Pathway To Eternity

It was like yesterday, but five hundred years had gone by since the wheels of reincarnation were turned.

A young woman was sitting in a lotus position in a cultivation chamber inside a cave, her home, located inside a knoll, a small hill. This knoll was located close to the Skyspring village, a large village in the southern province of Ankhora. Ankhora was one of the three continents in this world called Lorra.

She was using the ancient Astral primal technique to circulate the Chi in her body. The astral primal technique was a rare primordial cultivation technique and very difficult to cultivate. The technique absorbed two different types of energy into the body; the heavenly spiritual energy and the stygian, dark energy.

The heavenly energy is the energy needed to form and to replenish Chi in the body. It was necessary for cultivation advancement. The stygian energy was the spa.r.s.e dark energy that caused the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. The astral primal technique combined these energies to expand the dantian and the meridians in the body. Then, these energies would form a large amount of highly condensed Chi in the dantian. It was excrutiatingly painful on the meridians and the dantian, it also made breathing extremely hard when practicing it. But there were great benefits derived from it. The meridians were greatly enlarged making the Chi flowed freely and in large amount. The dantian would be bigger, storing more Chi energy.

The breathing and meditation methods of the technique was similar to the rhythms of the universe. It was a true treasure of her family.

This woman was Reena, an Asura, a demiG.o.d. She was born five hundred years ago, a matter of reincarnation, in a village known as White fountain. A village on another side of the world, on the continent of Xuanpu.

Planet Lorra was a major mortal world of humans. A world of three monarchies.

There were three continents or mornachies on this planet, they were; Ankhora, Xuanpu and Yimachi. A continent was ruled by a monarch, an hegemon soul immortal who had achieved immortal ascension but failed to ascend to the heavenly realm to become a deity. If an immortal ascended to the heavenly realm, neither the immortal"s main body or avatar would be able to come back to the mortal world. Only a G.o.d"s image can be sent back to the mortal world, but with little power. The monarchs didn"t want to part with the mortal world with their physical bodies, they prefered their ruling power in mortal worlds.

And, an immortal without ascension, would forever be at the quangtian stage, an hegemon. The stage of transformation to become a deity.

Each continent was divided into four provinces; the northern, the southern, the eastern and the western provinces. Each of these province was under the controls of a marquis or marquess. A province had many cities, and, each city was controlled by a city lord.

Reena was a young beautiful pregnant lady when her parents moved here with her. They had bought this land from the owner, a young man, who had been eager to move to the city. The bargained price was steep, costing half of their ancestral money, but they loved the quiet location and the vast land. The property they bought had large areas of land, ideal for the farming of millet and rearing of animals. And it was located outside the village area, which made it more perfect.

They, being farmers, had settled in perfectly. They had divided the land into four parts, two large parts and two smaller parts. The two large parts are for farming millets and rearing goats. One smaller part was a practice area for martial and mystical arts. The last one was where a pond was.

Her father, was Aodh Amynthas, a swordman of the Eagleblade clan and a second stage golden core. While her mother, Euanthe Amynthas, flaming claws, of the Phoenix clan, was a first stage golden core.

They had been unaware of the cultivation chamber located under the knoll, until her father made the discovery when he was creating underground storage in the building. The cultivation chamber had been secretely carved out from the rich deposit of emerald green jadeite and emerald blue nephrite, under the knoll. The walls of the cave were all emerald green jadeite, the large area at the center was all emerald blue neprite with a stream of water flowing through the large area of the emerald blue nephrite. The sides of the floor were of white marbles. Attached to the cave ceiling were red rubies. This was a marvel of a cave. A wondrous immortal cave. This was a heavenly blessing.

Since her pregnancy had manifested, she had been absorbing vast amount of spiritual energies inside the cave. She was also consuming large amount of Chi, in the forms of blue crystallines. These were edible crystals formed on the surface of the emerald blue nephrite, due to the crystallization of vast amount of highly dense spiritual energy, streams of water and the emerald blue nephrite which occupied a very wide area at the center of the cave.

Too many crystallines had been formed ove the course of hundreds of millions of years that the cave had stayed hidden. The whole cave was filled with crystallines when they discovered it. They had spent many years mining secretely and created safe storage rooms for them underground. Still, there are many left in the cave.

She had advanced from the Jindan stage to the nascent soul stage within hundred years at the age of five hundred. Her nascent soul was the mini avatar of herself, with white feathered armour and flaming wings. She had grown into a full Asura, born with the divine evasion power, she had become a demiG.o.d that could survived on her own.

"Mastery of the mind. Order and harmony within oneself, only by this can one"s conscious awareness be free to understand the laws and nature of the universe and become harmonized with the universe."

Reena took another blue crystalline and put it in her mouth. Strong Chi energy stormed her dantian, she circulated the Chi from her dantian through her meridiansand back into her dantian. She continued her breathing exercise and meditation using the astral primal technique.

"Understanding true mortal self, is the beginning of understanding the true nature of our universe."

After cultivating for some time, she exited the chamber taking more blue crystallines with her. She went to the training area to practice her Aetherel phoenix mystical art with her feather blade, athrix. The feather blade was her mother"s family heirloom, crafted from the tail feather of a primordial phoenix. Her mother had decided to give her the blade because of her rapid advancement, she could only be a genius. It would be safe and properly used in her hand.

She was slowly swinging the feather blade. Her sword technique was already at the sixth stage of the Aetherel phoenix "s nine stages, but she was at a bottleneck.

"Both mind and body must be cultivated to understand true self. The rhythm of a sword and dynamics of fire nourish the body and soul. But, they can also be destructive. It takes a true self discovery in making a sword, constructive and fire, protective. Intent of the heart determines the nature of a martial and mystical art. Peace, yes, inner peace, to be one with nature."

She thrusted her sword forward and flaming ribbons spreaded out covering the training area in spirals without burning anything. A beautiful scene.

"Art is nature. Nature is art. "

"Gently, Reena, you know you are seven months pregnant. You have been practicing your sword arts and meditation for hours everyday since you became pregnant. Don"t you think you should take it easy a bit?" Aodh looked slightly concerned at his daughter as he walked up to the training area.

"Father. I"m being very careful. It"s just a little practice. Besides, remember what the physician said, to exercise regularly. The more i practice, the more healthier the baby will be."

"Yes, you are right. Just worried about the fire arts. Can you focus on sword art for now? Alright then, let me join you for a little more practice."

They started moving their swords in a perfect rhythym.

"Understanding the laws of nature, the principles of sword arts. To attain perfection, the heart of a sword and force of a blade must become one. A heart of Dao. It"s really difficult, but for you, it"s only a matter of time."

"You flatters me father." Reena smiled appreciatively at his father. Her parents had been very supportive of her, right from her birth. She couldn"t have wished it any other way. She was happy with her life.

They continued practicing for a period of time.

"Reena, let"s stop the practice for the afternoon. Let"s go inside, you need to have a nourishing meal and a rest. Your mother is preparing the yellow coloured mountain goat, it is a rare and magical animal, truly, it will nourish your body and the baby further."

"With all this magical animals, by the time i give birth, i would have turned to a magical animal."

"That would be a sight, a magical phoenix, flying through the sky with wings of inferno, a sight indeed."

Reena"s mind wandered off to the image of her nascent soul. A mini avatar of herself with feathered armor and flaming wings. A flaming bird? She laughed dismissing it from her mind and her father laughed too.

They left the practice ground and headed inside.

Inside the cottage, they sat round a wooden table at the center of the living room. With pots of steaming goat meat on it..

"Oh mother! this is truly delicious. I never knew animal meat can be this tasty. Thank you mother and you too, father." Reena savoured the meat.

"it is really amazing" Reena said smiling

"This is a rarity, the density of the energy in the meat will strengthen the bones in the body and nourish the blood. Even the baby will benefit from it, that"s why you need to eat a lot."

"Eh? Father, do you want the baby to have goat horns and goat hooves?"

They all exploded in laughter.

One hour later.

Euanthe left for the market to sell some of the goat milk from the farm.

"Reena, I will be in the farm if you need me."

He left the cave and headed towards the farming area of the land. On his way, he glanced back at his daughter apprehensively, she was their only daughter. He remembered her husband, Huan Longwei, had died when a portal had opened in their village and an army of fiends had pa.s.sed through the portal from the nether plane and attacked them. They had managed to vanquish them, but many of the villagers had died. It was a sudden attack. Many of the villagers were just foundation stage and evanescent core cultivators, only two elders were nascent souls at that time. The family left the village after that. To raise a child without a father is really difficult. He would try his best to ease the burden as much as he could.

The good thing? Reena was pregnant. The family line would go on.

He remembered when he had gone to the Sunset Hills village in the northern province to look for an alchemist, Tau, an immortal cultivator of the peak stage golden core inorder to buy the Heavens Spring spirit pill. Alchemist Tau had lived for over five million years. Golden core cultivators had a lifespan of 100 million years. He had seen all forms of life on planet Lorra, he wanted to ascend to the heavenly world. So, he had decided to live a simple life to practice his alchemy and cultivate in seclusion in order to reach the Nascent soul stage for his immortal ascension.

"Welcome to my humble place, fellow Daoist. I am Tau, but, you already knew that." Said Tau, looking at Haider.

"Greetings Daoist Tau, name is Aodh, from the Skydome city in the southern province, here on Ankhor continent."

"Long way from home. What bring you all the way to my place, fellow Daoist Aodh?" Tau had furrowed her brow.

"Thank you alchemist Tau. I have heard about your pills, the wonders of your pills. I came to see if i can buy the Rainbow womb spirit pill for my wife. I heard it"s especially good for the baby. I will be grateful if it"s available" Aodh had sought a.s.surance from the alchemist.

"The spirit pill, yes, it is really good for a baby in the womb. It only contained the refined essence life energy from some sources, although, the materials were very rare and a little difficult to gather. The essence energy in the pill, then, combines with the womb nourishments to form the cloud of life around the baby. It naturally flows through the meridians of the baby. The effectiveness of the pill depends on the child, how much of the essence energy child can absorb. The womb nourishments is left to the mother, so, the outcome is not on me." He uttered nonchalan.tly

"All i can tell you about it, is what it does and that, it"s safe. I do have one. Only three were ever made on this planet. Two were made by my father before his ascension. One was sold, but the outcome of it was not that effective. The result and the materials needed, made my father to abandon it. When i came across some of the materials, i decided to give it a go. I searched for the other materials for hundreds of thousands of years, i had to use some alternative materials but the effect should be the same. Still, it will cost you one million spirit stones."

"Uhh..... i will take it." It was very costly, but he had taken it.

Remembering the effect on his daughter after she had taken the pill, had brought joy to his heart.

He happily went to the farm.

In the village market, Euanthe saw a road antique collector. Euanthe was looking for something nice but cheap.

"Greetings mistress, do you want to take a look at my collections? Maybe, you can find something fancy that can catch your eyes? I have all collections of antiques. Magical, devorative, talismans, seals, i have them all."

Euanthe went through the collections and saw a small white crystal paG.o.da. This was something he could give Reena"s child when the child grew up. It looked beautiful as a gift for a child.

"I would like to get this little crystal paG.o.da. How much will it cost?"

"Oh, the gate of seven realms. This is the best. There"s a myth about it. This is a gate that leads to seven ancient realms. There are all forms of treasures there. You see the layers of the paG.o.da? They are layers of treasures. Even, just having it can bring you good fortunes."

"And, why are you not keeping it for yourself? If it has all sort of treasures?"

"Ah, fate mistress, fate. We are not fated to be together. But you, you are fated to have it. Destiny is on your side."

"Hah, very funny. How much is it?"

"With a heart full of sorrow, i will take ten thousand pure grade spirit stones from you."

"Eh? I don"t have that amount, but i can give you one thousand pure grade stones."

"Make it two thousand then, and it will be."

"Two thousand it is." Euanthe paid the money in crystals. Twenty crystals was equivalent to two thousand pure grade spirit stones. She left the market with the paG.o.da in her spatial sac.

Their quiet life in the cave went on without disturbances.

Two months later, Reena gave birth to a boy and named him Haider.

Reincarnation completed.