The Martial Unity

Even as Rui studied the dead, the evolutionary, he couldn’t help but wonder what the end goal of this path was.

Was it just endless bodily evolution?

Did they not have a higher rank above his current stage?

Of course, the evolutionaries didn’t seem to have ranks; they had a continuous spectrum, apparently.

However, they clearly conceptualized different kinds of potential for adaptive evolution. Anthea had mentioned to him the Body, Mind, Soul, and Domain Phase.

Three of those were Realms, while the other was a field of Martial Art, he couldn’t help but notice that the evolutionaries did not seem to have the equivalent of the Transcendent Realm.

Could that really be the case?

Was it truly the case that only the Martial Path had the power to intervene in the very fabric of reality and overcome the shackles of causality itself with the power of the Transcendent Realm?

“Unlikely.”

From his time interacting with the evolutionaries and the dark elves, he likely suspected that all paths had the same potential.

All of them made use of body, mind, and heart in some way or another. That potential manifested differently and accomplished different things in different species and paths, but that didn’t change that they had the same potential.

He strongly suspected that the six paths also possessed the potential for Transcendence.

However, just like the other Realms, it would likely manifest in a different way.

It would likely manifest in an unrecognizable manner.

However, if his hypothesis was right, then get was likely that the other six paths also possessed the the potential to achieve the godly power of the True Transcendent Realm.

They had just yet to tap into it.

They likely didn’t even know it existed.

After all, by the time they reached Sage-level power, they had almost entirely squeezed all internal potentials.

As a Martial Sage, Rui had truly squeezed almost everything his existence had to offer.

Whether it was Body, Mind, and Soul.

He had weaponized all of it in his Martial Path.

If he didn’t know about the Transcendent Realm beforehand, he might have concluded that this was the end of the Martial Path.

He suspected that the six paths were in that stage.

They likely suspected that they were at the very conclusion of their path.

They likely hadn’t even fathomed that there existed the power of a god that lay in await for them.

It made sense when he considered how long it took them to reach their current Realm.

One hundred and eighty-seven thousand years.

Without the magic of esoteric substances, their civilization developed as slowly as human civilization has developed on Earth, with a hundred-thousand years passing before they reached their current level of power.

It was no wonder that their progress towards the Transcendent Realm was even slower.

The moment they learned of the Martial Transcendent Realm, they would realize that they had yet to harness all their potential.

“Damn…” Rui cursed as he gazed at Anthea’s body, deep in thought. “Should I just erase the memory of all human beings about the Transcendent Realm?”

It was a nonsensical statement.

But for Rui, it was within the bounds of possible.

He would likely need Megamind, no, Gigabrain to do that.

Doing so would prevent the true world from learning about the Transcendent Realm for as long as possible.

But on the other hand, it could also harm the emergence of Martial Transcendents.

It would also cause a lot of psychological stress when they ran into documentation about the Transcendent Realm.

The existence of the now-destroyed moon would also cause them to become confused in a state of disarray.

There were too many problems that would emerge from such an action.

He heaved a sigh, shaking his head.

“I suppose I could use the additional psychological pressure.”

His attention returned to the here and now as he activated his Realms of power.

RUMBLE

The world shook as bright blood-red streaks emerged across his entire body.

He activated the Embodiment Firewall technique, ensuring he didn’t kill everybody in the small country, before diverting his power to Anthea.

He extracted a single skin cell from Anthea’s body.

One that looked the closest to life.

And then, he summoned the stored data from the battle.

The Angel of Laplace.

It showed him the past of the cell in the battle.

It showed him the changes the cell underwent.

It showed him the increase in entropy that came with death.

He would need to undo it.

He would need to grapple with the Second Law of Thermodynamics itself.

And thus, he began.

He activated Resurrection.

The most advanced Martial Art technique he had ever created.

RUMBLE

With one million quantum gravitational tweezers that relied on the manipulation of space time to rely on the Casimir force to create quantum tweezers to manipulate the molecules and atoms in the cell while studying the cell structure.

He hadn’t had the opportunity yet to actually study evosapien microbiology, not when he was fighting with all his might against an opponent who possessed the power to kill him.

His eyes lit up with curiosity.

How did evolutionaries change their DNA?

He had to do it manually with quantum gravitational tweezers.

But the evolutionaries could do it spontaneously.

He peered deep into the cell structure of Anthea as he studied it in depth.

With his extraordinary vision, the secrets of the evolutionaries were transparent to him.

“The cell structure is almost identical to human cell structure…” Rui’s eyes widened in shock.

It was to be expected, to an extent.

Evosapiens were still evolutionary descendants of human beings, and Anthea was a further evolved species.

And yet, the immense overlap of cell structure was truly astonishing.

Even though his cell was astronomically superior to human beings, made up of vastly more powerful chemical compounds and a literal nuclear fusion reactor inside his mitochondria, Rui was surprised to see how similar the overall structures and their purposes were.

There was just one difference.

It was tiny.

Easy to miss.

And yet, he spotted it nonetheless.

The secret of genetic adaptive evolution.

It lay deep in the nucleus of the cell.