Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Ryu got to learn first hand how fast his healing factor now was. Luckily, the injury had been caused by himself so it was far easier to deal with. In less than a minute after snapping his leg back into place, it was in top shape once again.

Rather than continuing immediately, Ryu began to think. Obviously, there was something different about these Dao Charm techniques.

Sarriel didn't mention anything about them since it was probably more detailed than she felt Ryu needed. But, the techniques themselves did a good enough job in explaining with their various introductions.

In Sacrum, mastery of techniques were separated into Small Success, Large Success, Great Success and Circle of Perfection.

Ryu had long since started to ignore these rankings because he comprehended techniques so fast that he blazed through to Great Circle of Perfection and stepped beyond it far too quickly. There was no point in keeping track of such worthless titles.

With the standards he held himself up to, even if he couldn't see through a technique to the point of using it with just the same flair and beauty its creator did, he could add his own flair to it. The techniques he had mastered from Sacrum couldn't even be said to be in the Great Circle of Perfection, they were beyond it.

In the True Martial World, though, especially when Dao Charm techniques were taken into consideration, the ranking system was the same, but it had two extra steps. Before 'Small Success', there was Initial Success. And, before the Great Circle of Perfection, there was Complete Success.

This left the ranking system at Initial Success, Small Success, Large Success, Great Success, Complete Success, and finally, Great Circle of Perfection.

Initial Success allowed you to use 1% of your qi to fuel the techniques, Small Success allowed 10%, Large Success allowed 20%, Great Success allowed 50%, Complete Success allowed 100%, while Great Circle of Perfection allowed you to go beyond what your qi alone could produce, using the Dao Charm of the technique to push you beyond the realms of the technique.

Right now, Ryu would be in Initial Success of a non-Dao Charm technique. However, just grasping a circulation pattern wasn't enough to touch Initial Success of a Dao Charm technique.

This was the reason why he had suffered such harsh backlash. Without stepping into Initial Success, it wasn't even possible to circulate the qi method without harming yourself.

'Interesting.'

Ryu's lip curled. Despite his blindness, his eyes burned with a heated passion. He hadn't felt this sort of excitement in a long time.

Such a simple circulation pattern actually carried such a punch to it.

And, just now, when his leg broke, it was because <Whispering Petals> had wanted him to display a speed beyond his body's capability. It was even more shocking because he had only circulated a small portion of the qi he could, yet the result was so exaggerated.

Ryu put away <Whispering Petals> and <Roaring Sky Serpent>. Logically, it was probably smarter to learn a movement technique first, but he wasn't worried as he had time. No matter how far his comprehension had fallen, he didn't believe that it would take him more than three months to reach at least Small Success in all three techniques.

Soon, though, Ryu would realize that it wasn't his comprehension that would be the problem, but rather the inherent difficulty of Dao Charm techniques.

Even if his eyes hadn't gone blind, Dao Charm techniques were something even the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils could take as a casual joke. The reason for this was in their name.

Dao Charm techniques could only be created by those who had reached an unprecedented level of matery in their Daos. Only upon reaching such a high attainment could one then simplify their Dao to allow others to partake in its strength.

This essentially meant that Dao Charm techniques and comprehending them was akin to taking a step into someone else's shoes and grasping their Dao.

It was one thing if your Dao was comparable and similar to another's. But, if your Dao was incompatible, you would have a very tall mountain to climb.

This was another reason why even absolute geniuses only focused on one Dao Charm technique at once. Even those who stood at the pinnacle of the world, looking down on all others, might only dabble in two or three.

If you spent too much time mastering the Dao Charm of others, it could influence and even collapse your own resolve, thus weakening your Dao. In the worst case, you might even end up crippling your Dao entirely!

Ryu, though, blissfully began to comprehend.

He had been ready to settle in for several months, only awakening when it was time for him to truly step into this new world. However, after just a few minutes, his expression changed.

His mind hurriedly retreated as a resounding CRACK! echoed in his ears.

Ryu's face paled, a line of blood falling slowly down the corner of his lips.

Just now, he had started to comprehend, meditating on the images of the Azure Bird he could find in its memory jade. Immersed, he felt enamored. He wasn't used to comprehending things without the use of his eyes, so he planned on just letting his instincts take over for a time and see how things went.

His instincts hadn't let him down. In fact, things were beyond his expectations.

His soul made him feel like the world was his to absorb and he could practically imprint the images into his Spiritual Sea itself.

But then, he realized that when he started to do this that his inactive Dao stirred. It was then Ryu had a thought.

His Dao was designed to grasp the secrets of the Heavens, that was why he had named it Dividing Heaven. So, if he relied on his Dao, wouldn't comprehending Dao Charm techniques be as easy as breathing?

He didn't believe there was any Dao stronger than his own. There was nothing out of his reach with it by his side.

But, just now…

A crack had appeared in his Dao Foundation.