Dark Wizard: Rise! My undead army!

After looking at the first two areas, Lynn continued walking towards the third area.

The brightly lit screen in this area displayed the words "Path of the True Spirit," which gave Lynn a sudden jolt of energy.

Wow—is this the real substance?

Although I am currently only at the mid-level of Saint Mark, as long as my mental power reaches its limit, I can quickly break through to the next level.

I just don't know if my path of "all phenomena" can break through to "true spirit" through normal channels.

This area has the fewest items, with only a dozen or so shelves.

But as soon as Lynn stepped inside, he felt an invisible pressure coming at him.

Each piece of knowledge was wrapped in layers, clearly making it the most valuable item among the four layers.

The first stone tablet is inscribed with "The Stairway to the True Spirit - Ten Paths from the Marks of God to the True Spirit".

Lynn scanned it with his analysis and found that this was just a directory; the real content was stored in ten separate soul crystals.

Of the ten paths, besides the orthodox one that "uses ninety-nine rules as a foundation, forges the core of the law, and can break through the gate of the true spirit," there are nine other "unorthodox paths."

1. The path of forging orthodox principles.

Based on ninety-nine world rules, they were comprehended, absorbed, and refined one by one, ultimately unifying them to forge a stable and flawless exclusive "law core".

With the accumulation of profound laws, we break through the gate of the true spirit head-on.

This is the path to "perfection," and it is also the most popular, most comprehensive, and most stable promotion path.

Once cultivated, one becomes a true spirit with a solid foundation and a flawless path, free from any constraints or hidden dangers.

This almost perfectly matches Lynn's path of all things.

Ninety-nine rules are no problem for Lynn at all; his "All Things" rules number far more than ninety-nine.

However, condensing it into a "core of law" is not easy. If one wants to achieve true spirit through "myriad phenomena", one's own "giant net of three thousand rules" must be filled in.

Fortunately, he did not rely entirely on comprehension, but rather plundered the world's rules while conquering the world and integrated into them.

2. Devour the entire original plane.

Forcibly plundering and devouring the plane's foundation, original rules, and void essence of an entire original plane, relying on the massive energy volume of the complete plane, violently breaking through the shackles of the true spirit!

This road is the fastest, but the backlash is also terrifying.

While devouring the world, the will of the original plane, along with the resentment of the world's native inhabitants, will launch a fierce counterattack, hindering the path to advancement.

The vast majority of Stigmata Wizards will be torn apart, assimilated, and annihilated by the fundamental laws during the process of devouring.

3. The path of assimilating the will of the original plane.

This one is similar to the second one, but instead of destroying the plane, it deeply resonates with, merges with, and replaces the plane's will of the original plane.

Take over the entire original rule system of this plane and use the power of plane domination to complete the leap of the true spirit.

After successfully transcending, one possesses absolute rule advantage within that original plane, suppressing all beings of the same level.

However, it has a fatal flaw—its true spirit form is permanently bound to the plane.

As long as the plane is immortal, the self is immortal; when the plane collapses, the self perishes.

They are unable to leave this original plane for their entire lives to explore, which is a path of complete confinement.

They are somewhat similar to the indigenous gods who are bound to the world, and can only become "local emperors" in one place.

4. The path to severing the true self's clones.

By separating one's own emotions, obsessions, and past fragments, one can condense several true self avatars.

Then, with absolute rationality, one must personally sever all false selves, eliminate all distracting thoughts from the soul, and retain only the one absolutely pure true self.

Ultimately, it pierced the barrier of the true spirit with its flawless soul.

A wizard who transcends this path possesses a firm and focused mind, completely immune to mental storms, illusions, and the corruption of will.

However, the process is extremely dangerous. Once the split personality backfires and self-perception becomes disordered, the soul will be split and one will go completely insane.

Moreover, after achieving this level of cultivation, one becomes extremely cold-hearted, loses all ambition to explore the truth, and gradually withers away on the path of cultivation.

It can be considered a genuine "ruthless path".

5. The Law Anchors the Soul Core Path.

Instead of accumulating a vast amount of rules, we selected a few core, deep-seated rules and condensed them into eternal spiritual anchors.

By anchoring their soul core with the laws, they resist the tearing of the void and the disintegration of the soul during the leap of the true spirit, and rely on the absolutely stable soul core to complete the sublimation of life.

This path has an extremely high success rate and almost never fails, but its fundamental flaws cannot be remedied: insufficient accumulation of rules and lack of a complete core of laws.

The True Spirits born are in a congenitally incomplete form, with weak rules and authority and insufficient combat power, and are stuck at the initial stage of True Spirits for life, unable to break through further.

6. The path to stealing the fundamental laws.

Instead of relying on self-analysis and immersive cultivation, they delve into the core of the plane and the long river of void laws to plunder and steal mature original laws.

By borrowing the vast foundation of external formation principles, layers are forcibly built up and the barrier of the true spirit is broken through.

It is the most effortless and fastest shortcut among all paths.

However, the stolen laws bear the mark of Void Origin, and after successfully transcending them, they will continue to be subject to the reckoning of the Void laws.

This path is fraught with dangers, and almost no wizard can safely make it to the later stages.

7. The method of offering sacrifices to all spirits.

Slaughter trillions of living beings, alien communities, and intelligent races, extracting the essence of life, the origin of the soul, and the fluctuations of the spirit.

Using a massive amount of living souls as sacrifices and fuel, they scorched and melted their own demigod body, violently impacting the level of true spirit.

The short-term increase is terrifying, and the speed of transcendence is extremely fast.

It belongs to the universally recognized forbidden and evil path, and is burdened with endless resentment and pollution from life.

After transcending, one is rejected by the truth of the void, unable to be compatible with the deep laws, and the path ahead is completely cut off.

8. A way to complete the journey by looking back through the years.

By analyzing the rules of fragmented time, we can trace back the long river of our own cultivation and fill in all the gaps in our knowledge, loopholes in the rules, and flaws in our cultivation.

By "perfecting all of one's past," one can achieve a transcendent spiritual leap.

Those who have successfully cultivated have a far greater understanding of time-related rules than their peers, and their physical bodies have very few flaws, but they need to constantly overdraw their own source.

The trajectory of fate has been altered by the void, and the source has been severely overdrawn, with no means of remedy.

9. Plane stacking method.

Instead of delving into the deep rules of a single plane, they refine and control a large number of small and medium-sized secondary planes in batches.

By using the scattered rules and layered dimensional energy of countless sub-planes, it forcibly built up a true spirit-level foundation by virtue of its sheer size.

It is easy to get started, has abundant resources, and has extremely long battery life, but its internal rules are chaotic and conflicting, lacking a systematic structure, and its foundation is extremely disordered.

A combat strength that is inflated and unrealistic, unable to condense the true path of truth, is a typical example of a flashy but incomplete true spirit.

10. The path to spiritual integration and transcendence.

Relying on the collective spiritual fluctuations, cognitive aggregation, and will resonance of a vast number of intelligent beings, the soul level is irrigated by a massive spiritual torrent, thus completing the leap of the true spirit.

It possesses strong cluster support and a profound spiritual foundation.

However, if one's power is entirely dependent on external beings and detached from the realm of intelligent beings, one's strength will plummet.

The day a living being's cognition collapses and its will dissipates is the day it falls.

The path is extremely limited and cannot reach the true origin and truth of the void.