Monarch of Darkness

"Yo kid! Are not you lucky?" when Evan woke up from his deep sleep, he listened the voice of old man Brasylx. He looked at Brasylx and it was obvious that there would be no change in the appearance of an ancient old man. Evan saw the old man was still stroking his beard as usual and looking at him with a smile. 

"How much time has passed since I came here?", Evan asked Brasylx. "Oh, you have slept only for one day. You sure have some luck. Thats why you are still alive", Brasylx chuckled.

Evan looked at Brasylx with a confused look. "Still alive? What do you mean?", he asked Brasylx.

"Do you know how severe your injury was? It was enough to kill any experts below core condensation realm. Your wound was stretched to your heart region. It is good that your heart didn't got injured in the process", old man Brasylx replied. "Oh, I will check about the enemies later. I have a guess but I need to confirm my guess first", Evan said.

"This time I will cultivate for a longer period", Evan had a resolute look on his face. Old man Brasylx nodded smilingly. "We devils never fear enemies. Only by facing countless danger, you will truely become a devil warrior".

"This kid has a good mindset. This kind of setback didn't affect him at all. It only helps in strengthening his resolve", old man Brasylx thought while stroking his beard. His look was on Evan who had strated cultivating as soon as he woke up. Darkness energy filled the entire ancestoral land of Hendrickson family and Evan was using the Elemental devouring technique to maximize his cultivation speed.

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It was already three months since Evan was cultivating in the ancestoral land of Hendrickson family. Darkness energy was flowing from all direction to his body. His body was like the storage and his meridians were like funnel, pulling in darkness energy at a visible pace into his body. His meridians started to throb violently. The swirling darkness energy worked as a catalyst which was constantly flooding his meridians. Soon, 'pop', 'pop' sound came from within his body. This sound like as if cracking joints of a human body. It came from all the fifty six meridians and the unique devil meridian within his body. All the meridians expanded and their current size was double compared to before. Thickness of every meridian increased and darkness energy flowed more rapidly than before. Evan opened his eyes and a smile crept into his lips. He felt better after acheiving a breakthrough in his cultivation.

"Increasing my personal strength is the best assurance for my survival. But this time all credit goes to ancient devil meridian. This Meridian is really a miracle. It almost cut short my time for breakthrough. Without it, it could have taken six months to reach the middle stage of Meridian opening realm", Evan thought inside his mind.

The path of cultivation is like climbing mountains. The further you go, the stiffer the path will become. Evan didn't took even two month to reach the peak of Element sensing realm and breaking through to Meridian opening realm. But reaching the middle stage of Meridian opening realm from the early stage of Meridian opening realm took entire three months of time. Such was the path of cultivation, every step further much harder than previous.

Actually what Evan was doing could be considered as heaven defying if leaked to outside. The most favoured genius in the Northpeak empire took almost one year to reach the peak of element sensing realm and as for Meridian opening realm, it took almost two year to reach it. Some ordinary students even took two to three years to reach Meridian opening realm. Compared to them, Evan was only cultivating for five months and already at middle stage of Meridian opening realm.

Evan stood up and stretched his body. He took out some dry rations and stuffed his belly full. He was almost starving by this three month long cultivation. So, he stuffed himself full before thinking about his next step.

"Kid, what are you thinking?", Evan was just thinking randomly and he heard the voice of old man Brasylx. Brasylx was feeling bored by staying alone in the ancestoral land of Hendrickson family but now he had found a companion. So, he was talking frequently with Evan to kill his boredom.

"I am just thinking whether to cultivate again for the late stage of Meridian opening realm or cultivate the five heavenly elements. I have already cultivated the wind energy. So, there are still four elements left", Evan replied.

Evan had already started cultivating the water energy but he had yet to master the water element. "Why are you only thinking about heavenly elements? You still have to cultivate the death element. I bet you are not thinking about it. But beleive me, the power of five heavenly elements are like ants Infront of the might of a supreme element", Brasylx rebuked Evan.

Evan didn't refute the words of old man Brasylx. He was indeed not thinking much about death energy. Contemplating death energy was much difficulty and it could only be perceived in suitable location. Evan was lacking the suitable environment outside but he was now inside the ancestoral land of Hendrickson family. There was a suitable location for perceiving the death energy here.

Evan decided to meditate on death energy. This time he was in no hurry to left the ancestoral land. So, he decided to contemplate the death energy with full concentration. He used the specific teleportation portal and teleported to the area full of death energy.

Evan reached the familiar land where the corpses of different creatures were intact. A sense of bleakness was present in the area. Evan was already familiar with this peculiar place. He sat crosslegged and started to sense the element present in the environment. Ancient corpses started to crumble and a special type of energy started to rush toward Evan.