Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2028 Only One Reason

Ryu saw the crystalline objects in a new light, but at the same time, he was baffled.

This was definitely not the first time that he had held the dagger in this form. He was sure that he had done it before. But why was it that it was so different now?

Looking at the glove on his hand, his eyes flickered as he began to deduce something.

'I see... before, I was hardly acknowledged by this thing. To think a treasure born from Sacrum would be so arrogant...'

Ryu couldn't help but chuckle.

The Glove of Order reacted to one's level of Comprehension. But back then, Ryu hadn't even had a Dao, let alone a solid enough Comprehension for it to latch onto.

Every time he had an improvement in his Inheritances, the Glove of Order would react in kind, but it was also like feeding little meat pebbles to a black bear. How could it ever be satisfied with that?

For a long time, the Glove of Order had been starving. But now it finally had something to hang its

hat on.

Ryu chuckled and then shook his head. Raising up the sword, he casually slashed down.

There was a resonance that formed and the laws of the world overturned.

Ryu felt that even his own soul was about to be ripped out of his body, and to his shock, the power of this casual swing was already nearing about 90% the potential of his Judgment attack.

It floored him.

That Dao Method was one of his most powerful, and he had even improved it further by incorporating the use of a False Shrine and his Fate and Karma Soul Nature on top of that. He couldn't fathom how this casual swing managed to cover so much of that strength.

Ryu looked at it for a moment and then shook his head.

He didn't like it.

With a casual toss, he threw the sword and dagger back into his Inner World and pulled the glove off his hand, tossing it inside as well.

He wasn't interested in using external items to form his strength. If it was a treasure that he had created himself, or if his life was truly in danger, he wouldn't mind it.

But he would reach the top of the world under his own merit.

He waved a hand, and the three-pupiled young woman was forcefully sucked into his palm.

He slapped her forehead and her vision swam. Her vision seemed to be stripped from her before he tossed her into his Inner World as well.

Soon, the world around him began to accelerate again, and when things cleared, he found a beauty with flowing black hair and bright violet eyes staring back at him.

Sarriel stood before him casually, unaffected by anything in their surroundings. One would have thought that he had just dealt with a great number of geniuses all on his own.

Ryu knew why she was so arrogant. He had defeated her in their first battle, but it could be said that her own arrogance had played a great part in it.

She didn't use her Natural Enlightenment, and the only one of her Truth Pupils' abilities that she had used was [Truth Clonel. Well, other than the passive deceit that she could inflict on the world with

her Pupils.

Back then, she had also told Ryu something quite profound...

The deceit of the Truth Pupils ran deeper than anyone knew.

In Sacrum, it was always rank seven, never higher, never lower... In fact, no matter what world you went to, it was always ranked seventh, never moving up, and never moving down.

Sarriel seemed to imply that this was on purpose.

But then something happened. In the True Martial World... it had moved up to sixth, tying with Ryu's Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils.

Why was that? After all that nonsense Sarriel spoke about, could it be that she was just blowing her own horn after all?

There were only two explanations.

Either she had been lying from the very beginning, or...

Ryu almost wanted to dismiss the thought. The second possibility was so shocking that it would have to mean that Sarriel was at a level now that was hard to imagine.

In order for the second to be true, she would have had to override every Truth Pupil wielder who had ever existed before, making her already the strongest Truth Pupil wielder to ever exist. Of course, this wouldn't be in cultivation, but rather in mastery of the Truth Pupils... That second possibility was that she had become the main decider of the Fate of the Truth Pupils, and she personally made the decision to lift the veil of deceit that shrouded the Truth Pupils.

It was only just the slightest bit, moving them from seventh to sixth place. But... even a half a position was shocking. In fact, budging it at all was far beyond means that Ryu could even fathom right now.

It could be said that this woman, if it really was the latter case... had all the reason in the world to be arrogant.

But that was also precisely why her methods were baffling to Ryu.

On the one hand, she was unwilling to lay her pride down in front of him, even to the point of holding back during their first fight.

But then she wanted to lecture him about being cautious and careful, of knowing when to lower his head and protect himself, on top of going around trying to find a husband out of such pathetic candidates, all to do something that her talent should allow her to do all on her own.

How could Ryu ever respect such a woman? He refused.

The sharpness of the two's gazes caused the world to warp and twist around them, shuddering with pain and horror as it seemed to realize that there would be no escaping the damage this time around.

At the same time... it could be said that Ryu truly wasn't very good at wooing women. There was only one reason Sarriel would act so contradictorily with him, and he had only himself to blame if he couldn't figure it out.

But at the moment, he only seemed interested in knocking her down a peg.