Sitting down next to Uehara, Volkarin let out a smile.

“Son. You must be prepared for everything.”

Uehara’s expression was blank as he replied.

“You cheated.”

“As I should have. I’m a god. I’d sooner kill myself than suffer a defeat at the hands of a greenhorn who hasn’t even lived for a century.”

Holding his shoulder, Volkarin spoke.

“Son. Did you not expect that this father of yours would have a few tricks up his sleeves? You will never defeat me, even if I was blind, deaf and paraplegic. So stop being in this pathetic state of yours and get up. No son of mine is allowed to wallow in defeat.”

Uehara got up after hearing Volkarin’s speech and brushed off the terrible defeat he faced. Looking at his father straight in his eyes, which would be considered very disrespectful in the culture of surins, he asked.

“Father. Please teach me that technique you used.”

Looking at his son fierce determination in contrast to his meek state just a few moments ago, he was impressed, Unfortunately, a serious expression on a five-year old was never the modicum of seriousness. In fact, with Uehara having hair so long and a face so clean, he could almost pass for a girl.

And seeing how Uehara puffed his cheeks and looked at him with fierce determination, Volkarin couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

The laughter went on and on. When Volkarin was about to recover, he would burst out laughing when looked at his son again.

Wiping his brow after a satisfying laughter, he looked at his son who maintained his fierce expression. Holding himself back from laughing again, he spoke.

“Son. You would have to be at the 5th Gate to learn this technique, and that’s minimum. Even if I wanted to teach you an extremely watered down version, you’d have to be at the 3rd Gate. Teaching you right now when you haven’t even entered the 1st Gate, you’d erase yourself from existence entirely.”

Uehara clenched his fists. It could be seen he was very unwilling to admit his inability to qualify for this technique.

[If I can just learn this technique, everything would become so much easier.]

Seeing his son in such inner-turmoil, Volkarin sighed.

“Although I can’t teach you, I can at least tell you about its concept.”

Hearing that Volkarin would explain the technique to him, Uehara was suddenly filled with thoughts of maybe creating a bootleg version of his own.

Sitting down in the lotus position, his eyes were wide open.

“This son is listening, father.”

“Ha. This son of mine really is too hardworking.”

Lifting his hand, a purple sphere formed in his hand.

“This son, is called void arts.”

Instantly, Uehara had a question but he prevented himself from asking and waited for his father to finish.

“To learn it, you will need to master every single aspect of chakra and also every aspect of ki. What that means is, you must be proficient in every single element, including the conceptual elements and be able to fuse all six elements into one stable energy. For ki, you must know how to skillfully use it like it was your own limb as well as understand the energies of hakai and dankai, especially hakai. Once you’re proficient enough, you can start creating void arts.”

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The purple sphere in his hand dissipated to form a blue so serene that it contrasted greatly with the white sparkles around it.

“While I’m talking about void arts, let me tell you about the next step of your training that you must complete before reaching the 5th Gate. As you can see in my hand, this is chi. It is a type of energy born from the fusion of chakra and ki. Chi fuses every single aspect of chakra and ki. With it, I can create almost anything and with this chi. I was able to improve my void arts further using chi and combining my knowledge of chakra with the ‘destroying’ aspect of hakai, I was able to create void chi, which enhanced my void arts to new levels.”

Uehara was amazed with what he was hearing. He himself knew that such a high amount of work would take at least a few centuries of research.

Volkarin almost smirked in pride after seeing how amazed his son was. Dissipating the chi in his hand, a book appeared.

“This is the book that contains my research from when I was nine-hundred years old. In human terms, I would be around fourteen to sixteen years of age.”

The book flipped itself open to a page filled with surin script.

“I was still on Planet Surin and our planet was thriving. This was when I was trying to research void arts and was still in the trial phase.”

Handing his son the book, Uehara began to read it.

[Void Arts: Entry- 69

The void keeps eating my cells that are regenerating. It seems this occurs when I increase the concentration of void arts in a single area. As soon as the threshold is crossed, the void arts starts devouring my body. I think that it is my body that is too weak to handle the void arts but I am not completely sure. Maybe it’s because I lack better control over it or maybe my chakra veins aren’t up to standard. When I increase the output more, my chakra veins also start getting damaged. But changing my already established chakra veins to suit void arts will be such a pain in the behind. I can’t say a** because that damn old man will kill me. I don’t want another beating. Anyway, back to the topic. Using void arts is the same as if scorching acid was shoved into my core and spread throughout my network. I will see if there are any changes after I manage to master my control over ki and then create pure chi. Maybe that will allow me to finally use void arts without feeling like my insides are melting everytime. With that, maybe I won’t have to spend the next five centuries re-establishing my Gates just because I wanted to change my veins. I’m also not willing to utilise that scrap of impure energy those human gods call chi. Those idiots. I’ve seen that energy and I for one, would not even in my wildest dreams be willing to use that disastrous union of chakra and ki. That’ll ruin my core in the long run or maybe cause me to stagnate, unable to continue any further in my path to power. No way will I allow that. I want to see the look in their faces when I show them how superior my chi will be compared to that scrap they call chi. Although I’ve never heard of anyone combining these two types of energies perfectly, I am adamant in trying. I won’t settle for less. Although I can feel my chakra veins burning apart everytime I try utilising ki, I add a bit of water chakra to lessen the burden. It has proven to have worked of course. I’m a genius after all. I mean who else can you think of who could mold water chakra with ki? Either way, enough with the flaunting. I think it has to do with how versatile water chakra is that it more or less easily fused with the ki. This has led me to another theory of mine of combining chakra and ki by using the water aspect of chakra as a go between, like a lubricant of sorts. As I grow up, I’ll be able to completely fuse the two, though I’ll try to complete this before I reach two thousand years of age. I can just imagine being called the progenitor of true chi, something even gods themselves don’t have…I hope. If I can manage to create chi, I’m sure my strength will increase by leaps and bounds and then maybe, I’ll be able to control void arts without flaying my own arm. For now, I can atleast create a low concentration void cloak. If I can increase my mastery over it, I’ll be able to venture into the angel’s domain without having to fear their ki destroying me. Perhaps I’ll even be able to go to hell itself and meat meet the death god of surins Maybe wring his neck and ask for my father and mother’s soul. I’m getting off topic here but thinking of the possibilities excites me. But still, even if he spits his blue soul devouring flames, they’ll be devoured by my cloa-]

Uehara flipped the book over but could find nothing but empty text. Volkarin decided to explain.

“I couldn’t complete that page because that was the day when humans arrived with an army amassed from several hundred galaxies to attack our planet. Either way, I was way too young when I tried using void arts. I was at the 5th Gate then but as you can see, I had damaged my chakra veins a lot because I couldn’t properly control ki. It was only because I awoke my mandala that I managed to recover the damage done to my chakra network.”

Uehara flipped back to the page and pointed at where it was written “I’ll be able to venture into the angel’s domain without having to fear their ki destroying me.” and looked at his father for an answer.

“It’s relatively simple to explain that part.”