What did it feel like to be frozen in body and in soul? Ryu couldn't say he knew even though he was experiencing it right this mont. That was because his mind itself was frozen as well, his thoughts falling into an endless lull, his plasticity completely gone.
He could only think about one thing, focus on a single matter. There wasn't a second… one would think that the entirety of Existence had vanished, and all that was left was this one Title.
mories of what happened with Ailsa flashed into his mind and his eyes beca endlessly sharp, veins popping across them. He clenched his teeth so hard that it seed he might shatter them all on his own.
The sheer violence in his eyes could have murdered an entire Race of beings.
His unwillingness and feeling of inferiority was suppressed only just the slightest bit by the fire of his wife being on the way.
He couldn't do this again, he couldn't fail like this again.
It was the only thing keeping him together.
Pride.
It wasn't the sa sort of power as determination alone. For the first ti in his life, Ryu's progress was related to what he felt soone else thought about him.
He didn't even realize when he sank into the difference. It was a different type of fuel that he had never experienced before…
But it was tainted. It wasn't pure…
It wasn't entirely him.
He thought it would be fine. He thought that since he loved his wives so dearly, that he had co here with no other intention but to please her, that she was his life Partner, that things would work out the way they should.
But he quickly ran into a wall.
It wasn't enough.
That weakness was still on his chest, burying him and suffocating him.
His wife couldn't follow him through reincarnation, now could she?
"I WON'T REINCARNATE AGAIN!"
Ryu roared.
He wouldn't have another life after this. Why would this be a problem? He planned to live and die with this life right here, having already cut himself off from all other Cycles.
He would be his own man. Only this version of himself ant anything, only this version. Only this one.
The veins popping across his body popped. They didn't have much blood in them to begin with, his body barely holding itself together at all.
They oozed out in a slow, sad ss, marring his already crippled body.
His knees trembled as though he might fall to at least one of them, if not both. But he refused. He wanted to be on his feet.
He wouldn't fall to this Title. There was absolutely no way.
Here he was, coming here to rely on a Title Stele to give himself power, while there were others out there that didn't even allow it to na them despite having received its acknowledgnt.
The thought ca out of nowhere like a flashing bolt of lightning, striking him down in the very middle of his forehead.
He couldn't hold it back.
He coughed up a mouthful of black blood, falling to a single knee. His back arched, his spine creaking and almost shattering.
Tears of blood ran down his eyes, but they were so dry that it wasn't even more than a few seconds before they had ford cracked streams of rusted brown-red down his marred cheeks.
Solara watched on from the sidelines, her expression calm. One would never guess by her expression alone just how much she wanted Ryu to succeed, but seeing the current situation…
She could only shake her head.
Her gaze shifted, landing on the Title once again.
Just how powerful was this man?
And reincarnation? What was Ryu talking about?
She looked at it, trying to decipher what she was seeing. But unfortunately, the Title no longer radiated any aura for her to sense.
Would this just be a regret for the rest of her life?
'No… I don't care what grandfather says… I will stay in the Dao Lord Realm for as long as I have to… until soone appears that can face this Title… then, I will kill them.'
When she had this thought, her sowhat agitated Dao Heart cald once again. Whatever weakness she had had vanished in a flash, and thoughts and dreams of defeating that person beca a relish to her.
Then she looked back toward Ryu. She thought about raising a hand and just killing him, but in the end, she decided against it. Even if there was a small sliver of chance, she would allow him that chance.
Why kill him? The Title could do that for her when he failed. If he survived, all the better. Then she wouldn't have to wait.
She had been in the Lord Realm for long enough already. She was eager to see… what the pinnacle of power truly felt like.
Would the Phoenix Sky God truly be a match for her when she stepped into Godhood…?
Honestly, she wasn't convinced.
Every step along the way, she had always been the pinnacle of her cultivation realm. Never once had she failed to achieve sothing that others could only hope and dream about.
After she cleared this challenge… the Heavenly Court would be next… and once she had whet her blade against them, then… she would face off against that almighty existence.
There was only room for one cultivator at the top.
"One woman." Solara said coldly.
She wouldn't marry in this lifeti. No… she would marry nothing but the Heavens themselves.
The weakness of won when they gave themselves to a man disgusted her to no end. She had never loved and she never would. Nor did she care how much her Ancestors insisted her Bloodline should be passed on.
She was a Martial God, but their culture wasn't her own.
In this world, she needed to rely on nothing more than the chains in her hands and the fire in her Heart.
She looked toward the Title once more.
"I will na you too." She said coldly.
BOOM!
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