Lightning Is the Only Way

What things had Gravis noticed?

Gravis had always felt pressure inside his mind as he shoved more lightning into it, but at some point, the pressure didn't increase anymore. In the beginning, he hadn't been sure since it was always just a small increase in pressure, but as it stayed constant for multiple weeks, he realized that he was right.

Why didn't the pressure increase, even though he had shoved more and more lightning into his mind? The reason for that was that his Spirit Space slowly grew. Apparently, when the pressure reached a certain threshold, his Spirit Space would be forced to increase in size.

He saw that his Spirit Space had already grown by some meters. These couple of meters had already doubled the volume of his spherical Spirit Space, which was incredible. He wondered how big his Spirit Space would become after a year.

Yet, this discovery was unimportant in comparison to another one. Gravis had found something way more amazing!

The suppression of the lightning required Gravis to use all his Spirit and will. Due to the continued growth of his Spirit Space, the density of lightning didn't increase inside his Spirit Space. It just became more. So, after two weeks, the density hadn't grown anymore.

Yet, Gravis had noticed that he managed to suppress his lightning more and more. The compressed area slowly got smaller. How was that possible? With some logic, one could find the answer.

The suppression of his lightning required his Spirit and will, right? Yet, his Spirit didn't increase during cultivation. It would only increase when he reached the next Stage, so, that only left one thing.

Yes, this forceful suppression of his lightning increased Gravis' will!

After Gravis had realized that, he quickly checked the compression rate of his Will-Aura and found that he had reached 3.4%! That was an increase of 0.6%! An increase of 0.6% in only one month was incredible!

Gravis saw that, he dropped everything else. Nothing was more important than the will! He might also only be able to temper his will while being in this Stage! Gravis knew how the Self Stage looked, and he was

the Energy in the Spirit Space would completely fuse with the Spirit and would become another self. At that point, if a cultivator entered their Spirit Space, they wouldn't see their Energy anymore. They would enter the Self in

seem possible, even with lightning.

a month!' Gravis thought with a

he didn't have any lightning to shove into the space, he continued suppressing the lightning inside his mind. Gravis' eyes became red with fiery motivation! "COMPRESS! COMPRESS! COMPRESS!" he shouted inside his

Realm, so it had no idea what was going on. The only thing it saw was that Gravis' Will-Aura continued increasing without reason! What was going on!? Wasn't Gravis' Will-Aura already powerful enough?

lightning. After another two months, half of the whole Spirit Space

a total of nine months. Gravis had been a total of ten months inside the third trial now, and today was the day when he stopped for the

the fourth trial was still closed,

Spirit Space was tearing. A sense

rational enough to stop. Even though he wanted to continue more than anything in the world,

BANG!

again. "I guess when the lightning regains its old density, I will reach the Self Stage. This should take around a year. A

the accumulated dust off his body. He had remained unmoving for nine months, after all. He stood

and did some training to get rid of the stiffness, and after everything was resolved, he was hit with a wave of tiredness. "Man, I'm exhausted, but

WHOOOM!

to the maximum and felt elated when he saw it. He immediately broke into wild laughter. "0.2%!" he shouted with excitement. He had easily reached the threshold

1%! In terms of volume, it was many times smaller. These

their power and speed heavily. Now, Gravis was the absolutely undisputed

Gravis wasn't stupid. He knew that he would still be helpless in front of the High Priest. In fact, he would still be helpless, even if he reached the Self Stage. The gulf between the Self Stage and the