1960 Inadvertent Exertion
He basked in the otherworldly glory as he beheld innumerable worlds centered around each lifeform. BADUMP!
His Martial Heart blazed into glory as it enhanced his brain and senses, allowing him to see further.
To see more.
It helped.
The invisible antithetical worlds that overlapped the real world, revolving around their targets, grew more real. Rread latest chapters at novelhall.com
They grew more fleshed out.
Although he knew they were mere figments within the depths of his mind, it was difficult to truly believe that.
They were so real.
So real that he could almost believe it.
And he did.
It became so indistinguishable from actual reality that his subconscious mind was unable to distinguish it.
That triggered a sequence of events that Rui would have foreseen if not for being consumed by the Tree of Life.
Suddenly, his body language and demeanor changed.
His aura and vibe changed.
His non-verbal communication was fundamentally altered.
The light of his Heart had spread far and wide, drawing the attention of every single lifeform.
For a moment, every single creature in the Garden of Salvation glanced in his direction.
They fell prey to his non-verbal communication, distracted by the light of his Heart. Unbeknownst to him, he had cast a hypnosis.
A hypnosis that showed them what he saw.
A hypnosis that convinced them of what he saw.
A hypnosis of Hell itself.
Detached, even if it contained a spark of sincerity.
"It was not my intention." A whisper escaped him. It was the truth.
That was what terrified the Elder Tree so much. It was the reason that it had reacted so late. It normally paid attention to the conscious intention of Martial Artists to stop them from hurting creatures of the Garden of Salvation.
Yet, this time, it had reacted late because Rui truly didn't intend to hurt them. He had inadvertently cast an unintentional hypnosis that tormented all life in the Garden of Salvation.
What had shaken the tree was supposed to be reserved exclusively for Martial Masters. The Elder Tree did not understand how a mere Martial Senior had managed to reach a high level of thought without the Martial Mind.
Rui stared at his hands. "Reality is...hazy."
He turned back to the world around him.
There was the real material world.
Yet overlapped over it were countless antithetical parallel worlds, each maximally adaptively evolved against one particular living being.
"Reality is..." A murmur escaped him. "...Adaptive Evolution?"
It was an absurd statement.
Yet, he felt like he had stumbled into a truly profound insight. "Rui!" Kane finally reached him. "What were you doing?"
Rui's eyes slowly turned towards him.
When he looked at Kane, he saw the Speed Void domain. As expected, it was most optimally antithetical to Kane, one that he would find almost impossible to overcome. He glanced back at the Elder Tree, looking for what world was most antithetical to it according to the Tree of Life.
His eyes lit up with interest at the answer.
Outer space.
A place where there was neither heaven nor earth would be unable to create domains and would be deeply deprived of all the substances that it needed to sustain its massive existence.
"Interesting." His tone was empty.
"...Rui?" Kane tilted his head. His dark eyes turned towards Kane slowly. "...It's nothing," he remarked, closing his eyes. "I just made a mistake when I successfully completed the Tree of Life. Our business in the Garden of Salvation has concluded."
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