The next day after Yuan was rested from their journey throughout the country he finally got the chance to look around at his surroundings, the building he was in was similar to a monastery, but their were no statues and except for the main building all the other areas were rundown and basically abandoned, the main building itself was very open and the floor was something he had never seen, well he had seen much anyways, he slowly made his way to the middle of the building where his master was waiting for him.
Smiling at Yuan the Martial Scholar looked at him with intrigue "I am a pure cultivator that has always focused on Qi, this is obviously not suitable to you since you don't have a dantian, the best I can do is give you the secret art of our school which all successors are taught, it is called the Eternal Element Art, it is the best spiritual art you can find in any world, directly given to us by the creator, the truth is that this art is built around the 5 elements, as humans we all have a special affinity to an element and what this art does is cultivate another spiritual body for you that is composed of this element, allowing you to have a second life and gain unparalleled levels of comprehension, this art is extremely tough to learn and requires decades to give birth to your second soul, I myself have only learned the basics of the art to help me better control my own affinity, otherwise I have no talent in spiritual arts, the reason as to why our sect is called the Eternal Flame sect is because of this art, the first patriarch used the Eternal Element art to create his own art called the Eternal Flame art, over time other patriarchs created their own signature form of the art, forming what we call the 5 Eternal arts, consisting of wood, fire, earth, metal and water, it is my own theory that fusing these arts together can create a new art that could be called the Yin-Yang Eternal art, a mythical art that will probably stay a myth because only one eternal art can be used by a person and the art will have to be linked to your affinity" the Martial Scholar stated, still deep in thought to his own dilemma.
"Either way we shall test out your affinity and see what art you will cultivate" he stated while looking at Yuan, the boy was mystery to him, he seemed both human and not, he had the unique characteristic of humans in that he had 3 dantians but it was also shown that his soul is in the shape of a pure white snake-dragon form, while still deep in his thought he took out a pure white orb and told Yuan to put his hand on it, as soon as this happened a strange red lightning appeared in the orb, reminiscent of the heavenly punishment's red lightning but it seemed to have black sparks around it while the inside of the lightning was white, watching this confused the Martial Scholar greatly as it was known that one could only have only have a natural affinity of one element.
"Give me a few days to figure out what is going on, in the meantime I have brought over a servant for you that will teach how to read and write in the language of this world along with some basic manners so that your more animalistic side can be controlled better" the Martial Scholar stated and with a swift hand motion a servant appeared beside the man with a bow and called Yuan a young master, with that they went over the basic education required to succeed in this world.
After only 7 days the master reappeared again, looking disheveled but also proud at his disciple "I have figured out what happened to your affinity I believe, it seems you were naturally born with 2 elements, which is extremely rare, so rare that it has only ever been seen once every Brahma year, if that! But thats not even the most absurd part, it seems that when you were born you absorbed some of the red lightning that destroyed your dantian and it over time tried to destroy your natural affinities but while the red lightning is strong then any one element it could not beat the two elements that you were born with, it was probably destroyed when you absorbed the blood of the 5 divine beasts and gained 5 extra affinities for a period of time, what probably happened is that these new elements were trying to instead of fighting the red element actively they tried to balance each other and your natural affinities weakening you further instead, the red lightning seeing its opportunity in a desperate move destroyed 3 of your elements to weaken you and then absorbed the 3 broken elements to fuel itself to self destruct with your natural affinities, destroying all the elements in your body! But who would expect that the small particles of the red lightning, and your natural affinities would fuse together and mutate, giving birth to this weird lightning that you have now while also destroying the control that the heavens had over the lightning previously, if my theory is right then you can also create another type of lightning signifying your other element, this is probably thanks to your sacred beast constitution" there was a glint of madness shown in the man as he said this
"Your natural affinities are fire and wood, a extremely rare combination, to the point that you are the first to have opposing elements, its probably due to the Qi resurgence that you've gained dual elements, as you are not the first I've seen in this era alone, its clear that the world is going through extreme changes, the providence bearers who have dual natural affinities alone reaches 25, and it is rumored that the son of heaven of this era even has 3 elements but that is all nothing compared to your natural lightning element" the Martial Scholar said, contemplating on where to start the training for his disciple, they would walk different paths for sure but that did not mean that he couldn't help his disciple at all.
The Martial Scholar grabbed Yuan's small body and began examining it thoroughly to understand the situation he was in and how to train him moving forward, as soon as he did that he noticed that Yuan's body seemed to slowly be decaying and regenerating in an odd fashion, something was clearly not right with his disciple so he used his soul to invade the conscious of his disciple, as soon as he did he could see the white dragon being broken into 5 parts by color and covered in the original red lightning, it seemed that when the white dragon devoured the 4 souls they were still biding their time for revenge and it seemed that when the red lightning absorbed the elements they did not vanish but their properties remained in the red lightning t00, creating a disharmony that stayed when the 3 elements fused together, the only way for Yuan to survive the destruction happening to his body would be to expel everything that was given to him by the 4 sacred beasts and Qilin, he would lose most of his powers and be crippled even further, losing even the 5 whole years he spent in the blood pool absorbing their powers, he would lose all sacred beasts powers, not even keeping the powers of the beasts or the blood essence at all, making him a complete mortal with a small life span in a world where all beings aspire to become immortal, he would most definitely die if he were to stay in this world.
Pondering on these thoughts the Martial Scholar decided to knock out Yuan and then put him inside a huge alchemy pot to refine all the foreign blood essence and even the souls of the 4 sacred beasts, cleansing him of 5 years of patience but keeping his life, this took the whole day and formed a pill with split into 5 by color, azure for the Azure dragon, red for the Vermillion bird, white for the White tiger, black for the Black tortoise and blue for the Qilin, with the pill in hand he did some hand motions and created talismans around the pill, placed it in a box made of a material named Veilite that only the Eternal Flame sect had access to, it allows nothing to go past it, no spiritual sense, soul sense, divine sense and no other reconnaissance skill would be able to penetrate it, with that he placed the box with the pill inside the conscious of Yuan with a secret technique and then left him in his room to recover, afterwards he approached the servant he had teach Yuan and asked him about the progress of Yuan's studies and the servant stated that Yuan had already learned everything, he understands everything at once and can also memorize anything very easily, they had finished through all the materials in the first day and so the servant had taken Yuan to the library for self-study as the servant was no longer qualified to teach him and it had been 6 days since then.
44 days passed with Yuan knocked out and on the 44th day he finally woke up, as soon as he did he ran to his master in worry, as he approached his master's abode he announced his presence in a respectful manner and asked to meet and talk about his situation, he could feel his body being extremely weak, even breathing was tough on him, it was as if he was 10x heavier than before, his face was thin and he looked extremely sickly.
"Come Yuan, sit I will explain your situation", Yuan followed his master's orders and silently sat down "I've decided that after 5 years you will leave this world and live in the Murim, your body now is a mortal body, no even weaker, I fixed the disharmony in your body and since your body has been purified you seemed to have gained a new constitution, one that use any power alongside another, this must have come from your mutated element but in the process of purifying you, I have taken half of your mortal lifespan because a lot of your blood essence had already been contaminated, you can only live to age of 50 unless you can recover your dantian, in these 5 years I will teach you the language and customs of all the worlds that the Eternal Flame sect have been through and also will teach all the techniques we have in the sect so that you can carry on our legacy" the Martial Scholar said with a heavy sigh, his disciple was too young for all this and he didn't want him to be affected by the war that would start in 5 years.