Lightning Is the Only Way

"Haven't you said that you cared about us?" Cera said with venom. "Have you been lying?"

"Hey!" Gravis shouted as he frowned. "Don't ever question my love for you! I know very well how it feels to be suppressed, and I understand how frustrating it must have been for all of you, but don't blow this out of proportion!"

"There are many ways you could have used to solve this issue. If it were truly so bad, you would have taken any of them," Gravis said.

All three of Gravis' children had different reactions to his words. Yersi sighed while Aris looked with a complicated expression towards the battle. Meanwhile, Cera only looked with disdain at her father. "Enlighten me," she said, and judging by her tone, she didn't expect much.

"First of all, you could have immediately fled as soon as you were confronted by this situation."

"Where to?" Cera asked without any amusement.

"The sea beasts," Gravis answered simply.

"The enemy?" she asked like she hadn't heard correctly. "And become traitors? I could never live with such a shame."

"And exactly that's why the situation wasn't so bad," Gravis said. "Because staying in this situation was not as bad as living with some shame. If living in this situation was so bad, you would have simply fled in shame. Tell me, what would you have done if you knew that the Earthquake Emperor would kill you tomorrow? What would have happened? Would you have waited and obediently died?"

Cera gnashed her teeth. "Of course not! I'm not throwing my life away!" she shouted.

"So you admit that you had a choice in your current circumstance," Gravis said.

Cera glared at Gravis. "Of course we had, but living in shame is even worse than dying."

"Now, you're contradicting yourself," Gravis said with some annoyance. "You said that you wouldn't have thrown your life away, but now you say that you would rather die than live in shame. What is it?"

Cera stood up angrily. "These are two unrelated things!"

"No, they're not," Gravis answered. "When you're confronted with a horrible situation, you will want to find a way out of it. But sure, let's put a pin in that. Next thing: You could also have attacked the Tornado Emperor together when the Earthquake Emperor was busy. There surely had to be some times where that opportunity presented itself."

"And waste such a great tempering opportunity?" Cera shouted back. "That's a level three Emperor, and there are not many left. Wasting such a great tempering opponent just to- "

And then, silence.

grew angrier as she realized what she had just been about to say while Gravis only smirked.

Gravis said after some seconds. "I have a close and powerful friend in

for

being a little

Cera nearly exploded.

three had had any genuine setbacks yet. You have been born in a perfect area suited for you. Then, you have been

to crawl, flee, and hide from an enemy that was about to kill you. You didn't have to do something shameless to defeat an opponent that

to something like this shows that your life has gone too smooth. If I were a mortal, I would feel for your circumstance, but we're not mortals. We're Cultivators. How can you possibly reach the top if such a minor thing, which you could have

should know. She had once been in such a situation. Isn't that

my power, I didn't live with dignity," she said. "I had to crawl and hide in caves, flee

in our lives, but in the grand scheme

"How could I have been so blind?" he said from the side. "When I saw you killing the Tornado Emperor, father, I felt rage. I felt like you were

willing to accept her father's and siblings'

painful things make you more powerful," Gravis said. "As mortals, we can vie for a life without such pain,

Gravis stood up.

impact on you, it might actually

Silence returned.

far, father,"

a true taste of cultivation. Do you think this will be the first time that any of this will happen? Only more pain will wait for you in the future. You guys know my story. Yet, instead of listening, put yourself in my situation. Don't think like it's something that someone else has experienced,

yourself to us," Cera said, less angry by now. "Your circumstances are far from

can go?" Gravis asked. "Have you already accepted that you can't become as

eyes. "Do you think my power has been handed to me? I won't be a hypocrite and say that I have achieved absolutely everything on

on my life and being buried in a pile of shit for two weeks, I wouldn't have gotten Destruction Lightning. Without me killing someone I felt very close to, I wouldn't have

Will-Aura would be nearly useless right now. Without me fleeing from my opponents in shame, I would be dead. Without me constantly fighting Heaven and purposefully walking into its traps, my Spirit and lightning wouldn't be so powerful, and

said. "If you can deal with the pain, great, but if you

want to admit it, but her father's words also

as he walked around, "I have been able to fight a beast three levels above me. Something like this doesn't

current age at that point to