Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Ryu stood in complete silence, not moving an inch as the Omniscient Sky God disappeared into the distance. If he was just a little bit more careless, or the Omniscient Sky God was just a little less enraged, he knew that he could have easily been discovered.

He hadn't expected to run into such a powerful being so far from the true core of the Sect, but he had never been known for his good luck anyway. Luckily, he had managed to stay safe from detection or else he would really be screwed. He was under no illusions that a formation that he could set up as a Fragmented Sky God could fool the eyes of someone just a step away from Dao Lordship.

After staying silent for a while, though, and pulling away some of his mental faculties from his fight or flight senses, Ryu's gaze flickered.

This was an opportunity.

Of course, he wasn't thinking about something as simple as bringing Jojo over to his side. With him and Selheira, the Sect had more than enough powerful Fragmented Sky Gods. Plus, even if Jojo broke through and managed to keep her Sword Godhood, he didn't believe for a second that she could last even a single round against him.

Of course, that was a bit arrogant. Jojo's understanding of Sword God Aura had always been exceptional and he had learned quite a bit just from his short battle with her. There was no doubt that she knew and understood many more things that she hadn't shown, and likely also had other hidden talents that he hadn't taken into account.

For the sake of being reasonable, if he didn't use his Heavenly Pupils, he gave her maybe a 40% chance of beating him. If he was in a circumstance where he could, though, she simply wouldn't stand a chance.

Even so, he didn't give a damn about Jojo's individual power. What was important here was the symbolism, namely what she meant to the Raging Inferno Sect.

From the short conversation, Ryu could tell that Jojo was an important piece that they put quite a bit of importance on. Even in this Outer Sect, she was treated like a queen and they had even sent an Omniscient Sky God to speak to her personally.

In Ryu's opinion, although the Sect had no way to guarantee that Jojo would ever become an Omniscient Sky God, let alone a Dao Lord, among their current younger generation, they had likely decided that she definitely had the best chance.

Unfortunately, Jojo was stubborn and was unwilling to give up her Sword God Aura.

The Sword was one of the, if not the most popular weapons of choice. The amount of Fate and Karmic Strings pulling on this Dao were astronomical.

Even for Ryu, back when he was trying to dual wield spears, glaives and halberds, it felt like he was swimming against the tide of the world, let alone Jojo who didn't have the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils.

Of course, Jojo's job was also easier than his.

Ryu had been trying to use those polearm weapons in a fashion they had never been used before, while Jojo was just trying to carve out a path that slightly deviated and could be considered her own. These were two matters of strikingly different levels of difficulty, but that didn't take away from how tall the hill before Jojo was.

If she gave up her Sword God Aura now, she would still be an excellent sword master and she would be able to enter the Sky God Realm as one of the most powerful juniors on the Seventh Heaven.

However, to her, it wasn't enough. She felt she deserved to be on a higher world stage. She wasn't even satisfied with the Eighth Heaven. Her sword was one that deserved to be pierced through the highest hill there was.

Long after the Omniscient Sky God had left, she sat there, clenching her fists. The fire in her eyes hadn't disappeared at all and only seemed to be burning brighter and brighter, almost as though it was being sharpened, grinding along a whetstone again and again.

Ryu didn't make a move as he observed the circumstance silently. He was calculating several ways that he might use this, but the trouble was that he didn't know enough about Jojo's situation.

Did she have a family or Clan? Was that Omniscient Sky God one of her Ancestors?

How soon would this marriage be announced? And how publicly?

Would Jojo fight back against it? Or would she bide her time? It didn't seem like she had given up at all. He would have expected someone in her circumstance to burst into tears by now. There was no one else around and she had no idea that he was observing her, and yet she just sat there in her room, her great sword laid across her lap, as her gaze remained just as intensive as it had been the first time he saw it.

Ryu couldn't help but chuckle. 'Decent woman.'

After some thought, Ryu slipped away. He needed more information.

Also, there was no way that the Raging Inferno Sect didn't have someone or at least something monitoring Jojo. With her temper, they might have already assumed that she might try to run away. In fact, if she didn't know this, she might have already tried to do so.

Ryu's Dividing Chaos Dao sparkled in his eyes as he floated through the Sect, nudging certain interesting conversations in the direction he wanted them to go in and slowly pulling together the data he needed.

'Interesting, interesting...'

He slipped through the shadows again. Then, he hurried to rush out of the Sect before his stamina was truly tapped out again. Only after he had finished doing this did he step out of the void, heaving for breaths.

He had cut it a bit close, but the grin on his face painted quite a sinister future.