Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2189  One.

BOOM!

The skies overturned, and Sarriel’s body convulsed. Although her eyes were shut firmly right this moment, Ryu could feel the shift and change.

Seven pupils, once separated and very much distinct, were slowly fusing into one.

When seven fell to six, there was a shudder through the world, and Ryu found that it was difficult to even hold onto his woman. But he had a stubborn streak… he’d be damned if his woman grew too powerful for him to even hold her.

He would rather die.

Six fused to five.

BOOM!

Ryu wrapped Sarriel in his arms, the Karmic Flames that still burned through him seemingly not touching her at all. Everyone felt the truest form of fear when they saw these flames, but the reality of it was that Karmic Flames could only burn their target.

Truthfully, it went to show just how impressive Aurelia’s Dao Heart was that she was able to overcome that fear and rush forward nonetheless. But unfortunately for her, that didn’t make the slightest hint of a difference.

Five fused into four.

Ryu coughed up a mouthful of blood that surprised even him. Not because he was shocked by the pain or backlash, but rather that he didn’t think he had any more blood left to cough up.

It seemed that his body was better than even he thought, amusingly enough.

Four fused into three.

CRACK.

There was a shredding at the core of reality itself.

All this while, Young Master Shade had been immovable. Even during the Dragon Prince’s fury, and Ryu’s retaliation, he hadn’t said or moved anywhere.

But right this moment, he too opened his eyes. His face shifting between a man handsome beyond words and a ghostly skeleton, he looked ahead with a frown.

The power Sarriel was radiating right now… he didn’t believe that it should be possible for a Lord. What was happening?

Three fused into two.

Ryu’s chest blasted apart. No, it was even more shocking than that. The Karmic Flames, burning infinitely across his body, themselves were shaken.

Sarriel shouldn’t even be able to touch them, but right this moment, it was as though that didn’t matter in the slightest. She had transcended the gap between illusory and reality that the Karmic Flames resided in, and with a violent sort of push, she oppressed even the flames that endlessly burned through Ryu.

Although she was still out of it, Ryu could feel that her own Dao Heart had grown so strong that… it was suffocating the Karmic Flames?

Ryu’s eyes narrowed.

He had seen many breakthroughs before. He had witnessed Eska and Isemeine’s. He had replayed Ailsa’s own breakthroughs in his mind. He had seen Hope’s breakthrough even.

All of them had been impressive for their own reasons. But right now, he felt that what he had seen in the past simply paled in comparison to what he was seeing now. He couldn’t even put into words what sort of power Sarriel was outputting now.

And the most shocking part about it was that she was still in the Lord Realm!

This was very much still the aura of the Lord Realm, and yet it felt like there were Dao Gods in existence that she could crush with a single lift of her finger.

Ryu’s eyes narrowed as he looked into the skies.

Something was coming.

He could feel it.

‘A lot of fucking nerve…’

Ryu already felt fury before it did, but he could feel that his body didn’t have much left to give.

Just as he was feeling this way, he felt Sarriel’s aura suppress his Karmic Flames even more fiercely, and then again, and then again.

The skies rumbled.

“Stop.” Ryu said.

Sarriel completely ignored him. However, he could feel the fluctuations in her Primordial Yin and through their connection.

She was just as stubborn as he was.

“I said stop. This sort of thing can’t stop me.” Ryu’s voice practically came out in a growl. He was getting angry this time.

Sarriel faltered slightly, but then she continued as though she hadn’t heard the slightest thing.

Ryu was growing frustrated, but nothing he was doing was getting through, and it wasn’t as though he could just let Sarriel go. He didn’t want to do that either.

“Fine.” Ryu said after a while, his anger disappearing like the spring breeze. “I already promised to destroy them anyway. Now I just have one more reason to.”

Sarriel shifted slightly, her head falling on his chest.

Standing there, curled in his arms, one would have thought that the one having such an earth-shattering, heart-pounding breakthrough was Ryu and not Sarriel.

But right that moment, Sarriel truly felt like a wife for the first time. One thing was for certain… she would never accidentally call herself a Moon again.

From today onward, she was a Tatsuya.

There was a blooming sort of feeling in her heart as she seemed to truly give herself to Ryu. Maybe there was always a little part of her that remained fiercely independent even after allowing Ryu to take her Primordial Yin.

But it was hard to still feel that way when watching the man she loved be burned by Heaven’s fury for no one’s sake but her own.

That wasn’t something even the mighty Sarriel could ignore.

Her last two pupils fused into one.

The world fell into an eerie silence. The force winds, the shuddering qi, the splitting in the skies, the relentless barrage against the fabric of space and time…

It all came to a grinding halt in an instant.

Including Ryu’s Karmic Flames.

It was as though they had never been there, so firmly suppressed by Sarriel’s Dao Heart that they were snuffed out from existence.

Ryu had never felt something like this in his life before, and now he stood there, a charred mess of a human, the only parts of him left untouched being his eyes themselves.

And then, it happened.

A familiar golden door appeared high in the skies, and for the first time… Ryu felt like the Title Stele was suppressed.