On the other side of the Chaos Battlefield, a sea of five-colored radiance slowly unfurled, like a Five Elements wheel spanning several Great Thousand Worlds awakening in Chaos. Old Ancestor Wuxing stood at its heart, surrounded by halos of law in gold, green, blue, red, and yellow, each forming a complete cycle of the five elements. His gaze was calm and profound, like an ancient formation in motion. Under his control, five elements power flowed endlessly through Chaos like a torrent that never ceased. His opponent, Mituo—the reincarnation of Zhunti's origin qi—sat amid golden Buddha-light. Buddhist runes flickered around him in the void like billions of stars, and his face was compassionate and inscrutable, like an ancient Buddhist pagoda overlooking all living beings.
Their cultivation levels were unequal—Old Ancestor Wuxing was a Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal Sixth Heaven, while Mituo was a Heavenly Dao Saint of the Seventh Heaven. Yet Old Ancestor Wuxing's Great Dao of the five elements, centered on "mutual generation and mutual restraint," possessed a unique resilience and regenerative cycle when contending with Buddhism's power of "emptiness." The complete cycle of five elements power was like an endlessly turning millstone, capable of breaking down, redirecting, and transforming foreign powers of law layer by layer. Though Mituo's Buddha-light belonged to a higher realm, the cyclical structure of the Great Dao of the five elements impeded it like a stone obstructing flowing water.
"Daoist Friend Wuxing, it has been a long time." Mituo's voice rang out from the Buddha-light, gentle and resonant, like a bell echoing through the void. "I was reincarnated from Zhunti's origin qi. Though I now bear the name Mituo, the foundation of my Great Dao remains unchanged. You guard the Primordial Wilderness with the Great Dao of the five elements, while I assist the