Within the [Foundation Establishment Realm], Jiang Yi sat cross-legged. The dim bronze lamp before him flickered, casting his face alternately into light and shadow.
"The Wood Phase is one of the more crucial paths among the [Five Phases]."
He murmured to himself, his gaze piercing the gray void and falling upon the mortal world below.
On the solitary cliff of Green Ram Mountain, Li Conglong tucked the mirror fragment into his robe, then turned and headed down the mountain.
Jiang Yi watched this quietly, considering:
Only wood can loosen flourishing earth; only metal can shape flourishing wood into pillars. Fire depends on wood to arise, and abundant wood makes fire blaze; wood depends on water to grow, but abundant water sets wood adrift; water can nourish wood, but flourishing wood depletes water... With a flicker of thought, he arrived in a secluded forest.
The young Daoist in ritual robes strode forward, lush vegetation beneath his feet and ancient trees towering into the sky.
Azure Spiritual Qi coiled and rose through the forest like mist, a world utterly different from the scarlet that had burned the heavens and boiled the seas just before. As Jiang Yi walked, his Dao Wisdom flashed like spiritual light, emerging from between his brows and forming a clear, bright wheel suspended above his head. All manner of profound mysteries flowed through his mind.
Although Jiang Yi chiefly cultivated the Fire Phase and Fire Techniques, he had witnessed the various methods of the great True Disciples at the Hong Water Dharma Assembly and was not wholly unfamiliar with the [Five Phases] methods. Besides, he had the Heavenly Book in hand and could respectfully submit all manner of difficult questions to it.
"With the Heavenly Book's assistance and my supreme Dao Wisdom, writing a Jia Wood Qi Refining