The Martial Unity

Shenlong roared, charging forth as Rui readied his Wall of Water for the most precise moment of deployment. He needed to time it correctly, lest he give Shenlong the opportunity to try and destroy it. Thankfully, his Prophecy of the Void was astronomically enhanced, allowing him to foresee more than just a few moves ahead.

He could foresee the very conclusion of the battle.

He could mold the shape of the future to his desire.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

Lord Shenlong’s blow crashed into the Wall of Water moments before a flood of radiation threatened to kill Rui on the spot.

WHOOSH

The switch was so smooth that the Dragon Emperor didn’t even realize it. He simply watched his gamma radiation curve around Rui, avoiding him entirely as Rui’s graceful, smooth motion maintained the lensing domain. Lord Shenlong roared with frustration as he unleashed a blow of radiation and physicality, desperately trying to crush Rui then and there.

And yet, Rui had long prepared for the attack.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

He smoothly flowed across the ocean, absorbing the impact of the attack before converting it into his own energy. He pointed two fingers midair towards Lord Shenlong, adopting the one-inch punch stance even though the Dragon Emperor was more than a hundred meters away.

“Water-Inch Punch.”

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

The Dragon Emperor’s eyes grew bloodshot as he felt a destructive blow crash into the abdomen of his body, feeling a devastating impact ravage his invintium armor.

CRACK CRACK CRACK!!!

The strike, which possessed the combined power of both Rui and the absorbed attack from the Dragon Emperor, broke several scales on the Dragon Emperor’s body.

For the first time in the entire battle, Rui inflicted serious damage upon the Dragon Emperor. He applied the principle of Pascal’s Law, which stated that pressure applied to an enclosed limit would be transmitted to every point undiminished.

The ocean had become an extension of his fist.

This was the principle that underlay his most recent invention.

It taught him more about the nature of water, the material kind. Each insight he got made him feel more and more profound about the nature of water and what he knew about it.

“Water-Inch Yin-Yang Spear.”

BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM!!!

His fists flowed like water, unleashing a flurry of blows against the Dragon Emperor, blows that permeated his body with the right resonant frequency. He shadow-boxed, seemingly striking nothing, while each impact riddled the Dragon Emperor.

Thousands, tens of thousands, millions of blows ravaged the Dragon Emperor each second that passed. And yet his power alone was not enough, especially when he was in Gigabrain with a weakened body, with all his blood flow redirected to his brain.

“Your attacks are pathetic!” The Dragon Emperor snarled, unleashing an destructively powerful tail whip at Rui while he charged through the water with great momentum.

WHOOSH

The attack crashed into an empty image.

A feint.

“This is for Amare.”

BOOOOOM!!!

Lord Shenlong felt a sharp pain in his gonads as Rui kicked them with all his might. “Rargh! You coward of a man!”

His rage boiled as he swung his claws at Rui, contorting his entire body with the torque he generated. And yet, Rui’s arms swayed in a Tai Chi-like motion, manipulating the density of water into a gradient as he activated the Wall of Water technique.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

The attack crashed into an elastic domain that allowed Rui to cleanly absorb the impact, using Anti-Spiral to turn it around and make it his own.

“Water-Inch Yin-Yang Spear.”

BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

Rui combined the Water-Inch Punch with Yin-Yang Spear, permeating the destructive energy that he had absorbed from the Dragon Emperor through his body at precisely the right resonant frequency.

The Dragon Emperor coughed blood for the first time in the battle, spewing it into the rapidly heating and bubbling temperatures of the Great Void Ocean.

The single attack had caused the creature to hemorrhage blood. The pain only set him into an even greater frenzy as he unleashed a maelstrom of attacks, both radiation and physical. He tried making his attacks more chaotic to trick Rui, choosing them at random with his subconscious mind.

And yet, there remained patterns beyond even his fathoming.

Patterns that Rui saw.

With the SOUL System, Rui could read his subconscious inception of intent, allowing him to know exactly what the Dragon Emperor was going to do.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

Rui bobbed and weaved through several attacks with an effortless grace, allowing himself to evade them with an elegant simplicity. His motions were minimal, efficient, and perfect, contrasting sharply with the feral attacks of the Dragon Emperor that unleashed devastating destruction upon the world.

RUMBLE!!!

The world shook as the fissures across the ocean floor continued deepening and widening, causing ever more lava and magma to spew out. The ocean floor had completely changed since the start of the battle, becoming unrecognizable from how it used to be.

What was once an inert, dark environment with no activity had been turned into an active geothermal warzone with lava and magma spewing out from deep within the depths of Gaia.

The waters boiled at the bottom with bubbles rushing to the top of the surface. What was once covered in darkness was now illuminated by the ominous glow of lava and magma that rapidly cooled even as more poured in from within Gaia

What was once a silent environment now roared with activity, making for what felt like a volatile hellhole that was hostile to all life. And yet, the Dragon Emperor continued unleashing everything he had, struggling to capture Rui.

Ever since his eyes began shining like suns, he had achieved a level of combat prowess that the Dragon Emperor had never experienced, overwhelming with a stunning amount of ease.

Even as Rui effortlessly evaded, redirected, and absorbed his attacks, the Dragon Emperor came to a shocking realization, one that shook him to his very core.

’My defeat is inevitable at this rate.’

At this rate, it was just a matter of time before Rui completely overwhelmed him and then feasted on his body to acquire his Authority. The very thought of becoming prey inflamed the Dragon Emperor’s soul as his bloodshot eyes intensified.

“Never!”

RUMBLE!!!

The world shook as a newfound flood of power emerged from deep within the Dragon Emperor, elevating his power to new heights.