Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis had been back in his homeworld for a little over three days. This meant that around ten years had passed in the lower world. He really wanted to know what had happened to the lower world. Would it get a new Heaven? Would it be doomed to die?

"As I said," the Opposer said, "you might be the first one that has killed a Heaven without ascending, but there have been cases of people killing a Heaven after returning from the highest world. Every world that has its Heaven destroyed gets equalized."

"Equalized?" Gravis asked, some nervousness appearing inside his voice. "That sounds ominous."

"No, it's nothing bad," the Opposer said. "The world stays heavenless. Yet, since there is no Heaven to oversee things, the world just continues running on its own without any interference."

"This means that all the Karmic Luck gets evenly distributed across all humans. The parent-Heaven also keeps up the ascension process, but that is everything that happens. Only those two things are being taken care of by Heaven. Everything else is up to the world and its inhabitants."

Gravis scratched his chin. "So, theoretically, everything can happen?"

"Yes. There is no favoritism and no higher power to stop things threatening to destroy the world. There have been worlds where techniques had been created to siphon the life out of mortals to increase one's cultivation. Due to greed, some of these worlds had the human population go extinct. If a Heaven oversaw the world, something like this would never happen."

Gravis felt some guilt inside of him. The lower world had a chance of being destroyed because of his enmity with Heaven.

"But," the Opposer said, "there have also been worlds where the general power of cultivators soared. There were also worlds where cultivation completely died out since all techniques had been lost. A world without a Heaven could become a wasteland, a paradise for mortals, a paradise for cultivators, or anything else. It depends entirely on the world."

"When one of his children dies, the old bastard just accepts it and complies. They want a world without Heaven? Sure, here you go. Then, he lets the world just take whatever course it wants. Whatever happens, happens."

Now, Gravis didn't feel so bad anymore. In actuality, he gave the world more freedom to do whatever it wanted. Whatever the world did with its newfound freedom was on them. More freedom might not result in the best results, but Gravis preferred freedom over being controlled.

Granting someone more freedom was like developing a powerful weapon. Some will use it to protect their loved ones, but others will use it to commit atrocities. It was not the weapon that killed people, but the user of said weapon.

"Are my friends still alive?" Gravis asked.

"Whom do you consider as a friend?" the Opposer asked back.

Nero, Joyce, Lasar, Old Man

still alive," the Opposer said, making Gravis release a sigh

grew a bit worried. "What

Heavenborn. The world is hunting him, and he is constantly on the run. Luckily, the old bastard has given him a ridiculous amount of Karmic Luck, and, with your warning, he had been able

preparing to make all my friends become powerful so that it can use them as hostages if

"Possible, but that's not

furrowed his brows. "What

past. He might have killed your closest friend in your childhood, but if he can make all your other close ones become powerful, that might count as some repayment. Honestly, I'm not sure. It could be both, either of them, or neither

his father

Whoop!

Ring that he had lost in the lower world. "Don't lose it this time. Otherwise, you can't enter the city," the Opposer said. "In the middle world, you can just keep it

had lost his ring. "Sorry

all, you have already felt the consequences of not having it yourself,"

his three-day "vacation" outside the city's

the Heavenborn in the lower

dead except for Aion and some hidden spies," the Opposer said. "The Elemental Sects were pretty angry about being suppressed for so long. They hunted down nearly every single one

nodded. He had expected that

Jaimy?" Gravis

"Who?" asked his father.

stabbed me in the Proxy-Lightning Guild," Gravis

was done with you, he fled the Guild with his younger brother. The lower Heaven saw the supreme tempering that

back before he went to the Core-Continent. This really fit the lower Heaven's

Research Adept emblem?" Gravis

it?" the Opposer

need it to go to

Opposer said, "but you're my son. I'll just send you there myself. Just consider your loss of the emblem as being fired from your job. You might not get the credentials, prospects