Chapter 282 – Mutual Promotion (2/2)
Only the One Thought master brought his palms together and lowered his head, acting like he was taking pity on her. His lips curled into a mysterious smile. It’s all the buddha’s arrangements!
“This can’t be right!” The man in coarse clothing with a long hat muttered with a frown. As the leader of the school of Yin-yang, Ma Buyi’s understanding of yin, yang, and the five elements completely surpassed the other school leaders. Born into the world, humans were created from yin, yang, and the five elements in the first place. Even regular people should not have been in possession of such poor talent.
“Child, you can come out from there now,” the plump old man said kindly.
Xiao An kept her eyes shut, without moving at all.
A woman’s cold voice rang out in her ears from the depths of her heart. “Do you understand the use of this formation now? Show me!”
She muttered with an almost indiscernible voice, “Yes, queen mother!”
“What did you say?” asked the plump old man.
Li Qingshan could sense there was something off about Xiao An. He took a few steps forward, wanting to pull Xiao An out.
The formation suddenly began to operate, shining with light.
The translucent droplet of water flew towards the tender grass shoot. The shoot began to grow, turning into a sapling in the blink of an eye. Just as the sapling thrived and budded, a spark landed on it, turning into a roaring fire.
The sapling was burnt to ashes, scattering as countless specks of dust, which were drawn over to the tiny speck of dust. They turned into a black piece of soil. Glimmers of golden light appeared in the soil, gaining a smear of gold.
Afterwards, the droplet of water appeared again, turning into a gurgling stream and wrapping around dead wood. It sprouted and grew once more.
The fire was unable to burn it all away. It sprouted once again in the spring wind.
At the same time, the two specks of light and darkness merged together above the formation, constantly revolving around one another. They would swell in size with each rotation, growing to the size of fists in the blink of an eye. The light and darkness were completely different, yet they also merged together without any repulsion. It looked like a diagram of yin and yang from all perspectives.
The instructor recording the affinities and talent was stunned. “All of the elements have reached high ding, no, bing!”
The Qi Practitioners in the surroundings had already become dumbfounded. Wasn’t this a testing formation? Since when could it be used like this?
“The five elements are promoting one another, and yin and yang are growing mutually. How is this possible?” Ma Buyi’s eyes widened as he leapt to his feet.
Liu Zhangqing frowned. “Fellow Ma, what is going on?”
“Do you know the full name of this formation?” Ma Buyi’s breathing became rather ragged.
The school leaders were all stumped. With their knowledge and experience, they even knew about a few rare, strange formations if they were asked, but they just happened to be at quite a loss regarding the name of this formation. Wasn’t this just the formation used to test elemental affinities?
The slovenly daoist priest asked, “Is it the Mutual Promotion and Regulation Formation of Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements?”
Ma Buyi said, “Exactly. Daoist brother, you truly are knowledgeable. Do you know what the true usage of this formation is?”
Even the slovenly daoist priest was rather stumped this time. Apart from testing affinities, what else was it for?
Ma Buyi said, “The cultivation methods of ancient cultivators have all been about practising yin, yang, and the five elements together. You all know that, right?”
The so-called supernatural powers in the ancient times was a power that merged together yin, yang, and the five elements. It allowed them to use any technique freely, with extraordinary power and infinite flexibility. However, the difficulty of cultivation and the requirement on the cultivator’s talent was unimaginable to cultivators of the present day. Only a very small number of people could grasp it. If they used the standards of the ancient times as a requirement on present day cultivators, then it would be quite impressive if the academy was left with around a hundred or so people.
In order to fight their enemies, ancient cultivators gained inspiration from their enemies, the daemons and the otherfolk, constantly improving the path of cultivation. That was why the cultivation method of practising just a single element of true qi existed in the present day. Although it decreased the overall quality of cultivators, it multiplied the number of cultivators by hundreds or thousands of times, which allowed the establishment of human supremacy.
The various leaders nodded. This could be regarded as the basic history of the cultivation world. Suddenly, they seemed to understand something, and they looked into the Watermirror disc.
A startling transition occurred in the formation.
The tree had already been burnt to ashes over a dozen times by the fire, but under the nourishment of water and earth, it had become a lush forest. A river parted the thick soil, winding through the forest as specks of gold glimmered in the river water.
They were unable to spot Xiao An in there anymore. They would only be able to catch a glimpse of her when the flames rose up and burned down everything again. The yin and yang had vanished too. They merged with every spark and every part of the tree shade, pushing and pulling, fluctuating between yin and yang.
The five elements no longer stood alone. Instead, they had merged together, like a living world. It seemed like the birth of the universe as primitive creation unfolded.
“They’re all yi,” the note-taking instructor murmured. He no longer knew what to say. Although they were all yi, anyone could tell that this was even rarer than Chu Tian’s complete jia. And, the yin, yang, and five elements were still growing. Reaching jia was just a matter of time.