More than a year passed in the blink of an eye, and Chen Yi's injuries had long since fully healed.
He was currently sitting beneath the Bodhi Tree, sorting through his thoughts.
Not long ago, Chen Yi had gone to the arena to try raising the realm of the Burn Path.
But this time, instead of directly displaying how many Primal Crystals it would cost, a prompt appeared:
Choose a technique to sublimate
After a brief hesitation, Chen Yi chose "Strange Heart Form."
The theoretical ceiling of this technique was extremely high.
Every living individual could be viewed through two forms: life and existence.
Life leaned toward the subjective. It could be touched and seen in the Material Realm.
Existence leaned toward the objective, and it was difficult to describe.
It could only be understood through the lower substitute for existence—that was, the Power of Existence.
The traces and influences left behind by an individual proved that this existence existed.
When Chen Yi had been Rank 7, he had been unable to burn existence and had believed his strength limited the advancement of his path.
Yet even after breaking through to Rank 8, he still could not discard truth and falsehood and use the Power of Existence to touch existence itself.
How was he supposed to do it?
Was it because there were too few definitions related to existence that he could not burn it?
Or was the realm simply set too high, just like Rank 9?
Chen Yi did not know.
Strange Heart Form was a technique Chen Yi had obtained after thinking beneath the Bodhi Tree for a thousand years.
Through a special ritual, it made the observable thing known as existence manifest as flames, reach the subjective, and then act upon life.
Chen Yi's path