The Martial Unity

Much to his gratitude, the rest of the event went rather smoothly. It wasn't too long before it ended and both Rui and Julian found themselves on a carriage back home.

Julian heaved a tired sigh. "That was more tiring than I had expected."

Rui nodded absentmindedly. He had much to think about.

The first was the offer that the Minister of Martial Art had offered him. The Minister had not made the compensation that he would get from them entirely clear, but it was also clear that they were willing to go quite far for this particular request.

In essence, it had the potential to make the same impact as the Hungry Pain technique did on Martial Art. Increasing the success rate of the breakthrough to the Master Realm was a huge deal.

He was in a position that very few Martial Artists in history found themselves to be in. There were not that many Martial Artists whose Martial Paths were so individualistic and powerful that they could be universalized to leave a mark across all of Martial Art.

Their names were forever remembered in Martial Art.

The first breathing-oriented Martial Artist changed Martial Art forever. Today, breathing techniques have become one of the most foundational techniques and aspects of techniques. Entirely new fields were born purely because breathing techniques made them possible.

Rui's Martial Path had the potential to make the same impact on Martial Art.

he ran into a bottleneck, too late for immediate results, but by making this investment today, he could ensure he had a ready supply of inspiration and insight based on the progress with adaptive evolution that other Martial Artists made over

knew the despair of bottlenecks better than anybody. In his previous life, he had died being unable to break through a bottleneck in his research into increasing the viability of the VOID algorithm. He had desperately tried everything he could, compromising his health in the process of trying to make progress, before ultimately

like that in his entire life. It

resolve it with some humble effort early on in his life then he could

partly because he had grown intoxicated by the endless growth and progress that he had made since becoming a Martial Artist. It had been nearly fifteen years since

an illusion of being unstoppable

confident, what wasn't nearly alright was

whether he would be able to keep

BZZT BZZT!

device vibrated, drawing his attention before he

he found a message from Master Ceeran, sending him an invitation to

had informed the Martial Union and the Ministry of Martial Art about how well Rui's Martial Art had harnessed the power of thought and how even a chunk of it had been enough to serve as the foundation of Master Ceeran's

his experiences to the

going through

And so he did.

Rui returned home, mentally

breakfast, setting of at top speed high

the coast of the country through which much maritime trade and seafare occurred. The maritime sector