Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1803

1803 I WANT YOU DEAD!

Despite the danger, Ryu all but burst out laughing. A dignified Dao Lord spewing out such vulgar language had about as much weight to him as a three-year-old little girl saying the same thing, not because they were of equivalent strength, but because it was the same level of out-of-place regardless of which of them said it.

But it seemed that this Dao Lord was already infuriated to the limit.

The issue was that while the Monk Battalion didn't know he was on this mission, the higher ups of the Cauldron Battalion certainly did. Not only was Kaisa's cousin paying strict attention to this matter, but so was Commander Tiger, and even worse, Dao God Cloudfire was waiting for his good news.

Every time Ryu outmaneuvered him, even if it seemed to be by accident, it was another slap to his face that left him infuriated.

Under normal circumstances, the speed of someone at Ryu's caliber would be nothing more than a joke to him, even considering his control over space.

However, because he was trying to hide him and move through the army without seeming too conspicuous, he had ended up falling behind again and again.

When Ryu suddenly sent a Perfect Sky God flying right at him, he had been so focused on Ryu that he almost didn't react in time, causing the present situation.

By now, he was almost certain that Ryu had somehow seen through him ahead of time, and that only infuriated him further.

He had actually been played by a mere True Sky God? How could he not be absolutely infuriated?!

Still, the moment Ryu sent out the Perfect Sky God, he had already fled. He flickered across the battlefield again, appearing in a new location.

Warping space and relying on it to escape when there was so much volatile qi in the air was extremely difficult. It could be said that without a high a high level Spatial Soul Nature, this would be impossible.

However, in these last few days, Ryu had already gotten used to the spatial laws of this place and he was once again a fish swimming in water.

The Dao Lord didn't care about his status and went all out, plowing through the army and leaving a rain of blood in his wake.

He stretched out a hand and was already prepared to snatch Ryu in the blink of an eye. The latter had hardly settled down into his new hiding place when he was already about to be captured.

That was when the Dao Lord suddenly sneered and turned, already appearing in a new location. In just an instant, he had already crossed dozens of kilometers as though it was nothing more than a single step.

"Idiot."

"Die!"

These two words were spoken out at the same time. The latter by the Dao Lord and the former by Ryu. With his hearing, the Dao Lord surely heard it, and that was when he realized his palm was swiping down to empty air, while his target, Ryu, had never moved from his original location.

In that brief instant, the Dao Lord could have killed Ryu, but he sensed a spatial fluctuation and thought that Ryu was about to try to escape again. So, instead, he rushed toward the exit location of the teleportation, ready to crush Ryu with a single fatal swipe of the palm.

Who could have expected that Ryu never moved from his original location at all? It was a bluff, the perfect bluff, and one that required facing the brunt of a Dao Lord's attack without a hint of fear, almost as though he was certain that he had read the future perfectly.

It was impossible for these experts to not have heard Ryu's words. Not only did he dare to do such a thing, he dared to disdain a Dao Lord to his face.

At that moment, the Dao Lord's face looked like it had become a soon-to-erupt volcano. His hair stood tall in a blaze of fire and the flames in his eyes spilled over onto his cheeks and forehead.

But when he locked onto Ryu, his senses flared with a constant bombardment of information.

Ryu was just standing there, but it felt as though he could simultaneously teleport to hundreds of locations at once. Suddenly, those hundreds of locations became hundreds more, branching out from one another in an endless stream. In an instant, the Dao Lord was overwhelmed, not sure which direction to go.

If this was a simple one-on-one battle, the answer would have been simple. He could eradicate the whole region and target all the locations at once. The might of a Dao Lord wasn't something that could be measured with common sense.

But on the battlefield, especially when more than half Ryu's teleportation options were concentrated on Fiend Race members, it was impossible for him to do this unless he was willing to wipe out his own army.

Maybe he might consider it. If it wasn't for the fact that once they fell, the power of the cauldron would plummet once again, and then they might lose another Dao Lord. In fact, he might even lose his own life if Commander Monk reacted furiously enough.

How could these people know that Commander Monk probably wanted Ryu dead more than anyone else?

Ryu didn't even use his teleportation options at all. He just stood there in the midst of the battle. Everyone avoided him, not wanting to become collateral. In his previous tirade, the Dao Lord had already killed dozens just chasing after Ryu, and in his last strike, even an Omniscient Sky God had died, but Ryu was still standing there safe and sound.

Ironically, the Dao Lord's actions had granted Ryu an immunity too, and it left him feeling stifled and frustrated.

"You're just going to stand there?" Ryu asked, seemingly truly curious. "Are all Fiends so worthless?"

Ryu pointed up to the sky. "Your Dao Sovereign ran away with his tail tucked between his legs three days ago. Two of your Dao Lords died, and you had to rely on petty tricks to try to regain an advantage, skirting the unspoken rules of this battlefield. And now a mighty Dao Lord has been chasing me since this battle begun and hasn't had any success?

"Well, I shouldn't say that you haven't had any success. You and I have about the same military merits, if you count how many of your own people you've killed, and if you're also shameless enough to take credit for killing people far beneath your cultivation Realm."

Ryu's words were spoken calmly, and yet everyone was like another slap to the faces of the Fiend army. The fury they felt was palpable and the heat in the region seemed to skyrocket.

At that moment, even Commander Monk felt quite good about Ryu's scolding, let alone everyone else.

"BOY!"

The Dao Lord's fury erupted, the land around him erupting with a geyser of flames.

Sensing something wrong, Ryu immediately flickered and vanished, but the Dao Lord was far more infuriated than anyone could have expected.

All at once, every single one of Ryu's branching paths exploded, pillars of controlled flames rising up in a torrent. They were each as refined as needles and were no more than a foot in size.

However, the flames of a Dao Lord were still the flames of a Dao Lord. Just the heat alone incinerated the surroundings and very few managed to survive the onslaught within dozens of meters.

Even so, the Dao Lord raised his head to the skies and laughed almost like a crazed maniac. He had only been chasing Ryu for a few minutes at most, and yet he felt like he had truly been losing his mind.

It was only now he felt like his heart was finally light.

"Say… what do you think he's laughing so hard about?"

High in the skies, Ryu stood behind Commander Monk, who was locked in a furious battle, and pointed as though he was watching a circus clown. At this point, even Commander Monk was in shock about Ryu's appearance.

Using spatial laws on the volatile battlefield down below was shocking enough, but up here, the battle was on a whole other level. Now that he thought about it, how was Ryu even surviving with all this violence?

It had to be remembered that even the attack of a Transcendent could break the void, so hiding in the void in the midst of a battle of Dao Lords was absolutely useless.

The Dao Lord seemed to have heard Ryu's words and his neck nearly snapped, turning toward his direction so quickly.

His eyes practically bulged out of his sockets and he almost rubbed his eyes to make sure that he wasn't seeing this.

He had been fooled….? Again?

His heart thumped wildly, fury pumping through his veins like the venom.

"I WANT YOU DEAD!"

"Yikes," Ryu muttered. "Not the slightest hint of a Lord's demeanor."

An infuriated roar filled the skies.