Feng Yuan's resounding victory over Yu Changqing was both unexpected and in keeping with the original predictions.
[Fire Virtue] against [Wood Virtue], with a Law Treasure like the Burning Wood Law Saber to boot-Feng Yuan had enjoyed an enormous advantage.
To everyone watching, his victory over Yu Changqing should have been beyond question.
Yet no one had foreseen that the Great Talisman Sect's True Disciple not only possessed profound cultivation, but had quietly used a [Earth Virtue] spiritual item to harmonize his [Wood Virtue], cultivating the mystery of [Earth-Nourishing Harmony].
Jia Wood was robust, nourished by Water Qi and stabilized by Earth Qi. Naturally, it towered above ravines into the heavens, lofty and immovable.
Even raging fire could not burn away Jia Wood's vitality.
Thus, when the Xiantian Sect's True Disciples saw Yu Changqing transform into a sky-reaching tree, they all felt certain Feng Yuan would lose.
However profound his Fire Techniques, unless he could fell Yu Changqing's towering incarnation, all his efforts would be in vain, merely wasting his strength.
Who would have thought Feng Yuan seemed to have anticipated it? Drawing on "fire generates earth" within the transformations of the Five Phases, then borrowing the Burning Wood Law Saber's might, he damaged Yu Changqing's foundation and turned defeat into victory!
Qi Refining cultivators could scarcely understand the contest within their exchanges. Among the spectators on the enormous island, only a handful of True Disciples understood where the decisive move had lain.
"How did Feng Yuan know Senior Brother Yu had cultivated [Earth-Nourishing Harmony]? Without preparing beforehand, he could never have thought to use 'generate earth with fire, scorch earth to burn wood' to break Senior Brother Yu's 'sky-reaching Jia Wood, radiant and flourishing'!"
Having refined a little of that pot of [River Flow Turn], Yue Ziqi stared intently