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.

active thoughts. "Finding the Divine Doctor is going to be a particularly difficult task. Among the

the

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

Rui nodded.

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

has a connection with the Divine Doctor, hm?" Rui narrowed his

shrugged. "Any of the other human sages, maybe. A Martial Transcendent could potentially help you. Good luck

admit the prospects were

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

going to be easy, but he would need to discreetly search for as much information

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

single 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 find the

meant that Rui needed to employ a method that his father had not tried, whether it was because he

some potentially

Sage. "Regardless, I appreciate your cooperation and

Martial Sage 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 range. Thus, the Martial Union will extensively cooperate with him even more than to have to secure his claim on the throne of

you," Rui bowed his head

get out of here," The man waved his hand, and suddenly, Rui found himself standing outside of the Monastery

his four bodyguards had already arrived

he could even consider that, his

go?" Master Ceeran asked him with