"You actually subdued the Heart Ape!"
At this point, how could the Yin-Yang Dao Master fail to understand what had happened? Though surprised, her expression remained utterly calm.
"However, your ambition is too great, your heart too large, while your capacity is insufficient. You can only reap the bitter fruit of your own making! By swallowing so many thought projections whole like dates, you may have gained scraps of their realms, but more than that, you have shackled the very foundation of your life. Though great formations seem to be everywhere now, you are in truth entangled by them as well and can no longer wield Divine Abilities as you please!"
As these words fell, light surged from the Yin-Yang Dao Master's entire body. The red receded, replaced by an earthy yellow; then, as the yellow faded, gold emerged. The cycle repeated, five colors circulating and shifting without end.
This was the method of mutual generation among the Five Elements—wood birthed fire, fire birthed earth, earth birthed metal, metal birthed water, water birthed wood. As they transformed, they ultimately condensed into a single mass and, guided by the Yin-Yang Dao Master, shot straight at "Jingquan Zi," targeting the crystalline point upon his forehead!
Yet within that charge, the invisible radiance reversed, expanding against one another as pairs of elements restrained each other. Their collisions scattered bursts of luminous sparks. The power unleashed was neither destruction nor creation, but an unceasing, ever-turning conception of reincarnation.
If this strike landed, Jingquan Zi's head would certainly burst like a melon. Yet the Human Path Pearl embedded within it would also fall into the boundless illusory world of the Five Elements Cycle Doctrine, perhaps never again finding a chance to escape. This was not a clash between two people, but the eruption of an