บท 1601: Birth of the Eight Extremities Dao (1)

In the void, his body became a boat, and the soul its passenger, sailing upstream against the current.

This path stretched long and endless.

Looking back upon his past lives: official, merchant, bandit, physician, commoner, youth…

They seemed like ordinary experiences, mere cycles of reincarnation, fragments of life.

But that was only because he had been within them, unable to see through the fog.

Now, awakened, and looking back, it was clear.

They were the Five Elements.

The life of Xu Jinfeng, once a grand chancellor, though a civil official, upheld the dynasty with thunderous methods, bearing in his heart legions of soldiers, banners of war. His life embodied metal.

Wealth was metal, power was metal, warfare was metal—his very fate was forged in metal.