Lightning Is the Only Way

"Alright, I'll start. You ready?" Old Man Lightning transmitted to Gravis.

"Go ahead," Gravis sent back.

BZZZ!

Old Man Lightning released a small amount of lightning and shot it towards Gravis. Even though he believed Gravis, he wanted to be careful. After all, he was four entire Stages higher than Gravis. The lightning hit Gravis, making him feel energized. As the lightning hit him, the Destruction Energy was absorbed by his inherent lightning while the filtered Life Lightning went towards the closest thing, which was the Freya's Birch.

The tree released a feeling of joy as it felt the pure Life Energy coursing through it. It absorbed it quickly, but that small bit of lightning was not nearly enough. It wanted more. When Gravis felt the hunger of the tree, he smirked. "No worries, more will come shortly!" he transmitted to it.

Old Man Lightning saw that Gravis was still fine, so he increased the output to multiple times higher. Gravis felt the lightning and noticed his lightning steadily growing more powerful. This bit of lightning that Old Man Lightning released was already more than those 5,000 Energy Stones had given him.

The lightning kept pouring into Gravis while the filtered Life Lightning went into the tree, which also greedily absorbed it. Yet, greed took ahold of the tree, and it extended its branch into the lightning that came from Old Man Lightning. When Gravis and Old Man Lightning saw that, they gasped in fear and shock. "NO!" they shouted.

BANG!

Old Man Lightning immediately stopped his lightning, but it was too late. The branch went into the lightning stream and immediately exploded while a lot of the lightning went through its body. In a panic, Gravis immediately converted all his inherent Energy into Life Lightning and shot it into the tree, barely saving its life.

The tree remained scorched and black for only a short moment before it regained its vitality, yet it transmitted pain and fear into Gravis now. This was the first time where the tree felt the power of destruction on its body, and it immediately got scared. The whole tree swayed violently, and some kind of scream echoed throughout the Sect.

"Calm down! It's over! No one will hurt you!" Gravis shouted at it with his Spirit, trying to soothe it. It was just like a newborn baby and knew nothing about the world. The only thing it felt was pain and fear after this trauma.

Meanwhile, the disciples had first watched in shock as the old man shot lightning violently at Gravis. Was the old man trying to kill him? They didn't know that this was what Gravis wanted since he only talked with Old Man Lightning via his Spirit. Then, when the tree extended its branch into the lightning stream, their faces blanched. Did the tree have a death wish?

it survived, he released a sigh of relief. Killing their new treasure just after it

over five minutes to finally make the tree calm down. During that time, he had to latch onto the tree to not fall off since it was violently shaking. After it finally calmed down, Gravis explained

needs to pass through my body so that I can convert it to Life

transmitted back that it understood. It didn't understand the full concept of Destruction and Life Energy, but

it while the tree, still afraid of the recent painful experience, pulled

and its intensity started increasing with time. After a while, Old Man Lightning was shooting with everything he had, which made Gravis feel as alive as never before. His lightning storage was growing violently. Some stray bolts of it

happening to Gravis, and he grew astonished. 'So that's where he stores all his lightning,' he thought. He had already thought multiple times about how weird

was carrying his lightning in his dantian,

By now, there were a lot of them since

of them were rather quick-witted and directly shot their lightning at Gravis. If Gravis was able to resist Old Man Lightning's lightning, then he was surely

BZZZZZZZ!

had no issue in absorbing all of them. "Come on! Shoot!" Old Man Lightning shouted at the still hesitating disciples. After

rapidly until it was over five kilometers tall, yet it didn't stop. Most of the disciples were smart enough to use their

BANG!

that Gravis stood on, making Gravis panic again. Luckily, since there was a constant stream of Life Lightning going into the

WACK WACK WACK!

into some nearby buildings. Apparently, the tree was smart enough already to see who had

jaws. The tree was already able to transmit simple words. That meant that it had reached the

stop. The last bolts of lightning shot at Gravis and got converted. Gravis

nearly ten kilometers high! The canopy of the tree is even penetrating the storm clouds. Wait, what about the lightning?' he thought in panic and looked around. Gravis was inside the storm

the clouds moved around the tree. In the beginning, Gravis questioned how that was possible. Since the tree was connected to the ground, why would it be able to not get

tree was feeling like lightning to Gravis. As Gravis noticed that, he came upon a realization. 'Of course! The tree has a very high affinity with lightning, basically making it one with it. Normal lightning has no intention of attacking it. Only when a will is behind lightning will it attack

then jumped down. "That should be