"Nah."
Xuele raised its head to look at Chen Beiwu, bewilderment plain in its eyes.
"Your talent doesn't lie here, and you haven't entered the Demon Venerable realm yet. It's perfectly normal that you can't comprehend the Five Phases Stele," Chen Beiwu consoled it through divine sense.
His spiritual root aptitude, innate talent, and comprehension had received numerous enhancements, and he had forged his five virtues physique with the Great Mystery Guarding the One Visualization Method. Even so, he had only comprehended some true meaning and Dao resonance of the Five Phases, further refining his acquired five virtues physique, feeding its benefits back into the Primordial Origin Fundamental Immortal Arts, and then attaining initial mastery of the "Chapter of Resonance through the Interwoven Threads of Cause and Effect and the Integration of Ten Thousand Dharmas."
But Xuele's talent differed from ordinary Five-Qi Vines. Rather than observing and comprehending the Dao, it excelled at farming and was better suited to gaining insights into the Five Phases through tending and planting spiritual plants in everyday life.
At his words, Xuele's expression relaxed. It gradually brightened, tossing the matter of comprehending the Five Phases Stele to the back of its mind.
Beiwu was right. Farming suited it better than comprehending the Dao!
"Which ruins stele are we going to next?" Aji asked of its own accord.
"Cosmic Light first, then Huncheng."
Chen Beiwu's eyes flashed, understanding what was on Aji's mind.
Failing to draw out the true meaning and Dao resonance of the Two Forms Stele and use this opportunity to advance to a fifth-realm demon venerable had dealt Aji a blow, neither great nor small.
But Aji had always been proud and had not shown it, instead turning its sights toward the Cosmic Light Stele, the most mysterious of the nine great