Free Web NovelChapter 320: Chapter 46: The Order of Evil
Su Zhou had suspected the high quality of the Peacock’s Evil Soul ever since he learned it was a Beast King from the Beast God Realm. As he toyed with the five-colored Evil Soul—a condensation of immense, blood-red Curse—he couldn’t help but fall into deep thought. ’Honestly, I’d really like to know how it was truly "evil." If it was just a matter of the strong preying on the weak, I’d find it cruel at most, not evil. After all, they’re just beasts.’
As for the uses of an Evil Soul, was there even a need to ask? With Su Zhou’s Talent and his existing inheritance, did he really need to increase his Five Element Spiritual Energy Affinity or perform an Attaching Spirit?
’Let me see just what kind of Divine Bird you really are.’
Without hesitation, Su Zhou cleared his mind, took a deep breath, and swallowed the Peacock’s Evil Soul—the glowing orb that shone with the light of Five Elements Reincarnation—in a single gulp.
Instantly, a sensation surged forth from the soul he had swallowed. It was exceptionally rich and mellow, like a fine cocktail, bringing an intoxicating tipsiness that captivated every organ in his body, even his very Soul. Mixed within it were the Peacock’s long memories.
The first things to flash through his mind were countless dark feelings of resentment and despair, seemingly drawn from a deep-seated bloodline memory.
A vision: a colossal Divine Tiger stood tall against the heavens, proudly gazing down upon the entire world. In the next instant, it transformed into a goddess of peerless beauty and sublime grace, wreathed in a dark aura of five-calamity destruction.
Countless Immortal Gods stood around the majestic Calamity Goddess. With emotionless faces, They gazed down upon the entire world, upon all the defeated weaklings. Then, They turned and departed, leaving behind an incredibly arrogant proclamation.
[We shall place this world under Seal, until your rites are as the rites of Kunlun.]
[O beasts, who know not good from evil, when you wish to become men, then shall you know Our mercy.]
They came as they pleased, waged war as they pleased, civilized them as they pleased, and then left as they pleased, placing a Seal upon their world... Those Immortal Gods taught the world’s ignorant beasts the meaning of "family," "Race," and "civilization." They showed them the difference between "man" and "beast." They left behind etiquette and inherited Classics for their edification, then departed just as abruptly as they had arrived. It was like a painful, yet beautiful, phantom dream.
But there was no time to savor this blend of beauty and pain, for what soon followed was the decline of the world’s Spiritual Qi.
From the moment of its birth, the Peacock had been comprehending a dark fury passed down through its bloodline—a fury known as "shame." The Divine Bird, defeated at the hands of the Ancient Immortal Gods, could have accepted failure. What it could not accept was their casual, self-evident superiority. Nor could it comprehend why their enemies had spared the lives of the vanquished.
To be defeated but not devoured—this act went against their very instincts, leaving them deeply unsettled and bewildered. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
However, compared to the shame and anger of its ancestors, the Peacock had to face a world that was slowly dying. freewebnøvel.com
’The various Secret Techniques in our bloodline are impossible to use in an environment without a high concentration of Spiritual Qi. The Five-Colored Divine Light is a Supreme Divine Technique, but when no one can unleash any powerful Magic, how is it any different from being useless?’
Compared to the fleeting flashes of bloodline memory, what Su Zhou perceived most clearly were the Peacock Divine Bird’s centuries of reflection on its clan’s bloodline Divine Techniques.
’Our clan are born masters of the Five Elements Power. In the past, controlling five Spirit Techniques simultaneously was no problem at all. But in this era of declining Spiritual Qi, being able to use even one piece of Magic is considered impressive—how could we possibly unleash five at once? We can only specialize in a single path of Spiritual Cultivation to compete with the other clans.’
’But that would be a waste of my clan’s Talent... There must be a better way, a better method to utilize our gifts... A way for me to use one technique to manifest all others.’
In contrast to the arrogance, carelessness, and contempt it had displayed earlier, the Divine Bird Su Zhou now saw in its memories was meticulous, calm, and relentlessly dedicated to studying Spirit Techniques.
It experimented and researched, bit by bit... It sought to use a single Magic to manifest the transformations of all five types of Spiritual Qi. In theory, such a Secret Skill—the "Five Elements Reincarnation"—was certainly possible. After all, the Five Elements generate and overcome one another: Wood begets Fire, Fire begets Earth, Earth begets Metal, Metal begets Water, and Water begets Wood. Simple as that, the Five Elements Reincarnation is achieved.
But that statement was about as reliable as the joke about putting an elephant in a refrigerator in just three steps: open the door, put the elephant inside, and close the door. For the Peacock to accomplish its goal, it was akin to building a refrigerator large enough to hold an elephant in the first place.
But it had succeeded.
[The workings of creation must not lack generation, nor must they lack restraint.]
[The Five Elements are that which moves through heaven and earth unceasingly. The Five Elements Reincarnation is the Dao of generation and restriction. Without generation, nothing can begin; without restriction, all becomes chaos.]
[Qi is the root of heaven and earth, its function born from the Emptiness. By its nature, it divides into all spirits. Gather the vital essence of living things to form Qi, and nurture the five breaths within the chest. Manifest them as five feathers upon the body. With a single Qi to pierce them all, one mind may grasp five paths, and one technique may derive five spirits. Roam the heavens and command the Five Elements; transform all creation and nurture the soul.]
By fusing the knowledge of countless ancestors with its own persistent efforts, the Peacock finally created its own unique version of the Five Elements Reincarnation technique.
And Su Zhou comprehended it all.
The essence of the ’Five Elements Reincarnation Spirit Technique’ was, in truth, a compromise born of desperation. A Peacock Divine Bird, born with the Five Elements Complete, originally needed no Spirit Technique at all; it could control the surrounding Five Element Spiritual Energy with a single thought. Even a simple, brute-force gathering of Spiritual Power to crush its foes would have been reverently called the "Great Five Elements Destruction Divine Light" by its enemies.
