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!

The lightning in his mind had destroyed the Spirit as soon as it touched it. This wasn't some

the Heaven's Balance Cultivation Technique doesn't work anymore, and now this pill is also useless?

their cultivation in the

like before, could only be considered auxiliary. The increase of the Energy or body were both unimportant to the Realm. Only the increase

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

point, when the Spirit had been sufficiently nourished, the whole Spirit would condense into one small core. This was the Spirit Seed, and when that happened, one would have

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

bad comes with the good," Gravis said with a sigh. "This inability to rely on outside resources

as possible to exchange for those resources. All this wealth would have been used

that there were ways to 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 increase his

those Spirit Weapons for an additional 6,000 Energy Stones. With this, I should have around 15,000

Core-Continent. He only knew that it was a circle, nothing more. Where

all this: How long would it take Gravis to increase his Realm without

of lightning into his Spirit, which gave him the answer. In order to reach the Seed-Stage, he would need around a full year. In Gravis' mind, this was insanely slow, but for others,