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.

high extent. Rui had instantly realized this was to ensure that the process of regularly and routinely drawing power

that the user's raw strength was not enough. This was done by conducting a series of weight-lifting tests to measure the

of this training stage was meant to force the user to consolidate the gains made from the previous stages and use them not only simultaneously, but as one. Draw immense amount of power from each muscle group using the muscle memory inherited in the second stage, and then constructively funnel it across the body using the coordinative muscle memory built

to mastering Outer Convergence. The fact

to get used to applying it to strikes, which

training process. It was such a novel means of mastering a powerful technique. He couldn't help but want to devote all of

said. "You've memorized all the

began the strange set of exercising routines, performing what resembled a twisting or a spiralling squat. It

perform this exercise under the burden of the heavy training weights on his limbs. If the muscle groups did not cooperate and coordinate, then the body would simply

and painful, it reminded him of when he had

a thousand other nameless runts, who had managed to pass the Entrance Exam among a million other nameless

now here he was being personally guided by none other than a Martial

looking at how

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

wordlessly nodded, huffing as he felt his muscles burning as he