Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis pulled the thing out and looked at it.

"CREEEEEE"

It released a maddened and enraged shriek, but Gravis didn't falter. It was a long, black worm with eyes completely covering its body. It looked like an abomination that parents would make up to scare their children into behaving.

More spires shot at Gravis, but Gravis only tightened his hold on the worm. The spires broke down before they could reach him.

"You look really disgusting, Heaven," Gravis said evenly. "Who would have expected that the thing that has haunted me for six whole years was such a disgusting worm? Would you have ever expected that this day would come?"

"You meddling ant!" it shouted in its screechy voice. "Why won't you just die!? If your father weren't there to protect you, you would have died long ago!"

"And if you weren't born from Heaven, you would have also died many times over. Background is also a part of strength," Gravis said.

"CREEEEEE!"

It shouted as Gravis used more of his strength. This was a shout of pain, and Gravis enjoyed it. Finally, Heaven felt a sliver of what he had felt for the past six years.

"Is it infuriating to be suppressed? Isn't it horrible when someone stronger than you can control your life?" Gravis asked.

"You won't dare to kill me! If I die, this whole world will be destroyed!" it screeched.

Gravis looked at the world as the black holes were devouring it. Then, he turned back to the black worm.

"Sorry, but this world is more important than your life," he said.

The worm became happy, but then, the Void-Stone Saber stabbed through its mouth. It released another high-pitched screech, and Gravis started turning the saber slowly inside Heaven's body. After around a minute, the worm fell silent.

BOOOOOOOM!

A shower of Energy exploded out of the worm as all its saved-up Energy was released into the world. Luckily, the corpse remained in one piece. Without someone guiding the Energy, it merely entered the holes without repairing them. Gravis remained calm as the world was ending around him.

"Don't play jokes on me. You won't let this world go to waste," Gravis said.

Whooosh!

All the holes vanished instantaneously. The destroyed continents were also restored to their status before the fight had begun. Yet, the dead remained dead. Everything recovered, except life.

Whoooosh!

Energy reappeared in the atmosphere, and in no time, it regained its old density. If there weren't so many dead people and beasts, one would believe that everything had been a dream.

before, he might have believed this lower Heaven. At that point, he would have hesitated. Yet, what was a

everything had ended, and they could scarcely believe that they were still alive. Yet, the sadness of their dead loved ones immediately hit them. They were happy that they

spared from the massacre. They only felt the Energy reducing and felt

and most people in the Core-Continent had died. The Sects managed to keep themselves alive since they were fast enough to escape the destruction. Initially, they had

had it the worst were the Body Tempering disciples and the mortals. Body Tempering cultivators had now become even rarer than Spirit Forming

Whoop!

sent his saber and Heaven's body into his Spirit Space. He might have a use for

Looking across the restored world, Gravis

this much. Yet, what could he do? His lightning demanded justice, and if he didn't kill Heaven, he would ultimately lose

do you think I am a monster?" Gravis

sighed. "I can't fault you for what you did. I

sighed again. He had noticed that Lasar had

expected that the world would suffer that much. She was an empathic and

ever see each other again, you can tell me honestly what you think of me,' Gravis wanted to say to her but

was one last thing that he had to

at the edge of the Middle-Continent. Gravis stopped as he looked at something, which was hovering right before

was a green, 90-meter-long hurricane hawk. It was a

believe its eyes. It didn't know this human, but the human's aura seemed incredibly familiar. It

Snort!

then flew away. When Gravis saw that, he sighed again as a lump of guilt formed in his throat. Skye also believed

the bird grew angry, turned around, and shot towards

PACK!

without strength while flying. Having a body at the Seed Stage was light enough to fly with. Otherwise, his own speed might kill him. Yet,

Plop!

landed on

to Gravis with an angry voice. As a Spirit Beast, Skye had the capability to transmit its thoughts. On top of that, it had always been smart for a beast. The fact that it transmitted a complete sentence showed

was shocked for a second but then smiled warmly. Skye hadn't been

Gravis said,

said. "I was too dependent on you. Thank you,"

Skye hadn't known that

grew nervous again. He didn't want his best friend to

as Gravis finished his tale. "I'm honored

don't mind that I have

stronger, and that automatically makes weaker beings suffer. It's how the world works. Why should you be guilty about

thing after he had realized the change he had

you, Skye,"

"Why?" Skye asked.

helped me immensely," Gravis said back. Then, he realized something. "You said I'm your brother,

not?"