The Martial Unity Chapter 3683: The Source of Transcendence

The revelation weighed on him heavily.

Phenona of information on a higher plane of existence that was beyond even his fathoming.

If this were truly the case, then it would explain much. It explained why consciousness was preserved in the Body Evolution Process, and it explained what the Martial Path, and perhaps all paths, were.

It had taken countless insights to build on top of each other, one after another, for him to finally develop the understanding of Martial Paths that he did develop. And while his understanding was still limited, it didn’t change the fact that a phenonon that was previously drowned in mystery was now sothing he could parse and define.

"...These revelations have a great impact on the implications of the fundantal nature of reality."

The information dinsion was not an unheard one, of course, in either Gaia or Earth. Many philosophers had speculated that information was an abstract immaterial entity that existed in its own place.

There were even so that suggested that information was the fifth fundantal force of nature, along with a myriad of other fantastical cosmological and ontological architectures where information played a grand role.

Rui had never taken any of them seriously in the past; he was not a man to ponder about the wonders of the universe or inquire into the nature of reality itself. His interests had always been more grounded in things like martial arts and combat sports.

But now, even if he didn’t have absolute proof, he had pieces of evidence that seed to inescapably point to the existence of a layer of reality where only information existed. A layer where even consciousness existed.

"...A whole other dinsion of reality that is untapped." Rui’s eyes widened. "What if the Transcendent Realm has sothing to do with this information dinsion?"

The possibility was truly shocking, but it was one that Rui found himself resonating with. Rui had always wondered how it was possible that Martial Transcendents could violate the laws of Physics. How could they violate the laws of causality itself?

The Martial Path was a path of potential for efficient violence. Martial Artists harnessed their bodies, minds, and souls to execute techniques based on principles that adhered to the laws of reality to produce desired outcos in combat.

How in the world could such a thing violate those very laws of reality that it relied upon? It didn’t make any sense.

"...It doesn’t make sense unless there is so extra-causal ans by which they can overco the shackles of reality," Rui realized. "Information... the information dinsion might be just that. It might be the secret to the Transcendent Realm."

For instance, if there was a law of reality that mandated that information must always reflect the material reality it corresponds to, then changing that information could lead to an acausal change in material reality to reflect that law of reality.

"It would violate the law of causality, but that would only an that this law of information is a higher law of reality," Rui speculated. "That could serve as a ans to violate the laws of reality; to impose one’s information on the information dinsion!"

Still, how could one possibly impose one’s information on sothing as epheral and unfathomable as the information dinsion?

"...I’m not entirely sure, but... it must have sothing to do with the relationship between the mind and the universe," Rui realized. "It might be that only soone who has fully harnessed all potential within their mind in the form of the Martial Mind and Soul for Martial Artists, can possibly impose information on the information dinsion."

Rui thought back to Damian when he broke through to the Transcendent Realm. His Martial Embodint went from illusory information to actual and real material phenona of Destruction.

Rui’s eyes lit up as he realized that that phenonon could reflect the imposition of information of the Martial Embodint upon the information dinsion. "If so, then that would explain it!"

For the first ti since becoming a Martial Sage, he began to gain greater clarity of what the higher Realm probably was. None of the information he had before had ever even hinted at how Martial Transcendents were able to perform the extraordinary feats that they had perford in the past.

With this, however, he had gained at least a surface-level understanding of the chanism by which Martial Transcendents could bypass the laws of reality and even the law of causality itself.

"Expanding your understanding of your Martial Path must be necessary in so way..." Rui muttered. "It must be necessary to impose information on the information dinsion. Still..."

The exact chanism by which information was imposed was still beyond him. If there truly was an information dinsion that existed, then it would surely be immaterial and abstract, a taphysical dinsion that was categorically separate from the material realm.

It should have been impossible for the material realm to intervene in the information realm. It should have been impossible for anything to reverse the impact on material reality through the information dinsion.

What principle of reality allowed consciousness to impact the information describing the universe?

He didn’t know.

"...There is also so counter-evidence," Rui muttered inwardly. "The Materealtor is one, for instance."

He recalled the only words the Martial Transcendent had spoken to him in the epicenter of the Beast Domain during and after the battle with the eldritch chira.

He had insisted that everything was reducible to material reality. It was made clear that his worldview did not permit the existence of so kind of information dinsion. Rui did not think that a Martial Transcendent could be wrong about that and still be a Martial Transcendent, but who knew?

He also knew that there were Martial Transcendents who had worldviews that contradicted each other. The Martial Primordial and the Astral Sovereign, for instance, possessed worldviews that clearly contradicted a materialist worldview.

"Maybe it isn’t about truth at all. Maybe it’s about perspective."

After all, the Reverend of Reckoning mastered the concept of order; would that an he could not beco a Martial Transcendent because of the Conqueror of Chaos, who insisted that everything was rooted in chaos?