Chapter 164 - Lower Realms

Grand Elder carried Sen on his back and laid him on his bed for a rest. After using his divine sense he found out it was nothing serious and he had just exhausted his energy reserve.

Sen was asleep for an entire day and woke up on the next day only. After taking a quick shower, he descended to the lower floor and went to the dining room as usual.

As expected, everyone was there. Some were having their tea while the others were having their favorite juices. Sen wished them morning as usual and took his seat between his gramps and pops.

Seeing Sen had fully recovered in a day, Grand Elder nodded something to Aditya, and Aditya nodded back. Sen observed this action of theirs and frowned his eyebrows over it.

"Lil Sen, you fine now?" asked a lady in a sweet voice.

Sen turned around and found it was his loving and doting sister Rikka. He had met her for once only in life and that too a day before, but deep in his heart, he had pure love and admiration for her as a sister.

"Yes sis, I am fine now. Just some physical weakness but I think I will be fine after today's breakfast," Sen replied while pointing towards the variety of dishes served on the table.

The morning snacks should be something light and refreshing. But everything served there was bulky as hell. Rather than a breakfast, it seems more like a lunch or dinner.

After Anisa came from the kitchen everyone started to have their breakfast and it ended after the variety of dishes were cleared from the table.

Sen too stuffed as much as he could and tried his best to recover his energy. Seeing Sen eating that much for the first time, the rest of the family members were astonished. And some were thinking it must be the result of opening his soul sea.

The breakfast ended after an hour that was supposed to be a half an hour event and everyone began to sip their green tea, specially prepared by Yoshino.

The room was dead silent. The only sound that was audible was of sipping the tea. No one was taking the initiative to break the ice. Amidst of such a situation, Rikka opened her mouth and asked out something that everyone wanted to ask.

"Lil bro Sen, how did you create that portal yesterday? And why were we getting fluctuations in the reality waves itself?"

Silence~~~~

Dead Silence~~~~

Everyone's eyes were set on Sen then.

And meanwhile Sen, sipping his tea as he hadn't heard the question yet. Everyone was hyped up from inside to know the answer, but none of them were showing it on the outside.

After finishing his cup of tea, he put it down and looked towards Rikka.

"Ah that, it's my new cultivation star's special power. Nothing special," Sen answered.

Even the dumbest person on earth could have told that it was his cultivation star's power. What they wanted to know was the name and the exact specification of his star.

Sen knew what exactly they wanted to know. And was knowingly delaying the answer to make them suffer more.

"Oh~~~!!" exclaimed Rikka and didn't ask anything more.

Seeing the room became silent again, Aryan took the initiative and broke the silence in the room by asking, "Reeee~~~~ We almost forgot to tell you about the sage star cultivation. Do you know about it?"

"No~~~!!" Sen answered. The moment he heard about the sage star cultivation, he searched through his memories to find something about it. But to his dismay, nothing was present there.

"Actually it's expected. It's a common norm not to tell the kids about it till they become ten and awoken their power."

"I see~~~"

"Yes, let me tell you more about it. But before I do, do you know the reason why you collapsed yesterday?"

"Due to over drainage of sage energy from my soul sea," Sen replied hesitantly. He knew it very well that even though he had a very big soul sea, he forgot to absorb energy into it. And till the moment he collapsed, he was using the energy that was present in his body for his daily necessity.

"Yes, and do you know how to fill energy into your soul sea?"

Sen was about to say "yes" when a memory flashed in his mind he found out the concept of chakra and dantian wasn't available there.

Suddenly, his face darkened, and he was thrown into deep contemplation.

'How the hell people of this world cultivate then? They don't have the concept of chakras nor have the concept of dantian, do they follow any other methods?' thought Aryan.

And to his surprise, he found out the answer was "yes" some moments later.

"Let me tell you about the sage star cultivation," told Aditya and began his long explanation. According to him, the sage star cultivation doesn't involve digging into your cultivation star and ascending to higher levels.

Sen "…."

'What did he mean by digging into your cultivation star?' He was literally thinking about digging into his cultivation star like a mine labor.

While he was getting funny ideas about it Aditya's voice dragged him into reality and continued the explanation.

When he meant digging, he didn't mean digging physically. Here digging means forming a stronger connection with the core of your star.

Once again Sen couldn't understand anything and asked him to explain more clearly about it.

Seeing that his grandson was having difficulty understanding Aditya's explanation, Grand Elder intervened and asked Aditya to explain in a better way.

Aditya got pissed by his interference and said the exact word that Grand Elder wanted to hear.

"If you can explain him better then please do the honor and take the command."

"Sure, why not," replied Grand Elder and stood from his seat to begin his explanation.

Aditya was in a daze why that crafty father of his took on the challenge and stood off for explanation, later to find out it was all to gain more attention from his loving Grandson.

"Ahem, let me clear it properly then," said Grand Elder and went near the balcony to get some fresh air.

After breathing in some fresh air he came inside and began his detailed explanation that made Sen understand everything.

"Sen, first of all, forget everything that your dad told you now."

"Okay."

"Good, now let me start,"

"Sure go on,"

"Hm…. Sen the thing is we use the bonding between our cultivation star and our soul to ascend higher. Am I clear?"

"Yes, we use bonding right?"

"Yes, and the more you are bonded with your cultivation star the more you will ascend higher."

"Oh~~~!!" Sen pondered over something and asked, "Care to explain how to do this bonding with the cultivation star? And what to do if someone has seven stars or a group of stars as his cultivation star?"

"Mhm… Answer to your first question, you can bond more with your cultivation star core by doing meditation and using its power regularly. The more you use and meditate the nearer you will get to your ascension."

"Oh~~!!"

"Yes, and answer to your second question, I don't know."

Sen "…."

'What does he mean by doesn't know?'

"Lil boy, it's my first time hearing about someone who has more than one cultivation star. We the peoples of the sage universe have always been born with one star that we awoke at the age of ten."

Sen "…."

"I think you are talking about the lower realms cultivation!!"

Sen "…"

"Yes, now I remembered. I think this thing is possible in the lower realms of the universe not in the upper realms. But as far as I remember they don't have sage energy there. They have a downgraded version of sage energy called Chakra energy."

Sen again, "….."

One after another he was facing waves of shocks. First, multiple cultivation stars don't exist there. Second, about the lower realms, most probably the realm from where he belonged, and now about the chakra energy.

For a second he was having doubt whether the 7 sages have sent him to the future or past. And if past, then past of a parallel universe or transmigration into someone.

Some of his doubts got cleared after his gramps opened his mouth and explained further, while the other doubts still remained.

Sometime later Grand Elder told him that in one of the lowest realms of the universe there exists a downgraded version of sage energy called Chakra energy, but the civilization living there hadn't started its use yet. Not only that they don't even know about cultivation.

Hearing all this Aryan was cleared he was in the past, at a point of time where his old world didn't even know the meaning of cultivation.

Now whether he was in a parallel universe or transmigration that he didn't know.

He wanted to think more about it. But thinking over such stuff was useless without any information. So he cleared up his mind and listened to his gramps explanation.

After hearing him out completely, all he understood was he just had to meditate and use his star's power daily to ascend to a higher level. Using drugs and elixirs was another method, but according to Grand Elder, it may show negative effects in the long term.

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