Chapter 2099 Go On
Ryu's aura only seemed to change slightly. It was so subtle that maybe only he seemed to understand the difference. But that was nothing more than the start.
There was a slight rumble that came from Ryu's body and his Dao broke through, piercing the veil of the peak of the world and then transcending to Lordship.
The feeling wasn't as resounding a difference as one might expect. At the very least, for a Dao that broke through the glass ceiling of a world this powerful and progressed to the Lord Grade at the same time, it shouldn't have been so hard to grasp and
sense...
But it was precisely because it was so difficult to grasp that it was so powerful. Right now, Ryu's Dao seemed to have hardly increased in strength at all. And yet, by extension, it had become entirely unfathomable.
The only one who seemed to sense the change was Old Wan himself. Realizing that something had gone wrong, he exploded into a retreat, shooting back with so much speed that the two Heavenly Warriors in the vicinity shattered to pieces.
The sudden change in Old Wan's display of strength caused Aika's heart to break all the more. She had already realized that there was already no going back... even when Ryu was attacked, there was still some justification for it. After all, if Ryu was truly lying all the while, then why wouldn't Old Wan attack him?
But now, there was no doubt at all...
There was no reason for Old Wan to be hiding so much of his power unless everything Ryu had said was true. Or more accurately... if everything she had been speculating was true.
From start to finish, Ryu had never truly explained himself, he couldn't be bothered to. Now, though... that meant that Aika had come to all the proper conclusions herself.
The last vestiges of the man she had once known shattered in her mind.
The three of them had all grown up together. They had watched their Sect be destroyed together. They had all gone through pain and strife for a hope at one day reversing things...
Aika had truly hoped against hope that she was still seeing things wrongly, that there was some explanation she hadn't thought of that would vindicate both Ryu and Old Wan, some misunderstanding...
But now she knew that there was none.
...
Ryu's gaze slowly gained a sharpness to them that seemed to pierce through the veil of all that was.
Sweeping changes were occurring inside of his body, but mainly to his Inner World. It seemed to have truly become a world of its own where the Heavens were none other than Ryu himself.
A single droplet of Embryonic Qi rippled through Ryu's body and all of a sudden, his heavy injuries were vanishing in the blink of an eye. But it wasn't just that they were vanishing...
But that Ryu was actually somehow growing back even stronger.
The process of improvement through the use of Embryonic Qi had always been slow going for Ryu for the same reasons it was a struggle for him to heal properly from time to time.
For one, the Fate his Embryonic Qi was tied to, and his own Fate by comparison of it, created this push and pull effect where Ryu wasn't in perfect control of all the happenings.
There was a long time where Ryu's Embryonic Qi took years before Ryu could experience its real healing effects, and the same was true for his wives that practiced Taboo Arts.
This trouble was mitigated after Ryu gained the ability to connect to the Fates of different worlds, pulling Embryonic Qi from stronger worlds with strong qi, or worlds that had Fates that were more aligned with his path, thus smoothing over the process.
But now...
Ryu took a step forward and the Cosmos Fog around him spun. Just hovering there silently, it already shredded through the Heavenly Warriors foolish enough to run into it, even attacks from afar were torn to pieces.
All the while, Ryu remained unhindered.
The color of his Cosmos Fog suddenly changed and from a subtle blue, a subtle
green-gold took
form.
With another step, Ryu's body truly became akin to a wind. Wrapped in his Cosmos
Fog, he appeared before Old Wan in an instant, almost carelessly patting at the air
with a palm.
BANG!
Old Wan was sent flying, his chest collapsing in a cave of bone and gore.
He fell from the skies like a meteor, and to add insult to injury, the waves of Heavenly Warriors rushed after him, raining down attacks.
The color of Ryu's Cosmos Fog changed again. He aimed a palm downward, his expression indifferent.
A pulse of golden light gathered on his hand before it suddenly erupted, tearing through the skies in a laser beam of gold.
Old Wan was pierced right through so fast that his downward speed didn't even increase. It was as though his body was as thin and sparse as the wind around it.
BOOM!
Old Wan crashed into the ground with such force that the wave of earth took out several Heavenly Warriors, crushing them in exchange for the shattering of every bone in his body.
The world trembled every time Ryu took a step as though it could no longer withstand
his presence.
Old Wan coughed up a mouthful of blood, his body shuddering as he tried to push
himself up. Even now, his eyes were cold and emotionless.
Ryu smiled. "Go on. Show me why you still think you have a chance to survive."
Old Wan didn't say a word, but he obliged.
The world rippled around him as starlight began to collect.
WHOOSH!
An enormous Domain Board covered the Seventh Heaven.