Grand Ancestral Bloodlines-Chapter 2202: First Place?

Ryu landed on the first rainbow cloud, his lips touched by a light smile.

An attack almost immediately came from his back, but his body shifted, becoming a stream of darkness. The beam of light passed right through him as though he were entirely intangible.

"If you want to prove your little lineage to be so great, attacking from the back isn’t exactly what you should do, don’t you think?"

Ryu didn’t even look back at Young Master Bright, his eyes ahead. There was a peculiar feeling about this world of clouds.

The beam of light shot off into the distance, being swallowed up by the rainbow lights ahead and then vanishing.

Ryu looked down at his feet, feeling that there was solid ground beneath him, and yet not being able to sense exactly where it started and finished.

Rainbow colors of violet, blue, and pink rolled over his feet and ankles. If there was a particularly powerful wind, it would even stream over his calves from time to time, displaying an odd fluidity.

Just staring at it, Ryu didn’t feel like the clouds were following the usual laws of fluid dynamics. There was another force acting on it other than the obvious.

’Fate… how fascinating…’

This was Fate in yet another form, and until now, this was the third that Ryu was seeing.

Or was it?

Ryu began to second-guess it.

He had to count Embryonic Qi. Technically speaking, it was probably the purest concentration of it. It was what decided the talent of a youth before they were even born, and there was nothing more important than that at the very beginning.

But then there was the quasi Embryonic Qi of the Title Stele World. It was the first time he had seen such a thing, and Ryu found that it was the key to starting to use his Embryonic Silk Meridians the way that they were meant to be used.

Now, however, he felt like he was experiencing yet another.

’This energy… it should be what forms the titles. So this… this is a complete and active form of Embryonic Qi… just how powerful is it? And how do I control it?’

Reaching Quasi Embryonic Qi was actually quite easy. But staring at the complexities of his rainbow energy, Ryu felt like he was looking at something so complex that even his own mind was having trouble wrapping his mind around it.

It was a feeling that he rarely had at all.

There was so much calculation involved. The reason he couldn’t follow the fluid dynamics of these clouds was that they were working on a completely different principle.

’I see… there’s no way I can control this energy, not right now… maybe not even when I become a Sovereign…’

A sharpness radiated from Ryu’s eyes.

In truth, he wanted to say not even when he became a Dao God as well, but he suppressed that thought, burying it so deep and violently that it was shattered beneath the might of his Dao Heart.

There was simply no way that he would ever have such a thought.

The day he became a Dao God… was the day everything would be in his reach.

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This energy… The Ruin Master Guild… The Heavenly Court…

Yaana.

If there was anything that he couldn’t accomplish, it would mean that he hadn’t grown as powerful as he was meant to, and that was unacceptable to him.

He would never fail. He couldn’t allow himself to.

And it all started right here and right now.

Even if it meant that he had to climb to that mountain peak on one leg, using a cultivation method that he had only just created with the path of comprehension of another…

He would do it.

Because he was Ryu Tatsuya.

The air around Ryu rumbled.

Young Master Bright had long since shot ahead. The reason Ryu had been able to dodge his attack so easily was because it was nothing more than a probe and a casual stroke.

Seeing Ryu just standing there, Bright had been unable to contain himself. But he also managed to restrain himself to just a single attack.

’I might not be able to create you… or destroy you… but…’

Ryu looked off into the distance.

By now, his small pause had already left him near the back of the ground. In the distance, Young Master Shade caught up and he grinned at Ryu from a far-off distance, his battle intent radiating like a torch in the darkness.

Then, he too became nothing more than a dot in the distance. Everyone was already looking for the entrance to the next platform. How could they possibly be satiated with the lowest rung?

But Ryu, after giving them a glance, ignored them.

His eyes began to scan.

If there was one thing that was completely unaffected all this time…

It was his Focus Qi.

While he had been relying on nothing but his Heavenly Pupils—and such a thing should have drained him—the truth of the matter was that analyzing the methods of Lords when he was capable of analyzing even Dao Gods was child’s play.

His Focus Qi was so full to the brim that he could do this for millions more years without even breaking a sweat.

Right now, though… it was rapidly draining.

He sank into one State of Meditation after another, the swirling feeling around him shifting.

’I see, there’s no need to do all of this.’

Ryu stopped after 20% or so of his Focus Qi vanished in a blink.

A wild grin spread across his face.

This battlefield… was truly meant for him. He would like to see who dared to stand in his path now.

Wind wrapped around him. His Bone Structures were too injured for him to rely on Azure Cloud Vein. Instead, he pulled on the yet other thing that wasn’t damaged…

His Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation. And most importantly, the rainbow Wind Natural Treasure within it.

How could his Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation be so easily affected by Karmic Flames when… it had already survived being burned by them before?

Ryu became as light as a feather, the effects of the Northern Heavenly Wind sinking its grip into him.

And then, the cloudy energy beneath him moved.

Ryu was carried by it for a moment… and then he vanished in the blink of an eye.

Nothing but a hollow wind remained, leaving one wondering…

Had he ever been there in the first place?