Spell Arts Perfected, the [Lesser Five Elements] Complete

The next day, at the Spirit Pavilion.

With the [Thick Earth Bottle] he had borrowed from Jiang Kuo tucked against his chest, Chu Bai stood before the light screen once more.

Looking at the hundred-odd hours of access remaining on his nameplate, he took a deep breath and fixed his determined gaze on a fire-aspected blessed land.

[Earth-Core Glazed Fire]

Born deep within lava tens of thousands of feet underground, it had been compressed and purified by the earth's depths for hundreds of millions of years, stripping away its savage, smoky heat and leaving only a pure, glazed quality.

Intensely hot and pure, with an exceptional capacity for assimilation and refinement, it was among the finest choices for constructing a Dao Foundation.

"This is the one."

A flash of light from the teleportation array brought Chu Bai into a space that seemed to lie inside a volcanic crater.

Viscous lava flowed down the crimson rock walls around him. Astonishing heat filled the air, yet, strangely, there was no choking smell of sulfur. Instead, it carried a clarity like glazed glass.

Chu Bai sat cross-legged on a black stone floating above the lava.

Rather than hastily drawing in energy, he first took out the [Thick Earth Bottle], removed its stopper, and placed it on his lap.

As he channeled spiritual power into it, the bottle's mouth glowed faintly. A heavy, mellow stream of yellow energy slowly spilled out—the [primordial virtuous earth] passed down in Jiang Kuo's family.

Drawn from the cores of earth veins beneath great mountains and mighty rivers, it was weighty as a mountain and gentle as jade, especially suited to bearing all things and harmonizing yin and yang.

"Draw glazed fire from outside, absorb virtuous earth within."

Chu Bai brought his mind and spirit into unity and began