The Martial Unity

Rui understood what Headmaster Aronian was trying to say.

Most Martial Artists trained their bodies to their conventional limits, achieving the desired weight and muscle-mass-to-body-mass ratio before focusing on developing active techniques.

Active techniques were techniques that required the mind for cognition, usually to achieve necessary activation, commencement, coordination, timing, accuracy, or precision. Techniques like Outer Convergence, Flux Earther, Fire Breathing, and Reverberating Lance were such techniques.

Passive techniques were those that did not require the mind for anything. These were techniques that would be in effect even if the user was knocked unconscious. Most passive techniques were training techniques, often conditioning techniques that would permanently alter the body.

The greatest disadvantage of such techniques was that they required a long time to materialize the same level of power that active techniques did. Rui had mastered Outer Convergence in half a year originally. However, if he wanted to train his muscles to naturally and innately output the same attacks as they did with Outer Convergence, then he would probably need to train them in extreme training and conditioning techniques for at least a few years.

This disadvantage made many Martial Artists unwilling to pursue them too much. It simply took too long.

However, what if there was a Martial Artist who did pursue them?

What if there was a Martial Artist who pursued them for a long time?

What if there was a Martial Artist who pursued them for more than five hundred years?

"I can't imagine how strong he is."

Rui's words expressed concern.

Yet neither his quivering voice, the smile cracking at the edge of his mouth, nor the twinkle in his eyes could hide his excitement and amazement.

overcome the disadvantages, my child," Master Vericita chided him. "He has fully manifested

Rui narrowed.

main advantages of passive and

Because they didn't require cognition mid-combat, they didn't require

simultaneously. With active techniques, because each one of them required a certain amount of cognition, there was always a limit to the number of active techniques that could be used at any time because there was only so much cognition the mind had to distribute. The same was not true for training and passive techniques; one could benefit from the power given by a hundred, potentially a thousand, passive and

be exploited. Mistakes weren't as costly as

"He has dedicated himself to the elevation and mastery of his body and, in doing so, has come up with many Martial schools of thought on the evolution of the Martial Body that have gone on to become their own fields of Martial

turned to Rui. "You are the first Martial Senior to have been inducted into the Martial fiscal committee, but you are not the first to be invited. While no individual contribution the Gatekeeper has made is equal to your revolutionary Hungry Pain technique, the sheer sum of all the contributions he has

the forefront of the Kandrian Empire during the Kandrian Empire's days of conquest more than three hundred years ago. They refuse to address him by the honorific of 'Senior,' instead using 'Sir' to convey their respects for a

a deep breath, considering everything

was a

be someone this distinguished and impressive. He did look forward to fighting

now, Your Highness,"

contained a

sure the legal team can find some loophole

I remember correctly, inadequate health should technically be

that contract from the Martial Prince's grasp, my child," Master Vericita smiled, consoling him as

sagely. "Knowing when to retreat is the marker of

will not be

steely voice firmly cut through

each and every single one of