Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Ryu's gaze suddenly snapped open. He was immediately flooded by a comfortable feeling, but in the next instant there was an almost piercing pain in his eyes. His gaze pierced through the ceiling of his own Immortal Above and through a large amount of qi. He was forced to close his eyes a moment later just to barely reel it in. In the beginning, even his own eyelids couldn't seem to stop him from seeing.

When he regained control, he opened his eyes slowly and the pain receded.

He touched his eyes for a moment, wondering what had happened. Distance didn't seem to matter for them anymore, and neither did obstructions apparently. But the weird part was that he still couldn't feel his Heavenly Pupils.

Ryu shook his head and looked down at his body. He wasn't wearing the same clothes he had been wearing previously.

He sat up slowly. 'Hm?'

To Ryu's side, Mae sat in meditation, but what surprised Ryu was her cultivation. She was at the Peak of the Dao Pedestal Realm.

Ryu was stunned, was this how fast her cultivation was supposed to be? According to his senses he had been asleep for only a little more than a year, and last time he checked her cultivation it was at the Lower Dao Pedestal Realm.

Wait, that was right, she was actually about to break into the Cosmic Seed Realm.

Ryu was speechless. Cultivation on the True Martial World was much faster, but not to this extent.

On the First Heaven, Ryu was a bit old to still be in the Immortal Ring Realm, but it was only by a year or two. The standards on the Second and Third Heaven only increased incrementally by a year or two as well. There was a big gap between the Third and Fourth Heavens, but it was only about double the gap the previous had been, and the gap between the Fourth to Sixth Heaven was so close that it was counted in just a few months.

This meant that for the First Heaven, one was considered a genius if they entered the Path Extinction Realm at around 18 or 19 years old. By the Third Heaven, you would be a genius only if you accomplished this feat by 15 or 16 years old.

For the Fourth to Sixth Heavens, one would only be a genius if you accomplished this by 10 or 11 years old. The fact that Mae was still at the Dao Pedestal Realm after 19 years was a bit slow, but not exaggeratedly slow. This was just the tradeoff the Clans and Sects who had sent their children down had expected.

Not only were their talents suppressed down there, but the resources were more limited as well, so reaching that point in 19 years was actually very good.

However, Mae was only 20 years old now and she was about to enter the Cosmic Seed Realm. Whether it was the Fourth, Fifth or Sixth Heavens, this was fast, blazingly so. Even here, it should have taken years to cross such Realms.

BOOM!

Ryu covered his face with a forearm as Mae's aura flourished, a large cyclone of qi descending. It wasn't just any qi, but it was the great dividing line. It was, without a doubt, Cosmic Qi. She had truly broken through that layer in just a year.

Ryu wasn't sure what had happened while he was asleep, but whatever it was Mae had benefited greatly. The surge of Cosmic Qi was so great that even Ryu was almost blown away.

The current process was especially delicate because Mae should be planting her first Cosmic Seed. That required drilling into her own Spiritual Foundation. The bigger the Cosmic Seed, the better. But the bigger it was, the more difficult it was to drive it into your Spiritual Foundation. In addition, the deeper the Cosmic Seed was buried, the better. But once again, the deeper you went, the more difficult it was.

Ryu slowly stood and moved away, not wanting to disturb her. He had to figure out what was going on with his own body.

When Ryu did find a place though and he sent his senses internally, his brows couldn't help but jump.

His body was filled with branches of white and black entangling one another and separating, living in a pseudo sort of harmony that left Ryu speechless.

He had seen this once before... This was what Ailsa's body looked like with her dual Meridians, one dark and one light.

Ryu fell into silence. For he and Ailsa to become Life Partners, they had to be compatible on a level that was far deeper than most could imagine, but he hadn't expected for it to run this deeply. He didn't feel that this was a coincidence at all.

With a thought, Ryu probed this white set of Meridians.

To his astonishment, they were already at a Dao Pedestal Realm level, as though they had cultivated themselves from start to finish in just a year. In fact, setting aside that, it had even followed the pattern of his cultivation to this point, opening up additional miniature dantians.

Ryu didn't immediately recognize this pair of Meridians, he didn't have much experience with such things to begin with.

His first assumption was that it must be an extreme opposite of the Chaotic Silk Meridians, but he wasn't sure if something like that existed. There was no opposite of the Chaos Plane flooded with Essence, for example.

After a moment, he sensed a milky energy sliding through his Meridians, causing his brows to jump. Every time this energy moved, he felt endlessly comfortable.

'Embryonic Qi?'

He knew what Embryonic Qi was, but that was all the more reason it was hard to believe that it was gliding through his Meridians right now.

Embryonic Qi wasn't like Essence or Chaos Qi, it had no function in battle whatsoever and couldn't be used as such, which was why it wasn't placed on the list of most powerful. Even so, it had no business being in Ryu's body, even women pregnant with absolute geniuses wouldn't be able to feel it so clearly.

Ryu's pupils flickered.

He didn't realize at that moment that this pair of Meridians wasn't actually his Chaotic Silk Meridians taken to beyond Perfect Extreme. More accurately, the Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation had constructed its own using Ryu's Chaotic Silk Meridians as nothing more than a blueprint.

These Meridians had never before appeared in the world.