Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis followed the teenager and got introduced to several Immortals and Immortal Kings. All of them accepted Gravis readily without questioning his background.

Simply talking to people like this reminded Gravis of his home. The people in Opposer City also only talked to Gravis without caring about anything else. Of course, there were the occasional people that were only interested in him due to his background and profession, but there were plenty of others as well.

Gravis talked for several days and also got to know a lot of things.

The children of this congregation left home when they understood their first Law. So, how come that there were also Immortals here?

The reason was that these Immortals and Immortal Kings were only visiting. They had left home and had created a new home for themselves. However, this was their childhood home, and they liked to visit from time to time. One could liken it to adults visiting their old orphanage from time to time.

Gravis also received quite a shock when he heard how many Immortals had actually come from here.

Right now, there were over 10,000 Immortals and Immortal Kings that came from here. However, they were all living outside and only visited occasionally. On top of that, due to Arc's incredible teachings, basically all of them lived in the Core Regions of the world.

Several Immortal Kings even had prominent positions in powerful Sects. Their Battle-Strength was powerful, which allowed them to hold these important positions.

However, when they were here, they were just like everyone else. No one was overly respectful to someone else simply because they held an important position. In here, everyone was the same. This was probably also one of the main reasons why these powerful beings liked to visit this place.

Gravis even met some people from the Peak Sects.

Gravis had no idea how many Peak Sects there were or how they were called, but after talking with everyone for a while, Gravis finally knew what the Peak Sects actually were.

Peak Sects were Sects that had at least one Peak Immortal Emperor. These Peak Immortal Emperors were theoretically at the Realm where they should ascend. Sadly, they couldn't. The reason was that they hadn't comprehended a level six Law.

However, that didn't mean that their Sects didn't have plenty of Ascenders. The Peak Sects had by far the most Cultivators that ascended to the highest world. Of course, these Ascenders didn't take up any critical positions in the Sect. After all, they were focused on ascending, not on running a Sect.

Even if they were not Ascenders, the Peak Immortal Emperors of these Sects were important to protect the knowledge and power of their Sect from other Peak Sects. If an ancestor died, they quickly had to push another Immortal Emperor to that position. Without an ancestor, other Sects might start to become more direct with their trades and demands.

Additionally, these ancestors were essential to protect the humans from the beasts.

Yes, there was a real war going on between the beasts and humans. This war didn't have tempering as its goal, but genocide.

No one knew how this war started, but after millions of years of war, both sides started to absolutely hate the other one. At least, that was how the humans generally described the war.

In truth, it was a war with a one-sided enmity. The beasts didn't really hate all humans since they felt that the death of other beasts was just natural. The stronger one kills and eats the weaker one. That was how life worked.

Instead, it was the humans that wanted to eradicate all beasts. So many loved ones had died to the beasts, which created an unending abyss of hatred towards beasts among humans.

It went so far that the entire human territory didn't have a single beast left.

Every single beast had been eradicated from their territory.

So, what were the territories?

denser the Energy. In the very middle of the world

that he was currently

middle of the world. However, there were no powerful beasts

He had created a Formation Array that kept

did the humans think

humans had no

didn't even know how the middle of the world looked like. Not even the people Gravis talked to knew that they were currently in the middle

was powerful, but no one knew how powerful he actually was. Yet, no matter how powerful he was, he couldn't possibly live in the middle of the world,

the world was entirely within

human and beast territories were in the form of a donut. The human territories were the donut itself, while the beasts were the hole in

Why was that?

Because of Arc.

Energy density and a smaller territory to defend, they would have long been eradicated by the humans. The humans fought far smarter than beasts. Without this advantage, it wouldn't

of new beasts were born every second, and if they reached a certain population density, they would

was called a beast

often did a beast wave

hasn't happened for

Why?

wave would kill every human and would destroy every building for millions of kilometers around. Because of that, humans constantly sent in armies

course, such an insane offensive ate up an unreal amount of

How much?

all Sects went to this

It was insane!

offensives were heralded by the five Peak Sects. They were the most powerful

were these five

Sect: A Sect that concentrated on combining their

Sect that concentrated on the creation of equipment. They owned most of the ores in the world, and their disciples fought with a lot of armor, weapons, and Formation Arrays. One could call this Sect a Sect

Primordial Force Sect: A Sect that concentrated on the three primordial forces, space, time, and gravity. One could only truly join them when one understood the Law of Primordial Force. This Sect had the most disciples since over half of all Immortals had an Avatar created with the Law

Life Sect. This Sect had a monopoly over pills and healing services. If one needed to raise their physical power or their Realm, they

of the Immortal Kings that had saved Surem wanted Gravis to join them. This meant that Gravis had been invited by a Peak Sect. These couple of people that Gravis had met

the Sword, and so on. They had to comprehend a ton of Battle-Laws from different elements to combine them into these element-neutral

who the human rulers of this world

noticed that one Sect was

Underworld was missing.

no one really liked talking about them. Apparently, Underworld was a sore topic among Sects. The Peak Sects tried to get rid of Underworld, but whenever they

became enraged by Underworld's conduct. This was a war between adults! Why pull the children into

didn't care. No one knew where their actual headquarter was, and as long as

the Peak Sects decided to ignore Underworld to a certain extent.

suffered under the Peak Sects' wrath. The Peak Sects were too powerful for Underworld. If the Peak Sects decided to go