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.

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.

had actually never

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

as the Spirit was the soul and the mind of the cultivator. If one didn't have a Spirit, they wouldn't be human. The Spirit Forming Realm didn't actually "form" the Spirit in the sense that it was created, but in the sense that its

Energy, or in Gravis' case, lightning. This allowed the Spirit to manipulate Energy, or lightning, with

CLAP!

"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

in order to stop my uncontrollable mixture of Spirit and Will from exploding, I need to make the amount of Spirit in the mixture bigger than the amount

deep thinking, Gravis found a solution. "If it absorbs all the lightning in my body, then I only need to put in

my lightning? Will it eat the lightning in my Spirit as well? If

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

BZZZZ!

had recovered a little, so Gravis now had 50% of his lightning, and 60% of his Spirit left. If there were nothing more to

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

BZZZZ!

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 than 5% of its reserves

it somewhat.

BANG BANG

out of the sphere, creating a cacophony of violent sounds. The ball was

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