Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1941

Ryu awoke, his eyes flashing like lightning. His clones had certainly made a ridiculous amount of progress in these 26 years.

The depth of the techniques from his Dao Heart were astonishing. It sounded a bit ridiculous to be so shocked by something he had accomplished. But Ryu had completely cut himself off from that side while he focused on cultivating his Body Realm.

It wasn't just a matter of the power of the techniques, but their streamlining.

Ryu had always been able to create powerful techniques in the past, but the issue was that they impacted himself too strongly. He seemed to almost kill himself every time he used one of these Skills.

This time, his Dao Heart, while in a restrained relationship with his Perfect Blackbody, didn't just create more and more techniques, there was some true depth to them.

His Dao Heart created the technique ideas while his Perfect Blackbody added some true depth to them.

In this time, his Dao Heart had created 127 techniques. Of them, over a hundred were stronger than [Heavenly Dao Tree] and [A God's Brush]… and over a hundred of them would directly kill him if he used them in any capacity right now. It was almost amusing how much his Dao Heart wanted him to fly head first into death.

However, his Perfect Blackbody Soul was able to perfectly find a balance in six of them. Not only did those techniques have the same strength, but he could now use them without actually dying.

His personal favorite was an improvement on [Domain] the technique of Hope's Race. It took the techniques of the Radiant and Fading Star Sects and molded them into a completely new form.

Ryu looked down at his hand, sparkling starlight dancing on his palm.

'It seems I need to go into seclusion more often…' Ryu thought to himself.

He called the technique [Tatsuya Constellation]. It formed a new Constellation, using his Fate Star as the core to create a new movement technique.

Rather than having to deduce the star chart of every new location he entered, Ryu would become the center of his own star chart.

But this technique wasn't just an extension of the movement art, nor did it just guide his power and skill either. It could bend and warp reality, allowing him to exhibit a type of Lord Control even without using his Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation.

Right now, Ryu had run into a bit of a bottleneck. His Internal Matrix had once allowed him to have a three Grade Dao advantage over his Cultivation Realm. Essentially, as a True Sky God, he had a Dao no weaker than a quasi Omniscent Dao.

It wasn't exactly like that as there was still some difference between a real Omniscent Dao and his own, but this closed the gap enough that he could truly fight against existences on that level.

Unfortunately, it seemed that the gap between the Omniscent Realm and the Lord Realm was truly massive.

Even with his Internal Matrix and all his improvements, right now he had what he would consider a Half-Step Lord Dao. This was different from a Quasi Lord Dao as it wasn't capable of imitating a true Lord Dao at all.

By extension, his Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation didn't allow him to use true Lord Control either.

However, when this Dao Manipulation Technique was matched with his Dao, he could.

A Transcended with Lord Control. It was truly something that could overturn the world.

Whether it was Lord, Sovereign or God Control, they represented aspects of imposing will onto the world and forcing reality to bend to one's will. It was the reason why the Dragon Emperor could launch a breath of fire and not tear apart space despite his strength.

With Lord Control, the simplest application was forcing reality to remain intact and bear the full brunt of his power.

Sky Gods as low as Transcendeds were capable of tearing into the void, but what no one spoke about enough was just how much of your strength dispersed when this happened.

With Lord Control, to an extent, it was possible to force reality to bear your strength, thus increasing your strength exponentially.

However, truthfully speaking, this was only the simplest explanation of [Tatsuya Constellation]. Its other abilities were things that Ryu was already quite excited to use in battle.

'It seems I'll have to reforge my great swordstaffs… again.'

The reason Ryu had this thought was because the next three techniques were all related to his weapons' techniques. The trouble was that they were so powerful that the only way his Perfect Blackbody could find to allow him to use it now was by offsetting some of that burden.

Ryu didn't really like the idea of relying on external items, but in the end, he didn't mind it too much.

'I guess I know the next False Shrine I'm targeting,' Ryu thought to himself.

He could already forge the one False Shrine into one of his great swordstaffs, but he would need a Darkness False Shrine in order to forge the other.

He still needed to destroy two more of these False Shrines within the next 70 years or so, so it would be killing two birds with one stone.

The final two techniques didn't require such external items. One layered on top of [Tatsuya Constellation] and [Lines of Fate], forming a complete Domain of Spacetime. The second was the reason he had ignored his Bloodlines during his Body Realm cultivation… or rather, it could be said that he had been thinking about his Bloodlines the entire time.

His Spirit Bodies, his Bloodlines, his Body Realm Cultivation Skills, his scaled and winged forms, his Bloodline Birthed Phenomena…

There was too much, honestly. Trying to get his full potential out of all of them was next to impossible.

This time, his Dao Heart had come up with an ingenious method, one that relied on a skill of his Heavenly Pupils he had always kept perpetually active ever since it mutated into existence.

[Ephemeral Tapestry].