51 Helping Someone Break Through (1/2)

Xaac stood watching the scene in shock. He had seen bloody scenes in his life before, but he had never seen such a scene in the academy. He couldn't help but feel dumbfounded.

”What the hell happened?!” Xaac quickly snapped out of it, before asking a student with anger.

”U-umm, Teacher, that child over there beat them up ruthlessly. He didn't even give them a chance to surrender.” A student spoke with shaky fingers.He pointed towards Arnin, who was sitting in the blood pool, cultivating silently.

”What kind of rubbish are you spouting? That kid is a child, plus he is only in the Orb Birth realm. How the hell could he beat these Essence Manifest students up?!” Although Xaac didn't think the student was lying, he just couldn't believe such a thing.

'An Orb Birth cultivator beat two Essence Manifest cultivators? How is that even possible?' Xaac was standing in shock as he watched Arnin silently sit there.

He then jumped onto the platform and walked towards Arnin. ”Kid, what the hell happened? How… why…?” He couldn't even find the right way to word his question.

”Teacher Xaac, I didn't break any of the rules, did I? It was a normal duel, and I beat the other opponent.” Arnin spoke without much fluctuation in his voice.

Xaac couldn't believe what he was hearing. Didn't break the rules? Normal duel? ”Arnin, that was in no way a normal duel. You injured them so severely, and you call that normal? How is this in accordance to the rules?!” Xaac raised his voice when he spoke. He was angered because of Arnin's attitude towards such a situation. However, he was more curious as to how Arnin beat them, than angry at his actions.

”Actually, I really didn't break any of the rules. People get hurt during duel, and that's what happened to them. I took off his arm, but he can still cultivate. As for his tongue, Een bit it off himself, so that isn't really my fault. Now for the other guy, he ran up during the duel, so I just taught him a lesson. Anyways, he can still cultivate, so no rule was broken here.” Arnin smiled towards Xaac, however the latter found that smile to be hell sent, there was nothing pleasing about it.

Xaac was about to say something more, but he couldn't find the words. Arnin was technically not wrong. No rules were broken, and the two injured people could still cultivate, so he wasn't able to punish Arnin for that.

”If you are done here, can you please leave, and let me cultivate? I am going to need to cultivate a little.” Arnin lifted his hand and waved it as though he was swatting away flies. It was a rude gesture, however Xaac was in a weird state of mind, so he didn't take too much notice. He walked down the stage with a pale face.

”T-teacher, what are you going to do? What kind of punishment will he receive?” A student asked with worry.

Xaac turned his head and looked at the student with dull eyes. ”He doesn't get punished.” Xaac's words were like bombs that fell onto the ears of the students. They opened their mouths in shock,

”Teacher, what do you mean? He just beat those two up as if they were his worst enemies. He needs to get punished!” The students thought that letting Arnin off the hook was completely unfair. His actions were so horrific, so why wouldn't he get punished?

”I am sorry, but there is nothing we can punish him for.” Xaac said with a bitter smile. He had fully collected himself, and couldn't help but feel frightened because of Arnin's cruelty.

”Nothing? What does that mean? He cut that guy's tongue and arms off, and even broke another's jaw. How can he not get punished?” The students were not satisfied with such a response. They wanted Arnin to get severely punished because of his dreadful attack on the other two students.

”He really didn't break any of the rules. He didn't kill anyone. He didn't cripple their cultivation, and both sides agree to the duel. Plus, no one surrendered.” Xaac shook his head and felt extremely bitter. He felt as though someone threw rotten fish into his mouth and had him slowly savour the taste.

All of the students, including Surk, couldn't help but gasp. They thought about it for a few moments and also came to the same conclusion as Xaac. Arnin actually didn't break any rules. All of them turned and looked at Arnin with some hatred. They couldn't help but feel angry that he was able to get away with such despicable actions.

Arnin still had his eyes closed and was slowly absorbing the blood essence. He was much slower than he normally would be since he didn't want the others finding out too much about his saber. If they found out that his saber had miraculous functions, who knows what would happen.

Time passed, and two hours quickly flew by. Arnin had finally absorbed all of the blood essence component into his orb. The mark for the blood component was much brighter than before, which was extremely heartening. Now that he got some blood components, Arnin wanted to practice one more thing, the Flames of Neutrality.

He wanted to test out their power and see the extent to which he could control them. He was still struggling with the saber, however he didn't want to have the same problem with the flames.

He slowly got up from the ground and walked down the platform. Many people had already left the area since night was approaching. The orange sun was slowly sinking behind the horizon which told Arnin that he had very little time left to practice. He decided to practice for about an hour, and then he would head back to his house.

He walked over to a training bag and stood in front of it. He took a deep breath, and tried to call out the Flames of Neutrality. Suddenly, a grey flame with two smaller flames inside appeared on his palm. Arnin was still bewildered by the change, however he considered it a good thing that he got more inside the Flames of Neutrality than the creator himself.

The flame floated above of his palm, however there was something very mysterious about the flame. The sound that it made was no sizzling, but more of a snake's hiss. It sounded extremely demonic, however to Arnin, that sounded wonderful.

He then began to think of what the flame should do. He wanted to attack the training bag, however he wasn't sure whether it could get off of his hand, and get it to go further away from his body. Yet, he tried anyways.

He commanded the flame on his palm to move forward, and it began to do as it was told. Arnin then had the flame move up, and it did just that. He was extremely happy that the flame was moving the way he wanted, however he found one problem with it; it stayed in the exact same shape. Arnin wanted to see whether he could make the flames change shape.

Half an hour passed by, and Arnin already figured out that he could change the shape of the flame, and make it move the way he wants, where he wants it. Throughout his experiments, he realized that the flame had a very mysterious power. The training bag in front of him before was no longer there.

Unlike a normal flame, the Flames of Neutrality did not burn things into ashes, or anything of the like. It would completely wipe the object or person out, there would be nothing left of the receiver of the attack. Arnin was very happy with this attack, however he still felt that there was more he hadn't yet uncovered.

Arnin continued to practice his control for a longer period of time on different objects. Sometimes the fence, other times, the training bags, and even the platform. Another half an hour passed quickly, and he was leaving the training area.