The martial world didn't seem to know how to wrap their heads around this information, none of it made sense.
Common grade talent? That much was fine on its own, but how could a common grade talent have Incalculable Battle Prowess? Never mind that, but how could a common grade talent have reached the Half-Step Path Extinction Realm at 22 years old?!
What these people didn't know what was that when Ryu initially signed up for the Mercenary Guild, his Battle Prowess had been designated at the Black Grade and his Talent was designated at Sub-Common, even worse stats than he had now.
Unfortunately for the Mercenary Guild, they had an inability to detect Ryu's Spiritual Foundation, so their system designated him as a person with a False Spiritual Foundation. As such, even after taking into account his ridiculous amount of talent in the other Three Pillars, not to mention his Heavenly Pupils, his overall talent was slotted into their lowest possible rating.
To make matters worse, back then, Ryu's Mental Realm talent could only be classified as terrible. It was more a joke than anything else.
The only reason Ryu had received a bump up from Sub-Common to Common this time was because his soul had gotten a vast improvement. But, even that wasn't enough to overturn his False Spiritual Foundation.
It was no wonder everyone was confused about what they were seeing. The only way they could justify it was believing that there had to be a mistake.
Plus, how could Ryu possible be 22? The memories of the upper echelon of the martial world were practically infallible. Though they might not remember matters of their youth, nor would they in as much detail as Ryu with his Origin Flame, something as meaningful as Ryu's birth wasn't something they would ever forget.
Ryu, at the very least, made it to his 1000th birthday, and it had been almost a billion years since then. Even if the day he committed suicide he had actually been placed in a special state where he didn't age, he would still have to be at least 1000 years old, not 22!
The system of the Mercenary Guild began to be greatly doubted. If they couldn't analyze a Direct Descendant well enough, what about everyone else? Who else were the screwing over with their scanning system? The grades one received from them could make or break whether one could enter certain factions, they were playing with livelihoods here!
The public pressure eventually led to an announcement by the Mercenary Guild, but the result was even more shocking than the original news itself.
As Ryu had speculated previously… Privacy? That was nothing more than a joke. When you were powerful enough, you could break as many rules as you wanted and no one would speak a word. It was only proven more so when no one batted an eyelash when the Mercenary Guild exposed Ryu's real information to the public.
It was then everyone came to the understand that it wasn't a mistake. The Mercendary Guild's scanning formation had designated Ryu as a Common Grade talent because it detected his Spiritual Foundation as False.
Those that were intelligent understood that there were only two possible explanations for this.
The first was that Ryu had a formation high level enough to hide the truth of his Spiritual Foundation, something that wasn't entirely impossible considering who his great grandfather was.
And the second… Was that Ryu had a Spiritual Foundation they weren't able to evaluate.
There was only one kind of Spiritual Foundation that could meet such a mark…
A Sky God's Spiritual Foundation.
Without holding anything back, the Mercenary Guild released all of Ryu's reports for the world to see. If there was any doubt before as to if this was the very same Ryu Tatsuya, there was none remaining now.
Four Ancestral Grade Bloodlines. Ice Phoenix. Fire Phoenix. Lightning Qilin. Fire Dragon.
Mutated Quasi Origin Grade Meridians. Chaotic Silk Meridians.
Mutated Quasi Origin Grade Bone Structure. Ice Jade Crystal Body.
First Ranked Heavenly Pupils. Mysteries of Heaven and Earth Pupils.
Indestructible Soul.
A hushed silence fell over the martial world after the roar that took their hearts. This sort of thing, it was completely unlike anything they had ever laid eyes on. Had the Heavens truly allowed such a talent to be born?
…
Deep within a familiar volcano, not having moved a single inch since when last he was seen, Primus' crimson gazed looked forward placidly.
Was he surprised by this news? Not particularly. Ryu had never held back in saying and thinking Primus' name in the past several years, it was to the point where even when Ryu called him by his favorite nickname, 'Bastard', Primus would be aware of it.
However, Primus felt that things were better in this way. At the very least, his great grand son was no longer embarrassing him. As for whether Ryu hated him or not, he didn't particularly care. He had grown up with Dragon Blood running through his veins, an age where brothers didn't hesitate to spear each other through the heart.
Of course, these weren't acts of betrayal. Dragons and those with Dragon Blood usually fought fairly and upfront. These spears through the heart were all committed in upfront, one on one battles. In fact, Primus had killed many of his brothers in this way, one of which was his true blood brother… Those were back in the days before he found an entrance to the Dragon World and began his rampage there.
It could be said that if his great grandson wasn't reacting like this, Primus would only look down on him.
The day Ryu wanted to come and seek his revenge, he would be right here waiting.
Four Ancestral Bloodlines? Quasi Origin Meridians and Bone Structure? First Ranked Heavenly Pupils? An Indestructible Soul?
Primus head tilted back, a booming laughter leaving his lips that sent the world around him in a state of natural disaster. Volcanoes erupted, the earth split and the skies thundered and boomed.
"Take as much time as you need. Trillions of years. Tens of trillions. Hundreds or even more! If you dare to point a blade toward this great grandfather of yours, I'll skewer your heart through just like I did all the others.
"I, Primus Tatsuya, am undefeatable in this world!"
The roar was like a response to Ryu's own. However, only Ryu heard the first part of it…
To the rest of the martial world… It felt that even in shambles, even with just two to their name, even with no one to rely on but themselves…
The Tatsuya Clan was back.