Lightning Is the Only Way

Complete darkness surrounded Gravis. His Spirit was cut off from the outside world, and his eyes were closed. He also ignored everything that he heard. After all, he had to walk forward without any distractions. He only opened his eyes and Spirit for a split second every couple of seconds to see if he was still inside the Illusion Array.

While walking forward, Gravis swung his saber continually to destroy everything before him. He couldn't risk touching a tree right now. If he did, his lightning would unload into nothingness.

His heart pumped quickly. It wasn't because of nervousness, but because of excitement. He could see and feel nothing while one enemy at the Tree Stage and, at least, five enemies at the Sapling Stage watched him. Any one of those could attack him suddenly.

Gravis felt extremely close to death right now. Walking blind around an area where an enemy could strike him created waves inside his mind. This sensation alone was good tempering for him. Even if the others didn't attack him, in his mind, he would have still gone through a life and death crisis. Perception was everything when it came to the tempering of one's will.

BANG!

10% of his lightning unloaded again. This time, Gravis felt his lightning unload itself via his leg. He also quickly felt around 10% of his lightning regenerating. Apparently, he had just killed someone at the Seed Stage.

BANG!

Another unload from the same leg, and another wave of Energy entered his body.

BANG!

And again. Gravis was quite surprised by the disciples' willingness to throw their lives away, but he quickly thought of a reason. Some of the disciples probably made a pact where they decided to exhaust Gravis. After all, every single lightning strike cost Energy, and Gravis couldn't possibly have an infinite amount of that.

He also guessed that Byron had probably offered that gamble. He probably said something along the lines of that any disciple that managed to injure him would get some powerful weapon or something similar.

BANG!

And again!

BANG! BANG!

rapid succession, and every bang resulted in the death of one disciple at the Seed Stage. One had to know that cultivators at the Seed Stage weren't rare, but also not abundant. From the around 1,100 Spirit Forming disciples in the Lightning Sect, only around 150 were in the Seed Stage. The others were all in

After all, they didn't temper themselves as crazily as the Fire or Lightning Sect. Gravis guessed that he had probably killed around 10%

Gravis had killed ten of the

BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG!

eyes as he realized several things. The unloads didn't come from a single point of his body but form all over him at random spots. On top of that, every single unload didn't give him 10% of his Energy back, but

anger. He didn't mind killing weaker people that attacked him, but it was something different when an

threw everything to the side with all his power. His physical body was

BOOM!

amount of lightning leaving his body. Yet, surprisingly, no Energy came back. Instead, the world crumbled apart. As soon as Gravis noticed that something was happening, he opened his eyes and Spirit again. What

the side of the Darkness Sect, facing diagonally outward. One kilometer more and he would have reached the outside of the Illusion Array. The elders had probably grown nervous and decided to

illusion world had broken apart, and Gravis could see a lot of disciples standing up from the ground around him, scrambling away. As expected, they didn't flee towards their Sect, but away from it. Their panicked faces affirmed Gravis' suspicion. The elders had thrown the disciples at

two elders standing behind a group of disciples in the initial stage of Spirit Forming. The eyes of the disciples showed pure horror. Those were probably the "lucky" disciples that had the "privilege" to give their lives for the

ten meters besides him,

"YOU IDIO-"BANG! SHING!

react. Earlier, he had charged at Gravis, thinking that he was empty. Yet, he spotted the reappearing white dots on Gravis and barely willed for the Formation Array to

storages were still very low. The avalanche of bodies thrown at him had been cruel but effective. Every single lightning strike used 10%, while

of the two elders behind the disciples and another two elders standing beside Byron. The Darkness Sect still had four elders and their Sect Master left,

Byron was frustrated

the elders vanished

disciples. "They are in stealth

avalanche, the disciples