"Whatever you're best at is always the most lethal," Li Changzhou said.

"But mastering what you're best at requires research, right? I'd have it easier just learning from you directly, and once I did, I'd definitely be strong too!"

"...Do as you wish," he replied.

The one who gained the most was Yang Qinglan.

She and Li Changzhou both practiced "Yin Yang Double Snakes" and her comprehension of "Five Elements Interacting" was even slightly higher than Li Changzhou's.

But she communicated with the external Five Elements, different from Li Changzhou's manipulation of the internal Five Qi, so she had to come up with her own specific techniques.

The heat of the desert around her would suddenly transform into dense Earth Qi, then change into metal, then water....

"No, that's not right," she interrupted her transformation, pressing the Ruyi to her forehead, deep in thought.

With such a demeanor, she resembled a young girl pondering a math problem with a pen in hand, a vision of beauty.

Suddenly, she lifted her eyelids, and with a tap of the "Fairy's Ruyi," a multi-colored tornado burst forth from nothing, growing from small to large, roaring as it hurled toward a tree on the ground.

The tree burst into flames instantly, like a giant candlestick;

In the blink of an eye, it was pierced by thousands of white lights, as if it had suffered a violent mutilation;

The branches danced in the air, then suddenly froze into ice, shattered upon falling to the ground.

The transformation continued, thunder, wind, hurricanes, heavy rain, fire waves; this tree, already dead through and through, appeared to have experienced all the weather extremes of its lifetime.

The Cloud Platform glided past the tree, crossed the boundary, and left the desert for the center.

"What kind of move is that?" Li Changzhou exclaimed in amazement, feeling it was even more magical than his own.

Yang Qinglan, tapping the Ruyi on her slender shoulder, tilted her head in thought and replied, "Alchemy?"

"Alchemy?" Li Changzhou did not understand at first, but then something dawned on him.

"Alchemy isn't just about using fire to burn things up. The human body has Five Elements, and Elixir Pills are classified by metal, wood, water, fire, earth. 'Call the Wind and Rain' could initially only maintain a sphere containing wind, low temperature, and rain. I treat it like an Alchemy Furnace, stirring up the Five Elements of nature within it, but once launched, I can't control the transformations inside," she explained.

What Li Changzhou had said was somewhat comprehensible to the others, but Yang Qinglan's explanation left them entirely befuddled.

What is alchemy?

What is communicating with the Five Elements of nature?

Li Changzhou understood the principle, but he did not understand alchemy, nor the Five Elements of nature.

His philosophy was that the body alone was enough to conquer the external world; the Five Elements within the body could defeat the external Five Elements.

His extreme confidence and infatuation with his own body were why the "Physical Enhancement" Instinct was born.

Li Changzhou said with a smile, "Maybe one day you can treat an entire planet as an Alchemy Furnace and refine all life upon it into a supreme Elixir Pill."

"Bro, your vision for the future is too evil," Li Qianxia said.

Yang Qinglan also gave Li Changzhou an unimpressed look: "If it's already the future, why couldn't I treat the entire universe as an Alchemy Furnace?"

"..." Li Changzhou admitted defeat with a fist salute, acknowledging the impressive nature of the mother goddess incarnate.

Crackers, Xiao Wu, and Yafeiluna all looked on with admiration, while only Turquoise Pool seemed thoughtful.

As for Little Radish... she was entirely focused on rebuilding her kingdom, shaping the white clouds into various forms while muttering to herself, her clear, slobbering saliva spraying into the clouds.

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The northern line.

Two more had died.

The great plains were strewn with bizarre rocks and standing pillars amidst widespread corpses.

The ridges and hills were scarred, some areas shattered and exploded, signs of battle.

"Invader!" a warrior burst forth a hundred meters in an instant, flashing a ghostly speed.

The long knife gripped in his hands slashed across a steel-hardened frame, sparking a chain of fiery sparks.

The steel frame reached out to clasp the warrior's neck, while the other twisted his body, his legs kicking off against it, rebounding to shoot away.

Just as the man was about to rocket off, a pair of hands caught the warrior by his ankles.

"Bang!" The steel frame smashed the warrior into a pulp.

Tossing aside the legs he held, the steel frame gasped for air and muttered, "Support...how much longer?"

"Almost there," replied the wounded Deadly Light Flame with half his left arm self-combusted, burned black, stopping the bleeding.

Sweat covered his forehead from the pain.

"...Leave me behind," said 'General Earthquake', carried on the shoulder of 'Psychiatrist', weakly.

"Shut up!" The Psychiatrist's eyes dilated then shrank rapidly to pinpoints, bouncing like balls within his eye sockets.

He appeared on the verge of madness.

Those he stared at were going mad too.

"If it weren't for your Instinct being handy for slaughter, do you think we'd risk a rescue?" 'Sword Exclusively for Severing Throats' cursed angrily, his sword swiping across the necks of three warriors.

The blade sank slightly; he was running out of strength.

"Where's the support? Where's the support?" the 'Psychiatrist' bellowed frantically.

"There's no support left," answered five squads of the Light Army, a total of forty-eight people, descending from the sky.

Dressed in a set of exquisitely crafted silver armor, wielding the finest of weapons.

From a pile of rocks, a stone suddenly sprouted limbs and a head, quickly slipping away into the distance. It was a Rock Beast, a common sight in the center and a spy for its inhabitants.

The steel frame caught his breath.

"Damn it," he cursed under his breath, "I wanted to see my parents one last time."

"...There's no time left," replied 'Sword Exclusively for Severing Throats' calmly.

A bone-chilling fear surged through the steel frame's heart.

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