Three months later, on Changli Island in Xiaoming Great Marsh.
Inside his quiet chamber, Chen Heng suddenly opened his eyes and formed a spell formula. With a rumble, the five dense clouds of astral energy suspended above his head converged in the center, condensing into a Five Elements True Seed, crystalline inside and out and utterly flawless.
He held the true seed in his hand and studied it for a moment.
When he released it, it abruptly became a gleaming strand of essence that rose, swept toward his face, and merged completely into his body, no longer separate from him.
"So this is the transformation of generation and restraint, the five elements sustaining one another: water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, and finally metal generates water again...
"Once activated, this technique can divide the world into inner and outer domains. With the power to shatter mountains and destroy continents, it truly deserves its place among the Five Elders Immortal Palace's treasured holdings. It will certainly serve to safeguard my path!"
Chen Heng contemplated it carefully once more before reining in the vast, surging aura within him and speaking with a light chuckle.
Three months had passed since the True Disciple ceremony at the All-Encompassing Hall.
During that time, apart from seeking Tong Xuan's guidance on cultivation, Chen Heng had not rushed to make arrangements within the sect. He had merely selected several divine abilities with care and cultivated them.
Divine abilities were not to be compared with Dao arts.
Such arts generally reached into the divine and penetrated its meaning, secretly accorded with the workings of the cosmos. Not only was their power immense, but cultivating them was vastly more difficult than cultivating Dao arts.
The gulf between the two could scarcely be measured!