Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis sat down when he felt his body advancing. He checked his Spirit Space and noticed that he only had around 50 body tempering pills left. "Wow, I really ate a lot of those pills. Spirit Forming Experts probably have to work for many years to get enough wealth to upgrade their bodies."

Gravis retrieved all the remaining pills and started stuffing them into his mouth. 'No reason to keep them. Might as well just take all of them now,' he thought, stuffing his face with pills. If anyone else saw this, they would grow incredibly angry. Every single one of those pills was costly, yet Gravis was just stuffing them into his maw.

Gravis felt his body heat up, and his breath quickened as well. He concentrated and felt a barrier inside of him. Gravis narrowed his eyes and looked at the barrier with concentration. "Break!" he shouted, and the barrier exploded. As the barrier broke, his breathing grew even faster. His heart beat furiously in his chest.

Blub Blub!

Black bubbles appeared on his body as the body used the additional air to push some black stuff out. Gravis' clothing was ruined immediately. After around five minutes, everything stopped, and Gravis took a deep breath.

"Hurr," Gravis retched as a thick smell of shit burst through his nose because of the deep breath he had just taken. Shortly after, he even barfed out some half-digested pills. Gravis immediately destroyed his clothing with lightning and jumped away.

BZZZ!

Gravis immediately used his lightning to destroy the black stuff around his body, but it didn't work. Those impurities that his body expelled had been part of his body, and therefore, also had his lightning resistance. He couldn't destroy them with lightning. Gravis retched again as he smelt himself. He quickly checked the surrounding 50 kilometers with his body but didn't see any water. Yet, he saw something else. 'This has to do!' he shouted to himself in his mind.

reached a small sand area a couple of kilometers away. This sandpit was in the

using

SHING CRACK!

used its pincers to attack him, yet its pincers cracked as they hit Gravis' steel-like body. Gravis had already noticed this beast before, but he couldn't care about it right now. He used his lightning to move forward in the sand, making the sharp edges of the sand rub all

by the physical power of this intruder. It was an ant lion, and they used sand for hunting prey. Normal ant lions hunted in the desert since there was plenty of sand, but such a strong beast didn't need natural sand to hunt. It was an Energy Beast in tune with the earth element, so it could create its sandpit wherever it wanted. Right now, it only watched its

the sand, using it as a whetstone to grind all the dirt away on his body. The ant lion watched as Gravis moved back and forth in its sandpit and grew confused.

and no black stuff could be seen anymore. Gravis smelled his

quickly retrieved his stuff and

like he had just destroyed his last pair of clothes. On top of that, he had destroyed his robes from the Heaven Sect when he had changed his clothes. He

home. Seems like you have to make a new one," he said. Gravis quickly left

it stopped when it smelled something. It let out some insect-like noise and walked away from the pit again. Its sandpit smelled nasty, and now

than I had initially thought. When I had been in the Body Tempering Realm, my body had been stronger than a high-grade Demonic Beast at the end. Yet, right now, my body is only equal to a high-grade Energy Beast, even though it is equal to the initial

Gathering human. Yet, their bodies were around as powerful as someone with a body equal to Spirit Forming. Apparently,

reach the middle of the Unity Realm with my body to equal a high-grade Spirit Beast's body? Their physical power seems

they become Energy Beasts, yet their Energy was way weaker than the Energy of humans. How could they function as tempering like that?