stonecrandall Chapter 158 A Mortal Enters the Game, Tearing Apart Heavenly Thunder
Chapter 158 A Mortal Enters the Game, Tearing Apart Heavenly Thunder
The outskirts of the capital. Martial arts stage.
This huge open-air arena, built of white marble and steel, was packed with people today.
The stands were filled with heads of major families in Beijing, renowned figures in the ancient martial arts world, and observers from the S.H.I.E.L.D. conglomerate dressed in black suits and wearing sunglasses.
Right in the center of the arena.
A thick, black bronze pillar, as thick as three people could hug, stood upright.
This is the core of the Nine Heavens Thunder Formation.
Ye Qingcheng was tightly bound to the copper pillar by several thick alloy chains.
Her once spotless white robe was now covered in bloodstains and whip marks. These were the marks left by the specially made barbed soft whips used by the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance's Enforcement Hall to deal with traitors.
Her meridians were firmly pinned down by five bone-piercing nails.
But her back remained ramrod straight. On that aloof and detached face, there was neither pain nor fear.
She simply watched quietly as the five reclusive elders sat on the high platform in their armchairs.
His gaze was as if he were looking at five rotting corpses.
"Traitor!"
Elder Lei, who was sitting in the middle, suddenly slammed his hand on the armrest.
He smashed the carved wooden armrests of the grand master's chair into dust.
"You dare look at me like that when you're about to die! If you were to publicly announce your defection from that monster Lu Yuan right now and hand over the evil arts he taught you, I might spare your life!"
Ye Qingcheng's chapped lips moved slightly.
She gave a chillingly sarcastic laugh.
"Old Lei, you five old geezers have been living in these mountains for too long, your brains must be clogged with mud."
Ye Qingcheng's voice wasn't loud, but with the amplification array, it clearly resonated throughout the entire martial arts arena.
"You have no idea what kind of being you've offended. Your proud Transcendent Realm cultivation is nothing more than an ant crawling on the ground in the eyes of our master."
"presumptuous!"
The other four elders simultaneously slammed their fists on the table and stood up.
Four streams of peak-stage Qi soared into the sky, creating a visible gust of wind above the arena.
The powerful and influential people in the stands were so intimidated by this pressure that they could hardly breathe.
Smith sat in the VIP section, a cigar between his fingers.
He watched the farce unfolding on the platform, then turned to a bald, burly man beside him and gave him instructions.
"Gao Tiancheng, turn your detector to maximum power. As soon as Lu Yuan dares to show himself, immediately transmit his coordinates to the snipers lurking nearby."
Gao Tiancheng was holding a tactical tablet, the screen of which displayed a green radar network.
"Mr. Smith, rest assured. This equipment can detect any energy fluctuations above normal levels within a five-kilometer radius. Even if Lu Yuan were to transform into a mosquito and fly in, he wouldn't be able to escape..."
Gao Tiancheng hadn't finished speaking.
Boom!
The massive, pure copper gate surrounding the martial arts arena emitted a sickeningly loud, distorted sound.
Followed by.
The door flew off the frame and crashed into the open space at the edge of the stands, creating a huge crater.
A heavy truck without any license plates, billowing black smoke, crashed through the threshold and into the Martial Arts Platform plaza.
Everyone in the stands stood up.
The truck braked suddenly less than twenty meters from the ring.
The tires emitted a pungent, burnt smell as they rubbed against the ground.
The rear panel of the carriage collapsed with a loud crash.
Thirteen large coffins, painted black and emitting a pungent smell of nanmu wood, slid down the slope.
They were lined up neatly in a row.
Lu Yuan had his hands in his pockets.
He stepped onto the lid of one of the coffins and slowly walked out of the carriage.
He was wearing a very ordinary black windbreaker today. His face was somewhat pale due to the depletion of his true energy.
There was no flying on a sword. There were no powerful fluctuations of spiritual energy.
He just stood there casually, like a passerby who had wandered onto the wrong movie set.
Gao Tiancheng stared intently at the tablet screen in his hand.
The radar scan circle swept across the spot where Lu Yuan was standing time and time again.
Numerical display.
Absolute zero.
No internal energy. No special abilities. Not even the most basic fluctuations of true qi.
Gao Tiancheng raised his head in ecstasy and shouted at Smith and Elder Lei on the platform.
"He's useless! There's nothing inside him! He's now a cripple, even worse than an external martial artist!"
As soon as those words were spoken...
The crowd, who had been intimidated by Lu Yuan's entrance with the force of smashing the door, suddenly burst into laughter.
"I thought it was some powerful newcomer. Turns out it's just a dead mudfish!"
"Durable of withstanding a nuclear bomb? He probably used some kind of one-time-use magic weapon. Now that the weapon is destroyed, he's a cripple too!"
"Kill him! Cut off his head and claim the bounty on the dark web!"
Elder Lei laughed so hard his beard trembled.
He leaped up from the armchair. The aura of a Grandmaster of Transcendent Realm condensed on his body into a visible layer of azure armor.
"Lu Yuan! You cripple, how dare you cause trouble in my dojo! Today I'll let you watch right before your eyes how your dog gets struck by heavenly lightning and turned into charred remains!"
Elder Lei raised his hand to form a hand seal to activate the Heavenly Thunder Array.
Lu Yuan didn't even look at him.
He turned his head and glanced at Ye Qingcheng, who was tied to the bronze pillar.
"Squeak out if you're not dead."
Ye Qingcheng's originally cold and hard face completely collapsed the moment she heard Lu Yuan's voice.
Ignoring the excruciating pain from the five bone-piercing nails, she knelt down directly on the bronze pillar.
"Master... I, Qingcheng, am utterly incompetent and have disgraced you."
"It's not so much embarrassing as it is a bit stupid. It's just a little silly."
Lu Yuan turned his gaze away.
He looked at the two S-class genetically modified humans, each over two meters tall, blocking the front of the arena.
These two monsters were sent by Smith specifically to test Lu Yuan. Their bodies were bulging with muscles, and their skin was even covered with a layer of bulletproof keratin.
"Boy. Kneel down obediently. Grandpa will let you die a quick death."
The cyborg on the left clenched his fist, his knuckles cracking like popping beans.
Lu Yuan did not pull his hand out of his pocket.
He simply took one step forward.
The physical body during the Mahayana stage. Pure physical mass and velocity.
That was a completely irrational form of violence.
The people in the stands didn't even see how Lu Yuan moved.
All they heard was a piercing sonic boom in the air.
boom!
Lu Yuan's shoulder casually bumped into the chest of the two-meter-tall cyborg.
The cyborg's prized bulletproof keratin layer shattered like fragile glass the moment it came into contact with the object.
His massive body, weighing 300 pounds, was thrown off the ground and into the air.
The sternum collapsed completely.
A huge cloud of blood mist exploded from his back.
The corpse flew like a cannonball, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, and flew more than twenty meters before crashing heavily onto the high platform at Elder Lei's feet.
The solid platform was smashed into a deep crater.
The corpse had turned into a pile of rotten flesh that was no longer recognizable as human.
The laughter from the stands vanished without a trace, as if someone had cut their throat.
Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.
He lifted his foot and stepped on the blood splattered from the pool of rotten flesh.
He looked up at Elder Lei and Smith, who were standing on the high platform in shock.
"The coffin has arrived. Who wants to lie down in it first?"