Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2043 Risk

Ryu's Bone Structure was one of his strongest trump cards, but it was also one of the talents that he had the most difficulty in learning to use. This wasn't just because its appearance in himself was a first across Existence, but also because the paths in which it could take were too numerous.

The Cosmos Fog within him's main purpose was separating from the influence of the Heavens. This sounded great, but it gave him too many paths that he could take.

The logical thing to do was to just focus on the Space and Time aspects of it, and he

had.

With his Cosmos Fog, he was able to use Time acceleration in ways that others couldn't imagine, even to the point of ignoring the distortions in the laws to comprehend insights with time on his side nonetheless.

This benefit alone was shocking because the one thing that Ryu didn't have the benefit of was time.

Ironically enough, despite the fact that he had only been forced to come on this mission, the time he spent cultivating here was already more than four or five times the amount of time he had spent cultivating anywhere else.

In Sacrum, he didn't cultivate at all in his first life, and even in his second, he wasted 14 years being oppressed from all sides. He hadn't even been allowed to Awaken, let alone practice and cultivate.

There weren't even 10 years between the time he finally passed the trial of the Phoenix Sky God and the ultimate battle between the Martial Gods before he once again found himself unable to cultivate for 999 years.

The good news with his Rebirth Talent activating was that it had made his process of re-establishing his foundation much easier. But the bad news was that he had once again wasted more time while others around him were busy growing more powerful... Including Sarriel.

If he didn't include the time he spent meditating by the Blackhole to gather up the last treasure he needed for his Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation, he probably hadn't even spent five years in the True Martial World before he was forced to come here.

It was an irony of ironies that the first time he was truly able to meditate in silence and focus on nothing other than improving himself was in this world that was stuck in a perpetual war, but it was also its own form of embarrassment.

After all, the only reason he had been able to be so leisurely was because of his wife. If not for the Rebirthing Cultus Sect, would he have been so relaxed?

Although Ryu had had a clash with Star River, making it clear that all the things he gained were only because he had become their Throne, he also wasn't so naive as to believe that 100%.

The Throne System outside of Sacrum was far more complicated, and it wasn't impossible for a Sect he became the Throne of to choose to target him. The reason they didn't was because one betrayal was already far more than enough. Ailsa would never allow such a thing to happen a second time, so the Sect she built was extraordinarily safe all things considered.

So much hardship, and yet so little time...

That was the summary of Ryu's life.

When he was facing off against opponents like Sarriel who had orders of magnitude more time in cultivation than he had, it was hard for him to find a chance to stand.

Sarriel not only had the advantage of all the time he spent in Rebirth, but she had likewise spent many years in Sacrum as well, slowly cultivating and building her foundation on top of having the knowledge that she would progress to the True Martial World one day.

The fact that she was still a Lord wasn't because her cultivation was so slow... it was because she was excavating her potential to the absolute greatest extent. If not for this fervor of hers, she might very well already be a Sovereign. In fact, Ryu wouldn't have even been surprised if she appeared before him as a Dao God either.

These were the sorts of odds he was playing against, and when these matters were put into perspective, the fact he was still alive at all could be considered to be its own modern-day miracle...

And that was also why his Bone Structure was so absolutely important. But why it was so dangerous.

I was also

Ryu's Spacetime Soul Nature was shocking, but the truth was that it wasn't nearly as shocking as it needed to be for him to do what he needed to do. In fact, he was very worried about taking this step until he gained his Karma and Fate Soul Natures to match it. But even then, it felt like he was truly riding the edge of life and death. What Ryu wanted to do was both simple and shocking at the same time. Everyone knew that blood came from the root of one's bones, churned out from the marrow. Ryu had always made the assumption that this was true as well, but as he was analyzing his body to complete his Body Realm Cultivation Method, he realized that something was off.

His blood did come from his bone like everything else, but there was a thin sheen of separation keeping it at bay.

The blood that came from his Bone was quite human in nature, carrying not much special at all. It was only after it passed through his Seven Corporeal Spirits, or his inner organs, in a special pattern that his Blood Essence triggers and fused into this normal blood to create the beast Bloodlines that he relied on today.

This difference was so subtle that with all his knowledge and senses, Ryu had truly never spotted the difference until just years ago. But there had been nothing that he could do about it.

He realized that this was the main problem of taking beast Bloodlines into the body of a human. The Ancient Beasts and beasts in general, for that matter, had a completely different cultivation system, much the same way the Demons did. The anatomy between the Races had never been one-to-one, so how could anyone expect to treat it as such?

The main thing that Ryu was missing was obvious to him at the first instant: a Spiritual Root.

At least... that was what he had thought until he realized that this too was just part of

the answer.

The real answer was a combination of three matters.

The Spiritual Root. The Dao Bone. The Beast Core.

The Spiritual Root was an extra organ that beasts had and humans didn't. It was a

fleshly thing that took the place of the dantian and formed the foundation of their

entire cultivation system.

It was what they used to gather and refine Vital Qi, it was what their Meridian systems were connected to, what their Bloodlines flowed through, and what they used to

trigger their techniques and legacy Talents.

The Beast Core was something that didn't even appear in Sacrum. It only occurred in a shockingly small percentage of beasts.

In the rarest of them, they might be born directly with a Beast Core. But that didn't

stop many talented beasts from forming it after birth.

The Beast Core was an amalgamation of a beast's insights, manifested into a more tangible form. Usually, it was more Inheritance than anything else. And that was because there was still one other evolution that beasts could take...

The Dao Bone.

This was where the Dao resided, and this was what separated the truest of the true elite beasts from the others. It was what allowed the most shocking of the monsters to

rise up.

Beasts didn't have to comprehend much in order to progress. There were probably even God Beasts out there, even amongst the Griffins themselves, that didn't need to comprehend a Dao.

They were the beloved children of the Heavens, and they were treated as such, often only needing to rely on their Ancestral insights and natural talent to take one step

after another.

But the beasts that took a step beyond this could start to infuse their influence into

their very Bone. By infusing these insights into their Bone, it could change and influence their Bloodlines to some extent, tinging their Bloodline with their own

unique flare.

As usual, there were some directly born with Dao Bones as well, making it even easier on them. These existences could gain direct comprehension insight from their Ancestors to improve and strengthen their Bloodlines.

It was only after learning all of this that Ryu realized that he had been staring down

one of the main ways to improve his Bloodlines all along.

The problem? He wasn't a beast. These weren't things that he could do, and his Bloodlines didn't even lay their roots in his bones like they should, but instead in his

organs.

If he wanted to change things, he would have to take an enormous risk.