Lin Jue began learning Fire Element Magic from his Second Senior Brother.
It was one of the orthodox Five Elements Magic.
He began practicing ingestion and learning how to gather wild herbs.
Whenever he chopped firewood, he practiced Wood Escape.
He fetched water even more often—
Most of the time, he drew drinking water from the well beside the Daoist temple. But if he was willing to walk a little farther, he could go to Sweet Spring Creek, where the water was incredibly sweet. A sip on a summer day could dispel all the heat.
Farther away was Brocade Fish Creek. It teemed with little fish, including brocade fish, and catching a few fish and shrimp made for a fine picnic.
That was water for drinking.
Alchemy also required water.
Sometimes water was used to mix medicinal ingredients, sometimes to carry their medicinal properties, and sometimes to draw on the Spiritual Resonance within it.
Mount Yi was full of Spiritual Springs and streams, such as the Sacred Water Spring.
There was also Moonlit Pool, whose waters brimmed with moonlight and yin essence. It was perfect for refining yin-natured elixirs, and even yang-natured elixirs sometimes called for it as a blending agent. Then there was Rosy Cloud Creek, the opposite of Moonlit Pool. There was also Sand Sesame Well on Lotus Peak, which drew on Mount Yi's essence and had to be respectfully requested from the Mountain God. And beneath Cinnabar Peak was Cinnabar Spring, where the Ancient Great Emperor had drawn water for alchemy in days of old.
They said a dragon had once lived in Fishscale Pool, and that its waters held Dragon Qi. Even now, whenever drought struck, villagers from below the mountain came here to pray for rain.
Lin Jue had little talent for the Alchemy Path