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.

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 people

Bang!

and sighed again. Helplessly, he sat down beside Manuel. Gravis was more preoccupied with Manuel, so he didn't pay

Gravis started as he told the group about everything that

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

felt the earth shake for such a long time," the

raised an eyebrow. "You also felt that even though you probably were multiple kilometers

shaking out of nowhere," 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 angry if we felt

the five heroic men from the Wind

for a while with closed eyes. He had closed his eyes to better imagine that scene. He knew all five of these men, so he could

about to die, they had the opportunity to insult this world's ruler and captor," Manuel said slowly. Then, he laughed. "This is a better death than nearly all cultivators will ever experience. While everyone had been caged, these five had managed to break out of the cage and spit on our captor. This is an unprecedented honor for my Wind

went out how they lived, free," Gravis said, and Manuel nodded

died, they had been able to show their disrespect to Heaven, something we won't be able to

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

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 third trial was just as hard as the

individual. For example, the enemies that Manuel had faced were way stronger than the enemies that

the door to the fourth trial had opened only a day after they 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

to Manuel falling down 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

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

and wanted to walk to the door, yet he stopped when he noticed something. Meanwhile, the group smirked at him.

see two doors, like the previous times, but only one door. On top of that, the single door also had a big '5' inscribed

group was a bit surprised that Gravis had talked to Heaven. Wasn't that useless? After all, Heaven didn't answer. Wouldn't this be

obviously, not accept that. Yet, if Gravis entered the trial, shouldn't it get tailored to his power then? Like this, the others wouldn't be able to

Pack!