Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

1879 Breathe

Almost instantly, the issues of the world resolved in Ryu's eyes. It took some adjusting because the Chaos wasn't exactly what he was used to, but that didn't take more than a few seconds. In an instant, all the pressure on him lessened considerably. Not only that, but he could feel everything about this world through tendrils of Faith. It was like everything was placed on a silver platter for him. In his vision, he spotted three. He could see Kira, Adlael, and a young woman. Surprisingly, the moment he laid eyes on the young woman, she looked up as though she had sensed something, three pupils rotating in her eyes in a reverse trigram of sorts. Ryu's eyes sharpened when he saw this. 'No…' Ryu wanted to shake his head, feeling that his conclusion was ridiculous. But the more he looked at this woman, the more he felt that it was likely to be true. 'Does she have three Heavenly Pupils?' Something about this felt weird and off. However, after seeing how much of a monster Kira was, Ryu was more inclined to believe it. 'No, it's not quite that. But I didn't even know that such a thing was possible. She should be from a special Race… to think that…' Ryu had only been around these people for a small time, but he realized that there were some truly monstrous geniuses hiding out in the world, existences with talents no worse than his own. No matter the situation, it was rare for Ryu to run into anyone with raw talent comparable to his own. But if there was really someone out there from this three-pupil race born with three Heavenly Pupils to pair with such an ability… Even Ryu would have to say that his talent was inferior to such a person. The young woman frowned when she couldn't find where that feeling was coming from and eventually looked away. But Ryu knew that such a genius would definitely trust her instincts. She would be no less on guard than Kira now. However, once again, Ryu had no intention of dealing with them so long as they weren't close to meeting up. Now that he could see through this world completely, he had a completely different idea in mind. Ryu moved and he vanished again. He began to check several regions, his mind focused. 'Ten days… Seven days left… It's enough.' Ryu grinned. Ironically, it was Iam that gave him this idea. Since he couldn't take the world by normal means, he would just have to have it give itself over of its own accord. As for how he would do that, the answer was obvious the moment he mentioned Iam… Feng Shui. This was tricky, though, for two reasons. First, Feng Shui was reliant on the balance of nature, and Holy Worlds were anything but balanced. They were heavily in favor of one or two elements at most, which made much of the world not appropriate for Feng Shui. There was a reason Ryu's eight trigram diagram had all aspects. The second issue was all of this Chaos. Feng Shui was the ultimate power of Order. It couldn't thrive in this sort of Chaos and it wouldn't even be able to take root. When you looked at this situation, not only was Ryu facing both problems, but they even compounded onto one another, making his thoughts impossible to execute. But, Ryu's mind was far more flexible than that. In fact, it was because he was facing both issues that there was a chance. In this case… Two wrongs did make a right. The entire world began to reflect in Ryu's mind and his lips began to mumble to themselves. He split the calculations between his three souls, and they ironically took different approaches to solving the problems. However, Ryu didn't mind it. In fact, more Chaos only helped him now. It had to be remembered that Ryu didn't have just one Dao, he had multiple stacked together. And by the same token, he didn't have just one eight trigram diagram, he had two… one built on Order and the other on Chaos. This was to say that Ryu had been close to this form of Chaos Feng Shui for a long while. While eight trigram diagrams weren't necessarily Feng Shui, they were the simplest formations one could form, and were thus the absolute closest to Feng Shui. However, Ryu was only using it as a reference. He was going much further this time. He was going to create an imbalanced Feng Shui that could stand on its own. But he was still missing one thing… And that thing was the teachings of the Unbalance Art Sect. Ryu suddenly opened his eyes three days later and vanished. He appeared before a mountain of gold and threw out a punch. He vanished again before it even landed, appearing in a sea of gold. This time, it was truly a sea, and not just a plain that seemed to be one. However, rather than entering the sea, he stood on the shore and stomped a foot down, creating a trench that the ocean waters spilled into. Ryu appeared in one location after another, changing the landscape in small ways sometimes, and in large ways in others. Every movement seemed violent, but it was precise to an extraordinary degree. In this time, he had been observing the other three, and he realized that they were looking for something in particular… at least that was what it seemed like. At other times, they seemed to instead be waiting for something. Unfortunately for them, whatever their goal, Ryu wouldn't give them the chance. … Ryu appeared high above a tree. It was the tallest tree in the entire world, so large that its canopy fused with the clouds above. Ryu unceremoniously cut it down. The tree tumbled over, but before it hit the ground, Ryu put it into his Inner world. Then, he sat on its stump and took a breath. When he breathed… The world breathed with him.