Five Elements Sealing Array

All seven formations were broken. The silvery-white void trembled violently the moment the last formation collapsed, and then the silvery-white light dissipated in all directions like a receding tide, revealing a new space beneath.

Lin Ming found himself standing on a huge stone platform. At each of the four corners of the platform stood a stone pillar, with silvery-white flames burning quietly at the top of each pillar.

A silver-white token floats in the very center of the stone platform. A star map is engraved on the token, with seven stars arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper, emitting a cold, silvery light.

Lin Ming stepped forward and took the token in his hand. The moment he held the token, a message flooded his mind: confirmation that he had passed the first test.

He nodded slightly, put the token into his sleeve, and then the stone platform beneath his feet suddenly lit up, a beam of light surging from the center of the platform and enveloping his entire body.

As the light shifted, his figure vanished from this space.

Inside the Star Tower, Zi Yan and the other two, who had been watching closely, suddenly noticed that the silver light on the Crystal Stone had dissipated. However, a golden light immediately followed.

Seeing this, they all knew that Lin Ming had passed the first test and entered the second.

Light flowed and space shifted. When Lin Ming opened his eyes again, he found himself in a space completely different from before.

That silvery-white void had vanished, replaced by a gray, hazy world.

There were no sun, moon, or stars overhead, and no solid ground beneath one's feet. The entire space resembled a huge, hollowed-out mountain belly. The surrounding walls were a deep, leaden gray, rough and hard, like rocks polished by countless years of wind and frost.

An extremely rich Spiritual Energy permeated the air, flowing slowly according to a special pattern, sometimes surging in like the tide and sometimes receding like a whirlpool, carrying an ancient and distant rhythm.

Lin Ming hovered in this hazy space, his gaze sweeping over his surroundings.

His Soul Power spread in all directions like an invisible net, and soon discovered the boundary of this space.

The leaden gray walls sent a chill through me the moment my Soul Power touched them, like sealed walls that firmly enclosed the entire space.

This space is an irregular sphere, several hundred feet in diameter, with no exits or passages on its four walls, like a sealed cage.

However, he noticed something unusual in the center, so he headed towards the center.

Upon arriving at the unusual place, they found themselves facing a huge circular stone platform, several hundred feet in diameter, paved with some kind of dark gold stone, its surface covered with dense Formation Patterns.

In the center of the stone platform stands a thick stone pillar, its entire body a dark gold color, with intricate Spiritual Runes engraved on its surface. A fist-sized golden Crystal Stone floats atop the pillar, radiating a soft yet majestic light.

"It seems this is the second test," Lin Ming muttered to himself.

His voice echoed through the space, carrying a dull resonance.

Lin Ming scanned the area, his expression slightly grave. He could sense that the array fluctuations in this space were far more intense and complex than those in the first trial.

The Spiritual Runes on the stone platform resembled a giant net, tightly connected to the central pillar, forming a precise whole.

Seeing this, Lin Ming walked to the stone pillar and placed his palm on it.

The stone pillar trembled violently under his palm, and the Spiritual Runes on its surface lit up one after another, while the golden Crystal Stone at the top of the pillar also emitted a dazzling light.

Immediately, the surrounding walls began to change. Dense Spiritual Runes emerged on the lead-gray rock surfaces, illuminating Spiritual Runes from all directions with a chilling glow.

The Spiritual Runes connected, intertwined, and spread, like a spider web taking shape, enveloping the entire space.

The Spiritual Runes patterns were of various colors: some were crimson, some were dark blue, some were yellowish-brown, some were emerald green, and some were silvery white. The five colors intertwined, like a Scroll Painting disassembled into five color blocks.

"Five Elements Sealing Array." Lin Ming's pupils contracted slightly.

He could sense that the Law contained within those Spiritual Runes were extremely subtle. The Spiritual Runes of the five attributes nested together and balanced each other, forming an extremely stable sealing array.

This formation was completely different from the ones he had seen in the first trial. Those formations were inanimate objects waiting to be broken, while this Five Elements Sealing Array was like a living behemoth, constantly absorbing the Spiritual Energy in the space to strengthen itself.

As the Spiritual Runes absorbed Spiritual Energy, they became brighter, denser, and tighter, like a giant, ever-shrinking net compressing the entire space toward the center.

Lin Ming could feel the surrounding Spiritual Energy becoming viscous and heavy, as if an invisible hand was squeezing his body.

The pressure came from all directions at once, trying to suppress, bind, and imprison him.

He tried to channel his Spiritual Energy into the wall, but the Spiritual Runes within the Five Elements Sealing Array complemented each other. His attacks, when they struck the crimson Fire Element Spiritual Runes, were neutralized by the blue water Spiritual Runes; when they struck the water Spiritual Runes, they were absorbed by the yellow Earth Element Spiritual Runes. The Five Elements Cycle was like an unbreakable mirror, evenly distributing all external forces throughout the entire array.

"The Five Elements generate and balance each other, creating an endless cycle of life." Lin Ming withdrew his hand, a knowing glint flashing in his dark, unfathomable eyes.

He could see that the ingenuity of this formation lay in the Five Elements Balance within it. Any attack of a single attribute would be neutralized and absorbed by the other attributes, just like when a stone is thrown into a lake, the ripples will be evenly dispersed across the entire lake surface.

To break this formation, brute force cannot be used. Instead, we must start from the root of the Five Elements Balance, find the core node that maintains the balance, destroy it, and cause the cycle of the Five Elements to collapse from the inside.

He closed his eyes and circulated the Five Elements Power to its fullest extent. The Five Elements Origin surged and flowed through his meridians, creating a subtle resonance with the Five Elements Power that permeated the space.

His mind sank into that hazy space, like a drop of water merging into the ocean, sensing the direction of each Spiritual Runes, the position of each node, and the operation of each Array Eyes.

In his perception, the Five Elements Spiritual Runes in that space resembled a complex network, with patterns of crimson, dark blue, earthy yellow, emerald green, and silver-white intertwined and intertwined to form a near-perfect closed loop.

He searched the network repeatedly for a long time and finally found the core node.

That node was located at the very center of the entire space, suspended in mid-air like a beating heart. It was a ball of light about the size of a fist, with Five-Colored Brilliance flowing throughout it. Five Elements Spiritual Runes extended from the ball of light in all directions, like five great rivers flowing from the same source.

That ball of light is the core of the entire Five Elements Sealing Array. It perfectly integrates the five attributes, forming a self-consistent cycle. No external force can destroy it from the outside, because it is itself the embodiment of the Five Elements Balance.

But Lin Ming's Five-Elements World and this formation have a strange resemblance. His world also contains the power of the Five Elements Origin and is also pursuing the Five Elements Completion.

He could understand the balance contained within this sphere of light, just as a musician could understand the melody played by another musician.

He stretched out his palm, and Five-Colored Brilliance condensed in the center, transforming into a pillar of light interwoven with five colors.

Lin Ming pushed his five-colored beam of light toward the five-colored sphere of light. The moment the beam of light touched the sphere, both of the circular beams vibrated simultaneously, as if one mirror were reflecting another.

The Five Elements Balance within the five-colored sphere was slightly disrupted by the intervention of the five-colored beam of light, like a speck of dust being placed on a precise scale.

Although that speck of dust was extremely small, it was enough to throw a balance scale that was already in a state of extreme equilibrium off.

The five-colored sphere of light in the formation trembled violently at that moment. The Five Elements Spiritual Runes surged out from the sphere, attempting to readjust its balance.

But Lin Ming's five-colored beam of light was like a wedge inserted into the gap between gears. No matter how the light sphere was adjusted, the five-colored beam of light was firmly embedded in its Five Elements cycle, like a thorn stuck in the throat.

The tremors of the sphere of light grew more and more violent, and the flow of the Five Elements' Spiritual Runes became increasingly chaotic. The five colors—crimson, deep blue, earth yellow, emerald green, and silver white—collided, strangled, and devoured each other, as if a miniature war of the Five Elements had erupted inside the sphere of light.

Boom!

After holding out for several breaths, the five-colored sphere of light finally exploded with a deafening roar.

Countless five-colored light spots flew in all directions like a grand fireworks display. The Five Elements Spiritual Runes that extended from the light sphere lost their source the moment the light sphere shattered, and withered, dimmed and dissipated as quickly as vines with their roots cut off.

The entire Five Elements Sealing Array began to collapse from its core in all directions. The dense Spiritual Runes on the lead-gray walls went out one after another, like a Zhu Huo blown out by the wind. The binding Law that permeated the space also crumbled at that moment, and the flow of Spiritual Energy around Lin Ming's body returned to normal. The feeling of being squeezed by an invisible giant hand completely disappeared.

The entire gray space began to slowly dissipate after the formation collapsed. The leaden gray walls faded away little by little, like a thin mist melting in the sunlight, revealing a new space beneath.

Lin Ming found himself standing on a stone platform. At each of the four corners of the platform stood a stone pillar, with pale golden flames burning quietly atop each pillar.

A pale golden token floats in the very center of the stone platform. The token is engraved with a star map, in which seven stars are arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper, emitting a warm golden light.