The Martial Unity

Chapter 3265: Information Transfer

Rui’s eyes widened as he found himself in a wide facility with many laboratories with dark elven test subjects, both male and female, suspended in giant tubes.

“These are volunteer dark elves who have chosen to undergo certain procedures in hopes that it would increase their affinity for nature,” the dark elven man explained. “They help us progress scientific research. But more importantly, I believe that this…”

He led Rui to a section with many trees and plants with dark elves within them manipulating nature under a large set of sensors that captured the phenomenon and documented it.

“…is what you came here for.” He gestured to the labs around them. “Here, we study the elven capacity for nature manipulation, gathering data on it and understanding how it works. And despite decades, centuries, and even millennia of research, we have yet to crack all the secrets of nature manipulation. Particularly at the higher levels of the Hymn of Mind and Soul and the Singularity of Nature, as well as our dear Mothers of Nature.”

“…Even after all these years?” Rui’s eyes lit up with curiosity. “I suppose that it makes sense that it is harder to understand the higher echelons of power scientifically.”

A similar thing was true for Martial Artists.

The Apprentice Realm and even the Squire Realm were very well understood in Martial Science, even the Senior Realm was decently understood.

But the Upper Realms, however, were more of a mystery than they were well understood. Nobody quite understood how the Martial Artists of the Upper Realms functioned from a scientific perspective.

Except for Rui, of course. But he had no intention of doing their job for them by publishing any papers about it for them.

“And I believe that this…”

He offered Rui a familiar seed.

“…is what you seek, yes?”

“Ah… I almost forgot you guys could just eat knowledge,” Rui remarked with an impressed tone. “This is just absurdly overpowered technology now that I think of it. It’s almost as important as your flora network technology, no?”

“I wouldn’t say so,” Vertail shook his head. “There are very heavy constraints on its production as well the people who can consume them. They require great mental power to consume them, else they will overwhelm the person eating them and cause brain damage.

“Ah…” Rui recalled that only the Martial Sages and the Ecologer had eaten them. “Unfortunate that such a means of transferring knowledge is not commonly available to the masses.”

Vertail’s eyes sharpened with seriousness.

“This seed contains most of the vast expanse of reseach we have conducted on elven-nature communication and harmonization. It represents a vast amount of data that may overwhelm even someone of your power. Please be careful.”

Rui nodded seriously, before tossing the seed in his mind and biting down on it.

Having done it once before, he knew exactly what to expect. The moment he bit down on it, the seed released biotechnological nanites that entered his flesh, heading towards his spinal cord.

Rui had to exert great effort to restrain the Gu from leaping at them and extinguishing all life in them. The moment they reached his spinal cord, they attached themselves to the neurons before sending a surge of information through them into his brain.

A flood of information entered his mind.

If not for his extraordinary cognition, he would not have been able to handle it as well as he did.

Instantly, he was flooded with research data on the elven bond with nature. A massive amount of pre-organized and compiled data.

It studied brainwaves of dark elves while they were interacting with nature using extremely sensitive brainwave sensors in a headset firmly attached to their heads, before conducting a factor analysis on the correlation between the data and the environment.

“This is brilliant.” Rui’s eyes lit up with amazement. “It gets all the hard and grueling parts of the research process out of the way for me. I won’t need to start from scratch.”

He had known that trying to monitor the elves to identify the causality of the electromagnetic signals flowing between nature and elf was something that could take a long time if he had to start from zero. He would need to be extremely patient in his attempt to study exactly how elves were sensing and receiving information from nature, how their minds were interpreting them.

It wasn’t something that he could rush if he truly wanted to get into it.

The dark elves had even gone so far as to have many elven nature manipulators interpret tree data and act convey them to the researchers so that they could establish a model that could help them interpret nature through purely scientific means even if it was difficult and imperfect.

A shocking discovery of their research that was the signals of nature were different from Rui had imagined it would be. The signals that nature sent out were not concentrated in any one medium of communication alone.

If one focused on the electromagnetic activity that trees had, one would not be able to interpret the signals and nature by. Each electromagnetic signal was only meaningful if collectively interpreted with the other signals that nature gave out. Thus, actual communication occurred collectively across all media of communication as a whole.

This explained why Rui never sensed any communication from nature as a whole even after his senses elevated to an extremely high level as a Martial Master and even further as a Martial Sage. Despite having an extraordinary insight into the fundamental root of reality and the flow of causality itself, it was almost impossible to spot the messages and the communication for affinity unless he knew what he was looking for as he now did.

The dark elves on the other hand, were evolved for this. Thus, even if a dark elf has senses vastly inferior to his, they were attuned to make out and interpret the language of nature.

“Evolution sure in amazing.” Rui’s eyes lit up with a hint of amazement. “Regardless, I have what I need for Project Nature Path.”

It wasn’t long before he departed from the institution, heading back to Mother Alicia as he thought about how he was going to use this data to learn how to interpret nature.