New Path and Bloodline'

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Izanagi was having a hard time. As soon as Shun had released the seal locking up their spiritual energy, he felt a splitting pain in his head and blacked out.

When he regained consciousness, he found himself in the middle of a storm. Now, his first reaction was to analyze. He could remember that a minute ago, he was with his sister and family.

Shun was patting their head and was about to unlock the seals on their body, and then, he was here. Wherever here was.

As he was trying to figure out where he was, he heard a cracking sound, and with the crack, came a searing pain that he couldn't describe.

He felt like his entire body was being pierced by countless needles and he couldn't make out the origin of the pain.

Being in an unknown environment and experiencing something new, set off a new emotion he hadn't felt before. He had always been the meticulous and analytic one, but this was something beyond him.

'Calm down. Let's be calm, now, what happened? Father probably unlocked the seals on us. The seals on our body were locking three aspects of our strength. Father said the first seal was the seal on our so Iritual energy, then the seal on our body, then the seal on our chakra.'

'If I'm to go by what we've learned star, I would say that this is my mindscape and I came here due to some reaction after father unsealed it. But why is it cracking?' He thought as panic was beginning to set in, albeit slightly.

'My mindscape is the passageway to my soul, according to mother, if this place ever breaks, it would lead to dire consequences.'

Areeachung this conclusion, he did the first thing that came to mind. He sat down and began meditating.

The meditation helped reduce the pain he was feeling with every crack, but he also felt that the more time passed the more pressure he would face.

Although he came to this conclusion, he couldn't do anything about it. So with nothing left to do, he remained in his meditating posture.

The storm of energy became more erratic as time passed and he could feel that at any moment now, he would succumb to the pressure and his mindscape would Collapse.

At one point, he felt two foreign signatures enter his mindscape but he couldn't spare them any attention as he remained concentrated on his problem.

Shortly after these two signature entered his mindscape, they left. Although he couldn't particularly make out who these two were, he felt that they weren't bad as one felt particularly close.

Time went by and he was reaching his limits as he was about to give in to the pressure, he felt a soothing energy entering his body, reducing the pressure he was facing by a great seal, then, he heard his father's voice giving them instructions on how to go about it.

As this foreign energy entered, he regulated himself and thought, "cultivators, huh?"

'Father, mother, and aunt always forced us to read those books, and although I find them mind-boggling their world principles and energy theories are actually more detailed than what grandpa teaches'

'Even their classification of strength is more elaborated. Since father said those theories would help now, I'd give it a try.'

With the pressure lessened, he had more room to think, and opening his eyes to look at his mindscape once more, he thought,

'During the times when cultivators open their knowledge sea or ea of consciousness, they also feel this pain I feel albeit lesser as they have a methodological way to do so.'

'Father said I should cultivate, so cultivate I will.'

Boom

Reaching this conclusion, he stopped holding back the cracks appearing on his mindscape, a loud booming sound was heard and his entire mindscape shattered. The sea of spiritual energy flowed out and swept him along.

Similar to Izanami's experience, he felt at peace at that moment and saw the magnificent sight of his body from a whole new point of view.

As he marveled at the star-like appearance of his body on a microscopic level, he nearly forgot his aim until he felt two bodies of energy entangled with themselves slightly ahead of him.

He faintly recognized in of those energies as he could feel it belonged to him, while the other felt foreign.

'This just be the energy father sent into our body.' He thought as the sea Of spiritual energy flowed toward it.

Reaching this new energy, he felt the many characteristics of both energies.

The one that was familiar to him gave him a strong and unshakable feeling while the spiritual energy he flowed with gave him a flexible and soft feeling. The foreign energy gave the feeling of both energies and more, but he couldn't put a hand on it. He felt it wasn't dangerous though.

As the three energies mixed, he was at the center of it all and immediately did what he felt was right.

He gathered the three energies in form of strands and curled them around his body.

At first, he felt a slight rejection of his control but as time went in, he got the hang of it.

When he gathered enough strands, he immediately sent it back to his mindscape with the direction to form a larger, stronger one.

He had seen descriptions of different kinds of 'sea of consciousness' and although he doesn't know how it was really, he could use his imagination as a foundation.

He had also been to Shun's, Hinami's, and Ria's sea of consciousness and although they all said it was their mindscape, he knew better.

So with that in mind, he continuously channeled the strands of energy into his mindscape in a bid to heal and further strengthen it.

After spending some time on this, he managed to heal up his mindscape and further develop it into a proper sea of consciousness, and although there was no sea in it, it was larger and more definitive than before.

If before, it was illusive, now it seemed physical enough.

With that done, he focused on his step of action, forming his chakra. He had been taught that chakra was the combination of spiritual energy and physical energy, but this new foreign energy had the component of the two energies.

Shun always thought them that energy can't be created from anything as it already exists, but can be changed from one form to another, meaning that this foreign energy had an origin and this origin also possessed spiritual energy, physical energy, and another energy he wasn't familiar with.

This other energy here was what gave him the soothing feeling from before. It felt homely as if it would never hurt him.

Deciding to give this a try, he channeled his focus Into mixing the there energies to form a new one.

Although this body of his was not well-versed in cultivation, refining this energy did not require such refinement. A powerful consciousness was all it needed.

Time went by.

Izanagi took almost 4 hours to fully refine the cluster of foreign energy

As he did this, a new bundle of energy was taking form.

That bundle of essence energy inside him, which represented the chakra, gradually grew stronger due to the foreign energy. Finally, it condensed and turned into the core.

With his core formed, Izanagi's spiritual energy gained a tremendous increase.

His formerly sparse sea of consciousness became filled with an abundant sea of energy and with this new energy, came a change in the sea of consciousness.

On the sky of his sea of consciousness, six large shining stars took form and illuminated the entire space around it. Around those six large stars, seven smaller ones revolved around them in an orderly manner. And in the middle of these stars, a new humanoid figure took form.

This humanoid figure was Izanagi's soul but it was the same size as Izanagi physically, 12 years old.

As it opened its eyes, it looked like I God gazing down on the world with an indifferent and apathetic face.

Of course, it was a God in its right but inky in the sea of consciousness.

A few seconds later, it closed its eyes and silence descended on the sea.

As all this was going on in Izanagi's Sea of consciousness, a similar but more interesting thing was happening in Izanami's.

In Izanami's case, her soul held another star In her left hand while looking down with a Godly demeanor.

Unknown to the two, this was the crystalization of their bloodline and affinities.

The six stars representing their six unique abilities while the seven stars representing their affinity to all elements.

The star held in Izanami's ad though, was a star representing an amalgamation of all these abilities in one although that would be discovered at a later time.

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Hours passed since the two kids passed out and the allllmosphere was quite the opposite of what one would assume it would be with their loveable grandchildren passed out.

Shun had, in the heat of the moment, 'invented' a chess board game and was currently in a match against Hinami.

Hagoromo and Hamura were seated at a different table with their own board seemingly too indulged in the game to notice what was going on around them.

Shun who was smiling as he played against Hinami suddenly shook and looked at the bodies of the kids and smiled broadly and said.

"Seems like they are about to wake up."

Hinami shook in excitement and looked at the bed where the two children were lying.

In the separate domain created by Shun, Izanagi and Izanami's eyes fluttered open, and looked around in confusion before realization dawned on them at the same time and they swiftly sat up only to shoot up from the bed at an astonishing speed.

"What the fuck?..."