Lightning Is the Only Way

"I admit, my Sect might not be able to resist you," Sect Master Urgnah said, "but the Sect Alliance belongs to the Heaven Breaker Sect, and that's a power you can't fight!"

"Heaven Breaker Sect, huh?" Gravis asked with a smirk. "Is that the hidden overlord of the Sect Alliance? The one that you pay so many resources to?"

The Sect Master became surprised that Gravis knew that they were paying the Heaven Breaker Sect. Only the Sect Masters and Vice Sect Masters knew this! How did he know!? However, that didn't matter right now.

"So, you know," the Sect Master said with narrowed eyes. "Then you also know that you can't just do whatever you want here."

Instead of backing down, Gravis chuckled a bit. "I think you got something wrong."

"What?" the Sect Master asked with indignance.

"The Heaven Breaker Sect is only interested in resources. They don't really care about Law Comprehension Areas since they should have plenty of those themselves. Additionally, Law Comprehension Areas can't just be transported and handed over."

"So, let's assume that you go to the Heaven Breaker Sect and tell them that someone is encroaching on your authority. The first thing they would ask is how powerful I am. So, you say that I am a Peak Immortal, and immediately, they would feel like you're useless. How can you not deal with a Peak Immortal?"

Sect Master Urgnah gnashed his teeth.

"Next thing," Gravis said. "You tell them all about me, and then they believe you. The next thing they would ask is what I have stolen. After all, they are interested in their own tribute more than anything. What will you say? You can't lie, so you will say that I stole nothing."

Gravis chuckled a bit again. "And you know how that will end, right?"

Sect Master Urgnah didn't like what he was hearing.

"They will say that they don't care," Gravis said with a smirk. "They would say that you should stop annoying them with this unimportant stuff and to contact them again when I start stealing so much stuff that it affects their tribute."

"However, obviously, I'm not going to do that," Gravis said. "I'm only here to comprehend Laws, nothing more. I'm not even disallowing your Sect from sending disciples here. For the next 20,000 years or so, I will be traveling from Law Comprehension Area to Law Comprehension Area, just comprehending Laws."

"I'm not interested in your ores. I'm not interested in your Immortal Stones. I'm not interested in anything physical. I only want to comprehend Laws, nothing more."

and fight me. I wonder how that will go, and I

he said that the Heaven Breaker Sect wouldn't care about this. So, the only remaining path would be to gather the Sect Alliance, but Sect Master Urgnah would need to be in the vanguard since it was his territory. There was no way for the Sect Master to survive in that

at his Sect Master. Could they

"but you said that this territory is now yours. What of the time when you are done comprehending

A Law Comprehension Area for a Law I already know is of no use to me anymore, so I don't

nodded. "What if someone from another Sect comes and challenges the defender

so I will obviously defend

Master nodded

manipulate the surroundings to increase the chance that it happens, I

that Gravis immediately shut this possibility down. So, there was truly nothing they could gain

the Sect Master said. "You don't need the key to the

can come and go as I want

now. The Sect Master was annoyed that some Peak Immortal that wasn't even part of the Sect Alliance was able to do whatever he wanted in a territory governed by so many

could obviously kill this singular Peak Immortal. After all, fighting one Cultivator was entirely different from fighting over a hundred. According to

so chose to, but for some reason, Gravis was the one in control. The Sect Master had Gravis' life in his

power was supposed to be able to suppress the one with less power. Obviously, the Sect Alliance

able

Sect Master became more interested in Gravis

have a question," he

a

stay in control against a force so much more powerful than yourself? Also, how are you so incredibly powerful as a Peak Immortal? If you don't mind, I

Sect Master's tone was no longer angry or frustrated. He sounded more like he had given

of responsibility,"

mean?" the Sect

to run a Sect, leaving me

don't have any close ones that you can use to threaten

a home,

second question first: I just spend a ton of time to comprehend Laws until I know far more Laws than anyone else. The

for your first question: That's the same answer. You are weighed down by responsibility, making you more vulnerable. I can threaten you and your Sect, and even if you can ignore this threat, I can use the same thing against