Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

1776 Why?

Ryu's aura suddenly settled down. It seemed as though it was finished, but it was only because of this that the reaction of the nine figures was the most shocked.

If the breakthrough came with a great commotion, it would be one thing… it would be acceptable. But a breakthrough that was so silent, especially when they knew the kind of storm that must be raging through Ryu's body…

It was like Ryu was relying on himself rather than the Heavens to evolve, and this was a level of breakthrough that could hardly be compared with others.

The more it was like this, the more they felt that things here were far outside of their expectations.

Ryu's hair settled down and his breathing became calm and even. There didn't seem to be anything that could faze him any longer.

It was several days before he slowly opened his eyes, but it could have easily felt like billions of years or even just a few seconds. Time didn't seem to mean much to Ryu anymore, and maybe that was precisely the most awe-inspiring of the breakthroughs he had had.

If he didn't have a Dao already, he could have likely created a Time Dao that reached the Founding Dao Grade right at this moment with just as much ease.

It felt like now he had views of the world he simply hadn't before, and it made him feel invigorated.

Ryu slowly opened his eyes and found himself standing in the very same place. A slight wind lifted his hair up once more, but it settled on his shoulders once again.

Feeling calm and unhurried, he seemed to stand even taller than before. It wasn't a literal height, but a figurative one, as though he was truly larger than life, as though he was taking up far more space than he seemed to be.

"… Truly abnormal…"

The nine said.

None of them could have expected that before Ryu could even receive their Inheritance, he would create a branch of it on his own, and it even seemed to be the case that it was far more suited to him than their own.

The only drawback seemed to be that there wasn't any room for forward progress, but it was hard to say if that was truly a drawback or not.

According to the original technique, Ryu would meditate on his former lives and incorporate their strength into himself, thereby strengthening himself.

While it was true that only the Heavens and Buddhists could cultivate Faith, Demons happened to fall into a unique category where it was likewise possible. It was just that this was a fairly unknown method, and the requirements were especially stringent.

Demons had the perfect combination of self and Heaven's reliance. Thanks to this, there was a line they could thread that could allow them to take advantage of Faith. It just wasn't nearly as straightforward.

However, Ryu seemed to have skipped all of that and directly incorporated the Faith. Rather than meditating on each individual life, he accepted them all as himself and took in their Faith as his own directly.

This was a fundamentally different path, and yet it also seemed to be the far more profound breakthrough.

It could be said that Ryu had already matched the pinnacle of their technique in a single bound.

This was simply too shocking for multiple reasons.

Setting aside the fact it required reconstructing a technique that dwarfed most of the God Grade, what level of strong Dao Heart did it take to do this?

This really could only be accomplished by someone that had given up on all future lives.

Even so… being willing to stare your old lives in the eye and accept them as yourself…

The more arrogant you were, the more difficult it was. And there was no doubt that this human was among the most arrogant children they had ever seen.

How had he done it?

This wasn't even the most shocking part. Even with all of this said, it was still the synergy this technique had with his Bone Structure.

And even if that was ignored, how had he assimilated so many lives, so many memories, so much experiences, in just a few days?

Every aspect of this matter from start to finish just felt absolutely ridiculous.

It was said that the strongest talents were those that were born with synergizing talents. But these experts knew that this wasn't the case at all…

The Heavens didn't just create talents like this, and they certainly wouldn't be passed on so easily. There was a reason that these talents were hereditary.

At some point in the past, an expert had to come forward that took seemingly unrelated talents and fused them down a single path.

This was the path of the truest experts.

One that not only forged their own path, but had a Dao Heart as resplendent as stars.

Right now, seeing Ryu's unrelated talents begin to slowly fuse together as they were… his inner world, his Dao Heart, his Spiritual Foundation, Realm Heart, his soul…

They had all seemed so unrelated at first, but the more things Ryu learned, the more progress he made, the more he seemed capable of having them help one another.

When the day came that they truly became one…

He might very well be the Hero of this generation.

Ryu ignored the nine statues, looking around to see if he could find anything special, but he still saw nothing at all. Once again, it was still just these nine.

When he realized he wouldn't be able to get anything more just by standing around here, he looked toward the middle Dream Wraith statue.

"Since things have reached this point, do you all mind telling me exactly why it is you've set this place up?"

There was definitely something he was missing. If it was just about passing on an inheritance, then they certainly wouldn't have considered him.

But what made it so that they had to consider even a human seriously?