The Martial Unity

Rui’s ethereal eyes lit up as time slowed down in his eyes, watching the jaws of the Dragon Emperor snap shut on him.

A single whisper escaped him.

“Topaz of Time.”

Within the depths of the body, he converted his exotic pluripotent matter into an esoteric substance known as the Topaz of Time.

It was the same Transcendent-grade esoteric that allowed the Emperor of Harmony to survive for many years while Rui searched the Beast Domain for the Divine Doctor.

WHOOM…

The Dragon Emperor’s motion slowed down.

They slowed down through the very fabric of time itself.

It was an exotic form of matter that was now known as Chronostatic Condensate, a form of matter that was a hyper-dense, superfluid with crystalline structure despite its liquidity.

What made the exotic substance special was that it was composed of non-hadronic particles that served as a temporal anchor, possessing a ‘viscosity’ through the fourth dimension.

It altered the permeability of time around a certain region, causing objects to slow down in time.

It was one of the most powerful esoteric substances that Rui had mastered in the past five years, allowing him to slow the Dragon Emperor down through the fabric of time itself, giving him more than enough time to deal with the incoming threat.

He turned towards a horrified Anthea with a chilling glint in his eyes.

“You will regret connecting with the flesh of my body.”

Through the very bond that Anthea had made to hold Rui in place, Rui poured the Poison of Yin and Yang into the Supreme Commander’s body, causing black and white overcome his entire body, much of it compromised by the earlier biological warfare he had commenced against the Dragon Emperor.

“ARRGGHHHH!!!” Anthea screamed in pain as Rui severed the connection between them, turning towards the helpless Dragon Emperor, still in slow motion to the normal flow of time.

SPLAT!

With a single jab of his finger, he pierced the dragon’s brain through his yellow reptilian eyes.

He died again without understanding what had happened, while the Supreme Commander died writhing in pain from the most powerful poison in the world.

In the blink of an eye, Rui dispatched two top-ten powerhouses, returning them to blobs of primordial seed.

SPLAT! SPLAT!

That left one and only one entity.

He turned towards NOVA with a chilling glare in his eyes.

[Now, hear me out. I have some hypotheses about why we were reanimated. I can also show you how to learn more about the alien virus controlling me—]

Rui appeared before her in the blink of an eye.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

With a single attack, he reduced the quantum computer to a primordial seed, uncaring to even interact with NOVA ever again.

Once more, he found himself alone in the chamber of creation. The air quivered upon the after-effects of the collision, while the lights of the transcendent esoterics that clad the interiority of the creation of the chamber began glowing even brighter.

RUMBLE

And once more, the primordial seed began to shake.

His ethereal eyes sharpened.

This was the moment he was waiting for.

He had tried searching for the alien virus by trying to spread his material senses around him to his conjured enemies, but his physical senses alone were unable to allow him to pinpoint the location of the body of the alien virus that was controlling the primordial seed to take the form of those who had perished to try and fight him.

He immediately grew serious as he closed his eyes, entering his Martial Path plane in a self-meditative state, trying to spread his senses into the information dimension to the best of his ability.

Ever since he mastered Autocorpus, his familiarity with this realm of mind had grown substantially. He was able to sense information itself around him. He could sense the air molecules at the very root of their existence.

The information itself.

And yet, it was fragmented.

He couldn’t perfectly sense all the information around him through the information dimension.

More like merely fragments.

Fragments that resonated with water.

With love.

With life.

With death.

With nature.

Evolution.

Growth.

Those were the only things he could sense when he entered the information dimension. They corresponded with the enlightenment that he had gained as a Transcendent Candidate, making his way to the Transcendent Realm. The enlightenment of where his Martial Art existed in the world and finding water in many other parts of reality.

Each of those enlightenments was like a piece of the puzzle that painted more of the picture of the information dimension.

A picture that was still beyond him.

But his goal this time was to try to use the information dimension to detect where exactly the signals controlling the primordial seed were coming from.

BUBBLE BUBBLE BUBBLE…

Much to his surprise, the entirety of the primordial seed lake began converging upon a single humanoid figure as the primordial seed began absorbing the information it was being fed.

The question was who was feeding it that information.

Where was it coming from?

He knew that if his physical senses with all of their power were unable to detect the transmission of information, then there was only one option left.

The information dimension.

Within the depths of the information dimension, his enlightenments served as strobe lights that illuminated specific parts of the vast dimension. They offered him an incomplete picture of the flow of the root of reality itself.

They allowed him to sense where the information that the primordial seed was coming from.

And indeed he saw.

He saw where it was coming from.

It came from everywhere.

Every single direction.

Up and down, right and left, front and back. Information was transmitted from each and every single direction that existed in the world. The entire world seemed to be supplying it with information.

Yet, what truly shook his consciousness as it peered into the information dimension with the flashlights of his enlightenment was the sheer volume of the information coming in.

RUMBLE!!!!!

“Rgh!!!” He grimaced through gritted teeth.