Ryu's gaze landed on a delicate pair of wings that could fit in his two palms. Its feathers were entirely transparent and even looked quite silky to just his eyes alone, but with it, there were delicate vein patterns pulsing with silvery energy.
The pair sat within a glass encasement, separating them from the world and making them seem as though they were an uncountable distance away. Just below this glass case and at the start of the pedestal it sat upon was a name plate.
Quivering Spectral Wings.
There wasn't a hint of explanation beyond this, but Ryu could sense that the name held weight. As he gazed at it more deeply, he began to feel his completed Dao stir and he realized something. This wasn't an overt test, but it was a test nonetheless.
The Heavenly Path knew that cultivators could get overwhelmed while having such a selection before them, they might even want to take everything in sight, and that was especially so for Ryu could pick out any three that he wanted.
While the Heavenly Path had allowed Ryu to do so, that didn't necessarily mean that he could. For one, the pressure he faced just walking here would have been enough to force the others to their knees, and secondly, if he didn't have the insight needed to understand these treasures around him and how they functioned, then he would be blind in picking.
If he let his ego get the best of him and he picked out the best treasures no matter what, he might end up being on the losing end.
For one, these treasures weren't children's toys, if he used them incorrectly, let alone them helping him deal with his enemies, they had the capability of directly killing him.
And secondly, even if they didn't kill him, if the treasures became glorified paper weights because he had no idea how to use them, wouldn't he be cosigning himself to death?
However, who was Ryu? Maybe at his current strength he wouldn't be able to see through all of the secrets of these treasures before him, but what good would doing that do him anyway? It would just be showing him abilities he didn't have the strength to utilize anyway.
Right now, he had more than enough strength to see through the abilities he could use with his current strength and talent and that was world changing. These Quivering Spectral Wings could very well be the saving grace that he needed.
As with most winged treasures, there was no doubt that the foundational ability of the Quivering Spectral Wings was increasing speed, and given its name, it was no surprise that it required a strong spatial affinity to use as well.
According to what Ryu could deduce, this pair of wings, much like the Unbalance Mantra could do for him, could bring forward the bar one needed to reach to be able to enter the void.
Usually, entering the void was a Transcended Sky God's ability, however with Saptial affinity, the timeline could be brought forward. Ryu himself would have been able to do it the day he broke into Sky Godhood due to how exceptionally high his Spacetime Soul Nature was, and others could have variable outcomes depending on how deep their own affinity for the element was.
Of course, considering how exceptionally rare spatial affinity was to begin with, and even further, how difficult it was to have a high affinity in it even after managing to gain such a rare affinity to begin with, the number of people who could move this timeline forward were an exceptionally small portion of this population.
Yaana was a part of this small population. In fact, her own affinity was so high that she used to spend most of her time lingering in the void and watching Ryu in her first life. Of course, entering the void in Sacrum versus the True Martial World were two completely different feats, but it was still a feat nonetheless.
What was fascinating about the Quivering Spectral Wings was that it could perform about as well as Ryu's Spacetime affinity could. Meaning, so long as one had a small amount of Spatial affinity, one could break into the void and travel through it at the Fragmented Sky God Realm as well!
For Ryu, because his affinity was especially high, if his calculations were correct, so long as he entered the World Sea Realm, he would be able to rely on the Quivering Spectral Wings to enter the void without activating the Unbalance Mantra.
In truth, Ryu wasn't sure how accurate his calculations were because they were made with estimates. Right now, he wasn't quite sure how much greater his strength was with two Dao Pedestals and he also didn't know what would happen once he started cultivating them in earnest. In addition, he knew too little about the secrets of his original Spiritual Foundation and he also didn't know what other twists and turns his Chaotic Silk Meridians had for him as he continued his cultivation journey.
There was a very real possibility that Ryu would be able to accomplish this even before the World Sea Realm, but only time would tell.
Still, all of this said, what was explained until now wasn't enough for Ryu to have given such a reaction. Even without the Quivering Spectral Wings, he could enter the void right now, he just had to drain his soul stamina and Focus Qi. What need did he have for such a treasure?
The answer to that question came back to the original foundation ability of the Quivering Spectral Wings...
ραпdαn૦νel Speed.
While the Quivering Spectral Wings could increase speed normally, it wouldn't be able to display its truest abilities until one could enter the void... Once one accomplished this, they would be nigh untouchable.
So long as one entered the void, you would no longer be obstructed by qi and wind pressure, making it exceptionally convenient for travel. In addition to this, the laws were much more lax and could be bent with greater ease.
If the current Leonel entered the void with this treasure, even a Perfect Sky God wouldn't be able to catch him, and as his cultivation increased, his speed would increase along with it.
