The Martial Unity

Chapter 2048 Impenetrable

"All in favor?" The Harbinger smiled frostily. All hands rose up in the air. Even if they had minor misgivings, there were few better alternative options in their perspective, if at all. "Good." Her calm voice spread. "Then this council unanimously passes the drafted motion. It is decided that Master Rui Quarrier Silas Kandria shall be subject to a gauntlet of battles against three Masters from the three sections of the thirty grades of the Master Realm, such that more losses than victories will result in the Martial Union pursuing Master Herel's proposal, more wins than losses; Master Zentra's proposal, and a complete victory; Master Ceeran's proposal."

Her tone was finality.

The Martial Masters of the council fell into thought. "Now then," Master Sera continued. "We will reconvene after issuing a summon to Master Rui and informing him of the Master Council's decision, should he refu—"

She froze.

She was the first to notice.

Something had changed.

It was abrupt.

The others sensed the change as well, stiffening.

The air stirred.

It boiled.

It boiled tumultuously as a tremendous aura of power crept across the entire council hall.

It pricked at their senses. It tingled at their instincts.

It drew closer and closer.

And closer.

Until it had finally arrived.

CLACK

The massive gates behind the Harbinger opened.

He had arrived.

"Ah…" A single murmur escaped him. "…It's been long."

Their eyes widened as they beheld him standing at the entrance of the council hall.

In an instant, recognition, realization, and disbelief surged through the minds of the various Martial Masters in the council hall.

For a moment, none of them could move, frozen in shock.

wasn't the fact that he was a Martial Master that

No.

was his Martial

had always wondered what it would be

How could they not?

that he was the equivalent of the Gatekeeper of the

always knew that his Martial Path embodied one of the core universal principles at

always knew that it would be unlike

it would redefine

they beheld before exceeded even

It was unfathomable.

Impenetrable.

endless vortex of

A void

flowed from one state

from one person

Like Water.

It subsumed reality.

they bore witness

as though heaven and earth warped under the weight of the mind, adaptively evolving the world to

of

Mind they had ever beheld

as a single realization dawned on

sense the depths of

even in

a humiliating

meant only one

was astronomically superior to each and every single one of

emotions was an

the emotions of a Master with

weaker Martial Minds often had to bear the humiliation of having their emotions and mental dynamics be transparent to Martial Masters with stronger Martial Minds while being able to sense very little of the emotions and mental dynamics of

was entirely unable to sense the emotions and

He was inscrutable

they

An empty abyss.

A void.

humiliating, for all of them

of Master Rui Quarrier Silas Kandria exceeded theirs by an astronomical

Martial Artist at the age of thirty-five, a boy by their standards, vastly exceeded the crystallization of centuries' worth of effort that these vaunted

was deeply unpleasant, yet undeniably