Spiritual Anchor

*Engrave the origin, remain unblemished.*

## Summary

Spiritual Anchor is a "top-quality" E-Grade skill, one of the fourteen available on the second floor of the Towers of Myriad Dao, an ancillary skill. It creates an anchor point for your body, pathways, and skill fractals allowing one to check for marks and restore them if they have been damaged.

## Skill Window

[E] Spiritual Anchor - Proficiency: Early. Engrave the origin, remain unblemished. Upgradeable. **Discord**

## Early Proficiency

* The skill didn’t actually protect against attacks, but it instead allowed you to create an anchor point for yourself. The anchor was pretty much a backup point that made an image of your body, your soul, your skill fractals, and pathways. The main use of the skill was to discover if you had been marked, possessed, or otherwise tampered with in some unknown way. **Book 7, Page 36**
* The skill had a weakness, though; if Zac already carried hidden threats when making the anchor point, then he would never notice it since it would be part of the stored image in his mind. **Book 7, Page 36**

## Peak Proficiency

* Between his powerful soul and Peak Mastery **[Spiritual Anchor]**, the process was both quick and almost effortless, allowing him to go over the events. **Chapter 931**
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## Commentary

* It was called **[Spiritual Anchor]**, and it could tentatively be considered a defensive skill. **Book 7, Page 36**
* Zac had unhesitantly learned the skill when he saw its use, eager to gain some protection after having seen six different marks getting expelled from his body just minutes earlier. Of course, he had proceeded to make his first anchor point the moment his body was back in good condition, creating a baseline before he started exploring the Mystic Realm. **Book 7, Page 36**
* The current situation with his broken pathways made him think of another use for the skill; it was a proper reference map for his whole pathway system. **Book 7, Page 36**
* It worked just as he hoped, with the anchor superimposing itself over his pathways, including the broken parts. **Book 7, Page 37**
* Using his new skill significantly decreased the difficulty of his work. It was like he was tracing a series of lines rather than drawing something from memory. He wasn’t improving his understanding of fractals when doing things this way, but this wasn’t the time to worry about that; he had bigger fish to fry. **Book 7, Page 37**
* He had thankfully been able to get the skill for both his classes, and it provided him with immense help as he rapidly started to rewrite his pathways. **Book 7, Page 124**
* Redrawing his pathways with **[Spiritual Anchor]** did help a bit, but he was still extremely weakened, like his body had sprung a leak or something [*after opening node 100*]. **Book 7, Page 528**
* He tried activating **[Spiritual Anchor]**, but there were no signs of its whereabouts at all. An E-grade skill was simply too low grade to expose a Peak C-grade mark. **Book 8, Page 63**
* Time was of the essence, and Zac looked inward to find the brand with **[Spiritual Anchor]**. Thankfully it hadn’t managed to blend with his pathways just yet, and he moved to seal it with a layer of mental energy and his Dao. **Book 8, Page 297**
* The pain of growing a limb was excruciating, but no more so than many other wounds he’d suffered over the past years. It wasn’t enough for him to lose his focus, and he kept picturing how his legs looked. He’d known this situation would happen sooner or later and memorized every last part of his body, both through scanning himself and by using **[Spiritual Anchor]**. **Book 8, Page 397**