Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

The Almighty stood across from Ryu, huffing for breath.

It felt like everything had flipped in an instant. One moment, he had cornered Ryu, teaming up with Zercius and Primus. In the next, it was like the world had been stripped down around him, reversed, and flipped on its head.

Ryu, who should have been dead down below, suddenly appeared in the skies, standing quite calmly. The world fell to silence.

Ryu did only have one thing to do. And that was to end this loop.

“You…” The Almighty held his trident, looking around him.

Zercius was still there, but his momentum seemed to have been completely neutered somehow. The Almighty felt the same, like he was beaten and broken. And yet, there wasn’t a single wound on him at all.

“Confused?” Ryu asked, but he wasn’t looking at The Almighty at all. His gaze was instead aimed toward the skies. “I am too. I really am a bad husband. I’ll probably have to spend a lifetime making up for it. As for what happens to the world in my absence… well, that won’t have anything to do with you either.”

Ryu shook his head. It was his fault that Yaana and Nuri had suffered so much, it was his fault that Eska had to carry the burden of a declining Clan all on her own, it was his fault that Black Rose lost the love of her life, it was his fault that Hope’s race was no more…

It was his fault that Ailsa had suffered so much at the hands of the Heavenly Court. If he didn’t have to create the Heaven’s Gate, then none of what she had suffered back then would have happened in the first place.

He sighed. How ironic. In his journey to the top, he had put his loved ones through quite an ordeal. He had lost count of the number of things he was responsible for. In return, the least he could do was give them repayment in the form of his love and concern.

He had accomplished almost everything… almost. At the very least, he could give them some of his time.

Ryu took a step forward. It was just a simple step, but the world solidified.

Zercius fell to a knee and the steeds that pulled The Almighty’s chariot shattered into a rain of blood, the chariot cracking slowly but surely.

Ryu appeared before Zercius, reaching down and pulling him up by his neck.

“I might have cared enough to give you a long spiel about how you deserve this, but honestly I can’t be bothered right now. Just die.”

Ryu squeezed down and Zercius’ head shattered into a rain of blood. A soul quickly tried to escape, but Ryu lightly plucked it out of the air. With a passing wave of his hand, it flew up to the Heaven’s Gate above, fusing into one of its two doors.

Taking another step, Ryu appeared so close to The Almighty they were practically nose to nose. Maybe since the birth of this man, he had never been forced to be so close to someone looking down on him.

“The Almighty is an interesting title. But if you’re just Almighty over something I created, what does that make me?” Ryu asked with a light smile.

“You…”

“Me, indeed.”

Ryu’s punch ripped through his gut. Blood gushed through the surroundings, a sputtering pain coming from The Almighty.

With another pluck, Ryu took his soul and launched him into the Heaven’s Gate above.

Ryu’s arms trembled, and he unleashed a roar. All of the Bad Karma accumulating in his body rushed up to the skies, slamming past the doors and into it.

Darkness, all the horrid atrocities of the world, rushed up into the skies.

The more Ryu poured into it, the more of the Heavens seemed sealed away, Fate being pulled and stretched out from various locations across Existence until those doors suddenly slammed shut.

BANG!

Ryu huffed out breaths, beads of sweat falling down his brow. He truly couldn’t remember the last time he had struggled so much. Ever since he successfully forged his new path of cultivation, everything had been easy.

No… everything had always been easy for him. When had he ever truly struggled in his life?

He looked up into the skies as the doors faded away. He was Ryu Tatsuya, he did as he pleased.

Chi.

An echo of broken glass rippled across the Dome of the Heavens as Ryu stepped beyond his self-imposed time loop.

Ryu turned to leave, only for his steps to pause. His eyes narrowed, and then he flickered and vanished.

…

Ryu stood across from the Nameless Immortal God once again. There was a silence between them for a long while before the latter spoke.

“It seems that our situations are reversed. Last time, it was me who was so tired after I forced my way into your time loop. Now, you’re tired.”

“Is that your excuse for losing to someone with so much less cultivation experience?”

“I don’t make excuses, and I also don’t lose. If I cared enough to finish the battle, there would only be one outcome, even if I only had one breath left to live on.”

“What a coincidence, I happen to know that if you start a battle with me right now, there’ll also only be one outcome. Your daughter will be without a father.”

The Nameless Immortal God’s eyes narrowed.

“My temper isn’t very good.”

“Neither is mine.”

The both of them vanished at the same time.

BOOM!

Their fists broke the lines of reality around them. It wasn’t a simple shattering of space, but things seemed to cease to make sense entirely.

They both took a single step back and Ryu felt something he thought had waned within him sparking again. But then he remembered his promise… he had to make it up to them… at least for the time being…

“How many are there like you?” Ryu asked.

“Like me?” The Nameless Immortal God looked at Ryu like he was looking at a fool. “There is only one me.”

Ryu grinned. “How many are out there that would say those exact words?”

“Not enough.”

Hearing that response, Ryu understood it completely. He lowered his fists slowly and looked off into the distance.

“In my life, I’ve never had a rival. Everyone is too weak.”

“I don’t care to hear about your sob story. I don’t need such external motivation.”

“Mm,” Ryu said indifferently, not bothering to correct the Nameless Immortal God. Even against a man this powerful, he didn’t care about his thoughts. If he wanted to think that Ryu was “sobbing”, then so be it. “I plan to spend the next several trillion years with my wives and children at least. After leaving them stuck in a time loop for so long, I owe them at least that much. That’s a promise I’ve made to them that I plan to keep. I hope you continue to improve in that time. If this is what I’ve done with less than a billion, I fear what I’ll become by then.”

“If there’s no one left to fight, I will be bored.”

“You think too highly of yourself.”

“So do you.”

They fell into silence once again.

“There is something else out there.” They both said at the same time.

Neither seemed surprised by the words of the other, their gazes looking off toward the same location in the distance.

“Someone tried to write my story, tried to limit me… Grand Ancestral Bloodlines, he called it. So I rewrote it however I felt.” Ryu said calmly.

“Idiot.” The Nameless Immortal God sneered. “There’s a reason I never played the games of that little Title Stele. My story is written by my own pen.”

“Idiot? When he sleeps at night, he’ll remember the name Ryu Tatsuya and know that I’ll eventually be coming for him. Fool.”

“Fool? I don’t care if he remembers me or not. A weakling who hides behind their words and treasures isn’t worthy of knowing my name. I’ll sever his neck just the same. Do you think I need him to know who did it?”

The two stopped looking off toward the distance, their gazes suddenly sparking as they met one another’s. Their clash in ideology seemed to spark another war between them.

But instead, they both turned away and drifted off into the distance instead.

Inwardly, they knew that another story was being written. This time, though, they would pierce that final veil.

These stories had nothing to do with them. They wouldn’t fight just to be dancing monkeys for someone else’s entertainment. When they were finished paying back their wives for everything they owed them, then they would fight to their heart’s content.

As for the collapse of the Heavens themselves, who knew. Maybe that would make that bastard squirm for a solution.

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