Chapter 540: Chapter 539: Useful Ancient Knowledge_1

    “The elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water generate and overcome one other, each promoting or restraining the other. For example, Wood generates Fire, Fire generates Earth, Earth generates Metal, Metal generates Water, and Water generates Wood. They are the foundation of the world. The existence of the five tones, five flavors, five colors, five transformations, five internal organs, and five senses is not a coincidence. Instead, these are results corresponding to the five elements…”

    In the lecture hall, the Elder of Passing Skills was enthusiastically narrating the “Five Elements General Outline” on the podium. He was quite animated, gesticulating, and throwing himself wholeheartedly into the most exciting parts of the lecture.

    From inside her Spiritual Space, Fairy Eternity yawned, almost falling asleep. Her eyes were brimming with tears. The Elder’s lecture paled in comparison to Daoist Buyu’s, and was not as engaging and interesting at all.

    “This is so boring; Immortal Jiuchong has already covered all of this.”

    “Isn’t Immortal Jiuchong’s Dao Fruit the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit? Does that not also relate to the Five Elements?”

    “Have you forgotten about Jiuchong’s Immortal Technique?”

    Lu Yang pondered for a moment. When he was at Eternity Sect, Fairy Eternity had mentioned it once. He could barely recall the specific names, but he remembered a lot of numbers.

    “Digital Immortal Skill?”

    “To be accurate, it should be referred to as ‘The Immortal Technique of Primordial Chaos, Two Polarities, Three Talents, Four Symbols, Five Elements, Six Harmonies, Seven Luminaries, Eight Wastes, Nine Territories, Ten Heavens, and One-and-Only Supreme Being.’

    True to her reputation as the first one to become an immortal, even her technique’s name is longer than others.

    “Immortal Jiuchong had a deep understanding of concepts like Primordial Chaos, Yin-Yang, and the Five Elements. She spent quite a bit of time during her Transcendance Tribulation Stage deciding among the Dao Fruits of Chaos, Yin-Yang and the Five Elements. She ultimately chose the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit.”

    “Why didn’t she choose the other two?”

    “In Immortal Jiuchong’s words, it was probably due to predestined fate.”

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    “Fate?” Lu Yang could sense Immortal Jiuchong’s feelings when she spoke those words. It was a fatalistic sentiment full of sense of impotence.

    Fairy Eternity had told him that amongst the immortals, some believed in destiny while others did not. Fairy Eternity was part of the latter group. It seemed like Immortal Jiuchong belonged to those who believed.

    “Yes, even Immortal Jiuchong found it very hard to make a choice. As each of the three Dao Fruits had its own advantages and disadvantages. In the end, she resorted to drawing lots.”

    “She went through a lot of trouble to accomplish this. After exhausting all kinds of secret treasures, she set up a large formation in the universe that blocks spiritual senses. The nodes of the formation were set up around stars. Then she asked us few to act as Protectors. In the end, closing her eyes and sealing away her five senses and seven perceptions, she ensured that she wouldn’t be influenced by the outside world before she felt comfortable to draw the lots.”

    “The result of the draw was the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit.”

    “Immortal Jiuchong didn’t trust the results of the first drawing, so she mixed up the orders and drew two more times. Each time, it was the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit.”

    “If one time could be considered an accident, then when the result is the same all three times, it can be said to be a matter of destiny.”

    Lu Yang thought to himself that if the result was the same three times, wouldn’t that just be a probability of one out of nine?

    Considering that this might be the difference between him and the immortals, he decided to stop questioning it.

    “Although she chose the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit, Immortal Jiuchong had a deep understanding of Primordial Chaos and the Five Elements.”

    “Don’t think that a Dao Fruit is the entirety of an immortal. We immortals often gather, exchanging and reflecting on our insights, and sharing our understandings, experiences, lacks and surpluses. Therefore, we five people could be said to have an unsurpassable reservoir of knowledge regarding cultivation!” Fairy Eternity laughed proudly, her laugh filled with knowledge and wisdom.

    Lu Yang nodded. This was indeed true. He had heard that the higher one’s cultivation level, the more one needed to exchange and reflect with peers. Having a single exchange with a peer can sometimes be worth a hundred years of cultivation. Considering the frequency at which the Five Immortals of the Ancients gather, their accumulated knowledge could very likely be equivalent to a million years of cultivation.

    “Lu Yang, stand up and answer this question.” The Elder of Passing Skills was glaring unhappily at Lu Yang. Though the Elder admitted that his lecture was indeed a dull one, seeing someone as audacious as Lu Yang daydream through it was a first.

    Lu Yang stood up in panic. He had been too engrossed in listening to ancient secrets, and hadn’t been paying attention to what the Elder was saying. He hurriedly sent a spiritual message to Meng Jingzhou.

    Thanks to Fairy Eternity’s cover, the Elder didn’t discover that he was sending a message.

    “What did the Elder just say?”

    “Don’t ask me, I was also not listening.”

    Meng Jingzhou was breaking out in cold sweat, fearing that the Elder might ask him next.

    He had drifted off earlier, once he heard the Elder say “Earth”, he started contemplating whether it would be better to directly bury living people instead of executing and then burying them?

    “Man Gu, do you know?”

    “I don’t.”

    At that moment, he was wondering if being the last of the Ancient Barbarian Tribe, would he have reproductive isolation with present Barbarians.

    Lu Yang asked around, but none of them had a solid answer.

    “Lu Yang, answer the question. You couldn’t have been not paying attention, could you?” The Elder of Passing Skills was still staring at Lu Yang.

    Lu Yang took a deep breath. At this point, there was no other choice.

    “Immortal Jiuchong’s Dao Fruit is the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit, giving her the ultimate power. Yingtian Immortal’s Dao Fruit is the Tribulation Dao Fruit, most Cultivators’ tribulations are due to the Tribulation Dao Fruit. Time Immortal’s Dao Fruit is the Time Dao Fruit, giving him control over the power of time. Qilin Immortal’s Dao Fruit is the Survival of the Fittest Dao Fruit, rendering all attacks he has experienced ineffective!”

    The lecture hall fell silent.

    “Elder, did I answer correctly?”

    The Elder of Passing Skills was momentarily stunned.

    He had a memory of Lu Yang speaking a lot, but he couldn’t recall a single word Lu Yang had said.

    What did he say?

    “Elder, Elder?” Lu Yang called out to the Elder twice before the Elder snapped back to reality.

    “Ah, ah?”

    “Elder, you weren’t daydreaming just now, were you?”

    The Elder of Passing Skills gave a dry cough as if he didn’t hear Lu Yang’s last sentence. “Ahem, ahem. Lu Yang, your answer was more or less correct. Let me retell it. Five is the most stable digit in nature.”

    “For example, the Central Dynasty and the four other lands to the east, west, south, and north. The Five Great Immortal Sects, the Five Veins of the Five Elements Sect, Four Great Devil Sects along with the unknown Heaven’s Court.”

    “According to the theory of the Five Elements, Heaven’s Court is likely to become the Fifth Great Devil Sect, forming ‘five.''”

    “And you five, you are the five most outstanding individuals among the younger generation of the Seek Dao Sect. This also is in line with the theory of the Five Elements.”

    Meng Jingzhou sent a secret message to Lu Yang, “That was impressive. What did you do just now? I heard you speak a lot, but I can’t remember a single word.”

    Lu Yang said seriously, “This is an ancient secret technique, and only I can use it.”

    He heaved a sigh of relief, glad that the Forgotten characteristic of the immortals came in handy.

    The Elder of Passing Skills soon arrived at the main point of the day’s lecture, “Next, let’s discuss knowledge about the technique of Five Elements. Who among you is most familiar with it?”

    “He is.”

    The other four all pointed at Lu Yang without hesitation. Lu Yang was surprised.

    The Elder was slightly surprised but very pleased, “Oh, I heard you have a Sword Spirit Root. I didn’t expect you to also be proficient in the Five Elements technique. Can you tell us how you cultivated it?”

    Lu Yang scratched his head awkwardly. How was he going to explain that his cultivation of techniques was effortless and that he never encountered any bottlenecks?

    “I just followed my intuition. Casually practiced a bit and then somehow made it.”

    Though the effectiveness of the technique was uncertain, his cultivation method was indeed quite casual.