Chapter 200 - Nine Days Remain

"Huh, why are you all looking at me like that?" Sen asked in a puzzled tone. But that's not the thing everyone around him heard. All they could hear was "Mehquen queeeeuieyr eiueuoiwqi" from Sen's mouth.

Seeing no one was answering his question, Sen asked the same question again, and this time in a loud voice. But even then no one replied to him, and all they were doing was to keep on staring at him.

Sen was already getting that feeling. But he was refusing to believe in it. He had already realized that he was young now. Young enough to be called an infant at that time.

He raised his hand and had a look at it. And as anticipated, he was in the body of a baby now. Small, cute, baby.

All of a sudden he felt like his head was hit with a big hammer. Thinking about spending another twelve to thirteen years to learn everything from scratch and get his powers back. His head began to ache with severe pain.

In time of his despair, a tremor was felt inside of his soul sea. Sen closed his eyes and dived there to check for the signs of sudden disturbance he felt from there.

Inside his soul sea, at the middle an object was illuminating golden yellow light. Aryan went there and waved his hand to disperse the light around that object. Since it was his soul sea, everything there works as per his wish.

The light dispersed, and behind it he found a grimoire. A golden yellow grimoire with some ancient patterns on it.

Sen was taken aback when he saw the grimoire of the 8th sage again. Last time he saw it in his old world after the peoples of earth and other solar systems were vanished by the CREATURE.

Sen went near and willed in his mind to open the book. The book began to glow again and the sun pattern on it became golden white.

The book was already levitating in the air, but after Sen willed it came into his hand and started to turn out pages.

Sen had no idea why was it turning pages on its own and how to stop it from doing so. Before he thought of a way to do something, the turning of the pages stopped. Sen had a look at the contents of the pages and after having a complete read of it his eyes widened.

Without doing any further delay he started to chant the sutras on it. The ancient texts on the page came from the grimoire and revolved around Sen.

Back in the sage world Grand Elder and Aditya were having a fight on who will first carry Sen. After having an intensive fight of stone paper scissor Grand Elder won the match and took Sen in his arms.

Suddenly, the small baby body of Sen started to glow and thud!!

Grand Elder fell on the ground and on top of him was a young man in his 20s. Pink overcoat, white sleeved full shirt and a red tie.

The figure and his clothes were recognizable before anyone said something Sage Empress was the first one who waved her hand and dragged Sen towards her embrace.

"Honey, you are back again!!"

"Huhhahahaha, I am back. I am finally back!!" Sen laughed in excitement.

Now that Sen was looking like someone in his 20s, and a bit older than the empress, he was deemed a good match for the empress.

She didn't want to waste any time and asked everyone to prepare for the conference. In the meantime, Sen was trying out his newly gotten powers in the garden.

After half an hour when everyone gathered in a room Sen and Empress entered and asked everyone to take their seat.

Excluding Grand Elder, everyone else took a seat as asked by the empress and kept on staring towards Sen. Although it was known to everyone the figure in his 20s was Sen they still can't believe the sudden changes in him.

"Ahem, I think we should start explaining now?" Grand Elder asked in a low voice.

"Please do." Allowed the empress. And with that Grand Elder closed the lights of the room.

Amidst of the darkroom a small light particle came into existence.

"It was the time when the Yang emperor was alive," Grand Elder started his narration. Everyone was paying attention to him. Especially Aryan, since he hadn't recovered his memory he was paying his full attention towards him.

As the narration continued the light particle in the dark kept on changing colors. The narration started from the time when the Yang Emperor came to know about the conspiracy of the dark side.

The Yang Emperor was a very powerful figure, enough to defeat the armies of the Yin side, but the involvement of such powerful figures would have created a ruckus all around the world.

So to wipe clean the armies of the dark side Yang emperor created a weapon, powerful enough that one swing can kill thousands.

After the war, the Yang Emperor hid the weapon somewhere to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

And with that, the narration came to an end.

The room was lit up again and Grand Elder took the vacant seat that had been empty for a while. This time the empress stood up and drew everyone's attention towards her.

"I think everyone is pretty much about the divine weapon of the Yang Emperor right."

"Mhm.."

"Yes."

"Yep."

"Good, now we have to get that weapon for Sen again, and make him prepare for the upcoming war."

"Okay, but what war?" asked Grand Elder in a serious tone.

Some time ago he was sure something big was happening, and the empress was hiding something from them. But now that she had revealed the reason, it was time to dig out everything from her.

The Empress was aware that the others would ask her the reason and for the very same reason she had come up with a perfectly made fake story.

"Yes, it's time to reveal the truth to everyone. Not only to the sages but also to the other high rankers too."

Empress started her perfectly designed fake story after the Yang Emperor defeated the army of the dark. According to her story at that time one of the minions from the dark side was aware that the Yang Emperor already knew about their plans and would try to ambush them at one place.

But instead of telling it to his companion the minion of dark tried to take advantage of that news. He started a ritual in which he had to offer thousands of dead bodies to a certain deity of the dark. And in exchange, he would get attributed beyond the imagination of anyone.

He started the ritual and waited for the Yang side armies to annihilate the Yin side armies, and when thousands of bodies fell down on the ground he tried to summon that certain deity and offered him all the dead bodies.

One thing he wasn't foreseen was the powers of the Yang Emperor, when that certain deity of darkness arrived, Yang Emperor was clearly able to feel her presence and arrived at the place of ritual.

But before he reached it was already very late for him. That certain minion was no more a minion and had already gained tremendous powers from the ritual and the sacrifice.

While the Empress was telling about all this, something else was reverberating in Sen's mind. And this time he didn't sit silent and instead blurted it out for everyone.

"The yin yang, an ancient symbol of harmony and balance, challenges the conventional association of light with good and darkness with evil.The complexities of human behavior and experiences by placing them in one of two categories — part or whole, negative or positive, competitive or collaborative — yin yang emphasizes the necessity of each to create balance. Following this mindset, light and darkness lose their original associations and become part of the deeper dynamics at play in an individual's journey."

"Huh?! Sen, why are you chanting my attribute's profound knowledge?" asked the Grand Elder.

Sen, "In Daoism, yin is associated with darkness, depth, weakness, submission, intuition, and femininity. On the yang side, there is lightness, warmth, summer, aggression, rational thought, and masculinity."

Grand Elder "…"

The Daoistic use of those metaphors is very different. Darkness is not something to be overcome. Darkness is something that's part of the natural rhythms and flows of the universe, and you need dark and light — you don't even know what one is without the other.

"In Daoist philosophy, dark and light, yin and yang, arrive in the world after the birth of the Yin and the Yang Emperors. It becomes sensible from an initial quiescence and continues moving until quiescence is reached again. For instance, dropping a stone in a calm pool of water will simultaneously raise waves and lower troughs between them, and this alternation of high and low points in the water will radiate outward until the movement dissipates, and the pool is calm once more. Yin and yang thus are always opposite and equal qualities."

"…."

Empress understood what was going on and asked the others to fasten up their works. If she was not wrong Sen only had nine more days, till he retains the power of the other sages inside him. After that if he doesn't release them, he will undergo a super massive heavenly tribulation that may end his life and soul forever.