Chapter 3965: The Shedding of Elements
Chapter 3965: The Shedding of Elements
Alex continued his explanation.
"You see, these elements that these ingredients lose, they’re not random. They follow a very important rule, such that it rids first the elements that hamper the strongest one. I shall use Fire as an example."
"For Fire, to go from a Common rank to the True rank, it must first remove the element that hurts it the most, which is Metal. To go to the Saint rank, it must remove the second thing that hurts it the most, which is Water. To reach the Immortal rank, it must remove Earth. To reach the Divine rank, it must remove Wood."
"While in most cases Wood would be making Fire better, it also holds Fire back since Fire is needed to control Wood. Without Wood, Fire can properly reach the Divine rank. And finally, there are only the Yin and Yang elements remaining."
"In most cases, Yang and Yin would be complementing each other, so the Fire will have had no reason to remove it until now. And when it removes the Yin, keeping only Yang, it will reach the Celestial rank. You can ask your subordinate again, and he will tell you it’s the truth. A Celestial ingredient will always only have two elements inside of it."
Alex saw Heatwave slightly nod toward the Fire God and smiled.
"So, logic dictates that if the Fire is to reach the rank above the Celestial rank, it must throw away that which is holding it back. The Yang element."
The Fire God narrowed his eyes. Alex made a lot of sense, logically speaking, but none of what he said made any difference to the contest.
"I understand what you’re saying, but how does that relate to the contest?"
"Well, I want you to think of it in reverse," Alex said. "Imagine there is a Divine rank fire ingredient, meaning an ingredient with prominently Fire, along with Yin and Yang. If it was suppressed and could not be allowed to be the Divine rank, forced back into the Immortal rank, what would it do?"
The Fire God’s eyes narrowed. "Gain Earth element?" the man asked.
"Exactly. It must break down and take into it the tiniest amount of Earth element to remain stable," Alex answered.
The Fire God frowned slightly. He couldn’t tell where Alex was leading him with these explanations, but he wasn’t sure he wanted to go there.
"Can we end this already?" he asked.
"I still have time," Alex said. "But if you wish for me to hurry up, I will. Just answer me this one question. Given the truth you’ve just learned, what do you think is the element Yang would have in the Celestial rank?"
The answer had already been given.
"Fire."
Alex smiled. That was exactly what he wanted the Fire God to know. While a Celestial Metal ingredient would also hold Yang, Yang itself would always go for Fire.
"Beyond the Celestial realm is the fabled God realm. A realm that only fifteen other beasts have been said to have reached in the history of the world," he continued. "The fifteen Primordial beasts were the only ones to reach the God realm, and when they reached that realm, their bodies reached the same rank as well. As such, their bodies could only ever hold a single element. What element do you think the Three-Legged Crow held, Fire God?"
The Fire God’s eyes narrowed. He remained silent, not answering.
"I will tell you. It was the Yang element. The Three-Legged Crow’s body was entirely filled with Yang energy and nothing more. I found out that truth when creating my sword and my robe," Alex said. "And yet..."
Alex brought out Nightslayer again and held it in his hand for a second. He took a deep breath and tossed it toward the Fire God.
The Fire God was taken aback and caught the sword.
"That sword was made from the heart of the Three-Legged Crow. All there should be is the element of Yang. And yet, can you tell me what element you sense, Fire God?" he asked.
The Fire God looked at the sword, feeling it more closely than he had before. There was not one, but two auras coming from it.
Yang, and Fire.
"Yang and Fire," Alex said, just in case the Fire God would choose to remain silent. "Why do you think that is, Fire God? Why do you think that a sword made from an ingredient with a single element ended up having two?"
Surprisingly, the Fire God answered the question himself.
"It could not be stable with just Yang, so it needed to take in Fire."
"That is right," Alex said. "And could you tell me why it could not be stable with just Yang?"
He waited, but the answer did not come. So, he was forced to answer it himself.
"It’s because the world can no longer sustain anything above the Celestial rank. As such, anything and everything is forced to degrade partially into another element to keep itself stable."
It was not just the Fire God that was forced to consider Alex’s words, but the many other gods that were in the audience. They all understood that God Qi was unsustainable and thus had to break down, but they hadn’t truly realized such was the case with elements as well.
It was no wonder that they could never find an ingredient that was truly pure.
The Fire God saw the audience talking among themselves and did not like how much consideration they were giving Alex’s words.
He snapped back toward Alex. "Fine, I understand what you’re saying. What does that have to do with anything at all?" he asked.
That, at least, made a lot of the gods focus back on the duel and stop thinking about Alex.
"Well..." Alex started speaking. "As I said before, it has everything to do with this contest. For that explains the one thing I said at the very beginning of my explanation."
The Fire God narrowed his eyes. "Which is?"
Alex pointed back at the Fire God’s sun.
"That is not a sun."