Chapter 2043 Risk
Ryu's Bone Structure was one of his strongest trump cards, but it was also one of the talents that he had the most difficulty in learning to use. This wasn't just because its appearance in himself was a first across Existence, but also because the paths in which it could take were too numerous.
The Cosmos Fog within him's main purpose was separating from the influence of the Heavens. This sounded great, but it gave him too many paths that he could take.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
The logical thing to do was to just focus on the Space and Time aspects of it, and he
had.
With his Cosmos Fog, he was able to use Time acceleration in ways that others couldn't imagine, even to the point of ignoring the distortions in the laws to comprehend insights with time on his side nonetheless.
This benefit alone was shocking because the one thing that Ryu didn't have the benefit of was time.
Ironically enough, despite the fact that he had only been forced to come on this mission, the time he spent cultivating here was already more than four or five times the amount of time he had spent cultivating anywhere else.
In Sacrum, he didn't cultivate at all in his first life, and even in his second, he wasted 14 years being oppressed from all sides. He hadn't even been allowed to Awaken, let alone practice and cultivate.
There weren't even 10 years between the time he finally passed the trial of the Phoenix Sky God and the ultimate battle between the Martial Gods before he once again found himself unable to cultivate for 999 years.
The good news with his Rebirth Talent activating was that it had made his process of re-establishing his foundation much easier. But the bad news was that he had once again wasted more time while others around him were busy growing more powerful... Including Sarriel.
If he didn't include the time he spent meditating by the Blackhole to gather up the last treasure he needed for his Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation, he probably hadn't even spent five years in the True Martial World before he was forced to come here.
It was an irony of ironies that the first time he was truly able to meditate in silence and focus on nothing other than improving himself was in this world that was stuck in a perpetual war, but it was also its own form of embarrassment.
After all, the only reason he had been able to be so leisurely was because of his wife. If not for the Rebirthing Cultus Sect, would he have been so relaxed?
Although Ryu had had a clash with Star River, making it clear that all the things he gained were only because he had become their Throne, he also wasn't so naive as to believe that 100%.
The Throne System outside of Sacrum was far more complicated, and it wasn't impossible for a Sect he became the Throne of to choose to target him. The reason they didn't was because one betrayal was already far more than enough. Ailsa would never allow such a thing to happen a second time, so the Sect she built was extraordinarily safe all things considered.
So much hardship, and yet so little time...
That was the summary of Ryu's life.
When he was facing off against opponents like Sarriel who had orders of magnitude more time in cultivation than he had, it was hard for him to find a chance to stand.
Sarriel not only had the advantage of all the time he spent in Rebirth, but she had likewise spent many years in Sacrum as well, slowly cultivating and building her foundation on top of having the knowledge that she would progress to the True Martial World one day.
The Beast Core was something that didn't even appear in Sacrum. It only occurred in a shockingly small percentage of beasts.
In the rarest of them, they might be born directly with a Beast Core. But that didn't
stop many talented beasts from forming it after birth.
The Beast Core was an amalgamation of a beast's insights, manifested into a more tangible form. Usually, it was more Inheritance than anything else. And that was because there was still one other evolution that beasts could take...
The Dao Bone.
This was where the Dao resided, and this was what separated the truest of the true elite beasts from the others. It was what allowed the most shocking of the monsters to
rise up.
Beasts didn't have to comprehend much in order to progress. There were probably even God Beasts out there, even amongst the Griffins themselves, that didn't need to comprehend a Dao.
They were the beloved children of the Heavens, and they were treated as such, often only needing to rely on their Ancestral insights and natural talent to take one step
after another.
But the beasts that took a step beyond this could start to infuse their influence into
their very Bone. By infusing these insights into their Bone, it could change and influence their Bloodlines to some extent, tinging their Bloodline with their own
unique flare.
As usual, there were some directly born with Dao Bones as well, making it even easier on them. These existences could gain direct comprehension insight from their Ancestors to improve and strengthen their Bloodlines.
It was only after learning all of this that Ryu realized that he had been staring down
one of the main ways to improve his Bloodlines all along.
The problem? He wasn't a beast. These weren't things that he could do, and his Bloodlines didn't even lay their roots in his bones like they should, but instead in his
organs.
If he wanted to change things, he would have to take an enormous risk.