Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

The Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation was stuck in Ryu's Realm Heart instead of his dantian, and as such, his Control had to come from his Realm Heart as an extension.

The trouble with this was that if the Vessel was too weak, then the Control would also be weak...

But in this regard, Ryu's problem was actually the exact opposite. Rather than being weaker, it was actually much stronger.

A Realm Heart was the embryo of a world. The only limiting factor to his Control was the strength of his Realm Heart.

Ryu had swallowed more than enough Godhoods that his Realm Heart was already at a False Grade standard.

The trouble was... his Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation had caused a great change.

The Realm Heart was an incarnation of Order-in a lot of ways, it was the truest kernel of Order, the starting phase of a world. But his Spiritual Foundation had turned it into the incarnation of Chaos.

Due to that Ryu's Control was a bit... well-

Ryu's eyes opened and he pressed out a finger. He exerted False Control over his body and it quickly became Chaotic Idol Control.

When he tapped at the air, there was no energy, no sudden commotion, and yet in that moment, it felt like his body had just fallen through reality.

It was as though his Childe of Chaos Constitution had suddenly gained an exaggerated buff. Just making changes to his body broke the laws of the world in a way that only Transcendent Control should be capable of.

A glow was coming from Ryu's chest and a domain was rippling around him, the very Domain of his Realm Heart itself.

BANG!

Ryu's body suddenly grew until he stood ten kilometers tall. The mountain range he had been in collapsed like it was made of rotten wood, while Selheira and her mother were taken aback by the sudden change.

This was the Ninth Heaven, not the first. You couldn't just casually fall through space or shatter the ground. Just because Pyrothos had done it, didn't mean that Ryu should be able to. He was a Dao God Beast! While Ryu was just a False Sky God!

'So this is the power of real talent...' Ryu thought to himself.

Standing high in the skies, overlooking the world in a way he had never been able to before, he clenched his fists before he began to feel weak.

His body shrunk down and he exhaled a breath. It was simply impossible to sustain that kind of size for more than a few seconds.

When Ryu looked into his Beyond Perfect Spiritual Foundation, he grimaced a bit...

His vast ocean had actually dried up. He had only been that large for a few split seconds, and yet his nigh endless God Qi had already run out.

The treasures he had gathered began to glow, and only then was there a steady increase to the level of qi again, but by Ryu's calculations, it might actually take months for it to recover.

'That's... unexpected...'

He didn't expect for just a small change to cost him so much.

He redirected the Chaos Qi in his Meridians to his Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation and the speed increased.

Suddenly, something that should have taken months should now just take a few days.

'Is this why they were so scared of the pairing? Just how powerful was I just now?'

Ryu was shocked, because replaying the memories... he felt that he should at least be able to severely harm a Perfect Sky God if not outright slaughter them in a single blow in that form. And that was after extrapolating to the standards of the Ninth Heaven based on guesses he made with Selheira as a model.

And that was if he went all out, but what if he chose a smaller range instead? What if, instead of growing so tall, he used 10%? Or maybe 5%? His God Qi wouldn't just immediately dry up and he might be able to fight a more sustained battle against real powerhouses.

Ryu shook his head, he had yet to lay his foundation down perfectly. He had just casually tested out Chaotic Idol Control, but he had really understood it. And before he understood that, shouldn't he pay attention to Chaotic Whole Control first?

Ryu began to take his time, doing a deep dive into both Chaotic Whole and Chaotic Idol Control, trying to understand their limits.

He also realized that through his White Phoenix Spiritual Foundation, he should have access to the more normal Fragmented and False Control as well.

He tested a few things, trying to see if he could grasp Whole and Idol Control as well to balance out their Chaotic counterparts.

Days later, Ryu shook his head and stood up from within the rubble. He smoothed out his hair, lost in thought.

He felt that his path was beginning to feel a bit muddied. There were so many factors and entangled variables that parsing through them all was difficult.

Ultimately, this was mostly because he didn't have the cultivation method designed for his Chaotic Silk Meridians.

The Karmic Strings the Complete Heavenly Path had left behind for him were a great help, but they didn't actually have cultivation methods. It was akin to having a summary of what he ought to do, but not exactly how to do it.

It was even more difficult to follow when there were so many other variables in his body.

For example, the Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation seemed to be an anomaly. No, more accurately, the White Phoenix Spiritual Foundation was.

His Karmic Strings gave him information about how his Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation would act if it was in his dantian because those Strings of Karma couldn't see through the White Phoenix Spiritual Foundation at all. To them, it might as well not exist at all.

So Ryu was stuck extrapolating on his own, trying to understand things that were beyond him.

The fact he was also dealing with Taboo Powers didn't make things any easier at all.

Ryu looked down toward Veridia.

"Mother-in-law, if I want to steal a cultivation method for the Chaotic Silk Meridians, where should I go?"

Veridia's maw opened slightly, but no sound came out.

Was this son-in-law of hers a little bit cracked in the head?