Five-Element Beast
Douluo: Pick Four from Nine, Opening with Yu Xiaogang's Breakdown
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Five-Element Beast (五行兽) |
| Species/Race | Soul beast 20 |
| Attributes | Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth 20 |
| Occupation/Role | Source of Meng Chen’s third soul ring 20 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 20, described retrospectively 20 |
Power Progression
The documented change concerns the hunted specimen’s soul ring, not the beast itself reaching ten-thousand-year cultivation.
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 9,999-year soul beast | 20 | Xiao Wu helped Meng Chen find the specimen. It was at the threshold of ten thousand years when he slew it. |
| Ten-thousand-year soul ring | 20 | After Meng Chen absorbed its ring as his third, it unexpectedly transformed into a ten-thousand-year ring. The narration attributes this outcome to luck. |
Background / History
Meng Chen revealed the resulting black third soul ring during his entrance assessment at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy. His configuration of two purple rings and one black ring shocked Qin Ming and Director Chen; he explained that the third ring came from a Five-Element Beast near the ten-thousand-year threshold 20.
When Meng Chen later prepared to obtain his fourth ring, Xiao Wu warned him not to treat that experience as equivalent to absorbing a ring from a true ten-thousand-year beast. Even at 9,999 years, the Five-Element Beast remained a thousand-year soul beast. True ten-thousand-year beasts possess mature souls whose lingering resentment can attack during absorption 34.
Abilities & Skills
Five Elemental Attributes
- Possesses metal, wood, water, fire, and earth simultaneously—an exceptional trait when ordinary soul beasts possess only one attribute and even dual-attribute beasts are rare 20.
Associated Soul Skill: Five Elements of the Lightning Dao
The beast’s ring supplies Meng Chen’s third soul skill, Five Elements of the Lightning Dao 20 41.
| Demonstrated form | Application |
|---|---|
| Golden lightning sword | Condenses lightning into a sharp sword that instantly decapitates a thousand-year Phoenix-tail Cockscomb Snake 41. |
| Earth lightning shield | Creates a shield before Liu Erlong’s incoming flaming claw attack 102. |
| Water-element lightning | Produces thousands of lightning attacks against Liu Erlong’s dragon flame. With Demonic Thunder Domain and Innate Thunder Body providing boosts, the attack barely matches her flames 103. |