60 Demon Cultivation Manual (1/2)
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.