The Upper Cultivator Soul Fragment said nothing. Feeling the damage the lightning had dealt to his soul, he looked at Yang Yuanling, resentment and venom gradually filling his eyes.
On its own, Chen Yang's lightning-summoning ability could never have inflicted such damage under the Secret Realm's current suppression.
Lightning lay outside the Five Elements. As a power drawn into this space from beyond, it had no foundation here, so its might was squeezed thin and weakened further.
But as luck would have it, Yang Yuanling, who had invoked the ability, practiced the Wood Dao.
As everyone knew, the five Immortal Estates founded upon the Five-Element Dao had once enjoyed a glorious heyday in Azure Waves. All sides had acknowledged them as the leaders of the Canglan Righteous Path.
But as the tide of events surged and the river of history rushed on, troubles rose from within and without. New righteous-path powers gradually took their place.
The one that ultimately succeeded them as leader of the Canglan Righteous Path was today's Lingxiao Dao Academy.
As this Daoist institution rose, the Six Sons of Lingxiao not only gathered treasures from all quarters, but also drew on the strengths of many schools of Daoist cultivation.
Thus, in the Daoist Eight Trigrams system now best known throughout the Canglan Righteous Path, the Zhen Trigram represented thunder—and its Five-Element affiliation was the Wood Dao.
Looking back, when Yang Lingshu faced the Seven-Kill Lightning Tribulation during his Tribulation Crossing, its tribulation spirit defied its mandate and tried to kill him, only to lose the rice it had baited its trap with. For him, that outcome had also been a stroke of fortune born of the wood arts he carried.
Yang Yuanling's lightning-summoning command had broken free of the Five-Element Dao's old constraints and borrowed power from