The five nodes Li Yan and Hong Yin were attacking now were the key nodes of the formation's Five Elements—the places where the formation's Five Elements spiritual energy transformed into one another.
The Five Elements spells Li Yan and Hong Yin had unleashed happened to counter them one by one. However, the position Hong Yin was attacking was the central node that supplied power to the eye of this formation, so the assault there was the most important, and also consumed the most magic power...
After ten breaths, the gaping mouths at the tips of countless silver vines shriveled as their tips withered, then vanished. The roots and stems inside those mouths also began to wither and be annihilated!
After fifty breaths, though countless silver vines on the rock wall were still thrusting forward, trying to attack the two of them, they had already withered and vanished by two feet!
After a hundred breaths, the extended branches of the silver vines had withered by ten feet! They were like living creatures drained of blood, rapidly aging away. By now, the speed of their withering had become extremely fast.
After two hundred breaths, in front of Li Yan and Hong Yin, the silver vines had already withered back three hundred zhang, and were still continuously drying up at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After two hundred and fifty breaths, only the thick rear halves of the silver vines remained. But at this point, the speed of withering abruptly slowed.
"Once we get close to the roots, the formation's counterattack will grow stronger and stronger. I estimate we'll need at least another fourteen hundred breaths!"
A layer of sweat had already begun to seep out across Hong Yin's smooth, jade-like forehead. In the past, when she used this technique herself,