Just as Han Li and the others were struggling to resist, the sky full of thunderballs finally seemed to have run out.

Han Li and the others were initially delighted, but after exchanging glances, they all saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.

Because since the appearance of these sky-filling cyan thunderballs, the cyan-armored giant had disappeared. Since this cyan domain space still existed, it was clear that things wouldn't be so simple.

As the three had expected, before they could completely breathe a sigh of relief, another anomaly occurred!

High in the sky, clusters of cyan light vortexes suddenly appeared out of nowhere. One cyan branch after another flew out of the vortexes, crashing down below with a deafening roar, numbering in the hundreds, if not thousands.

Although they looked like tree branches, each one was more than ten zhang long, comparable to a large tree. They sliced through the sky with piercing wails, crashing down on the three of them like a torrential rain.

A deafening roar erupted!

However, Han Li and the others had adjusted their positions during the previous brief respite, and now formed a pincer formation, each guarding one side.

The cloud mass above Han Li's head, already thin, trembled violently under the impact of these branches. Patches of cloud were directly smashed away, but nearly a third of the cyan branches were also blocked.

The sword formation around Lin Jiu operated, and the sharp sword qi shattered the falling cyan branches into powder.

Among the three, the one who looked the most precarious now was Lin Shiqi. He had been injured earlier, causing damage to his Yuan Qi. Now, the golden sand curtain above his head rolled and surged under the attack of the sky-filling cyan branches, and yellow sand splashed, and some cracks had faintly appeared.

The cyan branches seemed endless, and the immense force they contained was transmitted to Han Li and the others from afar, causing them great suffering. But fortunately, the three of them were now responsible for one side each, and could barely hold on.

"This can't go on... If I had known, I shouldn't have been greedy for the reward and accepted this mission. Now that we've provoked the Immortal Palace, our lives are in danger," Lin Shiqi said with a bitter face.

"It seems we've been schemed against. This person has spared no expense and painstakingly lured us here to disrupt the good deeds of this Immortal Palace elder. It must be to deliberately provoke conflict between the Mercenary Alliance and the Immortal Palace," Lin Jiu said with an equally ugly expression.

"Fellow Daoists, let's explore these matters after we've saved our lives. The current situation seems a bit off," Han Li suddenly said.

"What's wrong... Not good!" Lin Jiu was first stunned, and after glancing around, he was equally shocked.

They saw that the cyan branches, after being shattered by them, turned into cyan light spots that plunged into the surrounding ground, causing the soil to churn for a while. Then, one verdant sapling after another broke through the soil. As the light spots continued to pour in, the saplings began to grow wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a few breaths, these saplings transformed into tall trees about dozens of zhang high, and continued to grow and rise.

In the blink of an eye, Han Li and the others were surrounded by a lush, green forest, with an unusually thick wood-attribute aura.

Such a bizarre situation immediately made Han Li feel uneasy.

"If this continues, I'm afraid none of us will be able to leave this place alive. Fellow Daoist Lin Jiu, your cultivation is the highest here, is there any way out?" Lin Shiqi said with extreme trepidation.

"Although this Golden Immortal is only an incarnation, its methods are bizarre and unpredictable. Even I can only barely hold on now, and wanting to escape is as difficult as ascending to heaven. Now that things have come to this, perhaps going against the grain may offer a glimmer of hope," Lin Jiu first shook his head, and then said.

"Go against the grain?" Lin Shiqi's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Han Li's expression didn't change when he heard this, but his heart also stirred.

Just as Lin Jiu said, the three of them were now in this cyan domain containing the power of laws, their strength was inherently limited, and escaping in the face of this endless attack was even more difficult. Even if he used the Mantra Treasure Wheel and the Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords to their full extent, although he could resist for a while, he had no confidence in being able to escape safely.

Moreover, these two treasures were too widely involved, and he absolutely didn't want to use them unless his life was at stake.

Lin Jiu, as a cultivator in the late True Immortal realm, although he was now as restrained as himself, his expression was calm, and he obviously still had some trump cards.

While he was thinking, Lin Jiu opened his mouth and spat out three items of different colors in a row, which swelled up against the wind and transformed into three large banners shimmering with spiritual light, looking extremely ancient. Eight strange runes were embroidered on the banner surface, resembling drawings but not drawings, resembling characters but not characters.

The three banners were identical in appearance, and looked like a set of magical treasures.

However, the colors of the three ancient banners were different. One was golden, one was silver, and the other was black.

Han Li's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise as he looked at the eight strange runes on the banner surface.

These eight runes were very similar to the runes engraved on the stone cauldron he had obtained from the group of apes at the foot of the mountain. Could there be some connection between the two...?

He had studied the stone furnace many times over the years, but had never found any clues. He didn't expect to find a clue here today.

Han Li's expression remained unchanged, and his thoughts raced in his mind.

"This treasure is called the 'Three Yuan Great Ji Banner'. It must be activated by three people at the same time, and its power is not bad. It is especially good at defense, but it consumes a lot of Immortal Spiritual Power, and I can't activate it alone at all. What I mean by going against the grain is that we shouldn't think about escaping first. The three of us should activate this treasure with all our strength to defend," Lin Jiu said slowly.

"Since this treasure consumes Immortal Spiritual Power, the three of us will eventually run out of strength. If this continues, wouldn't we become trapped beasts?" Lin Shiqi said with some disappointment in his tone.

"As far as I know, the incarnations transformed from this type of talisman generally have certain limitations and cannot exist for long. Fellow Daoist Lin Jiu's intention should be to delay as much as possible until this incarnation can't hold on any longer," Han Li said.

"Fellow Daoist Jiao Fifteen is right, that's exactly what I mean," Lin Jiu nodded.

"However, I see that Fellow Daoist's set of Three Yuan Great Ji Banners is a bit different from ordinary magical treasures, especially the eight runes on them, which are quite peculiar. I wonder what the mystery is? We are now in a dangerous situation, and cannot afford to lose. I hope Fellow Daoist can enlighten us a bit," Han Li said without showing any emotion.

"This treasure is indeed a bit special. I also obtained it by chance, but after more than a hundred years of exploration, I have figured out some methods of refining it. There is not much time, you should familiarize yourselves with it as soon as possible," Lin Jiu said unhurriedly when he heard this.

After speaking, he abruptly activated his sword technique, expanding the scope of the sword formation a bit, blocking nearly half of the cyan branch attacks. With a wave of his other hand, two jade slips shot towards Han Li and Lin Shiqi respectively.

Han Li reached out and took the jade slip. While clicking his tongue in wonder, he secretly guessed in his heart that Lin Jiu should know something about the eight mysterious runes, but judging from his appearance, he naturally didn't want to say it.

While thinking, his divine sense had already entered the jade slip in his hand.

The jade slip recorded a set of incantations for refining the treasure, which looked a bit special and was completely different from any refining method he knew.

While quickly comprehending, Han Li recalled the gains he had made from studying the stone furnace over the years. The two vaguely confirmed each other, and he couldn't help but be secretly happy.

If he guessed correctly, this refining incantation should also be useful for the stone furnace.

Before long, the sky-filling cyan branches suddenly stopped falling without warning. However, the hundred or so giant trees around them had already grown to a height of two to three hundred zhang, and their branches and forks intersected, almost obscuring the sky above.

"There's no time! You guys hurry up and familiarize yourselves with this banner." Lin Jiu frowned slightly, and immediately handed the silver and black banners to Han Li and Lin Shiqi.

Then he suddenly raised his hand and struck out several magic seals in a row, which disappeared into the golden banner in front of him, causing dots of golden light to appear on its surface.

After taking a deep breath, Han Li immediately pinched a strange magic seal and plunged it into the silver banner in front of him.

The silver banner slowly flew up, and dots of silver light appeared, shimmering like the stars in the night sky, both brilliant and mysterious, emitting crisp tinkling sounds.

Lin Shiqi also closed his eyes and began to pinch the magic seal in his hand.

Dots of black light appeared on the surface of the black banner, interlacing and condensing into a layer of dark black light, slowly hovering.

At this moment, the space above everyone's heads fluctuated, and the Golden Immortal incarnation appeared, its body having returned to the size of a normal person.

"I didn't expect a few low-level little immortals to have quite a few tricks, but it's time to end it!"

As the Golden Immortal incarnation spoke, it waved its single hand, and a cluster of cyan spiritual light appeared, in which countless green runes flickered, and disappeared into a towering tree below in a flash.

The big tree immediately rose from the ground as if it wasn't restricted by the soil, and a dazzling green light flashed through its entire body. It quickly changed, growing thick limbs and an ugly head.

In just a breath, the giant tree transformed into a tree man hundreds of zhang high.

As soon as the tree man took shape, it raised a huge, green and translucent fist without saying a word, and slammed it down on the golden sword formation displayed by Lin Jiu.

With a loud bang, the cyan space also trembled, and the golden sword formation shook violently, but immediately returned to calm.

As cyan spiritual lights flew out of the Golden Immortal incarnation's hand, half of the trees turned into tree men in the blink of an eye, but the cyan light on the incarnation's body also dimmed slightly.

All the tree men waved their huge fists, and countless green, misty huge fist shadows, overwhelmingly struck towards the location of Han Li and the others.

Boom boom boom!

After enduring several rounds of rapid and torrential attacks, the originally tight defense of the black water cloud, the golden sand curtain, and the golden sword formation gradually began to become scattered, and the light also dimmed a lot, but it did not break.

Seeing this, the Golden Immortal incarnation's face sank, and it seemed a little impatient.

It opened its mouth, and a cyan glow spewed out from its mouth. With a reverse roll, it enveloped all the remaining big trees below.

These giant trees suddenly showed emerald green light and rose from the ground, but they did not immediately become tree men. Instead, they merged with each other, and between the flashes of emerald green light, they turned into a giant tree man two to three thousand zhang high.

Green light flowed continuously throughout its body, but it raised one arm and waved it through the void.

With a "bang"!

The surrounding tree men exploded and turned into clusters of cyan light that rolled back, transforming into a cyan wooden knife about the same length as the giant tree man's body.

The knife body was engraved with green runes, flashing with a cold light.