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."

shrugged. "I don't care about others. But I don't want to fall too behind you, though. Since you're here as

in this environment if we remain here for too long. That's why

to remain

but unfortunately, I won't progress one hundred

one month on the outside and a hundred and forty-four months in here. There's no way you can be more

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

at him,

is tied to the gains made from trying to adaptively evolve to new challenges," Rui opened his eyes, meeting Kane's stare. "Without a continuous

to me. I will have nothing left to adaptively evolve to, almost halting the progress I would make down my Martial Path. With nothing left to challenge my Adaptive Evolution, I would probably never break into the

turned 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

you would rather leave this place even though it offers massive benefits to accelerating your benefits relative

the cost

a you-problem," Kane

know if it is a flaw that I would want to correct even if I was able to, which

more than two years in this place. I am already feeling suffocated,

the Gatekeeper would happily train in this

the sky. "…True, he would. But he is a fundamentally different person than I am. Of course, while I would personally never subject myself to long-term training in this place, I think it could be

"You. You're thinking of harnessing this power of