Lightning Is the Only Way

"Greetings, Mortis," Siral said with a bow.

"Uhm," the forgotten person to Siral's left said.

"Your name is Yi Lu, right?" Gravis asked with a smile.

"Yes, I'm Yi Lu!" Yi Lu said as he regained his confidence. "You are Gravis, right?"

Gravis nodded with a smile.

Yi Lu just looked at Gravis like he couldn't believe it.

This was that amazing person!

This was the person that Yi Lu always felt inferior to!

Yi Lu had gone through all of his Realms in a short period of time, but whenever he reached a new Realm, the memories of Gravis' previous Realm would be unlocked.

When Yi Lu reached the Energy Gathering Realm, he had seen what Gravis had done in the Body Tempering Stage.

Yi Lu already had had a Will-Aura when his full body was tempered. He had even managed to fight an Energy Gathering Realm Cultivator to a draw.

However, Gravis already had a Will-Aura before he even truly began to cultivate!

Even more, judging by Gravis' power, he had the ability to kill an Energy Gathering Realm Cultivator!

Fighting to a draw, winning, and killing was a huge difference, each one more difficult than the last.

When Yi Lu had seen that he couldn't keep up, he had tried to become even more outstanding! Gravis was more powerful than him, but he couldn't give up!

So, he put everything he had into Cultivation and even managed to kill someone two levels above him in the Energy Gathering Realm. This was powerful! This was enough, right?

Then, when Yi Lu reached the Spirit Forming Realm, he had seen Gravis' fight against an extremely powerful elder with the fire element.

This elder had been three levels above Gravis, and he had had an equally powerful body.

Instead of feeling that he had come closer to Gravis' power, he felt like the power difference became even bigger.

So, Yi Lu became crazier and crazier and even managed to kill someone two levels above him in the Spirit Forming Realm, which was far more difficult than killing someone two levels above oneself in the Energy Gathering Realm.

Then, when Yi Lu had reached the Unity Realm, he had seen Gravis' fight with some kind of Priest.

How could he compete with that!?

Luckily for Yi Lu, all the delicate memories of Gravis' journey in the lower world were hidden. Yi Lu didn't know about Gravis' enmity with the lower Heaven or the fact that Gravis' Spirit had been attuned to Destruction Lightning.

After unlocking that set of memories, Yi Lu felt that all the foreign memories in his Spirit had been exhausted.

There had been no more memories to unlock.

What did this mean?

that Gravis had reached the Unity Realm before he

had gifted Yi Lu with

Yi Lu learned of the Sect Congregation, the ruler over

appeared

planning on taking out one Sect after the other until only they remained.

be the calamity his teacher had

his teacher's last wish? Did his dead teacher desire peace for

his deceased teacher! He had to prevent this calamity and kill the Sect Masters

reached the legendary Nascent

he managed to fulfill his

The calamity was averted!

then, his world

unfathomably profound

people

to the woman, but he felt

that was when his dead teacher

killed that Cultivator

Cultivator summoned an even

Will-Aura had

like

too much shock today, and he looked at Gravis

was thinking and had to laugh a bit. "I think there

Gravis proceeded to tell Yi Lu why he had been protected against powerful Cultivators and what the

and your opponent? You waited over a hundred years just

is nothing," Gravis

nothing?' Yi Lu thought with admiration. His teacher was so old and powerful that eons passed in

and I

eyes widened.

"Yes?" Gravis asked.

going to leave like

why not?" Gravis

and your gift have shaped my entire life," Yi Lu said. "Aren't we connected by Karma or

"Nah," Gravis said.

Gravis denied his sincere approach. "But then why did you help me?

convinced me to give you a

"Funny?" Yi Lu asked.

gave you the impossible task to keep up with my power by giving you my memories. It's funny to imagine you constantly trying to push yourself further, trying to keep up with

Lu felt like his

died was nothing like Yi Lu

the

Where was the praise?

problem or calamity that Yi Lu would be tasked with

met someone that acted like a young adult that just

Lu's

shouted. "I tried to keep up with you so badly that I went into suicidal situations just to temper myself, and now you're telling me you were just messing with

Gravis said with a smirk. "So what if you died? That's just Cultivation. I gave you the knowledge that allows you to cultivate and gave you a frame of reference. Whatever you do is up to you.

said. "Also, don't act like you are not happy that you went through some good tempering. After all, your Will-Aura is three levels above your own Realm. Don't push the blame of your own decisions on

was shaking in a mixture of emotions. He had no idea