Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1858

1858 Three

Ryu walked through the forest. By this point, he realized that Rinushka was already gone, but he didn't mind it. If she stayed, she would probably die of anger.

Walking through nature like this, Ryu felt at peace. He began to look through life with the lens of his other souls as the main focus, and he slowly began to see how different these souls of his were.

When his Dao Heart took over, he could sense that it was impatient. It didn't want to just calmly walk like this; it wanted to speed ahead with its greatest possible speed, hurrying past anything that he could do on his own regardless of what it did to his foundation.

In its opinion, his foundation didn't matter. It even saw it as a cowardly act to try and take things so slowly.

Ryu could understand where his Dao Heart was coming from. It believed that one way or another, the destination was the same: the peak. If it gave up some foundation now, it could just make it up by walking further later.

It was a sense of absolute confidence that its potential wouldn't be limited by mere cultivation realms or anything of the like.

If someone were in Ryu's shoes, they would see that there were only six cultivation realms left for improvements, from the Perfect Sky God Realm to the Dao God Realm.

However, his Dao Heart didn't see things that way.

Looking at things that way, Ryu felt that his Dao Heart wasn't necessarily wrong. Considering that the Phoenix Sky God was also technically a Dao God, and yet so much more powerful than all the others, it was clear that the Dao God Realm alone wasn't the end of the road. There was still so much further to travel.

In this way, his Dao Heart wasn't actually wrong. It was just a different perspective.

Ryu switched over to gaze at things through his Perfect Blackbody.

It too seemed greedy, but in an opposite direction. It was dissatisfied that until now, Ryu had only managed to gain one Soul Nature.

It was obsessed with increasing its foundation, of gaining more and more per cultivation realm before only then progressing. In fact, this only made sense. That was what its talent was designed to do in the first place.

However, Ryu couldn't help but chuckle. If it was so easy to find another Soul Nature on the same level as that mysterious Zu Clan member, then wouldn't he have already done it?

It had to be remembered that if Ryu absorbed a Soul Nature that was weaker than his current one, it would be too suppressed to even sense. In that case, there was no point at all in even wasting time trying to do such a thing.

However, his Perfect Blackbody's perspective was also right, and it was true that he didn't put much effort into trying to find another Soul Nature of equivalent value. Though, to be fair, he had also never seen anyone with a Soul Nature as good as his own to begin with.

That was all well and fine, but what did he think? What did he want?

A vicious beast suddenly rushed out of the forest and aimed for Ryu, but he didn't even look at it. He just exhaled a breath that sounded like a sigh, and the beast was frozen in place.

A Perfect God Beast was sealed away just like that, from just a single breath, and Ryu never seemed to spare it a single thought at all.

Ryu continued to walk.

The first thing to any task was to understand his surroundings. He spent an entire three months leisurely walking around as though he wasn't on a time crunch at all.

The more he moved, the deeper his understanding of the world around him became. But he still hadn't decided what he alone wanted.

It was too difficult. It was easy to second guess yourself when you felt like everything was just an external influence. It was even easy to second guess his natural likes and dislikes.

When he was with other people, he would act on them freely. But when he was alone like this, with no one to think of but himself, it was difficult to just look at things so blandly. He couldn't help but run through every single one of his thought processes as though he was truly trying to understand just who Ryu Tatsuya was.

'This should be a good spot.'

Ryu stood on a mountain peak. After three months, he had been to pretty much everywhere in the Beast Domain save for some regions where there were some truly fearsome beasts.

Though there were no Dao God-level God Beasts, there were several Sovereigns in the region, though they were small in number. Ryu counted only a few hundred, but after some experience with the lands, he realized why.

'They're hunted down.'

The beasts that were so powerful were exceptionally rare, but they were still of value. Whether it was for their meat, their blood, their inner organs—they were all valuable.

Back in Sacrum, Ryu himself had used plenty of Beast Blood to temper his body and improve himself. In a situation like this one, it should be similar.

Ryu began to set up a formation, and after he was done, he flicked a bit of blood and there was suddenly a resounding roar.

ROAR!

It exuded the air of a dragon, mighty and domineering.

"One…"

Ryu looked toward the distance with a slight smile on his face.

"Two…"

He adjusted his robes and allowed his hair to blow in the wind.

"Three…"

SHIIIIIII

Space was torn in two, and a majestic silver dragon appeared. It looked a bit beaten and haggard, but its expression was haughty beyond belief as it looked down.

It seemed about to spew some profound words when it realized that it was actually Ryu.

"You son of a bitch, I can't believe—."