Lightning Is the Only Way

After Gravis left the root behind, he went towards the surface. This root symbolized the barricade between humans and beasts, and Gravis now also knew why the root had appeared later than Gravis had expected.

Everything outside the root network was probably still part of the beast territory, but it was contested territory. Beasts and humans could meet there and fight each other, but the root network protected the truly important territories.

SHING!

Gravis came out of the ground and looked around.

Forest.

Gigantic forest!

The trees were all several kilometers tall at least and radiated auras from different Realms. Some relatively smaller trees were only in the Energy Gathering Realm, but some of the bigger ones were already in the Nascent Nourishing Realm.

The forest was very thick, and there were trees everywhere Gravis looked.

Immortals always flew high up in the sky, but there were trees that were even a thousand kilometers tall. Even at the average height where a Cultivator flew, Gravis was still surrounded by trees.

Gravis landed on one of them, and it didn't react.

Even though that tree had intelligence and could speak with Gravis, it didn't say anything. It was like it wasn't intelligent at all, but Gravis knew that it was.

This meant that the tree was probably used to beasts climbing on it. It was so used to it that it didn't even react to any beast that came close to it. The trees probably also didn't have to fear any beasts.

However, these trees had to be very old to reach their current Realm. After all, Meadow only reached the Law Comprehension Realm after 10,000 years. This meant that all of these Nascent Nourishing Realm trees had to be at least a thousand years old.

So, how was it possible that so many trees still stood there? If any Immortal beasts fought each other close to them, these trees would have been completely destroyed.

'This means that beasts probably avoid fighting near the trees,' Gravis thought. 'There are probably either dedicated fighting areas or the beasts just fight high up in the sky.'

Gravis furrowed his brows. 'This probably means that there are some customs I am unfamiliar with.'

Gravis looked around some more and saw a massive tree with red, shining fruits growing on it. The tree wasn't full of these fruits, but it still had a lot. This was the most powerful plant in Gravis' vicinity, and it was the only one in the Law Comprehension Realm.

but saw no fruit lying on the ground. 'This means that some beasts

surroundings and flew closer to the tree. "How much for a fruit?" Gravis transmitted to the tree. Asking was better than

they had the sea beasts as their opponents, but that was it. Here, the beasts were under a

want my fruit?" the tree asked in surprise. "I can't feel your Realm, which means you are very powerful. Why

to taste

the tree answered with surprised happiness. "Anything you can give to me is worth more than

was gigantic, and the fruits were about a meter

just a single scale," the tree

beast was an Immortal, at least! It had the chance of getting a scale from an Immortal

Was this even real?

Was it dreaming?

The beasts are probably exchanging parts of their own body for fruit. Beasts could regrow their lost body parts, and trees could regrow their fruits, but both things are useful for the

scale separated from his body. Gravis used his

scale, it lost its connection to his body and regained its full weight. On top of that, the scale was incredibly compressed since Gravis wasn't in his

incredibly hard scale, which would be hundreds of kilometers wide in its full

imagine

BANG!

next years, this scale would release its Energy into the surrounding earth, making the earth far richer than before. On top of that, some tiny Law fluctuations from the

heavy the scale was and felt its

truly so powerful that even

plucked it. It was a meter wide

how it tastes,' Gravis thought. Then, his head enlarged, and

as it entered Gravis' body. It tasted very sweet and filled Gravis' being

ignored the taste as he noticed something

broke down as soon as it reached Gravis' stomach, and when

concluded. 'So, eating these fruits can

being shown, but different parts of it. One fruit didn't show

only appeared in his stomach and disappeared. This meant that he

Laws with this method was far easier than just looking at some

this how the beasts deal with their limited space?' Gravis thought as he scratched his chin. 'Law Comprehension Areas require a