287: Awaken the Five Elements Cycle of Life and Death! Lu Sheng: Quick, release a phoenix to liven things up!

The air was filled with the suffocating smell of burnt metal.

Lu Sheng stood in the center of the ruins, shirtless. His grayish-white bone-like skin reflected the precious light, giving off a rough texture similar to weathered rock.

He held the 'Resting Earth' sludge, which weighed hundreds of tons, and tossed it in his hand.

"Too light."

Lu Sheng curled his lip, and his five fingers suddenly snapped shut.

Crack!

The air between his fingers was squeezed until it exploded, letting out a crisp sound like firecrackers.

There were no flashy incantations, nor any gentle communication with the elements.

Four hundred and fifty tons of physical brute force, accompanied by overbearing Divine Thought, treated that lump of Resting Earth like playdough, forcibly rolling and kneading it into shape.

"Earth Dragon, condense!"

Boom!

The ground suddenly caved in.

A hundred-meter-long, earthy-yellow giant Dragon smashed onto the ground out of thin air.

It didn't have the elegant form of a Dragon at all. Its body was covered in uneven, fractured rock surfaces, as rough as a clay sculpture a child had clumsily ruined, exuding a sense of heaviness and sturdiness.

But the moment it landed, the gravity field of the entire independent Small World went haywire.

Instead of flying everywhere, the gravel was sucked tightly to the ground, making an overwhelmed squeezing sound.

Lu Sheng was very satisfied with this sense of weight.

Next was that deathly silent Weak Water Bead.

"Open!"

Exerting force with both hands, the pitch-black water bead was violently torn open.

There was no sound of flowing water, only a scalp-numbing 'sizzling' sound of corrosion.

A liquid Dragon as black as ink wound its way out. It had no scales; its entire body was composed of slowly flowing, highly toxic black water. Wherever it passed, the hard basalt floor was dissolved into deep pits emitting black smoke.

Finally, it was the Jade Broken Branch.

A massive amount of spirit source was poured into it as if it cost nothing.

The broken branch grew wildly, vines dancing manically, transforming in the blink of an eye into a Wood Dragon covered in thorns with pale little flowers blooming on its head. It looked full of vitality, yet it also exuded an eerie, demonic nature.

In just two minutes.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth.

Five hundred-meter giant beasts, each occupying a side, surrounded Lu Sheng in the middle.

Five completely different powers of rules collided frantically in the narrow space, twisting the air like a pot of boiling paste.

In the corner.

Luo Tianfei had just popped her dislocated jaw back into place. At this moment, she was pressed against the wall, her eyelids twitching wildly.

Common sense told her that this wasn't called constructing a Domain.

This was called suicide.

"The Five Elements generate each other... but they also overcome each other!" Luo Tianfei's voice was trembling, her fingernails digging into the cracks in the wall. "Putting rule entities of this intensity together—these are five powder kegs!"

Before her voice had even faded.

The Red Lotus Fire Dragon, the one with the shortest temper, moved.

It had long found the cold and damp Water Dragon next to it an eyesore.

Fire and water were incompatible; this was a hatred etched into the very bones of the rules.

"Roar!"

The fire Dragon didn't care who its master was. It opened its mouth and spat out a thick stream of lava.

Not to be outdone, the Water Dragon's body instantly disintegrated into a sky full of black rain, striking back with intense corrosiveness.

With this move, everything went into chaos.

The Metal Dragon bared its razor-like scales, frantically slicing the Wood Dragon's vines; the Earth Dragon roared and crashed into the Water Dragon, attempting to bury it.

Boom boom boom boom boom—!!!

Five storms, each capable of destroying a city, exploded within this treasury of only a few thousand square meters.

That wasn't an ordinary explosion.

It was mutual annihilation at the level of rules.

The space barriers were covered with black cracks, and it looked like a Void Realm storm was about to pour in.

"Stop! Stop quickly!!" Luo Tianfei screamed, forgetting her image as a Saintess, as she scrambled toward the edge of the Formation. "It's going to collapse! We're all going to die!"

She was in despair.

This madman Lu Sheng had created five different types of nuclear bombs in the treasury and was tying their fuses together!

At the center of the storm, Lu Sheng's figure was swallowed by the five-colored turbulent flow.

But his feet were rooted to the ground, and he didn't budge an inch.

In those eyes that had no pupils and were only a patch of deathly gray, there was no panic at all.

Only a kind of violence from having his mood disturbed.

"So noisy."

Lu Sheng raised his hand and picked his ear.

On that face covered with fine bone scales, an extremely cruel and savage grin pulled back, revealing the interlocking fangs in his mouth.

"Since you don't want to get along..."

"Then all of you... become nutrients for me!"

Buzz—!!

A gray ripple rippled out silently, centered on Lu Sheng.

Wherever this ripple passed, time seemed to be stripped away.

The originally violent Red Lotus Karmic Fire instantly dimmed in color, as if it had lost its fuel, aging from its prime to its twilight in an instant.

The sharp Taibai Metal Qi became rusty, dull, and decayed.

This was the Origin of the Primordial Desolate Heaven Dragon—Desolation.

It was the end of all matter and energy.

In the face of this power, any elemental counter-attributes or Five Elements rules were nothing but children.

The five rule Dragons that were fighting each other froze.

It was as if a pause button had been pressed.

That feeling was like a group of gang members in a brawl suddenly seeing a god of death walk in, carrying a Gatling gun and having a face full of scars.

They were trembling.

That was the fear of 'death' originating from biological instinct.

"Not listening?"

Lu Sheng stretched out his large, bone-spur-covered hand and made a fierce grabbing motion toward the void.

In mid-air, a huge grayish-white Dragon Claw phantom appeared, grabbing all five hundred-meter giant beasts in its palm like loaches, crushing them until their bones broke and tendons snapped, making them wail incessantly.

"Since you're all here, then connect for me."

Lu Sheng exerted force with his fingers, his voice sounding like a cold wind drifting out of Hell.

"Metal generates Water, Water generates Wood, Wood generates Fire, Fire generates Earth, Earth generates Metal."

"Whoever dares to break the chain, I'll eat them first!"

Under the deterrent of absolute violence, a miracle happened.

The Metal Dragon that had wanted to hack the Wood Dragon to death just now was now trembling as it spat out a mouthful of pure Geng Metal Qi, carefully feeding it to the Water Dragon next to it.

The Water Dragon didn't dare to be sloppy either, passing its own essence to the Wood Dragon... a perfect, forced Five Elements closed loop was thus forcibly pieced together under the adhesive of violence.

Buzz!

The five Dragons connected head to tail, shrinking rapidly, and finally transformed into an extremely gorgeous five-colored light wheel, hovering behind Lu Sheng's head.

The light wheel rotated, endlessly cycling.

And in the center of the light wheel was a gray black hole.

That was the Desolate Dragon Origin, sitting in the center and suppressing all defiance.

Crack.

The space barrier that was about to shatter instantly healed.

With Lu Sheng as the center, the scene within a hundred-meter radius completely changed.

Tender grass (Wood) grew underfoot, then a fierce fire (Fire) ignited, turning into scorched earth (Earth), condensing into mineral veins (Metal), and finally turning into a clear spring (Water).

The rotation of the four seasons, the cycle of life and death, all within a single thought.

This wasn't a Domain.

This was a miracle.

[Ding!]

[Congratulations to the host! The Five Elements Dragon Domain has been successfully constructed!]

[Obtained new trait: Five Elements Life-Extinction Wheel!]

[Effect Description: This is what you call a perpetual motion machine! Within the Domain range, any elemental/physical attack targeted at the host (upper limit: high-Rank Spirit Ancestor), will be forcibly decomposed into Five Elements nutrients and instantly converted into the host's spirit source and physical strength!]

"Perpetual motion machine?"

Lu Sheng glanced at the panel and grinned.

His laughter shook the dust on the treasury ceiling, making it fall in showers.

As long as he wasn't killed in one hit, he was immortal!

He slowly turned around and looked at Luo Tianfei, who was huddled in the corner. The deathly gray in his eyes faded, returning to normal black pupils, but the sense of pressure was even greater than before.

"Big Stupid Bird."

Lu Sheng pointed to the slowly rotating five-colored light wheel behind his head, looking like he deserved a beating.

"Release that Phoenix of yours to liven things up for me?"

Luo Tianfei bit her lip until it bled.

She didn't believe it.

She was a God-Tier Sequence, the future Penglai Saintess. That kneel just now was already a great humiliation; how could she not even have the courage to take action?

"Don't you look down on people!"

Luo Tianfei shouted delicately, the Nine Phoenixes behind her crying out in unison, and her Purple Fire Domain opened fully.

Boom!

A torrent of purple flames capable of incinerating a mountain, carrying all her shame, indignation, and spirit source, crashed toward Lu Sheng.

However.

The moment that violent Purple Fire touched the five-colored light wheel.

Sizzle—

It was like a drop of water falling into a boiling oil pan; not even a sound could be heard.

That Purple Fire was instantly sucked into the red fire Dragon's mouth, went around the light wheel once, turned into earth, generated metal, produced water, nourished wood... and finally became a wisp of extremely pure Spiritual Qi, sinking into Lu Sheng's body.

Lu Sheng didn't even lift a hand.

He just narrowed his eyes comfortably, and a large green value seemed to pop up above his head:

[spirit source +2000!]

"Burp."

Lu Sheng let out a full burp and smacked his lips: "Tastes pretty good, a bit sweet, just a little too little, barely enough for me to conjure a fireball."

"You..."

Luo Tianfei's chest heaved violently. She pointed at Lu Sheng, unable to utter a single word.

What kind of monster was this?!

Her full-force strike didn't do any damage at all?

How was she supposed to fight this!

Seeing her expression of questioning her life, Lu Sheng was in high spirits.

He was just about to tease her a bit more and test the bearing limit of this Domain.

Just then.

Crack—!!!

An extremely abrupt and crisp shattering sound came from beneath Lu Sheng's feet.

The smile on Lu Sheng's face instantly froze.

This sound wasn't right.

It wasn't the sound of ordinary stone cracking; it sounded more like some kind of chain that locked the gates of Hell had finally broken under the weight.

He slowly lowered his head.

He saw that the floor tile he had just stepped on and cracked, which vaguely had the four ancient seal script characters 'Ancient Emperor Suppresses Demons' carved on it, had completely shattered into powder.

Boom!

A stream of air as black as ink surged out from deep underground like a geyser.

The moment this air current appeared, the tens of thousands of ever-burning night-luminescent pearls in the treasury instantly went out.

Darkness descended.

This black Qi was more evil than the abyss and more ancient than Desolation.

The temperature in the entire treasury instantly dropped to absolute zero, and even the endlessly cycling five-colored light wheel behind Lu Sheng's head... stuttered for a moment.

That was a great terror that could freeze even 'rules.'

[Ding! Warning!]

[Unknown pollution source detected! spirit source level exceeds Spirit King! Exceeds Spirit Emperor...]

[Unable to detect!]

Lu Sheng suddenly looked up, his scalp tingling and his bone spurs standing on end.

He stared fixedly at the black Qi gushing out from the ground, his throat feeling dry.

"Down there..."

"What kind of damn thing is buried?!"