The Martial Unity

Chapter 578

"Hey!" Kane snapped his finger in front of Rui, drawing his attention. "Are you even listening?"

"Ah." Rui jerked back lightly. "My bad, I zoned out a little. You were saying?"

"I was saying that I was considering leaving the Empire someday." Kane sighed.

Rui's eyes widened. "But why?"

"To get away from all of this," Kane replied with a tired tone. "My family, the politics, all of it."

"I thought you had more or less resolved the matter regarding your family?" Rui raised an eyebrow. "By joining the Lightning Sect."

"I thought so too, but I realized that the Wind and Lightning Sects were just as suffocating as my family." He sighed. "They protect me from my family, but that gives them lots of leverage over me. Put that on top of the fact that they naturally have very high expectations from the start due to my potential and talent, it makes it hard to live the way I want."

"Damn..." Rui's eyes narrowed slightly.

that Rui could completely understand and sympathize with. Rui absolutely valued his autonomy, without a doubt,

he could use to leverage to obtain the freedom he sought. But he realized that merely breaking through to the Squire Realm was not enough. While was true that the breakthrough to the Squire Realm was an important milestone in his Martial Path and

Squires a millennium ago was what allowed Martial Artists to break free of the power of the state and the power of many.

the most powerful human in that era and could have

modern world, where Martial Squires were just on the second rung of a ladder that had six steps, there was a limit to how much

get much, much stronger and obtain the power needed to take the

wonder that he considered leaving the Empire. That was probably much easier and far more straightforward than becoming strong enough to defy his family without the

not going to be as easy as you might be thinking."

just leave and that's that."

much because your family is powerful and has influence within the Martial Union. You shouldn't underestimate the intelligence-gathering

the Void Step technique." Kane reminded him. "They cannot trace me that easily using regular

deployed to

turned towards Kane.

was a chance Rui would be deployed to track Kane if there ever came a day when the martial Union

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