"Five Elements Interacting, all things vast and mysterious!"

Yang Qinglan sensed the water qi of the great lake, transforming it into rolling wood energy. The 'Thorns' that could only shoot iron arrows became living roots when used, entwining around Li Changzhou like serpents.

Fire overcomes metal, metal overcomes wood, I need metal... Li Changzhou recited mentally as if going over a multiplication mantra.

Dodging the steel-like intertwining trees, he silently reiterated: The liver matches wood, the heart matches fire, the spleen matches earth, the lungs match metal, the kidneys match water.

Good, the heart is fire, the lungs are metal.

With a thought, his heart and lungs lit up simultaneously, one red, one white, their radiance divine and mysterious.

The red light, like a rumbling heatwave, traveled along the meridians, bee-pupating towards the metal-associated lungs.

Being antithetic elements, even before they met, there was a sense of crisis and horror as if a fuse of explosives had been ignited.

"Five Elements Inhibition, The World's Number One!" With the help of the mantra, the [Chaos Yang Snake] in Li Changzhou's mind started to coil and dance.

As fire and metal collided, the gold attribute's white light in his lungs surged to three times its original brightness and strength in an instant!

A surge of power thundered into his right arm, and Li Changzhou swung his Emerald Bee Sword horizontally.

Metal belongs to Lesser Yin, its nature hard and sharp, its lethality external.

The pure white sword qi was unstoppable; wherever it passed, the strong and robust roots were sliced through as if they were paper, with woodchips flying everywhere.

The white light pierced through the layers of trees, pointing straight towards the ethereal, almost immortal Yang Qinglan amidst a sky full of woodchips.

The sharp white light hadn't even reached her, and Yang Qinglan felt an overwhelming sense of invincibility, an indomitable force.

And this was just the most superficial meaning of 'metal'!

The real 'metal' is what Confucius said: "Long ago I heard from the venerable Dan that: 'Heaven has five elements, wood, fire, metal, water, earth, which transform in their seasons to nurture all things, their spirits are called the Five Emperors.', it is one of the Five Emperors, the White Emperor!

That is the true 'metal', commanding submission over everything.

Metal is most powerful in autumn.

In Ouyang Xiu's "Eulogy of Autumn Sounds," it is said: 'For autumn, is the season of the executioner.' 'When things are overly prosperous, they must be killed,' and indeed, it is unrivaled as the first in execution among the Five Elements.

Yang Qinglan retreated into the air.

Only fire can overcome metal.

Water generates wood, and wood can generate fire.

Her mind sinking, she sensed the water qi of the great lake again and, according to the interplay of the Five Elements, transformed it into an even stronger wood energy, which in turn became a stronger fire.

She raised her delicate, fair hand and with a flick, struck out with her palm.

The rolling firelight, like blazing flames, like the roaring Fire God, collided with the white sword qi.

With a "boom!", the water's surface exploded, lifting waves upon waves; the water's surface dipped down by four to five meters.

While Yang Qinglan was dealing with the white sword qi, Li Qianxia swiftly shot towards Li Changzhou like a bolt of lightning.

Li Changzhou knew of her "Peng Road Uninterrupted," and would spare no effort to keep her at bay should a real fight break out, but this was a sparring session.

He responded appropriately, casually releasing several strands of white light sword energy, which Li Qianxia evaded with ease.

Seeing the distance close in an instant, down to three meters, Li Changzhou focused intently, his muscles tensed.

Two meters, one and a half, one meter!

"Peng Road Uninterrupted!"

Stab!

Li Changzhou first felt a pain in his chest, then realized that he had been stabbed.

It was too fast, no, it wasn't about speed at all.

This was not acceleration; no matter how fast, even at the speed of light, one meter is still one meter, that one meter must be traversed! Even if it's a leap, the meter must be leaped!

But Li Qianxia's folding of space was different.

She simply erased that one meter. No matter how quick the reaction, once she appeared, it was right in the enemy's face or in front of the body.

"Who said you can't kill someone without a spearhead!" Li Qianxia declared proudly, quoting a line from "Flirting Scholar."

Her tool was a wooden stick, a straight branch from a giant tree, reminiscent of a "Y" shaped twig she used as a slingshot when she was a child.

The giant trees of 'Honey Pot World', with Li Changzhou's life force thriving, had already become viable material for weapons.

"I lost," Li Changzhou sighed.

"Hehe, that makes it ninety-nine to ninety-two in my favor, just a little more—"

Li Qianxia spoke while retracting the staff, the emerald sword light flashing momentarily and then vanishing.

With a snap, the thin blade of the Emerald Bee Sword lightly tapped her cheek with a bit of force.

"One hundred victories, I win," Li Changzhou said with a smile.

"You—you dared to hit my face! Even my brother has never hit me!"

The staff swept across in anger, pausing time, crossing space, from all directions, unseen and erratic, like a ghost appearing and disappearing!

In a blink, Li Changzhou was hit with another stick, right on the buttocks.

Damn, rebellion!

The sister actually dared to hit her brother's butt!

However, he could only brace himself against the wind and try to find a way to escape the one-meter distance first.

Li Changzhou stepped on the water's surface, initiating 'Stepping in the air', aiming for the sky.

"Don't you run!" Li Qianxia threw her long staff, Li Changzhou dodging it by moving to the side.

"Like the wings of clouds, like the form of a mountain, Roc Body!"

Li Qianxia's body burst into a sun-like golden light, which grew larger and larger, morphing into a giant bird with golden feathers.

The Roc, with a wingspan of over twenty meters, flapped its wings and in a single moment caught up to Li Changzhou.

The massive sharp claws tore through the air, aiming to snatch him as if catching a bug.

Li Changzhou himself was fast, but unfortunately, 'Stepping in the air' was not fast enough.

Confronted with the sharp claws that seemed poised to pierce through space, Li Changzhou turned and struck with his sword.

Clang!

For the first time, the hitherto invincible Emerald Bee Sword clashed with the Roc Body's claws, and neither prevailed.

When this first happened, after a moment of stunned surprise, the three unanimously believed that the Emerald Bee Sword was too powerful, and [Roc Body] was currently trash.

After all, that was [Roc]'s body, yet comparable to the Hummingbird's beak – if not trash, what else could it be?

But [Roc Body] wasn't just about hard claws; its entire body, even the relatively soft belly, withstood a face-to-face shot from the 'Desert Eagle'.

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