Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1809

1809 Tiger

The battle came to an end. There was no suspense.

Even with such a small amount of Focus Qi left, Ryu was a true monster.

How could the rabble know that what Leonel was best at was maximizing his Focus Qi?

His Internal Matrix was like a program in his own mind, streamlining his thought processes and making his execution of his thoughts far more efficient.

These ants weren't worthy of making him use more than the Focus Qi he had. In fact, as he battled, he became more valiant because his Focus Qi was actually slowly replenishing.

As his mind became sharper, so too did his body as his Embryonic Qi continued to work.

Also, it wasn't as though the Fey Sovereign was useless.

Because of treaties, he couldn't take personal action. It was clear that the Fiends had been willing to break these rules because of Ryu's existence.

However, that was the privilege of the strong, while the weak could only bow their heads.

That said, while the Fey Sovereign might have been spineless in this regard, he wasn't silent.

He stood in the skies, exerting pressure on the Dao Lords. They could only despair as they were killed one after another, even swifter.

In the end, they were forced to retreat in abject failure.

The Fey Sovereign thought about giving chase. Right now, there was a huge hole in the Fiend army. Not only had they lost a Sovereign to protect this part of the battlefield, but their vanguard and Battalion had been wiped out.

However, in the end, after looking toward Ryu, he decided against it.

In his heart, the Fey Sovereign made a decision.

…

Ryu coughed up a mouthful of blood.

He didn't feel much of a sense of accomplishment in killing a Dao Sovereign.

The truth was that the road went both ways.

The reason Ryu could always remain indifferent to powerful existences was because he didn't care for them. He felt that these strong existences weren't very impressive because the only difference between himself and them was a matter of time.

Anything that could be accomplished with sufficient time simply wasn't something that could move Ryu's heart, and it was all meaningless to him.

As such, he could ignore Dao Sovereigns.

And likewise, he felt no sense of accomplishment for having killed one.

But what was interesting to him was that his Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils, in these hours, had risen in rank considerably.

From the thirties, it had already entered the twenties.

He wondered what this world would think once they realized this. In fact, they had almost certainly noticed already. Those with Heavenly Pupils would have sensed the shift, and they almost certainly existed since there was such a ranking.

Of course, Ryu wasn't one to care for the opinions of others. What he was more interested in now was his own safety.

He had ultimately been forced to act today because there was no other choice, but that didn't mean that it was a good thing for him.

Having a Peak Founding Dao was enough, but there was a reason he had tried to hide much of his strength.

'Heal first.'

**

Dao God Cloudfire had never expected such a thing to happen. When he heard the news, he almost wanted to go and personally confirm it, but it wasn't possible, and he knew that.

The movement of a Dao God had completely different connotations.

It could be said that everything until now was still mostly a child's game. However, if he tried to do something, these small skirmishes, with set rules and decorum, would devolve into an all-out slug fest.

In truth, he had already crossed that line by having Commander Tiger attack in the end. Though that was only supposed to have been a last measure.

What he didn't expect was that Commander Tiger would actually die…

And that was its own can of worms.

Dao God Cloudfire couldn't help but frown.

Commander Tiger seemed like someone with an inferior background, but this was exactly the opposite. He was actually just an extremely stubborn member of a high level Clan.

This Clan wasn't among the supremes of their Race, but it was just a level below.

All things considered, Commander Tiger's skill and talent were inferior to his peers, but he had good parents.

The reason he had been punished was because he was in line for the Patriarch position of their Clan, but he was far too weak. In the end, his position had been handed to another.

Back then, he had been very immature and couldn't hold his words in or rein in his actions. As such, he lashed out, calling the Elder Council fools, cursing their current Patriarch, and refusing to appear at the acknowledgement ceremony.

In the end, he had been sent to the front lines to repent.

The reality was that so long as he returned to the Clan, apologized, and acknowledged the Patriarch, he would be reinstated and continue to live the life of a nobleman.

But he had been unwilling to do so.

In the end, Cloudfire was put in charge of him, and he had been steadily applying pressure over the years.

To the surprise of the family, Commander Tiger continued to improve afterward, and he was showing faint signs of awakening their Clan's Bloodline.

This Bloodline was exceptionally odd, and it was said that the later on in cultivation it awakened, the stronger it was.

The trouble was that no one had ever heard of it awakening after the Omniscient Sky God Realm. But the fact that Commander Tiger was continuing to unearth his potential day after day made many old fogies begin to take an interest in him again.

But now he was dead, and because of orders from Cloudfire, no less.

Cloudfire wasn't afraid. Quite frankly, he feared no one.

He just felt that the trouble would be particularly infuriating.

And if this news was true… the morale of the humans would be particularly difficult to handle.

**

Ryu was suddenly called to the Fey Sovereign once again.

"You want me to leave?" Ryu asked with a raised brow.