Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2077 Clumsy

Ryu squatted on the balls of his feet, pulling Aria up by her collar. She spat at his face, but it was blocked by a barrier before it could even exit her mouth a few inches, before being incinerated to ash.

Ryu didn't say much, only pressing a palm to her forehead.

"Get out of my head!" Aria roared, her one bronze eye and the other icy blue one flashing wildly.

Unfortunately, it was useless. Her soul was far too weak in comparison to his own, and she was ruthlessly suppressed in a single bound.

Soon, she found a Magus Maze in her mind, one that forced her to listen to all of Ryu's orders and also revealed all of her thoughts to him.

Before, Ryu hadn't had a proper Summoning Heritage, so he didn't actually end up formally making Hrakka and Empana his Summons just yet. It was just that he was fairly confident that they would always listen to his orders.

However, after studying the human skin Tome, he had come up with his own Summoning method. He had never tested it before, but he had decided to use it against the most unruly of his Summons.

In the end, he turned out to be correct and everything went smoothly... not that it was much of a surprise for him.

He let go of Aria's collar and stood up.

"Get up." He said calmly.

Gritting her teeth, Aria complied.

Ryu began to control her to take various actions, and eventually, the two began to spar.

Wounds began quickly accumulating across the petite Fiend's body. She suffered again and again, and the rage in her eyes was quickly becoming helplessness.

Ryu had allowed her to attack at her full power for a while, and she had thrown everything she had at him, but it was still worthless. It was like they weren't even in the same league anymore. The separation between the two was so enormous that she couldn't even see the peak he stood on.

She had once been a great genius that many drooled over. Her own Clan was willing to give her any and everything she wanted just to make sure she remained happy. And yet now...

"You only control Sovereign Earth and Sovereign Ice Qi, not even Ancient Earth and Ice, let alone Primordial Chaotic Earth or Primordial Chaotic Ice," Ryu observed after Aria collapsed with exhaustion.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Aria grit her teeth. That was actually a great pride. Why did it sound like an insult coming out of Ryu's mouth? She had never felt so humiliated in her entire life.

"Your Sovereign Earth and Sovereign Ice are also both quite weak. They seem to be restricted by this world rather than being the best representations of themselves."

Ryu had already noticed that his Chaos Qi varied in strength depending on the world he was in. Clearly, this was the same for Aria.

It sounded quite shocking that Aria would have Qi that was so weak. It had to be remembered that Qi in this world was separated from Fragmented up to God, and then beyond God there was still Ancient Qi and Primordial Qi beyond. Then, sitting beyond that was Chaos Qi or Essence.

Aria didn't even have God Qi, she had Sovereign Qi. And that was a Qi Level you would start finding on the Eighth Heaven, and see most often on the Ninth Heaven.

For a genius of her caliber, this seemed out of place.

But this made sense to Ryu. After all, what really gave Aria her Strength was the fact that she was a Childe, that being that she had not just one element in her body like most Fiends, but rather two.

Because of this, even when she faced geniuses who controlled one type of Ancient Qi, they weren't a match for her.

So what would happen if Ryu allowed her the chance to control Primordial Chaos Qi? In truth, it just might kill her.

It had to be remembered that the reason why there were so few Dual Elemental Fiends was because those that were born often died early, unable to withstand the pressure that came from their talent.

Although Aria had already made it to Lordship and had passed that period of volatility. as a result, forcing her to change her foundation now would definitely push her toward the edge.

However... Ryu didn't care.

"You're weak." Ryu said.

Aria clenched her jaw. But for once, she said nothing at all.

"I will give you an opportunity too. If you survive, good. If you don't, good. Your life and death means nothing to me."

Aria's gaze became deathly sharp. Every fiber of her being wanted to tear Ryu to pieces, but she didn't even have the strength to lift a finger.

"Good luck."

Aria's eyes widened. It couldn't be that he wanted to put her through something like that right now, right? She was completely spent. She had no more energy whatsoever

"АННН!"

Aria's screams filled the skies as blood poured out from her pores. But by this point, Ryu had already turned his attention to Hrakka.

The blue-skinned Fire Giant woman looked beautiful as always, and she was actually wearing more clothes this time. It seemed that her talk with Ryu had given her a bit of a light bulb moment.

Ryu couldn't decide whether he was amused, happy, or disappointed about this. But what he did know was that Irakka had a foundation more solid than any of his other Summons... even in comparison to Aria by now.

Her cultivation was especially slow, and she spent often days at a time now bathing in Embryonic Qi. The more she used it, the less of an effect that seemed to have. But that was only because all of the changes that could be seen with the physical eye had long since occurred.

Despite her size, the woman was no less beautiful than any one of Ryu's wives... if one adjusted for cultivation, that is.

Right now, Hrakka was still only a Perfect Sky God, a far cry from many of his wives. But she seemed to have budding potential ready to burst out at any time.

And Ryu had the perfect path for her.

He flipped over a palm and a white flame appeared. It was the very same flame that had followed him from the start of his cultivation journey, and the very flame with a name he couldn't pronounce.

Since he had incorporated the White Phoenix Spiritual Foundation so far into his cultivation foundation now, he might as well go all out and stop ignoring this beautiful

flame.

Flame Giants had a very complex background.

In many tales, Giants represented the beginning, not of the universe, but of life itself. It was rare to find a story of the telling of the start of a humanoid race without giants being part of it in some way, shape, or form.

They were often painted as a naive Race, one without much intelligence, and one with an almost careless clumsiness that might either bring hope or destruction to a world.

The Fire Giants embodied precisely all of that. The clumsiness of the beginning, a budding chance for a future... they were the true Prometheus.

For a Race like this one, it could be said that this white flame was exactly what Hrakka needed. This white flame that Ailsa had only described in a single line...

A flame that had existed since the beginning of time itself.

"Kneel for me." Ryu said lightly.

Hrakka nodded and kneeled. Even now, she was still about a head taller than Ryu, even

after sitting on her heels, but it was enough.

Ryu pressed a palm forward and touched the center of her chest.

With a flare, a white phoenix appeared behind him.

Irakka's body was practically an open chasm, ready to be molded to Ryu's image. Her

Meridians were as wide as oceans and her Blood Vessels were as open as skies.

She was ready.

Ryu came out of his Inner World, slowly opening his eyes while still within the

Rebirthing Cultus Sect.

He stood and strolled out, ignoring most of the people he came across until he found himself in front of Wobbling Fairy's Courtyard again.

After some thought, he just directly barged in and closed the doors after him.

He found the little Faerie woman rocking in a chair, back to her usual innocent, drunk

self.

She looked up to see Ryu and gave him a big smile, but it felt fake. Not because there was a hidden darkness behind it, but rather because this was the smile she would likely give anyone who had just barged into her courtyard like that.

It was like she had completely lost any semblance of a backbone she had, turning into

a puppet of a woman only there to smile and act the part of a fool.

Ryu found himself standing before her in silence, his mind seemingly trying to work

something out.