The Martial Unity

Chapter 1957 Void

Ever since he began inheriting the Elder Tree's understanding and knowledge of the biosphere of the Panama Continent, Rui's daily life had become brutally simple.

He woke up and immediately began subjecting himself to torture.

This period of his daily life was characterized by screams and maniacal laughs that merged together in the greatest audition for a horror film that Gaia had ever seen.

Once that was done, he fell asleep instantly.

It was a beautifully simple life.

It was also a brutally simple life.

Ecstasy and pain became his reality during the influx of sessions. Pain from the inheritance of knowledge and ecstasy from finding the patterns of life that would go on to become the fabric of his Tree of Life predictive model.

Yet, the moment the sessions ended, he felt empty.

He felt like there was a hole in his heart.

A void.

He felt incapable of ecstasy or pain outside of the times when he was pursuing his Martial Path by accepting the Elder Tree's database on the biosphere of Gaia. It was as though the extremely heightened pain and ecstasy he felt during the inheritance sessions came at the cost of feeling pain or ecstasy at any other moment.

In a way, the mind sort of adhered to a law of conservation of emotion.

One could only feel so much of a certain emotion or feeling.

That included pain and ecstasy.

The more one experienced it, the more the mind would adjust its sense of normality to make it the new normal.

It appeared that his mind had worked overtime in that regard.

It made the inheritance sessions more palatable, yet any time he was conscious outside of that…it was dark.

Each morning Rui woke up, he felt dead.

Detached.

Cold.

thought the inheritance sessions squeezed out everything he could experience, and what was left was an

still drove him

yet it no longer evoked emotion from him outside of

was difficult

He didn't understand.

stare at

would often flash through

be so easy to kill myself with

feel more empty

his

wished to speak

Rui's eyes were vacant.

Hollow.

"Begin."

…Understood.

the screams of agony and laughter of ecstasy began. His vacant eyes, devoid of life, finally lit

Tree of

rate, he could reach

Yet, at what cost?

He didn't know.

want

weeks, and

of information had filled up his Mind Palace. Species by species and world by world, he filled up with depths of his Martial

biosphere of the Beast Domain

and monsters of this domain, perhaps only the very greatest of scholars or someone like the Ecologer was above him, but there was no doubt that he had access to

could write papers on various hypotheses and scientific theories that could go on to

In fact, he could probably create an evolutionary chain

he didn't care for

No.

about what all this information could do or

sole reason he weathered on without losing

only for the promise of the ability

The end came abruptly.

WHOOSH

world around him. He was drenched in sweat and

He felt life draining out of him,

His eyes grew cold.