Lightning Is the Only Way

Old Man Lightning contacted Gravis and told him all about their situation. He didn't keep what he thought about Gravis' action secret. After all, Gravis had to understand that he was different from other Lightning Sect cultivators. Even if he felt isolated because of that, he needed to understand the full range of the issues.

Old Man Lightning had heard about Gravis' past in great detail, so he knew that Gravis felt alone nearly all the time. He had just found a place to belong to, yet Old Man Lightning was about to destroy that again. Old Man Lightning actually felt a little bad about telling Gravis all these things.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Gravis asked in confusion.

Old Man Lightning sighed. "I didn't want to make you feel isolated again. I'm sorry," he said with sympathy.

Gravis snickered. "What? This? Make me feel isolated? Do you think I'm a dry piece of wood that you can break just because you step on it?" Gravis asked. "I am part of a Sect, and I don't care what the others cultivate. They can all cultivate darkness for all I care. I don't care about their elements. I only care about the people."

Old Man Lightning sighed in relief. "So, you don't feel isolated?"

"No, why would I?" Gravis said. "Look around. I can talk with people all I want without them attacking me. In my homeworld, I didn't even know about the cultivation of elements. I guess there are a lot of people that cultivate those, but it was never relevant."

Gravis cracked his neck. "Anyway, let's get to the issue," he said. "I'm going to be very direct now. I really don't get the issue. I don't see the problem at all."

Old Man Lightning furrowed his brows. "If we don't find a solution that both sides agree with, we will have a civil war. You say that isn't an issue?"

Gravis snickered a little. "Yeah, but war needs two parties that want to war with each other. First of all, we don't have that. Second of all, everyone will be replaced eventually. There is literally no time for a powerful enmity to be created. As long as every new person cultivates Destruction Lightning, they will only have each other to fight with. And about those people that remain in the Energy Gathering Realm, who cares? Their path is over either way. They might as well leave the Sect."

Old Man Lightning frowned. "We can't do that. They have joined the Lightning Sect, and we promised that they would be forever part of the Lightning Sect as long as they kept to the rules."

We have a lot of methods to help those people and also reduce

Man Lightning lifted his brows in surprise. "Tell

Yes, the total number of disciples will decrease drastically,

like that. Those missions have to be paid by us, and if we don't have enough

"There are several ways around

Man Lightning lifted an eyebrow again.

you can hold an internal auction for missions. No one will pay more than their potential earnings in those. Yet, the Contribution Points you get from that will offset the losses. Isn't giving the low number of missions to the highest bidder the fairest way? After all, the people with the most Contribution points have done the most for

more missions would put a drain on their funds. On

others would become stronger. Those stronger disciples, in turn, would take harder missions, which would earn more. On top of that, if those stronger disciples accepted a mission from an external source, they would

were basically always the same amount. Of course, those external missions were not nearly enough for the disciples. Many disciples basically camped in front of the

less weak

the Sect Hall. "So? Fuck 'em. If we have too few disciples at the

"But with less external missions, the Sect will earn

"Yeah, but have you seen the Mission Board recently? There are a lot of open missions for Spirit Beasts. It seems like we have more missions for Spirit Beasts than Spirit Forming disciples. If we reduce the number of Energy Gathering disciples by tempering and

that a lot of external missions weren't taken. All of these were for people at the Spirit Forming

problem back. The internal fights would still occur at the Spirit Forming Realm.

of my plan comes into play, but first of all," Gravis said, "If we are already completely replacing the Lightning Sect, why not go even further? Don't you want to see

same thing that all his previous teachers had felt towards him. They had all wanted to see how powerful

of ambition inside

about having the opportunity to make the Lightning Sect rise. "Force every person with Destruction Lightning to go