Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2170  No Intention

‘A flaw…’

Ryu saw it immediately. It was the one imperfection of Sarriel’s Dao.

If she had managed to fuse those Pupils together, he would have no choice but to admit that she had formed a Dao on the same level as his own.

But the fact she hadn’t meant that she was just a step below.

That said… that singular step below was more than made up for by the result.

Ryu’s Dao was purely auxiliary for the most part and didn’t have such a direct impact on combat prowess. And as far as he could tell, this was just the surface of Sarriel’s Dao.

There was definitely more.

And yet, even in this situation, he chuckled.

“Not bad.”

Sarriel didn’t respond, her sword raising in an illusory mirage. It felt like every one of her actions took place both in reality and a dream world, making it impossible to tell what was true and what was false. Maybe… even her cultivation was that way as well.

“But I can see three flaws with your Dao already. The first is obvious… your Pupils aren’t fused.”

Sarriel still didn’t reply.

“The second is that in this state, your eyes are occupied, and you’re unable to use their abilities. In fact, you likely only succeeded in forming this Dao by relying on your eyes as a conduit for your soul and Dao Heart.”

Sarriel still didn’t respond, but her once placid eyes now had a hint of danger in them, as though she was warning Ryu not to piss her off any more than he had already.

“The third weakness is that one of its foundational abilities is worthless against me. Trying to fool the eyes of the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils is a fool’s errand, don’t you think?”

Ryu flickered and vanished, a blade passing through where he had just been standing. But the problem was that Sarriel didn’t seem to have ever moved at all.

However, Ryu himself wasn’t wasting any more time.

“Earth’s Gate. Open.”

Ryu’s Quasi Embryonic Qi pulsed in his body. Right now, he needed more than he could easily give on a casual push.

In that moment, his aura flourished, but to the astonishment of those paying attention to the battle, especially with the shocking changes to Sarriel…

He was still in the Lord Realm?

“Heaven’s Gate. Open.”

Fate churned and twisted. Relying on his eyes alone, Ryu could no longer leap an entire cultivation realm while relying on his Heaven and Earth Gate.

But with his Embryonic Silk Meridians…

Ryu’s cultivation shot into the Sovereign Realm.

He stood like a towering mass, his aura buffeting against Sarriel’s.

One was a God, and the other… he should have been an insignificant ant, and yet it felt as though they stood on the same playing field.

And then they moved.

Of the spectators, there was a sizeable portion of them who thought themselves to be powerful Dao Gods. They had the sight and insight of such characters, and they had worked their entire lives to reach their current levels.

They had earned every inch they had.

And yet, watching just the start of this battle… it felt like they were experiencing something beyond themselves, something that stood on a level all to itself.

It didn’t even feel right to speak of the skies overturning and the lands being blown into an upheaval. That was because not the slightest hint of that was occurring.

In fact, on the ground, they almost looked like a pair of mortals swinging their blades in a choreographed dance.

It was just that their rhythm and cadence were infinitely faster.

Dodging blades by a hairbreadth and missing strikes by measures no less acute. They danced on the edge of life and death, keeping up a furious pace as though they didn’t know fatigue.

The grass didn’t so much as bend beneath their feet, the wind pressure of their strikes vanishing into the pull of nature as though their attacks had always been one with them. Gliding through the laws of the world, it didn’t feel like they were watching a man and woman battle at all… but rather like watching two forces of nature.

And that was only further bolstered when it really did begin to feel like that.

The landscape finally began to change, and yet, rather than just being destroyed like it would be in any other battle, it was almost like the trees, the grass, the clouds themselves began to fight on behalf of these two.

Ryu stomped forward, and the ground shook, a crack opening up to swallow Sarriel whole.

Sarriel stepped forward herself as though she didn’t sense the danger. Vines weaved out beneath her feet, catching her plant. Then, with a sweep of her seven-foot-long katana, grass split the blades, forming invisible lines of sword qi that bombarded against Ryu’s side.

There was a strong wind for just a moment as Ryu’s wings flared outward. His aura radiated out, and a tree swayed by his side, its roots bending and twisting as its trunk blocked the oncoming rain.

The battle only became more shocking and mysterious, defying common sense and reason in cultivation… not to anyone but Gods.

This was True God Control, a Control that went beyond just suppressing the world around you and forcing laws to remain intact, but a Control that wielded the laws of nature as though an extension of your own techniques.

And yet, it was being used in the hands of two Lords at a level most Gods wouldn’t reach in their entire lifetimes.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The two suddenly separated, their relatively quiet battle exploding with a cascade of cacophonous noise.

Breathing heavily, the two met one another’s gaze, their expressions deathly serious.

It seemed that their arrogance had been tempered just the slightest bit.

But then Ryu smiled. “Alright. Tell you what, I’m quite lenient with my women. If you can survive the next onslaught, I’ll apologize and then marry you. If you can’t, then I’ll forgive you and then marry you.”

Sarriel’s serious gaze flashed with rage, but it was only a moment before her eyes widened in shock.

Ryu’s grin softened into a gentle smile.

“Sorry, wife. I have no intention of losing.”

Empyrean Warframe.