Back in the Nexus Domain.
"Congratulations on reaching the second stage of the 5th rank, Master."
Just then, a voice Grey was highly familiar with drilled into his ears.
"You are here, Alan Benson." Grey smiled as he turned around. The bearded man had a kind, respectful expression on his face as he greeted Grey.
"Yeah. I am just waiting for my power to return to its peak. I can break through again in a few days," Grey replied with a blink.
Alan beca completely speechless when he heard this.
This guy was truly a monster. Alan Benson knew all about Grey cultivating to his current, terrifying stage in just eleven months, and he had personally confird that Grey Lockhart was still only seventeen years old.
He was not so reincarnated old monster from the higher worlds. There was much more to this anomaly.
"Grey, who is this?" Angela asked curiously.
"This is Alan Benson, the original author of the Esper Path."
"I am Master Grey’s new disciple as well. Greetings," Alan Benson said with a respectful gesture.
"The author of the Esper Path..."
"...is Grey’s disciple?" Angela and Anderson were utterly baffled.
What exactly was the Esper Path? It was one of the most dominating evolutionary paths in this world, to the point where the Origin Will actively nerfed people’s natural affinity for it just to artificially maintain the balance of the world.
This had been a direct deal between Alan and the Origin Will: he could continue spreading his path, but strict limitations had to be kept.
In fact, the Origin Will very much wanted to set a hard limit, or purposefully alter newly ford human DNA to be far less attuned to the Aether Evolutionary Path. But this path... it fundantally transcended the very concept of limitations.
As long as a being could breathe, or do sothing even remotely akin to it, this path would be infinitely accessible to them.
The only true way to naturally limit this path was by making living beings stop breathing entirely, and that would obviously kill them.
But at the sa ti, the Origin Will could not fight it. The Aether Path was spreading like wildfire, and it would not be long before it officially beca one of the universe’s main evolutionary paths.
Both the Aether Path and the Esper Path were equally terrible for the strict balance of the universe set by the Heavenly Dao. But the Origin Will simply did not have the courage to try and negotiate terms with Grey.
Besides, it knew that even if the Heavenly Dao sensed the uneven balance of the universe and ca down to strike this dinsion, Grey would undoubtedly take drastic precautions.
"Co, I will take you to the tower. We can chat there."
Alan Benson readily nodded and followed Grey and the others into the central tower.
However, just then, Alissa approached Grey.
"What happened, Alissa?" Grey inquired curiously.
"There is sothing I want to say in private," she said softly.
"Hm? Alright. Co with then." Grey seamlessly took Alissa into his isolated sub-dinsion.
She never ca to him for no reason; whatever it was, it had to be quite serious.
"So, what is it?"
"It is about my breathing technique."
"Your breathing technique?" Grey raised a skeptical eyebrow. "You still need to breathe? Aren’t you at the 5th rank?"
"Not that." Alissa glared at Grey, temporarily speechless. "It is the breathing technique you currently utilize as the foundation for your path."
"Oh? I am listening." Grey imdiately beca serious when he heard this.
"I asked my mother about things related to True Source Dragons after... our little talk. And while we were discussing it, she told she never had anything like a breathing technique passed down to her."
"In fact, the main technique that True Source Dragons use does not require breathing at all."
"Huh?" Grey frowned deeply upon hearing this. "But maybe lissa just received a different set of techniques?"
"That is what I initially thought too. But do you rember when I told you that my mother was the one subconsciously guiding through my True Dragon evolution? She also guided in that specific breathing technique... But now, she is completely denying it."
"She is saying she never implanted that piece of information into my head."
"What is happening, Grey? Did soone actively tamper with my mories and the technique... and if so, who could it possibly be?"
"..." Grey fell into a dead silence.
For so unknown reason, a freezing chill ran straight down Grey’s spine when he heard this from Alissa.
If this was just any ordinary technique, he would have brushed it off.
But this breathing technique was anything but usual.
Grey had always harbored a fundantal misconception: that once an entity reached a high enough level of power, they would naturally be able to physically see the structural pattern of energy. But that was entirely false. Not even the goddamn gods could see it.
And this breathing technique was sothing that directly, flawlessly imitated the exact structural energy pattern of energies itself.
"Soone... there is soone pulling the strings behind all this." Grey had reached a chilling realization.
The fact that lissa had zero recollection of ever transmitting the breathing technique to Alissa was undeniable proof.
The fact that the Aether Path was demonstrably real and actively being cultivated by others was even more solid proof that he had legitimately obtained this foundation from Alissa.
A being that can perceive the raw pattern of energy exactly like I can.
’I am not the only one, then.’ Grey’s mind violently buzzed.
Was it soone who possessed a Chaos Lotus like him?
Or perhaps they possessed True Origin Insight?
The very fact that the True Origin Insight already had an official classification and na by the ti he awakened it was proof that it had existed prior to him obtaining it.
But who had it? And why did they specifically target Alissa, going so far as to ticulously alter the subconscious guidance transmitted by lissa?
Who would go to such terrifying lengths to ticulously craft this exact scenario?
"Alissa. I want you to understand. This is absolutely not normal," Grey finally spoke up with a heavy sigh.
"I do not know what is truly going on either. But your breathing technique... it literally contains the foundational secret to the absolute power of the endless reality and the ascendant domain."
"It is one of the core reasons I was able to reach my current power level and successfully develop the Aether Path."
"It completely ignores all universal limitations and restrictions."
"There is sothing, or soone, that orchestrated this entirely on purpose."
"As for their purpose... I have no idea what it is."
That was when Grey suddenly rembered the spatial aurora back on the Blue Star. That mysterious aurora had completely bypassed the deadly chaos turbulence of the Chaos Source Codex just to randomly abduct people from the Blue Star and scatter them to the outside worlds.
Just who is doing this?
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