Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1943

[Ephemeral Tapestry].

[Beyond Perfect Body].

Ryu's body shook slightly and blinding light began to swarm beneath his skin. His veins gave off a bright rainbow-like color that was quickly overwhelmed by gold, black, and an icy blue. These colors came together in a beautiful array, forming a map of complex runes and tattoos across Ryu's body before it suddenly solidified.

At that moment, there was a resonance between Ryu and the world around him. When he suddenly opened his eyes, there was a bright flash and deep within them, it was possible to see the roaring forms of his Bloodline Birthed Phenomena, as though they were souls trapped within his Inner World.

Though trapped as they were, they didn't seem to be fighting it. Instead, they were displaying their majesty, their shadows growing in size and then fusing into Ryu's body.

Scales danced into being across Ryu's body, his claws growing from his hands and a trembling power exuding from his frame.

Ryu had simply never felt such strength in his life. He felt so powerful that collapsing mountains would be a matter of a single finger, so powerful that a single stomp to the earth would make even the skies above quake.

His hair danced with an icy blue color, pervaded by strands of gold and dense blackness.

Flames of various colors danced around his wrists and ankles, flashes of lightning pulsing in his eyes. With every beat of his heart, his veins bulged and his muscles squirmed as though they were going to burst out from his skin.

Right now, he didn't quite look like a humanoid dragon. In fact, he looked far more human than anything else. Even the scales on his body were both sparse and illusory, almost as though he was wearing qi armor rather than his own skin.

'Strong…' Ryu thought to himself.

His heartbeat was steady as he allowed it to slowly fade away, his eyes flickering with hints of excitement that he quickly suppressed. This was only the first stage of this technique. It wouldn't be complete until he had absorbed all the other Holy Worlds he needed. But even so, the power was shocking to an extreme.

[Beyond Perfect Body] worked by using [Ephemeral Tapestry] to commune with the world, forming a connection between it and his Inner World almost similar to how he might sometimes project his Inner World into the outside world.

However, in the latter case, he was circumventing and oppressing the outer world. But in this case, he was forming a bridge between the two.

Using his perfect comprehension of the elements, he was essentially using it as a cheat to commune with the truest Fate of the Bloodlines within his body. This way, he wouldn't be restricted by his own limitations, because he would be relying on the Heavens to withstand it all for him.

Essentially, the more powerful the world he was in, technically speaking, the more powerful his body would be.

Just like how [Third Perspective] worked best when he was trying to communicate with someone he had a strong Fate link with, he was essentially using his Holy Worlds as a shortcut to commune with the Heavens. Because the Fate was so strong between them, almost all of the pressure had vanished.

The only trouble was that Ryu only had a strong comprehension of Light, Dark, and Ice right now, and those were either secondary affinities to his bloodlines or only good enough for a few of them.

Because of this, despite how powerful he had felt just now… he knew that he actually had an impossibly large amount of room for growth so long as he could claim the Holy Worlds he needed.

By that point, let alone being invincible beneath the Lord Realm, he just might start slaughtering them like lambs as well.

All of that just left the final technique, the very one that he planned to layer on top of [Tatsuya Constellation]…

Ryu's gaze flickered and he slowly stood to his feet.

First, he needed a target. Since he was lacking in a Darkness Shrine to forge his other great swordstaff, he would do that first.

**

Star River's lip twitched as she looked at Ryu.

First, she was a Dao God. Not just anyone could come and see her when they pleased. But not only had Ryu come, he strolled into her territory and right into her courtyard. No one could even stop him because technically speaking, a Throne did have access to the entirety of a Sect or Clan.

These were privileges that Ryu had earned through his own combat strength.

Second… was he asking her to break rules to give him what he wanted?

Ryu had come here and essentially asked her to give him access to a Holy World she had no jurisdiction over whatsoever.

Technically speaking, since this was a Sect headed by a Peak Dao God, there was nothing anyone could do to stop her. They might even assume that it was Ailsa's direct order. But…

Star River looked toward a beauty that had been sitting across from her. This was none other than the second Dao Goddess Ryu had seen on the day of Hope's breakthrough.

She seemed to be much more serious than Star River, and from what Ryu had heard, she was known as Plucking Stars. That was quite a domineering Sky God name, probably one of the most domineering Ryu had ever heard. Just from the Title alone, he could tell that she was actually much more powerful than Star River.

However, despite Ryu's demands, she actually didn't say anything at all, just staring into space silently as though this matter had nothing to do with her at all.

"The situation is not good right now. Stirring trouble like this will just make things go from bad to worse."

"I highly doubt that." Ryu said casually. He was just one person.

"Sending you in isn't the problem." Star River almost hissed in exasperation. "But if you actually clear the Holy World again, everything will erupt."