I Just Want to Lie Low, But You're Flipping the Table?

A terrifying boom did not ring out in the ears, but exploded deep within Lu Changsheng's Primordial Spirit, and deep within the souls of every living creature across the entire Primordial Land!

In that instant, Lu Changsheng felt his vision go black, as if his entire Primordial Spirit had been struck hard by a heaven-opening giant hammer.

"Pfft!"

Before he could even react, he spat out a mouthful of blood shimmering with a dark golden luster.

His entire body was flung away by an invisible, terrifying force, slamming heavily against the hard stone wall of his cave dwelling.

"What is happening?!"

Lu Changsheng scrambled up from the ground in sheer terror, not even bothering to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth as he stared fixedly at his surroundings.

The earth shook and the mountains swayed.

No, those four words were far from enough to describe the scene.

The sky was collapsing and the earth was splitting!

The entire Nameless Low Mountain was swaying violently.

Large swathes of rock peeled away from the ceiling of the cave, and the walls—which Lu Changsheng had reinforced by smelting countless rare ores—began to sprout deep, bottomless cracks.

"Crack... crack..."

A series of teeth-grinding, fracturing sounds echoed from every corner of the cave.

Lu Changsheng lunged toward the control console, pressing his hands desperately against the White Jade Array Eye, pouring his divine sense into the mountain-protecting array without regard for his own safety.

One look was enough to nearly scare his soul out of his body.

His pride and joy, the three thousand layers of the Mysterious Yellow Pure Yang Array that he had spent countless efforts and resources to build, were currently suffering an unprecedented, devastating blow!

The outermost thousand layers of illusion and enemy-trapping arrays did not even hold for a single breath; like bubbles under the sun, they instantly shattered into a sky full of spiritual light.

Immediately following, the middle thousand layers of the Thick Earth Defense Array, built from piles of countless immortal stones, began to twist and deform violently, the ear-piercing, mournful wails of the overloaded array disks echoing throughout the cave.

"Enemy attack?! Has a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal come knocking?!"

Lu Changsheng's first thought was that some peerless expert had discovered his hiding spot and was forcibly breaking his arrays.

But soon, he realized something was wrong.

The pressure the array was enduring did not come from a magical attack from any direction outside, but from... beneath the earth!

"The Earth Vein... the Earth Vein is snapping?!"

Lu Changsheng's face was filled with disbelief. Through the array hub, he clearly perceived the miserable state of the micro-spiritual vein beneath the Nameless Low Mountain.

That sturdy Earth Vein, which he had groomed with merit and infused with the Earth Dragon Pearl, was currently being gripped by an invisible pair of heaven-reaching giant hands, being torn apart frantically!

Once the Earth Vein snapped, this Nameless Low Mountain built upon it, along with all three thousand layers of arrays, would instantly fall into the endless void turbulence and be ground into dust!

"What happened? What on earth happened to the Primordial Land?!"

Lu Changsheng's eyes were bloodshot as he recklessly pushed his Water Mirror Technique to the limit.

The image on the water mirror flickered wildly before finally settling on the sky outside the Nameless Low Mountain.

Seeing the scene in the reflection, Lu Changsheng went completely numb, his blood feeling as if it had frozen into ice in that very moment.

The sky had collapsed.

The originally high and boundless firmament of the Primordial Land now had a terrifying rift stretching for hundreds of millions of miles.

Endless chaotic currents poured in through the gap, turning every mountain and river in their path into nothingness.

And beneath that shattered firmament, a blood-colored sun radiated a despairing light.

Blood rain fell from the sky, and wild winds howled.

In the dark, Lu Changsheng even heard the will of the Primordial Land's Heavenly Dao, filled with sorrow and fury, echoing frantically between heaven and earth.

This was not a battle between experts.

This was the end of the Tribulation of Measure; some peerless fiend, for the sake of that ethereal chance at enlightenment, had directly detonated the main spiritual vein of the entire Western Continent in the Primordial Land!

With the Western Spiritual Vein destroyed, the foundation of heaven and earth was damaged.

That terrifying shockwave, capable of destroying a Small Thousand World, swept out in all directions with the West as its center.

Although the desolate land where Lu Changsheng resided was hundreds of millions of miles away from the West, it was inevitably caught in the aftermath of this world-ending catastrophe.

"Lunatics... they're all goddamn lunatics!"

Lu Changsheng roared hysterically.

He had racked his brains to avoid karma and dodge the blood-crazed Dragon Phoenix remnants.

But he never imagined that those experts standing at the very pinnacle of the Primordial Land would be crazy enough to flip the table and destroy the world itself!

"Crack, crack, crack..."

In the moment he stood stunned, the White Jade Array Eye on the control console shattered with a few more cracks.

The middle thousand layers of the defensive array followed suit, declaring their total destruction.

At this moment, only the innermost layer of the one thousand Pure Yang Killing Arrays remained to protect the cave dwelling, along with the array core suppressed by the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.

"It cannot break! Hold on for this Daoist!"

Lu Changsheng snapped back to reality, rushing toward the open space in the center of the cave like a madman.

He dumped millions of low-grade and mid-grade immortal stones, seized years ago from those four Mystic Immortals, around the array hub as if he were throwing out trash.

"Activate the array! Drain the spiritual energy from these immortal stones! Feed it all into the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil!"

Lu Changsheng formed hand seals, his movements so fast they left only afterimages.

His True Immortal mid-stage mana surged out without reservation, guiding the massive amount of spiritual energy from the immortal stones as it poured frantically into the array core.

With the support of the spiritual energy from those millions of immortal stones, coupled with the unparalleled, heavy Origin of Earth from the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, the innermost layer of the one thousand arrays finally stabilized its decline, emitting a tough, mysterious yellow light screen that desperately resisted the tearing sensation coming from deep underground.

Yet, there was not a hint of joy on Lu Changsheng's face.

Because he knew this was merely drinking poison to quench thirst.

"Treating the symptoms, not the root cause..."

He watched the constantly trembling ground with a deathly pale face.

Although the shockwaves were terrifying, the truly fatal issue was the rupture of the Earth Vein triggered by these tremors.

The Earth Vein beneath the Nameless Low Mountain had developed irreversible cracks due to the collapse of the Western Main Spirit Vein.

Those cracks were expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye, and countless subterranean Sha Qi surged out along the fissures, continuously corroding the foundation of the array.

No matter how many immortal stones he had, there would eventually come a moment when they were exhausted. No matter how powerful the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil was, it could not conjure a complete Earth Vein out of thin air to support this mountain.

If the Earth Vein were allowed to continue tearing, this Nameless Low Mountain would inevitably collapse completely in as little as ten years, or at most a century.

"I've been hiding for thirty thousand years, dodging Fierce Beasts and surviving the Dragon Phoenix, only to die in a crustal movement?"

Lu Changsheng slumped to the ground, watching the stone walls continuously flake away, his eyes filled with despair and resentment.

The greatest tragedy for a practitioner of the Dao of Cowardice is that you lock your door tight, only for the entire building to collapse.

"What to do... what to do..."

Lu Changsheng forced himself to calm down, his brain beginning to race.

"Repair the Earth Vein... yes, I must repair the Earth Vein!"

"Only by stitching the broken Earth Vein back together and stabilizing the earth energy within this hundred-mile radius can the Nameless Low Mountain be saved!"

But how could he repair it?