Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2092 Vanguard

Just because the highest level Tribulation of the True Martial World until now had been an Eighth Revolution Elemental Rage of the Heavens Tribulation didn't mean that this was the highest form of Tribulation there was...

In fact, Ryu had already faced higher. In the Fiend World, he had faced off against his own Elemental Tribulation before, fighting against tides of fire, winds, and others.

But the truth of the matter was that the Elemental Tribulations that those of the True Martial World knew of weren't even the strongest in existence.

In stronger worlds, these Elemental Tribulations were known as Lower Elemental Tribulations, Tribulations that only encompassed Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind. There were also Incomplete Elemental Tribulations beneath that that could only have one or a few of the four, but not all of them.

However, due to whatever reason-likely the unique quirks of the True Martial World's laws after they were suppressed by the Martial Gods-these Incomplete Elemental Tribulations never appeared.

However, above Lower Elemental Tribulations there were still Middle Elemental Tribulations, these ones encompassing variants of Fire, Wind, Water, and Earth...

Middle Elemental Tribulations would force cultivators to face off against Ice, Crystals of Earth, or even Heavenly Winds twisted by nature...

And then there were Higher Elemental Tribulations.

These Tribulations would incorporate the elements of Light and Darkness, as well as Lightning. This Lightning, however, would be far different from normal Rage of the Heavens Tribulations. This lightning was known as True Tribulation Lightning, carrying various colors and changes that would exhibit differing abilities.

Even more rare elements like Wood would appear here...

And then, there was the Perfected Elemental Tribulation... Aspects of space and time would descend, and the world would be overturned by the menace of the Heaven's Rage.

This perfected Elemental Tribulation was so impossibly rare that those that managed to survive it almost always became figures of a generation, hegemons of their own Clans and powerhouses that stood above the masses...

And yet this was far from the last tier of Tribulation.

Ryu had yet to face a Perfect Elemental Tribulation... And yet, he had already faced Tribulations beyond this.

Wrath Tribulations.

These were Tribulations where the Heavenly Skies opened up and sent down its THPLHISMLASMAIMTTERSE-TRASLASSTARAFHESER MPAL MF HRE DS.BTT SEPTTER ASE

warriors.

The Wrath Tribulations... were also separated into Ninc.

There were Nine Revolutions of normal Tribulations, Nine Revolutions of Elemental Tribulations, and Nine Revolutions of Wrath Tribulations...

The first stage was the Aspirant Wrath Tribulation.

What Ryu hadn't known until recently, and mostly thanks to Ailsa's memories, was that Heaven's Knights weren't all of one rank. That much was obvious enough to him as their strengths were certainly not created equal.

The lowest class of Heavenly Warrior was known as Heaven's Aspirant. And until now... these were all Ryu had yet to face even a single one of them. A true named Heavenly Warrior was something that Ryu had never faced. Instead, he had only faced Unranked Heavenly Warriors...

The number who had faced off against a Ranked Heavenly Warrior and lived to tell the tale were simply too few and far between. Such existences had likely long been taken into Heaven's Court, brought into the fold to become one of their lackeys.

The gap between the Heavenly Warriors that Ryu had faced off against and Aspirants was a fathomless chasm...

But the rank above them was the reason he no longer called them Heaven's Knights. That was because above Aspirants were Knights, existences that were even stronger. It was hard to wrap your head around what it truly meant to be an Aspirant, let alone a Knight. But according to Ailsa's memories, an Aspirant was already comparable to a genius with a Perfect God Talent.

A Perfect God Talent was to the wider world what a Grand Ancestral Circle had once been to Sacrum... and Existence with a perfect slot of talent in all Six Pillars to Sacrum's Four.

That meant that an Aspirant was like a genius with a God Grade Bloodline, God Grade Meridians, a God Grade Bone Structure, a God Grade Soul Talent, a God Grade Spiritual Foundation, and...

A Founding Dao.

This was the standard of the lowest tier of Ranked Heavenly Warrior. They already represented a level of perfection, tailored to the standards of your world, that was simply impossible to match under normal circumstances.

And then there was a Ranked Knight.

Already, at this point, Ailsa's understanding was somewhat murky. But it was still far clearer than the rank that stood above Knight.

A Ranked Knight was a genius that not only had the talent of an Aspirant, but took it a

step beyond. They likely had something to bolster their abilities, maybe a rare Soul Nature, maybe a pair of Heavenly Pupils, maybe they had not just one set of Meridians,

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This was a Knight.

However, the more Ryu observed the largest swath of Dark Gold Clouds above him, and the more his eyes danced past the laws etching themselves into the skies, the more certain he was that this was a Third Revolution Wrath of the Heavens Tribulation.

A Ranked Vanguard.

The only explanation Ailsa had in her memories about this rank of Heavenly Warrior was wariness. It was an insecurity that her own power likely wouldn't be enough to face off against one of them despite her capabilities.

A Heavenly Vanguard, an existence that stood above an Aspirant and a Knight...

It was a talent that broke logic and understanding, one that crushed a Knight with the flip of a palm and forced an Aspirant to non-existence with a single gaze.

It made the geniuses of the world look small and insignificant.

A pressure the likes of which the three around Ryu couldn't even fathom descended.

But Ryu, who had long begun to get serious, was focused on something else.

"The aura of this Tribulation... isn't God-like as I expected. It's Lord... My Tribulation swallowed theirs, not vice versa.

A wild grin spread across Ryu's face as his forearms pulsed with the raging intent of

his great swordstaffs.

This... was going to be fun.