Chapter 18: Soul Sea

Inside the crystal was something that looks similar to a galaxy, Aryan examine it from different corners before touching it, no matter how he looked it was a miniature galaxy, Aryan mind was skyrocketing, not with questions but with the profound knowledge of the universe, somehow he got a feeling that thing was somehow related to him and was a part of him, he reached out his hand and tried to touch it gently, "whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh sha" the miniature galaxy began expanding rapidly and emerged with Aryan's psychological inner world, as the end result his psychological inner world looked like a galaxy now with millions of stars and planets, while he was wondering in his own world, he felt someone invaded into his psychological inner world, it was the seven-star constellation, that was waiting just outside his spiritual soul gate to enter.

The seven stars entered his psychological inner world and spread out in different directions, only one of the seven stars remained at the middle, Aryan could feel the location of the other six stars location but they were not shining and emitting power and were in their dormant state. Only the star at the center was emitting radiance and releasing power. Aryan went near the star and touched it, the radiance of the star covered his entire world he closed his eyes against the bright light, when he opened his eyes he found himself hovering mid air, he was getting a feeling that he can control his flight, he willed to land on the platform, and he began to descend, he was drenched in sweat from head to toe, he was feeling weak and was about to fall when some hands supported him from his back, these were the hands of Anisa, Aditya and the Grand Elder. Aryan recovered some of his strength and stood up, and was about to ask something when Aditya interrupted him and said "My boy I know you have tons of question but keep ham for later, for now let me check something", Aditya placed his hand on Aryan's head and tried to dive into his consciousness, he passed through his spiritual soul gate with ease and enter into his psychological inner world, what he saw their stiffened him, Aryan's psychological inner world was in the shape of a galaxy, and in the middle was a star emitting dazzling radiance, he sensed the other six dormant stars too but couldn't pinpoint their location, he went near the star in the middle to appraise it, when he was about to touch it, a powerful force repelled it, even after mobilizing his all chakras Aditya couldn't resist and was forced back, Aditya was preparing himself to force his way near the stars when a voice reverberated "Oh the father of the chosen one please refrain from using power."

"Who are you? Where are you?? What are you doing here???" Aditya asked in an enraged voice.

"Calm down your anger father of the chosen one, it's me the first of the seven sages the Sage Of Harmony." Aditya was shocked not uttering a single word, he was about to say something when the voice interrupted him "Your son is the one chosen by the will of the universe to become it's Guardian, and we the seven sages have taken the responsibility to nourish him."

This time it was time for Aditya to get 9.0 magnitude earthquake in his brain, he simply couldn't process the words he heard, he bowed his head to show the star his respect and was about to ask something when his consciousness get pulled by an external force, it was the Grand Elder, he took a look at Aditya and said "Are you alright you are sweating buckets", Aditya looked at his drenched coat and removed it, his hands were trembling, judging from his son's condition Grand Elder predicted that something unusual must have happened, he asked him he recovered from his trembling "How was it?? What's its shape??".

Before Aditya replied anything Aryan interrupted and asked "Gramps shape of what are you talking about."

"Shape of your soul sea," said Aditya with a smile on his face, "your's is in the shape of a galaxy."

Grand Elder "What"

Anisa "What"

Aryan "What"

Aditya "What"

Red Haired Beauty "Master why are you surprised now!!?"

"Cough cough it was surprising for me too, no matter how I look at it."

Aryan "...."

Looking at his cute son grumpy face Aditya laughed hard and said, "Don't make such faces I am explaining it".

"I am all ears"

"During first awakening everyone gets a set of cultivation technique and open up their spiritual soul gate beyond which rests your soul sea, after you got a cultivation technique your soul sea will start taking form normally it's in the shape of small celestial bodies or inanimate objects like lotus, tress, etc, but your is in the shape of a galaxy, only practitioner of the fifth stage Elemental Immortal or above have such soul sea, that after upgrading it many times, but you have that from the very beginning!!"

Hearing his father's explanation Aryan was dazed, he didn't know what to say, earlier he kept thinking how to get stronger in this life but later found out that his previous life knowledge was outdated in that era, but destiny didn't play too much with him and gave him a major boost on his path of cultivation. Aryan was overjoyed both inside and outside, he asked with a joyful expression "What's the relation of soul sea and it's size??"

"The larger the size the larger amount of chakra you can store" replied Aditya. He didn't tell Grand Elder and Anisa about the seven stars and the seven sages matter and choose to stay silent for the time being.

Aryan had recovered all of his strength and was brimming with energy he asked Grand Elder, "What's the next step after obtaining your cultivation technique and forming your soul sea."

"Hmm… next stage is a time consuming but I think you can do it," said the Grand Elder, "The next step involves decoding your cultivation."

"Decoding!!"

"Yes, decoding you have to concentrate your mental power on the technique and you will be able to decode it."