Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Finally, there was a path just above that of Ryu's but just below the greatest path, and that was to fuse with a Realm Heart that was just on the cusp of forming a new world, right when it was at the very peak-most of its potential.

Although it was a little bit disappointing that Ryu wasn't using the strongest of all the paths. The fact that he had stumbled into such a high class path for his Meridians without even knowing what he was doing was a blessing. If he had never failed in his Spiritual Severing, he would have been out of luck until he reached the Dao God Realms.

Unfortunately, the path to becoming a Dao God to unlock his Meridians was cut off from Ryu now that he had already stepped onto another path. He could no longer reach perfection with his Meridians by relying on his cultivation alone, but it was still fine.

This outlined, though, why Ryu felt that he was so lucky. What were the odds of something like that happening? He even had a feeling that the Protector Spirit of Sacrum had forced him to fail on purpose, knowing what it would mean.

When those warriors of Heaven descended and called him a traitor, Ryu came to understand that his place in Sacrum's heart was actually quite high.

If he was supposed to be a hero of his world of some sort, then why wouldn't the Protector Spirit be looking over him? In doing something like making him fail in his Severings on purpose was all too easy, especially considering how reckless he had been back then.

Ryu shook his head. These things didn't matter for now. What mattered where one would take it from here.

Just what was this vessel for? Two things.

The first was the most obvious, and that was as a secondary vessel to a second Spiritual Foundation. There were grades for the fusion of his Spiritual Foundation as well, but none of them applied to Ryu because his starting point was so ridiculous. His "second" was actually his first, the one that he was born with, making his compatibility be off the charts. He didn't fall into a category with the others because he had blown them out of the water.

The second one was more of a shock to Ryu and it went to show him that he had truly lucked into these things, not because he had just so happened to use the vessel perfectly in both aspects, but rather because he hadn't thought of, nor used the second method at all...

And that was to store Chaos Qi.

This sounded ridiculous. After all, the greatest store of Chaos Qi that Ryu had access to was in his Meridians that were connected to the Chaos Plane. Why would he need to store it elsewhere, it didn't make any sense. And that was precisely why he had never thought or considered it.

But even so, this second reason was extraordinarily important, as it was what allowed a user of the Chaotic Silk Meridians to truly become what the Heavens called a Child of Chaos.

The reason why one's compatibility with one's vessel was so important, and why it was considered a higher grade should you have high compatibility, was because this vessel was best used as an extension of your arm.

Living beings, by definition, were Children of Order. It was because there was order brought to the world that lives could exist. If not for Order, the universe would be just a soupy mess of hot energies.

Ironically, though, it was the existence of living beings that helped the universe tend toward chaos. It was a beautiful cycle of things, a cycle that

Ryu felt enlightened by, and yet didn't give much thought regardless.

A Child of Chaos was different, much different, and it could be said that becoming one was akin to gaining a constitution of sorts. Just the mere existence of a Child of Chaos could cause techniques to fall apart, laws to cease to be, and even the qis of the world to collapse.

Up until now, Ryu was forced to dispel his Disorderly Qi and use it as a sort of great divider to crumble the techniques of others. But if he had been filling his vessel with Chaos Qi from the beginning, he wouldn't even have to expel Chaos Qi to do so, just a touch would be enough.

It was like how once one formed Cosmic Seeds every movement pulled on the natural laws of the world. This was what made Cosmic Seed Realm experts so much more powerful than Dao Pedestal Realm experts and also why it was a huge dividing line. There was a reason Cosmic Qi was named as such, it could pull on the rules of the world and meld into them, using them to fuel you.

Becoming a Child of Chaos allowed you to do this, but toward the Chaos Plane rather than the real Plane. This was meant to be the Cosmic Seed Realm equivalent for his Chaotic Silk Meridians, and he had almost missed out on it entirely.

Not only this, but finally doing so would give Ryu the immunity to Original Disorderly Energies that he had been looking for for so long. He would finally be able to use them freely and without restriction.

And once he tied himself to the laws of the Chaos Plane, he would finally be able to take the first step toward understanding Chaos enough to begin to build skills around his Disorderly Qi and use its truest strength!

He felt that there were more capabilities that a Offspring of Disorder should have, but before he even began to delve into them, he turned his focus toward his Realm Heart. After confirming the method, he began to pour all the Disorderly Qi he could muster into his Realm Heart.

Not long ago, he had sensed his Realm Heart coming into being and he could finally sense its Natural Enlightenment. But now, he was happy that he had been too busy to meditate on it.

He didn't need another Inherent Awareness of Order. He needed one of Chaos.