Bizarre Realm-Chapter 175 - 17: Seeking the Dao Within—Path of Destiny
Under the night sky, the gray mist began to envelop the earth.
The distant mountains became reflections as if in an ink painting, with the dark green miasma from the Poison Gas Swamp spreading in all directions. The creations of the old days began to exhale and inhale the poisonous mist, with more than half of their massive bodies hidden beneath the swamp.
—— Lesser Creation Skill.
Shawn sat cross-legged on the cold ground, weaving a piece of linen out of thin air in his hands. The flowing Star Energy gathered in his hands, transforming bit by bit into tangible matter.
Although the essence of spells all originates from the World Law, the way Spiritual Power is wielded is completely different from the mystical knowledge he had mastered before.
This is another way of using the World Law.
In the nearby corner, there was already a pile of linen casually thrown on the ground. They could exist for seven hours before dissipating back into Star Energy.
"Using this method to digest Extraordinary Essence is really too slow."
Shawn tossed the linen in his hand to the side; creating things out of thin air was only somewhat effective at first. After producing a pile of linen, he found that without professional craft knowledge, this spiritual spell could only create the most basic of materials.
A pile of materials with a time limit, decomposing into Star Energy when time is up.
"These creations can only be used for emergencies, only the True Creation Technique holds value."
The ninth-ring True Creation Technique of the Mind Path is essentially turning energy into matter, which belongs to the Divine Level authority. Those ancient beings who created worlds in legends did so by using the True Creation Technique to bring forth all things from Chaos.
"If the Wizard Path is pursuing knowledge to digest Extraordinary Essence?"
"Then what is the Mind Path pursuing?"
"Is it knowledge?"
"I’ve already accessed the domain of knowledge."
It was because he had accessed the domain of knowledge that Shawn was able to digest most of the Extraordinary Essence in one go during the ascension ritual; however, now he’s stuck at a bottleneck, with the remaining part of the Extraordinary Essence remaining unmoved.
"Mind?"
Shawn muttered to himself, "Besides knowledge, what else is intrinsic to the mind?"
"Is it about exploring one’s inner world?"
The Warrior Path pursues courage, the Barbarian Path pursues rage, the Wandering Path pursues shadows, the Druid Path pursues nature. Every Extraordinary Path corresponds to a conceptual law, and the mind is a domain unfamiliar to Shawn. Apart from knowledge, what else is the mind supposed to seek? Shawn presently had no clue.
"Mind represents the heart, spirit, thoughts, and more."
"The essence of knowledge should be to strengthen one’s inner self, to enhance one’s understanding of the world and oneself, hence knowledge should not be the core of the Mind Path."
"For the Mind Path, knowledge should merely be a complementary tool."
At this moment, Shawn seemed to have fallen into a sort of self-inquiring meditation. As he realized all this, he found that the Extraordinary Essence within him seemed to have digested slightly.
The path was right!
Shawn keenly sensed this. To digest the Extraordinary Essence of the Mind Path, he couldn’t rely on the wizard’s methodology.
"So, if I were to understand the mind according to my own perception."
"What is the Extraordinary Essence of the Mind Path?"
"It certainly isn’t materialism!"
"The Mind Path must be related to self-awareness."
Shawn began to analyze his inner world, entering into deep contemplation.
"I, Shawn, a person from Earth."
"Received 21st-century education, self-identifying as a human from Earth, primarily influenced by materialist values."
"Yet the Mind Path unquestionably leans towards idealism."
"Previously, when I was practicing the Creation Skill, I was completely missing the point. According to old Huaxia teachings, I was pursuing skills, not the Dao of the Mind Path."
"Even when I was advancing in the Wizard Path, I was chasing skills, not understanding the Dao."
Buzz.
The Extraordinary Essence within Shawn lightly trembled, and his cerebral cortex felt a slight tingle. This time he distinctly felt the Extraordinary Essence of the Mind Path accelerating its digestion.
"My greatest advantage."
"Is the education I received on Earth, and all the knowledge legacy I obtained there. It is precisely because of this knowledge that I possess my current self-awareness and can digest the Extraordinary Essence of the Wizard Path faster than others."
"Because, compared to them, I have received the entire civilization heritage of Earth."
"The Wizard Path can rely on stacking knowledge for digestion progress, but the Mind Path clearly cannot. The advancement system of the Bizarre Realm is not about upgrading step by step, but rather the fusion of self-awareness with the World Law. So if I want to master the power of the Mind Path, the fundamental source is still self-awareness."
"Idealism?"
Shawn began to frantically recall the knowledge of his past life. In fact, after arriving in the Bizarre Realm, he had gradually begun to rely on the Activated Knowledge of this insane world.
He hadn’t recalled the knowledge of Earth in a long time.
But that was indeed his true ’foundation’!
All his worldview perceptions were constructed from Earthly knowledge. Shawn had always been trying to adapt to this mad Bizarre World, but hadn’t realized that without the cultural understanding built by Earth, he would be completely assimilated by this insane world.
"I’ve always had a misconception in my thinking."
