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.

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

"How much for a fruit?" Gravis transmitted to the tree. Asking was better

they had the sea beasts as their opponents, but that was it. Here, the beasts were under a constant threat of eradication, which

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

to taste it,"

with surprised happiness. "Anything you can give to me

was gigantic, and the fruits were about a meter wide

just a single scale," the tree

least! It had the chance of getting a scale from an Immortal for simply

Was this even real?

Was it dreaming?

parts of their own body for fruit. Beasts could regrow

Gravis said as a small scale separated from his body. Gravis used his hands to do this since he didn't want to

connection to his body and regained its full weight. On top of that, the

hard scale, which would be

imagine

BANG!

deep in the ground. Over the 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 Laws that the beast knew would appear, which would help the plants

scale was and felt

even a

over to one fruit and plucked it. It was a meter wide

how it tastes,' Gravis thought. Then, his head enlarged, and he ate the whole fruit in one

tasted very sweet and filled Gravis' being with delight. Mortals would

mind quickly ignored the taste as he

it reached Gravis' stomach, and when that happened, its

Gravis concluded. 'So, eating these fruits can help

parts of it.

didn't absorb these Laws. They only appeared in his stomach and disappeared. This

Understanding Laws with this method was far

with their limited space?' Gravis thought as he scratched his chin. 'Law Comprehension Areas require a lot of space, which can