Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis crushed the jade token, and a black barrier appeared around him. The barrier expanded until it had the size of 10 meters, pushing Aion away in the process, who could just watch all this with shock. The lightning from Heaven hit the barrier…

But nothing happened! It looked like the lightning got absorbed by the barrier, which shocked Aion immensely. This had been a full-power strike from Heaven! How could any barrier hold against that?

Inside, Gravis could finally reveal his true emotions. He grinned in madness, as he finally no longer had to pretend. This had all been a plan. He had planned for this to happen ever since he left the Darkness Guild. Selling weapons to get resources to reach the tenth level of Energy Gathering? Fleeing to the Wind Wall? Getting "surprised" by Aion? He had planned all of this. He WANTED a Heavenborn to "stop his breakthrough".

Gravis needed Heaven to lose its vigilance toward him. How else would he have been able to bait out a full-power lightning strike from it? If he just said, "Go strike me," Heaven would have been incredibly skeptical. It would only release such an attack if it already thought that it had won. Of course, there had been some risks to his plan.

The first risk had been that his eventual enemy didn't immediately kill him when they got the chance. The only way to make all of this credible was if Gravis truly didn't have a way to survive, so he couldn't use an enemy with the same strength as him. The enemy had to be powerful enough to overpower him completely.

What if no enemy appeared? That was also a risk, but Gravis trusted in Heaven. He trusted in Heaven's wit and cleverness. It had nearly gotten him so many times, so Gravis knew that Heaven had to have some kind of plan to stop him. Gravis would just have to give about 90% of his best to not get caught.

If Gravis truly wanted to break into the Spirit Forming Realm immediately, would he have wasted all this time on the Wind Wall? Of course not! If Gravis truly wanted to break into the Spirit Forming Realm like this, he would have immediately jumped into the Wind Wall.

concentration. It was no issue to use it and also cultivate at the same time. Like this, Aion would never have caught up. Wasting multiple hours to cultivate on the same spot? Only an idiot would do that when they were chased by an

knew that he just had to give Heaven a minuscule opportunity, and it would jump at it with all its power. If it were too obvious that Gravis wanted this to happen, Heaven wouldn't act. At that point, the Heavenborn would simply kill him without Heaven

during all of this. If his plan had failed, he would use the token to

when Gravis had read the Pre-Forming Technique. When people broke into the Spirit Forming Realm, they often didn't know how the forming of the Spirit actually worked.

was formed, which gave Gravis a lot of ideas. Starting at that point, Gravis had never intended to reach the Spirit Forming Realm with the normal way. His goal wasn't to get stronger one step at a time. His goal was the highest Heaven, and

is: What did the jade token

into the paper, it would say that it would block one attack on the Unity Realm or below. Yet, when Gravis had infused his lightning into the paper, the message

It read as follows:

"Dear Successor,

my greatest creation! I've had enmity with Heaven for a long time, yet I have failed in taking revenge. I leave this Formation Array to you so that it can assist you in going against Heaven. If you, as my successor, do not wish to go against Heaven, then it was just my destiny to never get my

ten minutes, it will be able to absorb any elemental attack of the Unity Realm

in the world. Magic, Destruction Energy, Life Energy, and many other things all stem from this. I have only managed

By reaching the Unity Realm, I have achieved similar strength to Heaven and could, therefore, also break and bend