The Martial Unity

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Rui's eyes widened as the world shook.

The air grew tumultuous, boiling, as it was wrung by the power that Matriarch Nephi manifested.

She conjured a barrier between herself and Rui to protect him and shield her visage from him, yet he could feel his grandmother's powerful Martial Heart blooming into power, followed by her Martial Mind.

Yet, that wasn't all. A third Realm of power far greater than the previous bloomed alongside them, elevating herself to a much greater degree of power.

Rui gritted his teeth as he struggled to withstand the pressure that she was emanating.

"Behold."

Her voice graced him.

"The future."

His eyes widened as she dispelled the barrier, and her Martial Embodiment bloomed in his mind at full power.

Suddenly, the entire world around him changed.

He found himself standing on a path.

A path that he had trodden his entire life.

No.

A path he had walked even before his life.

The world around him was completely different. One moment, he was in the shed of his grandmother in the Ilvilia Forest; the very next moment, the world around him shifted, becoming something else entirely.

It had become a world of tribulations.

Rui's expression grew horrified as he bore witness to an endless sea of calamities as far as the eye could see.

Earthquakes, volcanoes, tornados, hurricanes, blizzard storms ravaged the world around him. All manners of monsters and beasts unleashed an onslaught unto the lands around them.

path wound

was a perilous

would walk down this

he chose

called out

him, drawing him

the path no matter

"I did not know it was possible for an awakened bodyforger to resist and override my

reverie in a

her words caught his

first time

it many times

like a visual representation of his Martial Path. He had seen it in

called

to the visions that his mind conjured up in

representation of the Martial Embodiment is a product of the Martial Artist whose

Rui knew that.

Ceeran's Martial Embodiment as a

of Matriarch Nephi, it allowed

eyes widened in shock as the

with pride in her voice. "I can bestow a fraction of my

"…Incredible," Rui whispered.

mind to be this powerful. You will redefine what is possible when you break through to the Master Realm. Regardless, for now…" She narrowed her eyes,

control of the visions as she directed him to see what she wanted to show

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myriad of visions

The Beast Domain.

Rui associated with it all in a messy flash: the depiction of it on maps and the information he learned about it during his crash course on it, as well as the real visuals of it from Matriarch Nephi's

a black

of powerful Martial Artists could peer

depths. Supernatural fantasies and reality-defying

as a

distorted and flashing visions

wore a worn-out medical coat with an array of medical tools adorned across multiple belts and straps across his entire body. A variety of instruments and artifacts made him