The Might of the Five Elements Array

In the forest, Bai Yu, who had been running tirelessly, suddenly stopped. She discovered that she could no longer move the pitch-black Diamond Crystal.

The crystal floated in midair as though an invisible hand had firmly seized it.

No matter how hard Bai Yu strained, until beads of sweat appeared on her fair forehead, she could not pull it even an inch farther away.

The same thing happened in two other places.

The two foxes used all their strength, yet they still could not move the crystals Bai Yuan had given them another inch outward.

Just as they were frantic and at a loss over what to do, the three crystals suddenly plunged into the ground and vanished from sight.

At that moment, the fox couple sensed that the Soul Power permeating heaven and earth was rapidly disappearing, while another force they had never felt before was swiftly emerging.

In the distance, Bai Yu sensed that the Spiritual Qi she could previously only feel while cultivating was gradually filling this world.

The Titled Douluo preparing to surround and attack Bai Yuan, as well as the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, all showed subtle changes in expression.

As the Soul Power between heaven and earth rapidly vanished, the rate at which their internal Soul Power recovered naturally slowed as well.

What was even more fatal was how quickly the Soul Power in heaven and earth was disappearing. In a few minutes at most, all Soul Power in this area would completely dissipate.

Yet the most fatal thing was that all of their eyelids were twitching wildly, their hearts restless and uneasy, as though some enormous danger was about to emerge.

Amid the confusion of both humans and beasts, Bai Yuan's icy voice rang out across heaven and earth. "Bibi Dong, right? Myriad Demon King, right? You really took me for a pushover, didn't you?"

Bai Yuan could ignore the others, but not these two. One had incited everyone to turn their weapons on him, while the other had been the first to attack.

How could Bai Yuan not bear a grudge against them?

Everyone once again focused their gazes on Bai Yuan.

At this moment, he made no hand seals. Even the strange square Wooden Plate that had been floating before him had vanished the instant before the Heaven and Earth Mutation.

Yet Bai Yuan merely formed a Sword Finger with his hand and lightly slashed toward Bibi Dong.

In an instant, alarm bells blared in everyone's hearts.

Endless Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth rapidly gathered in response to Bai Yuan's movement, transforming in the blink of an eye into an incomparably terrifying Sword Qi that slashed toward Bibi Dong.

Every Titled Douluo felt their body hair stand on end. Though this strike was not aimed at them and they were merely caught in the crossfire, the sensation that death could descend at any moment was unmistakably real.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Titled Douluo turned and ran. Bibi Dong, directly targeted by the Sword Qi, only felt as if the space around her had frozen solid.

Forget turning around and fleeing—even lifting a finger to resist was impossible for Bibi Dong now.

Bibi Dong was horrified. The only Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring around her lit up once more.

Ninth Soul Skill, Undying Body!

Unlike before, when her shattered body had reassembled, this time, upon activating it herself, Bibi Dong's entire body directly transformed into energy.

As her body became energy, Bibi Dong regained the ability to move. But she had no chance to escape. The Sword Qi flashed, and Bibi Dong's energy body was split into two once again.

"She's not dead?" Bai Yuan looked at the energy body gathering together, his eyes turning cold as he pulled twelve Talisman Papers out of thin air.

These were basic Talisman Papers, Lightning Talismans. Normally, they could at most severely injure a Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivator, but as vast amounts of Spiritual Qi poured into them, the papers ignited without fire.

Then everyone felt the entire world turn white, accompanied by an ear-splitting boom.

The sound was so loud that it seemed like ten thousand bolts of thunder had sounded at once. Even those with the strength of Titled Douluo had blood seep from their ears, their heads spinning.

However, the lightning came suddenly and vanished quickly. Once everything settled, a pitch-black crater over a thousand meters in diameter had appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Within that deep crater, Bibi Dong's energy body had shattered into countless fragments, yet her body was gradually reassembling.

"Still not at the Nascent Soul Stage?" Bai Yuan frowned as he looked at Bibi Dong, who was already on the verge of death yet could not be killed no matter what.

The Five Elements Array was currently incomplete, with only three Array Bases. It was entirely a flawed version created through the Five Elements Array Disk and the mutual generation of the five elements.

That was right, the mutual generation of the five elements.

It was an insight Bai Yuan had gained after studying the Five Elements Array Disk.

Metal generated water, water generated wood, wood generated fire, fire generated earth, and earth generated metal. Thus, even without the Wood Array Base and Earth Array Base, the Five Elements Array could still be set up through the principles of mutual generation.

Therefore, in theory, as long as the array setter's understanding of the five elements was sufficient, they could set up the Five Elements Array with only the Five Elements Array Disk and any one Array Base.

Take the Gold Array Base, for example. Metal generated water, forming the Water Array Base; then the generated water created wood, and so the cycle continued.

However, a Five Elements Array set up this way could at most wield the power of the Qi Refining Ninth Layer. It was less practical than simply using the Five Elements Array Disk directly.

As for why Bai Yuan had made Mu Junwu serve as the Wood Array Base, aside from wanting to stabilize the Five Elements Array, it was also to raise the great array's power by another level.

The result was just as Bai Yuan had expected. Originally, the Five Elements Array with three Array Bases could only allow Bai Yuan to wield the power of a perfected Golden Core. Now, it had risen to the Half-step Nascent Soul Stage.

Converted to the ranking system of Douluo Continent, that was a Demi-God, or perhaps a slightly stronger pseudo-god.

"Looks like I can't kill Bibi Dong." Bai Yuan shifted his gaze and, in an instant, fixed it upon Myriad Demon King in his human form.

Myriad Demon King felt a chill run through his heart. Without any hesitation, he chose to risk his life and directly revealed his true form.

It was a Strange Tree over a thousand meters tall and several hundred meters wide, its surface covered in countless enormous eyes.

The Demon Eye Magic Tree was a high-level Plant-type Soul Beast that had mutated after devouring an immortal herb during its early years.

Even Bai Yuan was somewhat startled upon seeing Myriad Demon King's true form.

A hundred meters was roughly the height of a thirty-story building.

Myriad Demon King's true form was nearly as tall as a thousand-story building. It could truly be said to blot out the sky and cover the earth, while its width was several times greater than a football field.

Bear King and the Titan Giant Ape, who stood only dozens of meters tall and at most one or two hundred meters after being enhanced, were no more than tiny specks before it.

One could only marvel that it truly was a tree that had lived for five hundred thousand years.

Domain, A Moment of a Millennium!

The countless eyes on Myriad Demon King's trunk all stared at Bai Yuan simultaneously, enough to drive anyone with trypophobia insane.

At that moment, Bai Yuan felt that everything in the world had become incomparably slow, while his senses became extraordinarily sharp.

Something that would originally take only a second to finish now felt as if it would take at least several "centuries" to complete in his current state.

This was not an enhancement. It was a curse!

Anyone forced to endure a thousand years at such a slow pace would go mad—mad on the level of consciousness.