Chapter 1472 Unexpected Details


    Ryu shook his head.


    The Heavens were giving him a choice. Either he could pick five treasures from any of the given God Treasures here, or he could receive a divination of fate that could be used to bring him toward exactly what he needed to perfect one thing.


    Ryu assumed that this "one thing" was meant to be a limiter on what he could ask for. For example, he couldn''t just ask to perfect his path of cultivation itself.


    He actually didn''t believe that the Heavens would stop him from asking such a thing of it. The problem was how much quality the response would have. Someone might jump at the chance, but Ryu, as a Ruin Master, understood better than anyone else what it truly meant.


    "One thing", translated in this context, wasn''t about quantity, necessarily, or at the very least, not directly. Rather, it was a hidden warning about the breadth of the requests Heaven would allow.


    One of the most poetic and enigmatic lines of all cultivation was as follows.


    One begets Two. Two begets Three. And Three Begets All Things.


    The rawest understanding of the saving was that all things were connected, but there was a secondary portion that was often ignored, and one that Ryu felt that he had come to understand over the course of his life.


    All things were connected, but it wasn''t up to you to decide how they were. All sorts of things could happen throughout your life that you might have never expected because a living being could never truly comprehend the vastness of the world.


    A pebble kicked today might become a boulder that caused an avalanche the next. The fluttering wings of a butterfly might create a storm thousands of miles away. And one seed of cultivation planted now could become far more broad and all encompassing in the future.


    It was the Heavens giving a subtle warning. Start small, and you might receive a great many things in return. Start too large and you would miss the forest for the trees.


    The Heavens would never leave a message as crude as "pick one thing". The only explanation was that there was a far deeper meaning to it and it was yet another test.


    Even though he saw through it easily, Ryu still felt that he was being screwed over. The Heavens might be able to divine exactly what he needed and where exactly to go to get them, but he would likely still have to risk his life to do so.


    And yet, on the other hand, he could pick out five God Treasures. It was clearly dangling this matter in his face. He could practically imagine the warriors of Heavens up above getting a good chuckle out of this ridiculous farce.


    The worst part was that that wasn''t even the only one pair of great Swordstaffs present. There was another pair, but this one was wreathed in Tire and lightning, one a gorgeous sapphire blue and the other a beautiful ruby red.


    At that point, Ryu was certain. The Heavens were doing this on purpose. They wanted him to pine for these treasures, and they had even perfectly picked out these treasures for him. Maybe some Heavenly Messengers had even forged these weapons specifically for his sake.


    Even so, the reason Ryu was so frustrated and irritated wasn''t because he was deliberating on what to do. Instead, it was because he had already made his choice and he was annoyed that the Heavens were testing him.


    No matter how much he changed, that part of him would never change. He absolutely hated to be tested.


    Fine. I''ll allow it this time. Give it to me.


    Ryu took an annoyed breath and spoke.


    "Enlighten the path of the Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation for me. Specifically, I would like to know what treasures it needs to allow it to enter the Sky God Realms."


    After some deliberation, Ryu decided to make it as short and concise as possible. The matters of his Beyond Perfect Extreme Spiritual Foundation already roped in a ton of highly contentious materials. Just the first two Cosmic Seeds it had formed both used two of the greatest treasures in all of existence.


    So while he was feeling a bit reluctant, rather than asking for the Heavens to lead him down the path of true perfection, he instead went for perfection through the Cosmic Seed Realm and into the World Sea Realm.


    Essentially, Ryu was asking for the location of the relics he would need to release the Cosmic Qi Sea and form his World Sea.


    What he received, though, was something more comprehensive than he thought he would. For a moment, as he watched all of those beautiful relics around him vanish one after another, he felt that he had narrowed down his scope too much.


    But after a while, he shook his head. This was perfect, and this was a truly worthy exchange.


    The first thing he received was a perfect roadmap to each Natural Origin Treasure. Not only did he suddenly know all of their locations, he was even given several methods of entry that he could use, what dangers were associated with them, there were even some clues on how he might survive, though these last tips were far vaguer than the others.


    If he felt the danger was too great, the Heavens actually provided a roadmap to relics of slightly lesser value that would still allow him to complete his task. In fact, he even had the decision of using fewer Natural Origin Treasures and breaking through prematurely.


    "These details...''