The Martial Unity

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Rui glanced down at the fist with which he had struck her.

It was bleeding profusely. Just coming into contact with her rough skin in a strike had caused not just the skin of his fingers and knuckles but all of the flesh to completely be shredded off.

('What a lethal Martial Art and body,') Rui sighed as he walked away.

It was just a single strike, yet she had already caused him significant damage. Unfortunately for her, the impact of a strike was conveyed through the bones of the hand and not the flesh.

Thus, she wasn't able to soften the blow any bit at all. He had struck her diaphragm with incredible force without any defensive technique protecting it. He debilitated her far more than the loss of flesh had debilitated him.

"You made that look easy," Kane marveled at Rui. "Did you make a predictive model ahead of time?"

"Not really," Rui shook his head. "I used the data from her previous match and this match to find a chink in her armor that I managed to exploit to the absolute very best with an incredibly well-timed and placed powerful blow. It's all just applying what I had cleverly."

Rui only managed to take her down so quickly due to his incredible observation skills, not the sheer potency of his techniques.

Although his Flowing Canon was incredibly powerful, had she used even a single defensive technique, she would have been in the game, even if injured. Furthermore, with the injury that she had inflicted on him just by virtue of him touching her, she would certainly make it count. The entire fight had been Rui gaining more information by observing her and using that information to create the perfect opportunity to take her down.

he tried taking her down by simply brute forcing her with power, long range or short range, he would have

him a healing potion. "That

Rui sighed as he inhaled the potion. "She would have started eroding away at my bones

member stopped before him. "You have just ascended to your position, allow me to guide you around and run you through everything that you need to

before turning back

as they headed deeper into Ajanta Island, following the staff

complex. Its overall shape was

that it was in a spiral was that the deeper that went into the spiral, the better the training conditions of the training chamber because it was closer to the center of the

can ensure that each chamber is the same size, eh?') Rui immediately realized

quickly, because the various guardians that they passed

strange because he did understand their incredulity. It was probably unheard of for a Martial Squire to be able to beat the nine hundred and

there were only five guardians spectating at that time, meaning only those five knew the way that the fight went down as far as the guardians went. There were plenty of initiates watching the fight, of course, but something told Rui that

wasn't interested

passed through a spiral corridor that connected all the chambers, Rui found that the chambers were

went. It became harder and harder to