328: Chapter 328 Meat Quality Assessment Exceeds SSS Grade? Lu Sheng Restarts the Immortal Qin Battle Formation

The sea breeze carried a briny tang, mixed with the aroma of roasted meat emanating from the Abyssal Lord's corpse.

Lu Sheng toyed with the warm, black-jade-like finger bone in his hand, his black-gold pupils reflecting the calm sea. The recent 'extra meal' had left his body in a post-climax state of extreme excitement, every cell greedily digesting the fragments of rules from the level 49 creature.

"Young Island Master."

Dao Yi approached cautiously, holding a simple, ancient bronze seal. The seal was missing a corner, covered in dark red patina, with the faintly visible characters 'Tai Shang'. Yet, this once-lifeless seal was now vibrating slightly, as if resonating with a certain frequency within Lu Sheng's body.

"This is the Kunlun Ruins' mountain-guarding treasure—the Heaven-Reversing Seal," Dao Yi's voice trembled with instinctive reverence for the sacred artifact. "It suddenly awoke and flew out on its own when you devoured that monster... This Old One thought our Ancestral Master was manifesting his divine power."

Lu Sheng glanced at that piece of scrap bronze.

Manifesting divine power?

He scoffed.

Under the gaze of his [Dragon Eyes], this was no Magic Treasure. It was clearly a high-frequency signal transmitter frantically uploading data.

"Manifesting divine power, my ass," Lu Sheng reached out and grabbed the revered Heaven-Reversing Seal as if picking up a brick. "This thing is spying on me."

"Wh-what?" Dao Yi froze, not yet comprehending Lu Sheng's meaning.

At that moment, as if sensing Lu Sheng's hostility, the seal trembled violently. The layer of dark red patina flaked off, revealing an... eye on its base.

It was a living, vertical eye growing within the bronze.

It rotated. Its pupil was not flesh and blood but an electronic crystal composed of countless, extremely intricate light paths. A cold, vast will attempted to directly invade Lu Sheng's Sea of Consciousness along his arm.

"How dare you!" Dao Yi's face changed drastically, instinctively wanting to kneel in worship. "This is an Immortal's Dharma Eye..."

*Smack!*

A crisp slapping sound interrupted Dao Yi's knee-jerk reflex.

Without a word, Lu Sheng backhanded the large seal. The slap, infused with the Power of Desolation, sent the bronze seal buzzing, creating fine cracks in the surrounding space.

"Do I need to give you face?"

Lu Sheng's fingers curled into claws, black-gold Imperial Markings swirling at his fingertips as he forcibly dug into the incredibly hard bronze.

*Zizi—!!*

The seal emitted a piercing shriek, as if some creature were screaming in agony.

"Watch! I'll let you watch your fill!"

Expressionless, Lu Sheng exerted force with his fingers and yanked outward.

*Squelch!*

Amidst the sound of viscous fluid splattering and metal snapping, that frantically flashing electronic vertical eye, along with a large cluster of neural wires behind it, was brutally... ripped out of the seal.

Dao Yi knelt on the ground, mouth agape, eyes nearly popping out.

Sacrilege... This was blatant sacrilege!

That was Kunlun's sacred artifact, passed down for ten thousand years, kept in the Ancestral Master Hall where not a speck of dust dared to settle! And this lord actually gouged out the sacred artifact's eyeball?!

Lu Sheng completely ignored Dao Yi's mental breakdown. He pinched the still-twitching eyeball and pressed it directly against his own forehead.

"[myriad things furnace]—Reverse Analysis."

"Reconnect it for me. Let's see who's playing god on the other end."

*Hum—!!!*

Lu Sheng's vision instantly stretched and distorted.

He felt his consciousness transform into a data stream, rushing along an invisible signal line, instantly breaking through the atmosphere, breaking through the Earth-Moon system, extending all the way to the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system.

And it was at this moment that Lu Sheng finally saw clearly.

In the depths of that dead, cold Universe.

A fleet so vast it was suffocating floated silently in the Void Realm.

They were not steel warships.

They were tens of thousands of... ancient bronze coffins, each tens of thousands of meters long.

Each bronze coffin resembled a star carrier, its surface carved with intricate array patterns. From this distance, they looked like a stationary asteroid belt.

At the forefront of the fleet, on the largest ancient bronze ship, stood a tattered great banner.

On the banner was an ancient character Lu Sheng didn't recognize but could instantly understand—[Herdsman].

The view zoomed in.

Lu Sheng saw that on the Deck of that ancient ship stood several creatures a hundred *zhang* tall, their bodies covered in black scales. They were gathered around a massive holographic star chart, pointing at Earth's location.

Beside the star chart was a real-time updated... menu.

Yes, a menu.

Lu Sheng's pupils constricted sharply.

He understood the meaning of those data streams.

[Pasture No.: Milky Way-003 (Earth)]

[Current Status: Maturity (Spiritual Qi Recovery Peak)]

[Meat Quality Rating:]

* **Spirit Apprentice Rank (Offal):** Energy deficient, coarse texture. Recommended to grind into feed.

* **Spirit Master Rank (Off-cuts):** Slightly chewy, suitable for soup.

* **Spirit Ancestor Rank (Prime Cuts):** Perfect fat-to-spiritual energy ratio, highly nourishing. Recommended as sashimi.

* **Spirit King Rank (Supreme):** Contains rule fragments, rich and layered texture. A delicacy to be presented to the 'Throne'.

And at the very top of that menu, a conspicuous red dot was flashing, with a line of small text beside it:

[Warning: Mutant individual (Lu Sheng) detected. Meat quality assessment: Exceeds SSS Rank! Recommendation: Prioritize capture, braised alive.]

"Heh..."

In the underground control room, Lu Sheng slowly opened his eyes, a dangerously sharp curve lifting the corner of his mouth.

He smiled.

His shoulders shook with laughter, the gray light in his eyes almost overflowing.

"So that's how it is..."

"All this time, we've been desperately Cultivating, comprehending heaven and earth, striving for Breakthroughs..."

"In your eyes, we were just trying to improve our... marbling?"

Lu Sheng looked down at his own near-perfect muscle definition, then at the bewildered Dao Yi beside him.

"Dao Yi."

"Y-Young Island Master?" Dao Yi felt a chill under Lu Sheng's gaze, as if he were a piece of pork hanging on a hook.

"Don't call them Spirit Ancestor or Spirit King anymore," Lu Sheng patted Dao Yi's shoulder, his tone eerie. "Calling them pork belly and tenderloin might be more fitting."

"Huh?" Dao Yi was utterly confused.

Lu Sheng offered no explanation.

He casually tossed the now-dull electronic eyeball to the ground and crushed it underfoot.

"Since I'm the top-grade meat..."

Lu Sheng turned and walked towards the core control console converted from an iceberg. With each step, the killing intent emanating from him intensified, eventually materializing into a blood-red storm that swept through the entire underground space.

"Then I'll chew up and swallow you diners... along with the table and the dishes!"

*Boom—!*

Lu Sheng's palm slammed heavily onto the control console.

Although the spying 'eye' had been gouged out, this seal was internally connected to the entire defense network left behind on Earth by Immortal Qin.

"[Divine Rank Sequence·Dragon God]—Permission Override."

"Beep—"

"Highest-level genetic command detected... Welcome back, Commander."

A cold, mechanical voice echoed underground.

The holographic screen on the console instantly lit up. Countless red dots appeared in orbit around Earth.

"Young Island Master, this... what is this..." Dao Yi stared at the unprecedented images on the screen, utterly shocked.

"These are the 'cutlery' our ancestors left for us."

Lu Sheng's fingers swiftly swiped across the screen, locking onto the sea area surrounding Dengxian Island.

There, although Gabriel's fleet had been annihilated, more black dots were converging from all directions. The Western joint investigation team clearly hadn't given up. This time, they'd learned their lesson, not approaching but stopping on the sea a hundred kilometers away, setting up long-range Magitek Cannons glowing with blue light.

"Launch countdown... three, two, one!"

On the sea, a red-robed Cardinal raised his staff high, his face contorted. "For the glory of the Lord! Purify this island of heretics!"

Hundreds of beams of destructive light tore across the sky, roaring towards Dengxian Island with enough force to level it.

Yet, Lu Sheng merely looked at the screen and snapped his fingers lightly.

"Let these flies witness what true 'purification' is."

The next second.

The previously calm sea around Dengxian Island suddenly erupted.

No shield rose.

Instead, twelve towering bronze towers, each a hundred meters high, burst forth from the water!

These colossal towers were covered in rust, appearing ancient and weathered, but at their Peaks gathered terrifying black lightning.

That was—[Primordial Annihilation Lightning].

*Zila—!!!*

There was no deafening roar of artillery.

Only twelve black lightning bolts instantly pierced heaven and earth.

The incoming magitek beams, upon contact with the black lightning, silently dissolved like ice meeting the blazing sun.

Unimpeded, the black lightning bolts crossed the hundred-kilometer distance at light speed, landing precisely atop the massive joint fleet.

There was no explosion.

Because at that level of energy strike, matter didn't even get a chance for a chemical reaction.

On the sea surface, a massive void ten kilometers in diameter appeared.

Seawater, warships, the shouting Cardinal, and thousands of various powerhouses...

All vanished.

As if an eraser had lightly wiped across a drawing.

Only the thunderous roar of seawater rushing back into the void announced the terror of that instant to the world.

"This... this is the power of Immortal Qin?"

Dao Yi's legs gave way, and he slumped to the ground. He had Cultivated the Dao his entire life but had never witnessed such domineering, such unreasonable means of slaughter.

Lu Sheng withdrew his hand. The red dots on the screen had all been cleared.

No joy showed on his face, for he knew this was merely an appetizer. The true feast was yet to come.

"Pass down the order."

Lu Sheng's voice was cold as a blade.

"All personnel on Dengxian Island are to move underground immediately. I will use this iceberg as the array core to construct a 'Desolation Defense Array' covering the entire island."

"Whether they fly in the sky or swim in the water, without my permission, not even a mosquito is to get through."

"Yes!" This time, Dao Yi didn't hesitate for a moment, for he saw true mountains of corpses and seas of blood in Lu Sheng's eyes.

After giving the orders, Lu Sheng looked up, his gaze seeming to penetrate the thick rock layers, looking towards the distant north.

The black jade finger bone grew slightly warm in his palm, pointing the way.

"The Far North..."

Lu Sheng murmured to himself.

The Ghost Ship that escaped, and that so-called 'Frost Throne's' Old One.

If Earth was a Pasture, then beneath the icy plains of the Far North likely lay this Pasture's 'control room'.

"To avoid being eaten, one must first turn oneself into a hard bone that shatters their teeth."

Lu Sheng glanced at his status panel.

[Rank: Level 39 Spirit Ancestor (Peak)]

[Physical Body Strength: Spirit King Rank Ceiling]

Not enough.

Far from enough.

Faced with that level of civilization that spanned galaxies, a Spirit Ancestor was just a slightly larger ant, a Spirit King merely a stronger cricket.

Only that legendary Realm...

Lu Sheng tightened his grip on the dragon devouring spear. An unprecedented sense of urgency exploded in his heart.

He had to, before those bronze ancient ships reached Earth's atmosphere, before that so-called 'Great Sacrifice' began...

Truly step into the Spirit King Realm, and even... touch that supreme Throne!

"Let's go."

Lu Sheng turned. His black robe billowed behind him like Death's cloak.

"To the Far North."

"To flip their table over there, and by the way..."

He licked his slightly dry lips, a flash of madness in his eyes.

"...ask that Old One what flavor a god of its level tastes like."