The Martial Unity

Rui meditated in isolation, sitting cross-legged.

His eyes were closed.

His attention was focused inward to the evosapien stem cell that had long since settled in his thymus comfortably enough. He tinkered with it using his quantum gravitational tweezers, playing around with the DNA.

He was doing his best to get rid of the actual mitochondrial cold fusion reactor of the cell, having already decided that he didn’t want it as a source of energy.

Martial Artists relied on efficiency and nothing more.

As far as he was concerned, there was no need for him to diverge from this.

While he altered the DNA of the cell to get rid of the mitochondrial cold fusion reactor, he also applied his Eye of Prophecy to his skin and outer flesh, simulating how many skin stem cells he would have to replace with evosapien stem cells to maintain a perfect ratio of fifty-fifty for antithesis and evosapien stem cells.

His preparations were largely complete.

The medical chamber was occupied by a medical team that was on standby for whenever he decided to commence. He had received the pluripotent exotic matter that he had requested and was now completing final preparations for the first stage of Project Evosapien.

Once he got rid of the cold fusion, he was all but set.

His eyes opened.

Within them lay a profoundly intense darkness.

His body language had grown intense.

STEP

He got up slowly before walking over to the medical chamber in his Martial chamber. The medical team on standby immediately stood at attention as the prince entered the facility. And yet, his eyes were fixed on the medical cocoon at the very epicenter of the room.

He nodded to the others. “It’s time.”

“Understood, Your Highness.”

The medical team was among the finest that the Kandrian Empire could muster. It would have been ordinarily a waste to redirect so many elite doctors to the care of a single patient, especially when many of them had directly learned from the Divine Doctor himself.

And yet, when the patient was Rui, no number of doctors was worth it. If the Kandrian Empire had to redirect all of its medical capital to save the Void Prince, then they would do it without hesitation.

The number of people who would die and suffer would explode astronomically if Rui were to pass away, compared to if all healthcare ceased to exist.

“The body cultivation cocoon is ready, Your Highness.”

He had only later learned what the true purpose of the cocoon was. It was not a medical instrument at all. Instead, it was a place where Martial Artists could cultivate their Martial Bodies in peace.

The field that the Gatekeeper had ended up discovering had exploded in popularity in the Panama Continent in the face of the true world. The process of trying to integrate exotic matter into your body to gain more power was the process of body cultivation that the Gatekeeper had proven was extremely powerful.

It was unfortunate that he had passed away, unable to see what his legacy had brought to the Panama Continent.

STEP

Rui arrived before the strange spherical cocoon suspended at the very center of the medical facility. It quickly opened up to him.

He took his place in the medical cocoon, placing himself in a fetal position while the medical cocoon closed up, causing a special liquid to enter the cocoon and fill it to the brim.

It was a special liquid that could serve his body nutrients and even allowed him to breathe it without drowning despite it being a liquid. It was meant to nourish his body so that he didn’t have to bother with any breaks or halts to his procedure.

The medical team immediately began monitoring his vitals through the data that the sensors on the inside of the medical chamber supplied to them, making sure that everything was alright and that they would be able to detect any anomaly very quickly.

They immediately began documenting his data and cataloging it. If they ever ran into an anomaly, then being able to skim through organized data to see how anomalous something was and what one could expect from it.

A team would constantly monitor his body at all times with a larger number of medical professionals on shift to make sure that there were no gaps. If the Void Prince needed help, then he would have it immediately.

The Kandrian Empire had also secretly prepared a Transcendent healing fruit just in case it was direly needed by Rui due to something going wrong in his constitution. Whatever he was trying to do, it was easy to tell that he was doing something considerably dangerous.

In all his years, Rui had never requested a medical apparatus like this in his entire life, despite all the crazy things he had done, because in his view, nothing he had ever done warranted such a medical chamber. He hadn’t bothered when he injected his body with negatron matter and pluripotent exotic matter.

He hadn’t needed this when he somehow filled his body with gu.

Many people were truly curious about what he was trying to accomplish, but Rui hadn’t deigned to reveal what he was attempting to the overseeing doctor. Simply informing of some things to look out for when it was time, and to ensure some processes were being followed.

And soon enough, the time had come.

Within the depths of the cocoon. He commenced Project Evosapien and Project PluriBody. He immediately took the evosapien stem cell, before stimulating enough to trigger cell division, creating a new one from the original in the thymus, before replacing one of his skin stem cells with the evosapien stem cell.

The process had begun.

Bit by bit, he slowly began replacing many of the skin stem cells of the outer flesh with evosapien stem cells. He used the Eye of Prophecy constantly during this time. The technique was replacing what would have been necessary otherwise, modeling through intensive trial and error on the rate of replenishment of evosapien stem cells through the Eye of Prophecy.