In an instant, the enormous formation seal ignited with crimson flames, as though a vast heavenly fire had fallen from the sky, dyeing half the heavens above the garden red.
As the blazing flames burned, the temperature within the garden soared abruptly.
The moisture in the air evaporated, the earth cracked open with fissures spreading everywhere, and the flowers, grass, and trees all withered.
Yet these were merely incidental effects.
The formation seal kindled fire and transformed into a fire formation. The one under the greatest pressure was naturally the man in black, who had cast a wood-element spell.
Among the Five Elements, fire did not restrain wood, but... wood generated fire and fueled its spread.
And when the Five Elements did not form a cycle, one side naturally waned as the other waxed.
The flames raced down the vines supporting the formation seal at an astonishing speed, growing fiercer and fiercer along the way.
After the raging fire reached the ground, it swiftly gathered together.
The flames leaped and, in the blink of an eye, transformed into a fiery python a hundred zhang long, encircling the man in black.
Taking the flames as its signal, the fire python flicked its tongue of fire, its bearing utterly terrifying.
From the moment Old Monster Yan activated the formation formula, to the hundreds of vines driven by the man in black's True Yuan bursting into flames—
To the moment the man in black was surrounded by the fire python, all of it had happened in no more than the blink of an eye.
During that brief moment, Su Shi'er had only taken a single step forward. His Great Brahma Holy Palm had not even had time to fully unfold.
As for the man in black, the instant he recovered from his shock,