As Naath lay in bed unconscious the gentle green light was smoothing the flow of his energies. It spread from his pocket where the jade was stored and slowly started to cover his whole body. Once it reached his wrist though it was immediately absorbed and in a matter of moments the jade was sucked dry of energy and it cracked apart turning to dust. After that the bracelet's white bead gave off a faint radiance and suddenly a light green bead appeared next to it on the bracelet that began to emit the same light. It was at this moment that Naaths mother and father barged in to see their son cocooned in green light breathing peacefully.

The two of them nearly collapsed from relief, leaning on one another for support at the sight. They knew that the incidents that had occurred recently were from none other than their son. While they were relaxing in the room, waiting for their son to wake up from his deep, comfortable sleep, all around the world various powers were discussing. They had all felt the sudden shift in martial energy, a movement on a global scale. There were only two reasons in the history of the world why something like this would have happened. The first an absolute treasure was born and received the blessing of the world itself.

The second was when someone reached a level when they could leave the world and explore the starry sky. However when the second happens there is usually tribulation lightning so everyone quickly dismissed that notion. It also didn't take long for various organizations and informants and spies to spread word of the events in the country of Beginning, despite the people all keeping their mouths clamped shut about it. They were convinced a treasure was born and it caused the people of the world to unconsciously show reverence towards it upon its creation. A treasure on that level was rare beyond words.

Due to this many forces that had long since coveted the country of Beginning’s resources and wealth but had no reason to move, started moving. Armies were conscripted and gathered, cultivators were rallied, whole nations preparing to fight a bloody desperate battle over whatever treasure had just appeared. They were all gathering the armed forces and preparing to move out. The notable forces where the Red Legion that had made a name for itself annihilating all demonic cultivation forces on the continent. The white navy that had managed to fight off a hoard of sea monsters a couple hundred years ago that threatened to wipe the continent clean of all other life.

The most notable of all however was the fact that an assassin organization that had long since wanted to found its own country was mobilizing an elite force named the shadow legion. The country of Beginning also got numerous invitations from various countries after the incident. Of course the emperor ignored all of them and was working on building his armed forces as quickly as humanly possible. Essentially the entire continent now had their sights firmly set on the country of beginning. To the emperor the only real chance they had a fending off the attack, and also the reason for it was in a coma.

This was a calamity for the country to say the least! He met with military advisers, rallied troops, and sharply raised the budget for military recruitment and training. Even in the meeting room with the advisers there was a certain tension now. Everyone knew that war was coming and there was nothing they could do to stop it. Now more than ever the Dojo that Naath wanted to turn into a sect was absolutely critical. They had no idea how long it would be before attacks would come from all sides. There was a navy that would take over the ports, countless armies that would charge over land to break through the defenses. And there were even a few groups consisting of cultivators that would overwhelm the skies. They were surrounded on all sides by a now hostile continent all due to the breakthrough of a single young man.

While all of this was happening Naath was deep asleep but also still conscious. He was in a state of emptiness. A state of nothingness, and in this state his understanding of the void was growing stronger and stronger. He was letting his consciousness become one with the void in order to understand it better. He had no sense of time, it could have been a single second in the outside world or a millennium. In this state he intuitively began to understand how to use the true void arts more efficiently. In what ways the various void energies could be circulated through the body and implemented to be used to their fullest potential

Outside seconds and minutes passed leading into hours while Naath slowly deepened his understanding of the void. After three hours had passed Naath seemed to have reached some sort of spiritual limit for the time being. Consciousness slowly returned to him and he gently opened his eyes. The instant he opened his eyes however he let out a cry of pain and shut them instantly, putting his hands over them and sucking in a sharp breath in pain. It felt like a spike had gone through his mind and soul from all of the information pouring into his mind through his eyes. It was like he could see very single cellular organism in the air!

Naath grew concerned and asked Alchemy if he had any idea what was happening or a solution. Alchemy responded with.

“Well it seems similar to the all seeing god eyes that Formation cultivated, but also rather different. Honestly I have no idea how to help this time, me and Formation were closer than brothers but I had no interest in his secrets so I never really noted down any information. Your on your own, sorry Naath.”

Naath grew panicked but his earlier shout of pain woke up his parents who had fallen asleep in nearby seats. They came over and asked what was wrong, after thinking for a moment Naath said.

“I need a blindfold. It seems that my eyes have advanced a bit more than the rest of my body and my mind didn't adapt fully.”

Naaths mother quickly told one of the guards who then came back after a few minutes with a piece of cloth to be tied around Naaths eyes. After putting on the blindfold Naath slowly opened his eyes just a crack. He jumped when he saw what he did, the world looked exactly the same as it did before he had advanced. The only difference was a distinct lack of colors other than black and white. Naath let out a breath of relief and then had a thought, he got up from the hospital bed and asked to wander around the palace.

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The guards agreed but under the condition that Naath be escorted by them as he moved around. He found it strange but ultimately agreed to the odd condition. He wandered around the palace once he got his permission and first went to a window. Lining the frame of the window were fine curtains made of what seemed like silk. Tearing an even piece slightly he had made another blindfold, this one thinner and more sheer than his current one. He closed his eyes and took off his current one and put on the one made of the thin curtain fabric. Just like Naath thought he could see much more now with this one. However it was still a painful amount of information for him to process.

After that he continued around the palace and grabbed 10 different fabrics and stored the makeshift blindfolds in his storage ring. He put on the thickest one, and he could only see outlines of objects with this one on. Naath nodded his head in approval and decide he would use the various blindfolds to train his new vision and slowly adjust to it. He had no idea what was causing his new vision but he could find that out later using his soul sense to look at his body and learn what was happening. For now he was happy just being able to see and having come up with a solution for the issue at hand. With this issue solved Naath went back to the hospital wing and waited for the emperor to show up.

Unfortunately the emperor was quite busy and Naath didn't see him until 6 hours later. The emperor walked into the room with large rings under his eyes, he might be a cultivator but still 6 consecutive hours of paperwork and meeting would exhaust anyone. When he saw Naath he jumped slightly, worried that the young mans eyes had been damaged somehow. The emperor quickly asked Naath what had happened, curious about just what kind of breakthrough could possibly cause such an insane reaction.

“Thats… A long story first of all I should say I am not using just one or two, but three methods of cultivation. That whole event was my cultivation balancing itself out, as well as me creating special treasure that took much more energy than I had expected to form. On top of all of this it seems my eyes have taken on aspects of my cultivation method. I’m going to need a long time to adjust to my ‘void piercing eyes’ even with this blindfold on I can still see everything around me. As for what my cultivation is right now, well I’m not entirely sure what the name is. I guess since I’m breaking new ground here I get to name these cultivation levels?

Hmmm well, I guess actually since I broke right through to muscle strengthening/ Energy gathering stage, and even the equivalent soul opening realm for soul cultivation. Does that mean I need to name two major stages for cultivation? Well, lets give this a shot. I don’t want the stereotypical foundation forming bullshit. Hmmmmmm. Lets see in the first stage I balanced all the forces in my various cultivations soooo, lets call the first major stage the ‘Energy Merging’ stage? Yeah the Energy merging stage, I like the sound of that, now, in the second stage I formed my true treasure sooo… lets keep it simple, the ‘Treasure Forming’ stage it is! I’m in the early first level of the treasure forming stage, the second major stage of my cultivation system.

The reason the reaction was so intense, I know my own ridiculous abilities are part of it for sure. But I think that it was also in part due to the fact that I was superimposing three cultivation types on top of each other and seamlessly merging there energies together. This created an insane imbalance of energy in my body all at once and meant that my body needed to take in enough energy to balance it. The plus side of my cultivation method is hands down I have vastly more energy in the same realm as anyone following one of the three normal cultivation methods with the same talent level as myself would have. It seems like the energy increase isn't simply 1+1 is two. More like its exponential based on the amount of systems integrated?

So I would have roughly 27 times the amount of energy as anyone with my talents in my realm? Oh shit, right, the true void arts I am an idiot. Haha I forgot that the true void arts naturally also compresses energy. Wow I am a freak huh? Anyway, back to the point at hand emperor, I am fine, better than ever in fact! So can you tell me why I can feel so many cultivators in my energy sensing range marching towards the country?”

The emperor was in a daze, this seemed to be the theme for him whenever Naath was involved. After a few moments he finished taking in the information and remembered that Naath could, in fact, sense the entire planets energy. Not only that but he was in the energy gathering stage now and could probably sense much, much further, how far the emperor had no earthly idea. He let out a breath and explained the situation to Naath, after hearing everything Naath shook his head a chuckled lightly.

“I see they think it was the birth of a grand treasure huh?” Naath glanced at his wrist briefly. “Well they weren't wrong. Ahahaha! However they can never have this treasure, I’m afraid it was made with every type of energy I cultivate in and contains some of my solidified soul. Not only that but anyone who touches it without me reigning in its unique abilities would wither away into dust in a matter of minutes. Well, whatever let them come I have always wanted to fight a battle like this! What do I have to fear? Death? Ive died twice already and here I am! In fact I seem to grow stronger from each rebirth. However I have a family now, so maybe I shouldn't fight?

Senior Chu, how strong are these experts exactly?”

“Well, about that, the generals of some of the nations coming over are in the energy expansion realm. Some are even being led by their rulers in the aura assimilation realm and the ruler of the divine forge country is near the halo condensing boundary!”

Hearing this Naath went slightly pale and his covered eyes went wide, he immediately re-thought all of his plans.

“Damn it all, my earth luck is back, no two ways about it. Okay senior Chu, we need to evacuate, the armies probably wont touch the general citizens right? In that case we need to bring only the essential people, we need to move in absolute secrecy only your most trusted people! I will go and get my brothers and disciples and we all need to flee the country!”

“But-“ the emperor went to argue but was cut off by Naath.

“Senior Chu I admire that you want to stand with your country and everything but frankly, don’t be stupid. The country might loose its ruler and be taken over for a brief time, but we will all come back more powerful than any of our enemies can even fathom! You can take the country back and do some cleanup in the process. Any traitors sticking around will become exceedingly apparent when the various forces try to take over out country of begging!

The emperor clenched his fists and nodded his head, begrudgingly agreeing to Naaths argument.