Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Ryu laughed and waved a hand. Selheira suddenly teleported over, her waist appearing in his arms. She was a bit disoriented, but she didn't resist. In a flash, they appeared on Lu'card's back, which actually looked a lot more like a mountain of flesh and blood.

"Get off of me," Lu'card grumbled.

At the moment, Lu'card was a bit annoyed, but he didn't feel hatred either. Restricting cultivation for beasts was much more difficult than it was for humans. That was because while humans had three different streams of cultivation, beasts only had a single one. Having them restrict their cultivation was akin to forcing them to tie their limbs to their wings.

However, he didn't make excuses. A loss was a loss, but he had also never agreed to become Ryu's mount if he did lose. At the same time, he didn't hate Ryu either and he considered them to be friends. So on the one hand, he was annoyed that Ryu had suddenly stepped onto his back. But on the other, he didn't feel the visceral hatred he would have had it been anyone else.

At the same time, his Dao Heart was still quite firm. He felt that if he found a more systematic way of sealing his cultivation and had a real battle with Ryu at the False Sky God Realm, he would be able to have a good battle and he was about 55% confident that he could win.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The air continued to explode in the distance as the roaring Fire Dragon got closer and closer. With every flap of its wings, it crossed thousands of kilometers. Even though it was still hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, the temperature was already beginning to tick upward, and it was only getting worse by the second.

"Come on now, Lu'card. Get it in gear. We have places to go. Namely, the True Nether Plane."

"Leave me alone," Lu'card spoke lazily as he lifted his mangled mess of a head to start licking his wounds. The spike of pain annoyed him more and his back shook, trying to throw Ryu off.

Ryu smiled and didn't budge. He looked off into the distance and his smile widened. The infuriated Fire Dragon was getting closer and closer.

Despite the distance, Ryu could see it clearly. And, it was no doubt a Lord Beast.

At that moment, it suddenly opened its maw, a fireball that seemed to blot out the sun appearing.

If the temperature was skyrocketing before, it was on an entirely different level now.

From a ball of rolling flames, the fireball practically became a perfectly smooth molten ball of magma. Runes danced across its surface. It was, without a doubt, the most intricate and powerful flame attack that Ryu had ever seen.

"You see that," Ryu pointed. "If you don't get a move on, we're both gonna die. What would your wife think?"

Lu'card looked up with a snarl.

He should have known, Ryu did this on purpose. Ryu already knew that convincing him would be impossible. The only way was to piss off someone they couldn't afford to offend and be forced to flee.

Now, with Ryu on his back, he was being targeted as well. But it also didn't help that he had admitted that he wanted to be the Dragon Emperor earlier. That probably put him in the same boat as Ryu. Now he was dirtied and didn't have time to wash himself clean.

BANG!

The world reacted like an iron ball exploded inside a cannon. It ballooned before it was forcefully stabilized, the fireball shooting across tens of thousands of kilometers in an instant.

"Time's ticking," Ryu laughed, unmoved by the coming attack.

At this point, the temperature was so high that even Lu'card's blood began to boil. He didn't have the same resistance to fire that Ryu had, and he obviously wasn't granted the same protections as Ryu's wife, so he could only scald and burn beneath the might.

"I hate you," Lu'card muttered, struggling to stand.

"That'll fade," Ryu said with a smile.

"I don't have the strength to do this right now."

"Yes, you do, I'll help you out. Just focus and we'll be good to go. Trust me, would I put both of our lives at risk?"

"You already have."

Ryu laughed uproariously. "A little Lord Beast ant has never been able to threaten my life. My sights are set higher than this."

Lu'card snorted. Just as arrogant as ever.

The Spatial Dragon's body shuddered as he forced his Vital Qi to circulate. Because he had suppressed his cultivation, he was in a far worse off position than a human who would have done the same thing.

If Ryu fought a human genius of the Omniscient Sky God Realm who suppressed their cultivation, they wouldn't have been nearly so injured because all their Realms weren't linked. Their bodies would have still been at the level of the Omniscient Sky God Realm.

But Lu'card was far worse off.

"You got it, I believe in you," Ryu chuckled as the molten fireball continued to approach.

"Shut up, stop talking."

The attack kept getting closer and closer, and by now Lu'card had turned into a black dragon once more, but this time purely because his blood was burning to ash.

ROAR!

Lu'card released a bellow and large amounts of spatial qi flourished.

Only fractions of a second remained, the ball of fire prepared to take all their lives. By this point, the other dragons had long since scattered, but the ones that were worse off had turned into balls of fire on their own, falling into piles of bone ash.

Lu'card's expression changed as his qi faltered. Was he really going to die like this?

Ryu's gaze sharpened as he flicked a droplet of Embryonic Qi down. Lu'card's faltering qi skyrocketed and they all suddenly vanished.

BOOM!

The fireball landed and devastation expanded across thousands of kilometers, burning it all to ash.