The three of them seated there greeted him Happy Birth Day at once and gave him his blessings. After they had their lunch Grand Elder was the one who spoke out "Lil Aryan today is a major event of your life. Soon you will step your foot onto the path of cultivation, do you know what is cultivation? What are its different stages? And which type of energy is cultivated in cultivation?"
Listening to his bombardment of questions Aryan thought in his mind 'Pfft, Dear Gramps I have accumulated and gained seven hundred years of cultivation in my previous life. Puny questions like this has no meaning for me.'
Aryan cleared his throat and answered "Cultivation is the path to immortality. You will start as a foundation stage practitioner, and then climb from First Stage practitioner up to the 9th stage practitioner, and after that, you have to find your way to immortality.
That answers the first and second questions. Now about the third one, we use spiritual energy called Qi to cultivate our body and mind."
Grand Elder "...."
Anisa "...."
Aditya "...."
At that moment Aryan thinking inwardly 'Hehe praise me praise me, I am the protagonist and the overpowered MC of this novel.'
Grand Elder "Cough, Aryan have you read any history books or something?"
"What?!!"
"Never mind, it's not possible."
Aryan "...."
"Let me tell you this my boy, all the things you just said are completely wrong."
"Crack….crick.." a sound came from somewhere.
The Grand Elder continued "My lil boy all the things that you just said now are the 2 Millenium old history. I don't even know or want to know how in the world you know those things, but its better to erase them from your memory. The path of cultivation has taken many twists and turns in this era, and not the same as you thought in olden days."
After listening to this at one point, Aryan thought if he hadn't stopped his mouth at one point and kept on blabbering about his cultivation knowledge how embarrassed would he have felt after completion of his long explanation.
'You fooker Seven, just come down here once, and I will make sure to spank you a little less than thousand times' is something he wanted to shout out, but refrained from showing such behavior and kept a simple smile on his face while hearing to his gramps.
"Since you are new to the world of cultivation I will personally explain to you everything, that you must know," said the Grand Elder and started his long explanation….
As explained by him, the cultivation system that Aryan told them was the two Millenium old system used by his grand, grand ancestors. But with the flow of time, seven sages emerged from seven different continents, versed in seven different fields of life.
One of them was well versed in the knowledge of cultivation. After he gained enlightenment, he explored all the routes of cultivation and find one shocking truth, that the Qi that they were using was a downgraded version of energy.
All energies like the eastern nation Qi and the western nation Aura emerged from a single entity called Chakra, the purest form of energy in the universe.
When chakra energy remains unused for thousands of years, it degraded itself to Qi, and further degradation makes it what they called Aura in western countries. The seven sages were the first one to comprehend the chakra energy in our body and nature and redefine the meaning of cultivation.
"Bdmp, bdmp, bdmp….." his heart was beating faster, within a span of five minutes Seven shattered his entire cultivation knowledge. His seven hundred years of experience, his cheat card everything was stripped from him, just within some minutes.
Even though he was suffering waves of earthquakes in his heart, each of magnitude nine and above he asked again with a forced smile "So, gramps what about the cultivation chart, it follows from beginner level to ninth level or that too….."
"Wahahaha wahahahaha, yes my boy, that too have been changed. Long ago.
He waved his hand in the air and "Whoosh" a scroll appeared out of nowhere, he handed it over to Aryan and asked him to read it.
He accepted that scroll from his gramps and opened it to take a look, what he saw inside forced another crack mark on his tiny heart.
First Stage: Bhumi Chakra (Earthly Chakra)
Second Stage: Jala Chakra (The Chakra of water)
Third Stage: Agni Chakra (The Chakra of fire)
Fourth Stage: Wayu Chakra (The Chakra of air)
Fifth Stage: Tatwata (Elemental Immortal)
Sixth Stage: Amarta (Earthly Demigod)
Seventh Stage: Iswarta (Earthly Godhood)
Especially the last stage shocked him the most, immortality at the seventh stage!!! Cultivators of the olden era would pay any price to get such a powerful cultivation system.
Aryan gulped down a bottle of water near him and looked at the scroll again and read the new cultivation system of the modern era. No matter how many times he read, he couldn't believe it.
After some minutes of pondering he broke the ice and asked "Gramps, how is that possible we can get immortality at seventh stage? As far as I know, it should come after the ninth….."
"The thing is the teachings of the olden times were entirely wrong" Grand Elder replied laughingly. "They used to teach stuffs like finding your own path, searching your way etc…..They are complete bullshit."
"Cough, cough" Aryan intervened and asked the true meaning of cultivation to his gramps. Seeing his grandson asking him a question with such interest, he became overjoyed and was more than willing to explain him.
He started again and continued his long lengthy explanation, according to him the seven sages have redefined the aim of cultivation. The new objective of cultivation is not to become an immortal.
"Bdmp…" something sounded from Aryan's inside.