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A month later, Hou Niao emerged from the underground river. The Five Elements were vast and profound; he could not possibly glimpse all their wonders now. Reaping the greatest gains his current realm allowed was enough. He was not greedy.
In the underground river, he had seen quite a few cultivators still struggling to obtain more. This was the human heart's insatiable greed, a snake trying to swallow an elephant. Pursuing things that should not belong to them meant they did not understand when to advance and when to retreat.
It wasted time and could also wreck their mental state.
This verification of the Water Element had deepened his blue Water Element Profound Light further, making it crystalline and translucent, with a faint mist seemingly arising within it. This was the most fundamental process of applying techniques: drawing from principles, putting them into practice in battle, then returning to compare the two. Combining theory and practice this way was the foundation of a powerful technique.
These were not things one could cultivate by finding somewhere to train bitterly alone, building a cart behind closed doors.
When he emerged from beneath the underground river, the sky had already turned clear and blue. The effects of this once-in-a-century sandstorm had completely vanished, but many traces still remained around the forest belt. The trees had been buried several feet deeper, and even their leaves were a dull gray. Viewed from the sky, a perfectly good long green dragon had become a gray-green dragon, showing just how great an impact the sandstorm had made.
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