Even as Rui studied the dead, the evolutionary, he couldn't help but wonder what the end goal of this path was.
Was it just endless bodily evolution?
Did they not have a higher rank above his current stage?
Of course, the evolutionaries didn't seem to have ranks; they had a continuous spectrum, apparently.
However, they clearly conceptualized different kinds of potential for adaptive evolution. Anthea had mentioned to him the Body, Mind, Soul, and Domain Phase.
Three of those were Realms, while the other was a field of Martial Art, he couldn't help but notice that the evolutionaries did not seem to have the equivalent of the Transcendent Realm.
Could that really be the case?
Was it truly the case that only the Martial Path had the power to intervene in the very fabric of reality and overcome the shackles of causality itself with the power of the Transcendent Realm?
"Unlikely."
