Acai's Sky

★Nine Palaces Key·Financial Breaking Entryway

"Earth produces gold... The first step is the Earth Palace!"

Ah Cai made a split-second decision, "Xuantian, lock onto the core energy node of the Earth Palace! Golden Raccoon, it's up to you, use earth-based spiritual power to gently activate the node!"

"Order!"

The star map was projected onto the Xuantian tortoise shell, and a condensed starlight pointed precisely to the center of the area in the nine-square grid where thick yellow sand was surging and emitting the breath of the earth's pulse.

"Hey, stability is the most important thing, leave it to me!"

The golden raccoon dog was invigorated. It took a deep breath, and its shiny golden fur was instantly covered with a thick khaki halo.

Its two front paws formed seals quickly like a butterfly flying through flowers, and a pure, rich, ochre-colored beam of spiritual power with the intention of soothing the earth, like a spirit snake coming out of a cave, shot accurately towards the node marked by Xuantian!

Om-!

The churning yellow sand on the Earth Palace floor suddenly stagnated, then began to flow in a more stable and orderly manner. A thick, earthy-yellow light grew stronger, and a steady vitality permeated the air. The humming of the entire formation seemed to subside slightly.

"Okay! Next step, the Golden Palace!"

Ah Cai's eyes were as sharp as a torch.

"Gold ingots!" Ah Cai growled.

"Squeak! Got it!"

Lucky Golden Rat Jin Yuanbao could no longer hold back, it transformed into a golden lightning bolt and rushed straight to the area where the golden light was dazzling and countless metal blades appeared and disappeared out of thin air.

Its small body nimbly shuttled through the golden energy storm, and its ruby-like eyes were fixed on the core node of the Xuantian Mark - a sharp golden shuttle suspended in mid-air and constantly rotating.

"Look at Master Rat!"

It opened its little mouth, not to bite, but to spit out an extremely concentrated golden airflow with the intention of breaking through all sharp edges (derived from its natural affinity and control over the golden treasure energy)!

laugh!

The golden airflow hit the golden shuttle accurately!

The golden shuttle's rotation suddenly accelerated, making a clear clanging sound!

The light of the entire Golden Palace converged in an instant, turning into an extremely condensed golden light column that shot up into the sky, reflecting the yellow light of the Earth Palace, and the Golden Palace was activated!

"Water gives birth to wood!" Ah Cai continued without stopping.

"Tuan Tuan!" Ah Cai looked at the little beast in her arms.

"Woo~" Tuan Tuan (朏朏) jumped lightly from Acai's arms, and his pure big eyes looked towards the weak water area with huge waves and biting cold air.

It did not attack directly, but the auspicious white light around it suddenly spread out, forming a soft ball of light that enveloped it.

It took graceful steps, ignoring the swallowing and icy coldness of the weak water, and walked towards the core of the water palace step by step as if walking on an invisible ladder - a dark blue ice lotus floating in the center of the raging waves.

When it approached the ice lotus, pure white light gently covered it.

A miracle happened. The violent weak water instantly became docile, and the ice lotus slowly bloomed, emitting a rich breath of life.

Water gives birth to wood. The wildly growing thorny vines in the Wooden Palace seemed to be nourished and became lush and green. They automatically separated to both sides, forming a passage, and a rich green light lit up!

"Wood makes fire!"

Acai's voice was a little nervous.

"Brahma!" Ah Cai shouted.

"Qiang——!"

Bifang Brahma let out a clear sound that pierced through gold and split rocks, and turned into a red meteor that burned everything, rushing into the palace where flames were burning the sky and tongues of fire were raging!

It ignored the flames that were powerful enough to melt gold and iron, and accurately pointed its foot at the core node guided by the green light from the wooden palace - a red crystal stone floating in the magma!

The purifying flame gushed out from its feet, not to destroy, but to inject it into the crystal with an exquisite control!

boom!

The crimson crystal burst out with brilliance like the sun!

The flames in the entire Fire Palace were like a tamed angry dragon, roaring, but rushing along a specific trajectory, with red light shooting into the sky!

Fire creates earth, and the light of the Earth Palace becomes brighter again. The yellow light becomes more solid and heavy, connecting with the light of the Gold, Water, Wood, and Fire Palaces, flowing with each other endlessly!

The violent aura of the entire Nine Palaces Locking and Key Formation was greatly suppressed, and a relatively stable energy path formed by the interweaving of five-colored light extended from outside the formation to the core platform!

However, just when Acai and the others (beasts) felt a little relieved and were about to embark on this energy path and carry out the final step of the stable cycle of "fire generating earth", something strange suddenly happened!

"Warning! High-intensity space distortion detected! The energy source... comes from the core platform!" Tong Jiaqi's alarm sounded sharply!

"Roar--!!!"

A deep, majestic roar, filled with endless greed and brutality, suddenly erupted from the Pixiu golden lock on the core platform! The eyes of the lifeless Pixiu statue suddenly lit up with two balls of scarlet light!

At the same time, the ground on the platform, which was flowing with stardust light, was violently churning, and figures were tearing through the energy ground and slowly rising!

They were warriors wearing tattered but still shining dark golden armor and holding huge energy weapons!

They had no faces, and beneath their helmets was deep darkness, with only two points of scarlet light burning in their eye sockets.

The armor was covered with ancient scars, yet it exuded a suffocating aura of oppression.

Their movements were stiff but they carried a murderous aura that had been tempered through thousands of trials and tribulations, and there were hundreds of them!

What's even more terrifying is that with the awakening of these golden-armored guards, the temporarily suppressed energies of ice, wind, thunder, and poison in the Nine Palaces Formation suddenly began to boil as if they were injected with a violent factor!

The ice storm swept through, the strong wind blades raged, the destructive thunder danced wildly, and the poisonous miasma filled the air!

The four violent alien energies were no longer bound by the cycle of the Five Elements. Instead, they transformed into four ferocious energy dragons, roaring from the flanks and pouncing towards the Five Elements Palace that was maintaining the path to life!

Once hit, not only will the path to life be interrupted, but it will also trigger a chain explosion of energy in all the palaces!

"Golden armored treasure guards! A high concentration of resentment and protective obsession has been detected! Energy level... elite leader level! Extremely high physical and energy resistance!" Tong Shishan's voice was filled with horror.

"Not good! The formation's defense mechanism has been forcibly activated! These golden armored guards are the formation's 'scavengers'!"

Ah Cai's pupils shrank sharply. "Madame Rong, Madame Gu! Secret Guards! Stop the Golden Armored Guards, we can't let them attack the escape route!"

"I obey your orders! Secret guards, listen up! Form the 'Xuan Ji Demon-Slaying Formation'!" Aunt Rong shouted, and jumped out side by side with Aunt Gu!

The two anthropomorphic puppet maidens spread out like ghosts, and the crutches in their hands turned into afterimages, drawing mysterious trajectories in the air.

The dozen or so elite secret guards behind them, including Xiaojia and Xiaoyi, moved instantly according to their well-trained skills, occupying specific nodes in the Nine Palaces (although they were not nodes of the big formation, they were the hub of their combined attack formation). Their movements were as fast as lightning, without any sluggishness.