Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-2005

Ryu sat in silent meditation with Mae on his lap. He communed with her Primordial Yin as he held her tight, trying to work out the kinks in his plan.

Ile seemed confident enough in his explanation, but many of the things he mentioned were simply far easier said than done. This would probably be more difficult than forging his great swordstaffs had been, except back then he could rely on a Dao God's help, but this time, it would be difficult for anyone other than Ryu and Mae to participate.

An added person would throw in yet another chaotic variable that was hard to manage. If it came down to it, Ryu could try to commune with Hope's Primordial Yin at the same time in hopes of a better outcome, but whether that would be successful or not was another matter entirely.

In the end, he felt that it was best he stay the course like this.

But that was just one aspect of the problem. What if he actually succeeded? How exactly would he use this to throw a wrench in the plans of the Fey? That was another variable that needed to be worked out.

There were many ways that he could answer this question, but the real goal wasn't just to disrupt them, but also to disrupt them in a way that maximized the benefits he received.

Bonus points if he could somehow manage to find a way to lower his odds of dying in the Holy World.

It wasn't lost on Ryu just how ridiculous what he wanted to do was. Ile was planning on entering a world that Peak Dao Gods all had their eyes on, and somehow he wanted to effect change in it. enough that he could conquer it.

Even with his arrogance, he knew how completely and utterly ridiculous it all was.

Even the Fey Dao Gods would want his head on a platter, never mind the fact that the location of this God Grade Holy World was actually in the Chaos Plane, a Plane where an entire Race of people wanted his head on a pike.

And yet, Ryu was the picture of calm. With his beautiful wife in his arms, the delicate fragrance of her hair wafting to his nose from time to time, he felt at peace... and for more reasons than just the machinations of his Dao Heart this time.

'I know what to do...'

Ryu had comprehended Nether Qi, but since then, he had practically ignored it.

This wasn't really by design, nor was it because he had just forgotten about it; rather, the circumstances took the matter out of his hands.

He had been completely focused on his Body Realm Cultivation, but the Nether Qi he had incorporated into his path was more related to his Soul.

Whether it was his Mental Realm or his Qi Realm, he hadn't placed a very great emphasis on them in the last couple dozen years, so it seemed that he had neglected these things.

This was often why cultivators chose to focus far more on one path than another. But obviously... Ryu had no intention of doing such a thing.

Nether Qi was the embodiment of lower-case chaos, and Ryu felt that it just might be the key to bringing everything together.

However, as he was exploring down this lane, he paused.

He sensed something stirring deep within his wife, so deep that he could only feel it after his Fate

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affinity was strengthened so many times over.

Now, not only had he formed a Soul Nature, but the mutation to his eyes had strengthened it again, bringing it to an even higher, elevated platform.

'Dream Asura...'

Ryu's eyes opened, and his gaze flashed with light.

Mae wasn't technically a Dream Wraith originally; she was a Dream Asura. Ier Clan descended from the Dream Wraiths and eventually broke off from them.

They were forced to return to the Nether Plane due to Mae's Dao being too strong. They wanted to avoid being hunted down by the higher Planes of the True Martial World.

What Ryu never considered was what differentiated the Dream Wraiths from the Dream Asuras.

Of course, he had a rudimentary understanding. For example, Dream Wraiths were mostly Mental Realm experts. By comparison, Dream Asuras, though they had Mental Realm aspects as well, also had extremely strong bodies. Well, "relatively" strong, that is.

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On a macro scale, the Dream Asuras were so much weaker than the Dream Wraiths that the fact they had relatively strong bodies compared to the others of the Fifth Heaven they once resided on was a worthless tidbit. Ultimately, a Dream Asura would lose to a Dream Wraith ten out of ten times without any sort of suspense.

This was precisely why Ryu never really cared about the intricate differences. Ultimately, after Mac's Fate had been changed thanks to him helping her become a Chosen, everything else didn't matter anymore. He thought that she would become among the best of the Dream Wraiths, and that would be that.

But...

What he hadn't bothered to consider was the fact that the Chosen Blessings wouldn't just make her a Dream Wraith outright. Of course, it would enhance her suppressed Dream Wraith characteristics to a maximum, but would it do anything else?

Regardless of the situation, now didn't seem to be the time to think about it, but Ryu was entranced for a very specific reason.

Mae's body held the key to what he needed.

He only knew how to make use of Nether Qi in respect to his Mental Realm, and his Body Realm cultivation method didn't touch upon its aspects at all, nor had he ever had the desire to look into it. His Body Realm method was already far too complex as it was.

Even now, he didn't have the intention to do it.

But what he saw in Mae's body was a bridge that just might connect the two, not for himself, but rather... his plan.