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?

reached the Unity Realm before he

it mean that Gravis was dead and that he had gifted Yi

Sect

Nothing appeared unnatural regarding that, but Yi

Sect after the other until only they remained. Like this, they would have a monopoly over everything, and the mortals would suffer under their

the calamity his teacher had

teacher's last wish? Did his

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

had finally reached the legendary Nascent Nourishing Realm, the most powerful Realm in

fulfill his late teacher's

The calamity was averted!

then, his

profound Cultivation

were people

to the woman, but he felt nervous

that was when his

killed that Cultivator with but

then, that dead Cultivator summoned

his Will-Aura had destroyed hundreds

was something like this

went through far too much shock today, and he

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

to tell Yi Lu why he had been protected against powerful Cultivators and

was simply a fight between you and your opponent? You waited over a hundred years just to fight someone?" Yi

century is nothing,"

Lu thought with admiration. His teacher was so old and powerful that eons

and I should leave. Nice meeting you,

eyes

"Yes?" Gravis asked.

leave like that?" Yi

why not?"

Lu said. "Aren't we connected by Karma or something? Am

"Nah," Gravis said.

he heard how casually Gravis denied his sincere approach. "But then why did

important to me convinced me to give you a helping hand," Gravis said. Then, he smirked. "Also, it was

"Funny?" Yi Lu asked.

keep up with my power by giving you my memories. It's funny to

like his

tragic teacher that had died

was the elderly

Where was the praise?

or calamity that Yi Lu would be tasked with

like a young adult that

Yi Lu's rage

badly that I went into suicidal situations just to temper myself, and now you're

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

you went through some good tempering. After all, your Will-Aura is three levels

of emotions. He had no idea how he should