Eternal Saṃsāra: The Wanderer of Worlds, Book 1

[161] Learning A New Path; The Path of the....

Chapter 161: Learning A New Path; The Path of the....

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At the beginning of my current life, I had a few Paths to choose from after I reached the Foundation realm. I ended up choosing Path of the Raging Sky after consideration, both due to its crazy versatility and its ability to heal.

However, versatility aside, it was far from the strongest Path on my list back then.

Path of the Celestial Radiance: A path running on the brilliant nine-colored Qi, a variation of pure Qi but with more destructive prowess. It can earn similar results to the legendary Hollow King path, though the mana-negation part is less focused, in exchange for stronger attack powers. Upon reaching the [Gold] rank, your eyes will be transformed into the Nine-Colored Eyes.

Path of the Black Flame: A path running on a mixture of Qi affinities between darkness and fire, turning you into a machine of destruction. Experienced users can demolish a continent into mere ashes with the [Black Dragon's Dance] attack. Upon reaching the [Gold] rank, you'd gain access to partial dragonification, as this is a path derived from a line of Black Dragons.

Path of the Raging Sky: A path focused on storm Qi; a mixture of water, wind, lightning, and cloud affinity. Experienced users can call forth typhoons with a flick of their fingers, and destroy several mountain ranges with another. Users can also heal wounds of their own and others, even spiritual ones; experienced users can even grant spiritual pathways to people who lack them. Upon reaching the [Gold] rank, you'd gain access to a passive aura of electricity around you, that'd send slight shivers of relaxation by default but can turn offensive to burn and pulverize any sudden attack or attacker.

Path of the Darkest Sun: A path focused on dark steller Qi; a mixture of star and moon affinity, a variation of Yin and Yang. This provides the fastest growth through Cycling, as there is stellar Qi everywhere in the day, and moon Qi at night. Experienced users can call forth pillars of solar energies from the sky, erasing cities with each, and also devouring darkness that can swallow civilization like the maw of eldritch horror. Upon reaching the [Gold] rank, your eyes would transform into the Eyes of the Sun and Moon.

Path of the Hungry Deep: A path focused on devouring Qi; a mixture of blood and hunger affinity. Outside the usual advancement using Cycling Techniques, this allows the users to grow by another means. They can [Devour] the physical and spiritual strength of magical beasts and their latent authority, using them to empower the user. This devour is only usable on monsters and beasts, and is unusable on a humanoid creature due to the fundamental structure of the technique. Upon reaching the [Gold] rank, your forearms would be blackened and will give you an urge of constant hunger.

Among these five choices, Path of the Raging Sky was only the fourth strongest Path, if considered by destruction capability. Overall abilities-wise, I'll put it at the top, but it's really not the best path to choose if I'm in a battle.

These five are not the only Paths I've memorized in my long 9th life, of course, but they're better for the current me and my current environment. For example, If I were a mercenary in outer space, I'd have chosen something like the [Path of the Starseed].

Other than the five paths mentioned above, another one that'd have been good to train in is the [Path of the Cloud Hammer], which uses Cloud and Force Qi. Due to the similarity in Qi, it'd have been easier to train on, too. I already had a technique that forged a hammer made out of cloud, but with that path, I'd have gained a lot of other abilities.

However, it's not the best choice. Right now, as well as extra abilities, the thing I needed most was speed. I was Sage, true, but it'll take me a decade to reach Monarch due to how low the Qi in the air is. So I had to choose a path that'd boost my speed.