Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis jumped back and forth while the seed shot around his Spirit Space with unreal speed. Gravis had been hit quite a lot in the past couple of minutes. In the beginning, it hadn't been that hard to evade the seed, but as soon as Gravis started hitting it with more power, it became increasingly more difficult. The seed became nearly unavoidable as soon as Gravis started kicking instead of punching it.

Yet, Gravis had the time of his life right now. He realized that this was an incredible way of training his dodging. Since the seed was round, and Gravis constantly had to dodge it, he decided to call this training Dodge Ball. He thought that this was a fitting name for the training.

"Is everything alright?" Gravis heard the voice of Old Man Lightning reverberating throughout his Spirit Space. He guessed that this was how a sound transmission sounded while inside his own Spirit Space. Of course, that voice distracted him enough to get hit by the seed.

BZZZ!

The seed just released some lightning that entered Gravis' "body" and then halted. The seed was himself, so it obviously wouldn't injure him. Yet, he was a little bummed out that he couldn't break his record of consecutive dodges. After a sigh, Gravis left his Spirit Space.

In the physical world, Gravis opened his eyes and looked at Old Man Lightning. "Oh, everything's fine. I was just training."

WACK!

"And here I thought something went wrong," Old Man Lightning shouted with frustration. "After your breakthrough, you just remained silent, and I was worried that something went wrong. Instead, you immediately went back to training! Try to think of my position for once!"

Gravis rubbed his head, but he realized that he might have worried Old Man Lightning by being silent. "Yeah, sorry," Gravis said nonchalantly. "I was just really absorbed in training."

Old Man Lightning snorted. "What training? You just made a breakthrough, and you have to wait for your Realm to increase again. What could you possibly train while remaining still like a rock?"

Gravis smirked. "I call it Dodge Ball!" Gravis said proudly.

Old Man Lightning had confusion written on his face. "Dodge Ball?" he asked.

Gravis nodded. "Yes, Dodge Ball! I poked my Spirit Seed and noticed that it bounced off the membrane of-"

WACK! BOOM!

Gravis was hit pretty hard by the cane, and his body hit the wall, destroying some furniture. "Are you insane!?" Old Man Lightning shouted with anxiety and rage. "Do you know how fragile a Spirit Seed is? If it breaks, you will fall back into the initial stage of Spirit Forming!"

at Old Man Lightning with annoyance. "What are you talking about? Fragile? I can kick that little

said in shock between deep breaths. "What nonsense are you spouting!? Even a small poke can injure the

that's not what I saw! I can punch and kick

but after seeing that Gravis was alright, he calmed down with a sigh. "Well, your cultivation

complied. He started telling Old Man Lightning about his breakthrough and what had happened. When he told him how he used his Spirit Seed for avoidance training, Old Man Lightning became a slight bit anxious, but

Man Lightning sighed. Then, he looked out of one of his windows into the sky. "I guess Magic and lightning are different," he said slowly. Then, he turned to Gravis. "When a cultivator reaches the Seed Stage, they have created their Spirit Seed, but that seed is still fragile. If

and nodded. "I guess that sounds reasonable," he said. "After all, Energy is very passive. It isn't really dangerous

force that destroys everything that touches it. If Magic is one extreme, then lightning is the other. I guess that, if you hit it, it would rather strike back

he weren't synchronized with lightning, that little seed would probably unload its whole self into him, trying to destroy him with everything it had. Yet, since Gravis was basically lightning,

dramatic, but the Spirit Seed didn't have its own personality or will. It

will you do now?" Old Man

a while. "I think I'll buy some pills to

looked like he remembered something. "Speaking of, you haven't condensed your

also showed a

condense their Energy further. This was how the Energy of Spirit Forming experts increased. They would press the Energy inside their dantian into a denser form, creating more space for more

was just ignoring it and growing without end. Gravis already knew that his increase in Realm wouldn't increase his amount of

inspect his lightning and then pressed it together with everything he had. This whole thing took a couple of minutes, and after he was finished, the size

"Good! Like this, you probably won't unload into the ground anymore. Though, you will probably still

when nothing was around for hundreds of meters. Old Man Lightning turned

a little bit below

Man Lightning nodded.

Pack!

nothing happened. "That looks good. Even at nearly 70%, it doesn't hit

remained silent and looked at his abdomen in interest. He also wanted

BZZZ!

density of Gravis' Destruction Lightning, it still didn't injure Old Man Lightning's hand by much. His hand was only a little

was that?" Old Man Lightning

"About 74%," Gravis answered.

Man Lightning nodded. "Alright, try to remain below 70% while being anywhere near the Sect. Now, just to be sure, let's see