The Five Elements were the most fundamental components of all things in the universe. Their waxing and waning brought changes to everything beneath heaven, influencing not only a person's fate but also driving the endless cycles of the universe.
The original Five Elements Swordplay merely applied the Five Elements Mystic Domain within it. The Five Elements were perfectly balanced, but that also made it rigid. As the saying went, the Dao followed nature. The Five Elements waxed and waned; with those shifts, the Five Elements Swordplay came alive. For instance, when Gold Essence waned, the other four great profundities waxed; when Wood Profundity waned, the other four great profundities waxed. Or two could wane while three waxed, three could wax while two waned. Nor was that all—waxing and waning also varied in degree. Different degrees of waxing and waning produced different changes. In short, the combinations of waxing and waning among the Five Elements were infinitely variable, and their effects entirely different.
The emergence of Waxing and Waning in the Five Elements Swordplay led Ye Chen into a new hall. It was as if he could hear the breathing of all things in the universe, as if he could see those invisible threads of rules. His Five Elements Swordplay faintly resonated with all things in the universe, guiding those threads of rules. The corpse's Heaven's Will Capturing Hand had not reached Old Man Heaven's Will's realm, after all, and was instantly broken by the Five Elements Swordplay.
At this point, the Five Elements Swordplay might have been inferior to the Golden Robe Emperor's Heaven-Pervading Staff in power, and inferior to the Violet Robe Emperor's Fan Dance of Heaven and Earth in technique, but in subtlety, it was no less accomplished.
Four million nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand variations.
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