Hou Du studied the five elements not only because his primary cultivation method was based on them, but also for the applications of the Five Elements Mystic Light, especially its help in launching swords.
With only the water, earth, and wood elements he currently commanded, he could launch at most seventy-five flying swords in a single breath by driving the Five Elements Wheel to its limits. If he acquired all five elements, he could raise his sword frequency in one leap to a hundred and twenty-five swords!
That was a terrifying burst of power. If he and Yueduo met at medium or close range, with neither having room to use Sword Light Division, they could only decide the outcome through a burst of swords. Yueduo would be crushed in an utter defeat!
It was a leap he greatly looked forward to. At some point, he had begun yearning for his senior sister's recognition-or, put another way, the recognition of the Azure Sky Sword Lineage.
He harbored a vague thought: might he one day return to his ancestral roots? Or encounter these Azure Sky Sword Cultivators out in the universe? Or simply go to Azure Sky himself?
Whichever way it happened, he did not want to be looked down on. Or, more bluntly, he wanted to stand a head above Azure Sky!
This was the ambition of a small realm, and a grassroots upstart's bid to rise-like an illegitimate son cast adrift, returning to his lineage with that refusal to admit defeat born of an inferiority complex, yearning all the more to stand out!
Well, had he been reading too many storybooks? But this really was a common human mentality.
To yearn for recognition, to yearn for the blue drawn from indigo to surpass the indigo, to yearn to reign supreme!