"So there were more than just three proper paths." Aburame Tetsumaru nodded, then asked hopefully, "Can we find specific information on how to continue down my path?"
Otsutsuki Kaguya quickly nodded, then just as quickly shook her head in confusion. She opened her soft red lips several times, only to close them again, clearly not knowing how to explain herself.
Her strange behavior put Aburame Tetsumaru through the wringer. His mood rose and fell with Kaguya's every movement, and before long, he was completely bewildered.
Tetsumaru even began to suspect that his future held some grave danger, that the path ahead was extraordinarily difficult, the kind where survival was a one-in-ten-thousand chance.
Fortunately, Otsutsuki Kaguya soon composed herself. Looking at her man with complicated eyes, she invited him, "There's too much information. Explaining it would be far too troublesome. Let's go to the Star Sea Hall instead."
It was not until Aburame Tetsumaru had downloaded all the information Kaguya uploaded that he understood why his beautiful woman had worn such a complicated expression.
The paths to elevating one's essence of life appeared to consist of three proper paths, but that was merely a conceptual summary. In reality, they were immensely complicated, with tens of thousands of possibilities.
For example, Aburame Tetsumaru's current path could not even be called a path. At best, it was a state. From where he stood now, the direction of his development could change at any time.
For instance, in the future, he could further focus on becoming an omniscient one.
Even omniscient ones came in more than one kind. He could become a cosmic observer focused on secrets, a cosmic historian focused on information from the past, a prophet who inferred the future, and so on.
Aburame Tetsumaru could even turn back and switch paths,