"What?"
Tang San suddenly widened his eyes.
The strange behavior of "Zhao Yun" earlier had already made him suspicious.
At this moment, the terrified light in his eyes, and the regretful and painful expression on his face, spread rapidly as if exploding from within, instantly covering his entire face.
But in his panic, he also asked with great urgency and doubt:
"Zhao Ge, isn't the water attribute one of the Five Elements?"
Qin Feng sighed deeply.
The lv4 skill [Actor's Self-cultivation] allowed him to perfectly control every detail of his expression, eyes, tone, demeanor, and even the slightest body movement.
His disappointment was mixed with dissatisfaction, his pity was mixed with speechlessness, and his discomfort was mixed with a hint of anger.
Even seasoned actors would find it difficult to portray such subtle and complex emotions with such detail.
If the audience saw such a performance on the screen, they would definitely feel their scalp tingling instantly and be amazed.
After a full ten seconds, he finally removed all expression and said calmly:
"You are indeed very clever to be able to deduce the truth from the minor details I accidentally revealed.
That's right, the first four spirit rings of Qin Feng's wood attribute spirit are indeed constructing the Five Elements cycle.
Water is indeed one of the Five Elements, but it shouldn't be the first spirit ring.
I remember telling you that the Five Elements attributes must be added in a specific order, right?"
"Could it be that the first one... isn't water?"
Tang San was immediately dumbfounded.
No wonder that even though he had added a water attribute spirit ring, according to the theory of water generating wood, Blue Silver Emperor should have suddenly become much stronger, but in reality, there was no change.
As a result, even at level forty-eight, he was still so useless that he couldn't even deal with a soul spirit of Spirit Elder Wang Sheng.
The first of the Five Elements was actually not water.
Little Sanzi, who had already faintly anticipated something, felt a huge wave of panic erupt from his heart, causing his body to tremble uncontrollably once again.
The first three spirit rings of Blue Silver Emperor were originally useless.
In order to make up for the defects, and to construct the Five Elements cycle, he even brought in the second spirit, prematurely consuming its potential.
But now, Zhao Yun was actually telling him that he had even messed up the Five Elements cycle?
How could he accept this?
And looking at Xiao Biesan like this,
Qin Feng's heart was joyful, but he had to put on an expression of pity and disappointment.
After hesitating for a moment, he said:
"Forget it, there's no need to hide anything now that things have come to this.
The Five Elements refer to metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. These five attributes have clear relationships of mutual restraint and mutual generation.
But whether it's restraint or generation, there is a clear single direction.
Wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, and water in turn generates wood again.
You are a wood attribute, and only by adding fire, earth, metal, and water spirit rings in that order can you finally successfully construct the great cycle.
Spirit power energy must also operate in this correct order in order to continuously grow stronger."
As soon as these words came out,
a bolt of lightning flashed across Tang San's head, and his mind went numb.
His entire body suddenly lost strength, and he sat down on the ground in extreme despair, remaining motionless for a long time.
His mood was like a giant stone falling deeply into the dark abyss of a bottomless cave, plunging into boundless darkness.
After being in a daze for a moment, he suddenly burst up, his face twisted, and he began to violently punch the ground with his fists.
The Five Elements cycle was truly ruined, and the early defects of Blue Silver Emperor could not be remedied.
But what made Tang San most painful was not that his spirit was ruined, but that his spirit was ruined simply because of a single thought of his own.
He knew that wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, and water generates wood, familiar to the point of being almost too familiar.
Why did he make a mistake back then?
Too stupid, he was simply too stupid, stupid to the point of being completely hopeless.
In fact, no matter what Tang San chose, Qin Feng had a way to strike him down.
If you choose A, then the correct answer is B, and vice versa. The error of the path itself has nothing to do with which method you choose; any choice is wrong.
If his fourth spirit ring was a fire attribute,
Qin Feng could say that he should have added water first, so that water generates wood, followed by metal generating water, earth generating metal, and finally fire, which generates earth and is generated by wood.
Which was Tang San's original line of thinking and understanding.
"Um... my condolences,
I have something to do, so I'll leave first."
"Wait, Zhao Ge, please tell me, is there any way to remedy this?
Tang San can swear to the heavens that from now on, if you tell me to go east, I will never go west."
Just as Qin Feng was about to leave, Tang San quickly woke up from his breakdown and recovered.
Then, with a thud, he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed three times without hesitation.
His head hit the ground with a loud bang, and his forehead immediately turned red and swollen, showing how much force he was using.
This sudden action startled Qin Feng, and he secretly sighed,
As expected of Bing Qing Yu Jie, he knelt down without the slightest hesitation.
It's just a pity that this is a virtual space, not reality.
But he still hesitated and said:
"This... seems very difficult. You're ridiculously excessive. Four of your nine spirit rings are ruined.
It's only because Blue Silver Emperor has strong life force, and the Life attribute has carrying characteristics,
If it were any other spirit, it would probably have become a complete waste long ago, and might have even affected the main body."
These words seemed to be criticism, but in reality, they revealed a glimmer of hope in the darkness.
Little Sanzi, who considered himself very clever, instantly found and understood the key point,
and was overjoyed:
"Difficult only means difficult, not impossible, right?
Tang San knows that Zhao Ge has an extraordinary background, and the reason why you went to Shrek Academy was to recruit me, this innate full soul power and Life attribute twin spirits.
Little San, is willing to follow you."
[Tang Sect Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record General Principles Article 9:
When strength is insufficient to defeat the opponent, one can temporarily feign compliance, and then suddenly turn against them after gaining trust]
He silently told himself,
One must bow one's head under the eaves, a wise man submits to circumstances, a gentleman takes revenge ten years late, a great man has a lot of tolerance...
Temporary humiliation and obedience are just for the sake of enduring hardship and biding one's time.
When he successfully solves the Blue Silver Emperor's defects... then, humph.
However, what confused Tang San was that,
the conditions that he thought were very attractive to "Zhao Yun", but as soon as he finished speaking, Qin Feng shook his head with a smile.
"You're wrong."
"What?"
"The reason why I went to Shrek Academy is indeed related to you, but it's not to recruit or subdue you.
Haven't you noticed? Qin Yu (Zhu Zhuqing) later joined Spirit Transfer Academy."
Qin Feng originally thought that Tang San could detect something wrong from Zhuqing's movements, and had already prepared for his identity to be exposed and his disguise to fall off.
He never expected that this guy still hadn't noticed anything, which only showed that Xiao Biesan was indeed Xiao Biesan, and his IQ level could be called unparalleled.
However, now that he had re-used the Zhao Yun persona, it was still necessary to apply some patches.