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.

experience, and what

Martial drive still drove

longer evoked emotion

difficult

He didn't understand.

would stare at his

recurring thought would often flash

would be so easy to kill myself with

death would not feel more empty than he

closed his

to

Rui's eyes were vacant.

Hollow.

"Begin."

…Understood.

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

Tree of Life

he could

Yet, at what cost?

He didn't know.

want to

weeks, and even months

by species and world by world, he filled up with depths of

of the biosphere of the Beast Domain

monsters of this domain, perhaps only the very greatest of scholars or someone like the Ecologer was above him, but there was no doubt

could write papers on various hypotheses and scientific theories that could

esoteric or non-esoteric, in a single track. In fact, he could probably create an evolutionary chain of species and make educated guesses about the last unifying common ancestor

for all of these

No.

this information could do

reason he weathered on without losing

the promise of the ability to adaptively evolve to all life in

The end came abruptly.

WHOOSH

in sweat and grime. His

He felt life draining out of him, growing listless and

His eyes grew cold.