Grand Ancestral Bloodlines - Chapter 2256 - 2256: Taboo
“Are you very angry?” Ryu asked, the same sinister smile still hanging from his face. “I can say that you can’t fathom my own rage.”
The clumps of flesh that had once been Verrona’s head drizzled out from Ryu’s palms, his indifference only fueling Zercius’ fury all the more.
“Why don’t I make you angrier and do the same thing to your granddaughter? How would that make you feel?”
Ryu took a step forward, and in the far-off distance, hundreds of Martial Gods were shattered beneath the might of his momentum alone.
Power oozed out of Ryu in waves. Even after his breakthrough, he seemed to be only growing more powerful, his power stabilizing more as the pillars of his cultivation weaved into one.
By building his Qi Realm Cultivation on the perfect concept of Control, his Mental and Body Realms came along with it. The more used to it he became, the more they melded into a single path, seamlessly transitioning until there was hardly a difference between them at all.
Ryu’s fist clenched and he lifted it up. All at once, the blood in Verrona’s body was violently sucked dry, forming a large mass that fused with that of Merculy’s blood.
“Leave them be!” Zercius roared.
“You seem to have lost your temper.” Ryu said, tilting his head to the side. “Could it be that you forgot the advice you gave to your little Verrona?”
It would have been fine if Ryu didn’t mention it. But once he had, it was like pouring gas onto a lit flame.
Zercius was, of course, smart enough to know that Ryu was using his Dao to manipulate him, to make him more angry than he should be, to dredge up emotions he had long since learned to cut away from himself.
But did it matter?
If Ryu’s Dao was so easy to handle, then it wouldn’t be maybe the most powerful Dao in Existence currently, long before he even stepped into Dao God.
Pointing out how much it was affecting Zercius only made him fall deeper.
Ryu grabbed at the blood, his Bloodmancy pulsating. Crimson runes were drawn across the air, the essence of the Divine Wing Bloodline being extricated.
Elena’s Primordial Yin thrummed within him, and the Fate of the two resonated.
“Interesting.” Ryu said calmly. “Even now, you still haven’t attacked. Haven’t you controlled this space enough already? What are you waiting for? For me to fully integrate with this? For me to humiliate them more? Or could it be that you’re waiting for backup?”
Ryu’s head tilted slightly as he observed Zercius. Blood flowed into the Meridians of his wings, his aura continuing to rise.
Zercius’ veins bulged across his forehead. Looking at the young man across from him, he couldn’t understand just what sort of monster he was facing. Ryu wasn’t just strong, he was improving at a breakneck pace right in front of him.
Since this battle began, his strength had increased by at least another 10%. If that was adjusted for changes Ryu made to his battle approach to counter them specifically, it was closer to 20%.
At this cultivation realm, it took thousands of years just to improve a fraction of a percentage. How could anyone improve this fast?
‘Not 10%… 15%…’
Zercius’ heart trembled as Ryu finished snatching what he wanted to from Merculy’s Bloodline. He seamlessly stripped it of its Fate, scryed its strength, and incorporated it into his own Meridians, shifting the formations within himself.
This ability was granted to him after he stole the Deva Prince’s wings, and naturally flowed down from the layering of his Bone Structures.
His Bone Structures were the perfect mirrors of every element, with the balance of his Ice Jade Crystal Body, and the Fate control of his Boundless Cosmos Bone Structure laying the foundation for everything.
As his three Realms of Cultivation became closer to just one… it was like he could change his body as he pleased on a whim. It was only a matter of whether his comprehension could keep up or not.
This ability… wasn’t it just a natural reflection of the copying abilities of his Perfect Black Body Soul and his Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation?
Now, with his Dao Heart and exceptional Control, Ryu’s body was akin to the perfect blank slate for him to do and act with as he pleased.
Not only did he have the means to comprehend it all, he had the talent to take it, and then the Embryonic Qi he needed to rewrite the very foundations of what made him, him.
So long as he saw something he liked…
He took it.
Zercius realized right then that Ryu’s words weren’t arrogant at all. He really didn’t take any of them seriously from the moment he manifested his Title.
He wasn’t a cultivator. He wasn’t a Sovereign. He wasn’t a genius.
He was a Tatsuya. The Tatsuya.
Ryu Tatsuya.
The power of a Title that was so flexible…
Was a cultivation path that was also endlessly flexible.
It was an irony of ironies. Everyone thought that he would break because his Dao Heart was too brittle, when in the end he became the most malleable of them all.
BANG!
The rain of blood shattered, what remained of Verrona and Merculy falling from the skies. Each droplet was endlessly valuable, worth more than entire worlds.
And yet, because they didn’t catch Ryu’s attention, he simply shattered it all.
“Are you fully prepared now?”
The air had begun to tremble, Sacrum swaying on its fulcrum as though the world itself was about to burst at the seams.
Ryu only lightly tapped a foot, and harsh swaying stopped, at least in the region around him. His wife was currently giving birth, who said the world was allowed to sway like this?
The skies split open, and one Heavenly Knight after another fell from above, subtle hints of what were clearly Divine Chains wrapping around them.
Ryu understood without much more than a glance. This was the true purpose of the Martial Gods’ research into the Taboo.
The best way to control the Heavens was by using power even it didn’t understand.
And right now, the Martial Gods were turning the power of Sacrum against Ryu himself.
No, not just the power of Sacrum… the power of a world that should have taken the True Martial World’s place in his quadrant of Existence.
“Cute.” Ryu said indifferently. “But I asked you to bring out everything you had. This… is still not enough.”
[A God’s Brush].
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