[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-divine-path-system":3,"chapter-divine-path-system-divine-path-system-chapter-1769":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Divine Path System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1564941,2028,"Chapter 1767 1767: The Lost Divine Path","divine-path-system-chapter-1769",1769,"\u003Cp>\"Wait, wait, wait!\" Architect raised his hands and proposed to the enraged God Emperor. \"If we weaken each other, this bastard wins out. Let's kill him first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God Emperor's rage quickly cooled down and he turned to Varian. He realized he fell into a trap. Admiration, fear and rage welled inside him against his dear teacher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because he understood him so well, he joined hands with an enemy he despised. \"You're right. As long as he's alive, he's a danger.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God Emperor and Architect stood together against Varian, the one so weak he could not even breach their defenses, as if he's the greater danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know what my dad was smoking, but Varian, the ultimate variable is one hell of a name.\" Varian welcomed their attacks with a fearless smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God Emperor and Architect struck together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom! Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The balance attacked Varian's mental state, pushing down his will to win and survive, matching it with the will to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian's defense started to fall as he couldn't give it his all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right then, God Emperor's attack struck. It's an attack primarily built from space and time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it succeeded, Varian's mind and body would be thrown into two different timelines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he could quickly recover, it'd be enough time for them to thoroughly kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian knew he could not fully stop the attack. So, he created a sword to cut down the flow of time around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All that existed was this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There's no future, no past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The attack arrived and as expected, despite the shield of Hortus, it managed to affect him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian's mind and body were briefly separated, but since the flow of time was cut off, it could not take him anywhere than the present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly regained the control of his body, just in time to block two incoming attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian was blasted back and he heard two voices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Teacher, we don't have to be like this. Side with me and I'll give you the perfect life you want.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You will be reincarnated and live your life once again. Nothing will happen that night. No fire wolf. No tragedy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your family will be intact. You can live with your wives happily in the new universe I create. There will be no restrictions for you. Anything you want, you will get.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No tragedies, no pain, a perfect life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imagine it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A perfect life with only joy and no pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I vow on my own ideal that I will follow this through.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian rejected his beloved student's offer without a thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Is that how you view my past, Thoren? No wonder you're such a weakling!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I kept whining how tragic my past was, I'd have never had this present. I am not here despite my pain, but because of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I never had to face the challenges I faced, I'd have never risen to this height.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without discomfort, there is no growth. Without growth, there is no journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thoren, I sincerely despise your spineless, pathetic plan!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God Emperor was shaken and his mind was filled with killing intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Architect's proposal also rang in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Maybe I will win or this guy will, but not you. It's only a lose-lose. Why don't you side with me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will create a world you want. I will resurrect your parents. And I'll make you the god of your own world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anything you want, I can grant you!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Use all your vitality and strike this guy with one full strike. I'll take care of the rest.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian laughed. At least God Emperor sounded sincere. But Architect was full of arrogance even at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'You stupid son of a…'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Architect was also pissed off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of them gave up their plans to use Varian as a useful pawn against the other and intended to kill him first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Architect raised his hand and the whole universe flashed with a brilliant for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half was separated into brilliant green vitality of life and the other half with the intense red of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, he brought his hand down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boundary between life and death was severed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of Varian's body turned 'dead', rapidly decomposing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God Emperor raised his hand and the long river of time appeared. He clenched his fist and the phantoms of the past forcibly imposed themselves onto the present Varian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His current half-death state was transmitted to his past selves, weakening them back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The weakening of the past fed back into the present, turning him faint like a phantom, as if he's about to vanish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian was really at his limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the clock ticked for his final moments, he found out what he'd been searching for all this while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn't fighting two stronger enemies to just get beaten. He'd been trying to figure out a way to defeat them both.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God Emperor's strength was from all the divine paths he held. A straightforward problem and there weren't any openings he could see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Architect's edge, on the other hand, came from those materialized laws. In other words, from his control over the universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to find flaw with the Architect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the last piece in the puzzle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Harmony path.\" Varian muttered and Architect's face twisted, unlike ever before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that reaction, Varian knew he was right!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would've thought the greatest mystery of the universe was a question that newbies always asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Space and Time have Gravity. Life and Death have Soul. Why don't Order and Chaos have anything?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they grew up, they stopped asking that question. Why would they question the nature of things? It's just how things were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What else were they gonna do? Call universe imperfect? Or search for a non-existent path? There's nothing to do than accept reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian too brushed off this question at some point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when he was healing himself, he ended up touching that subject again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fused slivers of order and chaos could heal his shattered origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the individual slivers of order and chaos could not, no matter how hard he tried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, they were missing something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was this gap?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought long and hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps Architect applied a 'ban' on the thought itself, so despite being on the verge of getting the answer multiple times, Varian skipped it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His very perception and thoughts were 'banned' from approaching the truth. But as a high rank 3, he could finally think without those restrictions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the final piece in place, the whole puzzle was solved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached the answer from Architect himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Architect wasn't a true rank 3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like how Primordial gods weren't really rank 3s. They're just as good as the peak of rank 3 in their own avenues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian had long suspected Architect to be similar. And this battle confirmed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had two powers. The balance scale and his control over the materialized cosmic laws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The control could be explained by the origin piece he held. But what about this balance scale?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Balance—not equality, but balance—when there's neither too much nor that, when there's a perfect proportion of things so that the desired state can be achieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After seeing that weapon, Varian wondered if it's linked to anything he knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly eliminated what it didn't belong to. Not to Space and Time. Nor to Life or Death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What about Order and Chaos? Because Order and Chaos were indeed suspect of strangeness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They're the only avenue that could affect the origin. The only avenue that didn't have a middle path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait a minute…Balance, Order and Chaos!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Varian renamed the path of balance into Harmony, to fit with the concepts of Order and Chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, this was the missing piece!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did the Avenue of Order and Chaos have that the paths of order and chaos did not?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harmony!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's not just a middle path, it's also a bridge for the two polar powers—allowing their whole to be greater than their parts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was true for all avenues. The third path improved the two paths!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soul made life dynamic than fully mechanical. Soul also gave death a new meaning and with reincarnation, it connected life and death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gravity was the fusion of space and time, bridging the two together. It's also what kept the universe together and made this creation possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harmony? Harmony was the state where things weren't too rigid nor too chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost all functional things in universe remain in harmony for as long as they work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A person's body should be in harmony. If it's facing too much order, it wouldn't try anything new. If it's facing too much chaos, the body stops working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harmony was this perfect state where new changes were allowed without collapsing the existing state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You stole the path of harmony.\" Varian said with certainty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rather than steal, I'd say I kept it for myself.\" Architect raised his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The balance scale, no, the scale of harmony revealed its full power.\u003C\u002Fp>",1503,"2026-06-06T07:59:03.669Z",1,"novelbin.me","8ff30572af25c60157054814c971d6eb36c1245a318463407499cd4884f61381","divine-path-system-chapter-1770","divine-path-system-chapter-1768",1773,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdivine-path-system-cover.jpg"]