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.

the Divine Doctor is going to be a particularly difficult task. Among the hardest to

to the Sloth Sage.

blind is stupid," the sage remarked. "I'd say, find someone who has a connection with him. They might be able 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 probably don't need to

Rui nodded.

far too large for Rui to manually search it, looking for the Divine Doctor; that was a nonsensical way to go about

Divine Doctor, hm?" Rui narrowed his

sages, maybe. A Martial Transcendent could potentially

admit the prospects were

depart," Rui's eyes swam around. "I want to make sure that I have a concrete plan in mind before I begin my

would need to

have too much hope that this would yield fruit, however. He knew that his father had been looking for the Divine Doctor for many years and still failed to narrow

going down that same course of action, he

Rui needed to employ a method that his father had not tried,

some potentially promising

the Sloth Sage. "Regardless, I appreciate your cooperation and

shrugged. "Good luck. I'll inform the union that our deliberation was a success, that the Void Prince understands our basic expectations, and that his expectations of us are also within an acceptable

bowed

taking a nap; get out of here," The man waved his hand, and suddenly,

could even consider that, his four

his four

Master Ceeran asked him