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?

mean that Gravis had reached the Unity Realm before he

Gravis was dead and that he had gifted Yi Lu with his last memories as a

Lu learned of the Sect Congregation,

appeared unnatural regarding that, but Yi Lu had learned that this wasn't the first

planning on taking out one Sect after the other until only they remained. Like this, they would have a monopoly over everything, and

be the calamity his teacher

his dead teacher desire peace

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

years, Yi Lu had finally reached the legendary Nascent

to fulfill his late

The calamity was averted!

his world

with an unfathomably profound Cultivation

people this

the

that was when his dead

killed that Cultivator with but a

that dead Cultivator summoned

had destroyed

like this

went through far too much shock today, and he

Lu was thinking and had to laugh a

Lu why he had been protected against powerful Cultivators and what

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

century is nothing,"

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

and I should

Lu's eyes

"Yes?" Gravis asked.

leave like that?" Yi Lu

not?" Gravis

entire life," Yi Lu said.

"Nah," Gravis said.

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

conviction to protect what's important to me convinced me to give you a helping hand," Gravis said. Then, he smirked. "Also, it

"Funny?" Yi Lu asked.

laugh. "I 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

like

died was

the

Where was the praise?

calamity that Yi

met someone that acted like a young adult

Yi Lu's

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

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. You could

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

emotions. He had