My situation was still pretty unusual. There probably weren't that many people who created their own divine paths, right?
Fu Qian had always been clear-eyed about himself and never treated his own experiences as the norm.
Chaos Knight, Pale Prophet... Even with the Warehouse as his foundation, he'd had more than one opportunity to walk an established path to godhood.
So his judgment on this matter aligned with the mainstream view of this world—
Most extraordinary beings still climbed an existing path to godhood, especially those with innate abilities like Wen Li.
According to the "fruit and candy" theory, a cultivation path like that of the Sword Participation Institute should culminate in the "candy" that had been extracted from it—in other words, a concept akin to the Way of the Sword.
The fruits might have been altered and taken on each other's flavors through their competition, but they should still have occupied the pinnacle of another category.
Eve, who had once used Wen Li as a cocoon; La Nina, the Virgo who had nurtured the Holy Infant; and the things originally destined to replace Bernard and Loretta within them... All of these seemed to fall under the same category: special cases of "extraordinary architecture" becoming animated.
And for the last three, he was almost certain they each had a corresponding higher power.
So even as Miss Wen continued to advance by leaps and bounds, Fu Qian didn't think she was an exception.
So what "fruit" did Wen Li correspond to?
That had actually been one of the unspoken reasons he'd suggested she accept the invitation in the first place.
Even if she couldn't learn anything, the Spirit Ash Institute—still as jumpy as a startled bird after its recent accident—would surely have been quick to rule out any connection between her