Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1890

Ryu calmly felt the changes.

This time, he was prepared for everything. So the Chaotic portions of the pillar were already directly suppressed by him. However, that didn't mean that they had vanished. Instead, he slowly incorporated them.

These insights were truly invaluable to Ryu. Other than Chaos Qi, one of Ryu's strongest trump cards was Primordial Chaos Qi. With this sort of insight, it would be far easier to control them.

Every time he used Primordial Chaos Qi, he often ended up harming his own body more than he did the enemy. Well, that was a bit exaggerated. But it certainly wasn't a fun time.

Now, at least for Primordial Chaos Ice, Light and Darkness Qi, he wouldn't have to worry about this.

Of course, this was just surface level. In reality, Ryu could use no form of Chaos Qi right now, and even if he could, he would never use its lesser forms. Why would he use Primordial Chaos Qi when he had real Chaos Qi which was the amalgamation of them all?

What really made Ryu excited were the insights he got for his Chaos Qi.

Qi Control had once been one of Ryu's strongest aspects. That was in large part due to his Bone Structure, but now that was gone.

Even if he hadn't given up his Ice Jade Crystal Body in favor of a much stronger Bone Structure, it still wouldn't have made much of a difference. That was because his Ice Jade Crystal Body was only an Ancestral Grade Talent. It couldn't possibly keep up with his current strength.

Of course, his Ice Jade Crystal Bone Structure was only one piece of the puzzle. The fact that he had the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth pupils was another large piece. He could see through the mysteries of his own qi and use them well.

But, Ryu knew that things could always be better.

Qi Control wasn't something that he thought much about because he had near endless stamina and he created his own techniques. However, it was precisely because he created his own techniques that dialing this in would be a huge deal for him.

Qi Control covered several aspects of cultivation.

One was the skill with which one could gather qi. The second was the skill with which one could deploy qi whether through a technique or in the body. And the third was, obviously, cultivation speed.

The second was what was important here. The concept of Qi Control was invaluable in creating techniques because the complexities one could replicate were bottlenecked by this aspect of cultivation.

For example, the simplest circulation loop for a technique, often used by Common Grade techniques, and sometimes Black Grade ones, was like a race track. It went in one direction, was completed quickly, and one could focus their entire attention on it.

However, more complex circuits often had two or more loops going at the same time.

Often, the risk would be mitigated by offsetting them. That way, even if there was a point where the two circuits meshed, they would do so at different times.

Unfortunately, especially for small races like the Human Race, there was only so much surface area to use. By the time you got to the God Realms, it was commonplace for qi to mix and overlap while being circulated. It was up to a cultivator to have the presence of mind to control the flow and ensure that the loops continued unhindered.

Ryu, obviously, had no problems with this. Even if he didn't use shortcuts like hand seals or summoning his soul from his Spiritual Sea, he could manage.

However, only Ryu knew that he had bottlenecked himself. He had the capability to create techniques that were even more complex, but he didn't because he knew that he couldn't control them properly. If he wasted time creating such techniques, he would be doing exactly that… wasting his time.

That said… there was a method of fixing this. Maybe then, instead of just having two techniques that he had created, he could maybe even have dozens.

These two techniques that he had self-created, [Heavenly Dao Tree] and [A God's Brush] were the products of enlightenment and also references.

[A God's Brush] was created thanks to reading the path the Martial Gods had deduced for the Chaotic Silk Meridians, while the [Heavenly Dao Tree] was created thanks to the Ash Treants.

Ryu had never truly created a technique from scratch, and this was why.

It took a special eye and years of refinement, on top of likely generations of effort, in order to take an extremely complicated technique and distill it down so that it could be just as powerful in the hands of others.

But what if Ryu could make powerful techniques without the need to consider how complicated it was? What if his qi control was so immaculate that even having dozens of qi loops running into one another at the same time wouldn't be a problem for him at all? What then?

At that point, he would truly be a monster. And since he had the perfect insights of three elements up to the perfected God Realm of this world at his fingertips, what he would be able to create on a whim would be truly out of this world.

By studying the chaos aspects of these qis, he would be able to comprehend at least portions of his true Chaos Qi more, and thus rein in stronger control over it.

Usually, this was what cultivators did. It was just that Ryu had never had to waste time comprehending his own qi before because he had too many cheats. His Meridians made the Chaos Qi that harmed everyone else docile before him, and his eyes saw through everything.

So… what would happen now that he was no longer being complacent about it? How much strength could he excavate out of himself?

Ryu's gaze suddenly flashed open, countless runes spreading out within them before vanishing.