While levi slept, old gray observed the tattoo moving about. after completing the sun symbol, it stopped moving completely. after observing it, he left. he had used power that was dormant inside his body for hundreds of years, and the effects were showing, as a line of blood flowed from the corner of his lips. "unnn...." after a few days, Levi finally woke up. he opened his eyes and looked around, old gray was gone, no where to be seen. "..." opening his mouth, he realised that his throat was dry. he tried to move, but found that his body was weak, so weak that he could only barely move his fingertips. "...!" but he realised something. he was weak, but he could move! feeling for the different bloodlines in his body, he found that all of them gathered just around his dantian, but not inside it.
" oh, you are awake boy." old gray appeared. his eyes were slightly dark, and he looked tired. " old...gray.." Levi forced the words from his dry throat. " eat something, boy. before you fell unconscious, the yin yang seal did a number on your body. if that thing didn't suppress it like that, then you would probably be dead." old gray said. since levi couldn't move, old gray fed him. although Levi tried to ask something, every time he opened his mouth, old gray would shove food into his mouth.
" what thing...are you talking about?" Levi asked, after all of the food was eaten. his ability to speak had gotten much better. " look just below your navel." old gray opened up levi's robe, and just above his underpants was a black sun symbol, a yin yang symbol inside of the sun's flames. " i thought that..the core was damaged?" Levi's eyes widened with surprise. " hmmm, as i said, i don't know what that thing is. but after it did what ever it did, it hasn't moved. over the 3 days that you have been asleep, it didn't move, nor did it dissapear." old gray said.
"..." levi kept silent. there was a possibility that his core was completely destroyed, and if that was the case, then what would he do? the core had so many vital functions that he didn't even know about before now, that could kill him if they stopped working, what about the one's he didn't know about? all of these thoughts ran through his head, but after a few minutes, he pushed those thoughts to the back of his head. the main point right now was that the problem with his bloodlines was solved, for now.
" old gray, the bloodlines are outside...of my dantian....but aren't moving..." Levi said. " oh? so i'm guessing that you didn't direct them towards the seal like i told you? haah, but that should have been obvious. you passed out directly after i put the seal on you." old gray sighed. " you said that your bloodlines were fighting each other in your body, right? however that works, couldn't they have felt something even worse, that could destroy all of them, and decided to work together to stop it? well i doubt that those bloodlines could stop THAT seal in particular, not alone anyway." old gray said.
"why...is that?" levi asked curiously. " those two materials, do you know what they were?" old gray asked. "of course you don't, so let me enlighten you. the extreme yang material, was a piece of azure dragon scale, i acquired it by chance in a giant volcano, sitting at the bottom." old gray said with a smile, as if recalling a fun memory. " while the extreme yin material, the white liquid, was a moon drop. one moon drop alone, takes millions, to billions of years to form, and that is only in the coldest places, with the most concentrated yin qi! i found it at the bottom of a frozen sea that was even bigger than the cloud continent. in that place, defensive qi is pointless. it was only by luck that i made it out alive." old gray said with a light smile.
Levi's eyes widened. he was so shocked that he even forgot to say anything. dragon scale? at the bottom of a large volcano?! but mainly, piece of an azure dragon's scale?! didn't that mean that azure dragons were real?!?! also, a moon drop that takes millions of years to form?!! really?!? and old gray used those priceless treasures on him?!?! he froze with shock, unblinking. clap!" boy? are you sleeping?" old gray clapped a few times, bringing Levi back from his daze. even after coming back, he still couldn't say anything. " did the yin yang seal mess up your brain? sigh, there is always a problem, isn't there?" old gray sighed as he got up and dissapeared.
Levi was left in a state of shock for a few minutes, before his sense returned to him. "....how do i open that seal?" Levi pondered. "open." he spoke aloud. nothing happened. 'open.' he said internally. nothing happened. "..." he then had a thought. puff! a black flame appeared before his forehead, as a line of mental energy was directed toward the yin yang seal on his stomach. "!!!" after sending mental energy into it, he felt a large suction force inside his body. his body wasn't damaged by it, but he knew, because he felt that his bloodlines were being pulled into a void like space inside his body. sizzle! but before they could be sucked in. before they could be sucked in, a powerful force repelled the suction force, as the flames of the sun symbol sizzled. " what? i thought that the core was destroyed?!" levi got yet another surprise. " Avesta!" he called out, but got no response. "..." he didn't understand what was happening. since he knew the core wasn't destroyed, why didn't avesta answer him? he mulled over it for a few minutes before putting it at the back of his head.
".....unnn" he tried to sit up, but found that it was extremely hard. "ngggnn!" with a lot of effort, after a few minutes, he was finally able to sit up, sweat soaked his face. after sitting up, he used his arms to cross his legs. shuuu! a thin blood energy rose from his body. "..." he found that his blood energy was now at the second stage. "...fuuuu....ngnnn" he forcefully dragged his tired body from the bed, going to one of the windows. "...how do i get out of this room?" he mumbled. as he was thinking this, a door appeared on the wall. he opened the door and walked out, only to find that he stepped straight into the grassy plain. he sat cross-legged on the bright, grassy plain, and started practicing the water commandment.