Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis was really surprised about the assassin's willingness to hand over his Avatar. While Gravis held the daggers, the assassin had no connection to his Avatar anymore, making him nearly helpless. If Gravis summoned these daggers into his Spirit Space, the Avatar would be overwhelmed by Gravis' Spirit.

This meant that Gravis could destroy the Avatar with a mere thought.

There was absolutely no way to recover from that.

"Why did you hand over your Avatar?" Gravis asked.

"Because I can't win," the assassin said helplessly. "I'm only good at assassinations, not in a direct conflict. All my Laws and powers revolve around assassination. Any Immortal King on my level can easily kill me in a direct confrontation."

Gravis frowned as he scratched his chin. "Then how did your Will-Aura become so powerful?" Gravis asked.

The assassin's Will-Aura was one level above his Realm. How could an assassin train their Will-Aura without fighting someone directly?

"By targeting risky targets," he said. "For tempering, I am targeting Cultivators that can kill me easily when they survive my first strike. This, in itself, is incredibly dangerous. We didn't directly fight, but my life has been in mortal danger all this time."

'That could actually work,' Gravis thought. 'The feeling of danger is the important thing.'

"So, that's why you targeted me?" Gravis asked.

The assassin nodded. "You have so many secrets and know so many Laws. Assassinating you is almost impossible. However, if I managed to succeed, my Will-Aura would become much stronger."

Gravis sighed. "Tempering and Cultivation, huh?" he uttered.

Gravis had thought that the assassin was contracted by someone. It had also been possible that he had been after his secrets and wealth.

However, it was nothing but tempering.

This made Gravis hate the assassin less, but he had still attempted to kill Gravis, and Gravis wouldn't let something like that go.

Several seconds passed in which Gravis was just thinking.

What was there to think about?

Just kill the assassin!

However, Gravis had some plans.

What about the time Gravis went to the Core Regions? Would he just go there without any plan and look around?

No, this wasn't like Gravis. Gravis was a planning person, and he already had a plan, a plan that would give Gravis a ton of resources and plenty of opponents.

"What's your name?" Gravis asked.

"Siral," the assassin said.

give up your freedom for survival?" Gravis

eyes widened. Gravis would not

he was willing to serve for eternity. What was the difference between serving

have lost some respect for him. The fact that he hesitated meant

to create my own, shall we say, gathering of beings. I need someone that can deal with

but his expression became ugly again when he heard the second part. Gravis' targets probably wouldn't be dangerous opponents for Siral. This meant that Siral would target weaker Cultivators that wouldn't give

between life and death," Siral said with a sigh. "Bad things

Cultivators in this world know that Karmic Luck exists but don't know what it is or how it

won't,"

Whooop!

Gravis' hand. "Because I have this," he

the ring, his breathing halted. "A Slave

that Siral noticed what it was. However, it had the name

"If anyone sees this Slave

widened. Life Rings were

relieved when he thought about Liran's and Surem's death. They had seen the Life Ring. However, they obviously

a Slave Seal on someone, but Gravis had only

were they

Rings illegal?" Gravis

was bad to own one. "Because you can

a good reason, but Gravis didn't fully believe it. This reason was probably what the Peak Sects told the masses, but it was

the highest world, a Life Ring that was able to enslave anyone below the Star God Realm might be a somewhat expensive tool, but in this higher world, it

need to create

and

500,000 Immortal Stones, but in this world, it might

you associated with the

Life Rings. Gravis was sure that they didn't destroy them but kept them for their own usage. They probably used these Life Rings to get specimens to

instead of paying a fortune to acquire one, they simply declared them illegal and confiscated

Power sure was useful.

do what I want, but you will not receive any damage to your luck. After all, you won't have your own will, and everything that you will do under my command will fall back on me. So, when you, for example, slaughter a city

like that?" Siral asked

does," Gravis said with his

also knew about the three Laws of Honesty, Deceit, and Lies. Fortunately, it was already known that Gravis knew

sighed. "Normally, I would agree, but there's a

"What problem?" Gravis asked.

tribulation will arrive in 30,000 years," Siral said. "I need to become an Immortal Emperor before that, or I will die. You have seen my Battle-Strength. I'm certain that I can't survive

his chin. However, instead

actually," he

do you mean?"

Immortal King. That would be six levels above myself, far more than I could handle. However, when I become an Early Minor Circulation Immortal King, this would

would summon a Mid Major Circulation Immortal King, which

open in shock. "You would take over my tribulation for me? But then it would be