The Martial Unity

As Rui continued traversing the forest, he couldn't help but wonder the increasingly glaring question that begged itself.

'How in the world did the Hypnomaster create this forest?' Rui furrowed his eyebrows. 'Not only that, how in the world did he manage to create such a viable ecosystem that was stable enough to neither expand in territory nor die out? As amazing as the Martial Mind is, I highly doubt that it allows you to figure out how to construct a perfect ecosystem out of many species sharing a similar form of nutrition acquisition.'

In the first place, surely going this far to create such an enormous and fantastical forest that was also a nightmare to be trapped in was not worth the effort?

'Is it also because he's more effective on this battlefield, I wonder.' Rui thought to himself. 'It would be like Kane and the Thundering Valley. Or an aquatic Martial Artist and a water reservoir.'

If that was part of his intentions, then it was more understandable. He was already a powerful Martial Master, and if he could gain a domain advantage, then he would be extraordinarily dangerous within the Master Realm.

It was no wonder that even the Silent Shadow had been unable to assassinate him.

Still, that only answered the why, and not the high. This was especially true when his specialty was mental techniques. Techniques that were exclusively impactful on the mind, and not on non-sentient phenomena.

Rui concluded that there were probably many things that he still did not understand about the Master Realm. They seemed to break common sense to a certain degree with the feats that he witnessed.

Just the fact that there were things nearly every square meter of the forest that posed some degree of a threat to Rui across this entire forest was a testament to the capabilities of the Hypnomaster; that he could treat even this forest as merely a test for his students.

One more thing that Rui hadn't missed was that Great Forest of Hypnonarak was constructed out of species from the Beast Domain.

a lot about

the Beast Domain possessed threat levels that were similar and even much above, then it was

Rui narrowed his eyes as he spotted

good measure nonetheless. Even if it wasn't

his senses forward, trying to get

he came across a shocking sight. A bunch of humans and Martial Apprentices had had their skulls broken open as a strange creature wriggled inside, consuming a part of

was that the bodies woke up moments later, with wide eyes and

'Marionnette worm...'

"Help! Help! Help!"

here, I found

way, we found

words that only humans could. It was a horrifying sight to witness humans and even Martial Apprentices being mind-controlled

more humans. They were apparently able to manipulate parts of the brain to manipulate the

these were known creatures who were already marked to be dangerous, but not fatal, he knew that

to

SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT!

confetti killing them on the spot. He made sure that the potency and speed

warily. His actions drew attention and he needed to make sure that he didn't suffer inadvertently