"There’s not much time left."
The shabby old man’s eyes flashed with a touch of gravity, his hunched body staggered into the night, the distant sound of the watchman’s gong continued unabated.
"Dong!"
As the final bridge of the Five Viscera was constructed, the Qi blood surged like a great river; amidst the raging Qi blood, a thread-thin strand of Gang Force flowed sequentially through the heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and liver.
With a booming resonance.
Fire generates earth, earth generates gold, gold generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire!
As the thread-thin Gang Force once again emanated from the heart, the Fire Sparrow Gang Force expanded to twice its original thickness, its power unexpectedly amplified by a whole factor!
The gold of the Five Elements shone gold, the wood shone green, the water shone blue, the fire shone red, and the earth shone yellow; at this moment, these five colors intertwined within Su Mu’s body.
The Five Viscera resonated in unison, as if at this moment completely merged into one, becoming a whole.
"Dong dong dong——!"
Like the beating of war drums, the sound was as if shock thunder from the ground.
In Su Mu’s mind, comprehension radiated and materialized at this moment, causing Su Mu’s entire being to tremble, instantly multitasking, and spiritual power burst forth from his brow center, cloaking him in a bowl-shaped coverage to mask the momentum.
After completing all this, in the state of Introspection, he could clearly feel the Qi blood in his body, seemingly like a clawed and fanged blood-red Flood Dragon, growing fiercer and rampant under the support of the refined Five Viscera.
"Whirr whirr whirr!"
The Five Viscera’s resonance could not obscure the increasingly turbulent rushing sound of Qi blood, as if standing by the autumn waters of Donglai River, time passed by moment by moment, at a certain point Su Mu’s entire body trembled again.
"Snap!"
At this moment, the bottleneck of Qi blood within his body was smashed open by the ferocious Qi blood Flood Dragon, and in the next breath, like a breached dam, the restless Qi blood began to surge violently.
Instantly, the Qi blood smoke rising from Su Mu’s skull transformed in a moment into a clear river of Qi blood, marking the commencement of the Secondary Blood Exchange.
"The Five Elements Technique is also breaking through..."
With divine insight, as the Five Viscera interconnected and the Secondary Blood Exchange began, the current bottleneck of Su Mu’s Five Elements Technique also shattered the shackles, going one step further.
Five Elements Technique (Great Success 1%)
Comprehension: 174 (Dragon-and-Phoenix Level)
"Buzz buzz buzz——"
The process of converting the Gang Qi through the Five Viscera into the corresponding Five Elements Gang Force became increasingly rapid, nearing perfection, the switching was as smooth as flowing clouds and flowing water.
Attribute Power is a higher-level energy compared to ordinary Power, during the conversion process, losses often occur, for ordinary Five Extremes Realm Martial Artists to achieve a 70% conversion of Attribute Power is considered exceptional.
However, in Su Mu’s case, the Gang Force conversion to Fire Sparrow Gang Force reached nine-tenths, water Gang Force eight-tenths, while the conversion rate of the other three types of Attribute Gang Force that had yet to merge with beast essence blood was seven-tenths.
The advantage of the Five Elements Technique manifests slowly and steadily, showcasing its virtue in solidity and stability, this Cultivation Technique has been passed down since the Pre-Qin Era, aiming for mutual generation of the Five Elements, multi-pursuit of the Five Elements may seem moderate, but it excels in its solid foundation, most suitable for strengthening one’s base.
This Cultivation Technique values gradual accumulation and swift release, cultivated arduously over years for the chance of one day transforming quantity into quality; this was not wrong in the Pre-Qin Era.
Pre-Qin Martial Artists pursued multi-attribute Power cultivation, among them, talented individuals sought simultaneous cultivation of the Five Elements, only after the Pre-Qin Era the Martial Dao Destiny was suppressed, and the Martial Dao collapsed, subsequently the lifespan of Martial Artists drastically diminished.
Though later on Martial Emperor Xiang Yu revived the Martial Dao, its glory never returned to the former prosperity, constrained by the obstacle of shortened lifespan, Martial Artists born in the following millennia had to explore new paths, veering from the mainstream, embarking on a path different from the Pre-Qin Martial Artists.
That is, abandoning multi-attribute Power cultivation, utilizing the other four types of Attribute Power as supplementary, focusing on single-Attribute Power cultivation while maintaining the balance of the Power of the Five Elements, aiming to refine one Attribute Power to its extreme.
This significantly reduced the cultivation time, allowing Martial Artists to devote more time to reaching higher Martial Arts Realms, but such routes came with a cost, most Cultivators on the Martial Dao path were inferior to those in the Pre-Qin Era.
All this Su Mu was presently unaware of, he only had the Five Elements Technique, a Cultivation Method of the Five Extremes Realm, having just set foot out of the Land of Cyan Clouds, Su Mu naturally believed that simultaneous Five Elements cultivation was the correct path.
Moreover, through inference with the Five Animals Qigong, advancing the Profound Demon Five Transformations precisely correlates with the five types of Demon Beast and the Power of the Five Elements, thus Su Mu was even more convinced that Five Elements cultivation was the grand path.
"Five Elements Technique", a once flourishing Cultivation Method of the Five Extremes Realm from the Pre-Qin Era, practiced by many Cultivators, and after thousands of years, few remain who cultivate it, yet now a successor emerges.
At present, Su Mu was unaware that even during the Pre-Qin Era, a talented Martial Artist trying to cultivate the Five Elements Technique to Great Success often took twenty to thirty years, a regular Martial Artist took even longer.
However.
Su Mu initially obtained the Five Elements Technique during his Reverse Slash at the execution ground in Changfeng County against Yuan Wuming, one of the Four Guardians of Black Mountain, beginning with the Chapter "Gold Element Divine Skill".
In merely a year and a half, he had traversed time that Pre-Qin Martial Artists required for decades of arduous cultivation!
This was not merely through terrifying Comprehension and fortuitous opportunities, but also due to Su Mu’s consistent arduous practice of the Five Animals Qigong from his earliest days of martial arts training, wherein Five Animals Qigong had initially laid a solid foundation for simultaneous Five Elements cultivation.
Now, with the Great Success of the Five Elements Technique, Su Mu felt a subtle metamorphosis occurring in his process of converting Attribute Gang Force.
"Oh? The loss in converting Attribute Gang Force is reducing!"
Su Mu lightly exclaimed, clearly sensing the Fire Sparrow Gang Force enhancement to a nine-and-a-half conversion rate, with only a half-loss, and the weakest gold, wood, and earth Gang Force approaching an eight conversion rate.