Chains Of Heaven

"True Demon? Is that any different from a devil?" Enkidu asked and Gugalana shook its head.

"It is and isn't, depending on how you look at it. This is beyond your understanding for now, it would just give you useless worries for the weak you. Just keep this drop of blood secure for now and don't take it in your body for the moment. You clearly are still unable to overtake the dark effects of the corruption from this blood, wait until you are at least on the Divine king level before you try it. This is a possible great disaster, but also an opportunity like few others as well, know this and that should be enough for now."

As Gugalana finished explaining this Enkidu thought for a bit and nodded. He wanted to touch the blood so as to let the Library of Heaven's Path see what was so special about this blood, but it was in a protective seal of Gugalana and, after a bit, Enkidu decided to do what it said and not try and force it for now. From what little he could understand of what Gugalana said this blood must have some corruptive powers and this he would be better served not trying to enter in contact with it.

Instead, Enkidu looked at the other blood in front of him. The five drops of essence blood from Gugalana and the single drop for the True Qilin. Just looking at them Enkidu could tell they carry extremely powerful vitality and energy, with a gulp Enkidu sat down and started absorbing them inside himself.

Starting with the blood of Gugalana he took one drop of it inside his body. He instantly felt an immense pressure, and just as he was about to begin trying to fuse with it the pressure and the divine blood disappeared from his body. His brows twitching he searched inside himself for it and saw the blood being absorbed by the Grandmist Spirit Bead. Remembering how that item worked Enkidu's frown turned into a smile of sorts and he no longer hesitated in the slightest, deciding to go for broke he ignored Gugalana's presence and took all the drops of blood inside himself at once.

Normally taking this all at once was a suicidal move, with his body injured and exhausted it was even more so, but never forget that Enkidu's body was basically a cheat. Not only was his body and bloodline better than he had any right to be but the items inside him even more so were simply absurd.

As the drops of blood were absorbed by the Grandmist Spirit Bead Enkidu only had to wait for a bit before a pill appeared from it. It was a crystal yellow pill with whitish-green undertones and it was quickly absorbed by Enkidu.

Quickly an immense pressure started coming from his dantian, wind and thunder laws rampaged in an organized fashion and Enkidu could sense he could slowly absorb this without receiving any sort of backlash, getting to fully absorb the power of this divine blood without issue and be able to raise in ranks quite easily.

However, Enkidu had a crazy idea. He remembered that he had one technique that he could only use when his body was at it's limits to improve his bloodline, the more time he spends using it the more refined his bloodline and more he should be able to remember the memories engraved in his blood, remember the techniques of his ancestors and possibly learn how to activate his Dongfang bloodline (he was not yet sure what this would be for him considering every member of this family had a special power and while he once had a Supreme Being Bone it was passed from his mother and not what he was born with).

As such, Enkidu grimaced as he didn't slowly and safely absorb the power from the pill generated by the Grandmist Spirit Bead. He basically exploded the pill, letting all the energy quickly fill his every profound vein and baptize him in an extreme manner. Every wound he had obtained in the last week and closed during that time opened all at once, he was again bathed in blood as the energy of thunder and wind moved across his body and made it go to the edge of imploding. Thankfully, Enkidu also had the Purple Card and thus it controlled the rampaging energy to never actually kill Enkidu, but that was it.

Enkidu quickly began using his technique he created in the Master Teacher library, the Limit Sublimation Art. As he used it his bloodline got purer and purer, he could sense that while his cultivation didn't increase much his power was improving at a fast rate, to say the least. However, he noticed something after about thirty minutes of this, while there was still rampaging energy he no longer was able to continue increasing his rank and the Limit Sublimation Art.

That was not to say there was no more energy, far from it as there was still plenty to go around, but instead it was because the energy was now concentrating in a single place of his body. It was all focusing on the back of his eyes, but he was unable to do anything as he could sense his eyes burning but his vision not being lost or changed in any way.

It was a truly weird feeling.

After a good while this ended and so did the absorption of the blood. Not only that, but now that this ended Enkidu could sense the difference in himself quite clearly.

His cultivation didn't increase in the slightest, not even going up one rank, but he could sense now how his body was a bit different. As he sensed the wind passing on his skin he could almost sense the wind laws inside it and he could sense the world around him much better than before. He almost instantly entered a state of meditation and would have done so if not for Gugalana speaking at this moment.

"Interesting, you truly are quite interesting." Gugalana said. "Now, before you leave, I will pass down to you my profound art as well as a fragmented piece of the True Qilin profound art. It is not a complete set of profound arts but it should still be enough for you to be able to demonstrate the power of this bloodline."

As Gugalana said this, two stone tablets came to in front of Enkidu. The first one was complete and read Heavenly Fury Art, as Enkidu started reading it he was engrossed by it and thunder currents and wind could be seen being stirred all around him, the more he read it the more he understood it and after reading the whole thing he closed his eyes, going inside the Library of Heaven's Path.

Looking for the Heavenly Fury Art he saw that this profound art had very few mistakes, but there were some. Deciding to test and see if it would work he spoke.

"Copy and condense." As he did so a copy of both the Wind and Lightning Heaven's path books he had obtained after deriving from tens of thousands of books back in the library of the Master Teacher Pavilion, after this the copied books went into the Heavenly Fury Art.

However, unlike what Enkidu would have hoped, there was hardly any significant changes.

"The profound arts of a God really are not like those of mortals." Enkidu said and then turned to the other tablet back in the outside world.

It was a mess. Clearly, there was only 30% or less of it here and there were still cracks on the tablet, making reading it all the more complicated. However, Enkidu preserved and continued to force it until he finished the whole thing.

The Heavenly Fury Art was a set of profound art with 6 stages, while the True Qilin secret method was not divided into stages.

Unlike the Heavenly Fury Art, the True Qilin secret method is a technique that goes beyond precious techniques and taps directly into the Law of Storm, the union point between Wind and Thunder laws. Using this technique allows someone to do amazing things with lightning and wind and it can be used to support other wind and thunder profound arts to reach one step further than it should.

This secret method can be divided into a few parts, but on the partial tablet that Enkidu had managed to study only the two first parts could be identified, annihilation and speed. The first centered on pure destructive ability and how a storm could blow away and destroy everything in its path. The second centered in the union of the extreme speed of thunder with the high mobility of the wind, able to twist and turn where needed.

Enkidu smiled as he looked at this, but felt a bit regretful that this method was not complete, even when he tried to fuse this technique with the Heaven's path books it didn't work in the slightest and the end result was a jumble and useless mess. It was like the True Qilin secret method was a completely unique set of laws from the ones he could find in the world, which was weird.

Every profound art created in this dimension should be connected directly to the Heavenly Laws in some manner. That was an unquestionable fact as one shouldn't be able to create a profound art or method that didn't use or conformed with the Heavenly Laws, one cannot create something from nothing after all.

However, this technique may look like it follows this rule but it most certainly doesn't. Instead, this technique seems like it follows a completely different set of Heavenly Laws that is extremely similar but not the same.

'Weird.' Enkidu thought but choose not to overly focus on it. Even if this was true he couldn't really do anything about it or try and find out what was going on.

He was still too weak to even begin to try.

"Good, now you may go. However, before you leave, you must remember that you must go and face the trials of at least four of the God Kings that put their inheritances in this planet. Only by doing so will you prove yourself worthy of doing what must be done, otherwise the destruction of this entire planet and at least 40% of the Eastern God Realm will be assured."

"... What?" Enkidu exclaimed and wanted to ask more but was stopped as something forced him to pass out, his mind being forcefully shut down by a powerful soul energy that also made Hinata who was listening to all this to pass out.

Gugalana saw all this with a raised eyebrow as a white silhouette appeared behind Enkidu.

"That is enough, cow. I am testing this child already and will not have you making him go on a fl.u.s.ter about passing the trials in a hurry. If he knows exactly what is going on then he will overly hurry and I will be forced to fail him in consideration of his tainted blood. He needs time to prove himself, to show me if he is even worthy of my inheritance, and for that, he must grow more." The silhouette spoke and Gugalana answered.

"... I see, you still are as uptight and controlling as always. How did you even found out about this kid? I have been watching him since he obtained the egg and I didn't notice you putting one of your feathers on him even if one clearly is."

"Humph. That is because I noticed it when I saw his performance back in that city. You and the others may accept just vanishing completely in the next 100 or so short years but I want to make sure that at least my powers, my glory, will continue in this world so that others may speak of my greatness. I want a successor, but it is already bad enough that a group of fools has been using my kinsmen's powers in such a pathetic and terrible manner, I will not have my own personal successor be a weak-minded fool or have morals that are anything but perfect. Honestly, if not for this situation I would be satisfied to watch over him for at least the next 20 years before letting him take my trial, but, even if we are in this situation, he will only be allowed to try in at least 2 years."

"You, you would seriously reject him to even be allowed to try even if it means the deaths of hundreds of trillions of lives?" Gugalana said and the figure shrugged.

"Of course I would. The lives of those mortals have nothing to do with me, it would simply be their bad luck and nothing else. Let this kid travel freely for now, explore more and see more of the world. If he is still suitable when two years pass I will take him to my glorious trial." The figure said and slowly turned into particles of light, vanishing around Enkidu.

Seeing this Gugalana sighed.

Truly, while the Vicious Ten were second only for the Creation Gods that doesn't mean they didn't have their rivals, and of them Gugalana could only feel annoyed that one of the four just had to be that one.

"... Asshole." Gugalana muttered before opening a space rift and sending Enkidu and Hinata on their way, well out of the range of the forest and in a safe location where no Hyugas were around.

Thinking about it Gugalana chooses to simply let it go, now it was up to the world to decide what would happen. Unfortunately, that self-centered asshole had made Enkidu pass out, but that should be fine as well. After absorbing the drops of Essence Blood of Gugalana and the True Qilin he would need time to fully process these gains if he were to go into the Beast Blood Pool that Gugalana had promised he could go into to help reinforce his body Enkidu's gains right now would be much more limited. Perhaps later on he could go into the pool, as long as Enkidu wasn't already in the Divine level the pool would be extremely effective so there would be no hurry to use it right now.