Grand Ancestral Bloodlines Chapter 2213

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Solara exhaled a breath in the skies, exuding a fiery sort of coldness. The dichotomy between the two pulled on the soul and shattered the Dao Heart. If those not confident in themselves stood before her now, their path of cultivation would likely be severed right here.

Her eyes suddenly sharpened.

Dense blackness pooled along the ground, a heart thumping with great might, exuding a radiant aura as the bits and pieces of what once was Ryu came together.

But it wasn’t just those bits and pieces…

It was also the Tribulation Cloud energy. Ryu seamlessly took it, and a foggy construct that had once been at the center of his forehead pulsed with life. It was only just the slightest bit, but the shift and change was enough for it to solidify just the slightest bit more.

And then time directly reversed.

[Fate Reversal] mutated under the effects of his third eye, becoming [Time Reversal].

The world rippled and whined, but Ryu’s Dao Heart and will were like a clamp suffocating its complaints.

If he wanted the laws to be rewritten, they would be rewritten.

BANG!

Spacetime exploded, and, like his Dao Heart had formed a black hole, Ryu was snapped back into place in an instant of time.

Solara’s eyes narrowed, but then puckered out of her control. It certainly didn’t help that a fist had suddenly appeared at her fist. While she was distracted watching a scene, she didn’t realize that time had already been bent out of place.

She was watching something that had already happened with rapt attention as though it were in real time.

While her enemy had long appeared before her.

Her face was already beaten and bloodied from their earlier battle, but it was even more distorted now. It felt as though three Ryu’s were slamming into her face all at once.

Time reversed and he smashed again, and then again, and then again until her skull fragmented.

Every time spacetime backtracked, she would feel as though she had been healed just the slightest bit, only to suffer an even worse blow.

Her mind spun, finding it difficult to solidify itself in time. Confusion painted her features and she felt spells of dizziness.

Ryu had realized long ago that the advantage of his Spacetime Soul Nature came from how he could take advantage of the complexities of the fabric of reality. By layering on the changes to space and time, making them difficult for others to follow, he could then make himself a true king of this world.

Space, Time, and Fate were things that all cultivators could gain some degree of control over so long as their realms progressed enough. If that was the case, the only way to gain an advantage… was by being even better.

Since Solara had so graciously taken such a powerful pool of Tribulation Lightning for him and concentrated it even more with Heavens Laws, how could he not oblige.

Just now what she had done was actually quite shocking. She had borrowed from her future Sovereign Tribulation to power a technique in the present. It would almost certainly make her Sovereign Tribulation even more difficult to pass—but at their level, when did they ever worry about such things?

However, she had no idea that such a thing was exactly what Ryu needed.

His ability to control Spacetime reached an all-new level and he peeled back more mutations to his Heavenly Pupils, using them with impunity.

[Ephemeral Tapestry] shifted and changed, showing him not just the shifts to qi, but also to spacetime itself. He grabbed hold of them, manipulating them, twisting them to his favor.

From an outsider’s perspective, it looked as though he was dozens of people and Solara was nothing more than a punching bag. She was relentlessly pulled in and out of the stream of time, every barrage landing, retracting, and sometimes even layering into one.

Bruises, cracked bone, shattered limbs, and peeling lumps of flesh began to fall from the skies as she was beat like a drum. Sometimes the pain was delayed so much that she didn’t even register what was happening until there was a sudden spike, and that made a brief moment of clarity she might have had shatter apart under the tides of signals.

Solara knew that if this continued she would die. Ryu would obviously not slip up and make such a mistake, but the moment he caught onto an advantage, it was like there was no getting out of it.

She knew she was stronger. But there was something about facing Ryu that made it feel like it didn’t matter. He would always find a way no matter what the situation. Even if there was a gap in power, he would suppress her intelligence and skill.

She had never experienced such a thing in her life.

And she had no intentions of allowing it to start today.

Solara’s body trembled as it began to shut down. Her inner organs gave in, starting with her digestive system and then even working their way to her heart… soon, even her brain itself might give in.

But right then, just as she bucked up against what could have only been a true death, there was a roar in her mind.

CRACK.

A seal within her was undone.

She knew it would happen. The moment her body began to shut down, it was impossible that her seal on her cultivation would continue to remain.

From the Quasi Lord Realm, she shot back up to the Lord Realm, her overwhelming aura alone sending Ryu flying off into the distance.

But she didn’t move at all, even though she could feel that half the bones in Ryu’s body had shattered from that shocking wave alone.

She hung almost limply in the skies, her body quickly healing itself under the effects of her Divine Wings, and yet blood still pooled and leaked down her fingers and toes, dribbling from her chin.

“So very pathetic…” she said softly. But this time, she wasn’t speaking about Ryu.

Her head slowly tilted up. This time, there was something very different about her Pupils.