: Five Elements Cycle of Life and Extinction

2025-09-07 Author: Gu Zhenren

: Five Elements Cycle of Life and Extinction

The stage of anomalous phenomena and talismans emphasizes the depth of a cultivator's comprehension of their cultivation technique.

Once the understanding meets the standard, a complete innate spell can take shape.

The manifestations of innate spells vary.

Currently, within Ning Zhuo's qi sea, the innate spell of the Five Elements Qi Rhythm Art has fully formed.

It radiates five-colored light and continuously transforms. When a single color appears, it remains a unified sphere. With two colors, it forms two points. Three colors create three points, four colors four points, and upon reaching five colors, it becomes a three-dimensional five-pointed star.

Of course, this is just a rough external view. Upon closer inspection, the star's interior is composed of intricate, rigorous, and densely compressed talisman patterns in constant flux.

Five Qi Life and Extinction Art!

After fully comprehending it, Ning Zhuo naturally understood the power of this spell.

It represents the ultimate application of the Five Elements Qi Rhythm Art. The strength of this technique lies in its control over the five elements, their interactions of generation and restraint, achieving harmony and unity.

The Five Qi Life and Extinction Art allows direct manipulation of any of the five elemental forces, enabling interactions of generation and restraint. Since it can control all five elemental energies simultaneously, the effects of these interactions are dozens of times greater than before!

For example, previously, if Ning Zhuo wanted to convert all his energy into the wood element, he could only control one type of energy at a time, starting with the fire element.

One portion of fire energy would generate two portions of earth energy, completely depleting the fire energy.

Ning Zhuo would then control the earth energy to generate metal energy.

After the metal energy was fully consumed, it produced double the water energy, and Ning Zhuo would then control the water energy alone.

The water energy ultimately generated wood energy, thus purifying the five elemental energies into a single element, expanding the total energy scale by over six times.

Converting step by step, even with his full effort, took considerable time.

But now, with the Five Qi Life and Extinction Art, the five elemental energies transform simultaneously, resulting in a qualitative leap in speed. The time required is greatly reduced, almost completing within two or three breaths.

Ning Zhuo extended his hand, channeled the five elemental energies, and a cluster of vines grew in his palm.

This was one of his two most proficient earth-element spells—Root Vine Entanglement.

He immediately noticed the difference.

Previously, to cast this spell quickly, he had to use only the wood element among the five.

Now, with just a little extra time, he could convert all five elemental energies into wood, increasing the energy scale by over six times.

"Worth it!" Seeing the vines in his hand grow six times larger than before on the second cast, Ning Zhuo felt deeply satisfied.

He proceeded to cast other single-element spells and found that, under the enhancement of the Five Elements Cycle of Life and Extinction, all performed remarkably better.

Especially—

Five Qi Torrent!

Ning Zhuo spread his fingers and pressed forward into the air.

Immediately, five-colored energy surged out, forming a spiraling torrent that rushed ahead.

Suddenly, Ning Zhuo's expression shifted.

Under his control, the Five Qi Torrent's light swirled, producing various changes—sometimes blazing red, other times ink-black and overwhelming...

Even after being cast, the Five Qi Torrent could undergo cycles of generation and extinction among the elements with the support of the art.

"If that's the case..."

Ning Zhuo attempted to convert it into a single element and succeeded. The torrent's volume suddenly expanded over sixfold, but the spiral rotation ceased, indicating the attack wasn't purely enhanced.

Single-element energy could be more targeted, while the Five Qi Torrent could handle complex enemy situations.

With his profound understanding of the five elements, Ning Zhuo promptly designed an improved version—Five Qi Torrent Variation!

Clearly, the Five Elements Cycle of Life and Extinction is an auxiliary spell. Activating it greatly enhances a cultivator's control over the five elemental energies.

Once deactivated, this assistance vanishes instantly.

The Five Elements Qi Rhythm Art already focuses on strict control of the elements, and this core spell pushes the technique's potential to its limit.

"Wait, what if I activate the Five Viscera Spirit God Art at the same time?" Ning Zhuo naturally thought of this next.

He immediately split his consciousness into five parts, each entering the spirit temples of his five viscera, making the statues within each temple come alive.

This immediately elevated his control over the five elemental spells to a meticulous and refined level.

The effects of the two arts were quite similar.

To Ning Zhuo's delight, their effects didn't cancel each other out or become ineffective; instead, they stacked perfectly!

Previously, when using the Five Viscera Spirit God Art, he had amazed others like Wen Ruanyu and Yang Sanyan with his mastery of the five elements.

Now, with this enhancement on top of that, Ning Zhuo's control reached an exceptionally superior level.

The benefits were immediately evident in his spell practice.

Ning Zhuo selected several less familiar spells and began practicing them on the spot.

In the stacked state, his control was incredibly precise, even with newly learned spells.

During practice, he continuously made adjustments. No matter how subtle, Ning Zhuo could execute each one perfectly.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Ning Zhuo released the stacked state, his face pale, coughing weakly.

Though the stacked state was beneficial, the burden on his consciousness was too great. After all, he had previously used the Five Viscera Spirit God Art with only one spirit temple at a time.

In contrast, the Five Qi Life and Extinction Art, having condensed into a talisman, only required channeling energy, making it very convenient to use.

This was the advantage of an innate spell.

Ning Zhuo tried practicing new spells.

With only the Five Elements Cycle of Life and Extinction or the Five Viscera Spirit God Art active, the practice effect was about ten times that of the unenhanced state.

In the stacked state, the effect skyrocketed to over a hundred times!

The enhancements of the two arts complemented each other, not simply adding up but multiplying.

"This is fantastic!" Ning Zhuo felt genuine joy.

All along, despite his high proficiency in the five elements, he lacked the time to practice related spells.

He could only learn through combat.

But thanks to the Five Viscera Spirit God Art, even without much practice, he could cast these spells to a practical standard, often achieving success.

Now, Ning Zhuo could practice extensively, truly mastering various five-element spells.

This would undoubtedly significantly boost his combat power!

For a time, Ning Zhuo immersed himself in practicing the five-element spells.

His progress was rapid; with many new spells, he could perform intricate variations after just three or four practices.

This rapid growth filled Ning Zhuo with a sense of accomplishment repeatedly, to the extent that he even overlooked a message from Shen Xi.

Martial Training Branch.

Su Lingkou stood beside Shen Xi, the young girl's hopeful anticipation for Ning Zhuo ending in disappointment: "Cousin, Ning Zhuo didn't come at all. He didn't even reply. Is he afraid?"

Shen Xi shook his head: "It's common for cultivators in seclusion not to respond to messages. No need to worry."

Su Lingkou: "But..."

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