Lightning Is the Only Way

"Let's see," Gravis said, readying his saber again. "Let's try with something small, like 5% of my Spirit."

Gravis summoned a mixture with only five percent of his Spirit, yet something unforeseen happened.

POP!

The mixture wasn't able to stabilize and scattered into the surroundings. This hadn't happened before, so Gravis was confused for a second, but he quickly noticed the difference between this time and last time. "The last couple of times, I always used 10% of my Spirit. I guess I need a minimum amount of Spirit to make the fusion work. Funny, the manual hadn't mentioned that," Gravis muttered.

Then, Gravis summoned another mixture with 10% of his Spirit. Like the first three times, it remained stable. "So, it really requires a minimum of Spirit to stabilize," Gravis muttered while scratching his chin in thought. "I wonder how lightning interacts with it."

Then, Gravis started slowly infusing the mixture with lightning.

WHOOOM!

Suddenly, all the lightning in his body started crazily going into the mixture. He tried stopping the lightning, but it was hopeless. It just wouldn't listen! Gravis immediately started sweating with nervousness.

BOOOOOM!

After the sphere had absorbed 10% of Gravis' lightning, it couldn't take anymore and violently exploded. The surrounding 30 meters got completely decimated and a crater formed, which was around five meters deep. Luckily, Gravis was immune to his own lightning. An attack like that could have killed him otherwise.

unable to process what just happened. After some seconds, he finally calmed down and started scratching his chin again. "It felt like I didn't have enough control over the mixture when the lightning entered it. In the beginning, it was no issue controlling the sphere. Yes, I lost control over my lightning, but I hadn't lost control over the sphere at that point. Though, why did I lose control over my lightning in the first

thinking about the concept of Spirit, will, and lightning. How did he control lightning in the first place? This question appeared in Gravis' mind for the first time. He had actually never questioned how he was able

thinking. But didn't the Spirit only appear at the Spirit Forming Realm? How had Gravis controlled his lightning in the

simple. The Spirit had always existed, as the Spirit was the soul and the mind of the cultivator. If one didn't have a Spirit,

lightning. This allowed the Spirit to manipulate Energy, or lightning, with substantially increased precision and power. Before that, one only had rudimentary control

CLAP!

created thing is basically another me. My lightning didn't listen because this sphere was adapted to lightning and, therefore, tried

from exploding, I need to make the amount of

need to put in more Spirit than I have lightning remaining. Currently, my Spirit reserves are at about 55%, while

when it ate all my lightning? Will it eat the lightning in my Spirit as well? If that happens, I'll lose several weeks of

still won't know how it will act. If I try it later, even more of my cultivation time would be in danger. Risking a couple

BZZZZ!

lightning into the horizon. In his time thinking, his lightning and Spirit had recovered a little, so Gravis now had 50% of his lightning, and 60% of his Spirit left. If there were nothing more to absorb, then, logically, the sphere couldn't absorb more. Though Gravis still remained careful. Slowly, he created another mixture of will and Spirit. This time, he

sphere appeared, and it was multiple times bigger than before. Every previous sphere only had 10% of his Spirit, while this one had over 55%. When Gravis noticed that the

BZZZZ!

shot right into the sphere. All the lightning vanished in less than a second, and Gravis felt utterly drained. His dantian was completely devoid of lightning, and his Spirit had less

reloading it somewhat. This eased the stress on his

BANG BANG

sphere of purely concentrated lightning lingered in the air. Many peals of thunder per second exploded out of the sphere, creating a cacophony of violent sounds. The ball was also incredibly bright, and when Gravis looked into it, he was

sphere didn't collapse, and after it had stopped absorbing the lightning, the connection between the lightning inside his dantian and the sphere had been cut. As long as Gravis didn't touch the sphere with more lightning, it wouldn't absorb more. Yet, the best part was that it hadn't even touched his Spirit. All the lightning inside his mind remained, taking a load of