Chapter 1440 Stupid Heavenly Path
Ryu inwardly whistled, feeling the strength of this titan. The gap between the Golden ranks and the Diamond ranks was more than twice that of the Silver and Golden Protector Spirits. It felt ridiculous that someone not in the Sky God Realm could be so powerful. Even now, it didn''t seem like it was using qi.
Was this what Ninth Heaven geniuses felt like? To be so powerful even without full access to its abilities, it seemed that the Ninth Heaven lived up to expectations. Even so, there was absolutely nothing this beast could do that Ryu couldn''t see through.
"There''s only one Diamond Protector Spirit? Not multiple? In that case, 1 don''t have much time at all...
The distance between here and where he had just left from was a few tens of thousands of kilometers. If the strongest of them used their greatest possible speed, it was a distance they could cross in less than a dozen minutes.
Could he defeat this titan that fast? His confidence said yes, but his understanding about his Dao said... maybe. The spirits didn''t function the same way humans did and his Dao wasn''t as effective against them. However, Ryu''s confidence overrode his other thoughts as a grin spread across his face.
With a stamp, he flickered and vanished. As soon as he moved, the fist of the titan spirit moved as well, collapsing all of the spatial tunnels that Ryu had formed. Ryu''s brows couldn''t help but jump as he came to a stop in the void, just barely avoiding the fate of being crushed into a meaty paste.
Alright, maybe he was a bit too eager. This spirit was something else power wise, and it was obvious that no one, not even someone who had consumed 999 Golden Protector Spirits, should be able to defeat him. There was only one Diamond Protector Spirit because he was meant to work with everyone else who was worthy.
However, Ryu wasn''t a fan of the idea. He stood in the void in silence for a long while. Well, it was only a few seconds, but such a thing was an eternity in a battle of this scale. What interrupted his attempt at thought, though, was a sudden pressure that came from the titan spirit. Some part of its bloodline was pressuring him, trying to close down the spatial nodes he was standing within.
Ryu could fight back against this with ease, especially with his affinity, but it still made him an extra hint cautious. This titan spirit was even more powerful than he knew. His better judgment was right to tell him to be cautious, and he was foolish to have tried to ignore it, albeit for just a split moment
''Hm...'' Ryu sighed.
He had gained some insight about his Bloodlines after he succeeded in completing his Mental Realm cultivation method. He had learned that he could use his Bloodlines as an extension of his instincts in battle, almost like a Sixth Sense..
Within his Bloodlines carried a whole host of memories that came from beasts he shared a lineage with. Within those memories not only included the talents that he had awakened one by one, but also various miscellaneous thoughts and experiences, anything that survived, really. Part of the reason it was so difficult to awaken talents was precisely because of this. There was a sea of completely useless information within... but there was also a whole host of useful information in there as well not related to talents at all.
The blood had paths that it preferred to move along, muscle memory borne of countless generations of experience and a tie of Fate that made it run more smoothly when completing certain pathways. However, tapping into that required a subtlety and talent that was even beyond what it took to find and unearth talents within your bloodline in the first place.
There was no up, no down, no left, no right. There was no heaviness, no speed, no time. It couldn''t move because it didn''t even know how to go about doing so. All of its sense of body was stripped from it and it became as lame as a newborn, unable to do anything for itself.
Ryu took a breath. He didn''t have much time. If the titan wasn''t a spirit, it would probably just rage and send its Bloodline pressure outward. Any power that it could send out that had its full brunt behind it would be enough to shatter this formation. Ryu still wasn''t sure if it could do that, so he didn''t want to risk it at all.
He raised his blade and his gaze sharpened. It all came down to whether he could harm this titan spirit or not, and he only had one thing that he felt could allow it.
His Infinity Mist Cosmic Seed flared. His control was much better now, far better than it had been in the past, but it still felt as though he was trying to leash a dragon, the spurts of failed control causing his body to shred itself apart
Even so, his gaze flared and he rushed forward, swinging his blade down with a mighty pulsing strength.
BANG!
The feeling of slicing something apart never came. Rather, it felt like it was fracturing everything in his path. Even his great swordstaff shattered into so many pieces it looked as though it had been burnt to ash. Toward this result, he could sigh. That was why he had only tried it with one great swordstaff. It seemed that he would only have one weapon from now on, aside from his bow, that is.
The Titan''s head was crushed, and the only reason the rest of its body hadn''t followed suit was because by that point, Ryu''s control had dissipated.
All at once, Ryu was suddenly flooded by a radiant blue energy and the amount of acumen was so great that he was certain he would have roared out in pain if not for the Origin Flame. He suddenly understood that maybe it wasn''t the fact that the Heavenly Path was being stingy, but rather that it simply hadn''t believed a single person could take in so much.
But now... It was all his.
Unfortunately, the procedure was much longer than he expected it to be.
Ryu almost snarled. ''This stupid Heavenly Path wouldn''t let other individuals impede with me, would it?"
He had only just had this thought when the first blazing paths of individuals entered the frayed edges of his quickly shrinking Spiritual Sense.