Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked more closely at the young man. This was a very specific piece of information that basically no one but his family knew. Yet, there was still a possibility that he overheard Yersi or Orthar talking.

"Yes, I had fun," Gravis said slowly. "But, again, what's it to you?"

"Not much," the young man said, still smirking. "I'm just very interested in you."

"I'm not into guys," Gravis said flatly.

The eyelids of the young man twitched slightly. That comment obviously had an effect on him.

But then, the young man started laughing. "You're really good at this!" he said.

"At what?" Gravis asked.

"At finding just the right buttons to push," the young man said. "You did the same thing when you called the highest Heaven a marauding… you know, to infuriate that middle Heaven."

This guy knew far too much. He even remembered the specific words Gravis had said to infuriate the middle Heaven. Only the present Elders at the time, his father, the middle Heaven, and the highest Heaven, knew that. Gravis never repeated his actual words to anyone since it wasn't really relevant to his story.

"Is this some kind of Law?" Gravis asked. "Some kind of Mind Reading Law?"

The young man chuckled a bit. "That Law does exist, yes, but for you, specifically, it can't be used," he said.

"Why not?" Gravis asked with narrowed eyes.

"Because your mind is full of Punishment Lightning," the young man said. "Not even I can read your mind, at least, not directly like that. I only have way of speaking, facial expressions, and gestures to make my guess," the young man said.

"But that is obviously not enough to guess something so specific," Gravis said.

"That's right," the young man said.

"Anyway, let's stop this little play, Gravis," the young man said. "How about a bet?"

"What bet?" Gravis asked.

"You guess my identity, and I will answer one of your questions. Yet, if you guess incorrectly, you will answer one of mine. Sound good?" he asked.

Gravis furrowed his brows. "Sounds good."

"Then, go make your guess," the young man said.

highest Heaven," Gravis

man only continued smirking.

"Interesting," he said. "To be quite frank, I

why was that

me means that you are afraid

only chuckled but didn't

while,

man only continued

One minute.

Two minutes.

SHING!

Gravis asked as he teleported back to the young man with

anger your lightning because of something like this," he said. "You might be fine with going against your lightning when spiting the highest Heaven,

was exactly the reason why Gravis returned. Gravis wanted to annoy the

"Your question?" Gravis asked.

is rather simple, actually. It might even surprise you due to its irrelevance to everything," the young

"Ask," Gravis said flatly.

young trader in the Sky Community like

was surprised by the question. This

man continued. "Yet, there are ways. For example, you could have simply absorbed the Energy in his Spirit Space, forcing him into the Initial Unity

teleported him to the outside of the city and killed him there. Tell me,

you related to that trader?" Gravis

to do with him," the young man said.

He really couldn't see through this strange

said. "Punishing him is a very mixed bag. Yes, he stole from me, and

important to me, but my own emotions are just as important. The truly fair thing would have been to make him give me everything he owned

went with a middle way. He has obviously already sold my Emblem, which means he should have enough money in assets to pay me back. He just has to sell his house, company, or whatever. That would ruin him financially, but he is still a Cultivator

should be a bit worse than

torn between two things. Tell

Punishment Lightning wants to kill him. He went against me, and it says

the young man said. "When you kill an entire world just by

why I made that trade with the highest Heaven to let the most powerful

as long as it's not a hassle and doesn't interfere with your

"Pretty much," Gravis said.

it truly not interfere with your

brows again.

So, even these tiny decisions can have a huge impact on your being, even

become really angry ever since Gravis had spared the middle Heaven. His Law of Freedom allowed him to stay in charge of his being since it was more