Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Ryu opened his eyes with an exhale, his mind at peace. He felt like he understood a lot more about himself. It was about time he returned.

With a movement from his Spatial Soul Nature, he appeared atop deep layers of snow, unobstructed by their dense qi.

'Interesting...'

Although he was unaffected by it, he was surprised. This was because he sensed that this falling snow had dense qi. Obviously, at some point between the clouds and the ground, or even in the clouds themselves, a strong amount of qi was imbued. It seemed that on the Ninth Heaven, even the casual fall of snow wasn't normal.

He reached down and scooped some of the snow up, his gaze flickering.

His eyes were sharp enough to see the individual snowflakes even when it was in a clump like this. Because of that, he could see that his aura of Chaos had influenced them greatly, changing them from perfectly symmetrical crystals to an irregular shaped, almost jumbled mess.

'Hm... Is this where the Unbalance Art Sect learned their methods from?'

It was fascinating that such a thing would happen, but it also didn't make much sense.

'Chaos... chaos doesn't mean that something is unbalanced. In fact, Chaos itself is a maintainer of balance, if anything, it is Order that causes an Imbalance.

'The natural state of the world is to tend toward Chaos, and Order is an opposing tide, fighting against it. It doesn't make sense for my Childe of Chaos Constitution to cause such a thing, there's something else at play.'

Ryu suddenly looked up and he sensed Little Silk making her way toward him. The little girl had several holes in her wings and she seemed to be leaking a crystalline greenish-blue blood every time she flapped her wings.

However, Ryu could see that her aura was on the verge of entering the Lord Realm. With just a few more pushes, and another bout of seclusion, she would certainly enter that Realm. Only then would her rapid improvement likely slow.

The step between Omniscient and Lord seemed only to be a single Realm, but the truth of the matter was that it might as well have been ten. The gap was enormous. The fact Little Silk was entering it so fast was a testament to not only her accumulation on Sacrum, but also the might of Embryonic Qi in helping her to rebuild her foundations.

"Good," Ryu smiled. He had been a bit worried, but especially for beasts, there were certain things that they could only do alone. "In that case, I'll help you evolve one more time."

QIIIII!

Little Silk descended with a weak cooing sound, the delicate, loose strands of slow around them being sent flying as she descended.

A swirl of spatial qi wrapped around her and pulled her into Ryu's inner world.

By the time Ryu projected himself inside as well, he found that Little Silk was already rapidly wrapping herself in silk strands.

"She's evolving again?" Eska asked, more surprised than anything else.

She had only been by Ryu's side for a short time, but it seemed that Little Silk underwent another evolution everyday.

Ryu chuckled, knowing that Eska didn't actually need his answer. She could see if for herself.

After some thought, he flicked a finger and another drop of Embryonic Qi landed in her body.

"You should take one everyday, it'll help you greatly," Ryu pointed to the rivers of milky white flowing through his world. By this point, the earth was so rich that it could accommodate God Grade Herbs, and even that might be underselling it.

Ryu was having a deep thought about exactly how he wanted to set up his world. It was his own personal garden, and it of course had to live up to such expectations.

He was an Origin Grade Herbologist, after all.

Eska nodded. Even seeing the large amounts of Embryonic Qi, she was truthfully still hesitant to use it. Something so precious... should it truly be used so casually?

She wanted to ask, but she hesitated, and by then, Ryu's aura had already shifted and changed.

Ryu's palms slammed together and a dark chill began to come out of his. Ice Aura with a dark blue hue began to manifest and even Eska couldn't help but shiver.

Primordial Chaotic Ice Qi.

Her heartbeat quickened. She had forgotten that Ryu had the Chaotic Silk Meridians, but she couldn't be blamed for this. Ryu had been forced to hide it for so long, it was too easy to forget just what kind of monster was hidden within him.

Chaos Qi was only the tip of the iceberg. Having the Chaotic Silk Meridians also meant that Ryu would be able to use any Qi Realm technique with the highest order of Primordial Chaos Qi.

If he ran into an ice technique, a fire technique, a lightning technique... it simply didn't matter. Simply by virtue of having Primordial Chaos Qi, he could exhibit its fullest strength and then some with a thought.

And right this moment, he was using it to raise Little Silk to another level.

A stream of Embryonic Qi began to weave around Little Silk as the Primordial Chaotic Ice Qi did the same.

A chill bore into Little Silk's body, infusing into her bloodline and drawing new runes on her Dao Bones.

Ryu had already decided that once Little Silk was entering the God Beast Realm, he would help her integrate with Infinity Mist as well. By then, her silk would be light and inconsequential in the eyes of others... until they landed with the weight of the world.

But before then, he would actually have to gain control of it himself. By then, he would be able to raise all of his beasts to an inconceivable Realm.

BOOM!

Ryu's hair fluttered wildly, his aura sharpening.

At the moment, he truly felt like a God, like he could shape life with a raise and flip of his palm.

The skies were his to command.