Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis spent the next couple of years looking at nothing but his memories of the different Energy streams.

"Master, 50 years are up," Siral suddenly transmitted to him.

Gravis always lost himself in comprehension, and centuries passed in the blink of an eye, which is why he had tasked Siral to keep track of time. Otherwise, Siral's tribulation might arrive in merely a second.

Gravis opened his eyes and nodded.

After that, he took out the second fruit and consumed it. He didn't even think about that one mortal guy. Right now, he had to focus on his Law of Magma.

Gravis felt his body grow more powerful again as he swallowed the fruit, but just as before, it was only an illusion. His body couldn't become more powerful anymore without reaching the next level.

Gravis closed his eyes as he watched the streams again. After thinking about what he had seen the last time he had eaten the fruit, the streams of Energy only appeared even more familiar to him.

The streams of colored Energy danced in his stomach, and Gravis watched them as they seemingly played with each other. Laws were created and destroyed inside his stomach, and the display was just as magical as the first time Gravis had seen it.

And just like before, the display had vanished just as quickly. It felt so incredibly short to Gravis, but ten years had passed yet again.

Gravis sighed when he realized that his second fruit had been used up just like that. It didn't feel like he had learned anything during that time, but that was mainly due to the fact that he was absorbing as much of the display as he could without thinking much about it.

Putting logic and patterns behind what he had seen was something that he would do over the next 50 years.

Just as before, Gravis informed Siral to awaken him after 50 years, and Gravis closed his eyes again.

In Gravis' mind, the streams of Energy appeared again, and Gravis started to find patterns of their creation and decomposition. The display inside his mind became even more realistic after he had eaten the second fruit. The first display seemed blurry and confusing in comparison.

This one was far clearer, and Gravis could now extrapolate even more information out of this display.

"50 years are up, Master," Siral suddenly said, and Gravis opened his eyes.

His face still appeared a bit complex, but it wasn't overly much so. 'I think I'm getting used to huge chunks of time being cut out from my life,' Gravis thought. 'It's still a bit weird, but I guess one can get used to absolutely everything.'

Gravis looked at the horizon with furrowed brows. '120 years have passed ever since I have consumed the first fruit. This means that Siral's tribulation will happen sometime in this century. There is always plus-minus a century when it concerns an Immortal's tribulation. After all, Arc has to set all the gears in motion.'

'I wonder what opponent Arc has chosen for me.'

Currently, dawn was appearing on the horizon, but Gravis could empathize more with a sunset. Right now, Gravis was facing one of the most difficult fights in his life. This would be the first opponent that was five levels above him, and this opponent could only come from the Core Region.

The Core Region only had terrifying Cultivators. Gravis hadn't fought one yet, but he had met many people from the Core Region in Arc's clearing. According to what they said, it was not uncommon for Major Circulation Immortal Kings to know level five Laws.

In any other world, comprehending a level five Law would be the bottleneck to becoming an Immortal Emperor, but in this world, it was strange if someone didn't know a level five Law when they reached the Peak Immortal King Realm.

Immortal Kings that couldn't breakthrough due to their lacking Law Comprehension, but in this world,

level five Laws

in every single world, and

this world. The geniuses of this world might not be much better

Gravis

last years of his life, and he had to prepare himself

he unleash his beast

If he didn't, this

couldn't hold back at

table if he wanted to win, and he

fight was an immense risk to Gravis, but there was

a fight against someone five levels

Probably not.

would never be

tempering, he wouldn't be able to comprehend any level five Law. His experience with level five Laws

meant that Gravis wouldn't know a level five Law anyway. Sure, he could comprehend a ton of level four Laws, but that would only marginally help. The Soft Pure Law would help him create a better armor, but armor was

attacking power in existence. If Gravis were hit by an attack to his head, he would die regardless, and if he were hit someplace else, that place would be absolutely

also change nothing. Gravis couldn't affect the body of someone so much more powerful than

only supplement his Laws of Inferno's Heat and Frost's Cold. That also wouldn't

then? More level

Unnecessary.

to serve a specific purpose, and understanding more Laws would only help a tiny

would literally only serve to give Gravis more Law Comprehension experience and save time in the future when he comprehended the relevant

his power, Gravis needed to comprehend

Gravis go and find another opponent to

but it wouldn't help

Why?

was in an awkward place

Mountain because he was restricted from using his Spirit,

levels above himself, it would still count as tempering, but it wouldn't be much. His Will-Aura wouldn't increase a Realm, and such a fight definitely wouldn't

level five Law, only two paths were

five levels above

of the opponents grew so much that fighting four levels above himself would become truly

no

Gravis chose the second way, he might as well give up trying to fight

fight Arc. There was no

or fighting

The answer was obvious.

be even in his weakened