Chapter 1625 Pass Down

Chapter 1625 Pass Down

Selheira blinked, taken aback by Ryu's contemplative demeanor. It was a side of him she hadn't seen before, at least not outside of their Domain sessions. She had some thoughts of her own on the matter, but her father practically wilted when he saw his daughter choose to hold her tongue.Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

Ryu chuckled. "You know, I can feel you biting your tongue. I thought it would just be once or twice, but what happened to the woman that wanted to kill me?"

Selheira panicked. "When did I...?!"

Ryu's grin widened. "You never did? You could have fooled me. Your style of playing Domain is so aggressive."

Seemingly realizing what Ryu meant, Selheira blushed. Her style of playing Domain was very... aggressive. It was the first time Ryu had seen a side of Selheira that wasn't gentle, and it was that glimpse that made him grasp her personality fully.

He rarely knew the details of his women's lives... well, except for Ailsa, Elena, and Yaana. Elena and Yaana because he had spent a ridiculous amount of time with them, and Ailsa because she was his Life Partner.

However, knowing details was one matter, but grasping their character was another. There wasn't a single one of his women that he didn't understand intimately in that way.

"I'm sorry..." Selheira said softly.

Ryu laughed almost a little too hard.

"Do you know what type of woman I like most?" Ryu said.

"Eska," Selheira said.

Ryu, who was ready for a quippy reply, was suddenly rendered speechless. In the end, he smiled bitterly. It seemed that he wasn't the only one who understood the character of the other intimately.

"So once again, it's a path limited to only the greatest of geniuses."

Selheira fell into her thoughts before responding.

"Is the gap really so large?"

"On this front, yes. But I don't know if it's because their methods of passing down knowledge are so much better, it's rather that their path is... unique. It's more conducive to being passed down. Technically speaking, in their worlds, someone could leave a child a blueprint that, should said child take it seriously enough, it would be possible to craft the strongest weapons of their races.

"However, for us, cultivation is mostly an individual journey designed to combat against the Heavens. By its nature, it should be hard to pass down and share knowledge...

"Or so I thought."

"Is it not like that?" Selheira asked.

"Well... The Heavens have a vested interest in making sure its Races are as powerful as possible. In my home world, they even picked out a supreme race to rule over all others.

"The Heavens want people to progress, it wants us to become stronger. Many of the limitations we face today are artificially crafted by powerful Clans who stand atop everyone else."

"And you have a way to fix this?"

"I've been thinking about the Four Arts a lot... I wonder about the legend of mortals transcending to Godhood in a single bound by reaching their extremes...

"And I wonder if there's a hidden secret within them... one that might help with this exact issue."