The Martial Unity

Chapter 1977 Outside vs Inside

"That's hard to believe," Kane frowned. "You cook up magical systems of thought in years where it would take others decades."

"That's because I dedicated my life to them," Rui replied impassively. "I'm probably better at creating them than anybody in this world, I would suspect."

"How do I get as good as you? Or at least, really good?" Kane asked.

"…"

Rui considered the question for a moment. "…You could try what Ieyasu tried. He spent two years just thinking, trying to increase his affinity for thought."

"Does that actually work?"

"It did for him." Rui shrugged impassively. "His capacity for thought rose enormously in the time that he spent thinking to increase his affinity for thought. This place is a good place for that, actually."

"You mean the time acceleration?"

"Yes," Rui nodded. "It will allow you to make far more progress relative to others at your stage outside."

don't want to fall too behind you, though. Since you're here as

more progress than me in this environment if we remain here for too long. That's why I would rather leave this

frowned at that. "You're not going to remain

yes, but unfortunately, I won't progress

one month on the outside and a hundred and forty-four

average Martial Artist, undoubtedly, however…" Rui closed his eyes. "That is not true for me.

at

from trying to adaptively evolve to new challenges," Rui opened his eyes, meeting Kane's stare. "Without a continuous fresh supply of new challenges to adaptively

not for the Master-level beast, which is certainly a formidable challenge, I would say this place is worthless to me. I will have nothing left to adaptively evolve to, almost halting the progress I would make down

back to Kane. "On the outside, however, there are endless forces that I have yet to adaptively evolve to. My rate of progress will spike in comparison and the challenges would allow me to temper and refine my Martial Art and eventually lead

place even though it offers massive benefits to accelerating your benefits

important and significant to my progress than time. The latter is not worth the cost of the former. So yes, I would progress more in two

like a you-problem,"

edge of his mouth. "I suppose it is. But I don't know if it is a flaw

to spend more than two years in this place. I am already feeling suffocated, I don't know if I'll even be able to last two

"Someone like the Gatekeeper would happily train in this

Of course, while I would personally never subject myself to long-term training in this place, I think it

with shock as he understood Rui's intentions. "You. You're thinking of harnessing this power