The two new fighters got onto the stage and stayed on either side of the stage. Once the referee gave the go, the man imdiately made a fireball in his hand and threw it towards the other man.
The other man created a veil of a large amount of water that worked as a barrier. The fireball was snuffed out by the water. He then sent a blast of wind towards the other man.
Up on the seating area, Wen Cheng started talking to Alex.
"You know the elental theory, right?" Wen Cheng asked.
"The elental theory?" Alex asked in confusion. "The sa one as the one in Alchemy?" he asked.
"Oh right, you know Alchemy, so you must understand it easily. When two people that use elental abilities instead of physical fight, if their skill and cultivation base is the sa, the one that wins will mostly depend on their elent of use."
Alex felt like he could understand what he was saying but was still generally confused.
"Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let explain from the beginning. Rember when I told you about the spiritual roots, and how one is? compared to the other?" Wen Cheng asked.
"Yes. The ones with lesser elental roots are perceived as better," Alex said.
"Yes, exactly. Perceived as better, not are better. As I explained last ti, The lesser the spiritual root, the stronger the effect of the spiritual root becos. However, the more the spiritual roots, the more elental affinity one has."
"So, keeping this in mind, I want you to tell . Who is stronger of the two, A cultivator with tal and Water roots, or A cultivator with Wood and Fire roots?" Wen Cheng asked.
This was a very strange question Ning had never encountered before. He tried to think but he wasn't used to elents interacting with one another.
Even during alchemy, he only did what the recipe said, and never truly learned the elents themselves. That was one of the reasons why Ma Rong wanted him to buy disposable cauldrons and learn the interaction between elents alone.
With no choice, he thought back to the first lesson with Ma Rong where she taught him the elents.
'tal and Water, Fire and Wood,' he thought.
"Um, if they have the sa cultivation base then the one with Wood can Weaken water, and Ruin tal. Even with Fire, he can Ruin Water and, and Control as well as Overwhelm tal."
"I think the man with the Fire and Woo—? wait, But tal can Ruin Fire as well and Control as well as Overwhelm Wood, while Water can Control and Overwhelm Fire."
Ale looked up to Wen Cheng and said, "I am very confused right now, Master." It was very hard for him to make sense of what he was learning.
"Don't be. I asked that question especially to make you confused," Wen Cheng said. "The reason you are confused is that you know what Elents the two cultivators are using, but you don't know anything else."
"There are 3 things aside from elents alone that influence a fight between cultivators of the sa cultivation base," Wen Cheng said.
"The first is the Elental Strength. This all depends on what type of spiritual roots you have. The lower the spiritual roots, the stronger the Elental Strength gets."
"The second is Qi amount. This is how much Qi the cultivators use during an attack. As you might imagine, the more Qi one uses, the more damage they can deal."
"The third is Qi density. The denser your Qi is, the more power you can pack behind it."
"Their order of importance would be Elent, followed by Elental Strength, followed by Qi Density, followed by Qi Amount."
"So, every elental attack has these 4 things that will influence the result," Wen Cheng continued explaining.
Alex was fully engrossed in the explanation. He felt like he was seeing stuff he knew with a completely different eye.
"Now, each Elent interacts with other elents in one of the 5 ways. They can Empower, Control, Overwhelm, Weaken or Ruin the elents."
"The thing you need to learn is not what elent interacts with what elents. You already know that from your alchemy probably. The thing you need to learn is how one of those 5 interactions can occur," Wen Cheng said.
Wen Cheng started explaining a very lengthy topic about elental interaction. Elental Strength, Qi Amount and Qi Density, when all of these things were combined, whoever had the better one would be the winner.
Say a man had wood spiritual root, and another man had tal spiritual root, regardless of whatever else spiritual roots they had, and they both attacked each other with an elental attack.
If the man with the wood spiritual root had a better combination of Elental strength, Qi density, and Qi amount than the man with the tal Qi, then the Wood attack would destroy the tal attack thus inducing Ruin.
However, if the man with the tal spiritual roots had a better combination, then the tal attack would either control the wood attack or overwhelm it.
If Control was induced, the controlling elent would regulate the other elent and stop it from advancing.
If Overwhelm was induced, the overwhelming elent would rip apart the other elent and go past it.
If Weaken was induced, the elent being weakened would slowly exhaust until it was no more.
If Ruin was induced, the winning elent would violently destroy the other elent, most of the ti leading to explosions.
Empower was a weird one and normally wasn't induced. The only way to induce it was when helping an ally attack by adding the elent and Qi to the forming attack.
One of the 5 was always induced in one way or another, except on a single case. That was when both the opponents had the sa elent.
In that case, it would be a pushing battle, and whoever had the stronger combination of the other three aspects, won.
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