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Ryu listened in for a small while before he frowned lightly.
Isemeine was in a very unique position, actually. As a Martial God, her growth in the True Martial World should be quite explosive. Even if she was born with the usual restrictions of Sacrum, so long as she was diligent in finding methods of breaking free of those constraints, her power would easily skyrocket.
From Ryu's understanding, Isemeine's line of Martial Gods was just considered a branch family of the Martial Gods. But the branch family of a Ninth Heaven Bloodline was without a doubt exceptionally powerful. Just to put things into perspective, the Dual Radiance Bloodline was at the pinnacle of the Eighth Heaven. Even after being cut in half, they were still the powerhouses of the Seventh Heaven.
When things were framed like this, and one remembered how powerful Starlight was despite only having half of that Bloodline, then one could also come to understand just the level of capacity Isemeine had in her body.
On top of that, while becoming a Sky God in Sacrum made you quite weak in the overall scheme, the perspective Eska had wasn't something that Isemeine and even many of the True Martial World could compare to.
This might sound ridiculous, but think for a moment the kind of steps Eska would have to take to reach her current level.
In the True Martial World, one began to hone their Dao from the time they started cultivating, it was considered to be one of the six pillars of cultivation. However, in Sacrum, one didn't even think about Daos until well into the World Sea Realm. And then, one had to build an entire Dao from the ground up to form one's Godhood.
The difficulty of working backward to form your Dao as opposed to building it up with every step from the very beginning was extraordinary. There was even an argument to be made that stepping into the Sky God Realm as a resident of Sacrum was far more difficult than it was to do here.
There was another matter as well.
In Sacrum, how many billions of years of diligent, slow and grueling cultivation did it take to move to the top of the world? However, in the True Martial World, how much faster was cultivation?
Simply put... How could the Dao Heart of a Sky God who had spent their entire lives in the True Martial World even begin to compare to Eska's Dao Heart? Maybe only those monsters that had transcended the Omniscient Sky God Realm and became Dao Lords, Dao Sovereigns and Dao Gods could possibly begin to compare.
It was because of this that Ryu had never truly been worried about Eska and Isemeine, he felt that they would likely thrive. The combination of the two of them should be quite exceptional.
But just the vague inkling of this conversation left him a bit displeased. The real situation might be far worse.
According to the news, an immature Immortal Sakura had appeared on the Sixth Heaven. Due to some changes in the environment, changes that Ryu speculated might be related to all the volatile changes caused by the shattering of reality, it broke free of its shackles and stepped into a completely new tier.
Immortal Sakuras were exceptionally rare, even in the True Martial World. Between Sacrum and the True Martial World, there wasn't really a difference in rarity, the difference was in the power of said items. The fact that Ryu's Northern Heavenly Wind, for example, was still such a great treasure painted that.
When the tree appeared, so too did Isemeine and Eska. It seemed that the two were still focusing their growth around it. It made sense for Eska who had built her entire Dao with it as a foundation. Logically, Eska might be able to maintain her Godhood and simply retool its basis so long as she found powerful enough references. It would be extremely difficult, but not impossible.
At the same time, Isemeine was a combat expert, having such defensive abilities would only help her. In addition, she was probably being guided by Eska as well, so since they had to share the same body, they would likely negotiate on how to improve.
There was a great battle and Isemeine and Eska managed to claim the Immortal Sakura seedling for themselves, but they ended up heavily injured.
According to the story, the two had indeed already stepped into the Sky God Realm, in fact they were Perfect Sky Gods.
This was a bit surprising to Ryu, but not impossible to accept. What he was more concerned about were their heavy injuries.
Judging by the discussions, Isemeine and Eska weren't all that well known, their appearance had surprised many. If not for the Immortal Sakura being too important to them, they wouldn't have appeared at all.
This made Ryu question some things.
Eska might be able to remain inconspicuous if it was necessary, but Isemeine was too fiery tempered and personality wouldn't allow such a thing. So why would they remain low profile if they didn't have to?
In addition, was it really so difficult for them to remain low profile? After all, they could freely change between two entirely different personalities. If one got in trouble, they could become a completely different person and easily fool the eyes of even a Sky God. That was because it wasn't technically a disguise at all, they had truly become entirely different people because they were two people sharing the same body.
So the real question was... Why was it that the two had been in hiding for so long? And even beyond that, why did they remain on the Sixth Heaven instead of going forward to the Seventh and beyond like his father had? They should have had plenty of opportunities to do so.
Just as Ryu was thinking about this, he gained his answer as the remainder of the conversation drifted to his ears.
His gaze couldn't help but narrow.
