Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

1916  Would He Care?

No matter how she looked at it, it was hard to blame Ryu for it. She was the one who had said she was just fine with it, but now that her standing had changed and she overlooked the world, it was a lot harder to accept.

And she knew that this wasn't just a matter of Ryu's love life. If that was all it was, her reaction would be far more petty and less… hurtful.

In the world of cultivation, it was only natural for powerful men to have multiple wives due to the difference between Primordial Yins and Yangs.

Men benefitted from having multiple women, and promiscuous women, except in rare cases, were hurt instead.

The Martial Gods were a clear example of this exception. Their women were often extremely promiscuous, and they were equally as powerful.

But obviously, Ailsa didn't fall into such a category.

That said… there was a case in which men could be hurt by their promiscuity as well, and that was in the case that their woman was too powerful. Taking in a Primordial Yin that was too strong would result in a man dying a very early death.

All of these underlying laws are what eventually formed the overall culture of the cultivation world. If one added Ailsa's personality on top of that, it was even harder on Ryu.

This was all because, culturally speaking, it was already difficult for Ailsa to accept that her husband was so much weaker than her. It was easier to accept back in Sacrum because she was acting for more than herself. It was the death of her brother that pushed her to Ryu in the first place because she didn't like the way her family did things.

But now, not only was the gap between them even wider, there was no such reason weighing her decision. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Then there was her own personal arrogance, an arrogance that was usually tempered by Ryu's existence, but had now had countless years to blossom and bloom on its own.

She was just like Ryu; she was his Life Partner for a reason. When she officially married Ryu, she was just as willing to let him be as willful as he desired as well.

The problem was that after so long, it was hard for her to place Ryu on the same pedestal that he was willing to place her on.

And that was still just one aspect of the problem… the gap between Ryu and Ailsa manifested in far more ways than just this alone.

As she had said, a Primordial Yin that was too strong was a detriment to the wielder. However, back then, Ryu had absorbed her Primordial Yin when it was much weaker, and his talent was capable of suppressing it.

But all of those things were before Ailsa had improved so much, before she had become a Dao God, before she had grasped such a Dao and such a Title.

However, Ryu had already taken her Primordial Yin. If it had continued to grow like it was meant to, then Ryu would already have long since been dead.

After all, Ailsa had not only raised her talent far beyond the previous standard of Sacrum, she had also far surpassed Ryu in cultivation. With these two aspects put together, Ryu's death should have been inevitable.

So why was he not dead?

That was because her Primordial Yin was being suppressed.

Simply put, the Ailsa of now should have already been several times more powerful, but she wasn't allowed to be. She was quite literally incapable of being any more powerful than she was now because Ryu had become her limiting factor.

Now, suddenly, everything came to a head.

She already had all of these other reasons to somewhat resent Ryu, all before she even got to the point that he was the reason she was so weak.

If Ryu wasn't her suppressant, how could she watch as Little Gem leave? How could the likes of Silent Quibus do anything to her? How could she still be stuck in this Holy World, forced to react to her enemies instead of going to them?

It was all Ryu's fault… Ryu's fault for being far too weak.

Of course, this wasn't to say that Ailsa wasn't a powerhouse. But that was what frustrated her all the more.

She had such a handicap and was still someone that the Ruin Master Guild could only pull these petty tricks against. If she had access to her fullest array of talent, how could any of this have happened?

Again, none of this was Ryu's fault, at least not directly.

But after being suppressed again and again, crushed in spirit, forced to experience loss after loss, and not even having a friend like Yaana by her side to at least help with her struggles…

It had become too much to bear even for a Dao Goddess like herself.

She had ended up taking it out on the one person who was willing to take it, the one person who she could be willful with, the one person who wouldn't react like she was a brat or a woman who had lost her mind.

And yet, she had still ended up pushing it much too far.

The worst part was that she couldn't even take the initiative to contact Ryu. It was he who had [Third Perspective].

And, after the blow Ryu dealt her Clone, she already knew that it was a lost cause. She could no longer control it. It was still sitting in the same spot, having completely lost its soul. Even if she wanted to establish a connection, she would have to sacrifice even more than she had when she created it in the first place.

As though all of that wasn't bad enough… even if she could establish that connection, even if she could communicate with Ryu, even if she could sit before him again and have a redo…

Would he care?

This time, she had truly gone too far.