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 mother told his father's

wants. 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

such. Your father can do 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 when he accomplishes that, he

on living with no dream or desire remaining. What's the point of this life? You just see millions of

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

mother's hand stopped caressing, and Gravis opened his eyes to look at her. Right now,

has us, but is that really relevant if he

grew even more nervous when he heard that. "But he does,"

sighed. "Do you remember when I told you that you might forget how to love? I

at his mother in shock. "Could you elaborate?" he

didn't leave her face. "You're an adult now, so I can tell you these things," his mother said, not making Gravis any calmer. "How do you think your father and I met?"

some peerless talent from some Sect or something?" Gravis asked. This

he became as powerful as Heaven," his mother sighed, "In

you were born later?"

mother sighed again. "I was born some time after your father and Heaven have concluded their fight. This was the most tragic fight in history. In order to suppress your father, Heaven needed all the Energy it could get, so it converted everything in the world into Energy," she

widened. He knew what

human, cultivator, land, sea, everything was converted into Energy. After

down at the ground. This sounded so unreal. "So,

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

achieved his goal. He wouldn't be suppressed by Heaven anymore, but when he saw the lifeless emptiness, he felt his goal to be empty. Nothing remained. What now?" his mother continued