Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

1783 Fiend Path

Ryu's purpose was simple. He needed to truly understand the Fiend Race. Not just memories, and not just a casual facade either.

His Beyond Perfect ExtrSpiritual Foundation might be able to fool them, but who was to say that it would fool someone much higher up on the food chain?

He didn't care if he was exposed by weak Sky Gods. But if it was a Dao Lord that caught onto his scent, he would be screwed and die before he was even aware of what happened to him.

'Fascinating…'

He felt that he had a strong understanding of the paths of beasts, humans and demons, but he didn't expect that there would be yet another specialty in the world.

This time, it seemed that if human and beasts were direct opposites, then in this case Fiends and the Faeries of the Ethereal Plan were opposites.

The Faeries were also heavily reliant on the elements, but they relied on their souls and were practically identical to Wraiths in this respect. Their bodies, if they even had them, were secondary. When they left the Ethereal Plane, many of them had difficulty affecting change.

The Fiends, however, were entirely reliant on their bodies. They didn't even seem to have souls in the normal sense as the elements themselves bectheir Incorporeal Souls, as though they were replacing a vital function of their bodies with communication with the outside world.

If Ryu was correct, then a powerful Fiend of the selement could kill another just by cutting off their communication with the element of their choosing. They wouldn't even have to lift a finger.

Realizing this, Ryu didn't even need to go into Fiend society to know that they had a very strict hierarchal structure. There was no way that someone of lower standing would ever risk offending someone of a higher standing.

Even in the case someone stronger than you didn't decide to strangle you to death like that, just being in their presence would weaken your element.

This was actually quite good news for Ryu. It meant that even without taking his Chaotic Silk Meridians into account, just with his Beyond Perfect ExtrSpiritual Foundation, he could challenge those of a much higher level than himself. Well, so long as the environment was also in his favor.

He ultimately didn't have the sskills and techniques of the Fiend Race. So trying to truly cut them off from their elements when the environment didn't allow it would be very difficult.

Still, this was just the tip of the iceberg. There was something else that Ryu was curious about.

The Dream Wraith had said that all the Fiends had inferior versions of his Chaotic Silk Meridians. He wondered what that meant.

Soon, he got his answer.

One of the fundamental abilities of Ryu's Chaotic Silk Meridians was its ability to access Chaos Qi, through which it could access all sorts of Primordial Chaos Qis.

It seemed that by "inferior", the Dream Wraith had meant that their Meridians could seemingly only access one of these Primordial Chaos Qi derivatives.

This wasn't to say that they could wield Primordial Chaos Qi.

At the pinnacle of all energies sat Chaos Qi, Essence, and Embryonic Qi.

Beneath that were Primordial Chaos Qis and Primordial Essence Qis.

Beneath that was Ancient Qis, a type that Ryu hadn't even been aware of until the Dream Wraith granted him such memories.

Beneath that were God Qis, Sovereign Qis and Lord Qis.

It would continue like this down the list, quickly heading toward more and more inferior Qis.

This Thad access to Lord Chaos Qi, which decided the firm standard of their Meridians. Unlike humans, they could never switch and learn to use a different qi with the help of cultivation methods.

However, in exchange for this, they all had a direct pipeline to the Chaos Plane.

'This should be how they terraform in the real sense. These three just haven't been able to access such techniques. Only by having an endless supply of qi would anyone dare to do such a thing.

'But because of the way they have to terraform, they relied more on their bodies than their qi, and because of that, he was tired out before the battle could even begin.

'I wonder, is it possible to upgrade their Meridians? Or are they stuck like this?'

Ryu was a bit tempted to test the Embryonic Qi on them.

However, he realized quickly that he didn't have tto waste on this.

Now that he understood the Fiend Race perfectly, his aura began to change.

He slipped on a black bodysuit that covered his entire body and he clenched his fists. Quickly, his hair was replaced by a dancing stream of radiant blue lightning.

He pulled sSovereign Chaos Lightning Qi from his Meridians and pooled it into the lightning as well, tinging it with hints of black gold.

This wasn't the first the had pulled such a weak qi from his Meridians, so he was used to it.

As a final step, his eyes turned into a sea of lightning as well.

The eyes of the three Fiends widened when they saw this. It wasn't because Lightning Fiends were rare, though this was the case, but rather because Ryu's change only meant one thing…

Either he was hiding the fact he was a Fiend Childe for sreason, or he was never a Fiend to begin with!

Ryu vanished from the inner world after this.

His body began to flicker with an armor formed by his Lightning God Talent. Much like the Fiends, it flickered in an out of existence.

At the stime, a pair of qilins horns flickered in an out of existence on his forehead as well.

This flickering was probably the most fascinating part of the Fiend Race's existence, but Ryu didn't have the tto care about this right now.

He needed to find a path to cross the barrier and return to the Real Plane.

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In a distant castle, a beauty with sparkling red eyes and a river of gold for hair looked up, her heart skipping a beat inexplicably.