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Chapter 39 Lu Yuan Suppresses Immortals

A sudden gust of wind rushed in, making Lu Yuan's black shirt flutter and his hair stand up slightly. Yet he remained standing straight, like a pine or cypress, his gaze calmly fixed on the three armed helicopters hovering in mid-air. His eyes were completely unwavering, as if he were looking at three buzzing flies.

Just then, the door of the middle helicopter suddenly slid open, and a gaunt old man in a gray robe slowly appeared at the edge of the door. The old man was hunched over, his skin was as dry as tree bark, his hair was white and tied in a bun, but his cloudy eyes revealed an arrogant glint, and he exuded a faint but powerful aura—the aura of a half-step Earth Immortal, Ye Cangxuan, the patriarch of the Ye family who had lived for 150 years.

The helicopter was more than 30 meters above the ground, with howling winds. A slight misstep could have blown you to pieces. But Ye Cangxuan didn't even wear a parachute, and without the slightest hesitation, he stepped out of the cabin!

"Holy crap!" Zhao Tiancheng, hiding behind the door, shuddered at the sight, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets. He couldn't help but curse, "Has this old man gone mad? Is he going to jump off the building and commit suicide?!"

Not only Zhao Tiancheng, but Li Qiang at the foot of the mountain also froze upon seeing this scene through his night vision goggles. The high-voltage electromagnetic rifle in his hand clattered to the ground with a sharp, jarring sound that echoed in the deathly silence of the foothills. His pupils constricted, his face contorted with disbelief, and he muttered to himself, his voice trembling, "A god...a god...it's a god!"

Before he finished speaking, Li Qiang knelt down with a thud, his forehead hitting the ground heavily. He frantically kowtowed towards the mountaintop, blood quickly forming on his forehead, but he dared not stop for a moment—a half-step Earth Immortal, soaring through the air, this was a legendary existence, one that mortals like them were not even worthy of looking up to!

Meanwhile, in the villa's courtyard, Zhao Tiancheng's worldview is being completely shattered and reshaped.

Ye Cangxuan didn't fall like a stone. He lightly touched the air with his toes, and visible ripples spread out instantly, like water being struck by a pebble, spreading out in layers. It was as if he was walking on an invisible staircase, his steps slow and steady, descending from a height of more than thirty meters step by step. His robes fluttered without wind, exuding an ethereal aura. The pomp and circumstance of a half-step Earth Immortal was displayed to the fullest at this moment, and his imposing aura swept across the entire courtyard, making it difficult for Zhao Tiancheng to even breathe.

Ye Tiannan hurriedly slid down the rope lowered from the helicopter. He stumbled upon landing and, before he could regain his balance, rushed behind Ye Cangxuan, bending over like a shrimp, his head bowed low, barely daring to breathe. His face, however, was filled with resentment and smugness. Pointing at Lu Yuan standing on the steps, his voice was filled with gritted teeth and a barely perceptible hint of flattery: "Ancestor! It's him! It's this brat who destroyed our Ye family's command center, killed our Ye family members, and even boasted that he would raze the Ye family to the ground and kill you, sir!"

Ye Cangxuan stood with his hands behind his back, his turbid gaze slowly landing on Lu Yuan. He looked him up and down, his eyes filled with arrogance and contempt. He examined him closely and found that Lu Yuan had no internal energy fluctuations, no true qi circulation, and his whole body exuded the aura of an ordinary person, just like any other mortal he could see on the street, plain and unremarkable.

"You've been hiding it quite well." Ye Cangxuan's withered lips tugged into an ugly smile, his voice hoarse, like the rubbing of old tree bark, carrying an arrogant air of condescension. "Unfortunately, in my eyes, no matter how well you hide, you're nothing more than a clown jumping around."

His gaze shifted from Lu Yuan to the courtyard wall surrounding the villa—the very spot where Lu Yuan had just set up the spirit-gathering array. An incredibly dense spiritual energy entered his lungs through his nose, rich and pure, several times denser than the spiritual energy in his cave where he had secluded himself for thirty years. Ye Cangxuan's withered hands trembled uncontrollably, his eyes filled with greed and fervor, and his breathing became rapid.

"Excellent! What a magnificent ancient spirit-gathering array that rivals the creation of heaven and earth!" Ye Cangxuan laughed loudly, his voice sharp and piercing, like the howl of a night owl, echoing throughout the mountaintop. "Boy, finding such an ancient array diagram is both your fortune and your misfortune."

He looked at Lu Yuan again, his tone becoming increasingly arrogant, carrying an unquestionable command, as if treating an ant: "Hand over the array diagram, and that magic weapon in your hand that can injure people from a distance. I can decide to leave you with a whole corpse and give you a quick death, so you won't die too horribly."

Hearing this from behind the door, Zhao Tiancheng trembled with rage and almost rushed out to curse—hand over the treasure, and he was to be executed? This wasn't a transaction; it was blatant robbery! But he didn't dare. He didn't even dare to breathe, and could only hold his breath, secretly praying that Lu Yuan would have a way to deal with this living god.

Standing on the steps, Lu Yuan looked down at Ye Cangxuan, who was spouting nonsense in his courtyard. His face showed no anger; instead, a slow, mocking smile curled his lips. His tone was calm, yet every word was piercing, clearly echoing throughout the courtyard: "You are that good-for-nothing from the Ye family who lived to be 150 years old, spent 30 years in seclusion, and still hasn't broken through to the Earth Immortal realm?"

Before the words were even finished, the air in the courtyard froze instantly, the gale seemed to stop, and only the whirring sound of the helicopter rotors remained, which was particularly jarring.

Lu Yuan took a step forward, the bluestone slab beneath his feet emitting a dull thud, as if unable to withstand his pressure, cracks silently spreading beneath. His gaze was icy, his tone even more sarcastic: "Thirty years of seclusion, and all you've mastered is this meager acrobatic trick of walking in mid-air? You dare to be arrogant in front of me? You dare to take my things?"

"You're courting death!" Ye Tiannan suddenly raised his head, his eyes wide, staring at Lu Yuan as if he were already dead. His voice was hoarse as he roared, "You dare to call the Ancestor a piece of trash to his face? You're tired of living! Ancestor, kill him, tear him to pieces!"

The smile on Ye Cangxuan's face vanished little by little, replaced by a chilling, sinister killing intent that sent shivers down one's spine. That killing intent swept over, instantly withering the grass and trees in the courtyard, and seemingly covering the ground with a layer of frost. His cloudy eyes blazed with murderous intent as he stared intently at Lu Yuan, his voice terribly hoarse, each word laced with boundless rage: "Ignorant brat, you don't know the immensity of heaven and earth! Since you're courting death, I'll personally search your soul, pull out your tendons, and let you taste what it means to wish you were dead!"

The moment he finished speaking, Ye Cangxuan vanished from his spot, a deafening sonic boom echoing through the air, accompanied by howling winds and billowing dust. The next second, he appeared less than half a meter from Lu Yuan, his withered hand clenching tightly with a terrifying power capable of tearing through steel, his fingertips glowing faintly white as he reached for Lu Yuan's crown—this strike, imbued with his life's cultivation, would instantly shatter the brains and annihilate the soul of even a peak-stage Grandmaster!

A cruel sneer appeared on Ye Tiannan's lips. He seemed to see Lu Yuan's brains splattering and his gruesome death on the spot, he seemed to see the Ye family's satisfaction in taking revenge, and he saw the glory of reclaiming everything.

Li Qiang, standing at the foot of the mountain, saw this scene through his night vision goggles. He was so frightened that he trembled all over and kowtowed repeatedly, muttering prayers: "Grand Ancestor, spare my life! Grand Ancestor, you are mighty..." He knew that Lu Yuan was doomed; no one could withstand the full force of a half-step Earth Immortal's attack.

But just as Ye Cangxuan's palm was an inch away from Lu Yuan's hair—

"Bang!"

A deep, muffled thud, like a thunderclap, shook the entire courtyard, sending a gust of wind and dust billowing into the air.

Ye Cangxuan felt as if his palm had slammed into a wall made of tens of thousands of tons of refined steel. An indescribable and terrifying recoil force rushed into his body through his arm, directly impacting his internal organs.

"Snap! Snap! Snap!"

Three crisp cracking sounds echoed clearly throughout the courtyard. Ye Cangxuan's right arm bone instantly broke into three pieces, the white bone fragments piercing through his gray robe and exposed to the air. Blood gushed out, staining his sleeves and the ground red.

He was as if he had been hit hard by a speeding heavy truck. His body flew uncontrollably more than ten meters away and crashed heavily into the pure copper gate of the courtyard. With a loud "boom", the heavy copper gate was smashed into a deep human-shaped crater, the door panel was dented and cracks spread like a spider web.

"puff--"

Ye Cangxuan spat out a mouthful of blood, mixed with fragments of broken internal organs, which splattered onto the bronze door, a horrifying sight. He curled up in the human-shaped pit, his body convulsing, his right arm hanging limply at his side, his cloudy eyes filled with disbelief and extreme pain, emitting weak groans. Gone was his previous arrogance and majesty; he resembled a stray dog.

The entire room fell silent.

The helicopter's rotors continued to spin tirelessly, and the wind continued to howl, but everyone seemed to be frozen in place, as if under a spell, not daring to breathe.

Ye Tiannan's sneer froze instantly. His eyes widened, his mouth gaped open wide enough to fit an egg, and his gaze was filled with blankness and fear, as if he had seen a ghost—the ancestor, the Ye family ancestor who was a half-step Earth Immortal, was actually defeated by Lu Yuan in one move? And his arm was even broken?

Zhao Tiancheng, who was hiding behind the door, was already so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, his body ice-cold, his mind blank, and he kept muttering, "Monster... Mr. Lu is a monster..."

Li Qiang, standing at the foot of the mountain, was utterly terrified. He kowtowed so hard his forehead bled, completely oblivious, muttering to himself, "He...he was killed? A half-step Earth Immortal was killed?"

Lu Yuan stood on the steps, his clothes fluttering in the wind, his hair blowing lightly, his face still calm and expressionless, as if his attack just now was nothing more than swatting away a fly. He looked down at Ye Cangxuan, who was curled up in the pit in the bronze door, and said in a flat tone, but with an air of domineering authority: "I said, you are not worthy."