The First Soul Core! The Power of the Five Elements!

[Ding! The host's vital signs have been detected as critical. Confirmation has been automatically approved. Conceptual enchantment commencing.]

In his hazy consciousness, Lin Ciyan heard fragmented words, but had no time to listen closely...

Because that power had already arrived.

It did not surge in. It descended.

A force utterly unlike Soul Power, spiritual power, elemental power, or the Dragon God's power abruptly rose from the deepest part of his soul.

That force was formless and colorless, invisible and intangible, yet Lin Ciyan could clearly sense its existence...

It was a complete set of rules—a set of rules that could complete the Five Elements.

The system had not fused the Soul Cores for him. It had merely given him a key.

It was like an architectural blueprint of unimaginable precision, marking every load-bearing point, every direction of force, and every material's coefficient of thermal expansion and contraction on a foundation that should never have been able to support a five-story building.

But the one who had to lay the bricks, mix the cement, and bind the steel reinforcement was still Lin Ciyan himself.

That was enough.

More than enough.

Wrapped in the power of those rules, Lin Ciyan's consciousness abruptly cleared.

He could "see"... see the flow paths of every strand of the five ultimate attributes within his dantian; see at which point the repulsive force produced by the Five Elements' mutual restraint was transformed into the driving force of mutual generation; see which parts of the embryonic Soul Core needed more metal attribute and which needed more fire attribute as it spun.

The five ultimate attributes were no longer five mad dragons tearing at one another, but five strings of a zither, each with its own pitch—and he held the only pick.

He began to move.

His left hand