Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2073  Revert

Ryu's attention was split between the Abyssal Plane and his Inner World. The more he took from the former, the more the latter seemed to be overturned. 
Kira was writhing in pain, but he was hardly able to move as bronze energies drilled into his body. The three-pupiled woman was shaking as well, but she was far more so in fear. 
She knew that whatever was happening to Kira now, she would be next. 
Kira might not care about his life anymore, but she didn't care about her own. Unfortunately, nothing she did would change things. 
Ryu managed several things at once, the bronze energies sinking deep into Kira's body and looping around his Meridians. Every time they completed a loop, another Rune would form. Sometimes on his dantian, sometimes on his soul, sometimes in his flesh and blood. 
The technique of refining a Corpse Puppet in this case required using their body as a conduit for refinement. From an outsider's perspective, it almost looked like Kira was refining himself into a Lich rather than it being Ryu who was controlling everything. 
And that was part of what made the technique so absolutely shocking, and so difficult to use at that. 
Other Necromancy Corpse Refinement Techniques were external. They used external items to refine down corpses, and often required a person to actually be dead first lest they reject the situation they were in and ruin everything. 
However, this process required the person to be alive and the Necromancer to be strong enough to ignore their fight. 
Even now, despite what the woman thought, Kira was putting up a little bit of a fight… It just wasn't nearly enough. 
And as more and more of his Fate Star and Spiritual Foundation were refined down into Runes, he struggled less and less until the Runes finally began to appear on his skin. 
When this happened, Kira stopped shuddering entirely. 
He hung there in the air, in silence, his body dangling by some mysterious force. 
The runes became so densely packed that they eventually layered over one another, and then, all of a sudden… 
They fused into one. 
Kira's body shuddered one last time as a faint cry echoed through the air before he settled back down to true silence once more. 
The world fell into silence around them as Ryu snapped awake, gasping for breath. 
He didn't expect his first challenge after growing so powerful would come so soon, but maybe that was just the way the cultivation was… and maybe even the way he preferred things to be. 
The fact that what was essentially just a Mental Realm method had tired him out so thoroughly went to show how difficult everything was. Though, to be fair to Ryu, he had yet to allow his Mental Realm and Perfect Blackbody Soul to swell up to accommodate the space his new and improved body would allow it. 
'I'll do that now.'
Ryu ignored the Three-Pupiled woman and actually began to refine pills instead. 
He stepped out of his world, carelessly stole more resources from his wife's Sect, and then returned to begin his refinement process. 
The world, that had only just settled down, had a new Tribulation descend the moment after. 
'It seems… I've improved again.'
It couldn't even be said to be an improvement. 
Ryu could have asked Hope to refine the pill for him, but he had chosen to do so himself this time on purpose, just to feel out the new differences in his brain. 
And he was so much sharper, so much stronger, so much more shocking in his methods. 
It felt like night and day refining pills now, almost like it was refining them for the very first time. 
To say he had formed a pill worthy of Heaven's Blessing was an understatement. 
He had only used materials at the Omniscient Grade at best, and yet looking at the pill, he was certain that even Sovereigns would drool over it. 
Of course, the only reason this was possible was because he had spent all those months reading all the records his wife had left behind. He also may have shamelessly shared in her alchemy experience over these years as well. 
But even for him, digesting trillions of years' worth of experience was too difficult to do in such a short time, sharper brain or not. 
It could be said, then, that the latter played a minimal role in everything, and he did most of the heavy lifting. 
Ryu shook his head, smiling a cheeky grin and popping the pill into his mouth. 
His body shuddered and then a smooth aura began to pour out from him. 
What was most shocking was… he ate the pill before it had a chance to undergo its Tribulation. 
As Ryu was eating it, the bolts of lightning fell from the skies and Ryu absorbed them all, using them to make the pill's effects more potent. 
Several hours later, Ryu exhaled and his aura shocked the world. 
The air around him trembled and his Mental Realm seemed to have expanded to the point it became a fathomless world of its own. 
'This is a threshold… the Soul as World threshold…'
There was a separation between those who were true Mental Realm Masters and those that were just allowing their souls to naturally progress along with their cultivations. 
This difference, though, was only seen the most prominently after the Lord Realm. 
But what was most shocking here was that Ryu's soul had yet to break into the Lord Realm, he was only allowing it to expand to the greatest extent it could within the Omniscient Realm, and yet he was absolutely certain… That he had hit that legendary threshold already. 
Soul as World was a shocking phenomenon where one's Spiritual Sea and Spiritual Quintessence grew to the point where it could truly rival a world in size and scope. 
But this wasn't just some arbitrary measurement… 
That was because when one's Spiritual Sea reached this point, it could revert… Nôv(el)B\\jnn