Dark Wizard: Rise! My undead army!

Lynn stopped in front of the row of soul crystals, scanning the contents of each one, his brows furrowing more and more as he looked.

The ten paths of true spirits have all been traversed by the holy relics of past generations, with their success rates, conditions, and consequences clearly documented.

He focused on the first one: the path of forging orthodox principles.

After all, this is the path most people take, with the highest success rate, and those who advance are the true "Spiritual Beings".

"The true path to perfection leads to ascension to the orthodox true spirit, with a solid foundation, free from shackles and hidden dangers."

Lynn read it aloud in a low voice.

"Unfortunately, the promotion criteria weren't fully outlined."

The hardest part of this path has never been collecting rules, but rather "melting and unifying" them.

His "Rules of All Things" are too large in scale, and there are many conflicts in attributes between the rules.

To achieve true spirituality through "all things," one must categorize and organize all the rules, and then gradually bring them together into a complete closed loop.

The constant operation and transformation of its own "giant network of rules" is precisely the process of integrating these rules to form a perfect structure.

With the "analysis" available, this wasn't too difficult for him.

His greatest advantage lies in the fact that while others rely on comprehension to piece together the rules, he can directly plunder the world's rules and integrate them into himself when conquering the world.

It's much faster, but the smelting process is also much more difficult.

Lynn looked at the second one and devoured the complete "Origin Plane".

This is the most direct route.

They forcibly plundered and devoured the foundation, original rules, and void essence of a complete primordial plane, violently smashing open the gate of the true spirit with the energy volume of the entire plane.

It is the fastest, but the backlash is also the most terrifying.

And his own method of plundering the world's rules to fill the giant web of rules is somewhat similar to this path, except that he doesn't devour them as thoroughly.

He has now devoured the Goblin World, the Source World, the Alchemy World, and the World of Warcraft.

However, these are all small to medium-sized worlds. Only the Alchemy World barely reaches the level of a large world and does not meet the standard of a "Primordial Plane".

The "Original World" is a level higher than the Large World, and it comes with its own original "Original Laws". The world itself is the source of the rules, and the laws are generated spontaneously, which can derive secondary worlds outward.

The wizarding world is the "original world," but unfortunately, the world's will has been refined by the true spirit.

The third principle is to assimilate the will of the original plane.

This is somewhat similar to replacing the world's will as the original world and becoming the new "Heavenly Way".

After examining the flaws, Lynn shook his head.

"The plane is immortal, and the self is immortal. That sounds nice, but if the plane collapses, the self will also perish. The weakness is too obvious."

"And I'm not going to be stuck in one place as a local tyrant for my whole life."

He thought of the original indigenous gods of the plague world, powerful yet forever unable to leave their own world.

Those days were no different from being in prison.

The fourth rule is to sever the true self's clones.

Lynn's expression was somewhat subtle when she saw this.

Segment your emotions, obsessions, and past fragments to condense your true self into a clone, then personally annihilate all clones, leaving only your pure true self.

"Slay the three corpses and become a saint!" he couldn't help but say.

This is almost identical to the ancient legends he had read in his previous life.

After cultivation, one's will becomes absolutely pure, immune to mental storms and illusions, but one's temperament also becomes extremely cold, even the ambition to explore the truth is worn down.

The biggest drawback of this approach is that it can easily lead to "split personality," or even cause the altered self to dominate one's consciousness, resulting in the loss of one's "true self."

Article 5, the Law anchors the soul core.

Selecting a few profound rules to condense into eternal soul anchors has an extremely high success rate, but the resulting true spirits are inherently flawed and will forever remain at the initial stage of true spirits.

"It's just a 'pseudo-true spirit' route prepared for mediocre people." Lynn glanced at it dismissively and looked away.

He would rather not break through than trade his future for a fake true spirit.

Article Six: Stealing the fundamental laws.

Instead of cultivating it themselves, they steal ready-made things from the long river of laws in the void.

It saves effort and is quick, but the stolen laws bear the mark of tracing back to their source and will be constantly investigated and eliminated by the laws of the void.

"What you take from others, you must eventually return."

"And...it's a return of principal with interest."

Article 7, Sacrifice of All Souls.

Lynn lost interest in the road after only seeing the beginning of it.

Slaughtering trillions of lives and using souls as fuel to attack the true spirit, the power grows rapidly, but is rejected by the truth of the void, and the path forward is cut off.

Article 8, Completed by Looking Back Through Time.

Analyze the rules of time, trace back the course of your own cultivation, fill in all the flaws and loopholes, and advance beyond the norm by "perfecting the past".

Once mastered, one's skill in time management becomes frighteningly high, but one must constantly overdraw upon one's original essence.

"Trading the future for perfection." Lynn sighed. "The rules of time are the fairest; whatever you take, it deducts the same amount."

However, this path is no less demanding than the orthodox route, since the rules of time are not easy to grasp and require considerable expertise.

Article 9, Plane Stacking.

They batch-refined small and medium-sized sub-planes, building up a true spirit-level foundation by relying on the scattered rules and energy of countless sub-worlds.

It's easy to get started, but requires a lot of resources, and its rules are complex and conflicting, leading to a chaotic foundation.

"It's all fluff," Lynn concluded. "It looks real, but it'll crumble at the slightest touch."

Article 10, Spiritual Unity and Transcendence.

Relying on the collective spiritual fluctuations and resonant will of a vast number of intelligent beings, they forcefully transformed themselves into true spirits.

The group's strength is enhanced, but its power resides entirely in external creatures. Once separated from the group, its strength drops precipitously.

This is similar to the indigenous gods' "becoming gods through faith," which entrusts their lifeline to believers and faith, and is also a major weakness.

He memorized all the information from the ten paths into his memory library, preparing to analyze and optimize them later to find the optimal method.

Lynn stood there, closed his eyes, and thought for a while.

His own path of "all phenomena" is an unprecedented one, and his current path of cultivation is a combination of the first "orthodox" path and the second "devouring" path.

My strongest cards right now are the already formed Holy Mark World and the giant network of three thousand rules.

The orthodox route is the most suitable, but we cannot foolishly wait until all the rules are in place before taking the next step. We must continuously filter and refine the core rules while expanding the world.

Lynn defined herself in her mind.

"My path should be based on the framework of orthodox laws, and then supplemented with resources by devouring planes and merging worlds. The other paths can be used as a reference, but the core should not be touched."

He scanned the fourth floor again, and next to it was another stone slab inscribed with "True Spirit's Failure Record".

Lynn casually flipped through the document, which recorded the names of thirteen Saint Mark Wizards from the Bone Spire who had failed to break through to the True Spirit realm.

Seven of them were instantly killed, three were transformed into monsters of the rules, and two were banished into the depths of the void.

The last one was only partially successful, becoming half a plane's will, and completely losing himself.

Wow, the success rate made Lynn exclaim, "Wow!"

There are many paths to achieving true spirituality, but the success rate is frighteningly low.

Those who presume to achieve true spirituality through "unorthodox methods" are truly audacious.