{A/N: Join my discord at: https://discord.gg/JKjPtVp6.
Just opened it}
.....
Snapping out of my thought, I looked at both girls looking at me with confusion written all over their faces. I know what was confusing them and knew how to answer their confusion, but I felt it would be better to make use of my entire library of fiction and educate them.
I am going to have to show them my Library of Heaven Path. Any Serious Otaku would probably kill to have access to this, alas...
.....
Bringing them into mindscape, I said, "I am going to show you two ways to manipulate your mindscape, use it properly and also develop it into this form you both see now"
Hinami and Ria were confused by what I said and Hinami asked, "What is the difference between ours and yours? I thought it was only this big because of your huge spiritual energy"
I understood their confusion after I'd been calling this mindscape for a while now.
Mindscape and Sea of Consciousness may seem the same but different when you reach a certain level of strength.
I thought of a way to explain this to her in a simpler way, unlike most cultivators who will say, 'you are not strong enough' or 'when you get stronger, you will know'. I don't see any harm in telling her.
"Hmm, Your mindscape is still in its basic form, even when you finish this stage in my training, it will still be in its basic state. When you develop the ability to use it to affect reality, that's when you'll be able to say that you've reached the threshold of my level."
"At my level, my soul can leave my body and still exist without any form of danger attached to it. In a form, I am immortal"
I explained as easily as I can. Hinami seem to have understood a little, but Ria looked lost. Calling my attention, she asked, "Big brother, what is immortal?"
I was shocked for a split second at why she would ask that but after a moment of thought, I realized that it is not surprising that she doesn't know what immortal means. On the other hand, it would have been weird if she knew what it means.
"Immortal means a state of not dying, living forever," I said as shortly as possible, I wouldn't want to put any weird idea inside her head.
"Wow, that's cool, so big brother will stay around forever? Amazing" She said in excitement. I guess she doesn't see the allure of immortality yet.
With that out of the way, I said, "I will now be showing you an example of ways to increase and make use of your spiritual energy in tandem with your mindscape"
Dragging them further into my sea of consciousness, I came upon a Chinese-looking pavilion that was as tall as a nine-floor story building.
I know it looks weird but this design was the only one appealing to me, I thought of a normal Japanese building but it wouldn't look good for a library, similarly, a normal western building seemed bland, so I decided on this.
At the sight of the building, Hinami and Ria both stop and look at it in amazement. Of course, I let them enjoy the view, after all, it's not every day you see such an amazing building.
Hinami first came out of her stupor before looking at me and asked, "What is this building and why did you bring us here?"
"Oh, this here, is the entirety of memory, experience, and more. When you reach the final stage of my training, you would be able to do this. In here, my soul is God, but that's by the way. Today, we are here to show you some interesting things" I answered and continued floating towards the door of the building with Hinami and Ria following me.
Entering the building, the sight that greeted us was an enormous space with countless books floating about, there were no floors, walls, or even ceilings, it could be said to be an infinite void.
"Ahhh" Ria screamed and attracted my attention as well as Hinami's
"What's wrong?" I asked in a panic, nothing could happen in here without my awareness and permission,
"Oh, it's nothing, while we were looking around, I noticed that there was no floor so I thought we were falling and panicked. Ria chuckled nervously and answered.
" Oh," I noticed that we were floating, after all, although this place looks like there is no floor, it's actually an illusion.
"Here," With a wave of my hand, a tiled floor appeared below us.
''Phew," Ria breathed a sigh of relief she probably didn't know she was holding.
"Alright we have wasted enough time as it is now, let's get down to what we came here for," I said and thought of a cultivation novel I have read that has to do with soul cultivation and how to use it properly.
There were lots to choose from but I decided to choose both the 'Dragon Prince Yuan' and 'Martial Universe'.
They both had extreme ways to train their spiritual senses and although those methods were painful and arduous, they did give results.
The reason I choose to follow this route is a sort of experiment, I want to know the effect of Cultivation methods that could be used in this world.
Ideally speaking, cultivation is divided into two, Spiritual energy refinement and Body refinement. A cultivator can cultivate both but he or she will be slower than his or her peers, {Except the Protagonist with their protagonist aura} but they can't mix both energies. The one good point is that they can fight above their cultivation level.
This world energy is unique in the sense that both spirit and physical energy can be mixed to develop a higher form of energy being, Chakra.
Also, similar to cultivation worlds, the natural energy in this world has all five elements of energy, as well as spiritual energy and physical energy.
So my experiment is to check whether spiritual energy can be singled out in the beginning and upgraded and later used to draw in the natural energy, simultaneously increasing both physical and spiritual energy and later turned into Sage Chakra directly{A/N: Senjutsu= Sage Chakra} without first turning it to chakra.
If this works, I could create cultivators in this world. The original purpose of coming up with this method is to see if I could make Hinami imaging for sometime whole also making her stronger than the normal Otsûtsuki.
After deciding on the methods to use for both Hinami and Ria, I did a copy and paste on the memory and four books appeared, floating in front of me, two for one of them.
Seeing the book appear out of nowhere shocked the two of them again but they were rather composed this time around and didn't overly show it.
"This book is stories I came up with in my free time, I will put them in your mindscapes for you to take a look at every day, before and after your meditation exercises. You don't need to worry about how you'll read them, when you open it, you'll know" I said with a mysterious smile.
After saying that, I then asked, "So, what do you think of this place?"
"This place is awesome, and I can't even imagine how you came up with this" Hinami said and looked around the library once more before she sighed and then looked determined the next second.
"It's beautiful, I will be able to create something like this when I am done with this training," Ria said with determination in her eyes, which looked cute to me.
"Of course, you would, after all, you're my little sister and genius, it's a matter of course," I said while pinching her cheeks.
I then looked back at the building again and a sense of fulfillment overcame me. This here is an entire lifetime of anime, novels, and manga. I could go into hibernation just to rewatch all of them again.
I then looked at the books I will be giving Ria and Hinami and a thought came to my mind. Although I read these novels, as the creator of these books, I could make them a world of their own, like an illusion of sorts, so that the moment they both open the book, it would make them the MC of the novel, although they would only watch, hear, see, feel, and even taste everything as the original MC. Though they cant affect the story.
As soon as this thought came to me, I decided to give it a try. While still inside the library, I used my imagination to simulate the entire novel in a Three Dimensional form, this way, it would make them feel like they are there and experience it better.
3rd POV
As Shun was in the process of creating the first-ever anime in the world, he didn't notice the sea representing his spiritual energy in his sea of consciousness rumbling, and the Library they were in began shaking.
"What's happening now?" Hinami shouted as she asked.
"Big sister, maybe it has to do with big brother, he said that he is God here so maybe it jas something to do with him," Ria said after thinking for a while.
Calming herself, Hinami said, "Hmm, maybe that is true, so we are safe, maybe it has something to do with those books he is holding"
"Yeah, but what could beg brother be doing to cause this much disturbance" Ria muttered under her breath while looking at Shun holding the books In his hands with his eyes closed.
With that, they waited for Shun to finish whatever it is he was doing and descended Into silence.
A few moments later, the rumbling gradually stopped and everything became calm once more.
Shun opened his eyes and looked at the books with a smile that shows that he had succeeded in whatever it is he wanted to do.
'This isn't perfect but at least I created from what I could imagine was written' Shun thought.
Turning to Hinami and Ria, Shun said, "Well, we are done here, let's get back to your mindscapes before we go back to the real world"
Hinami and Ria, on the other hand, didn't move from the spot, instead, they looked at him with an inquisitive expression in their eyes.
"What?" Shun asked.
"What was that? Did you know what you did? Whatever it is that you were doing caused a huge disturbance in here and I thought something happened" Hinami asked.
"Hmm? What happened? I was just trying out something, what? Did something happen?" Shun asked, this time, confused, after all, this is his consciousness and nothing could happen without his permission or knowledge.
"The whole building was shaking and I thought something bad was about to happen. What were you doing, don't dodge the question" Hinami asked back.
Noticing how serious Hinami was, he looked around the building and also checked outside. Noticing the situation outside, his eyes shrunk. Turns out that the enormous sea of spiritual energy has dried up and now appeared to be cracked ground as far as the eyes could see. Only the library had a little pond around it.
'That's why I didn't seem to have noticed' he thought.
Bringing his attention back to Hinami, he said, "I was trying to create something to make this book easier for you to read and understand better. Sorry if I worried you".
Hinami visibly calmed down as the assumption Ria came up with was proven to be correct and the disturbance had a lot to do with Shun.
Shun, on the other hand, was thinking 'Damn, so the price of creating an illusionary world is this enormous, I don't think I will be doing this for a while'
After a while asking if everything was alright, the trio proceeded to exit the building. The sight that welcomed them was the barren and cracked floor Shun had seen, instead of the beautiful multi-colored sea.
Hinami and Ria were shocked at the sight and looked at Shun with worried and confused expressions, after all, from what Shin had told them about the mindscape, the sea represents his spiritual energy, so the absence of it will obviously mean he is depleted of said energy.
Shun, On the other hand, looked back at them with a wry smile and said, " Don't mind it, I'm alright, it's just a minor problem. Let's go to your mindscape first"
Realizing that Shun didn't want the issue to be discussed, they both looked at each other and smiled wryly while following Shun.
When they reached the outer area of Shun's mindscape, Shun said, "Alright, let's get these books settled in your mindscape and we are done for the day"
Hinami and Ria nodded and then closed their eyes in an attempt to connect to their mindscapes. A few seconds later both landscapes materialized with each of them at the center and far from the other.
Shun had foreseen these outcomes and pushed them apart to prevent both mindscapes from clashing as he didn't know what that would lead to.
With their mindscapes materialized, they opened their eyes and looked at Shun, waiting for what he will do next.
Shun nodded and created a spiritual clone and gave him two of the books In his hand. The spiritual clime went toward Ria to put the book in such a way that it will never be discovered by anybody other than Ria, and should anyone notice it, he placed a failsafe so that the said intruder would be trapped in that world, not as the MC but as an illusion who cant affect the world no matter how he or she tries.
The main spiritual body also did the same in Hinami's mindscape.
'It may seem as though I am too cautious, but this is Naruto we are talking about here, anything can happen anytime.
After everything was settled, the spiritual clone came back and merged with the main body.
"Now then, don't forget what I said. Every day before and after our training exercises, you both will open the book and read it. To open it, you just need to use a little bit of your spiritual energy and the rest would take care of itself" Shun looked at the both of them and said.
Ria and Hinami both nodded their heads in acknowledgment and then came out of their mindscapes and back into Shun's.
"Alright then, Shall we?" and with that their consciousness came back to their bodies.
////
The transition from 1st POV to 3rd POV was to create a situation where Hinami and Ria talked even if it's a little.