The Martial Unity

Chapter 3272: Different Approach

Thankfully, he had the Eye of Prophecy to help him yet again to cut through much of the trial-and-error process, allowing him to greatly improve his efficiency. This allowed him to skim through much of what would otherwise be an incredibly tedious and lengthy process. In particular, he wasn’t eager to spend years and decades just decoding what made nature move.

He immediately began training within the Forest of War in his own little corner with no one to disturb him as he began communicating with the trees, understanding what communication triggered what outcome.

Occasionally, he would try replicating the commands of certain elves that he was manipulating the trees of nature, trying to recreate the exact signals they sent.

But even though it was the same, it could not trigger the same outcome as theirs.

The Mother of Nature had been correct in that this was a process that he would need to overcome on his own. And thus, he immersed himself in the depths of the forest, surrounded by trees and plants as he ground himself to the bone, trying to figure out exactly what he needed to do.

It was a thankless job, one that would make anyone feel as though they were wasting time. It was perhaps the first time in a long time that he didn’t enjoy training. Usually, training was almost always among the most enjoyable parts of his life.

Even if it was painful and truly exhausting, it was fulfilling in a way that nothing else in his life could ever hope to be.

’Nature may be an adaptive evolution, but it isn’t something that I have the best affinity for.’

It only reinforced his intentions to harness it to whatever extent he could and forget about the rest of them.

Thankfully, he wasn’t alone.

“Hnggg!” Amare put her hands before a tree, almost as if trying to force her will into the tree.

It was to no avail, of course.

“You need to build an interface with nature,” Rui informed her knowingly. “Otherwise, you can’t communicate with nature. We weren’t evolved for that. If you want, I can teach you my technique.”

She shook her head.

“I can’t do things your way. I have my own way of learning.”

Rui’s eyes lit up with interest. “What do you have in mind?”

She smiled enthusiastically. “If I live among the elves, then I can learn their ways. If I live their life, then I, too, will eventually inherit their power.”

Rui shook his head. “There’s no way that can possibly work.”

“Have faith,” she raised a hand, beckoning him to join her with a radiant smile. “Everything is Martial Art, after all. I’m sure that nature is the same!”

Rui gazed at her deeply as he beheld the sparkle in her amber eyes, along with a deep drive for power.

CLASP

He took her hand as she pulled him along with her, taking him across the Genora Continent. She had been living with the elves over the past ten days as Rui had been busy working on the treaty between humans and elves.

“Elves are truly diverse,” she told him with an excited tone. “Did you know that not all elves live within trees? Some live on the ground, others even live underground. There are even elves that live in the sky!”

Rui’s eyes lit up with a hint of intrigue. “Mother Pruschilia did inform us that the elves were even more diverse than we might have been led to believe.”

Amare nodded. “I found that different tribes of elves focus on different kinds of kinds of flora. There are those who focus exclusively on certain kinds of plants, while others focus on certain set of trees. No two tribes of elves are centered around the same tree or plant.”

Rui’s eyes lit up with a hint of interest.

“They also focus on different seasons,” she explained. “That is another important way in which they differ. Isn’t that interesting? I’m going to live among them and inherit their power by living their life.”

Rui gazed at her with a deep expression as a soft smile emerged on his face.

“That does sound fun. I look forward to seeing what you end up with.”

And thus, their new life in the Genora Continent began as they began mastering the power of nature in their own ways. Rui began drowning himself in endless trial and error, gritting his teeth as he slowly began probing nature and understanding the causality of manipulating it.

Day by day, he made little progress.

He soon began learning to cause it to trigger certain chemical processes associated with cell reproduction. Each flora lifeform was a complex web of chemistry that he needed to unfurl in order to study what effects his communication had on nature.

By using his powerful senses, he could peer into the depths of the trees and plants and study exactly what happened when he communicated his will to nature.

The complexity of the challenge rose exponentially when he considered manipulating entire ecosystems with his commands. There was so much information to process that even he felt burdened by the sheer amount of information that he needed to process.

It truly was no wonder that elves needed to live centuries for them to even have a slimmest chance of completing all of this and becoming a Mother of Nature.

Another constraint that he had that the elves didn’t have was the fact that his techniques required his Realms of power to even train, while they could train their nature manipulation in their ordinary state, allowing them to last much longer than he did.

Of course, he had the Blood of Solaris, which drastically increased the amount of time he would be able to train with the Eye of Prophecy.

Time passed as the two of them began their own journeys down the Nature Path. Rui approached the project like the scientist he was, while Amare lived her heart out among the elves, as her kinesthetic learning began absorbing their ways.