring the sky, appeared out of thin air, grabbing the black vortex that was leaking water at an alarming rate, and attempting to forcibly crush the spatial node.
Earth's edge. Deep wells of underground air-raid shelters in Jiangnan.
Lu Yuan felt a terrifying resistance coming from the other end of the passage.
He gave a cold laugh.
"An old monster at the peak of his fusion stage. Trying to unplug the internet? Too late."
The inverted six-pointed star array pattern beneath Lu Yuan's feet erupted with a final burst of dazzling light.
He clenched his fist with one hand and pulled back hard through the void.
Click!
The enormous crimson hourglass could no longer withstand the extreme pull of the energy between the two realms and exploded in the middle.
Blood rain, mixed with an extremely dense extraterrestrial spiritual energy, exploded at the bottom of the deep well.
The interdimensional passage collapsed completely. The spatial rift severed the last connection the instant it closed.
Lu Yuan didn't care how much of his origin was lost in the Sirius Star Region.
All he knew was that he had made a fortune with his reverse pump.
The illusory image of the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron spun rapidly in mid-air, swallowing up the exploded extraterrestrial spiritual energy and high-dimensional blood energy. After being forcibly cleansed by the laws within the cauldron, all these impurities were eliminated.
At last.
The mouth of the Mother Qi Cauldron turned downwards.
pat.
A drop of liquid, no bigger than a soybean but radiating a nine-colored halo, landed in Lu Yuan's palm.
This is a [Supreme Star Domain Origin] that was extracted by draining one of the main blood rivers of the Blood River Sect and taking almost half the life of a Nascent Soul stage elder.
This level of quality is simply impossible to find on Earth today. It's more than enough to repair the void rift on that Nine Heavens Storage Ring, let alone directly use it to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
Lu Yuan stored the drop of essence into his storage ring.
Just as he was about to disperse the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron.
Clang.
A crisp metallic clang rang out on the stone slab at the bottom of the well.
It was a physical object that was drawn over from the space channel along with the origin of the star field.
Lu Yuan looked down.
It was a broken sword tip.
It was less than half a foot long. The surface was covered with pits and rust.
At the very center of the sword tip, there was a drop of blood that had long since dried and turned black.
Lu Yuan's gaze fell on the broken edge.
He flipped his wrist.
The storage ring flashed with light.
A rusty, broken iron sword appeared in his hand. This was the sword he used to chop wood in the outer sect of the cultivation world, and he had used it before when he shattered the armored corpse in the East Sea Ruins Secret Realm.
This sword has no tip.
Lu Yuan held the broken sword tip in his hand and gestured towards the broken edge of the wrecked iron sword.
Perfectly fitted.
The fracture lines, the direction of the rust, and even the inferior forging process on the sword body all match perfectly.
The sword tip was severed from his wood-chopping sword.
Lu Yuan stared intently at the drop of black blood on the tip of the sword.
The Mahayana stage consciousness penetrated the dried scab without any hindrance.
It's not the blood of monsters from the Sirius star system.
It's not the blood of an ancient martial artist.
That was the blood of a mortal.
Moreover, the residual aura of destiny in this drop of blood was exactly the same as the aura that Lu Yuan sensed on the titanium alloy nameplate seven thousand meters below the seabed of the East China Sea.
That was his biological father, who had been missing for over a decade and whose death was officially declared in prison.
The blood of land warfare.
Lu Yuan's fingers, holding the broken sword tip, slowly, little by little, tightened.
The fingertip pressed against the sharp, broken blade, without cutting the skin, but producing a sickening metallic scraping sound.
"My sword. My father's blood. Dripped from the blood pool of the Sirius star system."
Lu Yuan raised his head and looked at the completely closed void above him.
The surrounding air temperature plummeted in that instant. The earth's malevolent energy, which had just been drawn back, shrank back into the depths of the rock wall under this extreme pressure, not daring to utter a single spark.
"Okay. Very good."
Lu Yuan put the broken sword tip and the shattered iron sword into his ring.
"It seems that the scheme between the East China Sea and Jiangnan is not just about extracting the spiritual energy from Earth."
"You guys up there gave me a reason I had no choice but to go."