Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

He had thought that something like this would happen. In fact, the very first time he saw the formations that artificially suppressed the Dao, he realized that something like this must be going on. The only reason he hadn\'t acted on it was one, because he didn\'t have the capability to, and two, because he didn\'t have a full scope of understanding of exactly what was happening.

It wasn\'t until Ryu learned that there were higher level worlds that things finally began to piece themselves together for him.

He had gotten a lot of clues about just how dangerous the Martial Gods were, but he couldn\'t understand why the Martial Gods would settle down in such a weak world if there were much stronger ones around them.

Logically, it was probably to hide away. But if that was the case, why not choose weaker worlds than this one? All things considered, the True Martial World wasn\'t so bad.

Plus, there was Sacrum, which they seemed to have great interest in. But despite having such interest, they only sent Elena\'s mother to handle things and never really put much effort into taking Sacrum over.

If the Martial Gods had really wanted to go all out with their efforts, Ryu would have truly never had a chance. It wouldn\'t have even been close.

But the Martial Gods always seemed to do contradictory things.

They sent people to Sacrum, but not their best or their greatest. But then they targeted Ryu to stop him from tapping into his full potential at the same time. Why go so far for one thing, but not the other?

That was when Ryu finally got the final piece of the puzzle.

The Heavenly Court.

The moment Ryu felt them, and they spoke about him returning to the Heavenly Court, he understood.

The Martial Gods never targeted him because they feared his potential so much. He bet that they were so arrogant in their own abilities that they couldn\'t even be bothered under normal circumstances.

Ryu\'s talents were exceptional, but was a combination of the Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation and the Chaotic Silk Meridians really enough for them to take action?

The answer was no.

The more Ryu learned about the world, the more he realized that there were many talents out there with abilities comparable to and even beyond him.

Well... maybe not anymore. Right now, there were likely only a handful of true chosen of his generation that could stand toe to toe with him.

That said, it could even be said that the only reason Ryu had reached his current level was because of the attempts at suppression of the Martial Gods...

But unfortunately for the Martial Gods, the only reason they had even attempted to suppress Ryu in the first place was in order to stop the Heavenly Courts from finding Ryu\'s whereabouts... because finding Ryu would also mean finding them!

The Martial Gods and the Heavenly Courts... truly a match made in Heaven, and somehow Ryu was trapped in between.

The Martial Gods had sensed before the Heavenly Courts that Ryu was a chosen, so they chose to suppress him to stop the Heavenly Courts from sensing Ryu before they were prepared to face off against them once more.

In the end, they had managed to delay these matters for hundreds of millions of years. And now, with the Title Stele coming, Ryu had a feeling that the Martial Gods were more than prepared now.

Maybe that was even the real reason they had let it go so easily when Primus unchained his Fate Star. Not only was Ryu\'s Fate already ruined by years of being Sealed and suppressed, but they had already long since bought themselves enough time.

Ryu could feel that the Fate of this Title Stele appearance was pulling the currents of the world hard. Whatever the Martial Gods were planning, the other foot would certainly drop when this Title Stele appeared...

But that was just fine by Ryu.

He grinned so fiercely that his rage shone through.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

To think that all this time, he was nothing more than a pawn to these people, nothing more than an inconvenient chess piece they had to move to the side just for the sake of buying themselves a few thousand years, a time that was nothing more than a blink of an eye to these experts.

In Sacrum, a few hundred million years wasn\'t even enough to make it to the mere Cosmic Seed Realm for even the best of geniuses. But they had ruined his life, destroyed his Clan, killed his grandparents...

All for such a small time frame?

Ryu\'s laughter, filled with fury, only continued to billow through the skies.

Raging lightning peeled across the darkness, the violent upswings of the wind knocking down trees and nearly blowing even Lords off of their feet.

At that moment, the shuddering auras that Ryu felt behind him shifted again. But he didn\'t even bother to look.

He already knew what was happening. In fact, he had planned for exactly this.

All across the True Martial World now, there were many who were facing bottlenecks now that would be shedding past them.

All their lives, they had been suppressed beneath the boot of the Martial Gods, and

now they had suddenly burst through like a crack in the dam.

Their suppressed cultivations would all suddenly skyrocket.

World Sea Realm experts would trigger their Tribulations to enter the Sky God Realm

one after another.

False Sky Gods would become True Sky Gods.

Omniscients would become Lords.

And...

Sovereigns would become Gods.

BOOM! BOOM!

The auras of Sovereign Black Worm and Sovereign Chaotic Space shuddered and they looked down at their dantian in shock as they broke through the thin paper veil that kept them separated from the Dao God Realm.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The skies shuddered and quaked as not one, but two Tribulations descended from

above at the same time.

Ryu stood in the middle of it all, his arms spread out wide as he faced off against Old Wan, whose pupils had constricted into pinholes.

"What is it, Old Wan? Are you very surprised?"

The darkness of Ryu\'s voice hung high above, seemingly suppressing the world around

him.

"I\'m sure you had many plans, many contingencies. Maybe you even hid certain failsafes in my body when you saved me the first time. I must say, your abilities are quite exceptional to be able to hide something from me for so long."

Old Wan\'s eyes narrowed.

Back then, Ryu had accidentally broken into Hegemony with his Dao and a Tribulation sparked from the Dome of Heaven. He hadn\'t been ready for it and he nearly died. It was Old Wan that had saved him.

In the time that Ryu had been out, there was no telling what Old Wan could have done

to him.

Ryu had taken his time to go through his body carefully, but he had found absolutely nothing at all. But he simply didn\'t believe that someone like Old Wan could possibly have given up such an opportunity.

That could only mean that Old Wan had used a method that Ryu simply didn\'t

understand.

Ryu thought that after completely reconstructing his body, he would get rid of whatever lingering danger there was. But it was still there.

He had to hand it to Old Wan. Whatever method it was he relied upon, it was truly

shocking to an extreme.

Ryu could have let his father kill Old Wan, but somehow he felt that even this wouldn\'t guarantee the man\'s death.

Plus... Ryu was nothing if not stubborn to a fault.

He liked to do things his way and only his way. He had promised to himself that he

would be the one to personally kill Old Wan, and his thoughts and feelings were the

only ones that mattered in the slightest.

Since he had said that he would kill Old Wan, he would do it personally.

And as he had said, he would do it like he was slaughtering a pig. He would make him regret every bit of the last moments of his life.

For a long while now, Ryu had been unsatisfied with his Dao. But now, he would take matters into his own hands.

According to both etiquette and just in order to preserve one\'s own life, standing within the Tribulation of another was little more than a death sentence. There was a

reason why Ryu hadn\'t been targeted by others when he was undergoing his. But now, Ryu planned to stand beneath not just one, but two of them. And, he didn\'t plan on allowing Old Wan the chance to escape such a Fate with.

"Why are you backing away?" Ryu asked, looking down to Old Wan again with a menacing light in his eyes. "Don\'t you love taking advantage of Tribulations? Here... let

me give you another chance."

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Ryu triggered his own Lord Tribulation.