Lightning Is the Only Way

Two more years passed in which Gravis simply tried to comprehend anything. By now, he had stayed five full years in the Red Kingdom. He had never been in one spot basically doing nothing for such a long time before.

In the lower world, he had always changed environments and learned new things. Even the entire rise and fall of the River Tribe had only taken a bit less than a year. So, five years felt like an eternity to him.

Yet, it only felt like an eternity when compared to his earlier life. In truth, the time actually passed rather quickly for him. In the beginning, every day had felt like forever, but as soon as he got used to ignoring everything else, time seemed to pass much faster.

Gravis had always been on edge, trying to put himself into as much danger as possible in order to not fall behind. This was the first time Gravis was basically forced to only wait. Was it a bad thing? Gravis wasn't entirely sure. He just didn't have enough information to make an informed decision on that.

For once, the absence of pressure had, ironically, put Gravis under more pressure. He felt like while he was just sitting here, other Cultivators went through one life and death fight after the other. Only sitting here made him feel like he was falling behind.

Yet, Gravis also realized that this was only his own ambition talking. In truth, other Cultivators also needed to just sit down and comprehend their Laws. At some point, everyone would have developed their own fighting style to the peak. So, Gravis tried to change his mindset regarding tempering.

Tempering no longer gave him any combat experience. He was already able to foresee nearly all of his opponent's attacks, and fighting more wouldn't increase that skill any further. Now, it was all about the Laws. Gravis was sure that the cultivators all concentrated on their Laws as long as they reached his power.

Gravis was wrong.

Cultivators and beasts at his Realm generally weren't even close to finalizing their perfect fighting style. Gravis had gone through more crises than nearly every other Cultivator and beast at his level.

In the Unity Realm, comprehending a Law was a luxury. Very, very few Cultivators and beasts in the Unity Realm had the chance of comprehending a Law. After all, the Unity Realm wasn't a Realm where one was supposed to comprehend a Law. Comprehending Laws came much later generally.

looking at Laws as soon as they reached the later Stages of the Nascent Nourishing Realm. After all, in order to reach the Law Comprehension Realm, one needed to have understood at least one

much sooner. He was already focusing his eyes entirely on the Laws while being inside the Unity Realm.

a good thing. After all, Gravis would have had much more time to comprehend Laws. Yet, that mindset was wrong.

and reached the Nascent Nourishing Realm while another Cultivator needed 500 years to accomplish the same thing, would that make

it made no difference because, in the end, both of them would have comprehended one Law and would be in the same Realm.

the point of that? As soon as someone reached the Spirit Forming Realm, the dulling of the mind via age had already vanished. An old man near his dying bed could comprehend just as much as a youngster. Arguments like these were only spoken by the geniuses to give

ultra-long-distance marathon. Being faster in the beginning made no

an excellent example of this fact. He had remained at his level for over a hundred years. Yet, he still

one needed 800 years to reach the

time at all, Old Man Lightning would count as one of the young

Realm only helped with the current Battle-Strength, identical to having a powerful Will-Aura. It gave a momentary advantage, but if one couldn't keep

but not all of them, which was why he had made the wrong conclusion regarding other Cultivators. Yet, in the

tempering oneself every week or tempering oneself once every decade made no difference, as long as the Realm didn't progress faster. Cultivators

important again. One should never forget that every tempering experience came with a risk of death. There needed to be a

themselves, they would only increase their Will-Aura, while the comprehension of a Law would only increase by a slight

than doing it constantly. Gravis was now only beginning to understand this concept. He had some inklings about

Gravis managed to grasp some things, but nothing really conclusive. He still remembered how it felt when he had been close to understanding the Law regarding the materials

was something there, and he just needed some type of breakthrough to understand it.

him to the Empress. Five years.

what had