Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1887

Ryu didn't have the words to speak as insights he had never grasped before flooded his mind. He hadn't expected that even at this point, his Realm Heart was still trying to help him.

For a moment, he even felt a little bit of guilt before that was overwhelmed by a flood of thoughts.

He understood.

His Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation had a great strength, and that was taking things to the brink of perfection and then giving them a little nudge over.

Even now, Ryu's Spiritual Foundation was mostly a mystery to him, and he found it difficult to even begin to control. It could do things he couldn't fathom, but it had no guidance to do so or to act.

Just the difficulty in allowing it to reach the Sky God Realm should be a wake-up call. If not for the rewards of the Heavenly Path, Ryu would still be hunting for natural treasures in hopes that his Spiritual Foundation would one day awaken properly.

But, it was also precisely because Ryu had taken this shortcut that his Spiritual Foundation was such an enigma to him even now.

He had taken the easy way out, and as such, his Spiritual Foundation neither acknowledged him nor allowed itself to be controlled. But this wasn't just a matter of the arrogance of his Spiritual Foundation. Ultimately, no matter how much of a tantrum it was throwing, it was still one of his souls. If Ryu really wanted to control it, he could.

The issue was that he couldn't. He physically could not.

The Heavens were fair in all things. The fact the Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation was so difficult to wield was purposeful. The amount of energy you put in was the amount you got back.

As for how a World Sea Realm expert could possibly gather up all those treasures…. Well, hadn't Ryu done it? The Heavenly Path had given him a shortcut, and details on location, but the actual gathering of the Natural Treasures was done by his own ingenuity. Still, this was likely not the path the Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation expected of its owner.

This was all to say that Ryu's Spiritual Foundation wasn't meant to be controlled by the current Ryu. It was meant to be controlled by a Ryu with the power to snatch those Natural Treasures away as though they were candies from a baby….

And obviously, Ryu was very far from that.

So what was the point of all this? The point was that his Realm Heart seemed to have just done what he could not.

Control his Spiritual Foundation.

Still, that wasn't what shocked Ryu the most.

Was it a coincidence that he had only just now felt the intention of his Realm Heart? Why hadn't it acted before? Why hadn't he sensed it before?

Temperament.

Ryu didn't even know himself well enough just days ago, how could he claim to know other things? His Dao Heart had obscured all his thoughts, pushing him in certain directions that he maybe didn't even want to go in. When he tried to fight back against it, he ended up losing his entire body.

If he couldn't hear himself, then how could he hear the voice of the Realm Heart?

Ryu cast away distracting thoughts for a moment, took the kernel of the Ice and Darkness Holy World that he hadn't absorbed before, and tossed it toward the Realm Heart.

Ryu hadn't absorbed this portion because he wanted to integrate it with his Inner World and slowly assimilate its strength to a higher degree. As such, much of it was still here.

Ryu wasn't sure if this would work, but even if he lost it, he wouldn't mind. This experiment was far too important to him.

Plus, what was a mere True Grade World to the God Grade one that he had just accepted? It was entirely insignificant.

That was when Ryu saw something that left him without words. It vanished into his Realm Heart just like the first time, blinking out of existence as though it was never there. Then, the seconds began to pass by before everything trembled.

BOOM! BOOM!

The energy came back in a torrent so fast that Ryu's body felt like it was going to split apart.

His skin broke and his bones creaked, and yet…

He raised his head to the skies and echoed out with booming laughter.

They had always said that a Realm Heart was one of the most valuable treasures in the world. Stumbling upon one took an unfathomable amount of luck, and it seemed that benefiting from one also took a great deal of time and effort.

This boon made everything else that Ryu had ever experienced in his life feel pale in comparison.

He had settled for what he could when it came to Holy Worlds, and though he had thought about filling himself up with God Grade worlds, he also knew that it was unrealistic. He was far too weak to even consider such a thing.

But this changed it all. Right now, it was like a perfect path to Godhood was laid out before Ryu. If he wanted, he could even quickly cultivate to Godhood. He bet that if he followed the path of even just these two worlds, he would become powerful enough to sweep through all the Dao Gods of this world.

Of course… Ryu would never do such a thing. There were several reasons for this, but the most important was that it would be a waste of his potential.

He would have to rebuild his Dao based on Ice, Darkness, and Light alone. In addition, his peak would be capped at this world. After all, the Holy Worlds only represented the pinnacle of this Chaos-filled world, it had nothing to do with the peaks that existed elsewhere.

However, none of that mattered to Ryu right now. He didn't feel the need to benefit from this and ruin his future.

Instead, he was thinking about all the strength he could gain in his current Realm alone.

Simply put, he would become a true monster very soon.

BOOM!

The world shattered apart.