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.

the highest

man only continued smirking. "No,

be quite frank, I didn't think that you were the highest

was

The fact that you didn't entertain the guess and played around with me means that you are afraid of the highest Heaven," Gravis said. "And that was your question. My

young man only chuckled but didn't

walked away, and after a while, he was already in a

young man only

One minute.

Two minutes.

SHING!

Gravis asked as he teleported back to

be fine with going against your lightning when spiting the highest

young man was correct. This was exactly the reason why Gravis returned. Gravis wanted to annoy the guy since he had also annoyed Gravis, but instead, Gravis was forced to

"Your question?" Gravis asked.

simple, actually. It might even surprise you due

"Ask," Gravis said flatly.

to punish that young trader in the Sky Community like that?" the

surprised by the question. This question

example,

the city and killed him there. Tell me, Gravis,

related to

him," the young man

He really couldn't see through

his gaze to the still floating statue of the trader. "Several reasons, actually," Gravis said. "Punishing him is a very mixed bag. Yes, he stole from me, and I'm pretty angry about that, but the guy also doesn't deserve to die because of that. Yet,

fair. Fairness is 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 at the moment so that the relative punishment would be fitting

sold my Emblem, which means he should have enough money in assets to pay me back. He just

of losing his most valuable possession without dying. That should be a bit worse than I have felt back then,

said. "It sounds like you are very torn between two things. Tell me, is it your lightning that is

kill him. He went against me, and it says he should die. I don't think that he should die because

"When you kill an entire world just by existing, you

beings, which is why I made that trade with the highest Heaven to let the most powerful beasts keep living. Yet, I also don't want to slow down my Cultivation just because it

a hassle and doesn't interfere with your cultivation?" the young

"Pretty much," Gravis said.

with your cultivation?"

brows again. "What

compromise, you slightly alienate your lightning. Yet, you are also lightning at the same time. So, even these tiny

His Law of Freedom allowed him to stay in