47: Incomplete Five Elements? The pain of having money but nowhere to spend it!

Inside the Sea-Suppressing Temple.

Gu Yang slumped on the ground, rubbing his rounded belly, his face filled with satisfaction.

He had just swallowed a dried blood clot of an ancient True Dragon, and the massive energy had nearly burst him apart.

He opened his attribute panel and stared at the dizzying number on it.

Energy: 580,000 points!

"Five hundred eighty thousand..."

Gu Yang licked his lips, a flash of excitement in his eyes.

"Based on previous experience, this huge sum should be enough for me to deduce another layer of the Primordial Indestructible Golden Body and push straight to the fourth layer of the cultivation version, which is the Nascent Soul Stage of the Physical Body, right?"

"System! Add points for me! All in!"

However, the expected surge of power did not occur.

Instead, it was replaced by a series of harsh red warnings.

【Warning! Warning!】

【Host's Physical Body Five Elements are detected to be extremely imbalanced!】

【Current Status: Metal Element (Overflow), Fire Element (Overflow), Water Element (Deficient), Wood Element (Extremely Lacking), Earth Element (Extremely Lacking).】

【Deduction failed! If you force a Breakthrough, the Physical Body will collapse and disintegrate due to the conflict of the Five Elements!】

"What? Disintegrate?"

Gu Yang was startled and quickly stopped adding points.

"What does that mean? Didn't I just eat whatever I wanted before? Why can't I do it this time?"

【Answering Host: In the Mortal Realm and lower cultivation stages, the Physical Body has not yet touched the level of Law and can be built up by brute force. However, after entering the Golden Core Stage, the Physical Body begins to transform into a 'Body of Law'.】

【To achieve a higher-order Indestructible Golden Body, the Five Elements must be in Perfection and endless circulation. The Host has devoured large amounts of metal Ore, strange fires, and Dragon blood (Fire Element), leading to an excess of Metal and Fire Qi in the body. Without Water, Wood, and Earth to harmonize it, you are a powder keg that could explode at any moment.】

Gu Yang was stunned.

He looked at his glazed, reddish-golden skin. Indeed, it faintly radiated a dry heat, and tiny sparks would occasionally burst from the surface of his skin.

Was this 'internal heat'? And the kind that could send him to heaven?

"In other words, I have money, but I can't spend it?"

Gu Yang covered his forehead in pain.

Nothing in the world is more tragic than this—the energy points are right there, yet I can't add them!

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

Ao Li, who was beside him, had already retrieved the box. Upon opening it, she saw a scale emitting seven-colored light—the Ancestral Dragon Scale.

She was in a great mood, but when she turned and saw the constipated expression on Gu Yang's face, she couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Nothing, just a bit of internal heat."

Gu Yang stood up, dusted off his backside, and casually pulled out the broken trident stuck in the ground.

This was a Material that could pierce his Golden Body. Although it was broken, if he took it back for the Old Blacksmith to remelt, he might be able to upgrade the heavenly demon meteor hammer.

"Let's go, back to the Dragon Palace. I need to talk to your father about my appearance fee."

...

East Sea Dragon Palace, Crystal Palace main hall.

The old Dragon King looked at his daughter who had returned unscathed, and then at the Ancestral Dragon Scale, his beard trembling with excitement.

"Good! Good! With the return of the Ancestral Dragon Scale, the revival of our Dragon Clan Bloodline is in sight!"

He turned to look at Gu Yang, his eyes filled with a hint of reverence.

Prime Minister Turtle had already reported Gu Yang's feats of tearing apart the Demon Crab with his bare hands and forcefully shaking the Dragon corpse in the abyss.

This was a ruthless man! A Body Cultivator maniac who could go head-to-head with a Nascent Soul Stage Puppet!

"Warrior Gu, words cannot express my gratitude for your great kindness!"

The old Dragon King waved his hand, "Regarding that wretch Ao Lie, not only will I write off the past, but I will also reward you handsomely! You may choose three treasures from the Dragon Palace treasury!"

"Um... Your Majesty Dragon King."

Gu Yang rubbed his hands together and revealed that iconic, 'nuclear-friendly' smile. "Treasures can wait. I want to ask, do you have anything here that is… especially good for replenishing Water, Earth, or Wood?"

"The more Advanced, the better. I'm not picky."

The old Dragon King was stunned: "Replenish the Five Elements?"

He pondered for a moment and said: "My Dragon Palace does have quite a few treasures of the Water Element. For example, this Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow is the essence nurtured for ten thousand years in the land of extreme cold."

"As for the Earth Element… I have a fragment of Breathing Soil, heavy as a thousand jun, endless and vigorous."

"But as for treasures of the Wood Element, they are scarce in the ocean, and the Dragon Palace truly has no top-tier ones."

"That's fine, two will do!"

Gu Yang's eyes lit up.

Soon, a maidservant brought up two jade boxes.

One box contained a mass of blue fluid emitting astonishing cold air (Mysterious Ice Marrow).

The other box contained a grayish, clod-like piece of dirt that looked like mud (Breathing Soil fragment).

Under the horrified gazes of the old Dragon King and Ao Li.

Gu Yang grabbed the Mysterious Ice Marrow, which was colder than liquid nitrogen, and slurped it into his mouth like jelly.

"Hiss—refreshing!"

Immediately after, he grabbed the Breathing Soil and chewed it like chocolate before swallowing it.

"A bit choking, the texture is mediocre."

【Ingested Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow… Water Element affinity greatly increased! Internal Fire poison suppressed!】

【Ingested Breathing Soil fragment… Earth Element affinity greatly increased! Physical Body resilience enhanced!】

Gu Yang felt the dry heat in his body subside significantly and stretched comfortably.

But the System still prompted:

【Warning! Wood Element extremely lacking! Five Elements circulation has not yet been constructed! Still unable to Breakthrough!】

"Still missing something."

Gu Yang sighed.

It seems that just eating these scattered treasures only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. To completely solve the Five Elements imbalance, he must find a more top-tier 'Five Elements Origin'.

"If Warrior Gu is in urgent need of a Wood Element treasure…"

The old Dragon King noticed Gu Yang's distress and hesitated before saying: "In this Chaotic Star Sea, when it comes to the Dao of the Five Elements, no one surpasses the Five Elements Sect."

"It is said that the Five Elements Sect has a Forbidden Ground called the 'Five Elements Secret Realm', which contains the Innate Five Elements Origin. If one could enter it…"

"Five Elements Sect?"

Gu Yang recalled that behemoth, ranked first in the Chaotic Star Sea, known as the leader of the Righteous Path.

Rumor had it that the Sect not only had Soul Transformation Stage old monsters guarding it, but it was also… extremely discriminatory against Body Cultivators, believing them to be uncivilized barbarians.

"Five Elements Secret Realm… Origin…"

Gu Yang rubbed his chin, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.

"It seems I'll have to go to this so-called leader of the Righteous Path to 'restock' once."

"But there are too many experts there; a direct assault definitely won't work."

Gu Yang looked down at his own exaggerated muscles and fell into deep thought.

"I have to find a way to sneak in."