The Martial Unity

Chapter 1976 Nascent System of Thought

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Rui evaded three dozen dark ravens in the sky.

"CAWK CAWK CAWK!" The angry birds hawked at him as they surged forward with their talons poised to tear him to shreds.

Yet, much to their surprise, the talons never reached him.

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They passed right through him.

They passed through him as though he was an empty image.

Rui stood in place with closed eyes as he relaxed his body. Each time a raven approached him, he would evade their strike at the final moment but would feint toward his original position, making it seem like he was there the entire time. Simultaneously, he would misdirect them to said feint, causing them to completely ignore his dodge and believe that he had been standing there the entire time.

The creatures never stood a chance at seeing through his illusion. Yet, he wasn't doing this just to flex.

It was a good exercise because it required an extremely high level of precision and accuracy when it came to his timing and placement.

His SOUL and predictive models needed to be immaculate. His feinting and misdirection needed to coincide within microseconds of each other.

It was a great workout to train his finesse.

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Once he got the hang of it, though, he was on a roll; nothing could stop him.

faced two dark ravens by himself. "Ok now, think…should I enter stealth mode or

his first prototypical system of thought. 'These guys are kinda fast.' He squinted, trying to think. 'They certainly don't look heavy or anything like that. Also,

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and quicker opponents,

extent of his system of

at their eyes. 'They have

A keen observation.

means misdirection should be pretty decently effective against them.' Kane realized. 'In comparison, their

line

more attention to his battle than his own.

taking his very first baby steps when it came to creating a Martial Mind. Although it was an extremely elementary and minimally effective single-layer decision process, it was still a first step in the right direction. Rui had faith that someday he would eventually develop a mature system

long way to go before he fleshed out his system of thought to become larger and more powerful in its impact in combat. The good news was that the road to the Master Realm was

much larger systems of thought. Their path to the Master Realm was more difficult than those of

the Tree of Life, had only just recently reached a stage where he could be certain of the saturation of his nascent Martial Mind. That was how

do with regular systems of thought, unlike Rui. However, in

were less clear. Rui could very easily contaminate his Martial Mind with thought that was not suited for Kane's Martial Art and Body. It was different for the distilled voidlet techniques that the Martial Union had already begun to aggressively propagate. Those had been stripped of Rui's thought patterns and were truly able to be

he gained inspiration from Rui and followed suit, that would be one thing since that came from within, but Rui himself would not interject from

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gaze returned to the ravens that converged on him from all directions. It appeared that they weren't as stupid as they looked.

it was for

RUMBLE

horrifying tsunami of peril

eyes stirred

remark

your species is complete, so…" His eyes