Grand Ancestral Bloodlines-Chapter 2171: Lethal

Ryu’s aura completely changed, and in that instant, it was like he was the world. Even with all the Heavenly Pupils in existence, Sarriel was having a hard time tracking exactly where Ryu was, almost as though he had vanished despite the fact she was certain that the man stood right in front of her.

There was a shocking realization in that moment that Ryu hadn’t just managed to catch up to her, but he had actually surpassed her. However, it only flashed for a moment before her Dao Heart became akin to an unbridled wild beast, lashing out against its chains and roaring to the top of its lungs.

In that moment, Sarriel seemed to have become a completely different person as well.

Everything she had done until this point had been undone by Ryu. All her effort, all her secrecy, all her tempering. She had suffered so much humiliation in her life, so many times she had been forced to lower her head when she didn’t want to.

Contrary to what Ryu believed, this didn’t make her heart weaker; it didn’t dull her edge either. Instead, every time, her will became sharper, more unbridled. She remembered every instance of those times, and they became akin to flames flickering within the depths of her soul, shuddering against her Dao Heart and ridding it of its impurities.

She remembered every step she took to get here, every little bit of effort, every slight she suffered, every quirked eyebrow, and every attempt to humiliate her and shatter her purity.

All of that was bundled up into her chest.

And then there was the man before her, this man who went about life as though he had nothing to lose or fear, this man who thought the world owed him everything, so he went about life as though he had a second one to live at any time, this man she would never admit she loved because how could she love such a foolish, idiotic, brick-headed clown?

He stood for everything she stood against; he was the worst of everything, and she hadn’t gone through so much to be brought down to her knees by a mere fucking man.

It only took a second for everything in Sarriel’s body to flip on its head, her qi surging and her power shooting to the skies like a towering tempest.

Her emotions fueled her Dao, and flames of black-blue danced across her body, carrying with them the slightest tinge of violet.

They overturned the skies, and for a moment, it seemed as though Sarriel had only become more imposing, like she had poked a hole through the skies with one of those slender fingers of hers.

And then she attacked.

Ryu’s gaze seemed to have lost all of its playfulness. He stood there, watching the blade cut through the skies as though it was wrapped in the dreams and nightmares of the woman who wielded it.

Reality bent and warped, the skies shuddering once again. For a long while, the world was at such an unprecedented state of calm when facing them that it was hard to realize that they were even fighting at all.

But now, it was like even they had broken past the threshold their shocking Control wasn’t able to withstand.

And then Ryu sidestepped.

It was the simplest of moves and hardly carried what seemed like effort at all.

Sarriel’s blade passed just next to his shoulder, the shuddering might surrounding it briskly brushing against the torn robes that adorned his body.

She reacted quickly, her wrist flexing and piercing toward the side. But there was a calm reflection of her rage in Ryu’s eyes as he took a step forward.

All of a sudden, a blade that should have passed right through his body became her arm instead. He was so close to her that it was her elbow, instead of her sword, that slammed against his side.

Ryu calmly caught it with a palm, slamming out with a great deal of force.

Sarriel winced in pain as her arm was nearly bent in the wrong direction, but this so-called wince was nothing more than a flicker in her eyes. Her expression didn’t change in the slightest, even as she felt the sprain in her tendons and ligaments.

As powerful as Ryu’s body was, he couldn’t so easily—

BOOM!

Nine Revolution Skybreaker activated, and the strong palm seemed to double in force. Sarriel’s pupils constricted as her arm gave way, her sword nearly flying from her grip.

But she managed to hold onto it even as her elbow snapped toward the wrong direction.

She took a step back, retreating with a strong shift in her momentum. But somehow, Ryu seemed to stick with her, the earth shifting beneath their feet as Jadebound Clearheart made its presence known.

There was a shift in time and reality for a split moment, and Sarriel found an arm around her waist.

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At first, she thought that Ryu was trying to take advantage of her again, until a leg hooked the inside of her ankle.

In that moment, the hand she thought would land on her waist shifted to her lapel, and she found herself flying over Ryu’s shoulder and heading down to the ground with the speed of a rushing meteor.

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As the world spun around her, she couldn’t help but feel stunned. It wasn’t like there were no grappling experts in cultivation, but they were not only incredibly rare… but Ryu shouldn’t have been one of them.

She had fought this man so many times and never once had he ever used such a move.

Sarriel’s mind regained its focus, and she seemed to understand what kind of situation she was in. Ryu was in a state of perfect harmony. His moves were not only unpredictable, but they carried with them a sharpness and simplicity that was almost impossible to deal with.

Now her leading sword arm was broken, and she was about to slam into the ground with enough force to rock her mind.

In that split moment where her head was out of it, the number of things that Ryu could accomplish were too many. Dao God or not, the brain still remained important. It was the main bridge between the body and the soul; if it was out of commission even for a moment, consciousness would no doubt suffer.

There was a reason Ryu’s brain was a huge part of his intelligence.

In this situation, rather than panicking, Sarriel only grew calmer.

How many such situations had she been in? How many times had she put her life on the line?

Ryu thought her to be some cowardly flower clinging to the side of the mountain looking for shelter from the harsh winds. But she… was anything but.

Her body doubled, and she focused everything on creating a shift in reality that was nothing more than a half centimeter.

Fooling Ryu’s eyes on a large scale was almost impossible. But she had realized already that for something so insignificant, she would be able to get away with it.

Ryu would think that she had slammed into the ground a micro split second before she did, and in the window he used to follow up, she would be able to catch him off guard.

Her shoulder flexed as the bones in her broken arm rattled above. This arm whipped backward, and she readied herself.

Since her arm was nothing more than a noodle now, she would use it like a noodle.

She was a genius amongst geniuses. She had seen the Spear-Whip God Aura that Eska and Isemeine had created for themselves. Now, she would just use the same principle.

Was she a madwoman for trying to use a broken arm like it was some sort of whip?

Maybe.

But she didn’t care.

All the while, her timing was absolutely perfect. She readied her stance, and she lashed out just in time…

For the piece of earth beneath her to suddenly rise up and slam into the small of her back.

All the air was knocked out of Sarriel at the same moment. She shuddered under the weight of the change, and her body convulsed. At the same time, her spine experienced such shock that her body shut down for a small while.

Then, because her body bent at an awkward slant, it was the back of her head that whipped against the ground.

Her whipping arm pierced out toward where she thought Ryu would be nonetheless, but she ended up hitting nothing but air.

That was because Ryu was actually well above her, slamming down with a heel that crushed her chest.

His body seemed to carry the heft of a mountain, Darkmoon Veil swallowing up masses far beyond him and settling it down into a single attack.

Sarriel coughed up mouthfuls of blood, her body nearly going limp as her heart shattered.

All at once, her spine, her head, and her heart suffered lethal damage.