***Aspects***
The three aspects of killing path are target, killer, method
Target is the thing being killed
Killer is the thing doing the killing
Method is the way that the killer is killing the target
All instances of killing can be defined by three aspects
Note that I used the term thing…
This is because killing is not limited to living beings
Chapter 1014
“I am eating your flesh, I am eating your organs, you find it interesting?” The beastman Gu Immortal looked at Spectral Soul with a disbelieving expression.
“Of course, eating is natural in this world, but on the other side of eating, there is killing. We eat meat, we have to hunt. When we eat vegetables, we have to uproot them, that is also killing. Even if we eat nothing but wind and drink nothing but water, we are still swallowing and digesting them. All in all, eating is killing. Of course, killing is not just eating, thus, your food path is inferior to my killing path.”
Ultimately, killing path involves all forms of existence
Even abstract existences like rules
According to my calculations, killing path Dao marks should even be effective on phantoms and dream realms 💀
This bring us to the essence of killing path!
***Essence***
The essence of killing path is removal
Killing path Dao marks have the ability to remove existences
Of course, there are killing path Dao mark variants that have the ability to remove specific existences
This is strongly connected to world path
Since the essence of world path is existence
Killing path is the opposite of that 💀
You could argue that it's essence is better translated as absence
But I think that removal is the easiest to understand
Killing path methods ensure the absence of specific existences
This is connected to the environment supreme profundity of world path
Different environments ensure the absence of specific existences
Like how a polar bear would not be able to last long in the desert…
The desert basically prevents certain existences from existing within it for a long period of time
This is strongly connected to the essence of human path: evolution
Human path Dao marks have the ability to evolve into different Dao mark variants which are suited to different environments
This is to avoid be killed 💀
Thus allowing them to exist in that environment
Life how various flora and fauna have evolved to exist in the desert for a prolonged period of time
Gaining all kinds of traits which prevent them from being killed
This means that killing path Dao marks have the ability to accelerate the evolution of human path Dao marks
Additionally, strength path Dao marks can avoid being removed by killing path Dao marks to a largeextent
Strong people are harder to kill!
Killing path is countered by strength path
With strength path Dao marks being able to resist being removed (killed) to a large degree
Lastly, killing path also has a rule path effect
Specifically, the rule path profundity of quantity (under the property supreme profundity)
Killing path methods control the quantity of objects in an environment
This isn't just about decreasing them (which is the most direct application of killing)
Because the quanities of one object is often connected to quantity of another object!
Rabbits eat grass
So the more rabbits there are, the less grass there will be
This means that the quantity of grass is inversely related to the quantity of rabbits
By decreasing the quantity of rabbits (killing them) you actually increase the quantity of grass!
Conversely, if you decrease the quantity of grass
You will also decrease the quantity of rabbits (since rabbits need to eat grass to survive)
Of course, killing isn't just about removing existing objects from an environment
It also involves preventing them from entering in the first place (this is why I think absence is a more accurate term)
This brings us to the supreme profundities of killing path
***Supreme Profundities***
The supreme profundities of killing path are destruction, deprivation, detachment
Destruction involves the breaking of bonds
This is formation path in nature
Since the essence of formation path is bonds
This is also connected to the element supreme profundity of world path
Killing path methods can prevent certain elements from existing
As well as decrease the number of existing elements
Elements are the thing from which other things are created
Like the atoms in the periodic table
Almost all existences are a combination of those atoms
Like how water is a combination of the elements hydrogen and oxygen
More importantly, things are born the bond between elements
The chemical bond betwen hydrogen and oxygen create water
Destruction means to remove bonds
This mainly involves breaking them
But it can also involve the transformation of bonds as well
This is the transformation profundity of killing path (under the destruction supreme profundity)
This is actually connected to poison path 💀
Since poison path is a subset of refinement path and formation path
https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverendInsanity/comments/1rv2e3j/introduction_to_poison_path/
The essence of refinement path is arrangement
Therefore, poison can be defined as the arrangement of bonds
Therefore, both poison path and refinement path contain killing path profundities 💀 (specifically under the destruction supreme profundity)
Refinement especially involves the killing of Gu materials
Since the Gu materials are consumed (removed) during the refinement
Refinement path is strongly connected to killing path
Especially the decomposition supreme profundity of refinement path
https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverendInsanity/comments/1rwnmjg/introduction_to_refinement_path/
In fact, decay is a refinement path and killing path profundity (under the decomposition and destruction supreme profundities)
This is also means that consumption is a type of killing (showing the very strong relationship between killing path and food path)
The second supreme profundity of killing path is deprivation
This involves removings things required for the existence of other things
For example, the existence of water supports various other existences
This called an existence chain
More specifically, an existence pyramid
Things at the higher level are dependent on the existence of things at the lower level
If you remove the lower level existences
Myriad high level existences will also be removed
So basically all life relies on the existence of the elements hydrogen and oxygen 😂
If you remove water from an environment, then you kill many other existences as a result
This method of killing is perfect for dealing with people with an entirely high defense (such as strength path)
This is especially useful against living beings
Defense protects destruction but it's useless against deprivation
If you get rid of all the oxygen in an environment than you can kill your opponent without actually touching them
Killing one thing by killing something else
This is less effect against things like rocks
But you can still target things like the four fundamental forces that bind atoms
Although killing abstract existences like rules is quite difficult 😅
Still if you could alter the rules of an environment than you could kill even mountains!
Simply by removing the rules that allow them to exist
Things exist because certain things are true
This is called a condition
With condition Gu being a rule path Gu worm
Everything has an existence condition
And by invalidating that condition, you can kill them
This is the strong connection between killing path and rule path
The third suprme profundity of killing path is detachment
This mainly involves removing an area of spacetime for an environment
For example, a country has borders which dictates which areas are apart of that territory
That means that the things outside of your country's borders don't exist in that country
Which means that you can remove (kill) objects by placing them into those areas
This is the displacement profundity of killing path under the detachment supreme profundity
And deportation is a killing path profundity under the displacement profundity 💀
Things like exile and imprisonment also fall under the displacement profundity of killing
Imprisonment is interesting because while the area lies within the country's borders
These are special areas not open to the public
And thus this causes the people within that space to be detached from the normal population of the country
Killing something prevents it from effecting other existences in an environment
This means that suppression or sealing is also a kind of killing
Of course; imprisonment, suppression, and sealing are all primarily enslavement path profundities under the domination supreme profundity
https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverendInsanity/comments/1sb50aa/introduction_to_enslavement_path/
This shows the strong relationship between enslavement path and killing path
The detachment supreme profundity doesn't just involve displacement though
Barriers are also a type killing (same with walls)
This prevents things outside an environment to enter that environment
While this isn't technically a removal, it causes an absence of that thing in that environment
With absence being a more accurate (although more confusing) name for the essence of killing path
Prevention is also a killing path profundity under the detachment supreme profundity
In general, the detachment supreme profundity of killing path involves preventing an existence from entering or being created within a domain
This means that threats and deterrents are also a type of killing
The destruction supreme profundity actively removes things from an environment (with removal being a type of destruction)
Destruction involves attacking the bonds that define an object
It can involve things like cutting, smashing, piercing
It also involves things like poisons or even the conversion of an object into another object
The fact that cutting, smashing, piercing etc. are all killing path profundities shows the strong relationship between killing path and weapon path
Weapons are made to kill!
Lastly, the deprivation suprme profundity involves an indirect killing where you target the things that an object needs to exist
Things like starvation, dehydration, asphyxiation are all killing path profundities under the deprivation supreme profundity
Defense is only really effective against destruction
It's not effective against things like asphyxiation and it doesn't stop things like imprisonment either
The three supreme profundities of killing path show the three main ways of killing
All of which cause the absence of an object from an enviroment
That's the purpose of killing path!
***Cultivation***
The three aspects of killing path cultivation are killing, being killed, and observing killing
This follows the first person, second person, third person pattern
Killing involves killing other things (pretty straightforward)
All possible killing methods descend from the three supreme profundities of killing path
The killing cultivation aspect of killing path involve you being the killer
To gain the best results, you need to kill all kinds of targets using all kinds of methods
The second aspect of killing path cultivation is being killed
This involves you being the target
We see the importance of this culivation aspect in chapter 1014
“I have eaten many things, but I have never been eaten by another individual. You are eating me now, that is the same as killing me. Similarly, I have killed many life forms, but I have never been slowly killed by anyone else. This allowed me to understand the feeling of being killed, it is a form of enjoyment. Those who kill have to be prepared to be killed. Simply by killing others, I cannot fully comprehend killing. Thank you for letting me comprehend a deeper meaning in killing.”
You have to use all three cultivation aspects of killing path to gain a full understanding of killing
Ironically, suicide involves you as both the target and the killer (with suicide being a killing path concept)
Additionally, killing doesn't involve ending your life
Anything that causes an absence of the target within a specified domain is a killing path method
This is similar to theft path or food path where the path involves both actual instances as well as figurative ones as well (like food for thought)
So things like social suicide would also be a killing path profundity
Since it removes you from a social group
Being canceled is also an application of the being killed cultivation aspect 💀
Additionally, transformation is also a type of killing
Since by changing something you remove that thing from an environment
To be more specific, killing usually involves changing the identity of an object
This shows the strong relationship between killing path and transformation path
The third cultivation aspect of killing path is observing killing
This pretty obviously involves watching other things kill
This doesn't just involving living objects but also involves observing how heaven and earth kills
Countless beings die to the rules of the world and actions of Heaven
In fact, Heaven is the greatest killer with the highest body count 💀
Chapter 1782
“The greatest thief is this world itself!”
“It steals the cultivation gains of countless generations of peerless geniuses, it accumulates more and more dao marks, or even produces new types of dao marks. It stole me from another world, making me an otherworldly demon. It steals the lifespan of myriad beings, it ensures the death of all lifeforms in this world.”
Killing also involves abstract things like possibilities
Preventing a person from performing an action kills possibilities
This actually shows the relationship between killing path and information path 💀
The essence of information path is certainty
Information resolves uncertainty and reduces the possibilities of something
When only possibility remains, certainty is created and the possibilty becomes a truth
This is a type of killing as you are removing possibilities
To be more specific, you are preventing a possibility from manifesting into reality
You are even killing the one remaining possibility because it transforms into a truth (losing it's identity as a possibility)
Possibilities only exist because of uncertainty
Therefore, using information to kill possibilities falls under the deprivation supreme profundity
Here we can see that killing path has a strong relationship with all heaven path direct descendents
And this brings us to the last section of this introduction…
The origin of killing path!
***Origin***
As I mentioned earlier, killing path has a lot of heaven path profundities
But it also has a world path profundities
Especially since the essence of killing path is the opposite of world path's essence
Not to mention the relationship that killing path has with rule path, formation path, and qi path (with energy being required for things to exist)
Additionally, killing path creates absence within a domain (defined by spacetime)
However, killing path also has a lot of human path profundities 😕
After all, living things constantly engage in killing
They also rely on killing to exist 💀
Things like eating as well as killing existences like harmful bacteria (hygiene)
Chapter 591
As long as she sacrificed herself, she could bring her father back to life; this was the greatest meaning of Desolate Ancient Moon’s life!
“Humans originally were gems of the world. It is only that whether the gems are bright or not require us to polish them. Every effort we make, every choice we take, are all polishing each of our gems.”
“And humans can only obtain life by sacrificing life.”
As I mentioned earlier, the various existences restrict each other
This causes the quantity of one thing to be connected to the quantities of other thing
Like how the maximum population of humanity is dependent on the amount of food that can be produced
And by using killing path to kill something, you can increase and decrease the quantities of other existences
Not to mention that existence itself can kill (like how the biological functions of humans removes oxygen from the environment)
Life is connected to and surrounded by death!
Life exists in death embrace
Killing path is strongly linked to life, death, rebirth
So now we know that killing path is strongly connected to human path, heaven path, world path
Then what is its origin?
The answer is…
Yin-yang path!
Being connected to all three supreme paths is the key trait of yin-yang path subsets
Killing path cannot be explained with one or even two of the supreme paths
As crazy as it sounds, killing path originates directly from the origin of all paths…
Yin-yang path!
Unfortunately, I haven't comprehended yin-yang path well enough to determine which aspect of yin-yang path killing descends from 😞
However, now that I have identified and comprehended one of its subsets, I should be able to gain a deeper insight into yin-yang path by comprehending killing path
Having such a legendary origin would explain why Spectral Soul couldn't create killing path throughout his lifetime
And why he had to resort to such an extreme measure to create it
That also means that this path has incredible potential ☠️
Since it contains the profundities of heaven path, human path, world path…
One of it's incredible abilities is the ability to create a coordination between Dao marks
Simply put, yin and yang arrange in myriad combinations
Many of which are unable to exist in reality…
This is a type of killing (because they are absent in the world)
But eventually, one combination aligns with the rules of the world and is allowed to exist within it
Showing the killing path profundities of the karma supreme profundity of world path
In this way, killing path reduces the infinite possibilities of yin-yang into finite possibilities that can exist within reality
The conversion of infinite possibility to finite reality is the main difference between heaven and earth
Heaven is infinite while earth is finite
Similarly, there are myriad combinations of Dao marks
But only a small amount of thing correspond to a desired change
This means that you must kill (remove), the useless combinations
This is what natural selection does…
Removing many possibilities and only allowing existences with a certain set of properties
And this causes life to obtain those properties through evolution
This shows that killing path can be used to create specific combinations of yin-yang 💀
A similar process is used to create secluded domains and killer moves
It's the same process showed in The Legends of Ren Zu with rules and regulations Gu
Ren Zu said a bunch of different names (combinations of letters)
And the vast majority of these names were unable to move rules and regulations Gu
This is a type of killing…
I've said that so many times this post 😭
This shows that failure is a type of killing 💀 (rejection too)
Then finally, Ren Zu found the words that created his desired result
The point is that by removing the wrong combinations, only the right answers remain
It's similar to natural selection which causes life to gain certain properties
And this is how killing path coordinates Dao marks!
It prevents useless combinations from forming which eventually paves the way for the desired combination to emerge!
Basically, by having high standards (killing the weak) you eventually cause excellence to emerge!
Conversely, allowing the weak to exist will reduce the number of the strong (essentially killing the strong)
It's like how the dodoo was able to form because the birds that couldn't fly weren't killed
Eventually causing the ability to fly to be removed entirely!!
This is kind of like a living version of Gresham's law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
It's also connected to rise and fall of civilizations!
Of course this is outside the scope of this post…
I'm unable to say more at this point because I can't fully comprehend the origin of killing path 😭
Hopefully, I should be able to use killing path to gain greater comprehension of yin-yang path…
Which is the next step in becoming a quasi-supreme grandmaster!!!
Until Next Time!
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