The Martial Unity

"Let's begin immediately." Rui said with a determined expression.

"That's the spirit." Dylon said, chuckling. "I assume you've gone through the scroll completely, right?"

Rui nodded. "I remember it perfectly."

"Good." He said as he gestured Rui to follow him. "Then you know exactly what's waiting for you in store, correct?"

Rui nodded.

The devised and recommended training regime for Outer Convergence was quite interesting.

The first stage was some elementary form training, that had the user go through a set of motions that involved all muscle groups simultaneously. These were intensive dynamic workouts that focused on priming the user's mind to get used to delicately coordinated muscle group expansion and contraction rhythms.

This was the very first step to eventually paving the way to converging the power generated by all those muscle groups, the end goal. There was a total of thirteen elaborate dynamic exercises in total. Which Rui noted was equal to the number of broad muscle groups in the human body.

to a high extent. Rui had instantly realized this was to ensure that the process of regularly and routinely drawing power from each muscle group would become part of muscle memory. The more one rigorously trained each muscle group individually, the more smoothly

strength was not enough. This was done by conducting a series of weight-lifting tests to measure the physical strength of the user, and the suit was configured accordingly. The

as one. Draw immense amount of power from each muscle group

the more and more the user was able to accomplish this, the closer the user would be to mastering Outer Convergence. The fact that the user was supposed to be able to

to applying it to strikes,

love with the entire training process. It was such a novel means of mastering a powerful technique. He couldn't help but want to devote all of his time

"You've memorized all the workouts, you said? Then begin with

immediately picked up some training weight bands, wearing them in the specified location. Then he began the strange set of exercising routines, performing what resembled a twisting or a spiralling squat. It may have looked comical from the outside. But Rui's background in training regimes for combat sports allowed him to realize

the burden of the heavy training weights on his limbs. If the muscle groups did not cooperate and coordinate, then the body would simply be unable

and painful, it reminded him of when he had

Back then he was a nameless runt among more than a thousand other nameless runts, who had

being personally guided by none other than a

it was surreal looking at how

"Your form is crude. Don't hasten the squat up, and don't bounce as you come down. This stage

he felt his muscles burning as he squatted up