Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1801

1801 Beasts of this Plane

The moment Ryu finished speaking, a crack appeared high in the sky of his Inner World. It seemed that the Heavens had sensed his words and weren't very happy about it.

Honestly, Ryu was a bit surprised, but then he chuckled.

"Come, then."

A bolt of lightning descended with a fierce ferocity, colliding into his Immortal Sakura. However, it looked as though it had sunk to the bottom of a vast ocean, the sparkling lights reflecting for but a moment before vanishing into an abyss.

The branches of the Immortal Sakura were warped by grey clouds that were impossible to see through, and soon the bolts of gold were much the same.

Ryu watched indifferently as all of this happened, but his gaze was flickering with a majestic light. He was trying to see if there was anything he could take advantage of, but in the end, he was greatly disappointed.

Having to tear through the void to make it to his world, the tribulation was several fold weaker than normal.

But that wasn't really the main issue. He was trying to gaze into some mysteries, but nothing of interest caught his attention. He almost found them…

Boring.

Soon, he understood why.

This might have been a Heavenly Tribulation, but it was still only at the level of his cultivation. He had created an amazing technique, but it was still only a True God Dao Method.

Of course, a True God Dao Method to Ryu, versus a True God Dao Method to someone else, were vastly different things. Ryu was using his own metric to judge himself by as he was already mostly separated from the Heavens, though he still had some tethers remaining.

The main issue, of course, was the fact that the Heavens were limiting it to what Ryu could handle as well. Knowing that, it was no wonder he couldn't find anything of interest.

His sights were so far beyond this level that they couldn't even be compared. He was just distilling down his comprehension until it was at a level that he could use freely with his current strength. There was nothing this Tribulation could show him that he wasn't already aware of or capable of deducing on his own.

That said…

Ryu reached out as a bolt was about to descend, his arm being akin to a Qilin's claw. The bolt couldn't escape no matter how hard it tried, and it eventually became docile in Ryu's palm.

Ryu looked at it, his gaze flickering.

'This world doesn't have Qilin? Or rather, it doesn't have a beast that represents Judgment?'

Ryu frowned. He wasn't sure if this was true or not, even after he stared at it for a long while. But he remembered that when he used his Storm Talent earlier, it had felt weird.

Somehow both easier and harder at the same time.

Easier in the sense that the resistance overall was weaker.

But harder in the sense that he had to put in far more effort to control it properly. If not for his Inner Matrix, he might have even ended up harming himself.

The two states played a game of tug of war, causing the ultimate power in the end to be about the same without a change.

Ryu hadn't had time to think about it back then because he had been in the middle of a battle with Dao Lords potentially bearing down on him. But if he thought about it, no one seemed to recognize his Storm Talent either, which was also peculiar.

After a while, Ryu's gaze flashed.

'No, they do have Qilins. It's just that their Faith in this world is particularly weak. And it's not just them either, beasts in general seem weaker as well.

'If I recall correctly, I only saw various uninteresting beasts on the battlefield, like that lion with a mane of lightning. But I didn't see any divine level beasts, which is peculiar.

'Considering the level of this world, and the level of this battle, there should certainly be at least one or two Ancient Beasts overseeing things. Interesting…'

The Tribulation continued to fall above, but Ryu didn't seem to notice as he continued to deduce.

And that was when it clicked for him.

Beasts were the darlings of the Heavens, and the ultimate sign of Order.

Under a Heaven where Chaos had the advantage, it was only natural that Beasts would have a smaller role to play in a place like this one.

To make a complicated matter simple, it was likely that for these Heavens, the Fiends had taken the place of Beasts and become the leading Race. If one was chosen, then obviously, the other would fall into obscurity.

If Ryu was correct, the Ancient Beasts of this world had likely either gone extinct, or were close to extinct, since long ago.

As such, he was caught in a weird in between state where he could still make use of their Talents, but the Heavens didn't quite respond properly to them either.

In fact, had he not long since made his Bloodlines rely on his own Inner World, it was likely that his strength would have taken a huge plummet downward.

'Interesting…'

As Ryu concluded his thoughts, so too did the tribulation finished. However, there was a peculiar light in his eyes.

Wasn't this an unprecedented opportunity?

There was such a vacant hole in this world, one that beasts had yet to fill.

Naturally, they hadn't filled it because they couldn't. The laws of this world were against them, and for Beasts who garnered most of their talent from the Heavens, this was akin to a death sentence for them.

But Ryu wasn't a beast, he was a human.

If he could carve out his own path in this war, there was a huge amount of Faith that could be snatched just from this alone.

Right now, Ryu Dao could display the strength of a Peak Founding Dao in this world because he had broken free of the shackles of the True Martial World.

But he wasn't satisfied. He wouldn't be satisfied until he broke through all the shackles there were.

'In that case, I'll do what the beasts of this plane couldn't.'

The sound of blaring horns suddenly reached his ears.