Chapter 1113: Trapped and Killed

"The Five Elements Annihilation Array! Quick, we can't let them activate it!" Jiao San exclaimed, her face turning pale upon hearing the conversation between Daoyin Zhenren and Qimozi.

As she spoke, a dark red light blazed around her, and she charged toward the five-colored light pillars, pushing against the rolling storm of air currents.

Although Han Li and Hu San had never heard of the Five Elements Annihilation Array, seeing Jiao San so alarmed, they immediately followed suit.

Daoyin Zhenren sneered coldly, showing no sign of concern, and waved the hand holding the golden talisman.

In an instant, the flame of the Time Lamp blazed up again, and nine gilded fire dragons emerged, rapidly swelling dozens of times in size to become nine hundred-zhang-long fire dragons that charged at Han Li and the other two.

Having just witnessed the power of the gilded fire dragons, Han Li and the others quickly dodged out of the way.

A sly smile curled at the corner of Jiao San's mouth. With a crisp shout, she waved her right hand.

A mass of yellow light shot out from her hand—it was a square earthen-yellow seal that flew through the gaps between the nine fire dragons and appeared before the five jade pillars in a flash.

Jiao San rapidly chanted an incantation and pointed her jade finger in the air.

A loud rumble echoed!

The earthen-yellow seal erupted with astonishing spiritual pressure, radiating ten thousand rays of earthen-yellow light so dazzling it was hard to look at directly. Layers of profound yellow runes swirled on its surface.

As these runes flashed and vanished into the seal's body, the seal swelled with the wind, instantly transforming into a mountain-sized yellow giant seal that occupied nearly half the hall's space and slammed down toward the five jade pillars with overwhelming force.

Compared to the giant earthen-yellow seal, the five jade pillars, which had seemed quite thick, now looked like five chopsticks.

"The Imperial Earth Seal... unfortunately, you've used it in the wrong place." Daoyin Zhenren said calmly, pointing at the yellow jade pillar while forming hand seals.

A strand of light from the yellow jade pillar immediately split off and struck the yellow seal.

As soon as the seal touched this yellow light, its surface radiance vanished with a sizzle.

The mountain-sized seal rapidly shrank, in an instant returning to its original size, and flew into the yellow light pillar, hovering above the yellow-faced old man's head, spinning continuously.

"What!" Jiao San's expression changed at the sight.

"Hmph! The five immortal artifacts you took were originally part of the array. Did you think we would let you take them so easily? Now they've all returned!" Daoyin Zhenren sneered coldly, glancing at the others, then slapped his hand on the five-colored disc.

The five-colored disc immediately brightened, and the surrounding five-colored light pillars did the same, spinning and flashing, emitting a summoning intent.

The Desolate Ancient Sword in Xiong Shan's hand suddenly burst with bright golden sword light and shot out with a whoosh, flying toward the golden light pillar of the Five Elements Annihilation Array, beyond Xiong Shan's control no matter how he tried to manipulate it.

The blue pouch in Lan Yan's hand also flared up, emitting ten thousand beams of blue light, and slipped from her grasp, flying toward the blue light pillar.

Almost at the same time, a green light flashed on Lan Yuanzi's storage artifact, and a two-foot-long emerald green staff materialized out of thin air, also flying toward the Five Elements Annihilation Array.

Han Li's finger suddenly felt hot, and the next moment, the space beside him rippled, and the white fire bead materialized, flying swiftly forward.

His expression darkened, and he reached out with his large hand to grab it.

With a rumble in the void, a giant golden hand materialized above the fire bead, reaching down to catch it firmly.

But the white light on the fire bead immediately brightened, and seven or eight white fire pillars shot out, piercing through the giant golden hand, then twisted violently.

With a soft tearing sound, the giant golden hand was easily shredded, scattering into countless golden streams of light.

This series of changes happened in an instant, and the white fire bead, without pausing, flashed and vanished into the red light pillar.

The other three immortal artifacts also flew into the gold, blue, and green light pillars, hovering above Lei Yuce and the others.

Empowered by the five immortal artifacts, the five-colored light pillars brightened again, each emitting a formidable wave of law power.

Daoyin Zhenren's face showed neither joy nor sorrow. He lowered the golden talisman in his hand and spat out several mouthfuls of essence blood, which merged into the five-colored disc before him.

At the same time, his hands moved like wheels, forming hand seals, and a rain of spell seals shot out, vanishing into the five-colored disc.

Now Lei Yuce and the others, like Daoyin Zhenren, spat out essence blood that merged into the immortal artifacts above their heads, and their bodies blazed with dazzling light, which they injected into the artifacts.

As Daoyin Zhenren performed his technique, the five-colored light radiating from the disc flashed wildly a few times, then suddenly converged.

The outer five-colored light pillars also intertwined with each other, and with a puff, transformed into a five-colored spherical light barrier, enveloping the altar and all of them within.

This series of changes, though complicated to describe, was completed in just a few breaths. Han Li and the others had no time to intervene before everything was over.

At this very moment, a dramatic change also occurred outside the Time Hall!

The five array eyes of the Giant Peak let out a loud bang, each soaring up a thick pillar of light, more than a hundred times thicker than the one that had risen within the Hall of Years, like five heaven-supporting giant pillars piercing straight into the sky.

The clouds in the sky immediately began to churn, and the entire seventh layer space started to rumble and shake.

The primordial qi of heaven and earth rolled and surged like tides toward the five heaven-supporting pillars of light.

A colossal five-colored spherical light curtain slowly emerged, centered on the five heaven-supporting pillars, enveloping the sky and the giant peak below.

A vast, immense force emanated from within the five-colored light curtain; with a single gentle fluctuation, it shattered and collapsed the nearby void.

Within the Hall of Years, the storm that had been surging inside also ceased, and all fluctuations of qi converged into the five-colored light curtain.

On the light curtain, streaks of five-colored spiritual patterns appeared, emitting a soft five-colored radiance without a trace of killing intent, like an ordinary restriction.

But Han Li's gaze at the five-colored light curtain was extremely solemn, and he even felt a sense of terror.

The Tongtian Sword Diagram in his storage artifact suddenly blazed with light, emitting low hums toward the five-colored light curtain, revealing a desire to compete.

Han Li sensed the anomaly in his storage artifact and was slightly startled, but the situation was urgent, and he had no time to attend to it.

"Daoist Jiao San, you seem quite familiar with this Five Elements Annihilation Void Grand Formation. What kind of formation is it?" he asked, looking at Jiao San, his voice only audible to the three of them and not spreading.

Hu San also turned to look.

"The Five Elements Annihilation Void Grand Formation is one of the ten ancient great formations, long lost, so very few know of it. I never expected to find one here. Although this formation appears incomplete, barely pieced together using the power of five immortal artifacts and the formation itself, its might is likely beyond what we can withstand," Jiao San said with a grim expression.

"Then what do we do? Are we really going to be killed here by that ox-nose?" Hu San asked anxiously.

"At this point, we can only resist to the death!" Jiao San said slowly after a moment of silence, his expression heavy.

Hearing this, Hu San opened his mouth, his face slowly turning pale.

Han Li's expression was equally solemn, but he was not overly despairing. His gaze swept around as he turned over thoughts in his mind.

This Daoist Daoyin clearly intended to finish the job and kill everyone here, including the demons and even Qi Mozi. But Han Li did not believe Qi Mozi and the five demons would simply submit.

If they could unite with the three of them, the problem would naturally be much easier, but Daoist Daoyin had clearly seen the situation and knew that those present could not cooperate.

"Daoist Qi Mozi, earlier you told us you could obtain the Lamp of Years and control the Five Elements Annihilation Void Grand Formation here. What is going on?" On the other side, the White Bone Demon looked at Qi Mozi and transmitted coldly.

The other demons also glared at Qi Mozi, except for the Eagle-Nosed Demon, who remained relatively calm.

Qi Mozi had previously told the five that he could control everything within the Hall of Years, easily kill Han Li and the others, and plunder their treasures, and he would share half of the spoils with them.

Confident in their own strength, the five demons had followed Qi Mozi here, only to find the situation completely different.

Qi Mozi's face was gloomy, but he said nothing.

Xiong Shan, standing beside him, also remained silent.

Lan Yuanzi and Lan Yan, seeing the five-colored light curtain, immediately moved further away from the altar, approaching the entrance of the hall, but did not approach Han Li's group or Qi Mozi's seven, seemingly distrustful of Han Li and the others.

Inside the spherical light curtain, Daoist Daoyin had stopped his incantation.

His face was pale, as if activating the formation had consumed a great deal of primordial qi, but his expression was exceptionally excited, gazing fervently at the surrounding five-colored light curtain.

Daoist Daoyin then turned his gaze to Han Li and the others, a sinister smile curling at the corner of his mouth as he formed a hand seal and waved.

The five-colored light curtain immediately brightened, and round spots appeared on it. Then countless human-head-sized light spheres shot out, striking everyone in the hall with the force of a thunderbolt.

Each light sphere flickered with five-colored light, and each color emanated a law force—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—the five elements.

The five laws clashed violently but did not fully erupt, only emitting explosive sounds like thunderclaps, deafening everyone in the hall and making their hearts tremble with fear.

The faces of those in the hall changed color, and they hurriedly took defensive measures.

The Eagle-Nosed Demon, Bronze Lion Demon, White Bone Demon, Blood Hand Demon, and Tortoise-Back Demon surged with black qi, revealing their beast forms again, and each manifested their spirit domains.

The five black spirit domains interwove, instantly forming an elliptical black light array, within which sat the phantom images of five black giant beasts—the five domain spirits.

These five domain spirits were exceptionally powerful, spewing countless black lightning bolts and pitch-black demonic flames that intertwined and flickered within the array, along with dense black runes rolling within, making the black light array extremely stable, almost solid.

This was their Four Symbols Domain Demon Array formed by their spirit domains, their ultimate trump card.

Not only that, the five demons opened their mouths and spat out dozens of colorful demon artifacts, each emitting powerful demonic qi fluctuations, flying and roaming within the black light array, further enhancing the might of the Four Symbols Domain Demon Array.

Whether because the Eagle-Nosed Demon and the others resented Qi Mozi for failing to fulfill his earlier promise, the Four Symbols Domain Demon Array did not cover Qi Mozi and Xiong Shan, leaving them outside.