In truth, if something like this happened in the cultivation world, there was no way Lin Chuan could have disrupted the balance. The existence of the Heavenly Dao would naturally maintain the balance of the five elements. Even if a local area fell out of balance, it would not affect the bigger picture. After all, the cultivation world was simply too vast for absolute balance to be possible.
But Constant Heaven was different. It was merely a small world; no matter how large it was, it could not surpass the Longevity Realm itself. Moreover, Constant Heaven's five-element balance was not maintained by the natural laws of heaven and earth, but by the Earth Emperor himself. Such maintenance had a limit to its cycle. When one attribute could no longer smoothly transform into the next, the balance would naturally be broken. And once the collapse began, the resulting chain reaction would bring an avalanche-like breakdown. It would collapse very quickly.
What Lin Chuan was doing now was increasing the amount of water-attributed spiritual energy to the point where it could no longer smoothly transform into wood-attributed spiritual energy. At that point, fire-attributed spiritual energy would be suppressed by the sheer power of the water-attributed spiritual energy, while metal-attributed spiritual energy would be assimilated at an accelerated rate for the same reason.
It was like a perfectly functioning circular pipeline. As water-attributed spiritual energy surged wildly, it became jammed in the channel where it was supposed to transform into wood spiritual energy. Since the pipeline had limited capacity, there was inevitably a limit to how much could be transformed within a given time. Once that limit was exceeded, further transformation became impossible. There could only be one result: the pipeline would burst, and water-attributed spiritual energy would run rampant.
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