Dan opened his eyes, and at that exact moment the oppressive and suffocating atmosphere that had filled the entire area due to his overwhelming spiritual aura vanished. It was an aura he had spent all this time controlling and taming.
He muttered with a tone carrying genuine relief after such a long period.
"Finally, I'm finished."
The process of regulating his presence and overwhelming spiritual aura had taken six full months of complete isolation within the inner world. Then he rose from the stone throne and looked around him.
The throne he rose from was no longer the same simple stone throne upon which he had sat at the beginning of his isolation six months earlier. It had changed completely due to its constant interaction with the overwhelming spiritual aura that had continuously radiated from him and seeped into everything around it.
Nor was the throne the only thing that had changed. The entire region had transformed dramatically. The mountain, which had once been a natural mass of stone, had merged with the throne into a single interconnected entity.
The rock and the throne had become one thing, saturated with the influence of his spiritual aura. Its original black color was now threaded with streaks of sky-blue, a color Dan recognized as being closely associated with his existence.
Upon it and around it, blue eyes had opened within the stone, gazing in different directions. They looked like real eyes, even though they were formed from spiritual energy that had solidified within matter itself.
Dan looked over the entire region and at the eyes that had mutated within the throne, the mountain, and the surrounding rocks. Then he muttered in a thoughtful tone.
"If I hadn't entered this isolated training, I would have affected the world around me in a very dangerous way."
He understood perfectly the reason behind all these strange transformations in the surrounding matter. Because his spiritual aura had increased to an overwhelming level far beyond what the material world could naturally withstand, the surrounding matter had begun trying to translate the immense information it was receiving from that aura into something physically tangible in the only way it could—by mutating and reshaping itself under the constant spiritual pressure. Stone could not remain ordinary stone when exposed to this level of spiritual aura for six continuous months. It inevitably became something else.
He also understood perfectly why blue eyes had appeared specifically rather than any other form. The reason lay in the nature of his spiritual aura itself, which at its core was an expression of his soul's will and the essence of his personality.
The spiritual aura of any being reflected its true inner nature and fundamental characteristics involuntarily, without deception or concealment. Deep within his core, Dan possessed an intense desire for knowledge, for understanding everything, for complete control, and for possession and dominion.
These fundamental qualities were what manifested within the spiritual energy radiating from him and appeared in the surrounding matter as blue eyes that watched, observed, and monitored from every direction, as though the matter itself was attempting to express the will contained within the energy it had absorbed.
Then he slowly raised his hand, and black fuinjutsu patterns spread outward from him in the form of fine branching threads. They extended, multiplied, and spread until they covered the entire mountain range within the inner world.
The black threads covered the mountain, the rocks, the throne, and everything that had formed during the period of isolation. They wrapped around the entire region completely and securely.
Then something strange happened. The entire region disappeared from the world as though it had been erased from existence itself. In its place, a dense gray mist spread across the area.
Dan examined the region around him and said,
"Good. A seal like this should be enough."
Because the Walt Family would eventually move into this inner world that he had finished constructing, Dan had needed to thoroughly seal this entire mountain range. It had become far too dangerous for anyone below his level.
The moment anyone came into contact with it, they would be severely affected by the immense spiritual energy that had solidified within every part of its physical structure. He did not want any member of his family to be harmed because of it.
Although he intended to officially declare it a completely forbidden zone and prohibit anyone from approaching it under any circumstances and no one in the family would dare disobey such a warning from him caution was always necessary. The family continued to grow and expand constantly, and new generations were always appearing. Excessive caution was always preferable to relying solely on absolute trust in obedience.
Then space opened before him, and he stepped out of the inner world, returning to the outside world and to his base from which he had been absent for six months.
He felt a quiet sense of longing for that base he had built over decades, the center of everything he had created in this world, for his large family, for his laboratory where months of accumulated work awaited him untouched, and for the grand plans that had never ceased developing in his mind even during his period of isolation.
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