Overlord Empress - Chapter 72 BREAKTHROUGH PART 3 AVATAR PALACE

Capital City Eden, Royal Palace, 2 hours ago

Ichika totally immersed herself in training after passing the administration of the Empire to Zetsu. During the past 130 million years of diligent cultivation, her 3 dantians also improved 2 more stages and reached 5th stage.

[First stage – White to Black

Second stage – Black to Brown

Third stage – Brown to Blue

Fourth stage – Blue to Violet

Fifth stage – Violet to Orange

A/N: You can find details of the second and third stages in chapter 43. Colours represent the stages of Ichika’s 3 dantians]]

The quantity and density of her energy increased with every dantian transformation. At the beginning her energy reserves were like a drop of water compared to the present sea like reserves.

During this time, she was also able to fill up 99.99% of the chakra systems and was able to combine the elemental principles. For her combining elements was more of fun, rather than necessity. Maybe it’s because of this mentality, she was able to accomplish the impossible odds of combining all the elements. Currently she was seated on a platform in the middle of the river, that is flowing through the royal palace. She can train inside the pagoda, but had to train outside, as she is a single step closer to completing her chakra systems. As per the instructions received from her teacher, she has to expose herself to the Creation laws, when she was near completion of chakra systems.

As usual, Unconsciously she started absorbing the elemental essences into their respective systems. With millions of years of practice and cultivating, it became normal for her  to absorb the elemental essence, losing herself in the trance of cultivation.

Finally the last bit of elemental essences filled up her chakra systems. As soon as they were filled up, she was awakened by a mind numbing pain throughout her entire body. She is not new to pain, as she experienced the same pain, while refining her blood. But the pain she is experiencing now is on a totally different level. She had to gather her entire willpower and consciousness to maintain complete control over her body. But the pain only increased in her body with time, when she was on the verge of collapsing, she felt a calm soothing energy flow from the Soul pagoda into her.

Only then did she realize, she was being tested. The pain was not physical, but spiritual. She had to thank her soul pagoda for that, as it is also a spiritual(soul) artifact. She renewed her determination, ignored the pain completely and again went into her meditation stance. To forget the pain, she started to think about all the joyful events in her life. It worked and she was soon in trance again.

As soon as she was lost in trance, the entire capital city Eden was engulfed by pitch dark clouds, especially the royal place. Natural barriers formed around her. Then the dark clouds revealed 7 openings in it, through which  lightning, fire, water, earth, wind, space-time and yin-yang principles also started to descent. Soon these principles gathered around Ichika and started to move towards the respective chakra systems in her body.

During this time, the chakra systems were also completely formed and started to take form.

The first chakra system to awaken is Sahasrara (thousand petal) or crown chakra at the crown of the head. Both the feminine Yin principles, the masculine Yang principles started to materialize and united to form a taiji symbol. Taking this taiji symbol as a base, the chakra took the form of a lotus with thousand multi coloured petals. As soon as the lotus was formed, her spiritual energy and consciousness increased by thousands of  levels. Now just 1% of her soul sense is enough to know everything on the monster world. But this is not the end, as the lotus form stabilized, it started to absorb the energy and started to nourish her soul.

The second chakra system to awaken is Ajna, main chakra or third eye chakra. As soon as this chakra system awakened, Ichika started to sense immense pain in her body, especially between her eyebrows. The chakra took the form of two petals. As soon as the two petals formed, her forehead started to split vertically to reveal the third eye. Unlike her rinnegan eyes, this third eye is pitch black. Anyone who stares into this eye, will feel as if their soul is lost in space.

The third eye can reveal any and all true form or secrets hidden within creation.Nothing can escape or hide from this eye of hers. Formations are useless against her from now on, but she can raise her formations knowledge to whole new another level, with the ability of the third eye. She can also move through space and time to past or future. But how far she can move or see will entirely depend on her energy reserves and the strength of her third eye. As the two petals stabilised, it started to strengthen the third eye.

The third chakra system to awaken is Vishuddha or throat chakra on her throat. With the awakening of this system, a sixteen petaled blue lotus took form on her throat. As soon as the blue lotus took form, the seed syllable Ham came out from it’s center and started to greedily absorb all the lightning principles of the highest and purest order.

From now on Ichika is immune to illusions, demonic and ghostly attacks. Lightning is the bane of all evil things.

The fourth chakra system to awaken is Anahata or heart chakra, near her heart. Transparent twelve petal lotus took form on her heart. The seed syllable Yam started to absorb all the wind principles. From now on she can easily absorb the spiritual energy of the purest quality in the air and her surroundings without any impurities in it. Her speed also increased by number of times.

The fifth chakra system to awaken is Manipura or navel chakra. The chakra took the form of upward triangle on her navel region. The Ram symbol at its center started to absorb all the fire principles. From now on her attacks contain the destructive abilities of fire. There is nothing under creation, which can’t be damaged by her attacks.

The sixth chakra system to awaken is Swadishthana or sacral chakra. The chakra took the form of 6 petaled lotus with a crescent moon at the sacral region.The Vam symbol at its center started to absorb all the water principles. From now, no matter how serious her injuries maybe, she can recover from them at an unbelievable speed as long as her physical body is not completely destroyed.

The seventh chakra system to awaken is Muladhara or root chakra. The chakra took the form of a four petaled lotus with a yellow square at the base of spine. The Lam symbol at its center started to absorb all the earth principles. Which in turn started to increase the vitality, endurance and defensive abilities of her body.

The chakra systems forms maybe only formed now, but they already increased her physical, spiritual and battle abilities by a number of times. With time, the chakra system forms will only continue to get stronger, thereby directly boosting the attributes of Ichika by a large margin.

The pitch black clouds only dispersed after she completely finished absorbing all the elemental principles. But unknown to Ichika, her strength rose by so many times because of the breakthrough, that she started to pin almost all the inhabitants of the monster world to their knees.

Even though the clouds dispersed around the capital city, the natural barriers still remained around her. If it wasn’t for these barriers blocking more than 90% of her strength, she could have killed or severely wounded most of them with her spiritual pressure alone.

Only after a hour, did she started to get adjusted to the massive changes in her body. She can clearly feel almost infinite amount of strength in her body. But what surprised her is, this is still not her full potential. She still has to transform her 3 dantians 2 more times to become overlord. It only reminded her of how scary the strength of overlords can be. Instead of rejoicing her new breakthrough, it only strengthened her determination to train even more diligently from now on.

After adjusting to the changes in her body, she retracted her complete aura, thereby relieving the pressure on the inhabitants of the monster world. With just a thought from her, the chakra forms also started to get invisible on her body.

But, the change that interested her the most is her third eye. It is like an super advanced version of the mythical hero Sun Wukong, who can also see through all disguises and evil. But her third eye can see through almost anything as long as she supply enough energy to her eye. It took her few minutes to get used to her 3rd eye and sync it with the vision of her rinnegan eyes. She decided to call her 3rd eye as Heaven’s eye from now on. But she was still a bit disappointed by both her rinnegan and Heaven’s eye.Just like her rinnegan eye, which shows the entire world to her like x ray vision, her Heaven’s eye shows the entire world as a huge void devoid of all colours. In her past life she was blind and in this life too, she was not able to see the bright colours of the world yet. She can only use her soul sense for it.

Just as she was still lost in her thoughts, she received information from the soul pagoda that the locked 10th floor is now unlocked. When she received the soul pagoda from her teacher, he locked the 3 floors on it. She can only unlock them after reaching necessary strength. Now that she completed her chakra forms, the 10th floor was unlocked. If her assumption is right, then the 11th and 12th floor will unlocked after her dantians transform again. With just a thought from her, she immediately arrived on the 10th floor.

She arrived in the middle of the palace, that is completely formed of frozen ice. But she can’t deny the beauty of its architecture or style. The density of spiritual energy is also much stronger here. When she started to observe the surroundings, she noticed 3 giants of at least 300 mts, sitting in a meditation pose, while their bodies are completely encased by ice. With her soul sense, she can clear tell that there is life in them, but strangely there is no soul. Any living thing posses soul for sure, but how could these 3 didn’t possess any? It also seems like they are in some kind of animated state.

She moved towards the first body. A hulking barbarian, dressed in animal fur, with nerves seemed to pop out any second. He has blazing red hair and can be considered as handsome, given his massive physique. There are 2, double sided, single handed axes by his sides. The sharpness and the aura emitting from the axes sent shiver down her spine. It’s like there is nothing in this world, that these can’t split. He is definitely a powerful cultivator of at least peak sovereign ruler.

Then she moved towards the second body. This one is a middle age person, dressed in Emperor robes, with a crown on his head. His facial features are sharp and assuring, like he can overcome any problem. There is a pitch black metallic sword by his side, giving of a heroic aura. Compared to the axes sharpness, she can only sense a strong reliability from this sword, like the wielder of this sword can even hold back all heavens with just a thought.

The last and third body, is that of a beautiful elf, with sun blonde hair. She has seen many elves on monster world, but she never met anyone as beautiful as her. She is dressed in a simple brown leather armor, with multitude of powerful runes on it. Even with her knowledge in formations, she can’t completely decipher these runes. There is also a green vine tiara on her head. A primordial bow with beautiful and powerful gems embedded on it’s both sides is lying on her right side. The bow may look beautiful, but she clearly sense the aggression and destructive nature in it. There are also 2 quivers filled with arrows on her left side. These arrows are also nothing but extraordinary.

She can only imagine the elf with the bow in her hand, shooting down hordes of monsters or killing millions of enemies, while covering the back of her friends.

All these 3 seemed to be pinnacle level cultivators below overlord, during their lifetime.So what are they doing here in this pagoda, encased in ice? Also why are they missing soul, but still remain alive? Just as she was trying to figure out the answers on her own, she heard the familiar voice of her teacher, she missed the most.

“Welcome to the 10th floor Avatar Palace, my child”- Overlord

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Author’s Note: The chakra systems were mentioned in chapter 4. But as it is a new concept, most of them were confused by the huge amount of information.. so I tried to concentrate only on the main points of the chakra forms for now, so as to lessen the confusion.

We also finally have another new floor on soul pagoda. I know most of them forgot what the previous floors on the pagoda were by now. But we will see the pagoda more in action in the future. So here is a question and request for you guys. Guess who these 3 are? I aready left clue with the name of the floor. Also I would welcome, if you can come up with just names for these 3 people.

Advance chapter release for the day, as it holiday today.