Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

1121 Magus Sky God

The arrow seemed to rip through the void, appearing within Aantha's battlefield in the blink of an eye.

The three rushed away in three different directions, but one unlucky soul found the arrow appearing right at the back of her head. All she could feel was a sizzle and a pop, and before she could understand what had happened, her consciousness faded. She could only subtly feel regret. Why had she crushed her speed talisman instead of her shield talisman instead?

The other two young women rushed away, unwilling to stay any longer and that left Aantha all alone to accept the inheritance. After she got over her shock, she clapped happily and smiled.

''Hehe, no one can bully me anymore,'' she held out two fingers and gave a triumphant glare toward everyone in her surroundings.

Ryu was entirely immersed in the inheritance before him, not particularly paying attention to his surroundings. He knew that his arrow would land, and even if they managed to block it, there was no way that they would stay just to suffer a second attack. The strength of a Bow God wasn't something the likes of these individuals could ignore.

Ryu hadn't revealed his weapon Godhood’s to this point, mostly because it wasn't necessary. But the moment he did, it felt like a boulder had fallen into a calm lake. It felt almost silly to say that Ryu didn't have any belief in himself when he deployed his Small Realms.

To them, a Small Realm might be a great trump card to leave in reserve. But someone with a soul strong enough to ignore the strike of a Mental Realm Master and somehow also be a Bow God clearly wouldn't feel the same way...

Ryu didn't care for the opinions of those around him. Now that he had claimed his inheritance, no one could enter this star path any longer, so he was safe to absorb it in silence. In fact, the only reason he had been able to attack Aantha's star path was because that inheritance had yet to be claimed, if it had been, even his arrow would have been snuffed into nothingness.

''I see, this is not bad I guess.''

It was more than not bad. There was a reason the other Mental Realm Masters had been so enamored with this inheritance.

For one, this Inheritance's glass orb was larger than a Silver City of the Heaven's path, stretching out thousands of kilometers. And secondly, it was the first and maybe the only soul inheritance present in this place. Just this, there was no doubt to its value.

This Inheritance was actually very similar to the Visualization methods of Sacrum, although a bit different. Ryu hadn't bothered to care about the names of the other Sky Gods he had gotten inheritances from up to this point, but this Sky God he did make a note of...

He called himself the Magus Sky God, and shockingly enough, he was an Omniscient Sky god, just a step away from the Dao Lord level.

The Magus Sky God created an Inheritance of what he called Magus Arts, but as Ryu saw it, it relied on the same principles of Fundamental Runes and Rune formation that the Visualization techniques of Sacrum used. The main difference here, however, was that this inheritance was complete with a systematic method and documentation of the True Martial World's Runes.

What did this mean? It meant that Ryu didn't need to waste his time slowly researching the Runes of the True Martial World like he had originally been forced to.

Ryu had been dragging his feet in bolstering the strength of his Visualizations because it simply took too much work and time that he didn't have. In fact, he had only managed to do it with his master's Visualization up to this point, and that was only because it was mandatory for his current cultivation.

But now, he had a cheat sheet of sorts.

In addition, if he didn't want to, he didn't have to waste any time at all improving the Visualization of Sacrum, he could simply use the roadmap the Magus Sky God had left behind and build his attack portfolio using it instead.

The Magus Sky God was very adept at neutral defenses and attacks formed by his overwhelming Spiritual Qi. These were attacks like the one that Terran has used against Ryu. They were fast, quickly formed, and difficult to counter without special protective treasures or wasting a ton of qi to overwhelm the Spiritual Qi.

While Ryu was clearly interested in these, he was also highly interested in the defensive measures. He was lacking in them quite a bit and he didn't want to have just tank any attacks he came across with his dense Spiritual Sea.

Aside from this core inheritance, the Magus Sky God had left many other things behind as well.

There was a cultivation technique, but Ryu wasn't very interested in it. After all he had a Dao Sovereign's soul cultivation method, the Magus Sky God was far too inferior in this respect to move his heart.

Another interesting tidbit was a soul transfer method. This could not only transfer one's own soul into the body of another, forcefully taking it over, but it could also be used to snatch the souls of others.

Ryu wasn't very interested in either facet. He had no intention of leaving his own body, and his Perfect Blackbody's natural devouring ability was far better than this technique. However, what he was interested in was the mechanism by which such techniques worked.

Ryu was well aware that his soul was of great allure even to the extremely powerful people, and this was more so than even his Bloodlines. Aside from his Meridians, his soul was probably the most valuable talent he had.

Even the likes of Jenneless thought of taking it for herself, let alone others with far more powerful means. Ryu wanted to be able to protect himself from such methods, so he had to know all about them and how he might be able to counter them if he ended up in such a situation.

As Ryu dove deeper into the inheritance, though, he hadn't expected to find something that was absolutely perfect for this. The beauty of having an Inheritance suddenly shone through. Instead of stumbling around himself, there was actually a method waiting right here for him.

The Magus Lock.