The Martial Unity

One of the challenges that Rui had at the moment was that he didn’t have the best compatibility for poison. He recalled when he tried creating a technique that involved poison but failed because his aptitude for poison techniques was not the best.

It was unfortunate, but Rui did not know what constituted poison aptitude. He had temporarily been resigned to this limitation but did not abandon the possibility of using poison techniques.

As someone who aimed to be able to adapt to defeat any foe in the world, he needed to have poison techniques. After all, there almost certainly was a Martial Artist out there who, perhaps, could only be taken down with poison.

In that case, Rui would be unable to adapt to them without a poison technique.

That was unacceptable to him.

Of course, Reaper’s Dew was not a poison that Rui intended to use offensively. Rather, he intended to use it supplementarily.

After all, the technique was such that it did not require much in the first place. Furthermore, Rui did not need to go out of his way to condition himself to be unaffected by the poison the way Squire Herea did. After all, he wanted to get affected by the poison. That was the whole point.

He needed the poison to affect him, or he wouldn’t be able to generate the needed fuel to ensure that his healing factor was not slowed down due to a lack of availability.

(‘Adding the poison element to Weaving Blood will turn the technique into a cell redistribution system.’) He mused.

After all, it was killing cells in certain parts of the body to turn into fuel for new cells in a wounded part of the body.

That was no different from transporting cells from one part of the to another.

It was interesting that the technique that allowed him to do this, Weaving Blood, was essentially combining a total of four different techniques that handle different parts of the mechanism to allow for the entire technique to function as a whole.

He immediately dived back into the Martial Library of the Floating Sect, looking for the poison technique in question.

Yet he couldn’t help but skim through the various poisons and techniques surrounding the poisons.

Poisons were not limited to just one technique, a poison could end up providing multiple techniques to offer, depending on how versatile it was.

Rui found that Reaper’s Dew was a poison that had only one technique it could be applied through. It was a technique where the poison was introduced into the epithelial tissue, would be passed on to anyone that the user touched, and would immediately begin causing cell death.

(‘Hm, I don’t want that to happen.’) Rui frowned. (‘I’ll have to edit that part out. Otherwise, it will be too much of a pain in the ass.’)

He did not want to pass on the poison to those he touched like a poison-user. He wanted to use the Reaper’s Dew for his own body, not for his opponent.

He quickly opened the technique book as he scoured through the training method.

(‘…Interesting.’)

Many poison-oriented techniques involve conditioning the body to be able to handle a poison without any ill-effects, but also to host, and contain the poison. The principle by which this was accomplished was actually quite interesting to Rui.

It was sort of a highly washed-down version of the evolution breakthrough process to the Squire Realm in a way. It did rely on a certain degree of small scale and limited evolution of the cells to be able to accommodate a new substance to the body.

It was nothing compared to the sheer amount of evolution that the breakthrough to the Squire Realm gave the body, but it was still just enough to change how the body interacted and reacted to a single poison.

Because that was the only change that occurred, it was possible to make it occur with relatively limited means.

(‘Interesting… So poison-users rely on the potential to use poison techniques to grow stronger.’)

He had recently had some epiphanies about the Martial Path, and he was able to understand poison-oriented Martial Art better than he had been able to before.

Humans possessed immense potential, and the Martial Path, among other things, was a journey to actualizing that potential through Martial Art. Even as a Martial Apprentice, every technique that one learned maximized the efficiency and effectiveness of the energy generated by the human body.

For poison-oriented Martial Artists, that probably meant the potential of the human body to employ poison by successfully withstanding it. Once the poison element was incorporated into the body, it too had the potential to be used through poison-oriented Martial Artists.

It was just an unusual form of potential that most people did not possess, but those that did ended up having a Martial Path and later on, a Body, that was attuned to poison.

Rui immediately began going through it in detail, he wasn’t too concerned with compatibility with the poison. He could just minimize the dosage that he would be incorporating into his body, regardless, he just needed to be able to release it into his flesh whenever he needed to get an extra boost for stamina or healing.

Because it would cause cell death across his epithelial tissue, it would naturally mean that his flesh would be getting weaker, but it would come with the benefit of better regeneration, and more stamina.

He immediately took a copy of the technique before heading back to his chamber, ready to train the technique immediately. The sooner he mastered it, the sooner his Weaving Blood technique would perfected, and the greater the step forward towards achieving Project Metabody.

Thankfully, the training was a lot less uncertain than he had expected and hoped for. It was training such that as long as he had endurance and perseverance, he would be able to succeed in it just fine eventually. All he needed to do was figure out how to alter the training best to suit his needs.