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."

your stupid pride and just accept the situation. Alternatively, you can also call the Sect Alliance and fight me. I wonder how that

when he said that the Heaven Breaker Sect wouldn't care about this. So, the only remaining path would be to gather the Sect Alliance,

looked with nervousness at his Sect Master. Could they do something

territory is now yours.

will hand it back to you. A Law Comprehension Area for a Law I already know is of no use to me anymore, so I don't care what happens to

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

my territory, so I will obviously defend

nodded and

to use me to lure in someone from another Sect. If it happens, it happens, and that's fine, but if you manipulate the surroundings to increase the chance that it happens, I will count that as being disturbed. Who knows, maybe I will just concede the fight and hand the territory over. After all, the new owner would be just as helpless about me

immediately shut this possibility down. So, there was

"You don't need the key to the

can come and go as I

but there was nothing he could do about it right 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

that the situation was truly surreal. The entire Sect Alliance could obviously kill this singular Peak Immortal. After all, fighting one Cultivator was entirely different from fighting

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

with more power was supposed to be able to suppress the one with less power. Obviously, the Sect Alliance had more power. However, they just

a weaker being able to control

interested in Gravis as he thought about these

have a question,"

a shrug as

asked. "How are you able to 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

angry or frustrated. He sounded more like he had given up and just wanted

of responsibility," Gravis answered

you mean?" the

to run a Sect, leaving me with infinite

that you can use

home,

Laws until I know far more Laws than anyone else. The absence of

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