Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2049 Eruption

BANG! BANG! BANG!

A tempest of furious strikes erupted between the two. Every clash felt almost like the end of the world, the laws of reality bending and folding until they were forcefully kept in place by the Lord Control of both of them.

An outsider looking in would feel as though they were watching the battle through a rippling mirror. Sometimes they would see Ryu and Sarriel fighting in place. But then suddenly, and inexplicably, their bodies would warp, stretching out across thousands of kilometers as though they had become the strings of Karma themselves, before snapping back into reality as whole humanoids once more.

They seemed to have completely forgotten their techniques and skills. Or maybe the battle had reached such a high-level state that it simply wasn't possible to rely on such things any longer.

They weaved in and out of one another's strikes, the streaks of cold and darkness coming from Sarriel, while Ryu's aura changed far more frequently and remained far less consistent.

Ryu ripped through an array of elements, swapping from beams of light to explosions of dense black fog, from crackling ice to heart-shuddering flames.

He flowed seamlessly and fluidly from one to another, his momentum only increasing with every furious strike.

Sarriel didn't seem to be holding back in the slightest either. At least that was what it seemed. But every time Ryu became sharper, she became swifter. Every time Ryu became faster, her strikes became heavier.

They matched blow for blow, crossing the skies and leaving exploding concentric circles of air in their wakes.

The moment these furious momentums left the range of their Lord Control, space would fragment and shatter, mountains would collapse, and entire oceans would ice over or explode into heated mist.

"Is this all a few extra thousand years can give you?" Ryu asked, his eyes blazing with battle intent.

"Before, you didn't speak because you were too embarrassed. Are you sure you want to start now?" Sarriel sneered.

"Not embarrassment, I would say. Have you never seen a thinking man before? How would I find a way to beat you and talk at the same time?"

"Shameless to an extreme."

Sarriel seethed. What was the point in bringing up the failures of a man who didn't seem to take them seriously in the slightest?

Ryu's laughter boomed toward the skies and his great swordstaffs flared out. He seemed to leave his chest completely open to Sarriel's strikes, and yet Sarriel didn't dare to take the opening in the slightest.

Instead, she took a step back, lowering her katana in one hand and raising up two pressed fingers with the other.

At that moment, another katana appeared above her head, then a second, then a third.

"Take Form and Split the Heavens."

SHIIIIIIIING!

The cry of a blade echoed through the skies and Ryu's eyes lit up like a blaze. Sarriel definitely knew something. Otherwise, she wouldn't be using her Immortal Rings still, even though she was already a Lord.

The fiendish grin on Ryu's face only spread wider as his great swordstaffs shuddered.

The fan of katanas that formed behind Sarriel separated and soared into the skies in separate pieces, quickly forming a mysterious formation that almost radiated the aura of a world all to itself.

Sarriel slowly raised the blade in her hand, and it left what looked like permanent afterimages in the air. Even after several seconds, they showed no signs of fading

away,

CHIING! CHIING! CHIING!

Then these afterimages solidified into reality before snapping into the main blade as though they were never there.

SHIIIIIING!

Sarriel pierced forward.

The one strike was dozens of times more powerful than any she had levied before. Had Ryu been defenseless in this situation, he would have certainly found himself

skewered through and shredded to pieces.

However...

BANG!

Ryu finally brought his arms together, and his great swordstaffs seemed to fuse into two. The reason it wasn't so obvious was that from time to time they almost split apart, almost like the technique wasn't complete yet.

And yet, somehow, it also felt as though it was steady and stable, as though nothing at

all could change it.

The dichotomy was enough to make a person's head spin, especially when Ryu slashed down.

The piercing katana and combined great swordstaffs met in the air.

An explosion of light-dark matched with cold-dark met, rippling golds, blacks, and icy blues painting the world in a swirl of colors that reflected in both of their eyes.

BANG!

The two were forced apart, but it was then that Sarriel's array of katanas descended from high in the skies.

Ryu's Heavenly Dao Tree took shape once again, this time even larger than before. Its roots pierced into the ground for the first time, and its canopy felt so large and

looming that it could be a sky in and of itself.

His Dao Heart bloomed and Cosmos Fog erupted out from within him.

His branches of the Heavenly Dao Tree shook and met the arcs of the blades in the

skies.

Sarriel's array of blades suddenly doubled in size, and then doubled again.

The two stomped on the ground and erupted forward. The ground itself was forced to bear the full brunt of their prowess, solidified beneath their Lord Control. But deep underground, their power traveled and turned the sturdiest earth of the world into

piles of loose sand.

The two clashed in the air once again, one backed by an enormous tree and the latter backed by a formation of swords just as large.

Tree branches and shimmering blades clashed continuously in the air as the two

fought amidst the chaos.

Ryu took steps that caused blades to miss his neck by mere millimeters, and Sarriel sent out strikes that avoided lashing tree branches by a hair's breadth.

They almost danced in the skies with the world as their backdrop. Fate swirled around them in a tempest as though it was eager to crown its Heir between the two.