The Martial Unity

Chapter 3684: The Nature of the Martialverse

”The same is also true for the Demon of Asmodeous,” Rui realized. ”The man surely was not barred from becoming a Martial Transcendent because death is the opposite of life, which the Martial Primordial has mastered.”

In other words, it was not about whether their beliefs were compatible with reality. It was all about how they contextualized the world around them in their Martial Path.

”Does that mean that any idiot can espouse a crazy worldview and become a Transcendent?”

Of course not. Like always, the necessity of prior Realms to reach higher Realms was always there. It was why one would not achieve the Martial Soul even with the Enlightenment of Self without the Martial Mind.

There was also more to it.

”It needs to be internally coherent. It also probably needs... depth.”

If information were the source of power of the Transcendent Realm, then one would surely need lots of it.

Only now did Rui truly begin to understand the role that his enlightenment played in the Path to Transcendence. He gained a deeper understanding of what the power of the Transcendent Realm actually was.

He recalled what the Martial Primordial had called it.

”Martialverse.”

In the past, he had no fathoming of what that word meant. But when conjugated with his most recent revelations on the phenomena of information in an invisible plane of information that could be used to bypass the laws of reality, he was starting to understand what the word represented.

”It is the information that they impose upon the information dimension to manipulate reality itself.”

That was what Martial Sages were building up to when they deepened their mastery of their Martial Path and the essence of what underlay their Martial Path. If there existed such a thing as the information dimension, he couldn’t imagine how information it would take to do what they did.

He gained a deeper understanding and clarity of the path ahead.

”I might be the first Martial Sage to have understood this much of the path that we must chart.”

For some reason, the Martial Transcendents never saw fit to inform Martial Sages of what the Transcendent Realm was. Unless...

”...Even they have not entirely understood what they are dealing with,” Rui murmured.

This was not unheard of. The Apprentice Realm was actually quite unknown for quite some time until the Psycher finally proved that it had something to do with the latent potential of the brain.

Martial Artists had long practiced Martial Art without having a theoretical understanding of all the principles they applied. They were often limited only to internal intuitions and instincts.

He recalled that the Martial Transcendents had long answered questions about the Transcendent Realm, but their answers had always been warped and colored by their Martial Path, or their Martialverse, perhaps.

”...Perhaps that is what it takes,” Rui murmured. ”To have so much information that even your own mind is submerged within it. I am not quite there yet, but...”

His eyes sharpened with determination.

”I am getting there.”

He had already found adaptive evolution in large swathes of reality, whether it was nature itself, or both life and death. Things like love and even the material phenomenon of water.

He was developing his Martialverse, one enlightenment upon another.

He heaved a deep breath as he let these many shocking realizations and revelations sink in. His understanding was still incomplete, and there were parts of it that were speculative, at best. But he was certain that he had homed right into the fundamentally correct answer.

”I must convey this to the other Martial Sages and Transcendent Candidates when I’m done.”

The truth of the Transcendent Realm and what it was. Since he was perhaps the first person in the world to develop a fundamental understanding of it in a theoretical and qualitative manner, he could help the Martial Sages and the Transcendent Candidates reach Transcendence more reliably.

Too many Martial Sages and even Transcendent Candidates were flailing around, not entirely clear on what lay beyond. Too many of them didn’t have any clarity on what the path forward was. Too many of them were deeply confused by the confusing answers that the Martial Transcendents before them had provided.

Once Rui created a theoretical framework that could allow them to reach Transcendence reliably, their progress should be much more efficient.

Rui was not simply speculating about this; he was basing this on all previous Realms. Once clarity to the Apprentice Realm and its criteria had been brought about, the breakthroughs to the Apprentice Realm shot up!

The same had happened for the Squire Realm.

For the Senior Realm.

The Master Realm.

And even the Sage Realm.

Clarity and understanding went a long, long way in helping Martial Artists break through. The reason that the breakthroughs to the Transcendent Realm were so few and far between was that the Martial Transcendents were too immersed in their own Martialverses to truly provide an answer divorced from their Martiaverses.

Rui was different.

His mind was tremendously powerful. He could develop a Martialverse while simultaneously drawing upon higher truths that went beyond his Martial perspective on the nature of reality and its relationship with Water. Thanks to his special traits, he was able to shed light on the true fundamental criteria that underlay the breakthrough to the Transcendent Realm.

”Besides, the Martial Transcendents were not even strictly wrong. It is very likely that they uttered the truth,” Rui realized. ”They conveyed through their different answers that the breakthrough to the Transcendent Realm was different for different people.”

Individuality at the Transcendent Realm was so high that even the material criteria of the breakthroughs seemed to vary from person to person to fulfill some grander abstract condition.

Rui’s insights could help contextualize the words and create a new era of Transcendent breakthroughs!

”Forget winning the war... we could fix Gaia... we would have the numbers and the power to have a serious chance at fixing the Transcendent Fear!”

He grew giddy with excitement at that realization. The solution to all their problems had potentially just fallen into his hands in the form of these many revelations and epiphanies.