Instance.

Scene transformation.

It was night, and only moonlight filtered through the window, providing a faint glow to the dim room.

Liens sat cross-legged on the bed, pondering the idea that had suddenly come to him in the dining hall.

This idea was named—Harmonizing with the True Path.

As an Extraordinary One progressing towards the Master-level, Liens naturally had his own True Path, which was his chosen connection for communicating with heaven and earth.

His True Path was—Medium, or it could be called "Momentum."

He had comprehended it during that snowy day.

From then on, whether it was elements or heaven and earth, to him, they were merely extensions of his own will, mediums for expressing his thoughts, Momentum that could be influenced.

In his view, the so-called Master-level was about continuously increasing his Momentum allowing the small heaven and earth he could influence to constantly expand. Once it reached a certain degree, he would step into the Grandmaster Realm.

He named this process—Assimilation of Heaven and Earth.

Of course, the above was his understanding based on his own True Path.

Everyone's experiences and insights differ, leading to different perceptions of the world. And reaching the Master-level, it's naturally difficult for identical Master True Path paths to exist.

He naturally didn't know what the situation was like for other Masters.

As for himself, the reminder he received from Nimophila in the dining hall, besides making him realize that the power affecting Atel's body might be some kind of divinity…

More importantly, he discovered a commonality between its actions and his own Master True Path—assimilation.

That power was assimilating someone into its subordinate, while his "assimilation" was assimilating heaven and earth, transforming heaven and earth into Momentum that he could influence.

This wasn't to say his Momentum was stronger than that power; on the contrary, he was pitifully weak.

Because that power, which might be divine or equivalent to divinity, could potentially cover the entire world.

He didn't know how "divinity" was defined in this world, but in web novels from his previous life, "divinity" was often described as the embodiment of the world's rule power.

So, making a bold guess, that power was a type of rule power, and it was very likely related to desire.

However, this wasn't his main focus.

The key was that he got an idea from Atel; perhaps he too could become someone like Atel.

Of course, this wasn't to say he wanted to guide that power to act upon himself, thereby transforming himself into a Succubus.

Instead, he wanted to become a "spokesperson."

From a certain perspective, if Atel were transformed into a Succubus, it would mean she had become a "spokesperson" for that rule power, able to use its related abilities.

So, he came up with a bold idea.

He had already established a connection with heaven and earth; to some extent, it was very similar to the connection Atel established with that rule power, but one was active, the other passive.

Therefore, could he abandon assimilating heaven and earth and instead let heaven and earth assimilate him, allowing himself to become a "spokesperson" for heaven and earth?

This was also why he called this idea "Harmonizing with the True Path."

If he succeeded, he would become an existence similar to Primordials in prehistoric novels. Wouldn't that be Harmonizing with the True Path?

Such a heaven-defying idea, achieving success in one step, had to be attempted no matter what.

Suppressing the distracting thoughts in his mind, Liens, following his preconceived idea, used the connection he had established with heaven and earth to fully integrate his mind and will into the vastness of heaven and earth.

If it were the real world, he might have worried about the consequences of doing so, but this was a Instance , so, just go for it.

At first, although he extended his mind and will through his connection with heaven and earth, the effect achieved was no different from his assimilation of heaven and earth; it wasn't the Harmonizing with the True Path he had envisioned.

Although the speed of assimilating heaven and earth through this method would be faster.

However, the consumption of mental energy was too great, and mental energy was extremely difficult to restore, and weakened mental energy had a huge negative impact on one's own existence.

Therefore, in reality, he could not quickly become a Master-level through this method.

"Another useless result."

In the white space, Liens murmured softly.

In the previous Instance, he had completely exhausted his mental energy, which led to his direct return to the white space… He didn't know if he had died or lost consciousness.

Without discouragement, Liens started a new Instance again, making new attempts.

It was just one failure… If he didn't fail dozens or hundreds of times, he wouldn't even think of giving up. If he succeeded once, he would instead worry about the result being problematic.

And so, Liens continuously attempted "Harmonizing with the True Path" in the Instances.

Sometimes dozens of seconds, sometimes a few minutes… He returned to the white space again and again, starting new Instances again and again.

He didn't know how many times this back and forth had gone on?

Gradually, his efficiency in assimilating heaven and earth became faster and faster, and the level he could perceive became deeper and deeper before his mental energy was exhausted.

From the perspective of his mind, heaven and earth became increasingly vast and crowded in his eyes, with countless pieces of information flashing before him.

There were light signals, human emotions, elemental changes, material compositions…

Finally, heaven and earth became clear.

"Hmm? I'm back… Did I succeed?"

Liens was stunned for a moment before realizing he had returned to the white space.

That instant, an almost infinite stream of information almost directly overwhelmed his cognition.

If he hadn't been stunned and lost consciousness, returning to the white space, at the very beginning of the Scour, he might not have had a future.

"It seems that I, in the Instance am not truly invincible. That kind of direct attack on cognition still has the potential to 'kill' me."

"Should I continue?"

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Liens hesitated for a moment, then started the next Instance.

Give up? Impossible.

He had finally seen progress, seen the hope of success. How could he just give up like that? Only by striving forward can one stand tall in this world.

…

"Knock, knock, knock!"

At night, a knock on the door sounded.

Liens stood in front of Atel's room door, quietly waiting for a response from inside.

He was here to resolve the curse on Atel, as compensation for her serving as his test subject in the Instance.

After thousands of Instances, from noon directly into the deep night, he finally completed "Harmonizing with the True Path."

Although this "Harmonizing with the True Path" was not exactly what he had envisioned, he had, in a sense, indeed become a "spokesperson" for heaven and earth.

However, this could only last for a few minutes at most each time, and the consumption was still very high.

"Hmm?"

"Atel couldn't bear the curse's influence anymore and started looking for someone to clear her passages?"

Liens wondered to himself.

He heard two sets of footsteps inside the room.

However, he quickly dismissed his previous thought, because he was very familiar with the other set of footsteps.