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 Heaven," Gravis

continued smirking. "No, I'm

said. "To be quite frank, I didn't think that you were

why was that

you didn't entertain the guess and played around with me means that

young man only chuckled but didn't

and after a while, he was already in a different

young man only

One minute.

Two minutes.

SHING!

Gravis asked as he teleported back to

you wouldn't anger your lightning because of something like this," he said. "You might be fine with going against

returned. Gravis wanted to annoy the guy since he had also annoyed Gravis, but instead, Gravis was

"Your question?" Gravis asked.

surprise you due to its irrelevance to everything," the young man

"Ask," Gravis said flatly.

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

surprised by the question. This question truly seemed absolutely

anyone in the Sky Community," the young 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 Realm.

to the outside of the city and killed him there. Tell me, Gravis, why did you decide to punish the young man like that?"

you related to that trader?"

to do with him," the young man said. "So, your

couldn't see through this

turned 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,

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

too lightly. So, I 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 in the Nascent Nourishing Realm. If he puts his mind to it, he can recover

most valuable possession without dying. That should be a bit worse than I have felt

interesting?" he 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

man said. "When you kill an entire

Gravis said. "I don't actually want to kill so many 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

you avoid killing someone as long as it's not a hassle and doesn't

"Pretty much," Gravis said.

truly not interfere with your cultivation?" the young

his brows again. "What do

lightning. Yet, you are also lightning at the same time. So, even these tiny decisions can have a huge impact on your

Law of Freedom allowed him to stay in charge of his being since it was more powerful, but what if Gravis transformed his being from Punishment