Lightning Is the Only Way

The group quickly walked to the treasure chests after some more talking. Finally, they could get their just reward for surviving this trial! Everyone went up to one treasure chest and opened them at the same time. When they saw what was in there, their eyes widened in excitement.

"Are these the pills that only the Heaven Sect has? You know which ones I mean, right?" Joyce asked, unsure. If that were true, she would be able to barely believe it. Those pills were what every cultivator yearned for in their dreams.

Manuel picked one up, looked at it closely, and smirked. "Yep. Sure enough, these are the Ascension Pills," he said with an excited voice. "Only the Heaven Sect knows the recipe for these pills, and they don't sell them!"

Nero and Gravis had no idea what those two were talking about. "What do they do?" Gravis asked.

Joyce shoved the pills from her treasure chest into her Spirit Space with excitement. "They are the only pills in the world that can help a cultivator temper their Spirits!" Joyce said and then ate one. After some seconds, her smile intensified. "They're awesome!" she shouted.

Gravis remembered that the spies from the Heaven Sect that he had fought back when he entered the Core-Continent had eaten some pills to reach the Seed Stage. Were these those pills?

Nero smiled helplessly. "Don't bait us into asking. Just tell us how much one pill gives you," he said.

Joyce pouted and looked at Nero. "Way to destroy my fun," she commented and then turned to Manuel. "One pill increased the Magic in my mind by about one month of tempering!" she said.

Manuel's eyes widened. "One month?" Then, he turned back to the pills in his treasure chest. After some calculating, he spoke again. "So, these pills can allow us to reach the halfway mark to the Tree Stage?" he asked, incredulously.

One couldn't fault Manuel for his disbelief. They were not even halfway through the initial Stage, yet they were about to advance two Stages? This would save them a little bit more than 20 years of bitter cultivation!

When Gravis heard all this, he rolled his eyes. 'Of course, Heaven gave us a reward that was basically useless to me. After all, I am already at the Self Stage,' Gravis thought and looked at his own pills. 'But Heaven has made a major miscalculation with these rewards,' Gravis thought with shining eyes.

He wanted to smirk in triumph, but Heaven might realize that he actually had a use for these pills. 'My plan just became way easier.'

up. No one asked Gravis for his pills, even though all of

for the time being, Nero," Gravis said as

be. I will wait until I have a level two Unity

that time, you can only temper yourself

smiled a bit. "Because I need strength to reform

Darkness Sect?"

the disciples learn from their teachers. You have killed the Darkness Sect's upper echelon, so it's the perfect time to reform it. The group from the Darkness Sect has died in the trial, and there are probably less than three elders in our Sect now, including

smiled. "And with you at the Seed Stage, you will be able

of the Sect Master, and

contact me. I will inform the Wind Sect of the new Darkness Sect, and we might be able to bury the enmity between

at Manuel, and wordlessly nodded. Nero was a man of few words, but his

the treasure chests. The door was open, and above it was an inscription

as average cultivators. Yet, everyone was leaving as monsters. Their Will-Auras and Battle-Strength couldn't be classified

grown monster. He was the third most powerful being in this world, and when he decided to reach

some seconds of silent watching, the group turned around and left. Gravis was the last to leave because he had been watching the Formation Core for a bit. It just intrigued him. After about two minutes, he realized that everyone had already left. Gravis scratched

robes. "Your Darkness Sect winning the inheritance? You couldn't even defeat someone at the Seed Stage. What

for the inheritance, not everything is a straight-up fight. On top of that, when there is a fight, it's

elder in white robes said, waving his arms to calm the present elders. "We've been over this many times. We can't predict who will win, and the teams we are rooting for might've already died.

a sneer. "Oh, shut up," the red elder said. "You only say that because you know that your

white elder's face changed from a calming smile to a hard look, like he was looking down at the brute from the Fire Sect. "We can do more than just heal. If you underestimate my Light Sect, you will only die. Yet, what could I expect from a brainless, battle-hungry beast like

hated these holier-than-thou light cultivators. They always acted like they were the mediator for every conflict, but as soon as something went against their interests, they would

go?" The red