Chapter 1462 Ash

Chapter 1462 Ash

What happened next was unlike anything the juniors here had ever laid their eyes on. The Complete Heavenly Path, the flawed trial of the Heavens, the very location that they were certain that even Dao Lord, Sovereigns and Gods alike could never directly interfere in...

Quaked.

In the white expanse of the land they were in, dark clouds suddenly formed and boomed. It was a sound so loud that it was impossible to properly describe, so much so that even these prodigies of the various Heavens felt their minds collapse as their ears began to breathe.

Their entire souls were consumed by fear, by inadequacy, by a willingness to drop down to their knees and obey.

Ryu looked up from his seated position and shook his head.

'Idiot'

As soon as he thought this, a pressure even more overpowering than that descended. It crushed the clouds and destroyed them to their last wisps of misty waters. The booming crackling of lightning arched through the skies, but it didn't make it very far at all before fizzling out.

Ryu somewhat understood what had happened, which was why he had said what he said. The Martial Gods were very used to taking control of matters of Fate, whether that be their own or that of their targets. This sort of power had given them a great deal of control over what they could do, even to the point that they could seal away a talent like Ryu.

But this came with its own drawbacks as well.

Just now, that tribulation that triggered was more definitely something crafted at the hands of the Martial Gods themselves. It wasn't a Heavenly Tribulation, but it was much more like the tribulation that Ryu had faced when he formed his Hegemonic Dao, and again when he formed his Ancient Dao.

It was artificial, and as a result, the Martial Gods had lost out in two important ways... well, three if Ryu was lucky.

The first was that they failed to target Ryu. Why would the Celestial Realms allow outside interference into its Heavenly Path, especially against someone with so much accumulated Heavenly Favor.

Ryu nodded to himself.

He was able to infuse Dividing Chaos into these Divine Chains, and Dividing Order into these Divine Wings, but doing so required him to keep his Daos separate. As a result, they were at the pinnacle of the Ancient Dao level as opposed to his true level, that of the Founding Dao.

If he wanted to use his Founding Dao in the same way, he would need to find a vessel for it that was just as powerful.

Of course, this didn't mean that Ryu had lost his Founding Dao. So long as he dispelled these vessels, something he could do with a thought, he could fuse his Daos once again and form a Founding Dao.

The real question was whether or not these chains would allow him to maintain the strength and power of his Daos should he do so.

Even though this was a somewhat depressing thought, Ryu wasn't as downcast about it as he seemed. That was because so long as he found a vessel powerful enough for his Founding Dao, just like he had regained the full strength of the two halves, he would likewise regain the full strength of his whole Dao.

And... there was also no telling what completing this round might give him.

"I guess this is the end of this, right?"

Ryu smiled for a moment before his pillar shot into a challenge he had been aiming for.

He appeared in a world that seemed to be falling apart. Everywhere you looked, pillars of fire blazed and they were quickly closing in on him.

Ryu grinned, his wings suddenly spreading out wide. But after a moment, he chose not to flap them, instead punching out with a fist wrapped in chains.

The entire world crumbled to ash.