The Martial Unity

Rui gained a more thorough understanding of the Virodhabhasa Faith the more he studied it. The religion was actually a lot simpler than the religions he knew of back on Earth. Those religions were much older and had a far greater expanse of mythologies and religious stories and texts.

Many religions had pantheons that were infested with countless gods each with their own set of mythological stories.

Even religions with a single deity encompassed an ocean of stories, doctrines, and other information relevant to the religion.

The Virodhabhasa Faith was a lot simpler in that regard. Its holy book mostly contained the absurdly lengthy divine revelation that recounted many details that Rui considered to be extra fluff to spice up the myth of the Virodhabhasa Faith. There were chapters filled with metaphorical hyperbole adding more details to embellish the existence of the Virodhabhasa.

Yet even as Rui grew bored reading them, there were some excerpts that drew his attention.

Encompassing Creation and Destruction, the universe bows before their splendor.

With a wave of their hand, Martial Paths may rise above or fall under.

Rui couldn't help but wonder what that alluded to, but he felt strange about this particular small excerpt. The strange parallels that ran between his Martial Path, and what he hoped his Martial Path to be and the Martial Art of the Virodhabhasa.

Of course, that did not mean he was convinced that he had any relation to this religion or the deity of the religion, he just found the parallels to be eerie.

accomplished what he had set out to do, he gained a good understanding of their beliefs, principles, and

the Virodhabhasa. Beings that came to rise only because the Virodhabhasa created

did not sit well with Martial Artists who weren't indoctrinated

Martial Artist, no matter how humble and modest, took pride in being a Martial Artist. It was difficult to be a Martial Artist, and there was usually nothing that truly stopped one from

by that at the moment. He was reassured that it was not likely that he would be ill-treated by the Virodhabhasa Faith.

there were some taboos that not even Martial Artists could

was strictly

be punishable by death, no matter

number of strict laws and lesser strict guidelines that Rui made

he would not be in

a religion that stringently pursued open-mindedness and acceptance. It was a

light that the religion forcefully converted everybody who tried to enter the town.

the religion did not clash with more secular states or states with their own ethnically

reputation of an evil cult was

earnings from brokering commissions and receiving donations from across the continent to create facilities and resources for training, growth, and the development of Martial Artists across a remarkable number of Realms, thereby

because it was so dedicated to its religious cause, that it funneled an overwhelming majority of its profits into the expansion of