'I have a feeling this is going to crash sooner or later if we keep playing it like this...'
Aaron grumbled inwardly, then asked the professor, "If a Beyonder becomes cold and detached, and you inject them with the contamination of 'passion'... maintaining a dynamic balance, then where would this 'passion' be found?"
"Books are thoughts frozen in time, art is the crystallization of the soul, and some precious Spirit Realm tomes contain specific contamination... Our school has always been devoted to gathering the relevant data, hoping to establish a great library containing all Secret Lore and great works, classifying contamination by level, inclination, severity, and so on... so that we can use them to treat specific Beyonders."
"Balance... what a perfect word," the professor said. "Everything in this world exists in balance! And the ultimate manifestation of balance lies in dual-pathway roads—in those hidden existences that have mastered different domains and elements!"
"You mean... cultivating other elements as well is also for the sake of balance?"
Aaron was quite astonished.
"Of course. Doesn't 'Underworld,' which represents silence, coldness, and death, conflict with 'Crimson,' which represents life and reproduction? If the two can be balanced, perhaps they can compensate for each other's flaws and erase madness... allowing one to walk farther at the level of primal substance... Perhaps the next hidden existence will be born among Beyonders who cultivate both of these pathways. For the same reason, our school also thinks highly of the Balancer route, which cultivates both 'Yao' and 'Dark.'" The professor spoke with a sigh.
'So that's how it is...'
Aaron seemed to have grasped the thread of mysticism's development over the past thousand years. *'Using the conflict and restraint between different aspects to try to bypass the effects of contamination and madness? There are quite a