Chapter 1439 An Honor To Be By His Side

Chapter 1439 An Honor To Be By His Side

"You-!"

Jojo shot forward like a meteor streaking across the skies. The pillar of gold around her seemed thirsty for power as it greedily drank in the surrounding qi, fueling her, empowering her.

Ryu wasn't too surprised by this. Everyone would follow different paths. While he was focused on internal constructs lik maximizing his explosive power or flexibility, others like Jojo might have focused on finding methods of forcing the reaction of atmospheric qi with nothing more than her body.

Maybe a few minutes ago, this would have baffled Ryu. Wasn't controlling atmospheric qi a strength of the Qi Realm? He had never heard of Vital Qi doing such a thing. But this time, with just a single glance, even while using his Dao passively, he saw through the secrets.

When he used his Ice Phoenix Martial Form, he could swallow a large amount of air, and then guide this air through his body to promote his speedy recovery, It was the perfect sort of blueprint for the ability he was seeing right here. Wasn't that a rudimentary form of his body using atmospheric qi to its benefit?

Taking it a step further, wasn't this a concept his master's magnum opus was based upon? His master Elemental War God Visualization could carve out pathways in one veins and arteries to mimic the passages of ancient and powerful beasts. Then these circulation patterns could be used to provoke the activation of talents you shouldn't have access to at all. Wasn't this another method of atmospheric qi usage?

The difference lay in the fact that Jojo wasn't absorbing the qi into her body, nor was she fusing it to a technique. Rather, it was like the Heavens had enveloped her with a second skin, causing each and every one of her actions to thrum with its support. It was a more active usage of an ability that one could passively gain access to after forming their Cosmic Seeds, but adapted to be used with one's Bloodlines.

But more pointedly than that, it was a far weaker version of what his Birthed Phenomena could do.

Ryu had these thoughts even as Jojo appeared before him, but he didn't seem to have the intention of moving at all.

Selheira had already appeared, grabbing her wrist. The knuckles came to a stop a mere half centimeter from Ryu's sharp nose and the smile on his face. never faded. He looked into Jojo's eyes without much care and even a bit of a teasing light.

She was powerful, truly powerful. If it was before he had succeeded in creating his Mental Realm Cultivation Technique, he might have to run from her like he had from Ramon even despite the completion of his absorption of 999 Golden Protector Spirits. But now...

He didn't feel like he had to fear her at all.

"It's a bit inappropriate to attack my Junior Brother when we're working on the same team, don't you think, Jojo?"

Jojo seemed to have forgotten that she hated Ryu's guts. Instead, she was having the time of her life.

When she spoke about Ryu's relationship with Selheira, she had made the same assumptions that Selheira had. She thought that since Selheira had shown the slightest fascination in Ryu, then it would really only be a matter of time. Selbeira's instincts were sharp, and if she liked a man, even if it was just a little bit, he was worthy of a second look. After all, she knew things about Selheira that no one else did.

What she, and clearly Selheira, hadn't thought of, was the possibility that the man Selheira had her eyes on might reject her. If it was someone else who had uttered what Ryu had, it might have come off as posturing, even an attempt to make Selheira chase him rather than the other way around, but Jojo already knew enough Ryu to know that there was little to no chance that he would do such a thing. That man too boldly spoke what was on his mind, and she could sense that he meant every word.

And clearly Selheira could too, or else she wouldn't have reacted the way she had.

This was better than even a birthday present, it was better than stumbling on a God Treasure in the wild, it was better than even if she would step into the Sky God Realm right this moment. To see Selheira embarrassed like this, she could live out the rest of her life with a blinding smile on her face.

She had never seen this gentle beauty take such a loss, and she was having the time of her life.

She fell to the ground, slamming her fists as she laughed. She almost forgot to chase after Ryu, and most had. Who could blame them? Who hadn't heard what Ryu had said? Who hadn't seen what he had done?

Reykian, however, looked as though he wanted for bloody murder.

Ryu didn't think too much about what had just happened, looking at the colossus before him. While it was true that his women could be as willful as they wanted, those women could only have the title of wife and they had to actually be his woman. He didn't have a habit of bending over backwards just because someone was a beauty, even if she showed fascination in him. If he took in every woman who showed interest in him, he wouldn't even have enough time to go around.

Was it a bit cruel to Selheira? Probably. But he was getting a bit displeased that she just assumed that she could have him if she wanted him. He was Ryu Tatsuya, a man destined to stand on the tallest peak of the world, it was an honor to be by his side, not the other way around.

A mountain in the distance rose into a titan of over 10 meters tall, wreathed in blue armor that radiated like crystals.

He pointed his great swordstaffs forward.

"Let's end this battle before any unwanted guests arrive. Shall we?"