One Year

"Additionally," Rui remarked as he gazed at the primordial seed floating in his hands, "I have found a new avenue of power that I would like to explore."

None of the Martial Sages needed him to clarify what he was referring to at all. They had witnessed his adaptive evolution-off against the abyssfeeder and could easily intuit what he had in mind.

"It's dangerous," Matriarch Nephi warned. "You should be able to foresee that now that you have gotten your hands on the Eye of Prophecy."

Rui nodded knowingly. "I can sense the dangers that exist in the future. But…"

His eyes lit up with a hint of greed as his gaze returned to the primordial seed in his hands.

He couldn't help himself.

With the Enlightenment of Self, he had an even greater understanding of just how much he greeded for the magical power of the abyssfeeder.