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.

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

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 to control lightning. One shouldn't forget

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

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

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

CLAP!

clapped his hands together as he got the 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

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

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

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

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

BZZZZ!

so Gravis now had 50% of his lightning, and 60% of his Spirit left. If there were nothing

Spirit, while this one had over 55%. When Gravis noticed that the

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 left.

shoved it into his mind, reloading it somewhat. This eased the stress on his mind. After that, Gravis took a deep breath and looked

BANG BANG BANG

of violent sounds. The ball was also incredibly bright, and when Gravis looked into it, he was quickly forced to avert his gaze. To him, the

lightning inside his dantian and the sphere had been cut. As long as Gravis didn't