harleyscars Chapter 147 Mountains of Dry Bones: Who Covets the Dragon Marrow?
Chapter 147 Mountains of Dry Bones: Who Covets the Dragon Marrow?
The instant you pass through the spatial rift.
The immense pressure of millions of tons of water that had been pressing down on them vanished completely.
Lu Yuan's feet landed on a hard surface. The air was filled with a pungent smell of sulfur and the stale, deathly aura of who-knows-how-many years.
There is not a single drop of seawater here.
Above them was a hazy, gray void, and beneath their feet lay a dark red, cracked earth.
This is the interior of the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm. An ancient battlefield abandoned in the interlayer of Earth's space.
Lu Yuan looked around.
The earth was littered with all sorts of bizarre and enormous skeletons. Some were as high as small mountains, others stretched for miles. The surfaces of these bones were covered with signs of weathering, and they would turn to dust at the slightest touch.
Before the "Heaven and Earth Separation" formation was formed, Earth was once a cultivation planet abundant with spiritual energy. These skeletons are the cannon fodder left behind in the cataclysm that caused the depletion of spiritual energy.
Lu Yuan had absolutely no interest in these bone fragments.
He closed his eyes, and his divine sense spread out for dozens of miles in an instant, like an invisible net.
found it.
On the edge of a circular crater in the center of the secret realm, lies a massive skeleton that stretches for several kilometers.
It was a dragon.
Although only bare bones remained, a faint, dark golden luster still flowed across their surfaces. This was a sign of the immortality of a Nascent Soul stage demon beast's physical body. Beneath the skull of that skeleton lay a bead the size of a human head, radiating astonishing heat.
Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow.
Lu Yuan opened his eyes, took a step, and shrank the distance between them.
A few seconds later, he was already standing in front of the dragon skeleton.
The intense heat distorted the surrounding air. If an ordinary Grandmaster of the Transcendent Realm stood here, they would be roasted into a dried-up corpse in less than three seconds.
Lu Yuan was just about to reach out and take the dragon marrow.
"Friend, this isn't something you can just touch casually."
A slightly hoarse voice came from the huge eye socket of the dragon.
Lu Yuan stopped what he was doing.
He didn't turn his head, but just stared coldly ahead.
A man in a grey robe emerged from the shadows. He wore a half-rusted iron mask on his face and held a stone riddled with honeycomb-like holes in his hand.
Fragment of a boundary stone.
Moreover, it's even a size larger than the one Lu Yuan used at Panlong Mountain.
The man toyed with the boundary stone in his hand, his single eye beneath the mask scrutinizing Lu Yuan from head to toe.
"You're quite capable to have taken care of the S.H.I.E.L.D. fleet and those idiots, the Sirens. When did the Chinese government cultivate such a young trump card like you? That old codger Li from the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals has been hiding his true strength."
He regarded Lu Yuan as a secret weapon sent by the Chinese government to seize the heritage resources.
Lu Yuan looked at the boundary stone in his hand, then glanced at where he was standing, and a mocking smile appeared on his lips.
"The leader of the dark web?"
"You can call me 'the gravedigger'."
The man arrogantly raised his chin.
"I don't care who you are. Turn around and leave now, and I might spare your life. The remains of this dragon and this pearl have long been marked with their master's mark. If you dare to move, you will be going against the entire divine race."
Protoss?
Lu Yuan almost burst out laughing when he heard this word.
Those demonic cultivators in the Sirius Starfield who eke out a living by extracting the essence of other people's stars have actually packaged themselves as gods on this native planet.
"That broken rock in your hand, was it given to you by that dried-up corpse hiding underground sucking blood?"
Lu Yuan's words directly exposed the other party's true colors.
The gravedigger's one eye suddenly narrowed.
The muscles in his back tensed instantly as he stared intently at Lu Yuan. The existence of the old man with the dried corpse was the dark web's most closely guarded secret. How did this Chinese kid know?
"Who exactly are you?"
The gravedigger abandoned his earlier arrogance, and his palms began to sweat.
Who I am is not important.
Lu Yuan stretched out his hand and pointed to the scorched earth beneath the dragon's skeleton.
"The important thing is that you're using a boundary stone meant to stabilize spatial nodes to try and suppress the remaining death energy of a Nascent Soul stage dragon. Didn't you realize that the spot where you're standing is right in the eye of the storm where the dragon's malevolent energy is venting?"
The tomb keeper was stunned.
He subconsciously glanced down at his feet.
In that very instant.
The fragment of the boundary stone in his hand suddenly emitted an extremely piercing buzzing sound. Dark red blood streaks quickly spread across the originally gray stone surface.
"What happened?!"
The tomb keeper was horrified to discover that the key, originally intended to unlock the core of the ruins, was now acting like a water pump, frantically devouring the life force within him.
"When that old man handed you the boundary stone, didn't he tell you that it could only be activated by a sacrifice of living people's blood?"
Lu Yuan stood with his hands in his pockets, looking at him like he was an idiot.
The old man's memories were filled with it all. The teleportation arrays in the Sirius star system lacked energy. On Earth, they supported the Dark Web and the S.H.I.E.L.D., ostensibly to collect boundary stones and search for higher-dimensional relics, but in reality, they were using these greedy fools as mobile blood banks to nourish the boundary stones.
"Help...help me!"
The skin on the gravedigger's face withered away at a visible rate. He tried to drop the boundary stone in his hand, but the stone seemed to be permanently attached to his palm, impossible to shake off.
He desperately reached out his hand to Lu Yuan.
"You're not even qualified to be food for the gods."
Lu Yuan raised his right hand and slapped him across the air.
boom!
The tomb keeper's head exploded into a cloud of blood mist in mid-air. The headless corpse lay on the ground, and the fragment of the boundary stone, saturated with life essence, rolled to the side, emitting an eerie red light.
Lu Yuan walked over and kicked the dried corpse into the crater.
He bent down, picked up the fragment of the boundary stone, and casually tossed it into his Nine Heavens Storage Ring.
The array patterns inside this boundary stone are more complete than the previous one. It's perfect for reinforcing the defenses of Panlong Mountain.
Get rid of this annoying fly.
Lu Yuan walked back to the front of the dragon's skeleton.
The fist-sized Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow, like a miniature sun, floated quietly in mid-air.
This dragon was at least at the peak of the Integration Stage in its lifetime, only one step away from the Mahayana Stage. Unfortunately, when Earth was sealed off, it was besieged by interdimensional beings from the Sirius Star Region and ultimately perished in this dead land.
"I got off easy."
Without any hesitation, Lu Yuan reached out and grabbed the dragon marrow.
laugh!
The terrifying heat instantly turned the air on the surface of his palm into a vacuum. But Lu Yuan's Mahayana stage physical body could withstand even a nuclear explosion, so this level of temperature was nothing more than burning to his hand.
The moment the Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow left the dragon's skeleton.
The entire Guixu Secret Realm suddenly began to shake violently.
The dark red, cracked earth beneath their feet began to collapse in large areas. From the depths of the crater, a rumbling sound like muffled thunder echoed.
Lu Yuan looked down.
The bottom of the crater is not filled with magma.
Instead, it was a massive, suffocatingly large, blood-red altar.
The altar was covered with densely packed Sirius star field array patterns. Thick black chains tightly bound a parched ley line.
This is the true secret of the Ruins of Return.
The remains of this Nascent Soul stage dragon did not fall here naturally. It was forcibly nailed to this point by the people of the Sirius Star Region using an array, and its bones and dragon marrow were used to suppress the last undiminished seabed dragon vein on Earth.
The dragon marrow has now been taken away.
The suppression has failed.