Old Man

"When you get to my age kid, you don't just see lies, you can feel it, from your breathing down to how your body movies, to the way your eyes move, how you hold your body posture, and even down to, on how you move or twitch your muscles on your face when answering a question,"

"Well, from the looks of it you don't know how you arrived here, but at the same time you also seem confused on how you got here!"

"Even though I wasn't fully aware of what happened to you, but from sensing around you and the rest of the area. You got caught up within something and though I don't know exactly who they are, I have a pretty good idea of how they got there and why they are there, and what they're trying to do, but will talk about them later!"

"What!"

" Even though I'm very strong, I won't live for long if I don't keep meditating here, I haven't technically reached the end of my life, though if I didn't find what I'm using today, then I would actually be dead then."

"What do you mean Sir by ...

"Now wait a minute, I know that you are confused kid, I'll fix that up for you very soon, come up here and sit next to me. Let's talk for a little while, I'm a cultivator boy and what you have stumbled upon is my cultivation chamber, I've been through many things, seen lots of places, I've fallen in love, started a family, lost friends, and some family members and witness atrocities, I've seen miracles, read many books, learned new things, had interesting conversations, picked up new hobbies, teached others on how to do other things and through all my times the only thing I really wish I did better, was to stop and enjoy the little things in life."

...

"You seem even more confused?"

"Basically kid, If you don't even try to enjoy the little things, it will all come to an end one day out of nowhere, or even when what your last moments will feel like, will you be surrounded by loved ones crying for you during your last few moments?

"Or "

"Will you have no one next to you as you pass away, with only trinkets and items covered in dust as you try to figure out, where you went wrong, but if there is anything I will tell you, it is to stop and enjoy life, don't let every interesting moment pass you by, and try and do the little things once and a while and don't always stress over the big things in life kid, life's to short to be holding on to grudges or being angry over past mistakes in your life!"

"I guess that sounds good, old man."

"Old Man, haha I haven't heard that one in ages maybe even in several eras, haha kid that was a good one!"

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"Sorry Kid, I didn't mean to bore you with my silly ideas, let's talk about some more fun stuff and stop listening to this old man ramble on and on, well kid? Where are you from, what's your name kid?"

"Well, umm ... ... ...

"What's the matter kid, cat got your tongue!"

Haha

The old man, paused to look at the face of the boy and a small frown was on his face.

"Don't you know, your own name kid?"

"To be honest sir, I don't remember anything, I woke up in that dark place over there, there were dead people and dead children in there with beasts and older kids and there's blood everywhere."

"I was gonna ask if there's a bloodstain on the back of your robes in the form of a pattern, it's an old symbol for life and the one on your left sleeve means Spirit beast?"

"Sir I don't know anything, how I got here, where I'm from and I don't know my -

Aahh!!!

The boy immediately started grabbing his head, as he was starting to have spasms and his body started having veins pop up all over his body, and his skin turned a bright red.

"Boy, take a deep breath, calm down it will pass-

Aah!!!

"My body is heating up, it hurts, it hurts!"

There was steam, rising up from the boy's body and the boy's eyes started changing right in front of the old man.

The man sent a wisp of energy out of his body into the boy's forehead, after a couple of seconds his body began to change back from a bright red, back to a naturally pale skin color and he was now breathing slowly.

"What happened kid, you started spamming and your body was convulsing, and you got bright red and you had veins popping up all over you?"

The boy was breathing slowly and huffing and puffing.

"As soon as I started, trying to remember my name, I heard someone yelling and the harder I tried to listen, the more it started hurting, then I heard a bang and I heard another kid scream my name, over and over several times and until he said stop, go back, go back!"

"He Kept saying my name is Qing She Long, over and over and he looked to be in pain!"

( Hmm... Interesting... )

"At the last second, I saw a circle in this weird way. It was in front of a gigantic door, it was tall and strong-looking it almost looked like metal but I can't be sure, it almost looked like a strange jail cell, the circle object was like glowing, but it looked like it was on fire and it had a bunch of edges and lines throughout it, but it also had inlays and symbols and images within it, it was a weird turquoise color but at the same time it looked like it was covered in flames of bright Jade, and it looked like it was almost breathing... ... ... like it was alive!"

( What the ...

The old man went almost transparent and a purple violet flame covered his body, then he placed his index finger on the boy's forehead.

The old man was transported into the boy's soul space, there the old man was staring at a gigantic wall miles and miles tall, in the center of a perfect circle was a door made of metal bars spaced apart with a glowing inscription symbol in the center of the metal circle bar door.

( Who would place this life Gryph Seal on the young boy, it's beyond cruel, it's inhumane! )

"Don't worry about that kid, at least your feeling better now!"

Even though the old man said that deep down he could feel like someone hit him in the pit of his stomach, knowing full well that what he said was a complete lie.

"What do I do now?"

"I don't know if it's fate, or Luck but sit back down next to me again, I'm going to give you something."

The boy sat down, then within a couple of seconds, the old man made a gesture with his left arm, then flipped his left hand into a different form, he closed his pinky and ring finger and thumb and pointed his middle and index finger straight out, then rotated his left hand once and then moved it up and in front of his chest then turned it sideways.

An old gray cloth scroll was lifted in the air from one of the many piles of stuff Jammed packed full of things with this room. It had a sandalwood baton stick in the center of the scroll, with inlays of gold with several hieroglyphics, and a small violet-colored stone in the center of the top of the baton with a pair of closed eyes on it.

I received this scroll, from an old Sage that had lived as a hermit most of his life after he lost his family to a tragedy, he was decently known to the major hegemons that came before my grandfather's generation, in that Era most people only used or worked with Techniques that had been around for a while, most people during that Era didn't create their own techniques, unlike my generation.

[ Breathing of an Everlasting Black Dao Lotus ]

The old man then began to chant in an old and intrinsic language that the boy couldn't understand.

When the light of the sun 🌞 disappears, the day is overtaken, and the darkness appears, and the beauty of the moon 🌙 accompanies the loneliness of the cold and dark night.

Through, loss there is acceptance, when there is death there is a chance at life, only through change can there be a chance. When you accept the loss of something can there be a chance for something new?

Through the breath of death, there is the creation of life, Everlasting and infuriating pursuit of everything. You are the Dao and the Dao is with you, never dying, never aging, never losing, never winning, in only its pursuit of Everlasting and moving on.

You are the change, you are the law, you are the darkness, you are the Dao, you are the creation of life, through death you create change, everlasting, everything, ever-changing, when you absorb the elements and the stars align you are the right, not the wrong, beginning with a drop of water and rise of the sun on the horizon, you sense and feel everything and see everything all over, through your pain, is others relief.

When you exhale, they inhale, with their exhale, you can inhale, what you must exhale they must inhale, what you take they can give, what they receive you can release, through them there is death, through you there is life.

Through the death of a star, there is the creation of something new brimming with life and new opportunities, life is and can be sad sometimes but it can be beautiful too. From the wishes of an old man to the dreams of a young couple to the ambitions of a healthy man to the nightmares of a child and to the hope of the next day of a captured criminal to the plans of an evil Sovereign there is something to the death of a hermit, there is the birth of creation and imagination of a newborn. Where there is death, there is life, when a tree absorbs Carbon, you inhale oxygen, this is your pursuit of your everlasting Dao.

- Sovereign Hua Duan

Traveling Era . . . 140 Billion Years Before the Rise of The Ancient Imperial Qin Dynasty

Good Luck Kid!

After, listening to the old man say his last words, the boy fell into a trance but unknown to him his life was going to become a lot different but weird and definitely more confusing.

As his eyes closed his body was changing as if for the first time it was breathing on its own accord, his body took a deep breath, then a pale jade color aura washed over his body.

Everything within the room then started shaking and then floated into the air, and then immediately flew into the center of his forehead, leaving a small black lotus on his forehead, it glowed three times then faded into the skin on the boy's forehead. After everything, his body was then floating in an open dark space, almost void-like.

Then things changed again, his body warped into a purple portal and slowly fell onto a small column in the middle of a dimly lit room, in the middle of a man-made pool.