Lightning Is the Only Way

Ryan glared at Gravis with nervousness, rage, and fear.

"You ask why?" he asked through gritted teeth. "Because I will make you live a life worse than death if you don't release my daughter!"

Gravis remained calm as he kept Samantha hanging with his spear. "Didn't the rules say that both combatants had to agree to drop the fight before the fight would end?"

Ryan tried to stay calm, but it was incredibly difficult to stay calm in this situation. He might lose his daughter!

"Yes," Ryan said, "her life and your life are in your hands. Don't make a foolish choice because of your pride and indignation. Be rational right now and realize that killing my daughter will also result in your death."

"This Formation Array is under my control," Ryan said. "The other Sect Masters can't enter if I don't allow them to. If you kill my daughter, you won't be able to escape."

Gravis looked at the Formation Array, which was still being attacked on occasion by some Sect Masters that wanted to put on a show of wanting to help Gravis.

"You know," Gravis said calmly. "I'm a stickler for fairness and justice. As you have seen, I'm a lightning Cultivator, and that's how lightning generally acts."

"My lightning wouldn't be happy if I just let such an opponent live," Gravis said.

Ryan gritted his teeth. "Can't you look at yourself!?" he shouted. "You are currently holding a helpless girl with your spear and are threatening her father with her life. Only a black-hearted devil would do something this evil!"

"Helpless girl!?" Gravis shouted in shock as he broke out into laughter. "You mean the woman that looked down upon me from the very beginning. The woman that didn't even deign to look at me or talk to me? The woman that used the Major Law of Cold and Law of Rage to attack me?"

the woman that accepted our challenge without hesitation, knowing that she could very well die?" Gravis

silent as his mind went wild. "That might be," he conceded after some seconds, "but you have already won. The resource point is already yours, and you have demonstrated your superiority. Killing her now has no meaning. You won't get anything else, and you won't even get tempering

would only be a black-hearted

sneered. "What, so normal tempering is now an act of cruelty? Do you even believe your

don't expect someone like you to understand my sentiments," he said through gritted teeth. "Your actions have already shown your personality. So, this once, let me give you some valuable

being impressed in

be rewarded if you are

know, all these flowery and holy-sounding words would have had more impact if you didn't

Why was this person so difficult!? Couldn't

"The main reason why I talked to you was to see how you would attempt to rationalize your blatant breaking

because you loved her and that you didn't give a shit about any rules, I

didn't even manage to do that," Gravis said. "I have the life of your daughter in my grasp, and instead of pleading, begging, or directly threatening me, you only gave

father would try

from outside became annoyed by Gravis. How shameless was Gravis? He was already threatening the father with his daughter's life, but instead of

reality, Gravis wasn't really that annoyed or disgusted by Ryan. Gravis was also a father, and he could sympathize with Ryan's situation. However, Gravis became

for Gravis and Samantha had the ability to break the Formation Array and involve themselves. Ryan had blatantly broken the rules of

saw this as

had believed them to some extent. Yet, when an actually powerful person broke the rules, everyone was

want?" Ryan asked angrily. "You obviously won't throw your life away,