Xiao Fan abruptly changed tack. "That's why I say it! Only by strengthening ourselves can we accomplish feats worthy of legendary heroes!"
"You wait here! I'll fetch the Five Elements Art Master gave me for you to try!" Yu Hao sprang to his feet and rushed toward his room.
Xiao Fan let out a long breath... then muttered to himself, "Finally took the bait..."
Before long, Yu Hao came running back with the arcane manual of the Five Elements Art, hastily stuffing it into Xiao Fan's hands. "Take it, this is the Five Elements Art... By the way, you'll really keep your promise and teach me martial arts once you've mastered it, right?"
"Rest assured, Young Master Yu! In the martial world, one lives by one's word!" Xiao Fan swiftly caught the blue-covered booklet. A sweep with his divine sense confirmed that it was genuine, and the smile on his face grew even more sincere.
The Five Elements Art was an extremely simplified version of the Daoist secret tome Heaven and Earth Origin Convergence. It belonged to the most elementary arcane arts and could be said to form the foundation of many advanced spells involving transformations of the five elements.
The Five Elements Art contained methods for converting and controlling the natural spiritual energies of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Among them was the complete version of the [Fire Element Art] that Xiao Fan urgently needed.
Only after seeing the complete version did he realize that the [Fire Element Art] he had learned before had been heavily butchered...
Xiao Wu, that crude martial brute, presumably could not make heads or tails of arcane arts... so he had specially modified the [Fire Element Art] to suit "igniting Blood-Burning Flame," cutting away every part he could not understand and leaving only