Lightning Is the Only Way

Skye flew for a full day. In that day, Gravis ate a lot of body tempering pills. He didn't need to destroy and reforge his body for it to become stronger. The only reason why he had done that with the Body Ascension Pill was that this was the only way how the pill would work. The other pills simply strengthened the body without destroying it.

In that day, Gravis ate about a third of the pills and reached the peak of the seventh level of the body. He still had some time and could increase his bodily power into the eighth level, but he stopped. If his body were at the eighth level of Energy Gathering, not many people would dare fight him. Like this, he would maybe not get enough pills to reach the tenth level.

'Most people can't feel my physical strength, but some of them can. If anyone powerful notices my body's power, they might dissuade others from fighting with me, and I can't just go on a killing rampage. The Spirit Forming experts would get involved. I can't fight those, yet,' thought Gravis with narrowed eyes. 'Guess this is where I'll stop for now.'

The disciples Gravis had killed also carried a lot of Energy Stones. He had several hundreds of those, and if he took them all, he would reach the middle of the eighth level of Energy Gathering. He also didn't absorb those for the same reason. He had to accumulate more pills and stones to rise in one shot. No one would accept fighting a Heavenborn at the ninth level of Energy Gathering with an equally powerful body.

Like this, Skye and Gravis continued flying towards the Earth Guild until…

BOOM!

A loud sound of something hitting the ground reverberated through the surrounding kilometers. Whatever hit the ground had to weigh multiple tons. Gravis' eyes shone with interest, and without him saying anything, Skye charged into the direction where the sound originated.

creature. It had a height of around twenty meters, but its front legs were more prominent and more powerful than its hindlegs, creating a bizarre but powerful-looking asymmetry. It was eating an equally giant,

he said involuntarily. The only high-grade Energy Beast that Gravis had ever seen

continued growing more apprehensive as he thought about this situation. He looked up into the sky. "I wonder why you allow a high-grade Energy Beast to cross my path," Gravis spoke. "Is it because they can't temper me anymore, or is

thought. 'I doubt this is a scheme. Beasts can't resist my Will-Aura, and the only thing powerful enough to threaten me is a Spirit Forming expert. If this beast has a Spirit Beast parent, its parent wouldn't be in

Heaven had been willing to pay that price if those beasts could still function as tempering for me, but with my new Will-Aura, they became too weak for that. Heaven probably doesn't care anymore about me finding high-grade Energy Beasts. Might as well accept this "gift". Let's see

His body was powerful enough to withstand a fall with terminal velocity, so that wasn't an issue. Skye looked at Gravis but didn't decide to get

falling Gravis and released a loud howl as intimidation. It ran to the place where Gravis would land and readied itself, opening its mouth to release powerful lightning. The elemental power of Energy Beasts might

WHOOOSH!

ground, more and more trees in the surroundings were crushed into splinters. The intensity of the Will-Aura grew with proximity to Gravis, so a giant crater also started forming. It looked like a humongous, invisible bowl pressed into

could only look with scared eyes at its approaching doom. Gravis readied his saber for a mighty swing and infused it with 80%

BOOOOOOOM!

body, which generated a ridiculous amount of force. Like a meteor, he created an even larger crater with his impact. The shockwave uprooted many trees, and the earth