Chapter 1534: The Five Elements Reveal Their Mettle (Part Two)

The method Li Yan was currently using, although not as fast as Great Master Lan’s restriction-breaking, was in fact incomparable, but it was able to advance little by little.

This meant that as long as their actions could outpace the growth and spread of the chaotic power in the mountain cave, they could advance bit by bit.

“Senior, this is a Yin-Yang law that I comprehended from the ‘Saintly Soul Transformation Art’.”

After Li Yan answered, he continued to control the two brushes in front of him. At the same time, he also relaxed in his heart. This was not because he was relaxed that Elder Hao and the other didn’t become suspicious and immediately attack him.

Rather, it was because his method was indeed effective. For Li Yan, whether they could break through here was what he was most worried about.

Li Yan had slowly figured out this method over the years. It was after repeated failures that he began to fall into long periods of deep thought.

He was thinking that the chaotic powers before him were all intertwined, strand by strand, so the power that erupted was unknown and terrifying, which was why even Body Integration cultivators could not resist it.

This was because you simply didn’t know which powers were fused in each strand—was it a combination of metal and wood, or the formation of earth, water, and metal, or were metal, wood, water, fire, and earth all present?

Such combinations were ever-changing. And after these powers became chaotic, you had no way of knowing what kind of attack attribute they would erupt with. It was even a chaos that violated the laws of heaven and earth.

And this was just one strand of power. But in the entire mountain cave, it was composed of tens of thousands of such chaotic powers.

Therefore, no one could resist it on their own. At least in the Earth-True Domain, there was no such fierce person.

Li Yan had been thinking hard about the connection between the chaotic powers and his understanding of Yin-Yang, the Five Elements, and so on. He also had to figure out how to disperse these powers.

But after thinking of many methods, there was no progress. And one day, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind.

In that instant, he was stunned, and then he cursed himself in his heart.

It seemed that he had gone in the wrong direction from the very beginning.

Faced with such chaotic power, he, like Great Master Lan and the others, was thinking about how to find the rules and patterns within it, and then break it down and disperse it.

Or to use absolute power to shatter these chaotic powers. But both of these methods required a deep understanding of the strange power that appeared after the combination of different attributes.

The five elements could be combined in pairs, or in threes, or in twos and threes, or in more attribute combinations. There were countless forms. If he were to try them one by one, how long would it take?

But why hadn’t he thought of using another method?

All the laws between heaven and earth could be explained by Yin-Yang, or by the Three Talents, the Five Elements, the Six Harmonies, or the Eight Trigrams.

Each law could be clearly explained according to the Daoist tradition one cultivated.

If explained according to the Five Elements he was best at, no matter how these chaotic powers changed, they could not escape the law of the Five Elements Great Dao.

Since the power of heaven and earth here had multiplied because the laws were in chaos, could he sort out these chaotic powers and transform them into a single power?

And to achieve all this, in the Gui Water Immortal Sect, there was the top-tier cultivation method, the Five Elements Return to Primordial Genesis.

This cultivation method was precisely about transforming various powers into the primordial beginning!

Li Yan had already connected the inner and outer five elements back when he reached the Late-stage Nascent Soul. That was the communication between his own rules and the rules of the outside world. It was like the Five Elements Disarray Mantle; when cast, it could affect the surrounding laws of heaven and earth.

The Five Elements Return to Primordial Genesis could also be operated externally at that time, and was no longer limited to his own magical power.

So, after having this idea, Li Yan chose to test it quietly when Elder Hao and the other were not paying attention.

The result really surprised and delighted Li Yan. After testing a small strand of chaotic power, he found that he could actually transform those chaotic powers into a single rule power without any delay.

But the transformed power needed to be drawn away before it could be cut off from its root and unable to recover.

Moreover, Li Yan also knew that when it was actually used on a large scale, or after entering the mountain cave, would his method still work? It was unknown. After all, he still didn’t know the situation inside the mountain cave.

However, after this discovery, Li Yan found himself in a dilemma.

This method might be feasible, but for him to really go and tell Great Master Lan and the others that he might be able to solve the chaotic power here…

…whether they believed him or not could be put aside for now; that was another matter. But how could he explain that he could disperse these chaotic powers?

For a period of time after that, Li Yan was constantly thinking hard about this matter.

He kept coming up with one reason after another, but upon closer inspection, none of them could stand up to scrutiny, so he had to negate them one by one.

Without any result, Li Yan couldn’t help but think, why was he so persistent about this matter? Maybe Great Master Lan and the other two could solve these chaotic powers before them.

He just needed to wait, and that would be enough!

But the final result today was that they only broke through a part of the mountain cave and did not completely penetrate it.

Under this circumstance, Li Yan felt that he could not wait any longer. Moreover, he had thought of some excuses for using this cultivation method before.

Although he himself felt that they could not stand up to careful scrutiny, he was still prepared.

And the situation was pressing. Li Yan could no longer be as careful and cautious as he had been before. The opportunity might only come once.

If he missed this one, not only would the power that had broken through these three hundred-odd li be wasted, but would it be possible for Li Yan to sneak in by himself in the future?

He probably wouldn’t even be able to sneak into the side hall outside before he would be immediately discovered by the sect.

In any case, it was a desperate struggle either way. But when Li Yan acted, he still used some cover and did not directly use the Five Elements Return to Primordial Genesis cultivation method.

Instead, he used the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike to transform into two brushes, because this magical treasure could be seen as a soul cultivator’s magical treasure, and it could carry soul power fluctuations.

Moreover, when he cast the cultivation method, he deliberately brought out some Yin-Yang artistic conception.

Li Yan knew that this time, if his luck was bad, he was very likely to be directly killed by the two people in front of him, especially after they had used him.

However, as long as he could let the other party see hope, they would not kill him for the time being.

Soul searching was impossible in the Earth-True Domain. Even if the other party guessed that he had some secret, a Body Integration Realm cultivator would also be unable to directly search his soul to obtain it.

The chances of Li Yan’s gamble this time were actually less than half, because even if he finally broke through this mountain cave…

…was the place outside this mountain cave really the outside world? If it was still in the Earth-True Domain, then Li Yan’s urgent intention would have been completely exposed in advance.

In addition, at this time, he suddenly cast this strange secret art, and with the previous suspicions of the Soul-Suppression Palace, Great Master Lan and the others were not only not fools, but were among the most intelligent people in this world.

So, although Li Yan answered Elder Hao’s question, he knew that the other party would notice something was wrong with just a little thought.

Sure enough, after hearing his words, Elder Hao was first stunned, and then he thought to himself.

“Yin Huns and Yang Pos, Li Yan has comprehended other secret arts?”

So he exchanged a glance with Great Master Lan, and Great Master Lan also shook her head slightly.

However, until this moment, they had not completely doubted what Li Yan had said.

This was because the speed at which Li Yan cultivated the “Saintly Soul Transformation Art” was really fast. This made it difficult to say that he could not comprehend other secret arts.

It was just that why wasn’t this secret art a soul art? This was what surprised them.

However, the current situation did not allow the two of them to think too much. The top priority was to solve the matter at hand first.

Just like that, Li Yan continuously cast the Five Elements Return to Primordial Genesis to merge the chaotic powers on the curtain of light.

And Elder Hao and the other had already attacked at the same time. Whenever the power in front of Li Yan was transformed, the two of them would quickly draw it away.

This would speed up Li Yan’s progress even more, and they firmly suppressed the growth and spread of the chaotic power.

As they advanced in this way, a strange calm appeared in the mountain cave…