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?"

importantly, the woman that accepted our challenge without hesitation, knowing that

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

be a black-hearted act of cruelty,"

so normal tempering is now an act of cruelty? Do you even believe

shown your personality. So, this once, let me give you some valuable advice from your elders. Don't step onto this path of slaughter. Learn to forgive.

Gravis uttered, not being

might be rewarded if you are a kind

go," Gravis commented. "There's the bribe. You know, all these flowery and holy-sounding words would have had more impact if you didn't put a bribe

Why was this person so difficult!? Couldn't he just

to see how you would attempt to rationalize your blatant breaking of

honestly," Gravis said, "If you just said that you wanted to save your daughter because you loved her and that you didn't give a shit about any rules, I would actually have admired you a little bit. Throwing away the respect others have for you to

that," Gravis said. "I have the life of your daughter in my grasp, and instead of pleading, begging, or directly threatening

even care about your daughter. Any good father would try everything to save his child,

by Gravis. How shameless was Gravis? He was already threatening the father with his daughter's life, but instead of simply accepting the reality, he seemed to enjoy seeing

and he could sympathize with Ryan's situation. However, Gravis became more and more annoyed with all

ability to break the Formation Array and involve themselves. Ryan had blatantly broken the rules of the Sect Alliance, but

this as

that no one was allowed to interfere, and Gravis had believed them to some extent. Yet, when an actually powerful person broke the

you want?" Ryan asked angrily. "You obviously won't