Eternal Temptation: Awakening Sinful Desires - Chapter 294

Chapter 294: Hall of Records and Cultivation Grounds.
After finishing breakfast, Asher and his group left his manor and headed toward the Twilight Mist Sect’s main square, where they followed a path that led to the administrative building.

Soon, they reached the huge archway with a pair of large double doors inscribed with runes that emitted a powerful energy field, protecting the building.

This place was called the Hall of Records, which served as the headquarters for all administrative matters related to the sect.

Inside was a massive hall filled with hundreds of desks arranged neatly in rows, each containing various types of equipment like tablets, screens, crystal balls, and other tools for communication and storing information.

These were all created by formation masters, making them tamperproof, which prevented people from messing around with these devices.

As Asher stepped inside the building, he noticed that most of the desks were occupied by the new disciples, who were all busy checking on different types of cultivation grounds with different elements according to their affinity.

While senior disciples were there for various other reasons, some of them came to make use of the sect’s resources available inside, while others were there to register or get rewards for accomplishing their missions.

There were also disciples that were going to the upper floors, which seemed to be a library filled with cultivation techniques, records of battles, or other various kinds of information that might help them in their journey of cultivation.

The Hall of Records was a hub for everything related to cultivation within the sect. All the information gathered by the disciples was recorded in this place so that the leaders of the sect could monitor it at any time.

Soon, they went over to one of the vacant desks, where they found a young man sitting behind it with an expressionless face.

Seeing their approach, the young man looked up from his screen and stared at them with an intense gaze before asking in a monotonous voice, “Hello, are you all new disciples?”

Although Scarelt and Cecil were not new disciples, Asher nodded as Cai Yan, Lei Liwei, and him were new to the sect.

“Very well, then. Let me introduce you to this place.” He cleared his throat and spoke again.

“This is the Hall of Records. Here you can register for the training grounds or cultivation chambers according to your disciple rank, get cultivation techniques, read records about past battles and other useful information, apply for missions, and check on your rewards if you complete one.”

The young man’s expression remained neutral throughout as he explained everything with a robotic tone.

It seemed like he had been doing this job for a long time now, and it had become a routine thing for him.

After listening to his explanation, Asher asked him another question, “How are cultivation techniques distributed? Do we need to choose them ourselves?”

“That is correct. You can pick whatever cultivation technique you want from the library located on the upper floors of this building. However, you must remember that every cultivation technique is locked by a restriction and requires corresponding disciple rank or contribution points to be unlocked. Once you find one that interests you, you can use your sect token to scan it and register for its ownership. The system will then allow you to use it for cultivation. New disciples are allowed to choose one main cultivation technique and one set of auxiliary techniques free of charge. After that, they will have to earn contribution points to unlock other cultivation techniques.”

After saying so, he looked at them with a questioning gaze, asking whether there were any more questions from their side.

“What about the cultivation grounds? How do we get access to them?” Asher asked.

“The same principle applies here too. All cultivation grounds and chambers are assigned based on your disciple rank. You can check the details on the display in front of you, which will show you everything you need to know. You can choose one that is suitable for you from among those available, then scan it with your sect token. After that, you will be granted permission to use it anytime.”

Asher nodded his head and looked at the display screen that was showing all kinds of special cultivation grounds available in the sect, categorized according to their different elemental attributes.

He found that there were quite a few of them, which covered all types of elements like fire, water, earth, wind, wood, metal, light, darkness, lightning, ice, poison, yin, yang, etc.

At that moment, Scarlet touched on the fire elemental cultivation grounds. It showed a picture of a volcano with a lava lake inside, surrounded by magma flows. There were also some cave dwellings located on the sides of the mountain where disciples could stay during their cultivation process.

“Asher! Look at this place. This is where I usually go to cultivate! It’s perfect for me because it’s full of fire element spirit essence.” Scarlet pointed at the image on the display screen.

Then Cecil touched the wind element cultivation ground, which was a valley surrounded by high mountains on both sides. There were tornadoes raging in the middle of the valley, as well as other strong wind currents forming vortexes that kept spiraling around the place.

It looked like a chaotic mess, but Asher knew that these tornadoes would be helpful for those cultivating the wind element. They could harness the power of the wind to speed up their cultivation process.

“And this is where I practice. Although it looks scary and chaotic, there are many good things about these tornadoes. The wind currents within them contain pure wind essence. So it’s perfect for practicing wind techniques.” Cecil said with a smile.

“Wow… These look great. Let’s see what kind of cultivation grounds there are for the lightning element.” Lei Liwei chimed in as she touched the screen to show the lightning element cultivation grounds.

The display screen showed a scene where there were giant clouds hovering above a barren wasteland. Lightning flashed through the sky constantly, striking the ground below with a loud boom. The landscape itself seemed desolate and bleak, with nothing except for rocks and dust.

Everything was illuminated by a bright flash of light every now and then. It was quite a sight to behold, but it was also very dangerous because it was so unpredictable.

One moment you could be walking around peacefully, and the next moment you would be struck by a bolt of lightning, which could cause serious injuries if you weren’t careful.

Asher noticed that each of these special cultivation grounds came with its own unique challenges. They all contained various kinds of elemental spirit essence, but each one had its own dangers as well.

After examining each of them for a while, Asher looked at a special cultivation ground for the darkness element.

The display screen showed a scene where there was a large rift on the earth that seemed to be cleaved out by some kind of blade. It was like a way down into an endless abyss that had no end in sight.

The walls around it were pitch black and covered with strange symbols that were stopping a faint black mist from coming out of it. Asher guessed that this black mist contained a powerful darkness element spirit essence that would be beneficial for cultivating darkness techniques.

As for the dangers of this place, Asher noticed that the whole area was shrouded in darkness. It was impossible to see anything around it, and everything seemed dead and lifeless.