Gold Overcomes Wood, Wood Overcomes Earth, Earth Overcomes Water, Water Overcomes Fire, Fire Overcomes Gold.

Gold Generates Water, Water Generates Wood, Wood Generates Fire, Fire Generates Earth, Earth Generates Gold.

Something is not right!

Su Ping suddenly took out another diagram.

He also took out his notebook of excerpts and began to write rapidly.

Gold Generates Water, Water Overcomes Fire, Fire Generates Earth, Earth Overcomes Water...

This discovery wasn't necessarily a paradox. Instead, it was a completely new energy transformation that emerged when the generative and overcoming relationships of the Five Elements were combined.

Within the Five Elements, the generative and overcoming relationships between pairs evolved when extended to triads.

For instance, while Water Overcomes Fire, this interaction is also based on Water Generates Wood and Fire Overcomes Wood. Therefore, this seemingly simple overcoming relationship of Water over Fire in the Five Elements actually gives rise to the flourishing of Wood!

Once he understood this, it didn't seem like a difficult foundational principle to grasp.

Water Overcomes Fire and thus Generates Wood.

Wood Overcomes Earth and thus Generates Fire.

Fire Overcomes Gold and thus Generates Earth.

Earth Overcomes Water and thus Generates Gold.

Gold Overcomes Wood and thus Generates Water.

This system derives the generative aspect from the overcoming relationships of the Five Elements.

Naturally, there are also interactions where the generative aspect of the Five Elements leads to an overcoming one.

Fire Generates Earth, thereby preserving Wood.

Earth Generates Gold, thereby preserving Fire...

This is incredible!

Based on this theory, couldn't one develop an entirely new, more complex Five Elements energy conversion diagram based on the circulation of generative and overcoming energies? Could this energy conversion not only achieve zero loss but also cause the energy to amplify during the generation process?

Su Ping licked the corner of his mouth, then put down his notebook and looked back at the two draft diagrams.

Soon, he furrowed his brows again.

Then, Su Ping suddenly glanced at the Jade Pendant lying nearby.

One side of the Jade Pendant was inscribed with the character 'Xue'; the other side was etched with an extremely peculiar pattern.

It somewhat resembled the magic circles found in absurd anime, with a circle enclosing a pentagram.

But at this moment, the more Su Ping looked, the more he perceived its extraordinary nature.

At this point, Su Ping lost all interest in the original owner of the notebook and the Five Elements manual.

Because just then, he realized his mistake. He had thought that the individual from Ancient Times who wrote the original manuscript in Serpentine Script was the ultimate master of the Way of the Five Elements.

He had assumed Xue Hongluan was merely a later transcriber.

He was sorely mistaken!

This remarkable woman from the Liang Dynasty, who lived over six hundred years ago—this legitimate daughter of the Xue Family, Xue Hongluan, wife of the Prince of Zhennan—might actually be the one who truly completed the analysis of the generative and overcoming Five Elements and reached the pinnacle of understanding!

This was because, aside from the obscure ancient text copied in Serpentine Script and the basic Five Elements Formation Map believed to have been passed down from ancient times, there were these two draft diagrams. These diagrams, created by Xue Hongluan—the Five Elements Spirit King, wife of the Prince of Zhennan—were what truly represented her further advancement along the great Way of the Five Elements!

Indeed, at this moment, as Su Ping, while looking at the pattern on the Jade Pendant, slowly layered the two draft diagrams on top of each other,

a circular diagram representing the generation cycle of the Five Elements and a pentagram diagram representing their overcoming cycle slowly aligned perfectly.

This time, the pattern that emerged was an exact match for the one on Xue Hongluan's Jade Pendant!

However, it was even more intricate. For instance, the complex Five Elements energy pathways depicted on it were far more complicated than those on the Five Elements Formation Map itself.

Fully ten additional, more intricate pathways of generation and overcoming emerged. In the instant of alignment, the previously chaotic directions and symbols fused completely.

It was only at this moment that Su Ping seemed to truly understand. He, along with others like the Zhang Family Brothers and Director Shen, had previously mistaken the symbols and notes for mere draft annotations. That, however, was not their true purpose.

These two diagrams, when perfectly fitted together, formed the true energy circulation map of the generative and overcoming Five Elements that Xue Hongluan had left behind over six hundred years ago—her own creation!

At this moment, Su Ping experienced an indescribable feeling.

He had just conceived of a more complex energy circulation within the generative and overcoming aspects of the Five Elements, an idea he hadn't yet had the chance to test. Yet, a noble lady from a Wealthy Clan had already completed this very work six hundred and thirteen years prior.

And in that instant, Su Ping felt as if his soul, his very spirit, had transcended time, connecting with a woman from six hundred and thirteen years before.

However, just then, after the two diagrams had remained perfectly aligned for several minutes, lines of elegant script slowly began to appear on the surface of the unknown material from which they were made.

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