Grand Ancestral Bloodlines Chapter 2250

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“You are not my brother,” Little Rock said calmly.

“Am I not?” Ryu* laughed. “That’s very hurtful, after all we’ve been through together.”

Little Rock didn’t reply.

“I would rather you choose of your own volition. Just come here, I can take the corruption away from you so you won’t have to deal with it anymore. Is there a need to be so stubborn even about this?”

“I do not need your help.”

“Your speed is less than a tenth of what it was at its peak because of your stubbornness.”

If the rest of the world heard this, it was hard to say just how they would react. Little Rock could already cross universes with a single flap of his wings. How was he less than a tenth as fast now?

It was just functionally true that he had grown too large in an attempt to fight off the Corrupt Poison. The larger he was, the larger his pool of Bloodline strength and the easier he could pull on the power of Fate to fight it off.

However, this had also caused him to grow past his optimal size. While he was truly impressively enormous now, it was all form over function.

He knew that, and Ryu* likely understood it even better than he did.

“You’ve let your desire for power corrupt you. And now, you’re willing to do anything. And now because you refuse to allow your timeline to close, you’re allowing the women you swore to protect with your life suffer.

“You are not my brother.”

The smile on Ryu*’s face didn’t fade. “Those are not my women. They’ve slept with another man, how could they be mine?”

“Another man? You mean your younger self?”

“I thought I wasn’t your brother?” Ryu* blinked innocently. “But now he and I are the same? I was just going with what my brother said. You’re leading me astray, Little Rock.”

Little Rock fell into silence. Winning an argument with Ryu* had never been possible. Even if he realized he was wrong—something he would never admit in the first place—he would still be capable of talking circles around you.

There was really only one way.

“You know the answer in your heart. I have nothing to say to you. Either you kill me here, or you can forget about crossing over.”

Ryu*’s smile slowly faded. He stood there in silence, the calmness in his darkened gaze eerie enough to turn a man’s blood cold.

There was a flicker on his forehead, but then it slowly ebbed into a calm as well.

“If you mean that my existence is what allows Iam to continue living, you are correct. Indeed, if I just killed myself now, all of that would come to an end. But do you know how frustrating it is, Little Rock… to have all the power in the world and yet be unable to do what you need to do?

“Because of my own arrogance, I already went back in time once. Unfortunately, I cannot do it a second time, and because of that, my chance to revive my grandparents was thwarted. So if I don’t completely break through the shackles of the world this time, then I will never reach that true pinnacle.”

“If you know that it’s because of your own arrogance, then you shouldn’t make the same mistake twice.”

Ryu*’s lip curled into a smile.

“You know that I’m a hypocrite.”

Little Rock’s pupils constricted. Before he could react, a fist had blown a hole through his throat.

The majestic Emperor Roc shook, his blood falling in sparking waves of lightning.

“When they return by my side, so too will you.”

“FATHER!” From down below, the Roc Prince awoke from his meditation, his qi becoming volatile.

Ryu* calmly raised a finger and pressed down. The wild fluctuations of the Roc Prince’s qi calmed and his near cultivation deviation was undone in a single breath.

It all flowed easily from one to the next, like every movement was as natural as the Heavens themselves, and yet beyond it.

It was something that transcended the state of a Childe of Chaos or Order. It was the fusion of the two in a shocking way.

“She would be… so disappointed in you…” Little Rock said softly as the last of his life faded away.

“And she would be more than allowed,” Ryu* replied calmly as he closed his eyes. “My women are allowed to be as willful as they so please.”

With a flash, Ryu* crossed the enormous body of Little Rock and vanished into the distance.

The cries of the Roc Prince filled the skies, but he turned a blind eye to them all.

Who would have known that when Iam was asking what Ryu* would do if he didn’t have enough time to catch up to an enemy…

He was actually talking about Ryu* himself.

How could a younger version of Ryu* ever possibly catch up to an older version of his very own self?

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“It is time.”

It was a scene unlike any one had ever seen. A sea of Dao Gods as far as the eye could see, not a single one of them following the same cultivation system.

These existences were those of fallen worlds, ones that didn’t have any chance to reincarnate again due to the actions of the Phoenix Sky God.

The one that had spoken… was none other than Ryu’s master, Fading Star. By her side, her estranged husband stood. But at the moment, they might as well have been the greatest of lovers.

When they faced off against their own mortality together, how was there anything else that they could be?

This time, they would be certain to wipe out the Phoenix Sky God for good and make them pay for everything they had done.

There would be no greater opportunity than this.

Inwardly, she felt guilty. She knew that this opportunity rode on the head of her disciple being in great danger. Because of Ryu, the Fate of the Heavens would be up for grabs, on a teetering edge.

It had been a very long time since a battle of this scale took place, and it was only when the Heavens were the most confused and contradicted that an existence on the level of the Phoenix Sky God could be taken down.

This was their chance.

“Then I guess I will be joining as well.”

The voice was calm and came from nowhere at all, and yet everywhere at once.

Had Ryu been there, he would have recognized this man immediately.

Primus Tatsuya.

He had become a Dao God.