Chapter 215 – Heavenly Descent!

Layers of flowing clouds broke apart, revealing the speeding shuttle.

Lu Yuan stood in the center of the white ultra-alloy floor, as two white bears quickly donned him with the Golden Bear’s specially designed protective suit.

The deep blue and black ultra-fibers adhered inch by inch to Lu Yuan’s skin, giving him the feeling of donning a suit of armor.

“Have the Crane Style people left?” he asked, trying to use another topic to suppress the prematurely rising battle intent.

Standing beside him, Owl Blade replied, “Not yet. It seems they’re preparing to attend the Tournament’s opening ceremony.”

Lu Yuan’s eyes flickered for a moment, roughly understanding Liu Daoyuan’s behavior. Knowing Old Liu, showing off after gaining an advantage was almost a necessity—exceeding even his desire to kill someone directly.

But with Old Liu still there…

Lu Yuan furrowed his brows and quickly instructed Owl Blade, “You go back now and protect the Crane Style people. If anyone tries to harm them, then…” A cold glint flashed through his eyes.

Owl Blade nodded understandingly and agreed, “Understood,” then swiftly left.

The cold light in Lu Yuan’s eyes gradually dimmed. Yuwen Tong had told him that within the old city circle, he had a casualty quota of at least ten thousand.

He wasn’t overly concerned about the Ancient Style martial arts school retaliating against the Crane Style; his main worry was… Pei Ye.

“You had better not… seek your own death,” Lu Yuan whispered softly, exhaling slowly.

The protective suit was now fully donned. The deep blue and black suit fit snugly and comfortably, like a second skin.

Under the gentle white light, the suit’s surface shimmered like flowing water, accentuating Lu Yuan’s near-perfect physique.

On his left chest, the emblem of the Golden Bear shone vividly.

The theoretical defense value of this suit could withstand most level S heat weapons and physical attacks.

Lu Yuan had always revered the limits of the martial body.

But for the battle he was about to face, any slight improvement in any metric would be beneficial.

Lu Yuan closed his eyes and stood there quietly for a moment.

At this moment, Lu Yuan’s heart was like a frozen lake.

But beneath the thick layer of ice, flames were gradually igniting bit by bit.

Every person around him bore a serious and solemn expression on their faces.

A tense and oppressive atmosphere flowed through the small shuttle cabin.

Lu Yuan’s breathing was steady as he felt the flames beneath the frozen lake. The faint smell of smoke in the air made his skin tighten and relax with each breath…

The long sword suspended above his head by horsehair had already fallen.

Lu Yuan could almost feel the ever-encroaching sharpness, the piercing cold light pointing towards his brow, making that small piece of skin slightly wrinkle…

This long-lost feeling…

It was truly wonderful.

Lu Yuan opened his eyes, breaking the stagnant atmosphere within the cabin.

“What’s the current situation on the ground?” he asked.

Taking Owl Blade’s place, Peregrine Falcon quickly stepped forward and presented a light blue video screen.

“It’s… bad!” Peregrine Falcon’s voice was heavy.

Lu Yuan calmly looked at the screen.

It displayed the real-time situation of the battlefield, the quarry.

The screen still showed an uncatchable black shadow.

At this moment, the shadow was in the center of the quarry, with more than fifteen combat shuttles bombarding it fiercely. Blinding energy beams streaked across the sky like the light of dawn.

There were also a large number of combat Mechanical Bodies and semi-automatic mechanical power armor squads that Lu Yuan had temporarily dispatched.

Time and again, the shadow was engulfed by the flames of countless heat weapons, but the black shadow representing the evil energy wave was not weakened or erased from the screen.

Instead, it grew stronger, even showing signs of expanding.

Wherever the shadow passed, the ground collapsed, sank, rolled, and flew like snowflakes…

It charged into the mass of combat Mechanical Bodies, mowing them down like a steamroller plowing through grass.

In less than a second, the shadow passed by, leaving behind only scattered remnants and severed limbs.

The mechas with human operators didn’t dare get close at all.

They could only attack from a distance with the heat weapons mounted on their mechas.

But sometimes, a large boulder would suddenly fly out of the shadow, and the screen would instantly explode into a shower of sparks from the shattered mechas.

Lu Yuan watched the scene before him, and an image involuntarily formed in his mind: an elephant trampling through an ant colony, its massive limbs crushing the ants as it moved.

“The arrangements we set up earlier…” Peregrine Falcon’s voice came from beside his ear, laden with a heavy sense of difficulty.

“Estimated… within forty-five minutes, all our defenses will be completely overwhelmed. Based on its current destructive capabilities, even a depth of 200 meters underground might not be enough to contain it for ten minutes…”

Lu Yuan asked, “How much longer until we arrive?”

“Approximately, half an hour.”

“That’s enough,” Lu Yuan replied, his expression calming.

He closely observed the shadow’s combat on the screen, his eyes flashing with countless images like a revolving lantern.

Data flowed like a waterfall.

In his mind, a silhouette was being sketched out.

Its various abilities were quickly filled in bit by bit…

Lu Yuan mentally simulated fighting against it.

Without seeing it in person and unable to activate the [imaginary enemy] function, he could only use this cumbersome method to imagine the battle.

Once…

Twice…

Three times…

In his simulated battles, Lu Yuan was knocked down again and again.

With an unwavering expression, he restarted the simulation each time.

No one in the shuttle cabin spoke, only the continuous sounds of explosions from the video, making the atmosphere oppressively silent.

Finally…

“Hoo—”

Lu Yuan let out a breath, his gaze shifting away from the screen.

By the seventy-eighth simulated battle…

He chose to abandon the simulation.

By then, almost thirty minutes had passed.

Lu Yuan, maintaining his calm demeanor, casually instructed Peregrine Falcon to open the shuttle door.

Fierce high-altitude winds rushed in through the open door, mixed with a hint of moisture, bringing a slight chill.

Lu Yuan walked step by step to the door, the gusts blowing his black hair back, the wind roaring in his ears.

Lu Yuan stood at the shuttle door, squinting down at the distant quarry nestled between the hills below.

Bursts of firelight erupted one after another.

His mental power extended outward, intertwining with the surrounding clouds, continuously sinking, and sinking…

“It looks like…”

“It’s time to add some attribute points.”

Lu Yuan thought to himself.

A thought crossed his mind, and the professional panel appeared.

The 3 available attribute points decreased by 1, and the value under the strength points column swiftly changed from 19 to — [20 (limit break: 1)].

“Boom!”

Inside the shuttle, Peregrine Falcon and others, who were standing behind Lu Yuan and clueless about what he was about to do, witnessed the sudden and terrifying impact force that knocked them backward.

“Crack-crack-crack”

The crisp sound of bones and the tension-like snapping of steel cables echoed.

Peregrine Falcon and the others saw the tall and upright figure at the shuttle door gradually swelling and growing taller.

Underneath the deep blue protective suit of that figure, a faint scarlet seemed to be seeping through.

An indescribable and tremendous oppressive force emanated from him.

He blocked the wide-open shuttle door, and the incoming airflow seemed to weaken dramatically…

“Finally… all four basic attributes have broken the limit at least once…”

Lu Yuan closed his eyes, savoring the residual sensation of his muscle fibers growing thicker and denser within his body.

After all four basic attributes had each broken the limit once, an indescribable and extraordinary feeling arose from within him.

At the moment the strength points broke the limit, it felt as if he had undergone a fundamental transformation.

It was as if a great door had swung open before him, bathing him in golden light from behind the door.

He stood in that golden light, his body continuously undergoing transformation and reorganization…

At this point, the shuttle was less than a thousand meters from the ground, and the battlefield below was clearly visible.

Lu Yuan finally saw the full view of the shadow wreaking havoc on the battlefield.

His eyes brightened for a moment, soon closing…

And then, reopening again.

“Still not enough.”

The remaining 2 attribute points on the panel vanished completely.

Replacing them was— [Strength points: 21 (limit break: 1)].

“Boom!”

An even more terrifying invisible force surged outwards.

This time, it nearly knocked Peregrine Falcon and the others off their feet.

For a moment, each of their minds was pressed to the limit, and the air seemed to solidify.

It felt like an immense weight pressing down on them, clear enough to hear the wild pounding of their hearts and the rush of blood through their veins.

Peregrine Falcon and the others’ faces twisted in an almost grotesque manner, and hallucinations even began to appear before their eyes.

They saw tumultuous, deep blue waves surging from the open shuttle door, crashing in uncontrollably.

It pressed on them, suffocating them, almost making it impossible to breathe…

Yet in the next second.

All these illusions vanished.

Peregrine Falcon and the others, pale-faced, slowly picked themselves up from the ground.

The wind continued to howl as it poured in.

Only then did they realize…

The figure that had been standing at the shuttle door, looking down at the quarry below…

At some point…

Had disappeared without a trace.

…..

Atop a certain mountain peak, two figures stood facing each other.

One was a handsome young man, with black hair and black eyes, embodying the typical features of Xia State.

His eyes were bright, his body tall and well-proportioned, dressed in an unremarkable black protective suit. A crystal inlaid on his chest emitted a vibrant blue glow, making it stand out conspicuously.

The other had deep-set eyes and a high nose bridge, with flaming red hair.

He was a head taller than the handsome young man, with a more robust build, and clear signs of modification on his body and limbs.

Both had their gazes fixed on the quarry battlefield in the distant valley.

Their attention was predominantly drawn to a hulking black figure, about four meters tall, with limbs as thick as elephant feet.

“You stopped me just to watch Yellow Bear’s ridiculous attempt to use toys to stop an emissary?” The red-haired man turned to look at the handsome young man beside him, his tone flat but with a hint of mockery in his eyes.

The handsome young man yawned and replied, “Don’t be in such a rush, the protagonist hasn’t made his entrance yet…”

“Heh—”

The Red-haired Man responded with a disdainful laugh.

The Handsome Young Man scratched his ear and mumbled, “Honestly, I’m just a spectator too. I have no idea what’s going to happen next. Most likely, things will go south? That You… You Yu.”

The Handsome Young Man seemed to be giving himself, as well as the Red-haired Man, a heads-up. He patted the Red-haired Man’s shoulder and gestured, “If things really go south, don’t forget to help me control the situation, okay?

I can barely handle it myself. And if something goes wrong, and my Lord back there gets angry, I’ll just say it was you who messed things up. You’ll have to share the blame with me…”

“Get lost!”

The Red-haired Man glared at the young man, cursing in his somewhat broken Xia Language, “Shameless!”

The Handsome Young Man, grinning mischievously, was about to say something more.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, both of them looked up at the sky simultaneously.

They both saw something—reflected in their eyes was a small black dot rapidly descending.

A strange light flickered in the Handsome Young Man’s eyes, and his expression gradually turned into one of eager anticipation.

He squinted, smiling slowly as he said, “Speak of the devil, look. The protagonist… has arrived.”

The Red-haired Man’s eyes flickered quickly, his lips tightened into a thin line, but he said nothing.

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