Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked at the map, and as soon as he did, he was glad that he came back for it. If he had continued south, he wouldn't have reached the beasts' territory.

The map was very crude and not detailed at all, but it showed the positions of all the Peak Sects and the beasts' territory. However, that was it. There were no villages, cities, areas of interest or anything like that. It only showed these six things.

The five Peak Sects were placed all around the world, about the same distance between each one of them, except for one.

In the middle of the world was a gigantic forest, which was basically entirely blanked out. It took up around 20% of the map.

This was the beasts' territory.

The entire core of the map was nothing but beast territory. However, only 20% of the world belonged to the beast. Gravis had known that the humans probably had more territory than the beasts, but not by so much. There were probably many times more humans than beasts in this world.

The world was split into five regions. As previously stated, the core of the world was one region, and it belonged to the beasts. The other four regions were north, east, south, and west of the beasts' territories.

How were these areas split?

By gigantic rivers!

20% of the world belonged to the beast, but 10% of the world was also filled with water. There were four rivers coming out of the beasts' territory, which stretched across the entire map. These four rivers took up 10% of the entire map.

From the position of the beasts' territory, the rivers were at the northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast.

However, the rivers didn't perfectly leave at one corner and exit the map on a corner.

In actuality, the rivers were curved.

For example, the northwestern river came out of the northwestern corner of the beasts' territory, but as soon as it left the beasts' territory, it made a curve towards the west. It basically went from northwest to north-north-west and then to just directly west.

The northeastern river did the same thing, but it went more towards the east instead.

The same thing was mirrored with the southern rivers. They also stretched more towards the east and the west, respectively.

This meant that the five territories of the world didn't have the same size. Due to the rivers' curvature, the northern and southern territories were far bigger than the eastern and western territories. In fact, the northern territory was about 2.5 times the size of the western territory, for example.

The eastern and western territories had about the same size, same with the northern and southern territories.

So, to put the distribution of size into numbers.

belonged to the beasts in the

world belonged to

the world belonged to

the world belonged to the southern

of the world belonged to the eastern

world belonged to

one distribute five

impossible. Because of that, two Sects shared the northern territory, while

to the Nine Elements Sect, and Gravis was currently even further to the northwest of this

All-Matter Sect. These two Sects shared the northern

shared one territory, their territory was still larger than the territories of the Peak Sects that owned the eastern and western territories.

at the gigantic river. After that, he would have entered the territory of the Primordial Force Sect. Additionally, Gravis had

Gravis was glad that

belonged to the

and Purist Sect were cut off from others. It was like they were on their

not as cut off as the Life

in the southern

the southern world belonged entirely to

sure that it wasn't that simple. There was probably more to

to be sea beasts in this world, which meant that the gigantic rivers were also a massive danger for humans. Calling them rivers made them seem small, but one had to remember that these rivers were

that the rivers

but the Nine Elements

the Life Sect was obviously overwhelmed with their massive area. Taking care of

and the Purist Sect probably completely dominated one of these southern rivers. The Life Sect already needed to fully withstand the beasts' assault on a major territory on their own. They couldn't also deal with a ton of sea beasts on

as Gravis saw, the Life Sect was probably the most endangered Peak Sect. The northern territories had two Sects that probably worked closely together. The Laws of the Elements and the Laws of Matter were

territory was probably

western and eastern territories were not as big, and one Peak Sect should be enough for each. Gravis had already heard about the ideology of the Purist Sect, which made him guess that the Purist Sect

front of the land beasts, southern front of sea beasts, and northern front of sea beats. Gravis even

Life Sect to their south. However, this was a

and western territories were probably also rather secure. Maybe not as much as the northern territory, but still

southern territory

of Cultivators focused on Life and healing owned and defended

was a lot

body,' Gravis thought. 'I shouldn't immediately assign the status of healer to everyone from the Life Sect. They probably also have a ton of fearsome close-combat warriors with powerful bodies. Maybe their bodies could

world from simply a single picture. Additionally, he now knew where he

had to go