Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

1830 Intuition

Ryu looked up, his eyes narrowing. He could feel a shift.

Another thing he had realized was that in this world, maybe because it was restricted to the True Sky God level, it was also far easier to see through. As though all the more complex entanglements had been stripped away, Ryu could see things with his eyes more clearly.

The first few days he had been here, the feeling wasn't nearly as sharp to him. But that was also because his eyes had still been healing at the time.

Now, however, it was clear as day. He could feel the shifts to his Faith without even much effort, as though Karmic Strings were vibrating in their language right into his ears.

This made Ryu realize that although he had unlocked all the seals of his Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils, he wasn't even remotely close to unearthing all of its potential. These feelings made him feel as though he could see through even the future with just a single thought.

It seemed that his cultivation Realm was very much limiting his eyes. But now that he didn't have such worries because of this world's limitations, he could see a glimpse into the kind of power he would wield in the future.

'Danger… for me?'

Ryu's gaze flickered, feeling that it was a bit ridiculous. Was he really feeling danger in this world of all things? It seemed that their plan this twasn't bad at all.

It was just too bad that he could already see through it all.

He wasn't to the point where he could truly see the future in detail. But he could feel vague details. He could feel more and more individuals forming Karma with him, and if he wanted, he could even follow those Lines of Karma right to them. He could likewise guess when the calamity would descend and be prepared for it in advance.

'Fascinating…'

Ryu's eyes narrowed.

He had found plenty of ice lilies, a total of six until now. But he had yet to find any of the appropriate darkness attribute. That was because while he had formed a Lord Grade Ice Elemental Spirit Body, he had yet to do the swith the Dark Element.

His Dark Phoenix Lineage was far harder to get a grasp on because it was intertwined with two difficult-to-understand elements, that being Darkness and Death.

That wasn't the only problem either. The Luminara didn't specialize in darkness but were rather purely ice and cold related, with shints of pure water.

On the other hand, the Fiends had sent both Ice and Dark Elemental Fiends. Ryu wondered if that meant that the territories they had cornered off also reflected this, making it more difficult for him to find what he was looking for while also remaining in a "safe" territory.

But now with this change to his eyes, he felt that finding what he wanted would be far easier.

He closed his eyes, focusing his intention.

There was a tremor that went through his body as a mysterious, but familiar feeling pulled at him.

[Intuition].

The moment Ryu felt it, his eyes snapped open and the feeling vanished. It took him a while to regain his calm, but even when he did, the light in his eyes didn't fade.

Indeed, he had forgotten.

Of all the abilities of his Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils, while it was true that the ones everyone feared the most were [Heaven's Gate] and [Earth's Gate], this was just because they were the abilities most often used.

But [Intuition], the ability that could only be used three times in the lifetof these Heavenly Pupils, was likely on a level all its own.

Just now, Ryu had felt a vague outline of it, difficult to grasp, but assuredly there. And he realized that maybe it wasn't that [Intuition] could only be used three times, but rather that before reaching the true pinnacle of his Heavenly Pupils, the subsequent breakthroughs from 9 seals undone, to 99, and then further to 999, only had enough excess energy to trigger just once. Or maybe it was that the eyes knew that before its owner reached that pinnacle, doing any more would just harm them.

But right now, Ryu stood near the pinnacle of this world, and his eyes didn't seem to feel much of a barrier anymore. As such, it was like he could activate [Intuition] as though it was any one of his other abilities.

Ryu's gaze flickered as he cto this realization.

Maybe he shouldn't be in a hurry to enter a higher-level world at all. If he could reach the pinnacle of the True Sky God Realm in earnest, digging out all of his potential…

Wouldn't he truly be undefeatable?

However, this was yet another reminder that he wasn't there.

The fact it was still so difficult for his eyes to use [Intuition] in this situation spoke volumes about how much of his potential he was leaving behind for the sake of rushing through cultivation Realms.

'Never again.'

Ryu grabbed at the air and a bundle of Karmic Strings took shape. He tugged on them as though they were real ropes with tangible forms, and then a portal appeared in their midst, woven from the intricate fibers of Karma.

When he took a step inside, he had already appeared before a beautiful little black flower and his heart couldn't help but thrum.

He wasn't in shock at his own abilities, but had rather felt like a sea of memories cflooding back.

That flower looked much too much like the Black Rose, his wife's Life Partner. After a closer inspection, he realized that it wasn't quite a black rose, though it looked like one.

Ryu sighed. 'Yaana… Ailsa… where are you…'

His gaze flickered as he stepped forward. Compared to the ice lily, this rose of darkness was even more invaluable to him. He had to take advantage.