Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1674

Elena's Bloodline had, indeed, become an interesting fusion of the two, and it even seemed to have changed the original intended goal of both at the same time.

What was especially interesting was the mechanism by which it happened.

It had to be understood that the Martial God Bloodline almost always chose one or the other. Logically, Elena should have either had a weaker than usual Divine Wing Bloodline that was suppressed by her Holy Wing Bloodline, or an average to excellent Divine Wing Bloodline that suppressed her Holy Wing Bloodline. But instead what happened was that she was born with two mutated variants of both that clashed against one another and became something new, unable to decide which among them should be the superior bloodline.

The starting point where two bloodlines that were different from what they should have been, and the end point was one bloodline far different from what the sum of its parts would suggest.

Elena's Bloodline had little to do with suppression any longer at all. Instead, it was all based on amplification.

What was unfortunate was that much of this amplification was of limited use to herself... at least in this situation.

But Ryu could see a path where when she entered the Dao Lord Realm and could finally begin to form Incarnations... where her Incarnations would actually be far more powerful than her original body.

Essentially, Elena was excellent at amplifying the qi and things external to herself. If it was cleverly applied, there were any number of things she could do.

Even without forming an Incarnation, beast taming would be a monstrous path for her. When it came to secondary professions like alchemy or formation crafting, she would be on another level. If she had a team of people to support or she became a Necromancer...

The list of possibilities was endless, but many of those things were matters that Elena had no experience with.

She was born a Holy Wing, so she had been trained like a Holy Wing. She spent a lot of time in close combat, her current combat style was basically just and amplification of that style from the very beginning.

Even when she fought, she seemed to subconsciously understand that atmospheric qi was her best ability, which was why she formed all those large palms of qi even when it seemed to be a waste of qi.

Honestly, after the Immortal Ring Realm, the fascination with atmospheric qi lessened tremendously. This wasn't because it became useless. Unless you were Ryu and had an entire plane's worth of qi within you, you had to use atmospheric qi or else you would be quickly overpowered by your enemies.

The difference was that others used atmospheric qi to amplify qi coming from within themselves, but Elena did the opposite. When he had watched her fight, it was as though Elena forgot she had her own meridians at all.

And that made sense now that he could see her bloodline.

If she pulled from the stores of qi within herself, she would actually be weakening her attack. With her Bloodline, it was actually much better that she completely relied on the atmosphere around her.

'So odd...'

Ryu couldn't be blamed for thinking this. Who had a Bloodline that didn't work on themselves, but only on external things?

'But, knowing this, I'm pretty sure that I can...'

Ryu fell into his thoughts, his mind churning. Soon, he had settled on an idea that should work, but he needed reference material to help Elena out. Even now, he still didn't have as much experience as the individuals who had cultivated for even millennia, let alone millions, billions or even trillions of years.

It had to be remembered that until now... Ryu had only been cultivating for a grand total of less than three decades, and that was only if he bothered to count the time he had spent in the blackhole. Without that time, it was far less than two decades.

He felt that he was more intelligent than most, but his scope of understanding and experience was less than any one of his wives.

What Ryu wanted for Elena was a technique that could take advantage of the loophole in her Bloodline to make her truly monstrous.

He believed that even without deviating her path to become a beast tamer or necromancer, he could make her an untouchable powerhouse. In fact, she wouldn't have to wait to become a Dao Lord first either.

"Wait, wait," Elena called out with an embarrassed look on her face.

Ryu blinked. "What is it?"

"... I still can't move..."

Ryu paused before bursting into a fit of laughter.

In the end, he had to wait. Although he gave Elena another droplet of Embryonic Qi, her ability to control her legs was entirely related to her fried brain. Her body was just fine, but there was nothing shaking the wobbliness she was experiencing right now.

The husband and wife pair enjoyed one another's company in silence for a long while. The grin on Elena's face threatened to split her jaw apart. This sort of peace was exactly what she had wanted for so long.

Suddenly, she blinked, remembering something. She pointed toward the passed out Isemeine.

"Who's that?"

Ryu chuckled. "That's Isemeine."

"Wasn't there another woman? I can't remember clearly."

"They share the same body. That was Eska."

"Oh! She has the aura of a Martial God."

"Yes, she's a member of your mom's faction. The Heavenly Dew Branch."

"I see..." Elena muttered.

"Speaking of which, what level are the Heavenly Dew at?"

"It depends."

"Really? I thought the tier was guaranteed."

"Nono... the Dregs are given opportunities because it's not necessarily that their potential is worse than the other Tiers, but that they have yet to figure out methods of unearthing said potential.

"The Martial Gods have a unique profession of their own, they call it Talent Oracles, where people pretty much spend all their time researching and positing synergy between different Talent Pillars.

"The Heavenly Dew is a relatively newly established Branch. They've had a few successful experts, and they've been graded as having High Tier potential, but their legacies and technique methods are only at the Low Tier."