Grand Ancestral Bloodlines - Chapter 2211

Chapter 2211: Fine (1)
Ryu landed on the ground, his aura almost demonic. There was a violent swirl of what could almost only be described as madness around him, and yet there was a chilling calm in his eyes that made it feel all the more suffocating.

It didn’t even feel like one was looking at a human anymore. It was more like they were looking at the embodiment of an ideology, the core of a being, a way of life…

A Dao Heart.

Ryu had rooted his very life itself in his determination. It was a step maybe even wilder than severing his path to reincarnation.

He wasn’t just banking his life on this last chance.

He was banking his life on never failing again, on never again being weak, on never again having to rely on anyone or anything.

The moment he wavered, the moment he slipped, the instant he could no longer be the Heavenly Pillar that held up the skies above his own head, he would collapse—crashing and burning in an inferno of his own making.

But… he had no intention of ever failing in such a way. He didn’t intend to fail, to slip up.

He intended to blaze through right to the very end, to stand at the pinnacle that others couldn’t reach.

His maw split apart like sticky cobwebs pulling against one another, a howl akin to that of a monster pouring into the world.

It was hard to describe in any way but fiendish, relentlessly demonic. Compared to the beauty of the true Fiend Race, this was something else entirely.

But what was the scariest of it all was that Ryu was perfectly rational.

Solara coughed, trying to force her airways to open up again as she recovered. With her strength, she wasn’t used to crashing into things in the first place. But usually, when she did, it would give way.

The fact that the Title Stele hardly trembled at all meant all the power was transferred right to her.

Not only that, but all the pressure of the strongest existences to ever reach this point poured down on her.

In that very instant alone, just by catching her off guard in this way, Ryu could have certainly killed her. Between the power of his attack and the blankness of her mind, that brief instant would have been enough.

But he didn’t.

His howl echoed in her ears, a translation she didn’t need pouring into her psyche.

Get up.

Rage flared in Solara’s eyes.

This was the second humiliation she had experienced in her lifetime. The first was when her grandfather didn’t believe in her, ripping her away from an opportunity of a lifetime. And now, this ant was actually treating her like the whetstone here?

She stood to her feet. Her hair began to whip about, chains pooling out from what looked like other dimensions.

They rippled and waved, entering one portal and exiting another until one chain after another formed in the skies in an endless stream. With the number of them that there were, they should have tangled up into a mess, losing their function and form.

And yet, they seemed to be organized, so purposeful, so oppressive even to the laws they deemed to control themselves.

“A pathetic existence like you has no right to battle me, but I will have you learn your place. To allow your own Heart Demon to take over your body just for a small chance to survive… I would rather die.”

The words sounded so similar to something Ryu had said before, so close it pinched down on a nerve and ripped it up as though to remind him of the pain.

And yet, there was the very same chilling light in Ryu’s eyes. His focus belied the rampaging aura billowing out from him.

BANG!

He vanished.

There was a blur before Solara’s face, but she reacted quickly. Her hand elegantly graced the skies and then it suddenly accelerated, pointing down in a violent motion.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The path before Ryu was pierced through with chains, but Ryu’s body had contorted. His legs and arms moved independently of one another, his torso twisting in the air and his flexibility being placed on full display.

His gaze never left Solara, as though he had no need to pay much attention to the attacks at all.

And then his head twisted, his neck flexing to one side.

His entire body flipped upside down and he seemed to slip through all the attacks, his back arching as he somersaulted, landing on his feet facing away from Solara.

Another attack was coming, but this time it ripped through Ryu as though he wasn’t even there at all.

BANG!

A palm slammed against Solara’s back, or rather it almost did so.

A chain of laws had appeared and calculations sparkled in Solara’s eyes as she understood something.

One of the chains and sets of portals in the air froze and then broke apart into runes. Those runes vanished into a glass dome that flickered only once before disappearing from sight entirely.

In that instant, Ryu felt as though a part of him had been ripped away from the world. His warping control of space was stripped.

Ryu vanished again nonetheless.

Solara’s eyes narrowed.

SLAP.

The echo of a palm streaking across her face rang almost hollow. Her eyes widened, but she hardly had the time to pay attention before a fist drove right into her gut.

Her body convulsed and a powerful pressure ripped right through her. Concentric circles of exploding air extended out from her back, her spine nearly shattering to pieces.

For a moment, she couldn’t fathom just how Ryu had so much raw power. Wasn’t his body a mess? Wasn’t he only a Quasi Lord? What was going on?

“Fine.” She growled.

Her aura and demeanor changed.

Wings extended from her back and then doubled, only to double once again.

A crown rose from her head, growing larger and shimmering like the halo of an angel.

Somehow, she tapped into all three of the Martial God’s most powerful Bloodlines.