Ryu walked through the skies, calm and collected.
Logically speaking, he should have hidden himself in the forest like everyone else. All those that could make it to this region were among one to three that had managed to survive the last. That ant in a quick sweep, they had already beco the cream of a new crop.
According to Ryu's calculations, if the Fate was evenly divided, there should be just enough for three individuals to make it through the barrier.
But the odds of that happening were quite low as the leeway was limited.
More likely than not, it would be divided between two people and then both would make it to the next region, maybe with one carrying more Fate than the other depending on the situation.
Situations where there would be a sole entry from a region like in Ryu's case… wouldn't likely only happen when there were dark horses involved or the Princes and the Princesses of the Elevated Worlds.
Even so, in the cases where there were two people, these individuals would still be of incredible strength. Flying through the skies like this…
Was far too arrogant.
SHUUUU!
Ryu took another step and an arrow whizzed right at him. His head calmly turned in its direction, and yet, his hand flickered toward a completely different one, grabbing an invisible arrow out of the air while the one coming right for him passed through his head as though it was never there to begin with.
It felt like sothing beyond an illusion. The arrow had made sounds, it had whistled in the air, cutting through the wind and causing fluctuations in space and qi.
And yet, it had been completely fake.
It was truly a marvelous technique…
When facing almost anyone but Ryu.
A fla sparked in Ryu's palm and the arrow crumbled to ash. Then, he flicked out a finger.
…
Down below, an archer's eyes opened wide, but it was only a hint of surprise. She was smart enough to know that soone as arrogant as Ryu was bound to have the skills to back it up. Plus, they had all seen him outside.
A man who could have a Dao Goddess bowing to his every whim, especially one so powerful, couldn't be incompetent.
Although the Princes and Princesses were eager to fight Ryu head-on to prove Eska wrong. She wasn't so foolish.
There was no genius here that didn't have their own pride, of course. But they were also aware of their own station in life as well.
If they wanted to surpass those geniuses, they had to play the long ga.
That was why she had fired that arrow on a delay. She had long since moved from the location where the real, invisible arrow ca from. Ryu flicking a finger toward the location she had been but no longer was gave her an accurate gauge of his abilities. Next ti, she would be more prepared.
PUCHI!
She froze.
The young woman looked down at her chest. She had never been particularly well endowed, but she was certain that it had never been that bad.
Her eyes slowly dimd and she fell over.
Ryu appeared behind the woman, catching her before she fell and tapping her forehead to stop her soul from dissipating.
"Decent." He mumbled.
The young woman barely heard these words before she was sucked away into Ryu's Inner World.
BOOM!
Ryu's earlier arrow landed.
Why use an illusion when you could shoot two real arrows? One undetectable one for this woman, and another that happened to wipe out a large segnt of cultivators drawn over by her earlier delayed arrow.
With a step, Ryu rose into the skies once more, clasping his hands behind his back and continuing his stroll.
His thoughts continued to swirl, his thoughts becoming more and more complex as his experiences from the last few hours began to accumulate.
'Is that really the path?' he thought to himself for maybe the millionth ti already. Given his thinking speed, this really might not be an exaggeration.
After interacting with the milky qi in this world, he realized that the reason he couldn't seem to figure out the secrets of his second pair of ridians was because he wasn't using them properly.
With his Chaotic Silk ridians, they produced Chaos Qi, so he used Chaos Qi with them directly and it worked just fine.
However, what he hadn't considered was that Embryonic Qi wasn't such an available form of qi in the real world. It only appeared in a very short span of ti while a baby was growing in the womb, and the amount was set.
In addition, Embryonic Qi didn't do anything, not directly. Instead, it represented potential incarnate. It wasn't designed to act on the world in the sa way that Chaos Qi or Essence might.
If one wanted Embryonic Qi to do sothing, it had to piggyback off of sothing else. Or… it had to be catalyzed into a usable form, a form that was more accessible.
To understand this, one had to consider how circulating qi usually worked.
One's ridians were just a complex network of formations birthed by the Heavens. Circulating qi in particular patterns triggered these internal formations, allowing one to communicate with the world around you to trigger responses.
When this was understood, it was clearly why Ryu couldn't just circulate Embryonic Qi in his ridians to trigger a response.
The Heavens, the laws around him, and the world as it usually was, weren't designed to work with Embryonic Qi.
One could imagine an engine that needed oil and gas to function properly. Trying to use Embryonic Qi to trigger changes in the world was like trying to fuel a tank with oil, when in reality it needed gas.
This ca with an oddly crude solution…
Dumb his Embryonic Qi down.
If Ryu circulated not his Embryonic Qi, but instead this quasi, simplified Embryonic Qi, he could feel the world around him stir and a shocking door began to slowly open up to him.
But truthfully speaking…
Ryu found it completely ridiculous.
Was this really how things were supposed to work?
This was like if his Chaotic Silk ridians didn't work with Chaos Qi, but instead only functioned properly with Primordial Chaos Qi.
It didn't make any sense.
But when Ryu thought about it so more, he felt that maybe he was in the wrong this ti.
These pair of ridians… they should have been Essence Silk ridians, not these Embryonic Silk ridians. As far as he knew, this latter set of ridians shouldn't exist at all, they had only been forced to appear due to a mutation in the path he had taken, and also a unique change triggered by his Spiritual Foundation.
All things considered, this was likely the first ti in the history of Existence that these ridians had appeared.
Who was to say that the Heavens had never made a mistake before?
He was making the assumption that there had to be so way, so thod to get it to work with Embryonic Qi?
But what if that wasn't true in the slightest? What if his ridians, as powerful as they were, were actually defective and this was the only way to make proper use of them?
The more Ryu thought about it, the more he felt that this was probably the truth.
Although he was sowhat disappointed… others would probably kill him for his thoughts right now.
Who cared if he couldn't circulate techniques? His ridians produced Embryonic Qi! That allowed him to practically infinitely increase his potential. His stamina was unlimited, the stamina of his allies would be unlimited, his ability to grow, raise, and nurture an army, a Clan, a generation of elites, and generations more after that, would be entirely second to none.
If Ryu had the ambition to build an empire, it would beco the strongest in all of history without the slightest shred of doubt.
But now, for him to complain about it after actually finding a thod to use them anyway…
It was an embarrassnt of riches.
The truth of the matter was that Ryu was probably the only one in existence with this unique set of circumstances.
Even if soone else had the very sa coincidental encounter and managed to trigger the formation of these Embryonic Silk ridians, and even if they managed to figure out the thod to use them…
It would be impossible for them to do so.
Not unless they, too, had Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils and a Perfect Blackbody Soul.
It was only because Ryu had a Fate Soul Nature that he could manipulate his Embryonic Qi to this extent, changing its character to beco the quasi Embryonic Qi of this Title Stele and finally…
Ryu's milky qi churned and a radiant light ca from him. At that mont, the land beneath him shone with gold and the trees shot into the skies, instantly growing to over ten tis their original height.
Ryu's lip twitched. That… was just the simplest circulation pattern he had found and he had only used a single droplet of Embryonic Qi.
Wasn't the result a bit too exaggerated?
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