Boom!
At Jiang Xuan's command, the Grain in Ear unleashed through the Innate One-Qi Sword no longer condensed into one. Instead, it split into five branches and leaves, each one a different color.
He wanted to attempt One Sword Becomes Five Elements, having each branch absorb spiritual energy of its corresponding attribute before bombarding the enemy with five-colored sword light.
"Whoosh..."
As Jiang Xuan experimented, the five-element spiritual energy between heaven and earth was drawn in through the method of "Grain in Ear: Blossoming Flame Tree."
Yet just as the sword force was about to take shape, the divided Grain in Ear suddenly exploded, turning into spiritual-energy fragments that filled the sky.
"Failed again..."
After sensing it carefully, Jiang Xuan quickly found the crux of the problem. As the most basic form of spiritual energy, the five elements in the world were thoroughly mixed together.
In that fleeting instant, he simply could not separate the absorbed five-element energy by attribute and direct it into their respective branches.
Once something went wrong, water and fire blending together, metal and wood interfering with one another, would trigger a violent explosion.
Only then did Jiang Xuan understand that optimizing cultivation techniques was not something he could handle at his current level.
He also understood why the cultivation technique of Summer Valley used only blazing flame as its Grain in Ear. It was not that they could not think of other methods, but that the difficulty of those methods was simply too astonishing.
Yet even after understanding all this, Jiang Xuan still did not proceed step by step and condense a blazing-flame Grain in Ear.
The spirituality made extraordinarily active by the Scripture Repository's blessing soon allowed him to catch another spark of inspiration.
*Five-element Spirit Seeds are feasible. It is simply that my