Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

The world fell into silence.

For a moment, it seemed that there could only be one man that stood at the very peak of it all. Even those that would usually be the most resistant to such thoughts found themselves involuntarily accepting it.

Although it was for just a moment…

This moment was likely one that they wouldn't be able to forget for a lifetime.

The bright glow in Ryu's eyes slowly faded away, and his Meditation state faded along with it.

"I guess I overestimated you. You only lasted seven moves."

Ryu's voice echoed through the silence, riding the last waves of the rumbling Tribulation Clouds.

His scales faded and he opened his arms wide to the skies.

A grin spread across his face.

Rumble.

The moment Ryu's voice faded, a Blessing descended from the skies.

The pillar enveloped him completely, so large and all-encompassing that it ran through the hole that Ryu had just formed, piercing into the Sixth Heaven.

However, Ryu himself didn't seem to care as a broad smile hung from his handsome features. He hadn't felt this good in a very long while.

The ability he had used to finish off the Sentinel was actually one of the few borderline techniques. It still wasn't quite refined yet, which was why he struggled a bit with it, having to incrementally raise his State of Meditation rather than jumping to the highest state immediately.

If Ryu wanted, at this point, he could even reach the highest State of Meditation there was. But it had been a very long while since Ryu had even relied on this broken ability of his Heavenly Pupils…

Because he simply didn't need it.

Honestly speaking, most of the time, Ryu's raw comprehension prowess was so excellent that using his State of Meditation was like overfilling a cup. Was that the point?

The last time he had relied on it heavily was when he was creating his Body Realm Cultivation method, but even then it was hard to do so.

Ryu realized then that he had reached a bottleneck of diminishing returns.

His mental capacity was so great on the one hand, but on the other, precisely because of that, the boost that States of Meditation gave were too large for his Focus Qi to handle.

The benefits one got from States of Meditation weren't consistent across the board. Different people would gain different levels of insight depending on their abilities and also the world they were in. A State of Meditation usage in Sacrum weighed very differently from one in a powerful world like this one.

This was all to say that one of Ryu's best abilities had become worthless because… he was ironically too powerful.

One might think that Ryu's new Dao had fixed things, but actually, it only made things worse.

This was because with his new Dao, Ryu's mental capacity had reached a completely new tier. Because of that, the boost he got from States of Meditation was even higher than ever before, and his Focus Qi was even less capable of keeping up.

It was a vicious cycle that Ryu didn't quite have a solution for. Although improving in cultivation would improve Focus Qi, it was limited. Usually, the only reliable way to increase Focus Qi was…

Time.

Unfortunately, though Ryu's cultivation speed was quite slow compared to most, he had still lived too short a time.

While his cultivation was now only just ascending to the Lord Realm, his mental capacity needs were already well into the Dao God Realm.

When one looked at things like that, then Ryu really didn't have enough Focus Qi to go around. It could be said that this was the real bottleneck between himself and his truest, fullest potential.

So… he had found another way to use it.

Empyrean Warframe.

It was the Bone Structure Ancestor Mysteries had used to defeat the War God Heavenly Pupils. Baked into its very foundation was a shocking close combat ability that relied on instincts to read and react to one's opponent, off-loading the pressure away from one's mind to one's body.

This was the very close combat Bone Structure that Ryu had originally dismissed, but had recently chosen to make a part of his foundation.

The Empyrean Warframe was already capable of relying on his eyes to boost their strength, so Ryu just took it a step forward.

If he used [Focus] at the same time, entered a State of Meditation, and his Childe of Order Constitution as a secondary bridge, then he could offload even more of the computation of the battle onto not just his body, but the Heavens themselves.

In that state, it made one feel as though they weren't just fighting against Ryu, but against the Heavens themselves. And as of now…

It was Ryu's strongest state, give or take a few trump cards.

And much like Ryu had said it would… it defeated a Sentinel within ten moves.

Unfortunately, this state was very difficult to use against more than one opponent because the computational rigor needed to calculate for more than one person increased exponentially with every leap forward.

Ryu even had to dumb down his own abilities while using it, which was why he had put his great swordstaffs away.

If he increased the difficulty any more, he would have run out of Focus Qi. But by the same token, if he hadn't defeated the Sentinel within ten moves, then he would have run out of Focus Qi just the same.

This was why Ryu had laughed when the singular Sentinel appeared. It was like the Heavens were handing him a victory on a silver platter, one that he would gladly take.

And now, he would claim this opportunity to recultivate from the very start.

When he had said that this would be the last chance the Heavens had to kill him…

He meant it with every fiber of his being.

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