Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2067 A New Nature

Ryu's Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation required so much qi that he rarely ever saw the needle move when he cultivated. It required decades of passive cultivation before he could make it to the Omniscient Sky God Realm, not to mention several substantive breakthroughs on top of that.

But all of a sudden, Ryu felt like he was cultivating in the Mortal Realms again. It was a shocking change that made him realize that if before it was just his Dao holding him back from breaking through, now there was no doubt that this was the case.

It was the only thing he was missing here.

Ryu opened his eyes and exhaled a breath.

The power of Dao Bones was surely shocking, but...n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

He raised a hand and touched his forehead. The hidden line that was his third eye rested in silence.

... This was what he was the most excited about.

Unfortunately, it would take him time before it truly began to show its power.

This eye wasn't exactly a new eye. It was still his Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils. Instead, it could be said to just be an evolution that would take them to an entirely different level.

Ryu had felt that his Spacetime Soul Nature was actually constraining rather than helping his Heavenly Pupils. He was proven correct after he diverted his Spacetime Soul Nature to this eye instead. Even without doing anything else, he could feel that his Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils were far more in tune with Karma and Fate as a result, and their strength had easily doubled when equalizing for all other factors.

When it was also considered that his body was far more powerful now and could actually withstand using more of his strength as well, let alone double, the strength improvement his eyes had experienced could only be counted in orders of magnitude.

Before, he had almost died when he used his eyes on a Dao Sovereign. Right now... he felt like he could do it with ease.

This was the Soul Nature that had always been meant to pair with his eyes. The Spacetime Soul Nature, although powerful, was interfering with its greatest abilities.

Unfortunately, the eyes were the window to the soul, so it wasn't just a simple matter for Ryu to get rid of it. And he also didn't want to.

Let alone how powerful Spacetime was, just the fact it was likely from his future self was incredibly important. There had to be a reason he had chosen to leave it behind for himself. If he got rid of it, and then needed it later, who would he blame?

That only left one option...

Make another eye.

The process was actually much trickier than Ryu let on. That was because he couldn't just smack an eye into the middle of his forehead and call it a day. He needed to rewire his brain to allow the eye to actually function properly, and he also needed to find a way to make sure each Soul Nature went to a different eye. After all, the Soul Natures had all blended together in the past. Technically, even Spacetime was supposed to be two separate Soul Natures. So that was its own problem.

Luckily, the words of the Dream Wraiths had enlightened him to the situation with his brain and how it related to his Ice Jade Crystal Body. So while it was reforming, and he was also shaping his Bone Structure, he had the opportunity to not only reconstruct his bone to allow for the shaping of a third eye, but he could also organize his flesh in a way that was conducive to what he wanted to achieve.

The ultimate result was him killing two birds with a single stone, solving both problems at once.

That only left one question... if the eye was the same, then what could it actually do?

Well, to say it was the same wasn't entirely accurate. What Ryu wanted to do was reconstruct the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils such that instead of working with Fate and Karma, they instead worked with Space and Time.

This was far easier said than done. After all, all of the prediction abilities of the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils functioned so perfectly only because it could read Fate and manipulate Karma.

Plus... even if he succeeded, he would just end up with inferior versions of all of his already powerful Heavenly Pupil techniques. What was the point?

However, this also wasn't exactly what Ryu wanted to do. He wanted a new, second form of his Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils that could bolster, support, and even increase the strength of his normal Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils.

Take [Rob the World of its Color], for example. Ryu had been able to manipulate it, turning it into a blade that could act directly on the Strings of Karma in [Lines of Fate]. This was how he had managed to kill a Dao Sovereign, albeit with the help of others. He had severed their connection to a fundamental comprehension they relied on, thus rendering them worthless.

Ryu had done this to the Three-Pupil woman as well. This was why one of her Pupils had gone dim. He had severed the connection from her.

But what if Ryu could mix time into this ability? Instead of just reading the current [Line of Fate], he could layer them with Strings of Karma from the past, creating even better predictive models that would make the percentages he was working with near or at 100%. Or he could take a peek into the future directly through [Lines of Fate], forgoing the need for the effort at all.

Or what if he fused space elements into [Rob the World of its Color], allowing him to strip a person of even their coordination with space, and rendering most of the laws of the world worthless around them? How disoriented would a cultivator be if they couldn't control Atmospheric Qi properly because they had no concept of what qi was right near them, or millions of miles away?

And those were just the worst examples Ryu could think of.