After initially understanding his golden finger's information, Nimrod roughly understands why there's no residual initial spiritual pollution within his body.
This is because his soul comes from a high-dimensional transmigrator, surpassing this world in essence and information, with sufficiently high status. Within certain limits, initial and other Outer Gods' spiritual pollution is almost negligible to him.
As for what this limit is, based on his current speculation, the extreme for maintaining his lowest rationality is probably dual-pathway True God.
For him, he can actually directly devour non-adjacent pathway low-sequence Beyonder characteristics, not needing to care about so-called rituals and acting, as long as his body can survive the transformation of Beyonder characteristics' power and he can obtain corresponding abilities.
As for True God advancement rituals, he only needs to use the [Blank] Uniqueness to accommodate three same-pathway or different-pathway Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics to become a True God using ancient gods' methods. But unlike ancient gods, he has no spiritual pollution problems.
However, regarding becoming an Old One, having only the [Mirror World] Source Quality and [Blank] pathway isn't enough. He must occupy another pathway's Uniqueness and a Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic to become an Old One at minimum status.
Though he has already become an Angel with the Fallen Mother Goddess behind him, he lacks the strength to compete for Uniquenesses and Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics.
Unless he can properly utilize his own carried Uniqueness and Source Quality's power to participate in competition with King of Angels strength.
But obviously, the current him cannot properly utilize the Uniqueness and Source Quality's power, because the [Mirror World] Source Quality is currently incomplete!
Initially, [Mirror World] should have had another pathway besides the [Blank] pathway, but for unknown reasons it hasn't been conceived.
If after accommodating the [Blank] pathway, he uses other pathways' characteristics and Uniqueness to accommodate [Mirror World] to become an Old One, the initial residual spiritual pollution would become sufficiently massive.
At that time, the confrontation between his own spirit and initial spirit would inevitably cause him to fall into loss of control and splitting, becoming an Old One level monster without reason.
"The best method is to complete that missing pathway, but I don't have omniscience and knowledge-related authority—I simply cannot deduce it."
Thinking here, sitting on the palace throne wrapped in brilliant starlight with his aura becoming tall and profound, Nimrod raises his hand to rub his forehead.
"I must prepare anchors. Though the current me doesn't need them, if I advance to Old One, this is the best method to resist initial pollution.
Besides this, completing the Source Quality and re-conceiving that pathway is my primary goal, but how do I complete the Source Quality? Could it be just slowly waiting?"
As someone who had read the original novel, Nimrod knows incomplete Source Qualities will actively complete themselves, but that requires time, and the current him can't wait.
Now it's June 19, 1349. Not long after Zhou Mingri above the Source Castle was born to become Klein, and not long before the initial barrier shatters and apocalypse arrives.
Honestly speaking, as a human, he doesn't trust these Outer Gods standing at the universe's pinnacle, even the Fallen Mother Goddess who saved his life.
If he doesn't become correspondingly powerful, when apocalypse comes, what will happen if those Outer Gods take a fancy to the Source Quality and Uniqueness he carries?
Would the Fallen Mother Goddess go to war with other Outer Gods for just a chess piece like him? She would very likely sell him for a good price, thereby obtaining characteristics and Source Quality She could accommodate.
"The [Mirror World] Source Quality symbolizes the unknown, the reverse of all things, with authority involving time, space, fate, and rules. If I could obtain high-sequence characteristics and Uniquenesses related to these authorities and symbols, perhaps I could accelerate this Source Quality's recovery time."
"For the three Sequence 1 characteristics the Blank pathway needs, they should best relate to fate, time, and rules. High-sequence characteristics related to these three pathways..."
Thinking here, Nimrod's fingers lightly tap the throne's edge as he slowly speaks three names:
"Pallez, William I, Ouroboros."
"One Time Worm, one Hand of Order, one Mercury Snake. If I could obtain their Beyonder characteristics, I could become a Sequence 0 True God in very short time, gaining qualification to manipulate the game board."
But is this possible? This is impossible. Pallez Zoroast is still parasitizing Leonard Mitchell and under the Goddess of Night's attention. For him, a child of Outer Gods, to seek trouble would be purely seeking death.
As for Loen's founding king William Augustus I, not to mention his strength as Sequence 1 and that he very likely masters another [Hand of Order] Beyonder characteristic—the current him is simply no match.
Besides this, another Angel of the Augustus family, Dellinger, and Grove and Georgina who master Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts are also not easy to deal with.
"Perhaps I should change my target to the Castiya family? They very likely also control a Hand of Order characteristic."
As for Ouroboros, besides pursuing Will Auceptin, He has always hidden beside the True Creator in the Forsaken Land. For the current him to have ideas about His characteristics would be simply looking for death.
Regarding another Mercury Snake, Nimrod doesn't list him as a target. The reason is simple—he likes the character Will Auceptin. Unless there's really no other way, he isn't willing to list him as a target.
"The current primary goal is obtaining one each of Sequences 9 to 3 characteristics to complete my Angel-level and below Blank pathway."
As the current master of the [Mirror World] Source Quality, Nimrod naturally understands the Blank pathway's essence and each sequence's name:
Sequence 9: Passerby [One Spectator Beyonder Characteristic]
Sequence 8: Actor [One Clown Beyonder Characteristic]
Sequence 7: Artist [One Lucky One Beyonder Characteristic]
Sequence 6: Constructor [One Artisan Beyonder Characteristic]
Sequence 5: Dimension Walker [One Traveler Beyonder Characteristic]
Advancement Ritual: Relying only on one's own power, travel from the material world to spirit world, from spirit world to astral world, then finally return to the material world before drinking the potion.
Sequence 4: Mirror Person [One Despair Witch Beyonder Characteristic]
Advancement Ritual: Create a mirror world belonging only to oneself that conforms to logic, and connect it with reality.
Sequence 3: Spectrum [One Ancient Scholar Beyonder Characteristic]
Advancement Ritual: Master sufficient astronomy and astrology knowledge and spread it to others. The more people who know, the better the ritual effect.
Sequence 2: Lord of Space-Time [One Planeswalker Beyonder Characteristic]
Advancement Ritual: Create a real city connecting astral world, spirit world, ocean of consciousness, mirror world, and material world, and accommodate sufficient creatures to live there.
Sequence 1: Voice of Stars [One Sequence 1 Beyonder Characteristic]
Advancement Ritual: Transmit voices from the stars.
Sequence 0: Gate of Dimensions [Two Sequence 1 Beyonder Characteristics besides oneself plus the [Blank] Uniqueness]
Advancement Ritual: ???