Mystery: Path of Paradox

### **Low Serial (9-7): Flexible but significant risk** - **Sequence 9 (Buridan's Donkey)**: Select a tendency (divineer/monster/mystic) through potions, and have the ability of inspiration, identification, and ritual magic. However, the negative effects of "difficulty in choosing" may lead to spiritual collapse and greater initial survival pressure. - **Sequence 8 (Pavlov's Dog)**: Superhuman physical strength + rapid learning of muscle memory, but uncontrollable conditioned reflexes (such as forced exposure of identity) may become a fatal weakness, requiring precision training and tactical avoidance. - **Sequence 7 (Zhuang Zhou's Fish)**: The abilities of anti-divination, anti-mind-reading, and misleading observation tend to be assistive and concealed, but the negative side of "emotional synchronization" is easily targeted in the team, so distance or psychological isolation is required. **Strength Positioning**: Slightly stronger than the ordinary low-sequence pathway, but the negative effects are more dangerous, so you need to operate with caution. ### **Middle sequence (6-5): The power of paradox begins to appear** - **Sequence 6 (Zeno's Turtle)**: The "Flying Arrow" and "The Hare Can't Chase the Tortoise" involving time and space paradoxes can freeze actions or infinitely delay attacks, similar to the space blockade of the "Gate" approach, but rely more on conceptual distortion; the equivalent exchange characteristics of "Hard White, Same and Different" can weaken the enemy in a targeted manner, and are of extremely high tactical value. - **Sequence 5 (Shakespeare's Ape)**: Soul-splitting meeting + probability manipulation (different paths leading to the same destination/diverting directions) is similar to the "Dice of Probability" of the "Destiny" path, but it requires spiritual energy and is limited by macro events; the negative side of "Thinking Overload" may limit the speed of decision-making in high-frequency battles. **Strength Positioning**: Mid-sequence ceiling, ability has touched the fields of fate and time and space, but requires extremely high spirituality and tactical prediction. ### **High Sequence (4-3): Approaching the Rule Twist of the King of Angels** - **Sequence 4 (Lorenz's Butterfly)**: Chaotic aura (anti-prophecy) + chain reaction (increased attack and defense) + causal pre-storage (white horse passing through the gap), which combines the order disintegration of "Black Emperor" and the time and space operation of "The Fool", and its strategic significance is far beyond that of the same level. - **Sequence 3 (Karl's Dragon)**: Turn a deer into a horse (modify the rules of physics), Li Daitao is dead (a substitute cheats), and three people become tigers (lies come true). The ability is close to the "deception" power of the "wrong" way, but it is more inclined to direct reality distortion, and single combat is almost unsolvable. **Strength positioning**: The top combat power of the angel class, the ability has covered multiple channels of core authority, and requires the intervention of the true god or the old day to suppress it. ### **King of Angels and above (2-0): Old Day Authority** - **Sequence 2 (Schrödinger's Cat)**: Eternal Immortality (Memory Resurrection) + Ship of Theseus (Humanity Anchor) + Zhuang Zhou Mengdie (Perfect Disguise), a "Miracle Master" whose survivability and permeability surpass the "Fool" path, and is only weaker than the "Pillar" level Old Ones. - **Sequence 1 (Maxwell's Demon)**: Changing the past (reuniting the mirror) + formulating rules (the universe in the sleeves), the ability has touched the origin of "time and space" and "order", and is close to the omniscience and omnipotence of "God" or the master of time and space of the "Lord of Mysteries". - **Sequence 0 (Paradox)**: Not clearly described, but based on the pre-sequence abilities, it can be inferred that its authority is "negating established rules" and "grafting contradictory concepts", which may directly shake the underlying logic of the universe, and is a candidate for the "pillar" level. **Strength Positioning**: Sequence 2 and above already have the prototype of the past. If Sequence 0 fully accommodates authority, it can be ranked alongside the "Lord of Mysteries" and "God". ### **Horizontal comparison of original works** 1. **Comparison with the "Soothsayer" path**: - Advantages: High-level rule distortions (Zeno's Turtle/Karl's Dragon) far exceed the limited modifications of "Miracle Master", and the anti-divination ability is more comprehensive. - Disadvantages: The survival pressure of low-sequence players is greater, and they lack the historical projection and spiritual body manipulation of the "Fool" path. 2. **Comparison with the "wrong" approach**: - Advantages: Concept grafting (Li Dai Tao Zong) and lies coming true (three people become tigers) are more direct than "deception", and the resurrection mechanism of Schrödinger's Cat is more stable. - Disadvantages: Lack of "parasitism" and "stealing" concealment, requiring frontal combat. 3. **Comparison with "Destiny" path**: - Advantages: Probability manipulation (Shakespeare's Ape) is more flexible, and high-level causal interference (Maxwell's Demon) can rewrite history. - Disadvantages: Lack of the fate restart tolerance of "Mercury Snake". ### **Comprehensive evaluation** - **Advantages**: 1. The authority covers a wide range of things (time and space, destiny, mind, rules), and is almost omnipotent after high sequence. 2. The ability to survive is unparalleled (immortality + Ship of Theseus + Zhuang Zhou Mengdie). 3. Absolutely resistant to mainstream abilities such as "divination", "prophecy" and "mind reading". - **Disadvantages**: 1. The negative effects of low sequence are fatal and the risk of promotion is extremely high. 2. High-level abilities rely on spiritual reserves and human anchoring (such as the "burden" of Maxwell's Demon). 3. Too much complexity in authority may lead to "symbolic dilution" (requiring more anchors or rituals to maintain stability). - **Original strength positioning**: If a complete Sequence 0 exists, its strength can be comparable to the "Lord of Mysteries" or "God", but it will bear a more serious risk of mental pollution, and it is a top-level existence in the "Old Day Level" path. ### **One sentence summary** **The "Paradox" path is a bug at the rule level. It involves walking a tightrope at low sequences, modifying the script at high sequences, and tearing apart the settings directly at sequence 0. **

It was okay before Chapter 200, but it felt like it was broken later on, and the protagonist started to commit suicide in various ways in Sequence 6. Forcing a restriction on the protagonist so that the protagonist cannot level up to 5 normally in a short time is considered a little bit poisonous. Then arranging the protagonist to save millions of unrelated ordinary people is a bit poisonous. Finally, if you still want to trade in front of a goddess, you are only Sequence 6, so you are not afraid of being slapped to death. . . . Besides, the protagonist has completely changed as a person. Before Chapter 200, the protagonist was insignificant and barely able to survive. Later, he wandered around and committed suicide everywhere. It was too poisonous.

He said that he would not lick the original character, and then he risked being killed by the three major churches to save people, and then licked him for fun. The risks and benefits are completely unequal.

The author has something good, but the best friend fanfics have been dying in batches, and there are only a few that are strong enough. Take a look, the author is pretty good in details, but the protagonist's actual combat ability is still a bit weak. I feel that if he makes a mistake, he will be beaten up if he is discovered! No matter what, the author still deserves recognition, it must be five stars👍👍👍

This method of paradox is very good. Is it possible that sequence 1 of this sequence is called paradox, and sequence 0 is called truth? Do you have any feeling that the ceremony of becoming a god is similar to making people regard a paradox as truth and making the paradox come true?

Although I like to play jokes, the plot is really good. There are just some jokes that people who are not involved in the industry don't know, but it doesn't hurt! This is my favorite mysterious fanfic!

Sequence 9: Buridan's Donkey They have endurance and inspiration that are twice that of ordinary people, have certain identification abilities, and have considerable knowledge and talent in ritual magic. The magic potions it requires are three types: [Soothsayer], [Monster], and [Secret Prayer]. Depending on the medicines taken, there will be certain tendency changes. For example, drinking the Diviner's potion will have a stronger identification ability, drinking monster potions will have stronger inspiration, and drinking the Secret Prayer's potion will allow you to gain more ritual magic knowledge. Negative effects: You will have a strong difficulty in making choices. If you cannot make a choice in time, it may lead to spiritual collapse. Sequence 8: Pavlov's Dog Dramatically improve physical fitness, especially dynamic vision and nerve reflexes, to a level that exceeds the limits of the human body. For skills such as fighting, shooting, and even fighting that require "physical memory", they have gained strong learning abilities. With professional training, it only takes two or three days to become proficient in a fighting technique and apply it in actual combat. Able to artificially build muscle memory for oneself. Can project consciousness onto animals and help them establish conditioned reflexes. Negative effects: It will establish several conditioned reflexes (muscle memory) that the person taking the medicine is unaware of. For example, when seeing someone he knows, he will immediately call out his name. This reflex is not under the person's control before the person taking the medicine fully digests the potion. Sequence 7: Zhuang Zhou's Fish [Zifeiyu] can allow users to notice details that they usually cannot notice, and can sense other people's mental states and emotions to a limited extent. [Zi Fei Me] can make the person taking the medicine and the subject immune to mind-reading mental abilities, and reduce their own sense of existence to a certain extent. [An Zhiyu] can distort other people's observations of the subject, making them confident in their own judgment. [Anzhime] has the ability to mislead the observer, and has the ability to forcibly reverse the impression of the subject in the observer's mind, and it also has a strong anti-divination effect. The four promotion options of [Zhuang Zhou's Fish] - psychiatrist, hermit, decryption scholar and serial killer. The elements extracted after being converted into potions are [secret keeping] and [revealing secrets]. Since Snow was promoted by taking the hermit characteristic that favors [secret keeping] elements, he has been strengthened in [secret keeping]. Correspondingly, his [anti-divination], [anti-observation], and [anti-mind-reading] abilities have been strengthened. Negative Effect: Mental Synchronization Emotions will become easily affected by the people around you. The closer the distance, the more violent the mood swings, and the greater the impact. Sequence 6: Zeno's Turtle [Turtle is better than snake], to put it simply, it is the concept of secret exchange. It is one of the three most important core abilities of the Paradox Path. It involves the spiritual realm and the material realm. Its essence is "steal exchange" and "grafting", which is biased towards the authority of the fortune teller and thief path. [Flying Arrow] distorts the infinite subdivision rules of time, causing everything within a certain range to be divided into discontinuous "stationary" states. In this state, speed will be meaningless. [The hare is hard to catch the tortoise] distorts the infinite subdivision rules of space, so that behaviors within a certain range are always in a "movement" state that cannot reach the end point. From a visual point of view, the closer to the end point, the slower the speed will be. [Solid White Sameness and Difference] can distort the objective and subjective, emphasizing a certain point and weakening other parts. It can also temporarily transform certain subjective perceptions into objective characteristics. For example, when facing a "guardian" of the warrior path, you can emphasize his [tallness] and weaken his [defense], thereby making the guardian of the giant path larger and lowering his physical defense. From a certain perspective, the essence of this ability is somewhat close to [equivalent exchange] Sequence 5: Shakespeare's Ape The soul of the person who takes the medicine will be subdivided and split into countless souls. Each soul has its own independent thinking. The person who takes the medicine needs to pass a vote at the meeting of the souls before taking any action. [Different paths lead to the same destination] Designate a future that "may happen", and increase the probability of its occurrence by consuming spirituality. The more spirituality is consumed, the greater the probability of realization. [Going in the wrong direction] Compresses the probability of a thing developing normally, making it like the ultimate road fool, constantly straying off the path of destiny. What this sequence can do is only amplify or reduce the probability, making it easier/less likely to happen. It cannot make impossible events happen, nor can it make inevitable events fail. Moreover, it is limited to the macroscopic level. Negative effects: Thinking overload Every part of the soul of the person who takes the medicine will be inspired by fate at any time to create a script, and this inspiration cannot be turned off. The person who takes the medicine must always face the scripts thrown by the parts of the soul in the body, which will greatly disrupt the thinking of the person taking the medicine.

Sequence 4: Lorenz's Butterfly [Ming Zhao Hui Dark] is also known as [Chaos Aura]. The Lorenz Butterfly can put its own spirituality into a special unstable state. In this state, these spirits will release a kind of "radiation", destroying the "structure" of the surrounding spirituality itself, and restoring it to its original appearance (when the chaotic aura is released, it will greatly interfere with divination and prophecy abilities, and at the same time disrupt and weaken the ability to continuously cast spells. This aura can even be used as a barrier to allow attacks such as fireballs to collapse on their own) [Chain Reaction] This ability can create a large number of spiritual structures similar to prisms. Within the coverage of this structure, spell abilities will be continuously refracted. When used in attacks, it can continuously amplify the power of spells until the prism structure cannot bear it. When used in defense, it can also continue to disperse the power of spells, eventually rendering them completely ineffective. [White Horse Passing Time] Complete all the [causes] required for the results in advance, so as to achieve the [results] when needed. If the prerequisites for the required results are not too high, you can directly pay spirituality as the cause. Take movement as an example. For example, first spend 10 seconds running 500 meters as [Cause], and then directly extract [Effect] during the battle to run away. It will not appear directly 500 meters away, but will complete the teleportation sequence 3: Carl's Dragon at the end of the tenth second after casting. [Referring to Deer as Horse], a very high-priority illusion that can cast illusions on the world, such as making a wooden board think that the person standing on it weighs only a few hundred kilograms, allowing a giant weighing more than a ton to stand on the wooden board without the board breaking. [Close to the End of the World] is the sublimation of [The Hare is Hard to Chase the Tortoise]. It has almost invincible single-target defense at the same level. Although it is still in place in theory, it is actually very difficult to reach. [Li Dai Tao Jiang] can transfer all the characteristics of a person to other objects through the mystical level, making it a "substitute". Even if the substitute is a cat, a dog, or even a bamboo pole, it will be regarded as the "person" [Three People Become Tigers] means fabricating facts - this ability can turn "lies" into "truths". The more people who believe lies, the higher their status, and the stronger their strength, the higher the truthfulness of lies, and the stronger the effect they can have. Under extreme conditions, even death can be surpassed. As long as the ability starts to operate, it can draw strength from the people who believe the lie and become self-sufficient until the lie is exposed and there are no more people who believe it. Negative effects: You must always believe that you are real, otherwise you will disappear directly Sequence 2: Schrödinger's cat [Immortality] can be reborn in the memory of the person who remembers him after death. He can also use the "missing" of others to complete teleportation. But on the contrary, because people's memories are always vilified and beautified, when you use this ability to resurrect, it will cause great pollution to your own spirit. It can be said that every time you use it, you will become less like yourself. [Ship of Theseus] This is an ability to retrace history through the observation of individuals, capture state fragments, and use this ability to repair the mental state. It can wash away pollution, maintain human nature, and also correct the personality deviation caused by [Immortality] [Stealing Heaven and Swapping Sun] can transfer the authority/contract/ability/identity of other beings to individuals with similar concepts, and make them play the same role. As long as the replacement is completed, even if you know that he is fake, you will still be affected. [Useless use] Taking advantage of the special state of Schrödinger's cat, as long as you give up external observation, you will enter a state of near invincibility. Except for conceptual-level strikes, no attack can touch it. [Zhuang Zhou Mengdie] Through the "distorted" observation of oneself, one distorts one's self in reality and gives oneself a completely different attitude. This change only depends on one's own observation, including appearance, race, mental state, spiritual structure, and even soul mark. It can be completely changed. As long as one's settings are perfect enough, it will be difficult for even the true gods to see through this change. Sequence One One: Maxwell's Demon (the author only wrote about this, so he only introduced this ability) Contrary to Laplace's demon's ability to determine the future, Maxwell's demon's ability, like its ritual, is to "change the past." Broken Mirror ReunionThe observation of the person taking the medicine has become the absolute focus. The splattered blood can flow back into the blood vessels, and the collapsed city can be restored to its original state. Even the process of living things from birth to aging can be reversed at will. The whole world is like a movie in the hands of the person who takes the medicine. As long as they are under their own observation, they can return to their previous position at any time. Even more, because of the bonus brought by the protagonist's promotion ceremony, as the power of resurrecting the quasi-old sun-level existence, the reunion can even restore the lost life. The only condition is that the other party's spirit has not completely dissipated. [Correction from chaos], also called [Perpetual Motion Machine of the Second Type]. With the Hand of Order as the main material for promotion, this ability is strengthened and has the ability to turn disorder into order. To put it more simply, it means treating all spirituality as one's own. In front of Maxwell's Demon, all abilities that do not involve authority will be transformed into one's own power. [The Universe in the Sleeve] turns the surroundings into an isolated realm. In this world, the cycle of energy, the composition of things, and even the physical parameters can be determined by the person taking the medicine. However, what this ability consumes is not spirituality, but a certain "burden" that acts on the person who takes the medicine. Increasing parameters such as temperature and pressure is as easy as wearing an extra layer of clothing; But if you want to lower the melting point of metal or raise the weight of air, you will feel some pressure; As for the operation of making one plus one equal one, just imagining it in the mind will produce a spiritual warning of danger. Sequence 0: Paradox Since the author did not describe it in detail in the article, it will not be described here.

Zhuo, something's wrong with me. Why do I feel more and more that Zhenzo will be the heroine?

It's very interesting, very good, and I've finished watching it. Even more reluctant to give up. After all, it is harder to find old bookworms who have been reading for more than three years now, and the older they are when they read novels. The difficulty of finding novels is on a large level, and it jumps up from level to level. It's okay if you have a wide range of hobbies, but it will be even harder for you if you only have a few hobbies.