Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis watched as the discussions broke down and force was used. Would he get involved?

No.

Why should he get involved? Just because Joyce was a woman? Cultivation didn't take gender into account. The cultivation world was different than the mortal world. In the mortal world, one person couldn't have enough power to overthrow whole nations, Clans, or family heads. People needed help from other people in the mortal world since one person just couldn't reach overwhelming power. For mortals, the cooperation between humans was necessary.

Yet, in the cultivation world, this belief would break down. When there were no rules to stop someone from committing all sorts of things that mortals would consider "atrocious crimes", the strength of a single individual became more important than the strength of a group.

So, all in all, Joyce needed to deal with this problem herself. Her father wasn't an enemy of hers, and he also wouldn't kill her. If Joyce wasn't even able to handle something like that, she might as well stop cultivating. Even though her father was way more powerful than her, she wasn't helpless right now. If one didn't have enough power, then one had to get creative. Gravis saw multiple ways which would give Joyce an upper hand.

"Marvin, are you sure about that?" Reginald asked unsurely.

"It's what's best for her," Marvin said evenly.

Marvin also saw how Gravis didn't react at all, which gave him even more confidence. The fact that Gravis didn't get involved showed that he didn't care about Joyce at all. If Gravis wanted the best for Joyce, he would step to her side and help her. This only strengthened Marvin's belief that Gravis was trying to manipulate Joyce.

"You…" Joyce managed to utter through clenched teeth. She was suppressed by Marvin's Will-Aura, but not completely. She could still talk, though it was hard. "You!" she managed to shout through clenched teeth.

"Be silent!" Marvin commanded. "I know what's best for you! As soon as you calm down, you will also realize this."

Joyce's emotions were raging inside her. Frustration, rage, helplessness, hurt, sadness, loss, and many similar emotions all mixed together. She gnashed her teeth so hard that blood started flowing out of her mouth.

He had always helped her, and he had always shown his love for her. Her mother had died, so her father was the closest person to her. Her father was the most

her. She remembered that Gravis had said that there might come a time in the future where Heaven might use all his companions to threaten him. At the time, she had said that this situation sounded too cruel to be real, but wasn't something similar happening right

her father, she might lose the entire Freya Clan. Like this, she would

suppression of Marvin's Will-Aura. 'What am I thinking!? Didn't I just say that even if I go through a thousand years of pain, I will continue cultivating?' Joyce thought with frustration and

involved. Right! If I can't even get through this, how will I ever reach my goal? This family argument is nothing in comparison to the pain I will feel in the future! My path has been made, and I will walk it to the end, no matter who stands in front of me! If I have to choose between my family and my cultivation,

WHOOOOOM!

started expanding furiously. Her fully compressed Will-Aura stretched out and wouldn't

the people in the Spirit Forming Realm were able to resist. Meanwhile, her Will-Aura pushed her father's Will-Aura away until she could

mouths of Reginald and Marvin fell open as they saw this. They knew what this meant. Joyce had condensed her Unity Will! She had been very close to it for a long while, but they hadn't expected that

just made a decision that filled her with incredible pain.

guilt took hold of him. 'What

a way to solve the

between me and my cultivation, then you will no longer be my father," Joyce said with an icy voice, though one

"No… please…" he said in terror. "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! Please, don't leave!" Marvin said as tears started rolling down his eyes. "I made a mistake! I'm

he knew better. If he didn't love his daughter that much, he wouldn't have shown

of the window as Marvin continued begging. 'Would I be able to do that? Would I be able to throw away my dignity and self-respect to keep a loved

Wham!

and hugged him tightly. "Thank you for understanding, daddy!" she shouted as tears also fell from her eyes. "I'm sorry that I've hurt you, but you just wouldn't listen. I'm sorry,

he shouted. "I saw how you started changing and how you decided to go against tradition! I felt like you were about to leave me! I'm so sorry for what I have done,

this, the two continued crying in each other's embrace. Gravis and

you for not involving yourself,"