Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked through the surroundings and smiled a little. Lots of loot was lying around. Cultivators at the Spirit Forming Realm always kept their wealth in their Spirit Space, so what would happen if that cultivator died? Their Spirit Space would crumble, and all their belongings would fall out into the surroundings.

Of course, not all the loot was safe. The loot from the darkness cultivator, for example, had been completely decimated. He had died inside Gravis' insane explosion, and all his belongings had already appeared in the surroundings when the explosion wasn't even over yet. Like this, everything but his weapons had been obliterated.

Gravis gathered everything together and looked at his loot. "Some gold, lots of Energy Stones, some weapons, some pills…" he narrated as he inspected everything. After a while, Gravis found what he was looking for. Gravis' Spirit made a pill bottle fly up, and he looked at it more closely. "That's the pill that made the others breakthrough," he commented.

Sadly, this was the only one remaining. Sear had died due to Gravis' sneak attack, so he never had the chance to take out his pill. The other four had taken those pills, which made Sear's pill the last one remaining. Gravis smiled. "Let's see how good you are," he said and swallowed it.

WHOOOM!

As the pill fell to his stomach, it rapidly dissolved before it could even reach its goal. A mighty wave of Spirit broke out of the pill's remains and directly shot at Gravis' Spirit. Gravis didn't resist, and the pill's Spirit entered his mind.

BZZZZZ!

his mind had destroyed the Spirit as soon as it touched it. This wasn't some kind of digestion or absorption. This was only pure destruction.

"First, the Heaven's Balance Cultivation Technique doesn't work anymore, and now this pill is also useless? Do I actually need to increase my

cultivation

be considered auxiliary. The increase of the Energy or body were both unimportant to the Realm. Only the increase of the Spirit

the same as the initial breakthrough to the Spirit Forming Realm. The Spirit wasn't able to increase just by itself, so it needed support from outside, and this support was the Energy in the dantian. The Energy of the dantian had to be pushed into

when that happened, one would have

there were outside resources that one could use to expedite this process. Some rare plants had some inherent Spirit in them, and when condensed into a pill, could release that Spirit into the user's

the bad comes with the good," Gravis said with a sigh. "This inability to rely on outside resources might seem bad at first, but I went through enough shit to see the

could rely on external resources to increase his Realm, he would go out to gain as much wealth as possible to exchange for those resources. All this wealth would have been used to increase his Spirit. Yet, what about his Energy

further increase the Energy in the Spirit Forming Realm. Wasn't it the same with the body after one reached the Energy Gathering Realm? Like this, Gravis could use his wealth to

"Hmm, I think I can sell those Spirit Weapons for an additional 6,000 Energy Stones. With this, I should have around 15,000 Energy Stones. I wonder how much that's worth in the Core-Continent. I need to

Gravis left in a random direction. He had no idea about the layout of the Core-Continent. He only knew that it was a circle, nothing more. Where were the Sects? Where were the cities? He had no

in all this: How long would it

to reach the Seed-Stage,