The Martial Unity

The Sloth Sage shook his head. "Look at me, rambling about the distant past. Rather out of character, I must say."

He glanced at Rui. "If my fellow leaders find out, half of them will not be pleased. There is an implicit understanding that you would do Martial Art and the Martial Union more justice as Emperor than the Emperor of Harmony who focused on balancing interests as per their importance and power."

Rui didn't reply.

He simply stared at the Sloth Sage silently.

He was waiting for the Martial Sage's decision.

The man heaved a sigh.

"Alright, I'll keep it a secret. In turn, you keep my, ahem, transgressions a secret. I'll declare that you were forthright and transparent with your intentions of becoming Emperor, and I'll owe you a favor, deal?" The Sloth Sage turned to Rui lazily.

"Deal," Rui smirked. "As for the favor…I intend to have a Martial Master who is highly adept at disguise take my place while I travel in search of the Divine Doctor. She is able to fool almost all Martial Masters, but when it comes to Martial Sages…"

"I'll handle it," The Sloth Sage waved his hand lazily. "It's not particularly relevant to my field of expertise, but I can ensure that it won't get out unless something particularly unfortunate happens."

"Thanks!" Rui grinned.

He had managed to secure confidence that Master Reina wouldn't be exposed. Of course, anything was possible, but he had a reasonably high degree of confidence that the worst wouldn't unfold.

'Now I can just focus on calmly building my faction, and then head out to the Beast Domain as early as I can,' Rui narrowed his eyes.

that," The Sloth Sage remarked, reminding him that he could hear his active thoughts. "Finding the Divine Doctor is going

to the

to give you more clues. I don't know how you found out that he's in the Beast Domain, but it doesn't surprise me. You still need more specific information, though. I

Rui nodded.

large for Rui to manually search it, looking for the

with the Divine Doctor, hm?" Rui

of the Beggar's Sect," The Sloth Sage shrugged. "Any of the other human sages, maybe. A

admit the prospects were

long about it before I depart," Rui's eyes swam around. "I want to make sure that I have a concrete plan

to discreetly search for as

didn't have too much hope that this would yield fruit, however. He knew that his father had been looking for the Divine Doctor

manner of intelligence-gathering he had at his disposal. If Rui simply tried going down that same course of action, he would probably take even longer than his father did to

that his father had not tried, whether it was because

some potentially

Sloth Sage. "Regardless, I appreciate

our deliberation was a success, that the Void Prince understands our basic expectations, and that his expectations of us are also within an acceptable range. Thus, the Martial Union will extensively cooperate with him even more than to have to

Rui bowed

out of here," The man waved his hand, and suddenly, Rui

could even consider that, his

could even consider that, his four

Master Ceeran asked him