Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Of course it was easy. Ryu could fly in the real skies, let alone in this formation. Taking his wife along with him was only a matter of course.

What he was more surprised about was the sheer number of techniques. Elena had enough to exchange for more than 10,000 of them with the current discounts, and yet that still wouldn't put a dent worth a tenth of this collection.

Ryu couldn't even fathom what it meant to have more than a hundred thousand Omniscient Grade techniques at your fingertips, just what kind of concept was that?

To this point, Ryu hadn't cultivated very many techniques. His greatest reliances were self-created techniques.

He had once been practicing a Sovereign Grade Mental Realm cultivation method, but he swapped it out for his own so that he could create his Internal Matrix. His Qi Realm was also based on his own cultivation method.

Though he used the [Refinement Sutra] for both, that was more of a skeleton as the Sutra was reliant on his own comprehension and methods.

Of course, that wasn't to say that he had no techniques of this caliber. The Taboo Techniques were God Grade, it was just that their Faith restricted him to a level that was probably weaker than Omniscient.

Though, that was no longer a problem for Ryu now. He could finally unleash the full strength of those methods now, it was just a question of if he wanted to or not.

He quite liked the idea of creating and using his own techniques, and it had suited him well all this time. But that didn't mean that he couldn't use references and such to help himself out.

"This should be because of the Talent Oracle Profession Elena mentioned..." Ryu thought to himself.

He hated the Martial Gods, but he had to admit that their culture was the most conducive to producing powerful warriors and cultivators.

They were extremely open, so their Bloodlines mixed with countless Races, Clans, and Sects, bolstering their foundations of talent. The way their Bloodlines manifested made it hard for any one close family to dominate everything, so nepotism was far weaker here than it was in any of the other Nine Powers. And their relentless pursuit of knowledge and talent gave even Dregs the chance to rise up, and likely created all of these techniques.

When so much of your population was obsessed with dissecting and understanding the synergy between different talents, how could you not have so many techniques?

Ryu wouldn't even be surprised if they had just as many Lord and Sovereign Grade techniques as well. The foundation of a power on this level was truly extraordinary.

He shook his head, focusing. He assumed that there wasn't much time and he had to be quick.

His eyes flashed and he scanned through all the technique introductions one by one.

What he needed was a proper reference to build the foundation of Elena's next steps of cultivation.

Her Bloodline was a perfect mutation, the trouble was that it was the opposite of the path the Divine and Holy Wing branches had taken.

"I should also be able to do the same for Isemeine and Eska as well... Elena said that the Heavenly Dew branch has High Tier potential, but their inheritance is only as deep as Low Tier... it would normally take them several more generations just to make it up to Middle Tier, let alone High Tier..."

"Unfortunately, it's hard to tell if these techniques will have what I need from the descriptions alone... but, we have some leeway."

"Trade for these," Ryu pointed out two techniques to start.

Elena nodded and placed a hand on their casings, easily trading for both.

Ryu already had a bit of an idea of what he wanted to do, and it was actually related to his master's Bloodmancy legacy.

Elena had a problem where her Bloodline could only seem to amplify external targets.

This was obviously a failsafe of the two Bloodlines that it mutated from. Obviously, the Divine Wing and Holy Wing Bloodlines suppressed the qi around them. If there was no failsafe to stop it from acting on oneself, then every time one used it, it would be like dropping a boulder on your toes.

Bloodmancy alone wouldn't fix this for several reasons.

For one, Bloodmancy didn't change your Bloodline or how it worked, it had just allowed Ryu to pull them more under his control and allow them to exhibit more of their strength. Obviously, then, this wouldn't change Elena's situation.

But that was only if he was thinking inside the box.

The gist of what he wanted was a method of tricking Elena's body into thinking part of or the whole of her was a separate entity. He could then help her use Bloodmancy as a link to control this new "external" part of her.

The trick was what route to take for this.

The first option he thought of was splitting her soul, but he dismissed that for two reasons. First, without a Perfect Blackbody Soul like his own, doing such a thing was extremely dangerous, not to mention painful. And the second issue was that it would be a convoluted path though he felt that it had some potential.

The second and more intriguing option was actually using Isemeine and Eska as a reference. The two shared one body, but they were clearly separate existences. Using their taboo technique as a foundation would be interesting.

But, Ryu didn't want to force that onto his wife, especially if he had a different option. Being tied to the Taboo Powers was its own world of trouble, not to mention the fact that without Ryu's abilities, the techniques were greatly weakened.

Of course, Isemeine and Eska mitigated that because of their unique approach to the technique, but Elena wouldn't be able to do the same.

But then Ryu thought of another option, one that had the potential to form the foundation of an unprecedented branch of the Martial Gods... Likely becoming the fourth branch of the Hegemonic Tier.