?1247 The Worst of the Worst
According to the news, there were rumors that they had gained the Inheritance of a Taboo Sect.
For some reason, just hearing the words Taboo Sect made Ryu's heart skip a beat. He wasn't certain of why until his mind landed on the Unbalance Art Sect.
When he thought about it, the appearance of the Unbalance Art Sect was too odd. Not only was the Ruin too exceptional and powerful to appear like it had on the Heavenly Path, but near the end when he had accepted it, it had tried to mark him and force him to fight it out against other inheritors.
Although it wasn't necessarily guaranteed, only particularly sinister and darker side Sects would do such a thing. Having inheritors slaughter one another was generally frowned upon, at least in Sacrum, anyway. Ryu wasn't sure how the culture of the True Martial World accepted it, but it did leave a bad taste in his mouth.
Luckily, he was able to stop himself from being branded at the last moment, but his situation could have been much worse if he was too casual about it.
Ryu shook his head. He had no way of knowing if the Unbalance Art Sect was a Taboo Sect or not, though they seemed to check several boxes. What was important was that Isemeine and Eska seemed to have been caught up in such a thing and it had caused them to go into hiding, until they were now suddenly forced to reveal their tracks.
But now it seemed that upon having revealed their tracks, they were currently being hunted down. Somehow, not just one of them, but both of them had been locked onto. Even these random passerbys mentioned that they seemed to be two women sharing the same body.
But rather than this being a shocking realization to them, it was instead an indictment. To them, this was only proof that Eska and Isemeine had dabbled in the occult. How else could two people share the same body if not for one possessing the other? This was a taboo in and of itself.
Ryu walked out from the city and vanished, his gaze cold.
He wouldn't even know how to begin to help those two at the moment. They were already well into the Sky God Realm, and their combat prowess was more than their current Realm as well, but they were still in such a situation.
Because of Eska, their progress through the Sky God Realm would always be exceptionally fast. While it was true that the strongest Sky Gods on the Sacrum were only True Sky Gods, it couldn't be measured this way.
One had to remember that in Sacrum, even skipping the Fragmented and False Sky God Realm was possible. Such a thing was unheard of in the True Martial World.
In reality, you could look at the Fragment, False and True Sky God Realms of Sacrum like three huge dividing tiers that denoted one's talent in the Dao. Eska, who had become a True Sky God, was akin to the best of such talents and she had meditated on her Dao for trillions of years.
With access to the complete laws of the True Martial World, paired with Isemeine's youth, vitality and talent, her speed of improvement would only continue to increase.
However, it was ironically also due to her speed of improvement that others were even more certain that these two dabbled in the taboo. Everything they did now seemed to point back toward this problem and Ryu didn't have a way out for them.
But now... he was suddenly very interested in these Taboo Sects. He had found many odd markers on the Fourth to Sixth Heavens that pointed out certain inconsistencies and oddities. He had originally planned to ignore them for the sake of focusing on more sure fire opportunities... but now he had changed his mind.
"Little woman," Ryu suddenly called out.
The Favor Alchemy Sky God had been quiet for a while, days in fact. It was quite a surprise since, at least at the start, she was quite talkative. Oddly enough, even after Ryu called out to her, she didn't respond instantly. It wasn't until Ryu called out a second time that she responded.
"... They're here for me. Don't contact me unless you have to."
The words were short but Ryu's gaze only narrowed further.
Here for her? Who?
Ryu's gaze flickered. His senses grew piercing as he spread them out in all directions until he suddenly realized that she wasn't talking about a threat that was on its way... she was talking about the experts of the Seventh Heaven that had descended.
Ryu's brows couldn't help but jump as he came to a stop, the tree branch beneath him swaying.
A moment later, Ryu had entered the golden moon world. He found a large formation taking up at least half of the space. He could only shake his head, this woman had really made herself at home.
He reached a hand forward to touch the formation, but...
"Unless you want to be blown to bits, I wouldn't suggest stepping in," she said from the other side.
"What are Taboo Sects?"
Ryu didn't beat around the bush and asked his question directly, but the Favor Alchemy Sky God didn't immediately answer. This sort of silence, though, told Ryu that she definitely knew the answer, so he simply waited patiently.
"Taboo Sect are Sects against the Natural Order."
Ryu raised an eyebrow. He couldn't help but this of the Natural Order Sect of the Mortal Plane of Sacrum for some reason. Even to this day, the Glove of Order on his hand was still of great use.
"It's said that many years ago, the Ninth Heaven was separated into two factions, each of which had created two completely different cultivation systems. The Nine Martial Powers and the Nine Taboo Powers.
"Back then, Taboo didn't have any other meaning than to represent a way of cultivation, the Taboo Path. As for the Martial Path, it meant just that, the Martial Path.
"However, the Taboo Sects lost that battle. As a result, the Martial Path became the only path, the standard path. As for the Taboo Path, not only did it fall to the wastelands, but their name's meaning altered entirely.
"Now, Taboo only denotes to evil, the occult, the most terrible of the worst..."
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