The Elements

Chapter 4 The Elements

Taiyuan followed Elder Ming with a look of confusion and anticipation as he did not know what Elder Ming was talking about with different elements or even where he was taking him as this is his first time going further beyond the library desk.

Elder Ming led Taiyuan to the door that lead to the what looked like one of his study rooms as they entered Taiyuan felt a wave of spiritual and magical energy wash over him as he looked around he saw right in the middle of the room 6 crystals 1 big one and 5 smaller ones that looked a lot like the ones used in the exam.

Elder Ming told Taiyuan to follow him to the middle of the room where the crystals are as he went over Elder Ming went to a rope and open a bit of cloth that was covering a window as he pulled it over the sun shone through and hit the big crystal in the middle as that happend the crystal shone a bright white color and also split up in to different rays of light that hit the smaller crystals that shone in the color of the 5 elements.

Elder Ming called Taiyuan over and said "tell me what do you notice about the crystals?" after a Elder Ming said this Taiyuan started to inspect the crystals he the said "they are shining in the colors of the elements and it seems that its because of the white light..." "that is right but there is something else" said Elder Ming.

as Taiyuan looked at the crystals again he noticed that there was also rays of light leading from each small crystal to the other but in the middle of the light it was a different color "Elder Ming... why is there different colors in between the smaller crystals?".

"That Taiyuan is what i meant by maybe even more" said Elder Ming "there are more than just the base 5 elements and i believe you can also use those there are also a lot more colors and sub elements but we will leave those till you master these 10".

"first i will explain what the elements are and what there colors are" Taiyuan listened closely to what Elder Ming was about to say. "first there are the 5 base elements that you already know those are fire (amber), earth (brown), water (aqua), lightning (yellow), wind (green)" "there is also the 5 others lets call them partial-elements or variant elements those consist of metal (silver), poison (purple), light (gold), darkness (black) and void (violet)".

after Elder Ming finished explaining the 5 new elements to Taiyuan decided it was about time he headed home "thanks for the lesson Elder Ming ill be back tomorrow if that is okay with you?.." just as Taiyuan opens the door about to leave a small gust of wind blew through the door with it came a pitch black feather as Elder Ming saw this he looked out the door to see a black silhouette of a bird flying away he thought for a moment before he decided we would tell him "young lord.... i would like to show you something tomorrow of great importance its about that cultivating manual i gave you".

after Taiyuan left Elder Ming thought to himself (so....this is where it begins)in a solemn but wise tone.