Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2116  Lord Control

Ryu exhaled a breath that spread across the world. When he breathed, the mountain to his back trembled along with him.

The State of Natural Breath.

The Shrine Mountain came to life. It was no longer just a projection, but it soared into the world as though the real thing was here.

A loop formed between Ryu and the world around him and then back again.

As with all things, there was a balance to be struck. He had learned long ago that being immature to the point that he wanted to abandon the Heavens entirely was the epitome of foolishness.

Cultivation was the process of taking from the Heavens… but that didn't mean that you had to abandon the Heavens entirely.

At that moment, Ryu felt like he had when he first took a seat on the Prayer Mat.

The world whispered into his ears and he found that his Focus Qi was being quickly drained…

And then replaced with a far more flourishing energy.

Ryu had found the Prayer Mat in the heart of the Shrine Mountain to begin with. Until now, he used it to passively recover his Focus Qi, but what he had never considered was why the Prayer Mat was there to begin with or what purpose it served in leaving it there. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

But now he understood…

The Prayer Mat had been in the heart of the Shrine Mountain precisely to comprehend it. And the reason it could replenish Focus Qi, albeit to a very small extent…

Was because it had grasped just the tiniest bit of power from the Shrine Mountain.

The Prayer Mat itself wasn't a treasure at all, that was why it never had a name and why Ryu had never heard its whispers in his ears.

It had been placed there by an Ancestor of Sacrum in hopes that they could grasp the secrets of the Shrine Mountain, but in the end, they failed.

And now, it was Ryu who succeeded in their path.

At that moment, pieces of Ryu's mind that were suppressed by his body to protect him were unlocked one after another.

For the first time in his life, he could truly access the deepest recesses of his mind, and the truest potential of his intelligence was unleashed just as…

The Thirteenth Extinction completed.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Ryu's aura rocketed upward, shattering the barrier to the Dao Pedestal Realm.

The aura of the Shrine Mountain descended and shook, enveloping his two Spiritual Foundations.

A calm resonance was formed between them all. Ryu's connection with each one deepened considerably.

His aura plowed through the Dao Pedestal Realm, through the Cosmic Seed Realm, and all the way up through to the World Sea Realm.

It almost seemed like he was completing all three realms simultaneously as though there was no distinction between them at all.

Except for the fact Shrines began to appear in Ryu's White Phoenix Spiritual Foundation.

These Shrines trembled and vanished, appearing in Ryu's Heavenly Qi Pulses and Divine Vessels.

Like hubs of traffic through his Meridians, they formed a linkage between themselves, and for the first time, Ryu felt as though he couldn't have been in more control of his body.

His momentum shook the world as he broke through the Sky God Realm.

Peels of dark gold lightning fell from the skies, crashing against his body continuously. But if one looked at his face, it was as though he didn't notice in the slightest.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The Fragmented Sky God Realm and Fragmented Control.

The False Sky God Realm and False Control.

The True Sky God Realm and True Control.

Ryu tore through all of these Realms one after another, feeling that each breach of Control took his body to an entirely different level.

By the time he cleared the True Sky God Realm, he already felt like genius Lords were ants in front of him…

He had left the standards of this world so far behind that it hardly made computational sense to most.

And yet he tore through the Perfect Sky God Realm like it was nothing but a thin paper plane.

The skies rolled and overturned, peels of lightning falling down even faster.

Unfortunately for the Heavens… it had no choice but to follow its own rules.

No matter how much lightning it sent down, it couldn't trigger another Tribulation, not unless Ryu tried to make it to Sovereignty in one go.

The skies rumbled and shook like a toddler throwing a tantrum, and for a moment, Ryu couldn't help but grin wildly.

Was this how he had been back then? Constantly blaming others for his troubles?

"Hey, you should learn some personal accountability," Ryu said with a laugh. "You're more than old enough by now."

BOOM!

A particularly dense and wide beam of lightning descended from the skies, but Ryu ignored it entirely, breaking into the Transcended Sky God Realm and right into the Omniscient Sky God Realm.

He was absolutely relentless as his momentum continued to grow.

At the moment he reached the very peak of the Omniscient Sky God Realm, Ryu slowly opened his eyes and stood to his feet.

It was finally about time that he truly crossed this Realm.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Ryu basked in the fury of the Heavens, raising his arms far and wide as his Silver Star appeared to his back.

The Abyssal Plane shook as a particular Fate Star suddenly began to show signs of waking up.

"I'll be needing you to finally wake up."

CHI.

A massive, gaping cavern was formed in space, so large and filled with endless darkness that Ryu looked only like a tiny dot of silver in the midst of it all…

But then it appeared.

A resplendent Fate Star, bursting with silvery flames and solar flares. From some angles, it even seemed to carry the slightest hint of a silvery blue.

"Since you," Ryu looked up toward the Heavens above him, "couldn't do the bare minimum and protect an infant's Fate Star…

"I'll just have to take it upon myself."

This was the true Path of the Lord.

It was the Royal Path, a dividing line that separated those that towed the lines of the Heavens and those that drew the line themselves.

Lord Control.

The world shook as Ryu's Fate Star, for the first time in millions of years, began to slowly rotate.

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