"You? You want to turn your army into artificial demi-humans?!" Haros raised an eyebrow in surprise, his mind accelerating rapidly as he processed all the possible implications of such a decision. "Well, I suppose this was somewhat expected. The third cultivation path has always been known for its exorbitant cost. But to be completely honest, I didn't anticipate that you would adopt the second cultivation path so soon. Your men—the very soldiers who have fought alongside you in countless battles—used to call us monsters on the battlefield. If they discover what you're planning, how do you think they will react?"
The four major paths that humans had devised as a means to escape the overwhelming restriction imposed by the Emperor's Domain were as follows:
