Chapter 36: The Might of the Five Elements Array

In the forest, Bai Yu, who had been running tirelessly, suddenly stopped her steps because she found she could no longer move that piece of black rhomboid crystal.

The crystal simply hovered in midair, as if an invisible hand gripped it firmly.

Even though Bai Yu exerted all her strength, her pure white forehead beading with sweat, she could not budge it even a bit.

This situation then appeared successively in two other places.

The two foxes exerted all their strength, yet they could not move the crystal Bai Yuan had given them even a bit.

Suddenly, while they were anxious and didn't know what to do, the three crystals shot into the ground and vanished from their sight.

At this moment, the fox couple sensed that the soul power filling heaven and earth was rapidly disappearing, while another force they had never felt before was quickly emerging.

Far away, Bai Yu felt that the spiritual aura, which she could only sense during cultivation, was gradually filling this heaven and earth.

The many Title Douluo planning to besiege Bai Yuan, as well as the ten-thousand-year soul beasts, all showed slight changes in expression.

As the soul power in heaven and earth vanished quickly, the rate at which their internal soul power recovered naturally declined as well.

Worse still, the speed at which the soul power in heaven and earth disappeared was extremely fast; at most a few more minutes, and the soul power in this heaven and earth would completely dissipate.

But the most dire thing was that everyone's eyelids twitched wildly, their hearts restless, as if some great danger were about to appear.

Just as the people and beasts were puzzled, Bai Yuan's icy voice rang out across heaven and earth: "Bi Bi Dong, right? Myriad Monster King, right? You really took me for a soft persimmon, right?"

Bai Yuan could ignore others, but these two—one made everyone point at him at the start, the other was the first to strike.

How could Bai Yuan not bear a grudge against them?

Everyone once again focused their gaze on Bai Yuan.

At this moment, he was not seen forming hand seals, and even the strange floating wooden disk before him had vanished just before the heavenly aberration.

But Bai Yuan merely curled his fingers into a sword finger and lightly slashed in the direction where Bi Bi Dong was.

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

The boundless spiritual energy of heaven and earth, stirred by Bai Yuan's motion, swiftly gathered and instantly turned into a terrifying sword qi that slashed toward Bi Bi Dong.

The Title Douluo only felt their body hair stand on end; even though the sword was not aimed at them, they were merely innocent victims, yet the feeling that death could strike at any moment was undeniably real.

Without hesitation, the Title Douluo bolted away—yet this sword qi was aimed straight at Bi Bi Dong, who at that moment felt as if the surrounding space had been frozen.

Let alone turning and fleeing, Bi Bi Dong now could not even lift a finger to resist.

Bi Bi Dong was horrified; her sole ten-thousand-year soul ring lit up once again.

Ninth soul skill, Indestructible Body!

Unlike before when she gathered her shattered body, this time she actively activated it, and her entire body directly transformed into energy.

As she turned herself into energy, Bi Bi Dong found she had regained mobility, but she had no chance to flee—she saw the sword qi flash, and her energy body split into two halves once more.

"Not dead?" Bai Yuan gazed at the converging energy mass, his eyes hardening, and he produced twelve talismans out of thin air.

These were elementary talismans, lightning talismans that normally could at most heavily injure a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining, but with the influx of vast heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, the talismans ignited spontaneously without fire.

Immediately afterward, everyone felt the world turn white, accompanied by a deafening "Boom—".

The sound was so immense it seemed like myriad thunderclaps ringing together; even those with Title Douluo-level strength suffered bloody ears and dizziness.

However, the lightning came suddenly and went just as fast; after everything settled, only a black pit kilometers in diameter and deep appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest.

And within this pit, Bi Bi Dong's energy body had shattered into countless fragments, her person gradually reassembling.

"Still not reached Nascent Soul?" Bai Yuan frowned at the dying yet unkillable Bi Bi Dong.

Currently, the Five Elements Array is incomplete, with only three bases, a deficient version set up relying solely on the Five Elements Array Disk and the Five Elements Mutual Generation.

Exactly, it is the Five Elements Mutual Generation.

Bai Yuan's insight after observing the Five Elements Array Disk.

Metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal; thus, even lacking the wood and earth bases, one can still arrange the Five Elements Array following the mutual generation rule.

Therefore, theoretically, as long as the array setter fully understands the Dao of the Five Elements, even with only the Five Elements Array Disk and any random base, one can lay out the Five Elements Array.

Take the metal base as an example: metal generates water, the water base forms, then the generated water generates wood, and so the cycle continues.

However, the power of such a Five Elements Array arranged this way is at most the ninth level of Qi Refining, which is not as practical as directly using the Five Elements Array Disk.

As for Bai Yuan having Mu Jun serve as the wood base, aside from wanting to stabilize the Five Elements Array a bit more, it was to elevate the grand array's power by a notch.

As Bai Yuan expected, with three bases the Five Elements Array could only let him wield the full strength of Golden Core; now it has been raised to half-step Nascent Soul.

Converted to the Douluo Continent's ranking, that is a demigod, or perhaps a slightly higher false god.

"Looks like I can't kill Bi Bi Dong." Bai Yuan shifted his gaze, and in an instant turned it toward the Myriad Monster King in human form.

The Myriad Monster King's heart turned cold; without hesitation, he chose to fight desperately, directly revealing his true form.

It was a monstrous tree a kilometer tall and several hundred meters wide, its trunk covered densely with huge eyes.

Demon-Eye Devil Tree, a high-grade plant-type soul beast, mutated after swallowing a celestial herb in its lowly stage.

Bai Yuan also looked somewhat surprised at the Myriad Monster King's true form.

About a hundred meters high, roughly like a thirty-story building.

The Myriad Monster King's true form's height is nearly equivalent to a thousand-story building, truly able to block out the sky and sun, and its width is several times that of a football field.

The few-dozen-meter heights of Bear Lord and Titan Giant Ape, even after enhancement to one or two hundred meters, are nothing more than a speck before it.

One can only sigh in awe; no wonder it is a tree that has lived for five hundred thousand years.

Domain, an instant of a thousand years!

The countless eyes on the Myriad Monster King's trunk all stared at Bai Yuan at once, enough to drive a trypophobia sufferer mad.

At this moment, Bai Yuan felt that everything in the world had become extremely slow, his perception becoming extraordinarily keen.

Something that originally would take only a second to complete, Bai Yuan felt that in his current state, it would take at least several hundred years.

This is not an enhancement, it is a curse!

Anyone who spends a thousand years moving so slowly will go mad, a madness of consciousness.

(End of chapter)