Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

2023 Blue Moon

Blue Moon shot forward, slamming down with a mighty momentum.

"Don't you understand your own Dao?" Ryu asked. "You're defensive. Attack isn't your strong suit."

Ryu stood in place, not moving an inch as his Heavenly Dao Tree rippled. With a gush of wind, several icy blue petals formed a barrier in the sky.

BOOM!

A curved barrier formed around Ryu and the haggard Falling Snow in his hand. He gave the half-dead Fey a glance before shaking his head.

This was more annoying than it was worth.

Ignoring Blue Moon, he raised his great swordstaff and pierced it toward Falling Snow's dantian,

As expected, there was yet another barrier there.

BANG!

"You young masters are so annoying to deal with. No wonder you've never seen your own blood; it's not because you're so strong, it's because you're wrapped up like a newborn. How could you possibly expect to ever grow strong like this? Scram"

Ryu ripped Falling Snow to the side and sent him flying off into the distance without a

care.

It would simply take too long to try and find a way to bypass Falling Snow's defenses. It had to be remembered that Falling Snow's life protection items, given how strong he was, were almost certainly designed to save him even if a Dao God should be the one to try and kill him.

Although Ryu was confident that he could find a way to bypass it, he simply didn't have the time. In any case, he didn't have time for an enemy that he had already defeated. He had more important things to do here, like completing his Body Realm Cultivation Method.

Ryu took a step forward, sending a glance over to the side that caused the three-pupiled woman to shudder. She seemed to know now that Ryu hadn't forgotten about them in the slightest.

Blue Moon's roar filled the skies, but Ryu slashed out again.

Against an opponent that used this sort of Dao... Ryu feared them the least.

Falling Snow was a bit troublesome because he had matched overwhelming body strength with power Qi Realm strength.

Ryu only had one aspect of his Body in the Lord Realm, while Falling Snow had had all three. Though he didn't use his Mental Realm much, having a Lord Mental Realm allowed Falling Snow to at least somewhat keep up with Ryu's analysis of the battle, albeit toward an inevitable failure.

By comparison, Blue Moon was actually stronger than Falling Snow. It was just that he was also much better at hiding his strength. His battle experience was also something that Falling Snow couldn't match up to.

Unfortunately... his potential was much lower than that of Falling Snow, and comparatively speaking...

Ryu couldn't even begin to take him seriously.

Blue Moon's Dao was built off the back of reflection to an extreme. Even the blue flames that reverberated around his body were reflections of fire, not real fire. Instead, he had gone all in on the cold aspects of his Moon Clan Lineage. So though the flames felt like they were burning, they were doing so with a dense cold.

Illusions, defense; if he fought for long enough, he could probably even refine his style further to match and counter that of Ryu's?

But why would Ryu waste his time on this?

All he had to do was use his Dao to analyze the fluctuations of Blue Moon's defenses and target their weaknesses.

By now, Blue Moon's split arm had healed up. But it was only a few exchanges before his second arm flew into the air.

"You're going to have to defend better than that," Ryu said lightly.

Blue Moon's roars came to a stop as he froze in shock, looking toward his stump of an arm as though he couldn't believe what he was seeing at all.

But it was still very much there. No amount of blinking and double-checking was going to change it.

"Impossible..."

"Very possible. In fact, it already happened."

Ryu's great swordstaff flickered again, and Blue Moon hurried into a retreat.

He managed to hold on for several more exchanges, but Ryu was quickly cornering him. Facing off against. Ryu, whose Dao was a deductive sort, was like placing your head on a platter for his taking.

It was ironically precisely because Blue Moon had chosen a Dao Title that Ryu might have that he was at a great disadvantage.

That was because the Dao Title that Blue Moon had taken decades to formulate and decide upon...

Had been seen through by Ryu in a mere few moments.

Another of Blue Moon's legs was cut at the knee.

He stopped in the skies, looking down with an unconcealed shock in his eyes. After all that work, was this really all his Dao amounted to in front of a real genius?

It didn't even feel like Ryu had fully unleashed his own Dao yet. And yet, he could feel a steady sort of oppression coming from it.

Blue Moon looked up toward the Silver Star resting above Ryu's Heavenly Dao Tree. Could that be the reason?

He was reflecting everything he saw... the Moon's radiance could only be present as a

result of a Star.

He controlled the Moon.

But Ryu was the Star.

Blue Moon's vacant gaze stared at the Star for a long while before a malevolent aura began to burn within him.

He wasn't prepared to use this Dao Method yet. His Dao wasn't nearly refined

enough.

However...

He would rather die than lose like this.

That was his pride as a cultivator.

BOOM!

Ryu's gaze flickered as Blue Moon's aura began to radiate a large amount of Chaos Qi.

'Hm?'

That was when Ryu remembered that Blue Moon had been reported to have cleared a Lord Grade Holy World not long ago, the first in a very long while.

Could it be related to that? Could he have succeeded in doing what only Ryu could

have in the past?

Ryu's casualness faded.