Ryu felt his mind shuttling through the vastness of space. He tore through layers of worlds, and every time he felt that he had finally reached the end, he pierced through another veil and continued onward.
He saw civilizations of all kinds as he moved, and his heart went from one of awe to shock, and then he eventually felt that it was all too incredulous. Was it even possible for the world to be so large?
He saw places so primitive that fire had yet to be invented. Instead, they huddled around steamy geysers and volcanoes to keep themselves warm, eating raw meat they peeled off the bone with their teeth like animals.
He saw many places just like Sacrum, middling of the road worlds. But some of them had extremely strange power sources, things he couldn't even fathom.
One world used water as its only source of power, using its movements. The warriors were all Water Qi cultivators, and the bottom rung of society was forced to work every day in mills, using their qi training to move large wheels day in and day out.
Another world harnessed the power of the wind, doing much the same as the water world.
There were all sorts of "elemental worlds" like these ones, but they weren't what fascinated Ryu the most at all.
He passed over several worlds where the people were as weak as children. They had souls that snuffed out with a breath and bodies so frail that even the weakest beasts of their world could tear them apart.
But what was even more fascinating was that their beasts were also just as weak, so weak that even if Ryu was feeling hungry and ate all several billion of them, he wouldn't even be able to satiate a small part of that hunger.
The entire world seemed to be lacking in substance and foundation, and yet they were able to create such fantastical things.Witness the birth of this content, streaming forth from n0v!lbin★
Granted, those fantastical things were also still extraordinarily weak in his eyes. But when they were taken as a function of how weak the people creating them were, it was enough to leave him in complete shock.
What they had succeeded in doing would be the equivalent of an Awakening Realm expert creating something that could kill a Sky God. At that sort of scale, how could it not be impressive?
Some of these civilizations were more impressive than others.
It was something that Ryu could only barely grasp, and yet it floored him. He was so uncaring about the Cultivation Realm of others, but hearing of Ailsa's made his heart burst with all sorts of emotions.
Pride... Happiness... Anxiety.
He could barely grasp an understanding of what was going on. They were in battle? Why? Who was fighting? And for what?
It didn't seem to matter because he couldn't take his eyes off his woman.
He knew that cultivation could refine one to their true peak, and yet it all felt like too much. Ryu of all people even felt a slight hint inferior, his firm Dao Heart being the only thing that made him still confidently call Ailsa his woman.
"HAHA! AILSA!"
lightsnοvεl A booming voice just barely managed to catch Ryu's attention. It was truly something because Ryu seemed to have tuned the rest of the world out entirely; it could only be said that this voice was capable of overturning words.
Gruff, deep, cold, and a hint sinister.
"I swore to take you as my wife, but I didn't expect you to be a whore who had already opened her legs for another man-!"
Ryu didn't hear anything else, and maybe that was for the best... he didn't even see the man clearly, all he felt was a familiar fury suddenly erupting within him.
Who dared to speak to his wife in this way?!
Ailsa's eyes widened as she suddenly sensed something familiar.