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.

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

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 to

my Spirit," Gravis said as he continued thinking. But didn't the Spirit only appear at the Spirit Forming Realm? How had Gravis controlled his lightning

the cultivator. If one didn't have a Spirit, they wouldn't be human.

only made the Spirit adapt to Energy, or in Gravis' case, lightning. This allowed the Spirit to manipulate Energy, or lightning, with substantially increased precision and power. Before that,

CLAP!

answer. "Of course!" he shouted. "If I combine my Spirit and my will, the created thing is basically another me. My lightning didn't listen because this sphere was adapted to lightning and, therefore, tried to absorb it crazily. So, when it

make the amount of Spirit in the mixture bigger than the amount of

solution. "If it absorbs all the lightning in my body, then I only need to put in more Spirit than I have lightning remaining.

plan, but he was a little worried about it. "What if the sphere doesn't stop absorbing 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 progress. I need the lightning in my mind to increase my cultivation, after all,"

off, I still won't know how it will act. If I try it later, even more of my

BZZZZ!

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

sphere only had 10% of his Spirit, while this one had over 55%. When Gravis noticed that the sphere was stable, he started to funnel lightning

BZZZZ!

felt utterly drained. His dantian was completely devoid of lightning, and his Spirit had less than 5% of

took the small amount of lightning in his dantian and shoved it into his mind, reloading it somewhat. This eased

BANG

of the sphere, creating a cacophony of violent sounds. The ball was also incredibly bright, and when Gravis looked

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