Chapter 1872 Chain

Chapter 1872 Chain

Ryu moved around the world on Lu'card's back, his mind elsewhere. It didn't seem as though he was doing much more than sightseeing. But at every location they visited, his gaze would become brighter and brighter. Suddenly, half a day later, he had Lu'card come to a stop.

'This is it... what an interesting feeling...'

The eight trigram diagram in Ryu's eye could be considered a sort of Feng Shui. In fact, it was the simplest Feng Shui, and it was also something that everything else, including Formation Mastery, was built on.

In his time in the Tatsuya Library, Ryu had come to realize that there was quite a battle between Formation Masters and Feng Shui Masters. Those of the former profession believed that their Arts were modernizing Feng Shui, making it better than what it would have otherwise been and improving it. Feng Shui Masters, though, believed that their path was the foundational path for all paths. Not just Formation Mastery, but also alchemy and blacksmithing which both relied on aspects of Formation Mastery as well. As the original, they obviously thought themselves to be better.

As for Ryu's opinion... well, he rarely, if ever, used Feng Shui, and that seemed to be the nail in the coffin.

However, Ryu didn't ignore Feng Shui; it was just that Formation Mastery was far more convenient, especially since he had the Formation Flag Visualization to rely upon that let him deploy them wherever and whenever.

Feng Shui, by comparison, took a great deal more effort. That was because it required causing changes to the land.

This was the same reason that Ryu didn't use his Herbology very often either.

The rivalry between Herbology and Alchemy was a perfect mirror of Feng Shui and Formation Mastery. But Ryu's ultimate opinion was that everything had its place...

Still, seeing the scope of what was being accomplished here, and the fact that the person in question didn't even have to use any other resource outside of time and patience...

It was hard not to feel like Feng Shui was the superior practice.

Unfortunately... they had run into Ryu.

'An interesting scheme indeed. The layout is both simple and complex. Simple enough to be hidden, complex enough to not be deciphered. This is a true master.

'They're relying on the natural veins of this world... but also, manipulating them at the same time.'

The Beast Domain was a chaotic hodgepodge of qis and domains. Everything felt like an amalgamation of others, as though every element in the world had been summed up and then left behind an average.

It didn't take Ryu long to realize that this was the crux of the formation.

The first thing this expansive Feng Shui diagram did was make use of one thing that seemed to be the center of everything in this world...

Chaos.

This time, it was real Chaos. And if Ryu was correct, it would be almost impossible to set up a formation like this one in any other world because Order would never allow it.

The variations to this world might begin to affect him later if he stayed here for an extended period of time, which was also probably why Ailsa had given him such a long time to deal with this. However... not for now.

But that still wasn't the crux of it.

Why, then, was Lu'card fine?

And that was the final lynchpin to this whole thing.

Birth.

The creatures that were affected by this place were born here. Their incubation periods were all forced to happen within these cells of Chaos, and that was the process that hooked them.

It was akin to a mother who got her baby addicted to substances because of what she took while she was pregnant.

Because Beasts were the most susceptible to their environment, they were also the most easily manipulated by their environment at birth.

Ryu exhaled a breath. He finally had the whole picture, but that also made things tricky.

He couldn't just undo all of this... Well, he could, but that wouldn't be satisfactory.

Not only would that not deal the blow he wanted, but it would also likewise kill all the beasts in this Beast Domain.

Ryu was the furthest thing from a bleeding heart, but Ailsa's message gave him all the clues he needed. She wanted them to survive and be brought under a single banner. And since that was what his wife wanted, he didn't need to hear anything else.

Ryu thought about this for a while... and by a while, it was all of 13 seconds at most.

"I've got it," he said lightly.

Then, he directly sat in meditation on Lu'card. He began to rapidly form hand signs as his body entered an unprecedented state of focus.

Slowly, his Inner World began to morph and change. And soon, it exuded an aura identical to the cell of Chaos they were currently in.

Ryu's eyes opened and a projection of his Inner World perfectly covered the cell.

CRACK.

The walls to the shell suddenly shattered.

Then, a chaotic chain reaction boomed across the world.