The Dark Demon Lord - Chapter 60

Arnin stood alone in the room. He couldn’t believe that Lyosi treated him in such a way. He felt anger, humiliation, and even embarrassment. The threat that he threw at her was as ineffective as an egg trying to break a boulder in a single hit.

Quickly, Arnin began to calm his breathing. He collected himself, and shook his head bitterly. There were many types of people in this world, and it seemed that Lyosi wasn’t one of those who would get scared of someone like Arnin, who was more than ten years her junior.

Finding the center of the room, Arnin sat down and closed his eyes. He had the circulation path for the time component memorized, and right now, all he had to do was see if it worked.

If it did, then he would be able to attract more of the time component, and would be able to absorb it into his body. If it didn’t work, then the time component would just not come his way. It was as simple as that.

Arnin started off by absorbing the worldly essence into his orb, but he soon began to take the normal wordly essence through the path that he had created.

Usually when people started using the cultivation manual as a guide, they would circulate with wordly essence. After they gained an excess amount of essence, they would begin to separate it into the components that they needed. This was typically done during the Essence Manifest realm.

Cultivators needed to collect a large amount of an elemental component in order to circulate with it. Arnin had to come to the fourth floor because there was a high chance he would be able to attract the time component. Although he had some time component inside his body, it wasn’t even enough for one circulation. He needed more.

Slowly, time trickled by and Arnin had collected a large amount of the worldly essence that was around him. He then began the separation step that only Essence Manifest cultivators were usually able to conduct.

The essence was split into many components. Sometimes a darkness component would appear, other times, space. Arnin would occasionally even find some of the more rare types, such as lightning. An hour passed, and Arnin finally found the component that he was looking for, time.

“Haha! It works! The circulation works!” Arnin was thrilled. He was finally able to attract the time component through his circulation, and even found that there was quite a bit of it. This made him even happier. He speedily absorbed the time component into his orb, making the time mark around his orb much brighter.

Seeing all of the marks laying on his orb becoming brighter and stronger, Arnin couldn’t help but grin. He had a head start in comparison to many people because of his early access to the ability of essence separation, and because of his seed of Neutrality. Only Essence Manifest cultivators around the realms of Hell or Heaven would be able to form elemental seeds, but Arnin had already done so. To further boost his advantage, his seed was a combination of three elements, making it extremely strong.

Now that he was able to confirm that the time circulation was correct, Arnin pulled out some sheets of papers from his robe, some of which had the diagrams for each element that he would use. He then took out a blank sheet of paper, and began to draw.

He needed to create a circulation method that would attract all of his elements together. This was very risky because if he drew something incorrectly, then he could possibly damage his orb and orb threads.

Arnin had past experience with creating cultivation methods, however this time it was a little different. In the past, he would only need to create a breathing exercise that would take in the surrounding power, and then have it rotate around the center of his chest, however this time it was different.

The method he needed to create had to start from his orb, travel through every thread, and then come back into his orb. Plus, he was creating a path for many different elements and they would have to travel through the same threads at the same time. If he messed up, the elements could conflict and cause a lot of damage.

Arnin sighed as he continued to overlap the many circulation diagrams in an attempt to find some similarities.

Hours passed, and Arnin had been sitting in the room for about three hours now. The two girls outside noticed this, and couldn’t help but feel a little worried. They had an ominous feeling that something might have happened to Arnin.

“Do you think he is all right in there? He has been in there for hours.” The girl with curly brown hair asked the other girl.

“I don’t know, Telize. Maybe we should check on him.” The other girl spoke with some hesitation. Many cultivators would take a long time in their cultivation rooms, some even lasting for a few days if needed. However to the girls, Arnin was just a child, so being in the room for three hours was already worrying enough.

“Yeah, let’s go see if he is doing alright.” Telize, who had led Arnin to the room, agreed with her friend. Both of them walked from behind the desk, and went towards Arnin’s room.

The closer they got to the room, the more astonished their faces were. The first floor had various types of components and was already very chaotic, however the higher one went, the more chaotic the components would be. The fourth floor was much more dangerous than the first floor, and the closer they got to Arnin’s room, the more they felt that something was extremely wrong.

The components weren’t chaotically crashing into one another, instead everything was very stable. This was very shocking to them so they both closed their eyes. They tried to absorb some into their bodies to see whether it was still difficult like before, or if it was actually as stable as they could see.

A few minutes passed and the two girls opened their eyes. They looked directly at each other, not hiding their shock. “W-what is going on? How could the components be so calm and stable over here? Is it because of that little kid?” Telize asked the other girl, but the latter just shook her head, also clueless about what was happening.

“Telize, I think that the only way we’ll find out is if we ask that little boy. I think he might know the reason.” The other girl wasn’t able to stop herself from saying this. Although they had first thought that Arnin was just a little kid who lucked out by being able to come to the fourth floor, they began to change the way they thought. If the calmness of the components was caused by Arnin then he really was different from a normal five year old. He might even have some secrets that he was hiding.

They were now in front of the hidden door that led into Arnin’s room. They could see the hesitation on each other’s faces. It was considered extremely inappropriate, and even punishable for someone to enter another’s room in the midst of their cultivation. The academy allowed for duels for cultivation rooms, however it did not allow entry into the room if someone was still cultivating.

Disturbance could break their concentration, causing damage, or even possibly ruining any enlightenment they were going through. They wanted to give students a quiet place to cultivate for a reason.

After the initial hesitation was gone, the two girls nodded their heads and Telize began to tap out the pattern. After it was complete, the door quietly opened up and the two girls slowly walked in.

At first, they were unable to see anything, however once they entered the room, they were shocked. They could feel a dense amount of components gathered at a single point in the room. They were shocked when they found that it wasn’t just one component, but many different types, some even contradicting one another.

They sucked in a cold breath of air when they saw Arnin sitting, and absorbing all of the essence. They didn’t even dare to breath in such a situation. At first, they had entered because of concern, and also some interest, however now that they saw that Arnin was doing alright, and was actually in the midst of cultivating, they felt very fearful.

If Arnin was disturbed because of their entrance, it would be considered a major crime and they could be punished severely. The Lepidoptera academy took the act of disturbing someone’s cultivation very seriously. A common punishment was being locked up for at least a month without being able to cultivate, while a more severe punishment could be expulsion from the academy, however this was very rare.

The girls stood in their spots very quietly, hoping that Arnin could finish soon so that they could leave. Sadly, that wish of theirs was not fulfilled. Arnin cultivated for another two hours before he slowly opened his eyes.

Arnin had an extremely wide smile on his face. He couldn’t help but silently laugh a little. He was feeling a profuse amount of joy. Not only was he able to complete his cultivation manual, something else had also happened while he was cultivating. Since he was able to absorb lots of components directly into his orb, and even strengthened his threads because of the circulation, he had surprisingly made a breakthrough. It was a very silent breakthrough, almost unnoticeable, but the effect on his body was humongous.

Arnin was now sitting at the peak of Orb Birth – Heaven. He was only one step away from Essence Manifest, and felt that if he continued to cultivate with manual, he would be able to reach that point very soon.

Arnin still hadn’t noticed the two girls standing by the door, however when Telize noticed that Arnin was finally done, she calmed her tense heart and body, and walked over.

“Little kid, you seem to have finished cultivating.” She spoke with a soothing voice, however it also carried more respect in it. She noticed that when Arnin was done cultivating, the calm essence began to become chaotic once again. This told her that Arnin was the one that had caused the components in the surroundings to become calm and stable.

He looked up and stared at the girl. When he saw that she was in the room, he frowned. “What are you doing in here? Don’t you know that it is a crime to come into another’s cultivation room while he is cultivating?” Arnin said with a deep voice. That deep voice of his sounded somewhat childish, but it still caused the two girls to shudder.

“Little kid, we didn’t mean to walk into the room. You were in here for so long that we got worried but after we saw that you were alright, we didn’t have any choice but to stay. If we made noise while you were cultivating, it would have been a disaster.” Telize looked at Arnin with pleading eyes. She hoped that Arnin was the type of child that would forgive others easily, however this thought of her’s was completely off.

“It doesn’t matter whether you were here because of your worry or not. The fact is that you were here while I was cultivating. I wonder what type of punishment you will get for such behavior?” Arnin smiled wickedly as he spoke to the two girls.

“P-please, we didn’t mean to. How about we give you this, and you can enter the fourth floor and below for free for a month.” Telize quickly handed Arnin a card.

“Telize, you can’t. That was specially given to you by sen–” Before the other girl could speak up, Telize gestured for her to quiet down.

Arnin looked at the card and couldn’t help but feel somewhat joyful. A person had to pay a lot to get onto the fourth floor, and although they could stay for as long as they wanted, once they left the floor, they would have to pay again for reentry.

With the card that Telize gave him, Arnin would be able to enter the first four floors for a month without paying a single point. He had to admit, it was pretty good deal.

“Alright then, since you are begging so much, I shall spare you. Leave while I am still allowing you to.” Arnin looked at Telize with a threatening glare, before waving for them to leave. The two girls quickly exited the room, leaving Arnin alone.

“Now then, since this cultivation manual is complete, I should give it a name.” Arnin smiled, and looked at a small stack of paper. There were descriptions and diagrams on the pages . This was the cultivation manual that Arnin had created for all of the elements that he was going to cultivate.

“Hmm, let’s call this the Demon Cultivation Manual.” It was a simple name, however he chose it because of his original form, and the people he hated the most.

He was a Demon in the past, and it was other demons that had killed his family. This would be his only cultivation manual in Afloria, so he chose to call it such.

Arnin then pulled out a small, empty book, and copied the manual instructions and diagrams onto the empty pages.

Now, the Demon Cultivation Manual had been officially created. Arnin flipped through the pages, and nodded his head in satisfaction. After completing the manal, he began to circulate the essence in his body through the path that the manual showed.

Since he had broken through, he needed to stabilize his realm, and see what exactly had changed. Another hour passed and Arnin was done with the stabilization. He let out a deep sigh and smiled. He found that his orb was much larger than before, and that his threads even gave off an aura of the various elements that were absorbed.

Not only were his orb and threads affected, even the octogonal marks inside his body had a slightly changed. They were much larger than before, and they were scattered in many more places. He even found some around his orb.

Arnin felt that he could most likely fight an Essence Manifest – Hell cultivator with some ease, and could possibly withstand a small fight with a cultivator at Essence Manifest – Heaven. This was great news to him. Everything that had happened to him during his cultivation period was positive. His seed of Neutrality looked larger than before too.

He got up from his sitting positions, and began to do some stretches. Due to him being seated for so long, his body was somewhat sore, however it wasn’t too bad because his body was continuously absorbing essence components.

Arnin walked towards the exit of the room, and headed towards the platform that led to the lower floors. He didn’t say anything to the two girls and just left. Since he now had a cultivation manual, he could begin creating cultivation stones as a Mark Master.

As the two girls watched Arnin leave, Telize’s friend looked at her with some worry. “Why did you give him that card? That was a present that senior Su gave to you. What will you do if he finds out?” Telize let out a sigh when she heard her friend’s question. Senior Su was one of the big shots in the Moth group and he was also Telize’s fiance. Senior Su was incredibly strong and his name was known by almost all students in the Moth group.

“What else could I have done? That was the only thing that I could give to him to let us off. If he complained, we could have been locked up for three months. How much cultivation time would have been wasted because of that?” Telize was bitter as well, however she could only try to calm down and think rationally.

“That little kid really is such a devil. Couldn’t he just let us off? We went in because we were worried.” The other girl snorted as she said with displeasure.

Telize smiled at her, not commenting any further. ‘Let’s just hope Su won’t find out. If he does, then that kid will be in trouble.’ She sighed before continuing her work.