Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2082 The Seventh Heaven.

The Seventh Heaven.

The world had been in an odd, perpetual state of war for a long while. With the ascension of the Radiant Star Sect, the Fading Star and their allies had done their best. to suppress and repress them.

This situation only became worse after the shift in Fate.

However...

Almost 100 years later and the Radiant Star Sect still stood strong.

One would say that a large part of that was because of Aika, their Dao Sovereign. Fueled by fury and sadness, one would think that she was the sole reason for the change...

But this wasn't the case.

In truth, Aika had been far more distraught than anything else. It was difficult even for her cultivation to improve these days. Although she was filled with her own fury, it didn't supersede how downtrodden she was.

The real reason the Radiant Star Sect was able to make it this far was because of the rise of two people, one far more expected than the other.

The first was none other than Old Wan. After he, too, broke into the Dao Sovereign Realm, it gave the Sect a stabilizing force that was able to go against all of their enemies while only being slightly at a loss.

He seemed to carry a great deal of power with him, but his advancement only made Aika more distraught. That was because she knew that Old Wan wasn't yet ready to break into the Dao Sovereign Realm. He didn't have a sudden and perfect

enlightenment that she had. Rather, he had pushed himself to do so because she was unable to hold up the sky on her own.

This only made her feel an even deeper guilt.

She knew that Old Wan was no less talented than she was. The reason he hadn't broken through yet was because he was looking for the perfect path... a path that would lead him to Godhood. True Godhood.

And yet now, because of her once again, yet another had lost their light for the future.

It was tearing Aika up on the inside to suffer through these matters. She felt like it was all her fault. All of her fault.

If she hadn't been so eager to return to the Seventh Heaven with her little bit of power, Ryu would have never died... his wives would have never been taken away beneath her own watch... Old Wan wouldn't have been forced to give up his future for the sake of immediate survival.

If only she had listened. If only she had followed Old Wan's carefully laid out plans instead of going off on her own to do as she pleased.

These sort of thoughts... broke Aika.

It didn't matter what anyone else said, she knew that she was at fault and she couldn't think any way else.

The fact her Dao Heart hadn't already collapsed was just a miracle in and of itself. But maybe the only reason it hadn't was because after being so useless, she couldn't bring herself to become a worthless bag of flesh.

If nothing else... her cultivation was all she had left to atone for everything she had done. This one thought was the only thing keeping her small frame from collapsing in on itself...

Well, that and the fact their Sect gained a new beacon of the younger generation to help them hold up the skies...

Jojo.

Watching Jojo grow, diligently guiding her in all the ways she could, was about the only thing that could make Aika smile these days. And it could be said that Jojo was the true reason they had yet to collapse.

For a Sect, what they needed wasn't just immediate strength, but they also needed a light of hope for the future. With Ryu dead, and Selheira stolen away, they hadn't had a backbone left on the latter front...

Until Jojo began to shine through with her talent, her sword and her armor leading her way.

In just over 70 years, Jojo had managed to cross several thresholds of cultivation, reaching the Omniscient Realm.

She had a half foot into the Lord Realm already, and it seemed like she could break through at any time. But she was still unsatisfied with her Dao of the Sword.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

It had to be remembered that anyone following a pure Weapon Path would always have a harder time than their predecessors. That was because in order to forge their own path, they had to shed away the tugging Fate of all those that followed before them.

It could be said, then, that those following Weapon Paths had the slowest cultivation of all of their companions. This was why Jojo had been the last among Ryu, Selheira and herself to break into the True Sky God Realm.

But between Ryu's death and the current time period, it seemed as though she had grasped something.

Fleeting though it might be, she was the sole reason the younger generation of the Radiant Star Sect wasn't overrun by the powers that surrounded them.

A pillar of the older generation and a pillar of the younger generation was all that separated the Radiant Star Sect from true destruction.

And as the battle was strung out, the ferocity of things began to lull into a low simmer.

The Fading Star Sect and their allies changed their methods and began to apply a slow, consistent pressure against the Radiant Star Sect instead of looking for a sudden blow, and this change had led up all the way until today...

A day when explosive news reached their ears from the Eighth Heaven. Starlight, chosen of the Fading Star Sect, had returned from his master's tutelage.

This was already explosive news in and of itself, because many were aware that Starlight's master was a powerful existence of the Dao Sovereign Realm.

But what was more important than that was the fact that Starlight himself...

Had managed to become a Lord.

Suddenly, the situation of the Seventh Heaven was embroiled in yet more chaos.