Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Ryu felt his Control take hold of his Qi, refining it and saturating it with his Chaotic Silk Meridians with it.

Last time he went through the Qi Refinement Realm, Ryu hadn't had Chaos Qi and had instead worked with normal neutral Qi. The difference was clearly akin to night and day, but that also posed a great challenge for his Control.

Trying to impose his Dao Heart onto normal qi was of course, very easy… but to try and do so with Chaos Qi, one of the strongest qis in Existence? That was a different matter entirely.

Until now, Ryu's use of Chaos Qi was always a series of borrowing actions. When he needed Chaos Qi, he communicated with the Chaos Plane and took the Qi in for himself.

However, doing so was obviously less efficient than having qi directly in his Meridians, and there was also a lag in qi control as well.

Of course, this was negligible, especially when Ryu's usual levels of qi control. But it was something that was noticeable to Ryu.

This would change all of that.

Chaos Qi would be directly influenced by his Control the moment it was transferred to his Meridians. By extension, this would also mean that Primordial Chaos Qi would be entirely unable to harm him any longer.

Under the influence of his Control…

The Qi Refinement Realm was separated into Revolutions. Completing one to three Revolutions would leave you in the Lower Qi Refinement Realm, four to six would raise you to the Middle, all the way until 10 to 12 for the peak and 13 for a Half-Step to Spiritual Severing.

These were the 13 Revolutions opened to Ryu thanks to his 13 Rites.

But therein lied the secret. It was the Rites that allowed one to complete these Revolutions and this communion with qi. By completing the Rite of Origin… Ryu had made his Chaos Qi far more docile than it would have otherwise been.

When this was matched with how resplendent his Dao Heart was…

There was a shudder as thirteen ripples of dark gold spread out in all directions, blessing the land with Ryu's might.

However, it was at this point that things would change.

That was because Ryu didn't have just one set of Meridians.

He had two.

At that instant, another six Heavenly Qi Pulses radiated with an oppressive might.

TA. TA. TA. TA. TA. TA.

This second set of Meridians was a complete mystery to Ryu. According to convention, they should have been the Essence Silk Meridians, but due to the intervention of the Martial Gods, their path had deviated, instead becoming the Embryonic Meridians that he had now.

Unlike his Chaotic Silk Meridians, Ryu couldn't seem to use this set of Meridians in battle. All it did was sit there and produce Embryonic Qi.

If this was all there was, Ryu would, of course, be very much open to it. He was probably the only person in all of Existence that could produce this qi for himself.

But he knew that this couldn't be all.

Meridians were a complex network of what were essentially formation lines, but Ryu had never been able to see through these Meridians of his. Even if they had no other special abilities, the secrets that lay within their configurations should be enough to study for a lifetime. Who knew what shocking Qi Realm Techniques could be created from Meridians that could form Embryonic Qi?

And the first step to opening up that world to him was opening up their Heavenly Qi Pulses.

By the time Ryu gained these Meridians, he was already well into the Immortal Realms. He had never experienced what it felt like to be a mortal with them by his side.

But now…

Thirteen white gold ripples spread out with Ryu as the center, fusing with the dark gold ones and forming a resonance that almost overshadowed the first.

Ryu's Control descended onto his Embryonic Qi and he felt like it carried fathomless depths. It was truly a qi no weaker than Essence or Chaos Qi, and though it wasn't meant for combat…

At that moment Ryu was certain that it could be used for far more than just healing his injuries.

A cycle formed in his body as his 13 Revolutions compressed his Qi all at once.

In the end, Ryu finally felt as though his Qi wasn't just an external item… it was a part of him, another limb.

And because of this, he gained access to Atmospheric Qi even without forming a single Immortal Ring or relying on a unique ability like he had in the past.

It just came naturally.

The qi of the world was influenced by the qi in his Meridians, being reined into his control.

At that point, Ryu was certain that at the mere peak of the Qi Refinement Realm, even Path Extinction Realm geniuses would be crushed beneath his feet.

And then he faced off against one of the few failures of his cultivation path, a realm that he had failed to enter the last time, only for it to accidentally benefit him…

The Spiritual Severing Realm.

Ryu had never really let this failure go. In the past, it was like a mirror put up right to his nose, reminding him of just how lucky he was to be where he was, that not everything he had accomplished was due to his efforts alone.

It seemed that now he would have to fail again for the sake of allowing his Chaotic Silk Meridians to flourish… but that wasn't the case.

The reason the Spiritual Severing Realm had to be skipped in order to properly trigger the Chaotic Silk Meridian's true abilities was only because everyone's method of cultivation was incomplete. Without Control, this was the only path.

But now that Ryu was completing it, it was a different matter entirely.

The sound of a blade's howl filled the skies.

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