The Martial Unity

Chapter 2614: Boundless Light

”Amitabha. What do you think, Bodhisattva Maitreyi?”

Within the Golden Chamber in the very center of the Gen Temple sat several Bodhisattvas. They sat cross-legged, in lines on either side of the Abbot, gazing at her with a serious expression.

”He agreed to it, surprisingly enough,” she remarked with a smile. ”He could use it. He is entirely lost within himself. Should he lift the fog of impurity that impedes his vision, then he would be able to discern who he is much sooner.”

They nodded with a knowing expression.

”And, as for his power?” Bodhisattva Kakin, the Monk of Mystery, asked. ”The reports of his feats in the Sekigahara Confederate are... hard to believe.”

She stirred at the question. ”I was unable to discern his true power. If he is truly capable of such power, then it is buried deep within him and isnʼt a part of his natural state.”

The Bodhisattvas around her fell into thought.

”What about his Hellbringer embedding and his breakthrough ability, Maitreyi?” Bodhisattva Namuk, the Speed Sage, asked with a stern expression. ”The primary reason he came here was to impart his blessings upon the Gen Temple. That is the most important objective for us. All this matter about his purification and the test is entirely irrelevant. You should have had him do just those things the very moment he came to the Gen Temple.”

”He is our guest,” Bodhisattva Maitreyi calmly replied. ”We will honor him as one before we make any requests of him.”

The Bodhisattvas exchanged skeptical glances with each other.

”Besides, arenʼt you curious?” She smiled wryly. ”Which one of them is stronger? They are among the very best of what humankind has to offer.”

They stirred at her words.

They would be lying if they said they werenʼt curious.

”I have complete faith in our greatest Master,” Bodhisattva Meilei, the Dame of Dominance, stated firmly. ”The Dawnbringer is too young. He may very well be more talented, but she is more experienced.”

”He gained an advantage against a Bodhisattva,” Bodhisattva Merwil, the Ascended Ark, reminded her. ”He is far beyond any Master to have ever existed.”

”Hah, he ultimately lost,” Bodhisattva Namuk snapped. ”Iʼm sure the Beggarʼs Sect has embellished this report in his favor, given how aggressively they are propagandizing his accomplishments.”

”Itʼs the Beggarʼs Sect,” Bodhisattva Maitreyi remarked. ”The information is certainly accurate. The only question is... how? That is what I seek to find out.”

The Bodhisattvas around her gained an understanding of a part of her motivations.

”You wish to test the Dawnbringer with the Omni Martial?”

”That is one of my motivations, certainly,” she replied with a relaxed tone. ”However, that isnʼt all.”

They caught on to another part of her intentions. ”You think he will be a worthy opponent against the Amare?”

She nodded. ”She has gotten so strong that even within the Master Realm, there are almost no worthy opponents. It would not do her good to mistakenly regard herself as invincible within her Realm. I suspect that the Dawnbringer will be a good opponent for her. Yet, that isnʼt all...”

She regarded all of them with a knowing glance. ”Amare is going to have a tough road to Nirvana. I hope that this battle with the Dawnbringer will be able to accelerate her progress along the way. Adaptive Evolution may be just what she needs in an opponent.”

Her motivations were rather understandable now that she had laid them out so clearly.

”Amareʼs Path is the purest that the Temple has ever seen,” Bodhisattva Maitreyi continued with a sagely tone. ”It is almost as if she is an incarnation of Genism itself. An embodiment of everything our philosophy entails. She truly is Gen itself.”

They nodded with an expression of piety.

The Omni Martial had a special place in the Gen Temple due to how much she manifested the philosophy of the temple.

As far as the Gen Temple was concerned, she was a miracle.

A blessing from the heavens.

This wasnʼt just because of philosophical or theistic reasons, but rather because her Path was the purest manifestation of Genism, all the progress she made as a Martial Artist was of priceless value to the Gen Temple. Her individuality applied not just to her Martial Art, but also to the entirety of Genism as a Martial philosophy.

Every step she took was a giant leap for Gen philosophy.

She allowed Genism to evolve extremely faster as a Martial philosophy than it would have without her. The training methods she devised, the system of thoughts she came up with, the techniques she created, all of them elevated Gen Martial philosophy to a higher level. Her contributions made it so that she was the second most influential and authoritative person in the Gen Temple after Bodhisattva Maitreyi herself.

”The two of them are similar in that their powerful Martial Paths have allowed them to make a disproportionate impact on the world around them,” Bodhisattva Maitreyi mused with a knowing tone. ”Although the Dawnbringer is a pillar of hope for all of human civilization in an Era of Darkness, I believe that Amare is capable of becoming an even greater beacon than he is when she gains Nirvana and becomes a Bodhisattva among us. At that point, she will finally have the power to spread Genism around the entire world and single-handedly dispel the Era of Darkness.”

The other Bodhisattvas nodded with a hint of admiration to Bodhisattva Maitreyiʼs

farsightedness.

Almost all people around the Panama Continent had been negatively affected psychologically by the Era of Darkness. Even the Kandrian Empire, which fared far, far better than other people around the world, was still not devoid of fear, misery, and despair.

The only exception to this rule was the Gen Temple.

The people of the Gen Temple werenʼt so much as shaken.

The purification process that got rid of the impure fog that covered the mind had given them clarity to be able to understand and accept their situation without experiencing any negative emotion to it.

”Amitabha.”

A word that translated to Boundless Light.

Boundless Light to dispel the Era of Darkness.