Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2055 Revolutions

The Nine Revolution Skybreaker Bone Structure... It was one not just of Lightning, but of Thunder as well.

Often, these two concepts were confused and combined into one, but this Bone Structure made certain that was impossible to forget the latter.

Thunder was the product of superheating the air. Another neglected fact about Lightning was just how hot it was, and it was this overwhelming heat combined with its speed that caused small sections of air to rapidly heat and then cool down.

It was this process of expansion and contraction that triggered the thunderous booms usual for storms.

However, these were forms of lightning that were often neglected because it was too fast, too powerful. Who cared about heat when your lightning was fast enough and powerful enough to pierce right through the head of an enemy like a blade?

By extension, though, lightning was also extremely difficult to control.

Ryu had never really personally thought much about it because his Qi Control had always been excellent. However, he was also quite naive in his assessment.

Just because he could get lightning to go where he needed it, didn't mean that he had perfect control of it.

Even when he could get it to go to the exact locations he needed it in, he couldn't always control the path perfectly even if he could pick the landing zone.

This would sometimes result in excess energy being used as he had to fuel whatever flight path the lightning chose...

Maybe Ryu would have seen through these weaknesses if he placed more emphasis on lightning than he did. But maybe because he subconsciously understood that it wasn't his best element, he didn't find himself using lightning much at all these days.

Even during his battle with Sarriel of all people, he used many more Dragon Talents than he ever did Qilin, and that was despite the fact his Storm Talent was probably amongst the greatest in his arsenal.

Nine Revolution Skybreaker, however... was madman's Bone Structure.

It forcefully reeled lightning into the body, controlling it and using it to explosively increase one's power by one Revolution...

Ryu pushed out, and an echo of thundering air followed his strike.

BOOM!

Two Revolutions...

BOOM! BOOM!

Ryu punched out again, lightning crackling in his eyes and flashing in the skies above.

Three Revolutions...

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Ryu's forearm exploded with a rain of blood and gore, the impact of the thunder jetting through his body, tearing even his own tough flesh apart.

However, his gaze was almost fiendish in its fanaticism, chasing after something greater.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Ryu's entire arm seemed to vanish in a sudden flashbang of blood. The crimson exploded outward so fast that it looked almost like sparks flying through the air before disappearing into the wind.

All that was left behind were minor muscle fibers whistling in the wind and small strands of bone that almost looked like a splinter of wood.

The light in Ryu's eyes blazed as he pulled his other arm back and punched out again.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Ryu's arm vanished, and a large segment of his torso went with it.

The crackling lightning above only became more fierce. It was as though it was daring Ryu to continue, daring him to continue testing its patience.

And that he did.

Ryu's mind moved, and he clenched his fist. The problem was that he had no fists left to clench. Both of his arms had been ripped to shreds beneath his own power.

Nine Revolutions Skybreaker was designed to be used with normal lightning. No one had ever seen it appear in the body of someone that could control Tribulation Lightning, and maybe that was because the Heavens purposely didn't allow it.

Well... that and the fact. Bone Structures were a distinctly Human Talent while Humans with Lightning Qilin blood were few and far between.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

But now, Ryu was trying to take an already supremely powerful Bone Structure and make even stronger.

In reality, he had already succeeded. It was just that he was trying to push it to its absolute limits.

He wanted Skybreaker to not just appear in its First Revolution Form...

He wanted it the best it had.

The absolute best.

Nine Revolution Skybreaker was a Sovereign Grade Bone Structure as well. But even without doing anything to it other than using it with Tribulation Lightning, it instantly became not just a God Grade Bone Structure, but one of the strongest of God Grade Bone Structures.

In the area where Ryu's fist should have been suddenly shuddered as though the laws of the world were heeding his command.

No fist? No hand?

No problem.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Ryu spat out a mouthful of blood as he was sent flying. Cracks appeared all across his

soul, and his psyche wavered.

In that moment, he didn't just feel like he was close to death. It felt like he was that

close to being wiped out from existence permanently.

However, he gave the world a bloody grin.

Who cared?

This would be his last life no matter.

And he was determined to stand at the very top.

He was born a talent never before seen, only to enter the wider world and find out

that his talent was actually quite pitiful on the larger stage.

It was about time... that he returned to that level once more.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Ryu lashed out with a kick that ripped his leg to shreds. Spindle fibers loosely hung from what remained of his hips, blood as heavy as mountains crashing down from the

skies above.

His haggard breathing kicked up winds that caused entire forests to sway. He didn't even seem to have the energy left to lift his head and look to the skies anymore. Blood fell down his chin and his body, and he truly seemed to be on his last legs. However... what remained the same was the blazing intent in his eyes. Ryu's last limb flexed, his right leg bulging with muscles. Blood spurted out from their pores, coating his skin and soaking what remained of his robes through.

He was only preparing for the attack, and yet he was already in such a state.

But when had that ever stopped him?

"Ninth... Revolution..."

The thunder in the skies erupted, and a streak of lightning as thick as a mountain

range fell from above.

It had had enough.

But Ryu hadn't.

Ryu's leg flexed, doubling in size before it lashed out.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The last echo barely sounded out before being drowned by the chirping of lightning. It

sparked like electricity in the air, leaving crackling air in its wake.

Ryu's entire body was enveloped by the lightning... Or maybe what was left of it.

Because the instant. Ryu had lashed out with that leg, his entire body had exploded

along with it.

This exposed his soul to the air, only for it to be ruthlessly shattered by a rain of

lightning above.

Silence fell onto the world, and Ryu seemed to be nowhere to be seen. His wives looked toward where he had been in horror, not sure what to do.

They had never seen a lightning strike so fierce. It was even more savage than anything they had seen in their God Tribulations. Just how could someone like Ryu be

expected to survive that?

Dead...?

Was Ryu really dead?

But there, floating in the skies... there were a pair of eyes.

They floated there eerily, the fibers that connected them to the brain also remaining

perfectly intact.

Those eyes, silver in all their glory, were still blazing with a violent intent.

Ryu had stored a sliver of his soul in the one part of his body that he felt could survive.

Even his Chaotic Silk Meridians hadn't been able to make it despite being formed of the third strongest material in existence.

It could be said that the Heavens were truly pissed.

But he didn't care. Because with that blazing intent in his eyes, he didn't seem to have

any intention of stopping.

'Beyond Perfect Extreme... Tenth Revolution...'

Lightning crackled, and the vague outline of a body took shape around him. He looked

like a ghost of blue lightning, his body flaring up sporadically akin to sparks of

silver-blue plasma.

And then, that vague outline punched out again.

The world fell into complete silence.

Then came the roar from the skies.

It no longer sounded like thunder. It was as though the Heavens had opened its maw

and furiously bellowed from on high.

Ryu was too concentrated to look up into the skies, but he could practically feel the

fear trying to creep into his heart, something that he had never experienced before in

his lifetime.

But then a rage sparked in the depths of his soul.

He really didn't like it when people stood above him.

BOOM!

BOOM! BOOM!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

It started off as a single echo, and then it doubled, then tripled, before a cascade of

them erupted like the flashes of a fire cracker.