The Martial Unity

"The poison is known as Reaper's Dew." Squire Herea told him. "It's black in its natural state, though your skin turns green when you condition your body to handle it."

"Interesting…" Rui narrowed his eyes. "And I can get that poison and that technique in the Floating Sect, right?"

"Certainly," She nodded. "I trained it further when I came here thanks to the abundant growth resources."

She turned towards Rui with a raised eyebrow. "Why are you interested in the technique, though? You aren't a poison-oriented Martial Artist, and you negated that poison like it was nothing so I don't expect you to care for it."

"I'm an all-rounder," Rui replied blandly. "I dip my toe in all fields, in theory, and principle anyway."

"You're no all-rounder," She furrowed her eyebrow at his words. "No all-rounder would have been able to handle my poison as well as you did. I don't how your healing countered Reaper's Dew so well, but that is not something an all-rounder can do. Furthermore, you were stronger and faster than me, but not to the degree an all-rounder of the same grade would have been. Your spec configuration would have been."

Rui smiled at her words. He had no intention of spreading around what his Martial Path actually was, not only would it perhaps give people an opportunity to counter him.

('Maybe that's a good thing,') Rui mused.

Perhaps if he spread the word about his Martial Art and made a bunch of the guardians work hard to find a solution should Rui ever challenge them, then he would find Martial Artists who spotted shortcomings or flaws in his Martial Art and worked hard to try and exploit them.

In doing so, he just very well might come across another avenue of improvement, one that he missed because he was unable to see the forest for the trees due to how closely involved he was.

In that case, he might be able to indirectly speed up the rate of growth of his Martial Art and gain strength in ways that he would never have been able to do so.

That was one positive. It was actually quite exciting for Rui.

I've adapted to others to take them down, perhaps now it

consider the matter and how they would go about

probably consider the matter for if they ever challenged him for his

have the entire Martial sect hyped to take down his

was afraid of Chairman Deacon somehow getting word of someone with Rui's Martial Art appearing out of

particularly unlikely, especially given the circumstances that they

was basically zero flux of information between the Floating Sect and the outside world at

minuscule. There was essentially no way that Chairman Deacon could gain information

seriously

is adaptive evolution,"

frowned, turning

by adapting to one's opponent," Rui simply replied. "So I am an all-rounder but not a static one. I

Her eyes widened.

anything she had ever seen. But it also made sense when she recalled the ease with which he overcame her

hadn't even used the entirety of his Martial Art, he just used Weaving

beat her without the full scope of the pattern

to answer. But even if he could, he would not have done it as well as he did

to her as