Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis quickly exited the third trial and made his way to the usual hall. After around an hour of walking, Gravis reached the hall and saw his group. Everyone was still alive, making Gravis smirk. Everyone's Will-Aura had increased, and Claude had also condensed his Unity Will.

The darkness disciple also had a fully concentrated Will-Aura now. Joyce was well on her way to reaching a level two Unity Will, but that would still require some tempering. Manuel had also started to slowly concentrate his Unity Will, but he was still a long way off from a level two Unity Will.

When the group saw Gravis, their eyes opened in shock. Gravis had already reached the Tree Stage? Wasn't that a little too fast? His will also felt much more powerful, but by now, the strength disparity was just too large. They couldn't judge Gravis' Will-Aura anymore. It just felt incredibly powerful.

"Congratulations!" Joyce shouted with a smile as she clapped into her hands, excitedly. "Now, no one below the Unity Realm can fight with you anymore!"

Gravis nodded with a smile. "Thanks. I should be able to reach the Self Stage in another ten months. Then…" Gravis trailed off as his smile transformed into a smirk.

Gravis didn't need to finish his sentence to make the group understand. They knew exactly what his goal was. After two more trials, Gravis would reach the Self Stage and then the Unity Realm. At that point, he would fight against Heaven, something that had seemed unimaginable to them a couple of years ago.

"I want to see it when it's time," Manuel said with a smirk as he stepped closer.

Instead of smirking back, Gravis' face transformed into a frown. "Manuel. There's something I need to tell you," he said.

The group noticed Gravis' change in tone and grew serious. Yet, how did Manuel react when he heard that?

Manuel only sighed.

"I think I know what you want to tell me," he said with helplessness. "Since humiliation didn't work, Heaven probably wanted to make you regret and rage. My disciple brothers are dead, aren't they?" he asked.

Gravis nodded solemnly.

When Manuel saw Gravis nod, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Tell me how it went down," he said with a calm tone as he sat down in the middle of the hall.

looked at Gravis and Manuel with a mixture of disbelief, frustration, anger, and pity. Heaven was really taking it too far. Gravis walked closer and sat down opposite Manuel. The remaining three

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saw that, he laughed a little and sighed again. Helplessly, he sat

Gravis started as he told the group about everything that

was still somber, but after a while, it turned to laughter. While the thought of their deaths was still harrowing, their antics and the heroic end to their lives made the situation much easier to accept. The group from the Wind Sect had been able to

for such a

also felt that even

Claude said and then laughed. "I would have never guessed that the earth shook because the Wind Sect's group was insulting Heaven. It must have been really

of the five heroic men from the Wind Sect.

eyes to better imagine that scene. He knew all five of these men, so he could very

death than nearly all cultivators will ever experience. While

free," Gravis said, and Manuel nodded to

to show their disrespect to Heaven, something we won't be able to ever do, well, except for

head. "I didn't do anything. I only told them why they were in this situation. Everything they did after that had been their

hours. Apparently, the group had been fighting a mixture of the first two trials in their third one. They had fought solo and in groups, always outnumbered two to one. Yet, surprisingly, even though the trial could objectively be called harder, subjectively, it wasn't harder at all. According to what the group had said, the

strengths tailored to the individual. For example, the enemies that Manuel had faced were way stronger than the enemies that Claude had faced.

had passed the third one. This also showed the progress that everyone had made in the trials. One could even say that their battle-strength

a full Stage, his total strength was still weaker than when he had been in the Seed Stage. Yet, instead of being a full Stage weaker, Manuel was now only about half a Stage weaker. He had made a lot of progress. Previously, he had been able to win a one-on-one fight against someone

this Heaven's Trial started. But if one compared her to the rest of the group, her Battle-Strength was way weaker. One shouldn't forget that this group consisted of the absolute

some hours of talking, Gravis stood up and wanted to walk to the door, yet he stopped when he noticed something. Meanwhile, the group smirked

see two doors, like the previous times, but only one door. On top of that, the single door also had a big '5' inscribed above it. When Gravis saw that, his eyes narrowed. "What are you planning this time, Heaven?" Gravis asked out

had talked to Heaven. Wasn't that useless? After all, Heaven didn't answer.

that. Killing the group would be ridiculous. The highest Heaven would, obviously, not accept that. Yet, if Gravis entered the trial, shouldn't it get tailored to

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