Ryu was baffled.
His previous two uses of had been so useful to him that he would have been lying if he said he wasn't looking forward to the third. He had been prepared to wait millions, billions, even trillions of years for it to trigger. After all, there were many of the previous owners of these Pupils that might not experience a single call to in their lifetis. Ryu was definitely the first to have not only used all three, but to have actually experienced a fourth in a previous lifeti!
Even though Ryu knew that he was luckier than others in this regard, wasn't this shift a bit much? It didn't lead him to a treasure or a massive boost in cultivation, it just told him… to not cultivate? If he didn't know better, he would be asking for a refund. As for who he would get it from, he didn't know. But he had already fought against Heaven's Incarnation once, he could do it again to find out who was responsible for this sick joke.
Ryu shook his head. Despite his thoughts, and despite the recent developnts, the one thing that was true was that he did still trust his eyes. If they deed it fit to use in this aspect, then he trusted them. It was very likely that in due ti, he would co to understand why.
If he was stuck at the Path Extinction Realm for the foreseeable future, though, he would need to make himself stronger in other ways, naly his body and his soul. In addition, just because had given him this information, didn't an that he should stop looking for the reason why.
Ryu could think of a great many possibilities.
The first could be that this was related to his ridians again. Maybe there was a step he was missing to properly use it. This was maybe the greatest possibility.
The second possibility that Ryu could think of was an issue with his cultivation technique. It had to be rembered that Ryu had chosen to stack three cultivation techniques atop of one another to be used in unison. The original goal of this was to maximize the greatest strength of his ridians and ensure that he stuffed as much qi into himself as possible.
But, now that Ryu thought about it, was that still the greatest strength of his ridians? It was clear that the Chaotic Silk ridians were beyond just what they seed on the surface and they were far more than just a robust set of ridians like everyone else seed to believe.
It was very possible, then, that Ryu had chosen poorly all that ti ago. Maybe he was using an inappropriate cultivation thod and he should switch to another one?
It wasn't impossible to do this. After all, Ryu cultivated neutral qi. In addition, he had already deviated from the traditional path those techniques laid out for him by forming 13 Immortal Rings instead of just nine like most peak geniuses did.
Beyond this, the further along your road of cultivation you went, the more important your cultivation thod beca. But, Ryu had always thought that while your cultivation thod beca more important, your actual cultivation technique itself beca less and less so.
These might sound like the sa thing, but they were functionally different. A thod was like the deviating path Ryu had taken to form 13 Immortal Rings. The technique, though, was the route Ryu had taken to facilitate his growth, the one he chose at the very start of his cultivation journey.
As you transcended Realms, cultivation would beco more individual as it began to rely more and more on Comprehension. Often, by the ti one reached the Sky God Realm, the original technique would beco so unrecognizable that it would be like the cultivator had self created a new one all to their own. If Ryu thought of things this way, could it be that his wanted him to consider a new approach to cultivation?
There were simply far too many variables. Even after rifling through all the cultivation techniques he had on hand, of which there were hundreds to thousands of high quality ones, Ryu didn't find a single one that called out to him.
The bad news, then, was that it seed that this would take a very long ti to figure out. The good news, though, was that because had activated in this way, it was still subtly active and could guide him from ti to ti. Until the mont that it turned off and Ryu could cultivate again, he would have slightly sharper senses when it ca to matters related to this topic. That would be greatly helpful.
Ryu took a deep breath and eventually smiled.
There was more good news as well. What had led him down this rabbit hole was a breakthrough that was very much worth celebrating.
In that mont, Ryu had understood just how broad the applications of his Dao could be. Terraforming what the Heavens had formulated into your own image… What was that if not the perfect application of Dividing Heaven?
To both understand and use the Heavens at once, it was perfectly applicable to Herbology… But, it wasn't just that either. What was Formation Mastery if not comprehending the Heavens and drawing upon its power to form powerful domains of influence? What was Blacksmithing if not understanding the materials of the Heavens and using them to form powerful treasures? What was Alchemy if not the exact sa thing?!
If Ryu applied himself in this way, applied his Dao to all that it could be used to supplent, just what kind of monster would he beco?
Relying on others really wasn't Ryu's style. And, since he couldn't cultivate normally anymore anyway, why not?
Ryu's hand reached forward, a strong palm landing on Bru'li's gemstone. With a strong pull, it was ripped out of the latter's corpse, revealing an enormous stone more than double Ryu's height and easily more than five tis his depth.
Ryu lifted it up with a palm, his free hand flipping over to reveal a normal Black Grade tal. He suddenly beca very focused on it, his intentions unknown.
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