Chapter 364 - Ouroboros Alliance (7) (1/2)

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Open-ended!

”...” Yri solemnly looked at Yan Zaizen. The look in her eyes was dark, nearly disturbingly so.

As if Yan Zaizen knew her thoughts, he helplessly shook his head. ”You're likely thinking how can a Path be open-ended when the future has already been determined as Divine and Immortal. However, I was thinking about the truth of the Soul Source Path - personal introspection.”

At the Astral Soul Realm, Yan Zaizen felt his sense of self reach a deep and unwavering end. Since then, he knew who he was and his own demons. None of them bothered him, none of them could. His Dao ensured that he would continue forward endlessly.

”If the Soul Source Path truly was about one sense of self and self-improvement, then when you reach a certain point, how do you move forward?”

Scoffing coldly, Yri spat, ”There's no person in this world that understands themselves completely, without doubt, or heart demons that plague them both consciously and subconsciously. A fear, a doubt about oneself or another, or even a question of oneself such as 'what if I was taller, had a smaller nose, or was born to this person,' would need to be personally inspected and understood why such questions are born.”

”The path is as endless, and as long as your road, there is only moving forward.” Yri was nearly done with this conversation. To her, Yan Zaizen didn't understand that even those who focus on self-enlightenment their entire lifetime might never truly teach a complete state. This was why no one doubted the legitimacy of the Soul Source Path, including the fact the Heavens accepted it.

Yan Zaizen softly shook his head in refusal. He didn't feel that was the case. One could do away with all that with a simple way: acceptance of all flaws. When you accept yourself completely, such vain thoughts and senseless doubts would vanish. After all, you would accept your ignorance and pursue knowledge and change one step at a time.

The reason he knew this was possible because he had reached it. He had doubts, unclear thoughts, but he lived a life without regrets, accepting all his flaws, and pressing forward relentlessly. He wouldn't change those things unless he could, and if he couldn't, he would accept it.

He never once thought about being stronger the moment Pinaka was taken away. He only thought of how to save her.

He never thought about the what ifs or doubts in himself because it was accepted. He wasn't stronger, this person should've done this, or I might've been able to do this if so and so.

It didn't conform to his Dao or was infused into his soul.

A choice made is a choice lived with.

If the peak of personal introspection was stated to exist, then he had clearly reached it.

This is what he believed.

”To be open-ended means it was open for interpretation, changeable by nature. The Soul Source Path has been set and completed, there's proof, and the Celestial Seers have validated this. The Divine and Immortal Realm exist; people have tread it. This extends from my time and even yours. It's simply not possible.” Yri helplessly stated. It was like talking to a child.

For those two Realms to exist, someone had to reach it.

”...” Yan Zaizen responded with silence.

He closed his eyes.

Yri watched and felt like Yan Zaizen had accepted defeat. While it may be harsh to say, it was best that he rid himself of such a tedious thought process where there must be a mystery despite the path being fixed.

Inside Yan Zaizen's body, his soul floated about calmly. It bobbed up and down slowly as if it were a ball on the surface of water moving about. Yan Zaizen's soul form had characteristics of his Dao, Soul Bloodline, and self.

The Black Hole rested at his glabella, his eyes, and his palms. They seemed dormant.

”Open-ended means it is open for interpretation, changeable by nature. Paths aren't capable of being changed. This is a basic fact. A Path is either born perfect or not, and this is based on the law it thrives from. The Herculean Path uses the Herculean Law...the Sirius Path using the Sirius Law...the Heavenly Path uses Heavenly Law. This law incorporates all aspects of itself.”

”Logically speaking, a path cannot be changed; it is perfect. It would be like changing the Heavenly Genesis Path and making it the Heavenly Qi Path, one without heavenly dimensions and a structure capable of housing heaven's power. The Heavenly Creation Path would subsequently fail. That would be an incomplete path...an imperfect path…”

Yri's words triggered something in Yan Zaizen. It was profound and elusive.

”A broken path, a broken path. A person has walked this path, reached the end of this path, this is proof, therefore impossible for the broken path to be broken. A riddle! Or is it?!” Yan Zaizen's soul started to thrum slightly. The trembling echoed within his soul sea.