The Martial Unity

Time passed as the war waged on.

Rui’s life began to quickly fall into a routine.

He partook in the war, doing his part in defending the Floating Sect, he trained in his high-class chamber, reaping the benefits of the environment of Ajanta Island, while he also researched ways in which he could create a Martial Body whose spec configuration was slanted towards power.

He realized he couldn’t rely on a solution that increased specific kinds of power or only worked in some ways. He needed something that could universally amplify muscle output.

Once he got that to work, he would be doing quite fine in regards to making a Martial Body centered around power. Given that all of his attacks relied on power from different muscle groups, it needed to be a universal solution.

He had already begun exploring the Martial library for supplementary techniques that could help in being one part of the total solution. He had also begun exploring the symbiotic Martial Art techniques as well, but he hadn’t found anything just yet.

He considered conditioning techniques that could help as well.

He had also put his knowledge of esoteric substances to good use as he explored substances that could potentially help with the solution as well.

During the remaining parts of the day, he made sure to train hard under the environment of Ajanta Island.

He had already decided that he wasn’t leaving Ajanta Island until it strengthened the foundation of his body enough that it could handle his Martial heart.

He was at the stage where he was seriously thinking about his path into a higher Realm of power.

He knew what it was, he also knew what was required for the most part.

He needed a strong body that could handle that power, but that wasn’t the only thing. In order to actually even possibly activate his Martial Heart, he needed a Martial Art with enough individuality that had enough of a synergy with his Martial Body to bring out its true power.

Reaching the necessary individuality threshold was important, techniques with individuality were naturally synergetic. And synergetic techniques were able to bring out the true power of the body while a non-synergetic Martial Art could not.

It was similar to how sports athletes would not be able to bring out their best if they wore attire that was not suited to their physical frame. The individuality of the techniques progressively brought out the best of the Martial Body, the more the individuality, the greater the synergy, and the greater the power of the martial Body the technique could extract and use, including the Martial Heart.

He had already deduced that Martial Art was simply the process of actualizing human potential through a system of movements and training. The Martial Heart also has the potential for power that the human body could not tap into ordinarily. Thus Martial Artists used Martial Art techniques, with individuality and synergy, to tap into the potential of the body and eventually dig up the deeply hidden potential of the martial Heart.

However, Rui knew that just individuality wasn’t enough. It was necessary, in that it built the path down to the Martial Heart, allowing the Martial Artist to reach it, but the Martial Heart was locked behind a final door even if one reached it. The key to the lock in this analogy was the trigger to the breakthrough to the Senior Realm.

Senior Xanarn had refused to go in-depth into it, but Rui had already made inferences and deductions about what the trigger to the Senior Realm was.

(‘A strong force of desire that pushed them to become Martial Artists… and dire circumstances that push a Martial Squire to the limit by threatening that desire…’)

It made sense given everything that he knew about the Senior Realm and the fact that it was the evolved version of the hidden true strength of humans that have come into light in the face of a crisis.

He was certain that, unlike for humans, the conditions for activating the Martial Heart were high. Its power had evolved with the Squire evolution breakthrough process, but so had the difficulty of tapping into it.

Given that Martial Artists used Martial Art techniques to unearth the potential of the Martial Body, only if their desire for Martial power was strong enough could they cross the boundary and unearth a whole well of hidden power.

It all depended on why they became Martial Artists and how strong their desire for Martial power was. It was only that desperate desire for power, in circumstances that threatened one’s desire, could possibly be able to tap into the full potential of the Martial Body; the Martial Heart.

If those circumstances didn’t occur, then the intensity of their desire for power would not reach the needed levels. Rui suspected that only the sheer mental distress, as well as the extreme physiological parameters that came with being mentally distressed, could trigger the tachycardia that unleashed unprecedented power hidden within the Martial Heart.

It made sense with multiple different lines of logic, and he suspected it was probably true even if he didn’t receive any confirmation on it from Senior Xanarn.

If that was the case, then he could certainly see why so few Martial Squires broke through to the Senior Realm.

Just how many Martial Squires had a burning desire for power for whatever reason? and just how many of them could craft individualistic techniques that could deepen their Martial Path, and unearth hidden potential within their body like the Martial Heart, bringing them closer to the Senior Realm the more the full potential of the Martial Body was unearthed? Just how many of them would run into circumstances where their underlying motivation for more Martial power was challenged such that the intensity of desire reached a critical threshold sending the body into a hyperactive overdrive state to trigger the Martial heart and unleash new power? Just how many Martial Squires would acquire a body that could withstand the power of the Martial heart?

(‘Very few,’) Rui narrowed his eyes. Most Martial Squires could not fulfill even one of the four conditions.