In the end times, many children bring more blessings. I pick up a goddess every day.

The moment the beam of light dissipated... Liu Yang sensed five completely different energies surging in the air... Su Qingyao's voice, tinged with laughter, came from the void: "Liu Yang... the toys on this floor are much more interesting than last time - gold, wood, water, fire, earth... you can't get out without any one of them..." Before she finished speaking... the surrounding space had condensed into an endless maze... Blue, white, black, red, and yellow halos of light flowed through the passages... Each halo was an elemental barrier... dividing the maze into five interconnected yet independent areas...

The walls of the maze are composed of flowing elements: the walls of the Wood Zone are entwined thorny vines... each leaf glowing with an emerald green aura; the Gold Zone is made of alloy plates with a gleaming metallic luster... the surface is engraved with ridges that reflect energy; the passages of the Water Zone are flanked by rushing torrents... yet bound within the walls by an invisible force; the dome of the Fire Zone burns with an eternal flame... the tiles feel scorching when stepped on; the Earth Zone is made of thick rock... occasionally, gravel falls from overhead... hitting the ground with a dull thud...

The five areas were arranged in the shape of a five-pointed star... In the center was an open space shrouded in a five-colored light shield... Liu Yang stood at the hub of the maze entrance... His ability to predict the future had unfolded the entire maze's structure in his mind: each area had an elemental gate... which could only be opened by defeating the guardian monster of the corresponding element... and only when all five gates were opened simultaneously... would the light shield in the central area dissipate...

"In order of mutual generation?" Liu Yang condensed a wisp of ice crystals on his fingertips... and drew a diagram of the five elements' mutual generation in the air - wood generates fire... fire generates earth... earth generates metal... metal generates water... water generates wood... His eyes flickered... The power of eternal freezing flowed in his palm... "It would be easier to start with the restraint relationship..."

The moment he stepped into the Wood Zone... the thorny vines on both sides suddenly sprang up... and wrapped around Liu Yang's limbs like snakes... The surface of these vines was covered with tiny barbs... The tips of the thorns flashed a dark green light... and were obviously poisonous... The aerial roots hanging from the top of the passage formed an airtight net... and completely blocked the retreat...

"Good speed... but not tough enough..." Liu Yang's figure flashed... and he teleported to an open space ten meters away... He looked up at the dome... Future deduction had captured the growth pattern of vines - at the node of each vine there was a green crystal core the size of a grain of rice... that was their energy source...

The ground suddenly shook... A five-meter-tall thorn beast emerged from the ground... Countless vines waved like arms... The roots moved rapidly beneath the ground... forming an ever-shrinking cage... The core of the beast was embedded in the center of its torso... emitting a rich life energy...

"I'll use you as a warm-up..." Liu Yang didn't launch an attack... Instead, he stood there and let the vines wrap around his body... Just as the vines were about to touch his skin... the power of eternal freezing suddenly erupted... pale blue ice crystals spread along the vines... wherever they passed... the emerald green thorns instantly lost their vitality... turning into crystal clear ice sculptures...

"Crack!" The frost spread along the rhizome all the way to the core of the giant beast... The green crystal core shattered into countless points of light under the low temperature... The thorn giant beast, deprived of energy, collapsed... Turned into a pile of ice... As the giant beast died... The stone door at the end of the wood area slowly opened... The green gem on the door lit up with a soft light...

Passing through the stone gate... a wave of heat strong enough to melt steel hits you in the face... The ground of the passage to the Fire Zone is a flowing river of magma... leaving only a few suspended obsidian stones as footholds... The flames in the dome form a series of burning giant faces... constantly spewing fireballs... illuminating the passage like daylight...

The giant fire elemental beast guarding the gate was made entirely of magma... its ten-meter-tall body burned with Samadhi True Fire... every breath it took distorted the surrounding air... the moment it saw Liu Yang... it opened its massive mouth and spewed out a dragon of fire... wherever it passed... the obsidian ground melted into liquid...

"The temperature is high enough... but the energy is too violent..." Liu Yang's pupils glowed a pale gold... Future deductions had already calculated the fire dragon's trajectory and the critical temperature of the flames... He didn't teleport to avoid it... Instead, he raised his right hand... Eternal Freeze and Lightning Power erupted simultaneously...

A pale blue ice wall instantly formed... blocking the fire dragon... countless purple arcs of electricity spread along the ice wall... triggering a violent energy explosion at the junction of ice and fire... in the steam... Liu Yang's figure appeared behind the giant beast... his left hand pressed on its scalding magma back...

"Ice Frozen, Annihilation..." The power of extreme cold surged into the giant beast like a tsunami... Its magma-like body solidified at a speed visible to the naked eye... The burning flames extinguished in the low temperature... Only a black rock statue remained... As the statue shattered... The stone gate of the Fire Zone opened with a sound... The red gem and the green gem echoed in the distance...

The passageway in the Earth Zone is more like a natural cave... The rock walls are covered with stalactites... The ground occasionally cracks, revealing bottomless ravines... The earth elemental beast guarding the gate is a giant made of rock and mud... Nearly twenty meters tall... Every step it takes causes the entire space to vibrate violently... It can manipulate the ground to produce spikes... It can also merge its body into the rock wall for sneak attacks...

As soon as Liu Yang stepped into the area... the ground beneath his feet suddenly collapsed... countless stone spikes pierced out from the bottom of the pit... he teleported into the air... only to see the earth giant's fist smashing down with tremendous force... the wind from the fist compressed the air into a substantial shock wave...

"Too slow..." Liu Yang teleported continuously in the air... Each time he appeared, he was in the blind spot of the earth giant's attack... He condensed the power of lightning at his fingertips... A lavender arc of electricity danced in his palm... Future deductions told him... The core of the earth giant was hidden in the heart... Protected by three layers of rock armor...

"Lightning Pierce..." Liu Yang compressed the power of lightning into a hair-thin electric needle... The moment he teleported to the earth giant's shoulder... he accurately pierced the crack in its neck... The electric needle followed the texture of the rock... avoiding the armor's defense... and reached the core...

"Roar—" The Earth Giant roared in pain... The crackling sound of electricity surging through its body... It tried to wrap its core with rock... but found that the current was disintegrating its body structure... Three seconds later... with a loud bang... the Earth Giant's body collapsed into countless pieces of rubble... revealing the ochre core in the center... When the stone door opened... the yellow gem connected with the first two gems to form a chain of light...

The passage to the Golden Zone is made of mirror-smooth metal... The walls reflect all energy attacks... The Golden Elemental Beast guarding the gate is a giant lion made of liquid metal... Its fur is as sharp as a blade... Its tail can transform into a spear... The most troublesome thing is... it can copy the properties of the energy it touches...

The moment the giant lion saw Liu Yang... it transformed into a streak of golden light and pounced... its sharp claws clawed at his throat with a sharp cry that tore through space... Liu Yang dodged it with a teleportation... and shot out an ice crystal... only to see the giant lion's fur instantly turn ice blue... and it also shot out an ice crystal in retaliation...

"Interesting..." Liu Yang chuckled... and suddenly merged the power of lightning with eternal ice... creating a form of energy never before seen - ice crystals carrying electric currents... When the giant lion copied this energy... the two mutually restraining forces erupted within it... and its body, composed of liquid metal, instantly became disordered...

"Right now..." Liu Yang seized the moment the giant lion froze... teleported to its head... placed his hands between its eyebrows... Future deductions had locked onto the location of the giant lion's core - a golden crystal suspended in its brain...

"A world of ice and fire..." Extreme cold and lightning simultaneously surged into the crystal... The golden crystal made a crisp sound as it was torn apart by the two forces... As the crystal shattered... The giant lion's body turned into a pool of liquid metal... solidified on the ground into a metal sculpture... The stone gate of the Golden Zone opened... The white gem joined the ranks of the light chain...

The passage to the Water Zone is encased in a giant ball of water... The water swirls constantly, forming a vortex... attempting to draw intruders deeper... The water elemental beast guarding the gate is a hundred-meter-long water dragon... It can manipulate the water to form water blades... and can also transform into water vapor, becoming invisible... The water it spews out is extremely corrosive...

When the water dragon appeared... the water flow in the entire space suddenly reversed... forming a huge waterspout... trapping Liu Yang in the center... countless water blades shot out from all directions... each one was powerful enough to cut through steel...

"A flowing defense...is also a flowing vulnerability..." Liu Yang's future deduction had seen through the energy flow trajectory of the water dragon... He did not resist the suction of the water... Instead, he moved in the direction of the vortex... At the same time, he injected the power of eternal freezing into the water...

Light blue ice crystals spread outward from him... The frozen water formed a spiral ice ladder... Seeing this... the water dragon suddenly sprayed corrosive water... trying to melt the ice ladder... Liu Yang teleported to the top of the ice ladder... formed hand seals... The power of thunder and lightning transformed into a giant net... enveloping the entire waterspout...

"Electrolysis..." He shouted softly... The current instantly spread to every corner of the water flow... The water molecules decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen under the action of the current... The originally turbulent waterspout suddenly became thinner... Without the protection of the water flow, the water dragon was exposed to the air... Its core - a blue water droplet was rapidly evaporating...

Liu Yang teleported to the top of the faucet... A wisp of ice crystal flickered from his fingertips... He precisely froze the blue water droplets... The water dragon, having lost its core, transformed into a mist... reflecting a rainbow of colors in the sunlight... The stone gate to the water area opened... The last blue gem lit up... Five rays of light converged into a single beam... rushing straight into the center of the maze...

As the five doors opened simultaneously... the five-colored light shield at the center of the maze began to dissipate... revealing a platform composed of five elemental energies... In the center of the platform... five elemental cores hovered in the air... slowly merging... the green of wood, the red of fire, the yellow of earth, the white of gold, and the blue of water intertwined... forming a vortex of energy that constantly shifted in color...

"Is this Su Qingyao's work?" Liu Yang stepped onto the platform... He could feel the five elemental energies constantly colliding and repelling each other in the vortex... yet they were forcibly condensed by an invisible force... He stretched out his hand... As soon as his fingertips touched the vortex... the five energies surged into his body as if finding an outlet...

Eternal Ice resonated with the Water Element... The power of lightning and the Fire Element attracted each other... Under his control, the five elements began to operate according to the law of the Five Elements... At this moment... A strong light suddenly erupted from the center of the vortex... The five elemental cores completely merged... Transforming into a fist-sized crystal - the Elemental Core...

This crystal appeared a chaotic grayish-white color...but inside it one could see five colors of energy constantly flowing...like a miniature universe...The moment Liu Yang held it...a flood of knowledge about elemental manipulation suddenly flooded his mind...He could clearly sense the flow of every element around him...and even make the five elements transform according to his will...

"Interesting...it's actually perfectly compatible with my abilities..." Liu Yang gripped the elemental core tightly...he could feel the power of Eternal Freeze become softer under the core's blessing...and the power of lightning also became more agile...he looked up at the light column leading to the upper level...the corners of his mouth curled up...

In the void...Su Qingyao looked at Liu Yang's figure in the crystal ball...and chuckled softly, "It's getting more and more interesting...The next level...it won't be so easy..."

In the beam of light... Liu Yang's figure gradually disappeared... The elemental core in his palm emitted a soft glow... Five elemental energies swirled around him... as if cheering for their new owner... The sixty-seventh floor's elemental maze began to disintegrate with the core's departure... The five-colored energies transformed back into the fundamental particles of heaven and earth... Only the light at the end of the passage, leading to a higher place, remained... guiding the challenger forward...