I feel like this is the route he will take. He is going for the best solution where there is checks and balances, his family being safe, and time to practice his martial arts. My theory is that its going to be a council-like approach with him being the president of some sort. Then he is going to learn/train some new abilities to head to the beast domain to get out of everyone’s sight and maybe look for the divine doctor. Im just wondering if he is gonna become a martial master before leaving or not.

Plot twist, emperor is going to adopt Rui as a son.

Uh anyone worried about reina here? if it goes according to his plan, she will be facing more then 10 martial masters, could be framed by the prince/princesses, etc? So many things can go wrong here. Rui is so bloodlusted.

Master reina is prob hot in the eyes of the masters.

We always have thought the void people see in Rui was his martial path, but now it looks like there is much more to it then before and it is being explicitly pointed out with foreshadowed heavy consequences. I guess there was hints of it such as Rui’s opponent’s martial path breaking down, his decision making during the Shionel dungeon that put his family at risk, or him declining the martial union’s protection offered to his family. I guess its evident at this point if he had the opportunity to further his path at a dead end, he will sacrifice his family to do so. I wonder what we can expect from this in the future.

I bet he is happy his dad passed away if they are ingrainly capitalists. He gets to own his legacy and power.

So x10 the amount on the commission to help the path of someone he doesn’t support. Sounds very cheap to me as a prince with no money problem.

Yep, the author has talked about martial artist’s drive alot in the beginning of the novel and throughout it. most martial artists dont have a pure drive like Rui does. As long as they safisfy their goal, their martial path ends there. For example, his ex-girlfriend reached the martial senior realm and has stopped pursuing her martial path because she feels she has enough power already and would rather settle down.

sigh, thats why you need backup keys. getting locked out of your house for 50,000 years is a bit shameful.

Rui is forgetting that the way the world works is that strong eats the weak. I don’t know how prince Raul appeals at all to martial sages. If all martial sages and the martial union leaves kandrian empire, I dont see how the prince, who puts the common people first, can sway them to stay. If anything, this prince probably hates martial artists and prob belongs to the beggar sect. He will prob use the kandrian technology to kill off martial artists. I really hope Rui can detect some kind of suspicion with his senses. If anything, i think the coastal princess is the best middleground and support.

Rui is becoming more reckless, maybe cause he has been stomping his opponents or he gotten more arrogant cause of his growth. Its going to become really clear to everyone with a connection to Rui that he killed Deacon, especially the Kandrian underworld. deacon put in alot of resources and target on rui’s name and that had to spread out to every big force. Deacon’s son selling all his dad’s assets in Kandrian empire could be a ruse. Big props to you, author, for giving your readers an uncomfortable/dangerous feeling for Rui during this whole arc. Rui himself is feeling great, but not me. my primordial danger sense is still tingling.

Alot of things can change in three months. Rui should already know that the beggar’s sect aint perfect. their information involving the upper realm is not that great. Also i bet that rui will be the catalyst for civil war in the kandrian empire

I think keeping what he has been doing underwraps would make chairmen deacon less alert. if he learned about a new senior martial artists that belongs to the floating sect guarding an orphanage, hes gonna learn more about rui’s abilities. im pretty sure the guildmaster realizes who Rui was during the tournament. Deacon is just as smart/formidable so its much better if Rui keeps has tracks covered.

didn’t rui already fought a copy of himself when he was choosing his body during the squire evolution?

It felt too dragged on basically and I would still know whats happening without the explanations.

I skipped the last two and this chapter. I don’t see how these three chapters allude to what will happened in the future. it was already explained that the nation is a capitalist. I think its better to breadcrumb all these explanations rather than have three chapters that is very minor to the story itself with no known characters.

I think the exposition and explanations are fine, but the chapter is too short for any meaningful events to actually be finished. Often the conflicts are finished in one chapter, but the events leading to it take a few or several chapters (e.g. the offense commission that just took place). The pacing feels very weird. However, I am reading chapter by chapter and it might be better for myself to stockpile chapters to read later.

Might be cleared up in the future, but the procedure to upgrade to a martial squire probably caused changes to the human body. they mentioned that a martial squire body is not like a regular human anymore and their bodies continue to grow/age. maybe the radiation they used caused the cells to have a self-growth/upgrade trait?

Does he have to transfer his void domain ability after getting a new bloodline every time?

does yuan ever reciprocate the favors he is receiving? training, techniques, and now free herbs. i feel super uncomfortable seeing him receive free stuff and him not returning anything in favor.