Inyō Gogyō works under the basis that the practitioner comprehends the nature of the "World's Flow" (界流, Kairyū): the flow of the energy that gives bountiful life to the world. The World's Flow is described as the transition between natural to spiritual and spiritual to natural energy by means of the five classical elements all matter draws their basis from: Fire, Water, Earth, Metal and Wood. In this sense, Inyō Gogyō boils down to the eventual transfer and transformation of all energy in the world. In its purest sense, Inyō Gogyō is incredibly impractical in a combative sense, due to the natural world being out of reach for the scale of ordinary humans. As a result, Inyō Gogyō was developed over a long period of time as a form of divination, where individuals who understood the natural s