Ryu's palms flipped upward, causing his Great Swordstaffs to flip through the air, over his head, and toward his back.
SHIIIING!
The twin pair of polearm swords crossed with a wild vibration. Sharp sword qi shot into the surroundings like a whirling cyclone, shredding everything in its path before they were deathly silent.
Ryu took a step forward, his expression calm and unhurried. To his back, two crossed great swordstaffs hovered behind him, following like a pair of obedient children with their auras restrained to an extreme.
As he walked, Ryu strapped his grandfather's bow to his back. Although he was capable of forging a stronger bow, he didn't. Quite frankly, he didn't think it mattered. With his current level of skill, no matter how weak his bow, as long as you were within shot of his combat prowess, you could forget about dodging.
The Heaven Grade pair of Great Sworstaffs that Ryu had just forged were stronger than any Ancestral Grade treasure of Sacrum, that much was a certain fact. There was no doubt that Ryu could do the same for his bow. But to him, being close to his grandfather was more important.
He would make certain that this bow reached the peak of this world.
Ryu stepped out of the golden moon world's hidden space.
When he appeared one again, the rumbling had increased more than tenfold. It felt like the world was collapsing. But in reality, it was the entire mountain range of the Radiant Star Sect that was slowly rising into the air. Not a single peak was being left behind.
Ryu stood outside of his abode, his expression calm and his head inclined to the skies that only seemed to grow closer and closer.
A wild and unrestrained aura circulated around Ryu as the skies grew closer.
The Heavenly Laws bore down, growing to the point they threatened to force many to their knees. In the region Ryu was in, he was still around mostly Inner Disciples. He hadn't bothered to change his location because he simply didn't care. So long as he had the golden moon world, it was all the same to him.
Despite his calm expression, Ryu couldn't help but sneer inwardly. Even a mere First Heaven dared to put on such airs. He really wanted to see what the Second Heaven would dare to do.
BOOM!
The skies were torn apart and many who had felt their knees trembling directly fell to the ground, prostrating themselves. It was a sight so pathetic that Ryu didn't want to be associated with it in the slightest.
These Inner Disciples had looks of reverence and deep emotion on their faces. It was clear that they didn't realize the kind of storm that was waiting for them on the other side. Did they think that things would just be over just like this?
Ryu felt a rush of qi oppress him from all sides as everything was dark.
A flashbang went off in his mind, a certain suppressive effect shattering into motes of light and forming a sky of twinkling stars. It felt as though all of his neurons had suddenly become hyper active, being fueled with a substance far beyond what was on the First Heaven.
But under this sort of baptizing, only he and those with appropriate talent could possibly feel so comfortable. In a Sect where the vast majority of talents were merely Black Grade, and pinnacle geniuses only barely approached the Heaven Grade but were still firmly within the Earth Grade, such a transition was enough to place great pressure on them all.
At the second highest peak, the Core Disciples appeared one by one, leading the Sect in bearing this weight.
Many of them were already well into the Dao Pedestal Realm with the very best already being in the Cosmic Seed Realm. They knew what kind of opportunity this was.
It was one thing to use normal teleportation arrays to enter the Second Heaven, but this method was one where one would have to pass through the Heavenly Laws of the Heavens themselves. It was far more dangerous, but with danger also came opportunity.
The truth was that AIka hadn't needed the teleportation pad of the Second Heaven's powers at all. Rather, what she needed was the location on the other side. Whatever location was that was would likely be a place where all the powers of the Second Heaven converged.
Most would thus avoid this location, but that wasn't Aika's intention at all. If it was up to her, she would plop the Sect right in the center of it all.
Unfortunately, it wasn't Aika controlling this ascension as she was in seclusion. Instead, it was Old Wan who was, quite frankly, a bit of a pansy.
He knew Aika too well, but the only coordinates he had were the ones she had given him. So, rather than following them, he chose to deviate a bit.
BOOM!
At that moment, even the Inheritor disciples appeared, all of their auras well into the World Sea Realm.
In the same instant, the veil of the Second Heaven was broken into.
The Sect shimmered and shined. In the view of those of the Second Heaven, it looked as though the ghost of a Sect was appearing. At first it was just a ripple, and then a faint illusion appeared, and then as time passed, that illusion became clearer and clearer until a wild, whistling tornado of shattered space rippled out in all directions.
BOOM!
The Sect felt with a heavy thump, solidly connecting with the land as though it had always been there.
However, not even 20 kilometers away, the towering peaks of another Sect stared right at them. This Sect was a Two Star Sect and was even one of the 27 that had gone to the selection just a few months ago… The Metal Work Sect.
It didn't take long before they went from curious, to stunned, and then quickly to infuriated.