Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2230  End

BADUM.
Ryu's body convulsed, his eyes snapping open. As though his Dao Heart was only now being awakened, radiant power echoed through the Planes of Existence.
Akin to a slumbering dragon being poked awake, he stared up at the skies, his body laying there with a gaping hole in his chest. But judging by the placidness in his gaze, one would have never thought that he had experienced such injuries in the first place.
BADUM.
'What a… peculiar feeling…'
The Spiritual Foundation was in the Abyssal Plane… but so too was the Fate Star. Ryu had never truly connected the two because they seemed unconnected.
He had lost count of the number of ancient texts and annals of history he had pored through. Not a single one of them had any mention of any sort of connection.
So why was it that he felt so… awake right now?
'I see…'
Another radiant pulse came from Ryu's mind and he was enlightened to something truly shocking. But it had nothing at all to do with his Fate Star, his Dao Heart, or its relation to his Control.
Well, he guessed it did in part. But regardless of that, it didn't matter. What truly mattered to him was the conclusion, and it alone had him laughing.
The laughter filled the air, his eyes brimming with what looked like tears.
Ryu couldn't remember the last time he had felt such a way. Maybe on the night he had taken his life, but this time… his reasoning was very different.
"So unfair, so very unfair. This world is quite cruel."
The echoes of Ryu's voice peeled across the skies, clouds dispersing and words collapsing as though feeling his odd happy melancholy.
"Never again," he said.
This time, the words carried a conviction