Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Ryu sneered, stepping through the skies and descending as though he didn't feel the danger coming for him at all.

He landed on the city walls of the Radiant Star Sect, the pressure of his existence causing many to subconsciously take a step backward. This number included Aika who still seemed to be in somewhat of a daze.

In one go, she had lost two brothers that might as well have been her true blood relatives. It was a difficult blow for anyone to take, let alone Aika who was used to being carefree and acting as she pleased.

The weight of the destruction of her Dual Radiance Sect was something that had weighed on her soul for a very long while, but she had managed to suppress it after years.

But there was a difference between suppressing something and truly dealing with it. It was clear that while Aika had moved past it, she hadn't truly buried it. Or maybe it was the fact that she had buried only for it to resurface that caused her current problems.

"Alright, let's go." Ryu spoke, landing right in front of Jojo.

Jojo was startled. "You—what are you talking about?"

"I've decided that you're my next Summon. Unless you want to wallow in mediocrity for the rest of your days, I'd suggest you follow me."

Jojo's reactions practically made it look like she was jumping out of her skin.

Her sword appeared out of nowhere, slicing down at Ryu's neck.

However…

Chi.

The sound was almost too dull. The blade was blocked by a fingernail.

"Where's this animosity coming from? You know, to the world, we're technically a couple."

"Who would be in a relationship with you?!"

"Quite a number of beauties, actually. But don't be mistaken, I'm not offering you such a position. I need a warrior. You're a little useless right now, but I think we can fix that in a couple days."

"Fuck you." Jojo growled. "I'm not going to be your puppet."

"Mm," Ryu nodded with a smile. "If you didn't have that sort of response, it would be a waste of my time to bring you into the fold in the first place."

Jojo was rendered speechless. This man was already annoying before, but now he was several orders of magnitude worse.

BANG!

Ryu blinked and suddenly held out a palm, stopping an attack that came from Aika.

Truthfully, he didn't expect her to suddenly attack like this. At first, he thought that Samson and Old Wan's death had only just settled in, but after giving her a glance, he seemed to see through to the depths of her souls.

She was attacking for Jojo's sake.

"Oh. So you do still have some backbone after all."

Aika didn't reply. In fact, her gaze was somewhat dull, almost as though she was just clinging onto this one thing to make her feel something.

Jojo was her disciple. She had spent that last over 50 years giving her everything she could, pouring everything she had into nurturing this one young girl. ⱤãΝО₿Εᶊ

By this point, she and Jojo were practically mother and child. At the same time, Jojo was the very last hope that the Radiant Star Sect had.

Even now… she was unwilling… too unwilling to give up this chance…

She was moving practically on auto-pilot.

When Jojo saw this, her expression changed and her eyes began to ripple with tears. Though, these tears were quickly burned away by her flaming eyebrows. Her grip on her great sword tightened and her aura flared.

Ryu blinked. His palm quickly pushed out against Aika, causing her to stumble back before a finger tapped Jojo's forehead like lightning.

In that instant, the surging aura was wrapped in Divine Chains and like a bucket of cold water had been poured over her head, Jojo was suppressed.

"Relax. Now isn't the time for you to break into the Lord Realm. It's not that I can't raise you to the level I need you to be at before you break through, but it would cost substantially more resources. It's a bit embarrassing to say, but I'm just a tiny little bit poor right now."

Jojo felt as though she had been trying to take a deep breath only to suddenly be punched in the gut.

Aika grit her teeth. "Just… take me instead…"

She ground out those words, but Ryu only chuckled.

"Right now… you aren't very worthy. Your Dao is very interesting and has a lot of potential, but the path I want my Summons to follow requires a strong Dao Heart. If you can't withstand this little bit, then you'll die after I pour so many resources into you. Wouldn't that be wasting my time?"

"Ryu!" Jojo roared. "Why are you so cruel?"

"Me?" Ryu looked over. "My cruelty is a matter of perspective. I guess right now you feel that way, but when you stay stuck at the Omniscient Sky God Realm for the rest of your life or die beneath your Lord Tribulation, would you think me cruel then?

"Or maybe you wouldn't be thinking about me at that point at all, too fearful for your life, or too busy being enraged with the Heavens. You wouldn't consider the fact you could have avoided it all just by following me from the very beginning."

Jojo didn't even know how to respond to this. Was she supposed to thank Ryu for saving her from a future she hadn't even experienced yet? Let alone the fact that she didn't believe that anything would be able to stop her steps.

"Ryu." Aika breathed out a heavy breath, finally stabilizing the rolling of her inner organs from Ryu's earlier attack. It was just a light push, but it actually took her so much effort to regain her bearings. "… You are my fiancé. I've heard how you treat your women. So…"

Aika grit her teeth.

Back then, she had already been embarrassed that Ryu had to save her from the Fate of being married off by the Radiant Star Sect Ancestors. She thought it would be nice to just forget that matter had ever happened.

But she never thought that today she would be using it to pressure Ryu. She couldn't be more embarrassed about the matter, but you would never guess it by the look on her face.

Even when Ryu chuckled, her stare at him didn't waver in the slightest.

Technically, she was right. But Ryu had never taken it very seriously.

"Ai…" Ryu sighed. "If I do this, that means I also need to go back to Sacrum. Do you know how annoying that'll be?"

Aika's gaze flashed in confusion, but Ryu was only remembering a woman that he had forgotten about long ago. He just hadn't cared enough to return to see how she was doing.

But then again, maybe he needed an excuse to also go and see Granny Miriam's little sister. He wondered how she was doing as well.

These years, he honestly didn't plan on cultivating very much at all. At least, he didn't plan on cultivating personally.

This wasn't out of laziness, but rather that he could feel that his body needed this time. He had just put it through a lot of stress, and whether it was his own personal comprehension, or his wife's Cultus Faerie lineage, both pointed him toward the fact a rest would actually help him to improve even further, while cultivating now would have the opposite effect.

The main reason for that wasn't Comprehension this time, or that he needed to accumulate more. Instead, his body was adapting to his Chaotic Silk Meridians.

Until now, the process required failing the Spiritual Severing Realm so that one could progress while focused entirely on the Meridians without the influence of the Spiritual Foundation.

But this time, Ryu had obviously not done that. That said, he felt that he had found the true path of his Chaotic Silk Meridians.

The Meridians were meant to be part of the body. Constantly having to communicate with an external land to retrieve your qi was foolish and it shouldn't be relied upon unless you were truly running out of qi.

By this point, Ryu had too many methods of increasing his qi output. His Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation alone was a thousand times larger than most Spiritual Foundations.

He had an overabundance of qi to begin with.

This aside, this time period would allow the Chaos Plane to come to him rather than the reverse…

The process of forming a Chaos Plane within one's body.

Like this, Ryu would have one Inner World of the Real Plane and one Inner World of the Chaos Plane, striking a perfect balance.

And such things took time.

Lost in his thoughts, Ryu forgot for a moment that he was even speaking to Aika.

"Interesting." Ryu said with another chuckle.

Aika was about to sigh a breath of relief before Ryu spoke again.

"In that case, I'll take you both as Summons."

He reached out with both hands at the same time.

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