Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Ryu sent an indifferent gaze toward the people below, his gaze landing on Vie for only a moment before he waved a hand. A strong power enveloped Elizaren's body and his Godhood was ripped out of him. No one could say a word as Ryu turned to leave. He could feel the fury of the other Sky Gods of the Sect, but what could they do but watch? They probably assumed that Ryu had used a treasure of some sort that could kill a True Sky God instantly, and even if it was a one use item, could they even kill him now? All they could do was swallow their rage.

Vie gripped his fists hard, watching Ryu leave slowly and leisurely as though he hadn't just humiliated their entire Clan. The feeling of defeat was etched deep within his heart.

...

"You..." Hope didn't know what to say. All the while, she had been telling Ryu how foolish he was. He couldn't just stroll into a Sect like that just because he had become a Fragmented Sky God. His strength wasn't enough to deal with a True Sky God at all. The distance between Sky Gods was so fierce that even the current Ryu was no match for a True Sky God of the Second Heaven, of which there were only a handful to begin with. The gap between Sky God Realms couldn't just be made up with by talent. In fact, perhaps only the very best geniuses of the Eighth Heaven could barely manage to battle equally with an incredibly weak True Sky God. And yet... And yet Ryu had killed him with a single swipe of his fingers.

"Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils... When... How... You..." Hope didn't know what to say or what to do with herself. She felt flustered, excited, exasperated, and without words all at once. Her body was even threatening to shut down completely.

The Number One Ranked Heavenly Pupils. No, on the True Martial World, it had fallen to Number Three behind the World Pupils and the Time Pupils, but this wasn't because it was weak at all. Setting aside the fact that even the lowest rated pupils were incredibly powerful, the only reason the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils was no longer number one was purely because it had been countless generations since it had last appeared in the True Martial World. Due to this, the World Pupils and the Time Pupils had managed to surpass it in terms of Faith accumulated, and as such had moved up the rankings. These two Number One and Number Two Ranked Heavenly Pupils, respectively, had likewise surpassed the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils in terms of Heavenly Bestowed Power.

But even so, the Number Three ranked Pupils... Number Three... When she was in her prime, the only no Heavenly Pupils above Number Ten appeared below the Ninth Heaven! Even further than that, Heavenly Pupils couldn't seem to be birthed beneath the Eighth Heaven either!

"You can close your mouth now, you're drooling a little bit," Ryu chuckled. "Aren't you afraid I'm going to take your Heavenly Pupils?"

"Are you?" Ryu asked. Usually, he'd probably snap even at an obvious probing question like this one. But now he just found it amusing.

"Maybe..." she mumbled.

"I really don't believe that anyone below Dao Lord can chase me down right now if I don't want them to."

"You're too arrogant!"

"Have you just met me?" Ryu laughed uproariously. "I can't believe you have the Number Three Ranked Heavenly Pupils..."

Ryu froze. "What do you mean Number Three?"

"You don't know? Your Heavenly Pupils haven't appeared in too long. They've fallen. In fact, the Number Three Ranks might be too high, after all I'm basing it on my life. Last I checked, the Blackhole Eyes, Rank Four, had been nipping at your heels. You might have declined again."

Ryu ignored the little woman and directly peered into Fate itself. What he saw left him speechless. Let alone Number Four, he had declined to Number Six. The World Pupils, Time Pupils, Blackhole Pupils, Emperor Pupils, and War God Pupils were all ahead of him. In fact, right now, he was tied with the Truth Pupils and it could be said they practically shared that Sixth spot. That made him sense particularly annoyed, because he remembered Sarriel claiming she would make her Heavenly Pupils better than his own back then. Now she was actually close to doing it.

"Who the hell decided this nonsense?"

"The Heavens-"

"Don't answer seriously when I'm unhappy. Didn't you want to be my Dao Companion? You have to learn how to coddle your man's feelings."

"Who wants to be your Dao Companion!?" Ryu ignored the little woman that had suddenly turned tsundere. He also threw this annoyance to the back of his head too, he didn't have the time to care about that right now. Soon enough, his Heavenly Pupils would be back where they deserved: first place.

His [Earth Gate] right now was interesting. In the past, after he used Heaven or Earth Gate, there would be a substantial distance between the moment and when he could use it again. In the worst situations, it might even be decades. Right now, though, he felt that he could turn it on and off as he pleased, and there was no cool down other than the Karmic Qi of his eyes alone.

Obviously, though, and quite unfortunately, he couldn't just casually use it as he pleased. It was an annoyance, but he couldn't rely on that old man to protect him. Any use of his eyes had to be covert, and the only reason he dared to use them at all was because of the evolution of his Bone Structure and his Void Spiritual Sense.

Earth Gate was anything but covert, considering the huge Phenomena that would appear behind him whenever he used it. That was fine, though. Just slay whoever saw it, simply enough.

He tossed Elizaren's Godhood in his hands. It seemed that he could finally start hunting Godhoods now to speed up his Realm Heart's growth.

'Hm?'

He looked up, his eyes narrowing when he saw a familiar beauty up ahead. This woman, wasn't she that person they called Fairy in the Heavenly Dew Pavilion? What was she doing here? Was she stalking him?