The Martial Unity

Chapter 1932 Higher Aspirations

Because the difficulty of surviving, sustaining, and progressing in the Beast Domain only grew higher the deeper they went, their journey stalled significantly. Of course, while it got harder, it naturally made them stronger.

Rui forgot what protection felt like during this time.

He forgot what safety felt like during this perilous voyage through the Beast Domain.

The fourteen months he had spent under constant protection from Martial Masters might as well as have happened ages ago. While he previously felt like he was stalling and growing rusty due to the lack of danger that served as a crucible to forge Martial Artists, now, he felt like he was perhaps in too much danger.

It shook any rust he thought he had accumulated off him.

Now, he had very naturally learned to grow an eye at the back of his head. A state of subconscious alertness in every inch of his environment was absolutely necessary and naturally came.

That was how omnipresent the perils of the Beast Domain were.

In the Human Domain, Rui had a lot of confidence in his sensory prowess. If his senses didn't detect any threats, then he could have a high certainty that there weren't any threats. While Martial Artists of higher Realms with decent stealth could still hide from him, such a circumstance was extremely unlikely.

The Beast Domain was different.

Camouflage, stealth, deception... these had all been dialed to eleven in the Beast Domain. Rui had lost count of the number of times that his senses failed to detect threats until the very last moment, almost getting him and Kane killed.

It forged him to be a stronger Martial Artist in more than one way.

THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM!

off a powerful tier-five Transverse Resonance attack, blasting five

in pain, failing to avoid them as the Pathfinder technique refused to let them

encircling Rui, converging

didn't so much as budge. Instead, his

BOOOM BOOOM

power. He didn't often get to test his peak power with Hypertrophic Surge, the

had come to the realization that he didn't have powerful offensive techniques that resonated well with the VOID algorithm and the SOUL System.

up. The same could not be said for offense. Thus, he strove to use

had noticed this before, even with the predictive model, but it had become extremely exacerbated

griffon surged towards Rui, trying to catch

SPLAT SPLAT!

screamed in pain as Kane's dagger dug deeper and deeper

The brain.

sky lifelessly as Kane smirked. "Thanks. I wouldn't have been able to kill a high-grade creature all by

let's get back

was not pleased

rather have avoided the fight altogether, but the griffons managed to sniff them out despite Void Step and Phantomind Void. Thus, Rui had shifted his misdirection stealth to Kane, misdirecting attention away from

battles that he ordinarily wouldn't be able to. Regardless, the moment they finished the unavoidable battle, they immediately went into hiding,

many kilometers into the sky

was not, in fact, a

an

A Master-level creature.

it sent shivers down their