Chu Tian's voice was very calm:
"Every generation of Heavenly Kings of your Elemental Heaven Clan has been deducing the power of the five elements, deducing it to the extreme, deducing it to perfection, deducing it until not another inch of progress could be made. But they forgot that the power of the five elements is technique, while the Dao of the five elements is law. Technique can be deduced; law can only be comprehended. Your Heaven Clan has already reached the summit in the use of the power of the five elements, but in your comprehension of the Five Elements Dao, you have not even stepped through the door."
He paused, his gaze falling on Yuan Wuxing's face.
"Because the first-generation Element Heavenly King of your Heaven Clan was merely a descendant bred from the residual origin left after the Five Elements Heaven Clan's destruction amid the chaos of the epoch. He inherited part of the Five Elements Heaven Clan's power, but he did not inherit the Five Elements Heaven Clan's Dao lineage. He did not know what the Five Elements Heavenly Bead was, did not know how the Five Elements Heavenly Bead was condensed, and did not know why the Five Elements Heavenly Bead existed. He only saw the result, not the cause. So he spent his entire life deducing, and until death, he never succeeded. His descendants were the same. Generation after generation deduced, generation after generation failed, and generation after generation walked farther and farther down the wrong road."
Yuan Wuxing stood there, the hand holding the Five Elements Heavenly Bead Prototype trembling faintly.
His eyes reddened, not because he was moved, but because of rage—rage that he had been deceived for thousands of years, rage that the Heavenly Kings of past generations had been deceived