Naruto: Back in Ancient Times

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Sitting at what is the core of my dimension, I prepared to attempt what all Avatars go through to master the Avatar State, unblocking my chakras.

I already have experience with it when I attempted to unblock my Earth chakra a few years back. That chakra gate had to do with my sense of danger and it was instantly unblocked.

Who wouldn't feel safe in the presence of a kind Godlike being like Hagoromo?

Currently, I am going to be unblocking all of them and will be following the same procedure as Master Pathik guided Aang through.

Entering a meditative state, I guided my spiritual energy through my already opened gate at the base of my spine and moved towards my sacrum where the Water chakra is located. This gate tests me against guilt.

In the depths of my mind, there were voices trying to fuel the feeling of guilt I recently developed towards the way I neglected the issue of Indra and Ashura despite knowing the inevitable rift that will be formed from their quarrel.

I am supposed to feel guilty, yes, but I have already done my bit over the years and also gave them the last bit of advice I could give before they left on their quest. Should they still fight, then that is beyond me.

I could have stopped Zetsu, yes, but those are issues of the past. I could have but if the one being manipulated allows himself to be manipulated despite the love we give him as a family then he is on his own.

I squashed any feeling of guilt welling up from deep inside my mind with reason, the reasons may be stupid but they are reasons nonetheless, as far as I believe them.

After a while, the second gate was unblocked and I continued urging my spiritual energy toward the gate located at my stomach where the Fire chakra is located.

The gate deals with willpower and is blocked by shame. There is no reason for me to feel shame whatsoever for anything I have done.

I have done a lot of things but there has been nothing I have done that warrants me being disappointed in myself.

I could even go as far as saying that everything I have done in this world has left me fulfilled. I have been following my heart and doing the things that make me happy. What's there to be ashamed of?

With my conviction reaffirmed, I noticed a slight increase in my willpower which also reflected in my spiritual energy and aura, and with that my fire chakra gate got unblocked.

The Air chakra gate, located in the heart deals with love and is blocked by grief. I do not have anyone to grieve for. My past life may have not been the best but I am living a new life where millions of people with what they can be are not that fortunate. I don't see any reason to wallow in grief when I can fill my heart with the love I have currently.

My current family, the villagers, and the people will still meet in the future. If living two lives has taught me anything, it is that wallowing in the past and looking toward the future.

I have experienced people's grief from losing their loved ones, I have seen people in near-death situations, and I have also seen their joy when their sick mother, father, son, daughter, wife, or husband is healed and can open their eyes again from their near-death state.

With this, my mind had another breakthrough and I unblocked yet another gate and pushed toward the next.

The sound chakra gate is located at the throat and blocked by the lies we tell ourselves unconsciously. Only by realizing the truths we keep avoiding can we unblock this gate.

I am not one to deceive myself unnecessarily with lies. Everything I have done and is going to do will be right in the very sense of it. To another person, it may be wrong and to another, it may be right. Just as there is no absolute truth in the world, there are no absolute lies. It all depends on your point of view.

This gate held no difficulty in it.

Without further ado, I proceeded toward the light chakra gate located in the forehead, my third eye in a sense. This gate is blocked with illusions and is unblocked by insights.

I was stuck at this stage. I didn't know what to do to pass this obstacle. I was close to completely unblocking all these chakra gates. I had an idea of what to expect In the case of prior gates but with this, I am stuck.

Insight. That is the condition to unblock this gate. What could I gain insight into? I already have all the knowledge of this world and know the mechanism behind the very concept of energy. Spiritual, Physical, and even the Natural Energy that is ever-present.

The five elements and Yin and Yang. What could I be missing?

Ah. In the Avatar series, Master Pahtik dis tells Aang that the greatest illusion was separation. Things thought to be separate and different were in fact, one and the same.

All things came from the same source and will return to the same place where-in they came. Just as how Nature provides for us, and we go back to nature when we reach our end. The natural cycle of things applies to everything. Even energies. Element. Life and death.

They all came from the same origin, but people, be they humans or animals, in our limited thinking and mindsets, differentiate them all, thereby creating boundaries we impose on ourselves and ushering in a cycle of ignorance.

that indeed is the greatest illusion of the world. In any origin story, everything did come from one. Be it chaos or darkness.

In one story, it may be that in the beginning, there was darkness and from that darkness came light and all the other elements came later on, or in the beginning, the world was in chaos, and then one supernatural bullshit happens to separate yin from yang to stabilize the chaos, and from there other element come to be, and after that living beings.

With these new insights into how the world works and what limits our thought processes, the barrier blocking me was loosened and I was able to finally gain access to the sixth gate.

To my surprise, the pathway toward the seventh was already opened up. The thought chakra gate located at the crown of the head just requires me to let go of all earthly attachments.

The pathway being loosened may be because I could gain a deep enough insight into the way of the world but haven't fully let go of my worldly attachments.

Three gates ago it was required to have something you have an attachment to but now it is the opposite.

The gain for unblocking this gate is pure cosmic energy[a/n: from Avatar TLA] but in my case, it would be a vast amount of soul energy or in other words, a vast amount of pure Yin energy.

The question though remains, do I have anything currently attaching me to this world that is important enough to make me stop here? If yes, can I cut it off?

True, I have earthly attachments. The people I have met and most especially the people I grew up with. But then again this isn't the cutting off in which I have to sacrifice them for power. It is merely the act of letting go. Not bothering with things relating to the material world.

Yes, I could. I never had much attachment to material things in the first place. My knowledge of the future may have been a burden but now it's actually a huge help.

I know of things that will happen in the future so I am not going to bother about the things I know will vanish over time.

When I made my decision, I felt the final gate blocking me from the energy pool in my soul, I felt like a chain has be unshackled and I became free

In that moment of release, a lot of things happened. felt a sense of balance between my body and my soul. I guess my previous theory was true. My body became stronger than my soul but currently, they were in perfect sync.

A vast amount of pure energy consisting of Physical, Spiritual, and natural energy left my body and spread toward my entire dimension. At that moment I was still in a state of a breakthrough soi couldn't control what was happening.

The pure energy that was already spread in my dimension came back while drawing all the energy in my dimension into my dantian and was forming what looks like a core.

With the constant inflow of energies, the core became bigger and brighter tilting toward a golden color. Without my control, the core kept on increasing and decreasing, seemingly trying to make the core more perfect.

It was unknown how long had elapsed, but when the last streak of energy was absorbed by the dantian, I felt as though my dantian was completely full.

The color of my Core became bright gold and it shone so brightly that I couldn't even see it properly with my soul sense.

At that moment, my soul was pulled toward the core and as I wasn't in control of what was happening, I watched as my newly acquired soul body was assimilated with the core.

This should be the state of a core formation cultivator at the golden core realm breaking through to the nascent soul. The only difference is that I have already passed the stage of Nascent soul and just reached the soul formation level as my soul has already transformed into an immortal soul so to speak.

I wonder what stage I will be at as this completely goes against the very law of cultivation so I am completely lost here and letting everything play out.

I didn't know how much time had passed before I noticed that the bright golden light had started receding. It kept getting duller until I saw a figure similar to the original soul I formed standing in front of me. The difference is that the figure has more substance to it unlike the former which looked transparent like a typical soul is supposed to be.

When I looked at the soul body in front of me, I instinctively knew what happened. My body and energy levels have already gone through the roof compared to my soul. My normal physical strength plus the natural energy-enhanced breathing technique plus the permanently opened eight gates made my body and energy almost godlike but my soul was developing.

With the unlocking of my chakras, I gave my soul a rise in strength levels but there was already an Imbalance between body and soul so coupled with the energy in the dimension which is indirectly still my energy, my body and soul decided to balance themselves out and that led to what just happened.

Previously, when I was opening all the gates, it reminded me of those quests Demi-Gods are put through before they ascend to true divinity Starting from fighting off your fears, ridding yourself of the guilt, shame, grief, lies, illusion, and earthly attachment that binds their 'Mortal Shell' and then they would then ascend to become full-fledged gods.

In a sense, it makes sense because I felt that by unblocking those gates, I reaped all their benefits. I had an increased sense of self. Sense of Survival, Pleasure[A/N: Self-accomplishment], increased Willpower, sense of Love, Truth of the world, Insight into the truth of the world, and Pure Energy. All these things are now available and I have a new outlook on life.

In cultivation terms, a soul-formation cultivator is already in the realm of Gods and right now, I feel like I can do anything. If before I could regenerate from any wound, now I could regenerate from a severed limb.

I also noticed that my eyes and the seals seem to have fused properly and have been added to my genetic makeup.

The Yin-Yang Release: Creation of all Things seems to have also become doable. Waving my hands I created some crystals from nothing but my energy reserves. I then tried creating a living being. I had the image of a dog in mind and surprise, I could, but it takes a huge chunk of energy.

Looking at the little puppy staring at me, I didn't know what to do with it. Dogs were cool and all but I never was an animal person. I could see a lot of confusion in the dog's eyes but I didn't bother answering them. I just kept It down to do whatever it wanted.

Another improvement is that my chakra is no longer pure chakra but a mixture of their energies. Spiritual, Physical, and Nature and were in a solid form. Compared to Hagoromo's, mine was only a little in quantity but similar in quality. I might even say mine is superior as my chakra is gold in color. And gold is a sign of superiority.

My hair has also undergone a huge change. It went from pitch black to pure Silver white. Not Otsutsuki kind of white but pure silver white. I also seem to have aged a little looking in my early twenties. Looks like one would have to rely on transformation to look the part for some years.

I could now also perform all my techniques with thought. My domain also has become more perfect. In short, everything that I was before, became more perfect.

Changes also happened regarding my dimension. I wouldn't call it dimension now as it seems to have increased in both the size and quality of energy produced. It could now be a whole realm. Not as big as the shinobi world but still big nonetheless.

I also noticed that the seals of [HTC] have become an integral part of the realm. I could now also increase the gravity of the whole realm, shorten its time, hasten it and even stop time in the realm. Similarly, I now control the space here.

I could now also create the Truth Seeking Orb and add the desired effect to it, and manipulate it to form a weapon or anything of choice. The sword Hagoromo gave me previously also had a piece of his Truth-Seeking Orb.

With all this, I don't think I have to be worried about getting old. I could even slumber for years straight and won't have a slight wrinkle on my face.

Time to check how long has passed since I started my retreat.

With a thought, I left my dimension. Spreading my senses, I notice that it has also increased in efficiency, if Zetsu could hide from me before, now I don't even need to look for him to find him. My current Universal Senses could span miles on end and still go further. I wonder If I would also unlock special abilities related to the senses.

I would have to reach human settlements to figure that out. Now though, I should return to the village and see what's going on.

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