Lightning Is the Only Way

"Anyway," Gravis said. "This concludes the demonstration of Situational Laws. As the name implies, you need to have knowledge regarding specific situations and understand them. Danger doesn't exist in physical reality but in your perception. That's also why they are so hard to understand."

Stella was still shocked about Gravis' fighting style. Now that she thought about it, she should have won their fight easily. Gravis should have never been able to close in on her, and she should have been able to defend herself better.

It was like physical reality told her that Gravis had had no chance against her, but since both of them believed that Gravis was close to killing her, their combined perception changed physical reality.

It was like Gravis was destroying the combat experience of his opponent with his Laws.

Stella nodded after a while. "So, what about that other thing?" she asked.

"The other thing that you need is a change in mindset," Gravis said. "I'm talking about the illusion of a pure path to power."

Stella's brows furrowed. "Could you elaborate?"

"Not allowing anyone else to interfere has a lot to do with the illusion of wanting to reach supreme power with one's own strength alone," Gravis said. "We want to say that we have gained the power we currently have all on our own. We want to say that it was solely our own hard work that allowed us to become so powerful."

"But that's not true," Stella interrupted Gravis.

Gravis lifted an eyebrow. That didn't sound like a question but a statement. Stella sounded like she had had similar thoughts in the past.

Gravis gestured for her to continue.

Stella combed her hair with furrowed brows. "I've had these thoughts before," she said slowly. "I am obviously very talented. Otherwise, my teacher wouldn't have chosen Liam and me. "

"However, teacher and a lot of elders showed me the correct way. It's true that I had to build my strength myself, but they have shown me the direction. If I didn't know the direction, I would have long died."

"Additionally, inside the Sect, I've never had to fight someone that was straight-up impossible to beat. There had always been a chance of victory, even if my opponent was far more powerful than I. Of course, when I went outside, that didn't hold true anymore. I had to flee for my life more than once. I've also had to find shelter and hide before."

Gravis didn't interrupt as he let her continue explaining.

all my close ones have

without my own hard work and talent,

that I shouldn't demean my own accomplishments," Stella said and looked at Gravis. "But I'm not! Yes, I am very talented,

safety, and techniques? Plenty of people don't have access to these things. Wouldn't they think that my path wasn't

looked with surprise

incredibly difficult for Gravis. First, the middle Heaven had to beat Gravis down into absolute submission to the point that he even felt like a little kid. However, not even that was enough! After that,

able to find that

the first time in a long while, Gravis felt like someone else was superior to him in something. Usually, Gravis was always the best in his cultivation Realm. He always had the most powerful Battle-Strength, knew the most Laws, had the most expansive horizon, had the greatest strategies, but

see on his own. Gravis had needed others to show him the way regarding this mindset, but Stella had found the solution on her

of one's path was like saying that everything one stood and worked

the important aspects to realizing this truth was humility, did Stella know the Law of Humility, the antithesis to the Law of Pride?

into contact with these revelations, he felt some

think that

No.

as him. Orthar was incredibly smart, calculating, and Gravis could talk as much as he wanted with him

Gravis could talk however he wanted with Orthar and share his thoughts with him. Orthar would

fire and water. Orthar suppressed and manipulated everyone for his own

personality was like an evil overlord that wanted power and resources above anything else, no matter the cost, while Gravis did

this, Orthar

between Gravis and

equal to him in basically everything, with Stella, Gravis felt inferior in

was also superior in

extreme opposites meeting. They were both good in basically everything,

knew about Laws and

superior ability to reflect on

a ton

of Perceived Reality, but Stella knew more about