Life span plundered, I became a detective and achieved immortality

Chapter 1177 Suppressing the Five Elements Ancestors

The Five Elements Ancestor's expression changed drastically. The unease in his heart, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, grew wildly and transformed into a towering tree that made it hard for him to breathe.

Any one of these nine immortal formations gave him a fatal sense of crisis; now that all nine formations were deployed, it was practically a situation of certain death.

"Roar! The Primordial Five Elements Flags are unleashed, the Primordial Five Elements Grand Formation is activated!"

A furious roar exploded like thunder, causing ripples to spread through the surrounding chaotic air. The Five Elements Ancestor's aura suddenly became violent, like a ferocious beast driven to the brink of despair. His eyes were bloodshot, filled with madness and determination—no madness, no life. Now, only by fighting desperately could he win a chance to survive.

"Whoosh..."

Five dazzling, five-colored immortal lights suddenly rose from the body of the Five Elements Ancestor, instantly splitting into five ancient immortal banners in the air: the golden banner, like the blazing sun, shimmered with a sharp edge that could cleave through the void, its surface adorned with patterns of Geng metal composed of countless stars, radiating an invincible sharpness; the wooden banner, like an ancient pine tree, flowed with the ever-flowing green of life, its surface engraved with a totem of a colossal tree rooted in chaos, containing boundless vitality; the water banner, like a surging ocean, rippled with the cold light of ice sealing the heavens and earth, its surface reflecting the strange phenomenon of the four seas returning to nothingness, carrying a gentle strength that devours everything; the fire banner, like a vermilion bird spreading its wings, burned with flames that could incinerate all things, its surface imprinted with runes of the fire of nirvana, symbolizing destruction and rebirth; the earth banner, like a mountain standing still, radiated the weight of suppressing the universe, its surface tracing the pulse of the earth, containing the great power to bear all heavens.

The five immortal banners swelled in the wind, instantly growing to a size of ten thousand feet. The innate five elements runes engraved on the banners shone brightly, connected by chains of laws, forming a perfectly formed innate five elements array that firmly protected the area within ten thousand miles surrounding the Five Elements Ancestor. As the array operated, the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth circulated repeatedly, like five flowing rivers, forming an indestructible five-colored light curtain that forcefully blocked the first wave of impact from the nine immortal arrays.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The chaotic ring that locks the soul, the threads of fate that bind the bones, the fragments of spacetime that strangle the soul... crashed one after another into the five-colored light screen, emitting a deafening roar. The light screen trembled violently, like ripples spreading across a lake in a storm, but it never broke, barely holding on to the situation and bursting out with dazzling light.

"No, that's not enough!"

The Five Elements Ancestor felt the terrifying pressure emanating from the light barrier. The power of the Nine Immortal Formations continued to rise, and the defenses of the Innate Five Elements Formation had begun to show fine cracks, spreading like a spider web. A fierce glint flashed in his eyes. He gritted his teeth, his chest heaving violently, and he spat out five mouthfuls of crimson primordial blood. Each mouthful contained his life essence and emitted a chilling aura.

"Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!"

Five mouthfuls of blood streaked across the void like meteors, landing precisely within the five immortal banners. In an instant, the runes on the banners lit up, like five stars exploding simultaneously, and the power of the Innate Five Elements Grand Array surged more than tenfold! The golden banner's sharpness intensified, even severing the chaotic energy flow and cleaving a gap in the Soul-Locking Ring; the wooden banner burst forth with vitality, countless vines instantly sprouting from its light screen, tightly binding the threads of fate, preventing them from tightening; the water banner exuded chilling energy, freezing the karmic fire of reincarnation into ice crystals, extinguishing the burning pain; the fire banner's raging flames soared into the sky, colliding with fragments of spacetime to create a sky full of sparks, neutralizing the crushing force; the earth banner, heavy as a prison, withstood the eerie erosion of cause and effect, stabilizing his mind.

The Five Elements Ancestor's face was as pale as paper. The depletion of his primordial blood had caused his breathing to become disordered, and his body swayed slightly, but a glimmer of hope ignited in his eyes. He rapidly formed hand seals, his fingertips tracing intricate paths, and once again chanted obscure incantations. Each syllable activated the Five Elements primordial energy within his body, fully activating the Innate Five Elements Grand Array to engage in a frenzied battle against the Nine Immortal Arrays.

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The Primordial Immortal Realm, the Primordial World.

On the shore of Spirit Lake, Su Mo still leaned back on the Chaos Spirit Wood bench, his green robe swaying gently in the breeze. His bamboo fishing rod hung limply, the primordial purple energy at the end of the line swirling like a serpent in the water. The lake's surface was like a mirror, clearly reflecting his indifferent figure, even the movement of his hair was clearly visible. His divine sense, like an invisible net, enveloped every inch of the Primordial Immortal Realm, taking in the battle unfolding at the edge.

"sucker Punch!"

Su Mo glanced at the figure frantically activating the Innate Five Elements Grand Array within the Nine Great Immortal Arrays, a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes. Those nine immortal arrays were merely the tip of the iceberg of what he had laid out. Over the past 16 billion years, his 1,800 illusory spirit bodies had already laid out a dense array of immortal immortal arrays around the Hongmeng Immortal Domain, transforming the Hongmeng Immortal Domain and the surrounding trillions of years of void into an impregnable killing formation.

The next second...

Su Mo lightly touched the void with his fingertip, as if plucking the strings of chaos. With a slight thought, the chaotic currents at the edge of the Primordial Immortal Realm suddenly stirred up a new storm.

"Slaughter Origin Immortal Slaughtering Formation, Slaughter Immortals!"

"The Great Array of Cause and Effect and Reincarnation Annihilation, Annihilation!"

"The Great Void Array of Destruction, Transform into Emptiness!"

Three calm voices echoed through the chaos, like the final pronouncement of death, carrying an undeniable sense of closure, causing the surrounding temperature to plummet by trillions of degrees.

In an instant, three even more terrifying immortal arrays appeared from the void: the "Slaughter Origin Immortal Slaughtering Array" summoned endless killing energy, the killing power accumulated since the creation of the world, which now transformed into billions of blood-red longswords. Wherever the sword light passed, even the chaotic energy was cut into dust, emitting painful wails, as if countless dead souls were howling within it; the "Cause and Effect Reincarnation Annihilation Array" twisted the threads of cause and effect, transforming all the causes and effects of the Five Elements Ancestor's past—whether good or bad—into a killing force, which gnawed at him like a leech, making every breath he took a tearing pain; the "Destruction End Void Array" exuded an aura of "nothingness". Wherever it passed, rules collapsed, matter dissolved, and even the stable spacetime collapsed into nothingness, as if to erase all existence and return it to the nothingness before the beginning of chaos.

The three new formations instantly merged with the previous nine immortal formations, and the twelve immortal formations intertwined to form a deadly net covering all aspects of killing, cause and effect, destruction, immortal soul, bones, and Dao foundation, with its power more than doubling compared to before!

"Click... click click..."

The five-colored light barrier, which had been barely holding on, began to crack at a visible speed under the combined impact of the twelve great formations. First, fine cracks appeared on the surface of the light barrier, and then the cracks spread rapidly, covering the entire light barrier like a spider web, emitting a teeth-grinding cracking sound.

The Five Elements Ancestor suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the void in front of him red. The hope in his eyes was immediately swallowed by despair, leaving only deep fear and resentment.

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three days later.

In the chaotic void at the edge of the Primordial Immortal Realm, the power of the twelve immortal arrays had reached its peak. Billions of beams of rule light repeatedly crashed against the remnants of the Innate Five Elements Grand Array like a raging torrent, each impact causing the chaotic void to tremble violently. The cracks on the five-colored light curtain were already dense and numerous, like a candle flickering in the wind; each tremor seemed to be counting down to its final moments, the light so faint as to be almost invisible.

"boom......"

A deafening roar suddenly erupted, like the first boom at the dawn of the universe, echoing through trillions of years of chaos. The cracked, five-colored light barrier could no longer hold on and exploded completely, turning into billions of streaks of light that scattered across the void like a meteor shower. Each fragment carried the mournful cry of the Five Elements, as if telling of the array's foundation's resentment.

Immediately afterwards, the five innate Five Elements flags, now deprived of the light barrier's protection, shattered—the gold flag broke off from its flagpole, plummeting into the chaotic abyss like scrap iron, its Geng metal patterns dim and lifeless; the wood flag, devoid of life, withered into a charred charcoal, crushed into powder by the airflow, devoid of any greenness; the water flag froze into a massive ice shard, shattering into ice crystals under the impact of the array's power, melting into the chaos; the fire flag's flames were completely extinguished, turning into a pile of ashes that drifted away with the wind, leaving not even a trace of warmth; the earth flag disintegrated from its center, turning into dust and merging into the chaos, its heavy aura no longer felt.

The shattered fragments of the immortal banner, mixed with the blood splattered by the Five Elements Ancestors, stained the surrounding chaotic air currents, forming a bizarre sea of ​​blood-red clouds, a truly shocking sight.

"Ah... no..."

The Five Elements Ancestor's body swayed violently under the impact of the twelve great formations. His immortal robes were torn to shreds, and his disheveled hair was stuck to his face with blood, leaving him in a wretched state. The five-colored divine light surrounding him had dimmed to its lowest point, almost extinguished. His immortal body was covered with deep wounds that revealed bone, exposing his stark white bones. As he gazed at the shattered Five Elements Banner, the last glimmer of hope in his eyes was completely extinguished, replaced by a deep-seated fear. Even his voice trembled with extreme despair, carrying a hint of a sob.

"Stop! Eighteenth Prince! Do you really want to completely break ties with the Thirteenth Prince and fight to the death?"

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