Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2123  Loom

Ryu spoke these words calmly. There wasn't much determination or fire in his eyes, but the soothing cadence of his voice was able to express everything it was he was feeling on the inside. There was nothing that would stop him from protecting Sacrum.

Repaying one's debts, the Cycle of Karma, the Wheel of Fate, these were all things that Ryu felt that he had the ability to escape already.

Even if he ignored his promise to Flowing Frost, it would have no possibility of harming his foundation. Even if he didn't raise the Radiant Star Sect to the Eighth Heaven, it would have had no impact on him. Even if he destroyed Sacrum with a single palm right here and now, it wouldn't affect him in the slightest.

This was what it meant to reach the epitome of Control. This was what it meant to have a oneness with Fate and Karma, to have it rooted in one's very Soul Nature.

However, Ryu had never been someone that did things for the sake of the gazes of others. He had his own moral compass, and he abided by it even if it meant others saw him as a hypocrite.