You misread because it's divided into stages, and each of the terms the author wrote after the semicolon is one of the stages. The five elements are the first stage. Space and time are the second stage. Life and death is the third stage, and so on and so forth. The text is not saying that those things are the five elements, but that like the five elements those things are a stage of training his technique
In precise order, each stage requires one to gain mastery of the; five elements, space and time, life and death, destruction and creation, and finally primal chaos after fusing all elements from the previous stages.
Fantasy · Pointbreak
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It seemed his gamble to expose his young players to a harsh beating against Genoa had paid off. He'd left Zachary and Örjan on the bench for that game, to humble his team and bring them down from their high horses.
Sports · Mujunel_the_Mystic
This is awesome
"Hallucinating about my death, going back in time to my childhood, and meeting a ghost. If not marijuana, what could it be?" He mumbled while trying to calm his still bubbly emotions.
Sports · Mujunel_the_Mystic
And he has the memories of the previous Nile
Dieser Absatz wurde gestrichen.
Urban · Neil_Ads
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The Retribution of a Cursed Swordsman
Fantasy · Zero_Things