The Martial Unity Chapter 4018 The Nature of Nature

WHOOSH

He teleported to the little chamber within her body that served as the headquarters of their task force. The changes were noticeable imdiately, with most of the organic machinery disconnected and dissolved into organic tissue, making the familiar chamber feel bigger than it used to.

There were clear signs of a clean-up and a wind-down of operations, with only Mother Maeria and the Divine Doctor studying so data together. They turned towards him, noticing his presence imdiately.

And noticing the differences in his very being, of course.

Having broken through to the Transcendent Realm, the very tethers of reality ca undone around him, making them feel like they were in a real version of funhouse mirrors.

Mother Maeria, with her powerful senses in particular, could see the degree to which Rui's very presence caused the nature of reality to change.

She gazed at her hands with a sharpening gaze.

Even her own physical existence felt… Watery.

As if everything were a liquid.

As if everything was Water.

Beyond just his effect on reality, she sensed limitless power within him. He towered above all Martial Artists and all pathwalkers like a god of divine might, unchallenged and untouchable by any force within Gaia.

He was truly in a Realm by himself.

She turned towards him with a deep, knowing gaze. "…So this is a Martial Transcendent. Truly, you live up to the tales that you have told about them."

Mother Maeria had heard lots about the Martial Transcendents of the Panama Continent. That they could do this and that. A lot of those tales were hard to believe, but she had experienced the power of the information dinsion herself, so she knew what it was like.

However, she realized that he was much stronger than she had expected. Would she also be this powerful when she broke through to the Nature Path equivalent of the Transcendent Realm?

"Of course," Rui remarked. "However, the Nature Path to the information dinsion is a little different."

Rui had only realized this as he gazed upon the near-Transcendent Mother of Nature. But with his Transcendent gaze, he could sense exactly what the nature of elven Transcendence was.

"Elven Transcendence is the power of the Noosphere," he spoke with certainty, calmly dropping a bombshell on the elder Mother of Nature. "You rely on the collective consciousness of your entire species to warp reality in your favor. The condition for elven Transcendence is phenonological uniformity across elven consciousness."

Ultimately, phenonological unity was the source of any consciousness changing the information of the information dinsion. Whether it was internal phenonological unity, such as the Enlightennt of Transcendence around a particular elent or concept, or whether it was phenonological unity across an entire sphere of thought.

Of elven thought.

That was the path through which the Nature Path guided elves to the information dinsion. What was especially surprising was that individualism and the collectivism of the Nature Path and the Martial Path seed to extend all the way even to the information dinsion.

It only ironed out what Rui was now more certain of.

"There are multiple ways to change the information dinsion."

This was interesting because it begged a very interesting question.

"What if a Martial Transcendent changed the information dinsion using more than just the Martialverse? What if one tried using the Martialverse and the Noosphere of a population at the sa ti?"

It was a fascinating topic, but it was a question the answer to which he didn't know. While becoming a Transcendent had answered many of the more elentary questions that he had about the nature of reality, it had raised many more questions that were much more difficult to answer.

Mother Maeria seed moved by his words as she fell deep into thought. "Phenonological uniformity across elven civilization…"

Her eyes widened. "Of course, that's why I failed the first ti. It was because there wasn't uniformity in the experiences of as a figure across elven consciousness. It's because elven civilization is still divided."

That was the fundantal reason that she wasn't able to break through yet. She had wondered why, when she had co so close to breaking through the Transcendent Realm of the Nature Path, she had yet to make too much progress in taking that final step permanently.

"I must unite light and dark elves into one civilization."

Only then could she create a uniform elven civilization that would help her reach the Transcendent Realm. Her eyes lit up with clarity and understanding. She had been experiencing frustration over the seven years since she touched Transcendence for just the briefest of monts before losing it completely. Back then she had been assured that this was the natural path to Transcendence, but after stalling for the better part of a decade, she realized that she was missing sothing fundantally to take the final step to the Transcendence Realm.

With this understanding, she knew exactly what she needed to do. She had already begun plotting a plan to get elves to unify as a civilization, in order to mobilize their Noosphere. What Rui was curious about, however, was whether or not they could tap into the information dinsion without needing the Noosphere. Was it just impossible for soone like the Mother of Nature to achieve phenonological uniformity within her own consciousness?

He wasn't sure.

To him, everything was Water at all tis. However, the true nature of the consciousness of Mother Nature was different. Perhaps not as different from him as, say, the laminar integunts who possessed a photonic consciousness, but it was still quite different. Trees were fundantally different from him.

He knew that trees, to an extent, had decentralized information processing systems. Maybe the decentralization of what information processing did occur made it impossible for Mothers of Nature to have an 'Enlightennt of Transcendence' the way that he did.

"You must reach Transcendence soon," Rui told her with a serious tone of voice. "The sooner you reach Transcendence, the more we can learn about it, and the stronger our civilization will be."

She nodded. "Thanks for coming this way to convey your insights. I will keep that in mind."

"I actually didn't co here for that." He turned towards the Divine Doctor with a serious expression. "I ca here for you."

The Divine Doctor directed a knowing gaze at him.

"You wish to learn more about the insights I have made of laminar integunts, studying the manifold tree."

Rui nodded seriously.

Before he negotiated with the laminar integunt leader once more about the future of Gaia, he needed to have more information on exactly what manner of entity he was dealing with.