The cool breeze of the Kandrian night brushed past them gently atop the mountain as they oversaw the shimmering lights of the Town of Hajin. The shrill chirps of insects across the forest atop the mountain filled the silent air.
And yet, Rui was far too engrossed in the insights he had just gotten to appreciate his environment.
The epiphany was a rather strange one.
Was love the secret of the Transcendent Realm?
"Love is the secret to a lot of things, but…" Rui shook his head, "it is not the secret to the Transcendent Realm."
He was cognizant enough to understand what was happening.
"I found adaptive evolution where I didn't know it existed."
His understanding of adaptive evolution increased as his perception of what was adaptive evolution had broadened.
Love was now within it.
A previously abstract and unrelated concept was discovered to be a manifestation of his Martial Path.
That was the trigger that allowed him to behold the true higher Realm.
