The Martial Unity
chapter-2357

Rui found it difficult to reconcile what was happening even as he reduced his Megamind technique and partially activated Weaving Blood.

His Yin-Yang Spear had undoubtedly crashed into the man's eyes. He felt the impact.

Yet somehow, the man's eyeballs had withstood the powerful attack directly.

He stared at the peak Master with shock.

He didn't even know it was possible for anybody in the Master Realm to withstand his most potent attack in a place as vulnerable as the eyes. Such a level of durability was something he would only ever expect from Martial Sages.

"Did you really think your paltry offensive could hurt me?" He stared at Rui with dark eyes. "I will show you that you were foolish to have ever challenged me alone."

His voice was fierce.

Yet, Rui had no intention of losing his cool.

His thought was his greatest power, and losing his rationality at this juncture would undermine all the benefits of the Megamind technique.

Time slowed down in his eyes as he fell into thought.

There was no way Master Stephen's Martial Body was strong enough to tank a Yin-Yang Spear, weakened or not, to his eyeball without so much as a scratch. The Gatekeeper's Body and Heart were astronomically more powerful than his, and Rui highly doubted that even he would be capable of that. It was not raw durability.

The Convergence was not famed for his extraordinary physique or conditioning. He was famed for the seemingly endless raw energy that he was conjuring up out of seemingly nowhere.

In fact, from the looks of it, Rui was unable to detect any signs of conditioning whatsoever. It further reinforced Rui's conclusion that he had withstood the attack not through innate durability or toughness but rather some kind of active technique that allowed him to mitigate the damage.

Rui's eyes lit up as a thought entered his mind.

'Could it be that he dispersed the impact into the environment?'

If he had employed some kind of technique like Flux Earther, then Rui could understand how he managed to withstand the attack in theory. Although, in practice, it was still an absurd feat to accomplish, especially when he had been caught off-guard and especially when the impact was on his eyeballs.

Yet, there was only one problem with his hypothesis.

'I didn't sense any energy discharge into heaven and earth,' he frowned. 'Could it be that he somehow managed to disperse that energy into the environment without me noticing…? No, that's impossible, especially when I'm using the Megamind technique.'

With how powerful his senses were in this state, not even Master Reina would be able to sneak anything past him. Then, it begged the question.

'Where did the energy of my attack go?'

Rui's eyes widened as a grim possibility entered his mind. He glanced at his healed arm as he recollected the attack that broke it. Despite it being a wild, abrupt haymaker, it was somehow stronger and faster than even the charged and weighted attacks that he launched before. Where did that surge in power come from?

Rui's eyes widened with shock. 'Did he absorb the energy of attack and then use it for his own attack?'

The Convergence was one of the strongest Martial Masters ever, feared for his seemingly endless reservoir of energy that never ran out and attacks that only seemed to grow stronger and stronger.

"Focus, boy."

WHOOSH!

He arrived before Rui at astronomical speeds, threatening to destroy with a single attack.

WHOOSH!

Rui barely avoided it, leaping back as his expression grew even more grim than before. The Convergence, however, refused to give him even the slightest bit of reprieve, launching a maelstrom of attacks at Rui.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

Rui bobbed and weaved through all of them as his reflexes sharpened.

Yet, the Convergence was only getting started. His fighting style shifted as he forewent slower and longer attacks at the cost of greater speed and greater frequency at the cost of power.

It was a wise decision.

Rui's condition was so weak that he didn't even need his full power to ravage his body with a single strike. His attacks grew increasingly difficult to evade as his power and speed only rose. He almost certainly would have gotten hit if not for the astronomical foresight that his Megamind technique gave him, allowing him to foresee each attack long before it came, having extrapolated it from his patterns and read his intent at its inception.

"You seem to have figured out my secret."

Rui's eyes widened as he sharply ducked, evading a kick that threatened to knock his head off. He summersaulted away as he evaded a dropkick that struck the ground.

BOOOOOOOOM!!!

A devastating impact sundered the land around them, yet the Convergence had already reached him, launching a barrage of destructive jabs that threatened to reduce Rui into a battered mound of flesh.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!!!

Rui bounced about his strikes, evading his jabs one after another with sharp evasive maneuvers.

"Is dodging all you can do, boy?" the Convergence growled as he ferociously leaped after Rui, threatening to tear him apart with his bare hands. "Is this all the great Rui Quarrier is able to do?!"

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!!!

The slightest shifts across his entire body barely allowed Rui to narrowly avoid some of the fastest attacks he had ever been attacked with. He couldn't even see the man move, yet, he knew where his attacks were.

He knew where they would be. WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!!!

Rui leaped away, having evaded yet another furious barrage of attacks. Their exchanges had grown so intense, sharp, and pressuring that Rui found it difficult to even have complete thoughts about his strategic approach to the battle despite his Megamind technique.

'I cannot attack him conventionally,' Rui's eyes narrowed. 'He'll just absorb my attacks and turn it into his power. It would be foolish to attack him with ordinary collision-based damage principles.'

That didn't leave him with too many options, unfortunately.