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.

Peak Immortal Kings that couldn't breakthrough due to their lacking Law Comprehension, but

generally started comprehending level five Laws somewhere in the Major Circulation Immortal King Realm. Immortal Kings that knew level five Laws in the Minor Circulation Immortal King Realm were rare geniuses, but it became normal in

every single world, and this one was no

The geniuses of this world might not be much better than the geniuses in other worlds, but there were far more of them here, and the average Cultivator was just as

years, Gravis would prepare

the last years of his life, and he had

unleash his

this decision might result in

hold

table if he wanted to win, and he could

an immense risk to Gravis, but there was

a fight against someone five levels above

Probably not.

would never be

to comprehend any level five Law. His experience with level five Laws wasn't good enough to understand these

of level four Laws, but that would only marginally help. The Soft Pure Law would help him create a better armor,

attack to his head, he would die regardless, and if he were hit someplace else, that place would be absolutely decimated beyond

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

Element-Neutral level four Laws of Heat and Cold would also only supplement his Laws of Inferno's Heat and Frost's Cold. That also wouldn't increase his

More level four Battle

Unnecessary.

all his Elements to serve a specific purpose, and understanding more Laws would only help

Laws right now would literally only serve to give Gravis more Law Comprehension experience and save time in the future

to increase his power, Gravis needed to comprehend a

and find another opponent to temper himself

but it wouldn't

Why?

an awkward

only temper himself against Spear Mountain because he was restricted from using

fought a human four 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 put Gravis under enough pressure to push him to comprehend the Law

in order to comprehend a level five Law, only

someone five levels

of the opponents grew so much that fighting four levels above

no third

he might as well give up trying to fight

Arc. There was no other

Arc or fighting someone five

The answer was obvious.

would Arc be even