Lightning Is the Only Way

Some seconds passed in silence.

"That's the thing," his mother continued, "When you become the most powerful cultivator, you won't have any enemies left and no goal. No one can threaten you, so, what now? What's the purpose of becoming even more powerful?"

Gravis released another shaky breath. "It feels lonely," he said.

His mother nodded. "It is lonely," she said, and then she furrowed brows. "Gravis, I'm going to tell you some things about your father and me. Your father won't be happy, but he'll just have to deal with it," she said.

Gravis also furrowed his brows. "Isn't that bad?" he asked.

His mother snorted. "So what? He's the strongest and is already going rampant in the whole world, but what about it? Life isn't an easy road where you never get hurt and always get whatever you want. Your father should know that. He'll just have to suck it up this time," she said with a smirk.

Gravis was a bit astonished at first but then chuckled. "I guess not even father is safe from you," he said.

"He sure isn't," his mother said with a smile, "people have different outlooks and priorities. Your father looks at the world differently from me, but so what? Am I supposed to follow your father's every word? I'm my own person, after all," she said.

Gravis closed his eyes. "Okay, tell me," he said.

"Your father has had a rough life. Similar to you, he put strength above everything else and let no one come close to him," she started explaining. "After many, many years, he was finally the strongest and was able to resist Heaven, but what then? Heaven was the first enemy that he couldn't defeat, no matter how much time passed or how strong he got."

as his

Heaven isn't against most things. It only wants to keep the cultivators cultivating and, even though people say something different, he isn't a heartless slaughterer. He doesn't just kill people without reason. So,

whatever he wants, but what now? What can he do now that he is at the peak? He still strives to beat his last enemy, but

You just see millions of years pass, yet it just felt like a moment. Nothing excites you anymore, and

sighed. "That's a sad life. Luckily, my father has

her. Right now, she had a

us, but is that really relevant if

when he

you remember when I told you that you might forget how to love? I wasn't making a hypothetical then. Your father had forgotten how to love for a long

into a sitting position, looking at his mother

"You're an adult now, so I can tell you these things," his mother said, not making Gravis any calmer. "How

imagine that you were some peerless talent from some Sect

other before he became as powerful as Heaven," his mother sighed, "In actuality, I didn't even exist back

born

in history. In order to suppress

He knew what that

land, sea, everything was converted into Energy. After their fight,

"So, father and Heaven were the

the only two beings that were left. Your father and Heaven had been exhausted from the fight, and only a small part of their Energy remained. At that point, either both of them would die, or none of them. After a talk,

he had achieved his goal. He wouldn't be suppressed by Heaven anymore, but when he saw the lifeless emptiness, he