"This way, child…" An ancient voice called out to him from the center of the sun, at the root of the sun tree. The voice had the sound of the ages, despite not sounding like a senile person; one could tell that it had existed for untold years. Hearing the calling, Kaelen removed his hand from the tree and headed down toward the root of the tree.
Making his way down, he realized how big the tree was; roughly one-fifth of it was showing at the top, that part became the upper part. Most of the tree existed below the solar city. Having no concept of time, he went down for who knows how long before he arrived at the root. Upon arriving, he saw a moon-sized core, on which countless threads of golden tree branches were merged and entangled with. The tree branches seemed to absorb part of the core energy to nourish itself.
At the center of the core, a humongous three-legged yellow crow nested. It was about ten times as big as the moon wolf he saw before; if the moon wolf was a great mountain, this crow was the size of ten mountains put together; probably a few dozen miles long. Its wings were draped all around its body as it laid within the sun core. The crow lifted its mountain-sized head and opened its eye slits to look at the approaching form. A pair of dim, ancient yellow eyes peered at the boy.
Feeling the titanic golden monster's gaze, Kaelen felt as if all his secrets, his past, present, and future were laid bare to see in front of those unfathomable eyes. He mustered courage to approach the monster, which only grew more terrifying as he got closer. Maybe because he was currently in astral form, and his astral body could not truly feel physical pain or stress, he didn't feel as terrorized as he should've been; often times, when subjected to something the mind can't comprehend, the mind protects itself by going blank.
"Senior, are you the one who brought me here?" Indeed, the whole time Kaelen felt his body guided by an attractive force that pulled him through space and time, or else astral form or not, he wouldn't have gotten here in a million years if he wanted. Approaching the sun core and the monster inside it, he courageously asked.
"Yes!" Without opening its beak to speak, the three-legged golden crow spoke to the boy. Hearing the confirmation, Kaelen's spiritual eyes reflected some clarity, but more confusion after.
"Why?" he simply asked. He now stood near the crow as he gazed at the gigantic head. The titanic crow got up slightly, creating an opening below its stomach and pushed a hill-sized egg towards Kaelen.
"There are two reasons why I called you here, for one—I want you to go take my child and bring it with you through your adventures in the future. Currently, it isn't going to survive till birth as I have matters to attend to and won't be able to continue helping it grow. In the True martial Ancient Great World, there's a place called the desert abyss. Inside it, I left a pool of my true blood in case my child needed some energy for its growth. I will place it inside, and in a few years, it should hatch; I want you to go take it then."
"Ancient Great World? What is that?" Hearing the way the titanic crow called the True Martial Great World, Kaelen's face showed more confusion.
"That is how the world you currently reside in used to be called. Now, though it is a middle-sized great world, it used to be much bigger and contained many powerful beings that dominated the Flaming Sun Star cluster. However, many million years ago, a calamity happened, causing many of its civilizations to collapse into ruins; you call those places hidden danger lands, but they used to be part of the ancient great world, hence why you may often see treasures that completely disappeared from the current world."
As he listened, Kaelen nodded in understanding. "So, the True Martial Great World had such a glorious past. I wonder what happened." He thought.
"Do not delve too much into ancient things; it is of no consequence… for now." Guessing his curiosity would be piqued, the titanic three-legged crow advised.
"Senior, how were you able to bring me here despite being such a distance away?" Unable to wrap around this, Kaelen can't help but ask.
"I have a spiritual connection to that world, as it is where I grew up before wandering endless space and eventually residing within its sun. I can, therefore, see most of what is happening there at any time. There's also a void passageway to accelerate your arrival here. These are passageways that significantly reduce the distance you need to cross in space as they can be quite long. They are relatively safe to use for star traveler beings and above, not so much for a Xiantian cultivator like you; however, you are quite special, and that amber seed protected you during your travel here. Of course, even without it, you would've been fine, but I would've expanded a lot of energy, so it helped." The crow explained.
Kaelen touched the amber heart bead on his chest. He felt a warm aura as he moved his astral fingers around its smooth surface.
"That bead is a bloodline seal, much like the bloodline seal of your dragon bloodline, but it also contained powerful energy, probably from your parents. Their spiritual energy is what formed this bead in your chest; it is not the real thing, but a spiritual projection. The strength required for such a feat is impressive. The sealed bloodline is the second reason why I brought you here; we have a very close connection, as we come from the same source, so I feel I can trust you with my child." It commented while it observed the glowing amber bead.
Hearing this, Kaelen felt a bit surprised, but he had guessed his second bloodline was related to solar energy since he arrived at the sun; only an energy of similar origin would fit perfectly in this uninhabitable area.
"Senior, how will you put the egg inside that pool of true blood you say?" Curious, Kaelen asked.
"I can easily open a portal to that place through my true blood; It's like being in two places at once and opening the door from both sides will allow me to send objects through... or myself. However, the True Martial Great World cannot withstand fully grown stellar beings such as myself."
"Stellar beings? Beings with stellar-grade bloodlines, you mean?"
"No, having a Stellar grade bloodline and being a 'stellar being' are two different things. I was born a Stellar being and am part of the three-legged Golden Crow Stellar race. I was bound to reach the level of power I currently have, but someone with a stellar bloodline may not reach my power no matter how hard he tries. And at the same realm, stellar races are significantly stronger than their bloodline counterpart; in fact, bloodlines exist because of stellar races; some gained it through bestowal, others gained it through heredity after a stellar being copulated with a lesser being, Their infant's descendants won't be stellar beings but will have a stellar bloodline. Over time, these descendants will become increasingly weaker than their ancestral parents, causing a significant difference in strength even with individuals with high bloodline purity."
"Really?" receiving new knowledge, Kaelen can't help but exclaim.
"What about immortal Races? Is that also a thing?" he asks.
"Yes and no. There are two types of immortal bloodlines. There are the primal immortal bloodlines that were automatically formed and there are regular immortal bloodlines that come to be from a similar process to stellar bloodlines; Immortal races that have descendants of different, lesser races." It explains.
"Which is stronger between primal immortals and immortal beings? And what about me, what grade and type of bloodline do I have? Since I'm clearly human." He probes.
"Primal immortal bloodlines are unfathomably rare within the mystic universe and are amongst the strongest groups of power with Divine races and Arcane Races. There are only twelve primal immortal clans who can have those bloodlines; they are beings that gain most of their strengths from their bloodlines, so their descendants don't have much if any strength difference; bloodline purity is very important to them, so they rarely match with other races. They are much, much stronger than most regular immortal beings; only a few rare immortal races can compete with the primal immortal bloodlines. As for you, your dragon bloodline is not from an immortal being or a primal immortal bloodline, it is from another source which I can't really tell as there are no immortal dragons like yours, but your other bloodline I can tell you; it is the 'Infinite Suns' primal immortal bloodline." As it mentioned Kaelen's second bloodline, the titanic crow's hill-sized eyes actually showed some reverence.
"I hope my offspring may evolve into an immortal sun crow by sharing your aura when you make a companion pact with." It thought to itself but didn't tell the boy.
"I have a primal immortal bloodline? Then Raizel most also.. " Kaelen's heart trembled as he thought of his origins as well as Rai's.
"Alright, it is time for you to go back; if you stay too long away from your physical body, it will eventually die, especially at lower cultivation levels."
"Shit, how long was I out? I have no concept of time here. I hope I didn't sleep too long." Kaelen exclaimed in panic.
"Don't worry, it's only been a few hours. Here's a gift before you go." The giant sun-crow released a yellow small seed from its forehead.
"This is a sun spirit crystal; it will help you when learning yang attribute concepts in the future." The seed flew towards the amber bead and entered it.
"I hope you become good friends with my child… Now go!" It said its last words to the boy, before blowing a monstrous solar wind at him with its beak.
"Senior, wait..." While he tried to keep talking with the titanic sun beast, Kaelen was suddenly taken by a powerful force. His astral projection was quickly ejected from the sun core and burst through space at speeds superior to light; as the saying goes, the fall is harder and quicker than the rise, he barely had time to think before he was heading back to his body.
No one could see it or perhaps they could because of the sun spirit crystal, but a shooting star-like wisp of light sped through the spatial passageway. Sometime later, Kaelen began to clearly see the True Martial Great world again. He saw the silver moons and the inhabited purple moon; an indescribable emotion filled his heart as he thought of what just happened.
Within the purple moon, inside a gigantic crystal palace, a god-like twenty or so years old young woman peered at starry skies and noticed a golden flash heading towards the True Martial Great world.
"That's… so there was something before." She thought to herself.
"Yue Lang, come to me." She called softly, yet her voice seemed to travel through space as it reached whoever this person was. Next, a cheerful and spirited fifteen-looking boy appeared beside her. Though he appeared human, he had a pair of silver, wolf-like eyes and furry ears, giving him a mystical appearance.
"Young palace head, did you call me?" He spoke.
"Would you like to go on an adventure?" She asked.
...
Back in the Azure Dragon Mountain. A flashing golden light pierced through the atmosphere of the True Martial Great world, rushed through the clouds towards a floating mountain and quickly fell on an unconscious boy.