The Martial Unity

The Beggar's Sect was kind enough to also include scientific literature on the Great Forest of Hypnonarak, including confidential internal evaluations and reports of the Panamic Ecological and Environmental Association.

The fundamental mechanism and principle of mental energy consumption were entirely unknown to researchers and scholars who had looked into the matter.

'That's because they don't understand the phenomena of thought from a perspective of physics or chemistry.' Rui mused.

However, they had nonetheless done a lot of due diligence when it came to the scientific method of inquiring into the Great Forest of Hypnonarak. They conducted many experiments examining the correlation between the neurological parameters of a subject and the effects of the forest on it.

They found that both quantity and quality mattered. Larger brains experienced proportionally high suppression due to the consumption of energy while greater intelligence and cognition also corresponded with greater suppression.

'That does explain why it has a greater effect on Squires and Seniors.' Rui mused. 'Higher Realm does correspond with more powerful bioelectric activity. After all, stronger Martial Artists tend to have much greater senses which requires a correspondingly greater mind to process.'

The result was such that mind-consuming flora weeded out a lot of fauna. Life was rather unviable for them as the very nature of the flora was hostile to their state of being.

The greatest threat of the Great Forest of Hypnonarak was not giant beasts like phoenixes or dragons that could tear one apart. The greatest was actually the silent plants, shrubs, and trees that silently fed on thought.

various plant lifeforms from across the Beast

I'm looking forward to

not its only

esoteric flora species that produced and released substances that had a hallucinogenic and stimulant effect on the nervous system and the brain, causing the victim to enter an intoxicated

produced narcotics to cause the victim to lower their guard, eventually causing them to die, turning them into nutrients

was more interested in was the effect that the Great

substantial proportion of the drug trafficking industries in the broader geographic vicinity of the continent were actually sustained

reports on the flow of narcotics from the Great

going to human regardless of which world it was. The drugs that could artificially generate the experience of blissful happiness and joy were naturally clamored for by countless people, desperate for the alleviation from the horrors of

of that. If one could gather an abysmal amount of wealth by

couldn't even blame them even if he disapproved of the entire business. At the end of the day, the market

voluntarily went out of their way to purchase them

their throats, but such a thing did not

consequences of their actions full well, then

place. He was under no illusion that he could cripple the narcotics industry, that was a force that he was not strong enough to confront. It was a

the various plants needed to produce