1127 Six Pillars
By this point, Ryu felt that walking to the next inheritance was more difficult than claiming the inheritance itself. He couldn't tell for certain, but he felt like the pressure on himself was far more than what the others were experiencing.
At first, he thought that everyone was experiencing the same thing, but that was only because most others had to spend a large amount of time accepting inheritances. As a result, when he had originally gotten here, he hadn't seen anyone walking along the star paths as everyone was focused on their inheritance. It was only after being here for a while that he came to understand that this pressure he was experiencing was almost a wholly unique experience.
When Ryu realized this, his expression became even colder, a frigid air circulating around him, only to be overwhelmed by his thrumming Fire Dragon blood. He felt like he was being toyed with.
First he had been sent to the proverbial back of the line. He was put in line with individuals he didn't even need a single strike to defeat, and that in and of itself was already ridiculous. If not for his wide range of talents and the sharpness of his sense allowing him to pick the right paths, being placed so far behind would have already made it impossible for him to catch up.
But now that he had caught up and his methods of claiming inheritances were clearly so far and away better than those around him, the goal posts had shifted and he was faced with another challenge entirely.
Ryu wasn't someone who liked to be tested to begin with. He didn't feel that anyone had the right to test him. Those that were above his head, as far as he saw, simply had more time or luck than he did. But just given an adequate amount of time, he would surpass them all.
He feared nothing, he was in awe of nothing, he felt no reverance for anything.
He was Ryu Tatsuya.
However, if there was one thing that he hated more than being tested by those he had little to not respect for, it was being toyed with. He didn't know why this remnant consciousness of a Dao Lord was treating him this way, but his patience was wearing very thin.
At that moment, others seemed to realize that Ryu was moving exceptionally slowly. Of course, this ''slowness'' was just comparativly speaking. However, he was already moving at half the speed he had initially come here with.
Too many individuals were paying a great deal of attention to Ryu, monitoring his every movement. After seeing how quickly he clamed one inheritance, they had felt worried about what would happen if he maintained that speed. If they had known how far Ryu had been forced to travel to make it to this point, they would have been even more certain in their assessment. At that sort of pace, the fact that Ryu had caught up almost made it guaranteed that he would reach the end first.
But just when these geniuses were somewhat despairing, a great boon fell from the sky. This genius who could claim inheritances in a single breath couldn't withstand the pressure of the star path!
Ryu wasn't the only one who felt some pressure walking along the star path, it was just that the others weren't aware that what Ryu was experiencing was easily a hundredfold what they were experiencing. They falsely assumed that since Ryu had been placed far being them to begin with, there had to be a reason for this, and that reason was manifesting itself now.
Coming to understand this, many sighed a breath of relief. Clearly, the comprehension of this husband of Mae's was off the charts, but when it came to his raw talent, he was wholly inferior.
The dao was incredibly important to a cultivator as one of the Six Pillars, but it was the only one of the six that relied entirely on comprehension, the others relied on Fate and lucky chances!
Ryu might have a Dao that grealy surpassed their own, but so what?! A Dao wouldn't be able to display its truest strength until the Sky God Realm, and just making it to the Sky God Realm with a solid enough foundation to make maxial use of one's Dao required the other five Pillars to be exceptionally sturdy as well.
A Godhood needed the Blood, the Meridians, the Soul, the Bone Structure and the Spiritual Foundation to all be exceptionally powerful to display their greatest and truest might. They were all foundational requirements needed to build up the strongest possible cultivator.
Some often naively believed that a Dao was all that was necessary. After all, without a Dao of a certain level, crossing the barriers of the Sky God Realm was impossible.
However, even with a Dao of a grade weaker, it was still possible to enter a Sky God Realm a grade stronger. If that was the case, what made that possible? The obvious answer was the other five pillars!
Normally a Sky God born with a Common Grade Dao would be forever stuck in the Fragmented Sky God Realm. However, there were some that existed that could take a step forward and become False Sky Gods even with the limitation in their Dao.
This was the power of the other Pillars!
What was rarely talked about, thought, was the vice versa... Mainly because it was even rare than this first instance.
There were individuals with incredibly powerful Daos that never reached their full potential. There were even some tales of those who had formed Hegemonic Daos and beyond, never even making it to the Perfect Sky God Realm.
And why was that...?
It was because all they had was comprehension. The rest of their Pillars were too weak to sustain their Godhoods and such, they found making even a single step of progress to be ridiculously difficult.
Such people tended to have exceptional combat prowess and long lives, but they would still eventially be surpassed by others, never able to display the truest and most powerful strength of their Daos.
A Dao was incredibly important, but it was ultimately just one of the Six pillars. If it was the end all, be all, Mae wouldn't have been able to survive a single strike against Ryu, and these geniuses here wouldn't even be able to look Ryu in the eye without prostrating themselves.
As Ryu walked forward, the pressure bearing down on his shoulders, he learned this truth more profoundly than he ever had before.
Mae looked toward Ryu's back with a hint of worry in her beautiful eyes. She couldn't understand what was happening either.
Didn't Ryu have Fire Dragon blood within him? Could it be that his body rejected his blood? Was that why he was struggling like this? Or was it because Fire Dragon blood was all he had?
No, that's not true either, because Ryu did have an incredibly powerful soul. Just having sex with him once, she felt her own soul strength soaring. In fact, her damaged soul had been cleanly fixed by her time with Ryu. So at the very least, he had a soul comparable to her own.
