James gained some information when he was inside the Five-Elements Painting.

He learned that in the Primeval Age, the Five Ancestral Gods had already known that he would get the Elemental Inversion. Furthermore, he heard the Five Ancestral Gods say that the future him broke through the River of Time and went to the Primeval Age.

‘Why would I go to the Primeval Age?

‘Why did I ask about Thea as soon as I appeared?’

‘What happened to her?’

Despite much deliberation, James remained perplexed.